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Valparaiso University
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Beacons, changed from Crusaders in 2021. They have 17 varsity teams, 14 of which compete in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The other four teams play sports that the MVC does not sponsor, and compete in other leagues. The football team plays in the Pioneer Football League, the men's swimming team competes in the Mid-American Conference, and the women's bowling team is a member of the Southland Bowling League.
Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar is a Chilean city and commune with 286.931 inhabitants (2002 census). It was created in 1878.
Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American entertainer. He developed a character called Jim Crow. Using African-American speech, song, and dance, Rice performed successfully as Jim Crow in America and England. Rice is known as the "Father of the Minstrel Show".
Early years
Rice was born in New York City in 1808. He had some formal schooling, and was apprenticed to a woodcarver in his teens. By 1827 though, he had entered the entertainment field and was acting in theaters around the United States.
Career
About 1828, Rice developed a burnt-cork blackface character called Jim Crow. This character was a witty, raggedy black man, and was based on a real-life black stableman Rice saw singing and dancing to a tune called "Jump Jim Crow". By 1830, Rice was performing in theaters as Jim Crow. His act was widely popular in America and England.
Schönwald, Bavaria
Schönwald is a town in Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany. It is near the border with the Czech Republic, five km northwest of Selb and 18 km southeast of Hof.
Thomas D. Rice
Career
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, "Jim Crow" became a term used to describe racial segregation laws in the United States. Whites referred to all black males as "Jim Crows". Rice wrote and appeared in Ginger Blue, Jim Crow in London, and a comic rendition of Othello. He also appeared on Broadway as the title character in an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Death
About 1840, Rice began to suffer from a paralysis that affected his speech and movement. He died of a stroke on September 19, 1860, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Lonnie Laffen
Lonnie Laffen (July 16, 1958 – December 23, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the North Dakota Senate from the 43rd District from 2010 to 2018. He was a member of the Republican party. Laffen was born in Wimbledon, North Dakota.
Laffen died of a heart attack on December 23, 2020, in Grand Forks, North Dakota at age 62.
Wright State University
Wright State University is a public university in Dayton, Ohio. The university has about 19,793 students. It was founded in 1967. The current president of the university is David R. Hopkins, P.E.D. . The University is named after the Wright brothers.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Raiders. They have 17 varsity teams and they compete in the Horizon League.
Bijeljina
Bijeljina is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Republika Srpska. In 2013, about 107,715 people lived here.
Henry Maier
Henry Walter Maier (February 7, 1918 – July 17, 1994) was an American politician and the longest-serving mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holding office from 1960 to 1988.
Kuk (mythology)
Kek (also spelled as Kuk or Keku) is the ancient Egyptian deity of night and darkness. As a concept, Kek was viewed as having male and female qualities. His female form was known as Kauket (also spelled as Keket), which is simply the female form of the word Kek.
Kek's male form was seen as a frog, or as a frog-headed man. The female form was seen as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. He also symbolized the unknown and chaos. Kuk was the god of the hours before dawn and was known as "Bringer-in-of-the-Light" as he guided the sun barge of the god Ra toward the sky from the underworld. Kauket, his feminine balance, was depicted as a woman with the head of a serpent also called "Bringer-in-of-the-Darkness" who presided over the hours of twilight when the sun was setting and guided the sun barge into the underworld.
La Luna (movie)
La Luna also known as Luna is a 1979 Italian–American drama movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Tomas Milian, Renato Salvatori, Fred Gwynne, Peter Eyre, Roberto Benigni. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Rick Genest
Rick Genest (August 7, 1985 – August 1, 2018) was a Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model. He was also known as Zombie Boy. Genest was featured in Lady Gaga's video for "Born This Way", with Lady Gaga wearing makeup to replicate Genest's tattoos.
The King of Fighters (movie)
The King of Fighters or KOF 2010 is an American science fiction-martial arts movie, that is loose adaptaion of SNK Playmore's best selling fighting game franchises. Directed by Gordon Chen, it was starring by Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi, Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui, Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami and Ray Park as Rugal Bernstein.
Rick Genest
He was cast as the character "foreman" in the 2013 movie 47 Ronin.
Planned to be unveiled in 2019, an 11.5 ft sculpture of Genest called “Self-Conscious Gene” will be a new permanent fixture at the Science Museum, London, UK. The statue is to be created by British artist Marc Quinn.
François Louis Joseph de Wargny
François Louis Joseph de Wargny (19 September 1750 – 3 November 1816) was a French-born Dutch politician.
Wargny was an administrator and landowner from Mechelen. For the Antwerp provincie he served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1815. During his period Wargny died on 3 November 1816 at the age of 66.
No Way to Treat a Lady
No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 American black comedy crime thriller movie directed by Jack Smight and was based on the 1964 novel of the same name by William Goldman. It stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Martine Bartlett, Doris Roberts, Irene Dailey, Barbara Baxley and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Samuel Troilius
Samuel Troilius, born 22 May 1706 in Stora Skedvi, Sweden, dead 18 January 1764 in Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman. He served as the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1758 until his death 1764.
Habenaria mossii
Habenaria mossii is a species of plant in the Orchidaceae family. It is naturally found in South Africa. Its natural habitat is mild grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Suriname at the Olympics
The National Olympic Committee for Suriname was formed in 1959 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year.
Reservoir Dogs (video game)
Reservoir Dogs is a video game based on the Quentin Tarantino movie of the same name.
Koyra Madinabad Model Secondary School
Koyra Madinabad Model Secondary School is a secondary schools of the southern part of Khulna district under Koyra Upazila of Khulna District in Bangladesh. The institute was established in the middle of the 19th century. The school was upgraded into a model through governmentalization and the education system was introduced from class sixth to twelfth. Out of which the technical curriculum has been included.
History
The school was established at Koyra Sadar on 1962. After a long time progress, the government was formalized as a Govt. and model school on 7th October 2018.
Aoke/Langalanga constituency
Aoke-Langalanga is a constituency of the Solomon Islands. It is in the Malaita Province. It was created in 1993.
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
The song was named as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time by the Western Writers of America.
A very popular cover by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson was released in January 1978. It appeared on their 1978 duet album Waylon & Willie. Jennings and Nelson's version able to make it to #1 on the Hot Country Singles chart and #42 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their version won Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 1979 Grammy Award.
Trot
Trot is a way of how a horse or other four-legged animal moves their legs. They are lifted lifting each diagonal pair of legs alternately in a pace that's faster than normal walking.
Youngstown State University
Youngstown State University is a public university in Youngstown, Ohio. The university has about 15,194 students. It was founded in 1908. The current president of the university is Jim Tressel, better known as a former football coach both at Youngstown State and Ohio State University.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Penguins. They have 16 varsity teams and they compete in the Horizon League and the Missouri Valley Football Conference for football.
Dick Boushka
Richard James Boushka (July 29, 1934 – February 19, 2019) was an American basketball player. He competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics winning the gold medal. Boushka was born in Springfield, Illinois. Boushka played at Saint Louis University.
Boushka died on February 19, 2019 in Port St. Lucie, Florida from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.
Henry Lefroy
Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy (24 March 1854 – 19 March 1930) was the 11th Premier of Western Australia from 28 June 1917 to 17 April 1919. He was from the Nationalist Party. He became premier after the Australian Labor Party split over the issue of conscription. Labor politicians led by John Scaddan agreed to join the Nationalist Party if Lefory was the leader, not Frank Wilson. He found it diificult to keep control over a government formed by different political parties. When it was discovered that he had used his casting vote in a Cabinet meeting to keep the leadership, he was forced to resign. He lost his seat in the 1921 elections and retired back to his farm.
Henric Benzelius
Henric Benzelius, born 7 August 1689 in Strängnäs, Sweden, dead 20 May 1758 in Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman. He serrved as the Bishop of Lund from 1744 to 1747. He was then the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1747 until his 1758 death.
Mićo Mićić
Mićo Mićić (6 September 1956 – 23 December 2020) was a Bosnian Serb politician. He was mayor of Bijeljina from 2004 until his death in 2020. He was a member of the Serb Democratic Party. Mićić was born in Bijeljina.
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a shooter video game released in 2009. It is the sequel to Left 4 Dead. It was released on November 17, 2009. It made its world premiere at E3 in 2009. Left 4 Dead 2 brings new elements to the game that Let 4 Dead left out in the previous version such as melee weapons, new types of infected, and a story-arc that connects each of the game's five campaigns together. It is banned in Australia.
Mićo Mićić
Mićić died on 23 December 2020 at a hospital in Bijeljina from COVID-19 at the age of 64.
Left 4 Dead 2
Characters
The main characters in the game are:
New infected added into the game include:
Hannie van Leeuwen
Johanna (Hannie) van Leeuwen (18 January 1926 – 1 August 2018) was a Dutch politician of the Anti Revolutionary Party (until 1980) and the Christian Democratic Appeal. She was born in Delft, the Netherlands.
Van Leeuwen was an MP from 1966 to 1978, and a Senator from 1995 to 2007.
She also was an alderwoman of Zoetermeer, and acting mayor of Hazerswoude and Nootdorp.
LED lamp
A LED lamp is a product that uses a Light-emitting diode and that is assembled into a lamp or a light bulb. LED lamps last much longer, and are more efficient than incandescent lamps. Many LED lamps are also better than fluorescent lamps.
Hannie van Leeuwen
Hannie van Leeuwen died in Rotterdam on 1 August 2018, aged 92.
LED lamp
Unlike fluorescent lamps, most LED lamps do not need to "warm up" before they emit the full amount of light.
Wang Lisi
Wang Lisi (born 28 November 1991 in Nanjing, China) is a Chinese association football midfielder who currently plays for Jiangsu Huatai and the China women's national football team.
Marie-Claire Bancquart
Marie-Claire Bancquart (21 July 1932 – 19 February 2019) was a French poet, essayist, professor emerita and literary critic. She was the recipient of the Grand prix de la Critique littéraire of the Académie Française.
Bancquart died in Paris from bone cancer on 19 February 2019, aged 86.
22 (number)
Twenty-two is a number. It comes between twenty-one and twenty-three, and is an even number. It is divisible by 1, 2, 11, and 22.
In Roman numerals, 22 is written as XXII.
Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States. She acted as the First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
She was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Her parents were Charles (1825-1883) and Gertrude Tyler Carow (1836-1895). She spent her childhood in old New York City. As small children, Edith Kermit Carow and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (younger sister of Theodore Roosevelt) played together. During childhood, she and "Teedie" (nickname of Theodore Roosevelt) were in and out of each other's houses.
Edith went to Roosevelt's wedding with Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt in 1880. Soon Alice Hathaway died. In 1885, Rooservelt married Edith.
Unreachable code
Unreachable code is a section of code in a program that can never be executed.
Edith Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith were married in London in December 1886. They settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill, at Oyster Bay, headquarters for a family that added five children in ten years: Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bulloch, and Quentin. Throughout Roosevelt's intensely active career, family life remained close and entirely delightful.
Unreachable code
Having unreachable code is bad because it wastes space on the disk, memory, and CPU cache.
Edith Roosevelt
After assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became the President. Mrs. Roosevelt became the First Lady. She guarded the privacy of her family. Still she was an active First Lady. The White House became a social center of that time.
After her husband’s death in 1919, she spent more or less a retired life. She also traveled outside the USA. But, she always came back to Sagamore Hill as her home. In 1932, she briefly came out of her retirement. She gave a speech in support of Herbert Hoover’s re-election for the presidency of the United States. At that time, her nephew-in-law Franklin Delano Roosevelt was also a candidate for the post of the president of the United States. She died at her Oyster Bay home in New York on September 30, 1948, at the age of 87.
Unreachable code
Luckily, many modern compilers alert the programmer with a warning or error whenever it detects unreachable code.
Example
In this example, <tt>":'("</tt> will never be printed because the loop never exits.
Physical (Dua Lipa song)
"Physical" is a 2020 song by English singer Dua Lipa and is the second single from her second studio album Future Nostalgia. It topped the single charts in Bulgaria, Croatia, Israel, Lebanon, Poland, number 3 in the United Kingdom, number 9 in Australia, number 16 in New Zealand and number 60 in the United States.
Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University is a public university in Houston, Texas. The university has about 11,550 students. It was founded in 1927. The current president of the university is John Rudley. The university is a historically black university.
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American spiritual teacher, author, and lecturer. She has published twelve books, including four New York Times number one bestsellers. She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and the co-founder of The Peace Alliance.
Wilson County, Kansas
Wilson County (standard abbreviation: WL) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 9,409 people lived there. Its county seat is Fredonia.
Texas Southern University
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Tigers. They have 11 varsity teams and they compete in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Wilson County, Kansas
19th century
In 1855, Wilson County was created.
Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 575 sqmi. Of that, 570 sqmi is land and 4.7 sqmi (0.8%) is water.
Presidential elections
Wilson County is very Republican. No Democratic Presidential candidate has won Wilson County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
Marianne Williamson
Williamson is on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, which works to end poverty in the United States and around the world.
In January 2019, Williamson launched her presidential bid for the Democratic primaries in the 2020 election. She ended her campaign on January 10, 2020. In March 2023, she announced her second presidential campaign for the 2024 election, challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
Early life
Williamson was born in Houston, Texas, in 1952. Williamson studied theater and philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California for two years before dropping out in her Junior year and moving to New York City to be a cabaret singer. In 1979, Williamson returned to Houston, where she ran a metaphysical bookstore.
Career
In 1997 Williamson published her book Healing the Soul of America (hardcover originally titled The Healing of America) and began a more energetic political engagement. In this book, Williamson laid out plans to “transform the American political consciousness and encourage powerful citizen involvement to heal our society.”
She has been a guest on television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and Real Time with Bill Maher. In December 2006, a Newsweek magazine poll named her one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. She is known for her book A Course in Miracles, a non-religious self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy.
2014 U.S. House race
Williamson ran and lost in the election for the seat of California's 33rd congressional district in 2014.
Famous elected and public officials endorsed her campaign, including former Governors Jennifer Granholm and Jesse Ventura; former Congressmembers Dennis Kucinich and Alan Grayson; and Van Jones, among others. Alanis Morissette wrote and performed her campaign theme song, entitled Today.
2020 presidential campaign
On August 2, 2018, The Guardian reported that she was exploring the possibility of a presidential run in 2020. On January 28, 2019, Williamson formally announced her campaign in Los Angeles. After only appearing in one of the debates and low poll numbers, Williamson ended her campaign on January 10, 2020. She later endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in February 2020.
2024 presidential campaign
Williamson began "working on putting a machine together" to run for president in 2024 visiting early primary states in early 2023. She said in a January 2023 interview that she could run against Joe Biden in a presidential primary. In late February 2023, she confirmed her plans to run for president and would make an announcement in early March.
Williamson formally announced her second presidential campaign on March 4, 2023.
Personal life
Williamson is Jewish, and was briefly married. In 1990, Williamson had her only child, India Emma.
Jaheyna City
‏ Jahanna is a residential city in the province of Sohag, located in the Arab Republic of Egypt, with a population cave of 209,260.
WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It
'WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It, named Exciting Pro Wrestling 3' in Japan, is a wrestling video game released only for the PlayStation 2. It was published by THQ and developed by Yuke's. The Rock is on the cover of the game. It is part of the WWF Smackdown! series.
Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics
Trinidad and Tobago were first in the Summer Olympic Games in 1948, before independence from Great Britain. Trinidad and Tobago have been in fourteen Summer Olympics and three Winter Olympics.
Summer
(*)Participation only at Round 1.
Suzuki Choinori
Choinori (riding nearby in Japanese) is a scooter built by Suzuki.
It was launched at 2003 for 59,800 Yen. Reducing the size and not using any high cost parts were the secret to low price. However, because of cutting costs, they do not have rear suspension and the maximum speed is around 45 km/h. It also has an aluminum four-stroke 50 cc engine. The special thing about the engine is that it weighs 40% less than other four-stroke engines. It also make the scooter lighter and cheaper.
Due to its low price, it was a great hit in Japan. However, Suzuki stopped producing Choinori in 2007 because it failed to pass the new gas emission standards.
Delafield, Wisconsin
Delafield is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, along the Bark River. The population was 7,085 at the 2010 census.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international treaty, that was signed on 9 May 1993 and entered into force on 21 March 1994. It wants to slow the speed at which the climate of the earth changes. It also wants to avert the risk of a climate change that is harmful to mankind. 154 countries signed the treaty in 1992 in New York. Today, 197 countries are member of the treaty. These countries meet once a year to agree on politics against global warming.
Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (in German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche ), known in English as the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, is a ruined church in Berlin. It belongs to the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany
It is on the Breitscheidplatz, at the end of the Kurfürstendamm.
The old church was built between 1891 and 1895 according to plans by Franz Schwechten.
Emperor Wilhelm II ordered the building of the church to honour his grandfather Wilhelm I. The neo-romanesque style is a reminder of the many Romanesque churches in the Rhineland like Bonn Minster.
After the war, from 1951 to 1961, a new church was built right next to the site of the old one. the new church was designed by Egon Eiermann.
The new church has a cross made of nails from the old Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by German Luftwaffe bomb attacks in what was called the Coventry Blitz. It was consecrated on May 25, 1962, the same day as the new Coventry Cathedral. Both churches were built next to the ruins of the old building, which were kept as reminders of the horrors of war.
As well as the Coventry cross, the Gedächtniskirche has a cross of the Russian Orthodox Church and a design known as the Stalingrad Madonna by Lieutenant Kurt Reuber, created in December 1942 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), as symbols of peace between the three countries that were once at war.
In December 2007, Charles Jeffrey Gray, a former British pilot who carried out World War II bombing raids over Germany, joined a campaign to rescue the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church from decay. After reading about the condition of the Church, Gray contacted Wolfgang Kuhla, the chairman of the church's advisory board, asking for its tower be restored. A fund was launched to help raise the costs of its repair.
23 (number)
Twenty-three is a natural number. It comes between twenty-two and twenty-four, and is an odd number. It is also the 9th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19.
Jack Smith (end)
John Bullas Smith (August 11, 1917 – June 6, 2015) was an American football end in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. He studied at Stanford University. Smith was born in Los Angeles, California.
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure University is a private, Roman Catholic university in Allegany, New York. The university has about 2,500 students. It was founded in 1858. The current president of the university is Sr. Margaret Carney, OSF STD.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Bonnies. They have 14 varsity teams and they compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Trevor Moore (comedian)
Moore died on August 6, 2021 in Los Angeles after falling from his balcony while drunk, aged 41.
Interstate 865
Interstate 865 (I-865) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway near Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a short connector between I-65 and I-465, running for 4.72 mi. The highway was originally numbered as a branch of I-465, but was renumbered in 2002 to prevent I-465 from intersecting with itself. It is one of the few interstates to have interchanges only at its ends.
Phasmahyla lisbella
Phasmahyla lisbella is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in one place: Fazenda Ventania in Área de Protecão Ambiental Ventania.
The adult male frog is about 30.4–34.4 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of its back is bright green in color with very small dark brown spots. There is a yellow and brown pattern on its sides. This frog can change color. It is bright green during the day and green-brown at night. Scientists think this may may make the frog hard to see while it is resting during the day. This frog can have purple marks on its skin.
The male frogs sit on plants hanging over a stream and sing for the female frogs. Like other frogs in Phasmahyla, this frog does not lay eggs in the water. Instead, the female frog climbs to a tree branch over the water. She folds a leaf into a pocket shape. She puts her eggs in the pocket. She uses special glue to hold the pocket shut. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall down into the water.
Scientists named this frog after Lis Alves Pereira de Oliveira da Rocha and Bella Alves Pereira Custódio da Rocha.
Frankie Randall
Frankie Billy Randall (September 25, 1961 – December 23, 2020) was an American professional boxer. He competed from 1983 to 2005. He was a three-time light welterweight world champion, having held the WBA, WBC, and lineal titles between 1994 and 1997. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
Randall died on December 23, 2020 in Birmingham at the age of 59.
Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University is a private, Roman Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut. The university has about 6,023 students. It was founded in 1963. The current president of the university is John J. Petillo.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Pioneers. They have 31 varsity teams, most of which compete in the Northeast Conference. The men's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey.
Ingólfr Arnarson
Ingólfr Arnarson (Ingólfur Arnarson) and his wife, Hallveig Frodesdatter, are commonly said to be the first permanent Nordic settlers of Iceland. According to tradition, they founded Reykjavík in 874.
According to the Landnámabók (a book which describes the settlement of Iceland by the Norsemen), he built his house in modern-day Reykjavík and named the city as well. Medieval historian Ari Þorgilsson claimed that Arnarson was the first Nordic settler in Iceland, but Irish monks and hermits lived there before he arrived. He also claimed that the they left because they did not want to live with the newly arrived Norse pagans.
Meanwhile, Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson was murdered by his Irish slaves because of how badly he was treating-them. Ingólfr hunted them down and killed them in Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands). The islands got their name from that event, but vestmenn (west men) is a name that the Norsemen at this time sometimes used for Irishmen. He continued to live in southwestern Iceland, but nothing is known about what happened to him after settling. His son, Torstein (Þorsteinn Ingólfsson), was said to have founded the first parliament, in Iceland. It later became known as the Althing.
Champagne (wine)
Champagne is a French sparkling wine. It is named after the Champagne wine region in Grand Est. This is a region in France with many vineyards that grow grapes and make wine. Note that this region is not identical to the French region of Champagne-Ardenne, nor the historical province Champagne. Champagne contains carbon dioxide. One of the features of Champagne wine is that this carbon dioxide originates from a second fermentation in the bottle, and is not added.
Many people call all sparkling wines champagne but according to trade laws, only sparkling wine from the Champagne region can be called champagne.
Kinds of champagnes
Champagnes have different names depending on how much sugar is added. Here is a list of kinds of champagnes from least sweet (called "dry") to most sweet (called "wet"/"doux"):
Brut is the most common type of champagne.
Kate Okikiolu
Kate Adebola Okikiolu is a mathematician. She was born in 1965 in England. She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators.
Champagne (wine)
Features
Champagne, like all sparkling wines, is carbonated. Because of all the bubbles, champagne is sometimes called bubbly (ex. "We're going to have bubbly at our wedding.")
Champagne can be opened in a way that the cork "pops" out and the champagne sprays out in a bubbly foam. Usually this is done only at celebrations. It can be achieved by shaking the bottle before opening it. Normally, care should be taken when opening champagne bottles so that it does not make a mess. When done correctly, the cork will come out quietly, more like a sigh than a pop.
Champagne is usually served in a champagne flute (a tall, narrow glass). The shape of the glass helps keep the bubbles for a longer time.
Champagne is always served cold (chilled). The best temperature is 7 to 9 °C (43 to 48 °F). Often the bottle is chilled in a bucket of ice before and after opening.
How to say it
In English it is pronounced like "shampain". In French is sounds more like "shampany e ".
Pine Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Pine Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 11,497 at the 2010 census.
Pine Township was named for the large number of pine trees.
Proxima Centauri
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star that is likely a part of the Alpha Centauri star system and is the closest star to the Sun at a distance of 4.22 ly. It is in the constellation of Centaurus.
Proxima Centauri was found to share the same proper motion as Alpha Centauri in 1915 by Robert Innes while he was Director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In 1951, Harlow Shapley said that Proxima Centauri was a flare star. Recorded photographs showed that the star became measurably brighter about 8% of the time, making it the most active flare star then found.
Characteristics
Red dwarfs are usually far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, that means without a telescope. Proxima Centauri has an apparent magnitude of 11 while its absolute magnitude is a very dim 15.5. Even from Alpha Centauri A or B, Proxima would only be seen as a 5th magnitude star.
Proxima Centauri has been the closest star to the Sun for about the last 32,000 years. Barnard's Star will make its closest approach to the Sun around AD 11,700, when it approaches to within about 3.8 light-years. However, at that time, it will not be the nearest star, since Proxima Centauri will then have moved even closer to the Sun. Six stars will come closer to Earth in the next 45,000 years.
Planetary system
In 2016, an exoplanet was found by the European Southern Observatory around Proxima Centauri, Proxima Centauri b (or Proxima b). It was found in the habitable zone, and was thought to be Earth-like, with an ESI of 0.87. While being Earth-like, it may not be habitable on the surface, since Proxima Centauri gives off strong solar flares and high solar winds, which could strip away parts of the atmosphere of the planet, making it less habitable.
Another planet, Proxima Centauri c, much farther out than b, was discovered in 2019. It is seven times heavier (more massive) than Earth. It is too cold to be habitable. Because it showed up brighter than expected when photos of it were taken, it may have a ring system five times wider than that of Jupiter.
Denny Crum
Denzel Edwin "Denny" Crum (March 2, 1937–May 9, 2023) was an American men's college basketball coach at the University of Louisville (U of L) in Kentucky from 1971 to 2001 with a 675–295 record.
Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph-Garfield (April 19, 1832 – March 14, 1918), wife of James A. Garfield, was First Lady of the United States in 1881.
Denny Crum
Crum was born in San Fernando, California. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he played basketball under legendary coach John Wooden. After retiring from U of L, he continued to live in Louisville until his death.
John Scaddan
John Scaddan (4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934) was the 10th Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 to 27 July 1916. He was from the Labor Party. He was only 35 when he won a record majority of seats in the 1911 elections, making him the youngest premier of Western Australia.
Lucretia Garfield
Early life
She was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. Her father was Zeb Rudolph, a farmer and co-founder of the Eclectic Institute at Hiram, and her mother was Arabella Mason-Rudolph. Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph was a devout member of the Churches of Christ. She was of German, Welsh, English and Irish ancestry. Lucretia Garfield's paternal great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania (in a part that is now Delaware) from Württemberg, Germany.
Shortlands constituency
Shortlands is a constituency of the Solomon Islands. It is in the Western Province. It was created in 1993.
Lucretia Garfield
Marriage and family
She first met James A. Garfield while both were attending a school. They renewed their friendship in 1851 as students of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. They got married on November 11, 1858.
The First Lady
In 1881, Garfield became the President of the United States. The family moved into the White House. Even at the age of 49, she was slim and looked lovely. She was not very much interested in her role as the First Lady. But, she was a charming lady and hosted parties at the White House. In May 1881, she fell ill and was suffering from malaria. She was resting at Long Branch, New Jersey, and was yet to become fit. At that time, she heard the news that someone had shot President Garfield, her husband. She rushed to Washington by train. On its way, the train met with an accident. She did not suffer any injury. When she reached Washington, she remained by the side of her husband. He could not remain alive and died after about three months.
Personal life
After his death, she left for Ohio. There she lived for 36 years, and spent her time arranging and caring for the records of her husband’s career. A part of her home became a presidential library of her husband’s papers.
Death
She died at her home in South Pasadena, California on March 13, 1918. Her casket was placed above ground beside the coffin of her husband in the lower level crypt of the presidential tomb at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
Action bias
Action bias is a phenomenon from psychology. In a given situation, when people have a choice of doing nothing, and doing something (called an action), they will prefer doing something over not doing anything. This is also the case when there is no guarantee that the action would give a better result. It is an automatic response, similar to a reflex or an impulse and is not based on rational thinking. One of the first appearances of the term "action bias" in scientific journals was in a 2000 paper by Patt and Zechenhauser titled "Action Bias and Environmental Decisions", where the authrs looked at the relevance in politics.
John Scaddan
His parents were from Cornwall and had moved to Moonta to work in the large copper mines. They later moved to Eaglehawk, near Bendigo where Scaddan worked in the gold mines and studied to be an engine driver. In 1896 he moved to the Western Australian goldfields. He was elected to parliament in 1904 where he became famous for his long speeches, some going for me than three hours. He became premier when the Labor Party won the 1911 election. He believed that the government should own and control businesses and he set up state owned shipping lines, brickworks, sawmills, trams, abattoirs, fishing, quarries and even a hotel. While many of these were well run, many were not, and a costly failure at the Wyndham freezing works led to a loss of support. At the next election he only won by two seats. When one ALP member disappeared, and another resigned in 1916, the Country Party were able to form a new government with help from the Liberal Party.
When the Labor Party split on conscription, Scaddan who supported it, joined the new National Labor Party. He later joined the Country Party. He was elected in and out of parliament over the next 15 years. He felt Western Australia was not treated fairly by the government of Australia, and was on a committee which looked at how Western Australia could become an independent country. He died suddenly from a Cerebral hemorrhage in 1934.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a technology that involves the use of living organisms. Biotechnology is mainly used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. In biotechnology, living organisms are used to make useful chemicals and products or to perform an industrial task.
Examples
An example of biotechnology is the use of the fermentation reaction in yeast to make beer and other alcoholic drinks. Another example is the use of carbon dioxide produced by yeast to make bread rise.
Usage
Biotechnology is often used to refer to genetic engineering technology of the 21st century. However, the term is used for many ways of modifying biological organisms for the needs of humanity. It started with modifications of native plants into improved food crops through artificial selection and hybridization. Bioengineering is the science upon which all biotechnological applications are based. With the development of new approaches and modern techniques, traditional biotechnology industries are also acquiring new horizons enabling them to improve the quality of their products and increase the productivity of their systems.
Biotechnology has also made cloning (the process duplicating organisms) possible. A lot of people think that this is morally wrong while others think it could solve many diseases.
Biotechnology can be used to solve a great number of problems, ranging from product efficiency to reducing global warming.
Fred Gloden
Frederick Jean Gloden Jr. (December 21, 1918 – February 25, 2019) was an American football halfback. He played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played college football at Tulane University. He was also a member of the Miami Seahawks of the All-America Football Conference.
Adelite
Adelite is a rare mineral. It is a calcium, magnesium, arsenate with chemical formula CaMgAsO4OH. Adelite was named from the Greek word for indistinct.
Fred Gloden
Gloden served in the United States Navy during World War II. Gloden was the second oldest living former NFL player, after Jack Smith. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa.
Gloden died on February 25, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 100.
Inland sea
They usually happen with marine transgressions, when the sea overtops the land. They are caused by either global high ('eustatic') sea level or the formation of large geologic basins which eventually connect to the ocean.
There have been, at some periods, shallow seas inside continents. Much of present-day North America was covered by an epicontinental sea called the Sundance Sea during the Jurassic period. In the Cretaceous an even larger area was covered by the Western Interior Seaway. A modern example is the Baltic Sea. The North Sea is not an inland sea, but it does sit on continental shelf, and so is epeiric (that is what the word means). The Hudson Bay is often considered an epeiric sea because its depth averages 100ft (30 m) whereas, for example, the Bay of Bengal is 2,600 metres (8000 ft) deep. So epeiric seas are on the continental plate, as are inland seas. The inland seas, however, are more enclosed.
Amazon basin
The Amazon basin originally emptied into the Pacific Ocean when South America and Africa were part of Gondwana.
After the breakup of Gondwana, the Amazon found its exit blocked by the rise of the Andes about 15 million years ago (mya). A great inland sea developed, at times draining north through what is now Venezuela before finding its present eastward outlet into the South Atlantic. Gradually this inland sea became a vast freshwater lake and wetlands where sediment flattened its profiles and the marine inhabitants adapted to life in freshwater. Over 20 species of stingray, most closely related to those found in the Pacific Ocean, live today in the freshwaters of the Amazon, which is also home to a freshwater dolphin.
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea looks like a clear-cut example of an inland sea, but its deepest point is 5,267 m (17,280 ft) in the Calypso Deep of the Ionian Sea. The Mediterranean is a genuine sea which has been squashed almost out of existence by the movement of Africa against the European tectonic plate. It was formerly part of the ancient Tethys Ocean, which surrounded the old global supercontinent of Pangaea. So the Mediterranean is different from those inland seas which sit on top of continental plates.
Black Sea
The Black Sea, on the other hand, is a genuine inland sea because it sits on continental plates which have subsided.
Western Interior Seaway
A vast inland sea extended from the Gulf of Mexico deep into present-day Canada during the Cretaceous. It split the continent of North America into two halves, Laramidia and Appalachia, for most of the mid- and late-Cretaceous period. It was 2,500 feet (760 m) deep, 600 miles (970 km) wide and over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long.
At the same time, much of the low plains of modern-day northern France and northern Germany were covered by an inland sea, where the chalk was deposited that gave the Cretaceous Period its name.
Sundance Sea
The Sundance Sea existed in North America during the mid to late Jurassic period of the Mesozoic Era. It was an arm of what is now the Arctic Ocean, and extended through what is now western Canada into the central western United States. The sea receded when highlands to the west began to rise. The sedimentary rocks which formed in and around the Sundance Sea are often rich in fossils.
Markie Post
Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress. She was known for her roles as Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy, Christine Sullivan on Night Court and as Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995. Post was born in Palo Alto, California.
Post was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. She died from the disease on August 7, 2021 at the age of 70.
John Minto
John Minto (born in 1953) is a Retired Science Teacher at Hornby High School in Christchurch, New Zealand and Former activist During the Springbok Tour. In 1969 John Minto was the Chairman of H.A.R.T (Halt All Racist Tours) a Group to stop the South African Rugby Team Tours of New Zealand. Even police batons were named after Minto, called "Minto Bars". In 2016 John Minto ran for Mayor of Christchurch. Minto had received 13,117 votes, and lost the election.
Cheswold, Delaware
Cheswold is a town in Kent County in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,923 at the 2020 census.
It's a Mystery
It's a Mystery is the fifteenth studio album by Bob Seger. The album was released on October 24, 1995.
Meiwa
Meiwa (明和) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Hōreki and before An'ei. This period started in June 1764 and ended in November 1772. During this time, the empress and emperor were Go-Sakuramachi-tennō (後桜町天皇) and Go-Momozono-tennō (後桃園天皇).
The nengō Meiwa means "Radiant Harmony".
Country (disambiguation)
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Country could also mean:
Betty Ford
Early life and education
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer was born on April 8, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, to Hortense Neahr and William Stephenson Bloomer. She also had two older brothers. Ford later grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
She attended schools such as, Central High School and Bennington School of Dance.
Marriage and family
Betty and Gerald Ford were married at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 15, 1948.
Second Lady of the United States (1973–1974)
Ford became the second lady of the United States succeeding Judy Agnew when her husband inaugurated as the 40th vice president of the United States on December 6, 1973, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew.
Ford served as the second lady from 1973 until her husband's term ended in August 1974.
First Lady of the United States (1974–1977)
Ford assumed the role and duties as the first lady of the United States succeeding Pat Nixon, when her husband inaugurated as the 38th president of the United States, upon the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974.
As first lady, Ford was very active, she kept high approval ratings and she was considered to be an influential first lady. Ford was known for raising Breast cancer awareness In addition, she was a strong supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights and the women's rights movement.
Ford gained fame as one of the most influential first ladies in history. She supported major issues such as feminism, equal pay, drugs, gun control.
She was regarded to be the most politically outspoken first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. Ford regarded Roosevelt as a role model. Active in social policy, Ford broke a record as a politically active presidential spouse.
Ford was popular with the American public. Her overall approval rating was as high as 75%. Ford's popularity was higher than her husband's at most times.
Ford served as the first lady from 1974 until her husband's term ended in 1977.
Later Life
In 1987, Ford opened the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. The center helps treat drug dependence, alcoholism, and substance abuse. In 1991, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush.
Death and funeral
Her funeral was held on July 14, 2011, and she was later buried next to her husband at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.