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Chloric acid
Uses
Chloric acid can be used as a reagent in chemical analysis and to make other chemicals
Velvet Revolution
Revolution
On November 19, the Civic Forum, the political movement which led the dialogue with the communist government, was created in The Drama Club in Prague. The same day, the movement "Public Against Violence" was created in Bratislava.
On November 27 a general strike took place. On this day there was a protest at Wenceslas Square with 300,000 people. Its main slogan was "Konec vlády jedné strany" - End of one-part government.
Václav Havel was named as president of Czechoslovakia on December 29, 1989. He was the first non-communist president of Czechoslovakia since 1948.
Cebuano (disambiguation)
Cebuano may refer to:
Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah is a city in Weber County, Utah, USA with a population of 87,321 as of the 2020 census. Ogden was originally named Fort Buenaventura. Fort Buenaventura was the first permanent settlement by people whose families came from Europe in the area now known as Utah. A trapper named Miles Goodyear established it in 1846 a mile west of present downtown Ogden. Then a year later, the fort was bought by Mormon settlers for about $2,000. Brownsville is another name that was once used for the settlement. When the area was renamed, it was named after Peter Skene Ogden, a Hudson Bay Company leader who trapped animals for fur in the Weber Valley.
Ogden is the county seat of Weber County. It lies to the east of the Great Salt Lake, the west of the Wasatch Front mountain range, and is basically north of Salt Lake City.
Weber State University is located in Ogden. Damian Lillard, an NBA player on the Portland Trailblazers, played basketball in college for the Weber State Wildcats.
DirectX Raytracing
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature of Microsoft's DirectX that can do raytracing in real-time. It is a big development in computer graphics. It was first made to use Nvidia's Volta platform. Some of the first products for consumers that use DXR include the Nvidia GeForce 20 series of GPUs, which was announced in 2018. DXR came out as an extension to DirectX 12 instead of a new version of DirectX.
The Windows 10 October 2018 update includes the public release of DirectX Raytracing.
Technical details
DXR adds 4 main elements to the DirectX 12 API:
Ancienville
Ancienville is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Randers
Randers is a city in Randers Municipality, Central Denmark Region on the Jutland peninsula. As of 1 January 2022, 62,802 people lived there, which makes it the sixth-largest city in Denmark by population.
Lou Diamond Phillips
Louis Diamond Phillips  (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is a Filipino-American actor and movie director. He is known for his role as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama movie La Bamba (1987).
Morley Safer
Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He retired in May 2016, shortly before his death.
Safer died at his home in Manhattan, New York City on May 19, 2016 from pneumonia, aged 84.
Van Wert, Ohio
Van Wert is a city in and the county seat of Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. The city is in northwestern Ohio about 77 mi (123 km) SW of Toledo and 34 mi (54 km) SE of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The population was 10,846 at the 2010 census.
Medina, Ohio
Medina is a city in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Medina County.
Medina is about 33 mi (53 km) south of Cleveland and 23 mi (37 km) west of Akron.
Acute accent
The acute accent ( ´ ) is a mark in many written languages. It is usually added above a vowel to show how to say it. Acute accents are sometimes added to consonants too. Sometimes, the acute accent changes the sound of the whole word by giving it stress in a sentence. This accent is part of many modern languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets. The acute accent is one of many similar marks called diacritics.
History
The acute accent was first used in Ancient Greece. It told the speaker when to say a syllable with a high pitch. Another early accent mark was the apex. In Latin the apex marked long vowels.
Sounds
The acute accent is mainly used to tell readers about the sound of vowels in words. Sometimes it is very important to the meaning because it shows the difference between two similar words. For example, resume may mean to start again, but résumé is a summary of someone's work and school experience. Some languages use the accent to show the same changes in sounds, but others use it differently. The acute accent may show:
Expanding the alphabet
Some languages use the accent to actually make new letters. Both Faroese and Icelandic add the acute accent to all of their vowels to make new letters. These letters, á, í, ó, ú and ý (plus é in Icelandic) are separate letters with different pronunciations. In Turkmen, the letter Ý is a consonant:.
French words in other languages
Many languages have borrowed words from French. Many Norwegian words which came from French keep an acute accent. Some examples are: allé, kafé, idé, komité. Swedish examples include café and resumé (noun). Examples in English include: attaché, canapé, cliché, communiqué, café, décor, fiancé, passé, toupée and touché. However, sometimes writers forget or choose not to use the accent mark.
Writing other languages in English
Some languages such as Arabic, Persian, or Japanese do not use alphabets. Some writers use the acute accent to tell how the words should sound when words from these languages are written in English. This is more common in older books and less common today.
Technical notes
The ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 character encodings included á, é, í, ó, ú, ý. They also had how letters and accents looked when they were written as capital letters. Unicode has many more letters with the acute accent.
Microsoft Office
To make an accented letter in a Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.), users hold the CTRL key and press the apostrophe ' key once. Then, let the CTRL key go, and press the letter they want.
Macintosh OS X
On Apple Macintosh computers, users press option-e and then the vowel. Vowels can also be capitalised. For example, users make á by pressing option-e and then 'a'. Pressing Option-e and then Shift-a makes Á.
Web
On Wikipedia, users make these symbols by clicking on a link in a box. Some other websites work the same way.
Amigny-Rouy
Amigny-Rouy is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in the north of France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aizyjois or Aizyjoises.
John Abercrombie (guitarist)
John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader.
His work explored jazz fusion, post bop, free jazz and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He recorded his debut album, Timeless with Manfred Eicher's ECM label, and recorded principally with this label since then. Abercrombie played with Billy Cobham, Ralph Towner, Jack DeJohnette, Charles Lloyd, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. He was known for his spare, understated and eclectic style and his work with organ trios.
Abercrombie died of heart failure in Cortland, New York on 22 August 2017 at the age of 72.
Van Wert
Van Wert may refer to:
East Asian cultural sphere
The East Asian cultural sphere, Sinosphere, or Chinese sphere of influence, is a region in Asia that has many influences from Chinese culture. These including the use of Chinese characters, clothing, art, food, inventions, social structures, government structures, religious ideas, and many other influences. The area is made of the Greater China region (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), Japan, Korea, Singapore, and sometimes Mongolia and Vietnam (depending on who you ask). Since China had a very large trade network, it was able to easily share its goods and ideas across Eurasia, and especially its neighboring countries in East Asia.
At one point, all the countries wrote only using Chinese characters, but nowadays, only Chinese and Japanese speakers write using Chinese characters in everyday life. All the other countries either created a new writing system (Korea and Mongolia), or replaced Chinese characters with a different, already existing writing system (Mongolia, again, and Vietnam). Nonetheless, the languages of each country still have many Chinese loanwords.
Roberto Gottardi
Roberto Gottardi (30 January 1927 – 21 August 2017) was an Italian architect. He was known for designing buildings across Cuba in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. He designed the National Art Schools, which was commissioned by Fidel Castro.
Wurzen
Wurzen is a town on the banks of the river Mulde in north-western Saxony, Germany, about 20 km east of the city of Leipzig.
One of its claims to fame is the fact that in 1768, the famous German author Goethe traveled through Wurzen and had to wait a long time for the ferry over the Mulde River. While waiting for the boat, he was doing some thinking and later wrote a part of Faust.
Leonid Plyushch
Leonid Plyushch (Ukrainian: Плющ Леонід Іванович; 26 April 1938 – 4 June 2015) was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident. Plyushch became a dissident by taking a public stance on political hot topics of the time. He was arrested in January 1972 on charges of anti-Soviet activity, and was jailed for a year before his trial began.
Plyushch was born into a Ukrainian working-class family in 1938 in Naryn, Kirghizia. He died on 4 June 2015 in France, aged 77.
Barium chlorate
Barium chlorate is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is Ba(ClO3)2. It contains barium and chlorate ions.
Properties
Barium chlorate is a colorless solid. It is very toxic because it has barium ions in it. It also is an oxidizing agent. It makes oxygen gas when it is heated.
Preparation
Barium chlorate can be made by reacting sodium chlorate and barium chloride. It can also be made by electrolytic oxidation of barium chloride, similar to the chloralkali process. It can also be made by reacting ammonium chlorate, an unstable compound, with barium carbonate. This mixture is boiled, converting the ammonium carbonate to ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Uses
Barium chlorate is used in fireworks to make a green color. It is also used in matches to make oxygen and make the match burn faster.
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The lead singer and songwriter of the band is Thom Yorke, who also plays guitar and piano. Thom is known for his high voiced singing style. The band is known for their different style of rock music.
The band has five members, and three of them play guitar. In their early years, Radiohead was known for their layered and heavy guitar sound. In later years, the band began using other instruments too, and creating more electronic sounds. The band still performs live and attracts large crowds of fans to sold-out concerts, even though they play many different styles of music.
They have created nine albums so far, the most recent being A Moon Shaped Pool (2016).
History
Radiohead started in 1985. The members of the band went to school together at Abingdon School, a boys' school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The band first called themselves "On a Friday". The band would usually rehearse on Friday in their school's music room.
On A Friday signed a contract with EMI, a large record label, in 1991. They changed their name to "Radiohead". This name came from the song "Radio Head" on the album True Stories by Talking Heads. They released their first EP, called Drill, in May 1992. It was not very popular. Radiohead started work on their first album. It was called Pablo Honey and it was recorded in 1992 in a studio in Oxford. They released their first single, "Creep", late in 1992. They released Pablo Honey in February 1993. Initially, the album was going to be released also in late 1992 but was delayed. The album did not become popular, but "Creep" did, and the band got a lot of fans because of it. At the time, Radiohead's style of music was not very popular, and people said it sounded like Nirvana, but was not as good. They said that other Britpop bands, like Suede, were better. "Creep" was played on the radio at a lot of colleges around the world, however. When Radiohead went on tour in the United States in early 1993, the music video for "Creep" was being played frequently on MTV.
Radiohead made an EP in 1994. This was called My Iron Lung, and contained the title single, and seven songs known as B-sides (because they were not on a full-length album). The main song, "My Iron Lung", was about the way fans had reacted to their song "Creep". The band was happy the song had been a hit, because otherwise they might not have been able to continue the band. But the band, especially Thom Yorke, were reluctant to be celebrities. They were already disturbed by the workings of the music industry. They felt they had no control over things. "Creep" was popular, so they felt under pressure to make more similar songs. They hated the way "Creep" was the only Radiohead song anyone listened to at their concerts, yet it was all that was keeping them popular and afloat in the record industry. The "iron lung" was a metaphor for such a "life support".
Their second normal album, The Bends, came out in 1995. The album was going to released in late 1994 but was also delayed. The song "My Iron Lung" was on it, along with 11 new ones. The band released four more songs as singles: "Fake Plastic Trees", "High and Dry", "Just" and "Street Spirit [Fade Out]". None of these songs were as popular as "Creep" around the world. Radiohead was now a one-hit wonder to many people in America. Songs from The Bends did not get played on the radio very much there. But the album became very popular in Radiohead's home of the UK. It also got excellent reviews from music critics, unlike the band's first album. Many said it was one of the best rock records in memory. The album was produced by John Leckie, a veteran at EMI's Abbey Road studios. As a young man Leckie had assisted on Pink Floyd albums in the 1970s.
The band's lineup was the same for The Bends. Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien played rhythm and auxiliary guitar; Thom sang and Ed sang backup. Phil Selway played drums and percussion. Colin Greenwood played bass guitar. Radiohead's lead guitarist was Jonny Greenwood, Colin's younger brother. Jonny was also younger than any of the other members. Jonny was the only member of the band who did not graduate from university. He was also the only member who had attended music school. Jonny had had to leave university after a few months to join Radiohead on a tour when they became popular. But he played in an orchestra when he was young, and he had a knowledge of classical and experimental music and jazz. Thus, Jonny became the band's musical expert. At this stage he already played many instruments, such as keyboard.
It was Jonny's complex and cathartic guitar solos in songs like "Just" and "The Bends" that soon began to attract notice. So did his simpler playing in other songs. The circle of Radiohead fans began to grow. Thom Yorke's lyrics also began talking about larger more political themes during this time. Mostly, they were still about personal disappointments, loves, losses, depression, unease, and anger. But Thom wrote songs like "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit" which found the source of the unease in the larger structure of society, not the individual.
Radiohead's style of music had gotten more mature, according to most people, without changing too much. Some others felt their songwriting had improved so much it was no longer unrecognizable. The band used more keyboards and acoustic guitar this time, and made a more subtle atmosphere. But electric guitars were the main instrument used on the record. Some of Radiohead's influences this time were: the post-punk band Magazine, the singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, Morrissey's (former Smiths singer) Vauxhall & I, and the music of R.E.M. That band had inspired Radiohead from the beginning. Radiohead would get a chance to tour with them in summer 1995, after releasing the album. Lead singer Michael Stipe became a friend and mentor to Thom, and also a public fan of Radiohead. In 1995 he said "they're so good, they're scary".
The band's influences had expanded once more by the time of their next album OK Computer.
Hope Valley, Rhode Island
Hope Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) and village in Hopkinton in western Rhode Island. The 2020 United States Census showed 1,612 people living in Hope Valley.
Radiohead
History
With OK Computer (released in 1997), the band started the next section of their career. They started using more sounds from electronic music. They released the album Kid A (released in 2000, was initially going to release sometime in late 1999) which had a lot less use of guitar than on previous albums, but was still called one of their best albums (with some people calling it their best). An album of songs recorded during this time, but that did not appear on Kid A was released, called Amnesiac (released in 2001). In 2003 they released the album Hail To The Thief which was a return to a sound with more guitars and less use of electronic sounds. In 2007 they released In Rainbows. It was first released for free on the band's website, then released properly on January 1, 2008. The album was delayed two times. It was going to be released in late 2005, then it was going to be released sometime in 2006, before finally being released in 2007.
Hope Valley, Rhode Island
The central section of Hope Valley was listed on the United States' National Register of Historic Places in late 2004 as Hope Valley Historic District. This 183-acre historic district has 137 contributing properties.
Radiohead
History
After this, they went on to release The King of Limbs (2011) and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), which both garnered critical and popular acclaim. Additionally, they released TKOL RMX 1234567 (2011), an album of collaborations with the likes of Four Tet, Jamie XX, and Caribou and an remix of OK Computer named OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (2017). Their most recent album is KID A MNESIA (2021), an extended and reworked version of Kid A which is over 2 hours long.
BRIT Awards
Radiohead has been nominated five times at the BRIT Awards.
Grammy Awards
Radiohead has received three awards from fourteen nominations at the Grammy Awards.
Ivor Novello Awards
Radiohead has received one Ivor Novello Award.
Mercury Prize
Radiohead has received four Mercury Prize nominations.
MTV Video Music Awards
Radiohead has received one award from ten nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Q Awards
Radiohead has received two awards from the Q Awards.
MVG Class B
The MVG Class B is a type of train used on the Munich U-Bahn. They are used on every line.
The MVG Class B began service in 1981.
There are 63 trains with two cars each. Five trains have been withdrawn.
Girl group
A girl group is a music group with a group of female singers who normally harmonise together.
The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in English-speaking countries. It suggests the American female pop singing groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were hugely successful for a time, between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion. Many of them were influenced by doo-wop style.
In the 1950s and 60s, the groups were mostly self-organised, girls who knew each other and often grew up together. The Chantels, for example, were four girl choristers from a Catholic high school in the Bronx, 1957. The Ronettes were two sisters and a cousin. p197 The Supremes were girls from a public housing estate in Detroit, Michigan. They were, and still are, America's most successful vocal group of all time. These groups had managers, of course, because they needed someone to deal with the music industry. But the managers did not set up the groups; they came after the groups were formed.
Later, almost all groups were created by public relations professionals to meet a market need. The Spice Girls were a good example of this. They were put together in the mid-1990s by a family management team. Their managers' idea was to create a girl group to compete with popular boy bands that dominated the pop music scene in the mid- to late-1990s. The Spice Girls sold most albums, and had the best-selling album of all time.
With the changing times, the marketing of popular music changed greatly, so that direct comparison of sales is not simple. but in many parts of the world digital sales are now the most important.
Ed Bradley
Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American journalist. He was best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. Bradley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Bradley died in New York City from leukemia, aged 65.
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington (April 5, 1761 – February 26, 1839) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She was the daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington. In 1773 he joined the rebel cause. He was the colonel of the local regiment. Sybil Ludington became famous for her night ride on April 26, 1777 to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British Regulars. Her action was similar to the ride of Paul Revere. She rode more than twice the distance of Revere. She was only 16 years old at the time of her ride.
Ammonium carbonate
Ammonium carbonate, also known as baker's ammonia or sal volatile, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is (NH4)2CO3. It contains ammonium and carbonate ions.
List of deserts
This is a list of deserts. It is sorted by the region of the world where the desert is at.
Ammonium carbonate
Properties
Ammonium carbonate is a white solid. It dissolves in water. It reacts with acids to make an ammonium salt and carbon dioxide. It has a slight smell of ammonia. It reacts with bases to make ammonia gas.
Preparation
Ammonium carbonate is made by reacting ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, and calcium carbonate in a furnace. The ammonium carbonate is exposed to air to decompose any bicarbonate and then is sold. It can also be made by reacting carbon dioxide with ammonia.
Uses
It is used to make bread rise. It can also be used in cough syrup.
Jerzy Leśniak
Jerzy Leśniak (August 14, 1957 – August 20, 2017) was a Polish journalist and historian. He was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland.
His best-known book, Encyklopedia Sądecka (published in 2000, co-authored with Augustyn Leśniak and Karol Leśniak), has been so far the most comprehensive source and compendium of the region's history, as well as personal biographies and rare illustrations. He was also an editor-in-chief of a weekly regional magazine "Echo" and a quarterly "Nowy Sącz". During the years 2003-2006 he was a spokesman of the president of the city of Nowy Sącz.
Leśniak died in Warsaw, Poland on August 20, 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Andelain
Andelain is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in the north of France. In 2012, 197 people lived there.
Departure (Journey album)
Departure is the sixth studio album by Journey. The album was released on February 29, 1980. It was the group's last studio album with keyboardist Gregg Rolie.
Dana Gaier
Dana Gaier (born August 30, 1997) is an American actress. She voiced Edith in the Despicable Me franchise. Gaier was raised in Livingston, New Jersey. She got into acting going with her older sister to an audition after her mother couldn't find a babysitter and brought her along. Gaier moved to Burbank, California around 2013 and has been a student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nokia 6500 classic
Nokia 6500 classic (known name is: Nokia 6500c) was an mobile phone developed of Nokia Corporation, it was announced on May 31, 2007 and release on September 3, 2007. In Nokia 6500 slide, Nokia announced they will be release on September 20, 2007, smillar to Nokia 6500 classic.
History
In May 2007, Nokia announced they will release two phone but was smillar to Nokia 6300, they name is Nokia 6500 classic or Nokia 6500c and Nokia 6500 slide.
In August 14, 2007. Nokia announced that Nokia 6500 classic will be release on September 3, 2007 and Nokia 6500 slide on September 20.
In September 1, 2007. Nokia 6500 classic was release of United Kingdom and Canada, in September 3 was release in worldwide.
Starboy (album)
Starboy is the fifth studio album by Canadian alternative R&B singer-songwriter The Weeknd. It was released on November 25, 2016. It entered the US Billboard 200 album chart at number one. Starboy had the third-best first-week sales of 2016 in the US, selling over 348,000 album-equivalent copies in its first week.
Singles
Three singles have been released from the album so far: "Starboy", featuring French electronic duo Daft Punk, which reached number one in the US and Canada; "I Feel It Coming", which also features Daft Punk; and "Party Monster".
Nokia 6500 classic
Reception
Nokia 6500 classic has begin of Nokia All World Corporation in website on October 4, 2007. In November 6, 2007. Nokia 6500 classic and Nokia 6500 slide by Nokia has sales at Campagin Shop.
Discontinued
In late 2008, Nokia announced they will be discontinued of Nokia 6500 classic and Nokia 6500 slide, because was no longer after release in 2007. In March 2009, Nokia announced that Nokia 6500 classic will be discontinued on June 13, 2009 and Nokia 6500 slide discontinued on July 14, 2009.
In June 13, 2009. Nokia 6500 classic was discontinued and ended of support in Nokia website, in July 14, Nokia 6500 slide was discontinued.
Anguilcourt-le-Sart
Anguilcourt-le-Sart is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Mirosława Litmanowicz
Litmanowicz died on 18 August 2017 at the age of 89.
The Numtums
The Numtums is a British computer-animated children's television series. It was created by Barry Quinn for CBeebies.
The Numtums
The Numtums Launce (also named Eleven) to Mrs. Newcastle (also named Thirty) were planned to be in the series, but they were never released.
Production
The Numtums was animated by Beakus in series 1 and A Productions in series 2 and 3. Series 1 was aimed at toddlers, but series 2 and 3 was revamped for an older audience, introducing more complex concepts such as subtraction, shape recognition and numbers from 11 to 20 with computer animation, and using a more Australian theme. The creator Barry Quinn said in an interview that "we were looking at doing a show about numbers for the early years and an educational expert told us bright, cute characters were a good way to get kids interested." A lot of animal names were suggested but he settled on numbats who had 'num' in their name.
Rumilly
Rumilly is the name of several communes in France:
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
Signed, Sealed & Delivered is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder. It was released on August 7, 1970, by Tamla. It was also Wonder's third album to be released in 1970 as he had already released two live albums earlier on in the year.
Track listing
Side One
Side Two
Famechon
Famechon is the name of two communes in France:
Didcot power stations
Didcot Power Station refers to a combined coal and oil power plant (Didcot A Power Station) and a natural-gas power plant (Didcot B Power Station) that supply the National Grid. They are right next to one another in the civil parish of Sutton Courtenay, next to the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), in the UK. The combined power stations feature a chimney which is one of the taller structures in the United Kingdom, and six hyperbolic cooling towers, which can be seen from much of the surrounding area. Didcot A was closed in 2013 and three cooling towers have been demolished.
Didcot 'A'
This was the first power station here. It is the biggest one with the big cooling towers (that make the cooling water cooler and make lots of steam) that are in two groups. One group is northwest, the other group is southeast. The power station can make up to 2000 megawatts (2000 million watts - an 'average' lightbulb uses only 50 or 60 watts) at any one time. Didcot 'A' mainly burns coal, but can also burn oil, or in some cases gas. This power station can use some biomass such as wood. The fuel (coal, oil and so on) is first ground up in big mills if it is solid (similar to old flour windmills, but powered by electric motors) to give it a large surface area, and is then blown into a large boiler with lots of air. Here it is burnt to make very high pressure steam, which is used to turn a large steam turbine. This turbine is connected to a generator, which makes the electricity that is then sent out on the National Grid. Didcot A was closed in 2013 and has been demolished. There are now (2018) only three of the large cooling towers left.
Didcot 'B'
This is the second power station in Didcot and is run only on gas. It can put out almost 1500 megawatts and uses gas turbines (like in an airplane) and steam turbines (like in the old power station) together to be more efficient. This is called combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT). It has smaller cooling towers that can't be seen as easily, but that make a more obvious cloud that appears to come from the ground. Didcot B is still operating in 2018.
Fireglow Games
History
The company was founded in 1999 by the former employees of the studio "Our Games LLC", a famous game Confrontation. The first project of the studio was the game of Sudden Strike, the world publisher was performed by the German distributor cvd Software Entertainment, in Russia and the CIS was published under the familiar Russian players with the name of Confrontation 3.
In 2002-2003, the company moved from St. Petersburg to Cyprus. In 2004, the studio stopped to work with the Russian publisher Russobit-M, which owns the rights to the localized name Confrontation. All the next Sudden Strike games were published under the original name.
In 2006, the company was reorganized. As a result, several companies created a single holding: FireGlow Casual Games and Fireglow Online Games was making computer games, Fireglow Games Publishing was releasing products in the United States and Western Europe.
The latest game of the company is Sudden Strike 3: The Last Stand, published in 2009.
Robert Broom
Professor Robert Broom (Paisley, 30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a Scottish, and later South African, doctor and palaeontologist.
He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie.
Valencian language
Valencian (valencià) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community (Spain) for the language spoken in this region, also known as Catalan (català) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of the Roussillon; and in the Italian city of Alghero on the island of Sardinia.
Robert Broom
From 1903 to 1910 he was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate palaeontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town.
William Bogert
William "Bill" Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor. He was best known for his role as Brandon Brindle on the TV series Small Wonder from 1985 to 1989. He also played Kent Wallace, the host of Chappelle's Show's Frontline spoofs.
Valencian language
In linguistics "Valencian" is also used to identify this distinctive variant spoken in central and southern Valencia which has gained its own currency within the Catalan domain.
Robert Broom
Contributions
Broom was first known for his study of mammal-like reptiles. After Raymond Dart's discovery of the Taung Child, an infant australopithecine, Broom's interest in palaeoanthropology was heightened. Broom's career seemed over and he was sinking into poverty, when Dart wrote to Jan Smuts about the situation. Smuts put pressure on the South African government, and managed to get a position for Broom. In 1934 he joined the staff of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria as Assistant in Palaeontology.
William Bogert
Bogert died in New York City on January 12, 2020. He was 83 years old.
Valencian language
Language or dialect?
The official authorities, which are the government of the Valencian Community and the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, accept Valencian as a dialect of Catalan. The Real Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana and several associations disbelieve this opinion. They believe Valencian is a language in its own. They also accuse the official authorities of mixing Valencian with Catalan. This is done by approaching the Valencian ortography and grammar to the Catalan one.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. He helped Calvert Vaux design Central Park in New York City. Later he designed many parks.
Robert Broom
Contributions
In the following years, he and John T. Robinson made a series of spectacular finds, including fragments from six hominids in Sterkfontein, which they named Plesianthropus transvaalensis, but which was later classified as an adult Australopithecus africanus, as well as more discoveries at sites in Kromdraai and Swartkrans.
The remainder of Broom's career was devoted to the exploration of these sites and the interpretation of the many early hominid remains discovered there. For his volume, The South Africa fossil ape-men, the Australopithecinae, in which he proposed the Australopithecinae subfamily, Broom was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1946. He continued to write to the very last. Shortly before his death he finished a monograph on the Australopithecines and remarked to his nephew:
Assessment of his work
"More than any scientist before or since, Broom's work on Australopithecus fundamentally revised the study of fossil man... The significant point is that Broom assigned all except one of these to a single zoological subfamily – the australopithecines, and made it quite clear that [they] were good candidates for the ancestry of mankind".
Eiroku
Eiroku (永禄) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Kōji and before Genki. This period started in February 1558 and ended in April 1570. During this time, the emperor was Ōgimachi-tennō (正親町天皇).
Arapaho, Oklahoma
Arapaho is a town in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Custer County.
Urs Egger
Urs Egger (1955 – January 19, 2020) was a Swiss movie and television director and journalist. From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent. His best known movies were Kinder der Landstrasse (1992) and Opernball (1998).
Egger died on January 19, 2020 at the age of 66.
Anizy-le-Château
Anizy-le-Château is a former commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Anizy-le-Grand.
Ammonium chlorate
Properties
It is a colorless solid. The chlorate is an oxidizing agent and the ammonium is a reducing agent, making it a little explosive. It explodes when in sunlight for a few minutes. It should never be crystallized as it can explode without any detonation. It can catch flammable things on fire. It decomposes completely to nitrogen, chlorine, and oxygen when heated gently.
Preparation
It can be made by reacting ammonia or ammonium carbonate with chloric acid.
Uses
It is used to make barium chlorate.
List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century
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Before 1600 1600s 1700s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
While information for every storm that happened is not available, some parts of the coastline had enough people to give information of hurricane happenings. Each season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone formation occurs between June 1 and November 30.
1700–1719
Although not listed below, the Great Storm of 1703 that struck the Kingdom of England may have been a hurricane.
1780–1789
The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was a very deadly hurricane season. About 25,000 people died mainly due to three storms in October.
Queen's Park F.C.
Queen's Park Football Club is a famous football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, and is the oldest football club in Scotland, founded in 1867, and the oldest outside of England and Wales. The club has a lot of history and tradition, and is still the only amateur club in the Scottish League. The club's home is one of 29 UEFA five-star stadia, the all-seated Hampden Park in south east Glasgow, which is also the home of the Scottish national team. Queen's Park have won the Scottish Cup the third most amount of times, behind Rangers and Celtic.
The club's amateur status is reflected by their motto, "Ludere causa Ludendi". This means "to play for the sake of playing".
2022 alignment of five planets
Alignment of five planets, occured on June 24, 2022 in 3:34 until 4:43 a.m in the morning. It was viewed from planet Earth; The five planets are Mercury, Venus, the Moon satellite object, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn except the Uranus and Neptune.
The three planets that are belong to terrestrial planets; the Mercury, Venus, Mars and the gas planets are; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut (pronounce: "GHEE-yoam de MA-show") (born c. 1300; died April 1377), was a Medieval French poet and composer. He was the most important composer of the 14th century. He is one of the earliest composers whose life we know something about.
Life
Machaut worked for John of Luxemburg, king of Bohemia, around 1323. The king travelled around Europe, fighting, and Machaut went with him, working as his secretary. After 1330 he became canon of several cathedrals. After John of Luxemburg died during a battle in 1346, Machaut worked for John's daughter Bonne (who later married King John II of France), then King Charles the Bad of Navarre, Charles of Normandy who became King Charles V in 1364 and the King of Cyprus. He also worked for wealthy dukes. With all that work it is surprising that he had time to compose. He seems to have spent his later years living in Rheins, working on his compositions.
Abraxas (album)
Abraxas is the second studio album by Santana, a Latin rock band. It started being sold on September 23, 1970. It was the band's first album to be number one on the Billboard 200, a music chart in the United States. The album was put into the Library of Congress in 2015.
Guillaume de Machaut
Works
Machaut wrote many motets and the secular songs, as well as many poems including rondeaus, virelais and ballades). Machaut wrote a mass known as Messe de Nostre Dame. It is the earliest known setting of the complete text for the mass, and it had a lot of influence on later composers.
Many of his poems belong to the type which were known as "dits". A "dit" (meaning: "spoken") was a poem that was not meant to be sung. It was in the first person (the "I" form). Many of them are about a lover trying to get the attentions of a lady he loves.
Machaut's poetry had an influence on many later poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer.
Thièvres
Thièvres is the name of two communes in France:
Macleans College
Macleans College is a secondary school in Bucklands Beach, Auckland, New Zealand. The school was opened in 1980 by the Governor General Sir David Beattie. The current principal is Byron J Bentley. Over 2,500 students go to this school. Students have a choice of which qualifications they want to do - NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement), and CIE (Cambridge International Examinations).
House system
Macleans was the first public school in New Zealand to use the "Whanau House System". This is dividing the school up into nine 'houses'. Each house contains about 300 students in total, with two classes of 30 students in each year. These nine houses are named after some famous people from New Zealand. The names are: Batten, Mansfield, Nieto, Rutherford, Kupe, Hillary, Te Kanawa, Snell and Upham. The school began with only 4 of these houses, but has got bigger over the years. The newest house is Upham house, which opened in 2003.
Teachers
Some of the teachers at Macleans College are Dr Holborow (Physics Teacher). Mr Fletcher (History and Social Sciences teacher). Mrs Bungay (Computing and Information Management teacher). Mr Davidson (Social Sciences). Mr Edwards (Mathematics). Mrs Woodhead (English). Mrs Gill (English). Dr Kleinmans (Science and Chemistry). Ms Power (Science). Mr Tai (Science).
Chinese loanwords
Chinese loanwords are loanwords borrowed into non-Chinese languages, especially East Asian languages. Since China introduced writing to the Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, each language had also borrowed many Chinese loanwords. Since all the languages have very different sound systems from each other, they all have different systems for pronouncing Chinese loanwords (though there are many words that sound similar to each other). These are called Sino-Xenic pronunciations. These are similar to how loanwords from Latin and French sound differently when spoken in English.
At one point, all these languages only wrote in Chinese characters. Today, Japanese is the only non-Chinese language that writes in Chinese characters in everyday life. Chinese characters, or kanji in Japanese, can be used to write both native Japanese words and Chinese loanwords. Today, Korean uses Chinese characters, or hanja in Korean, only for Chinese loanwords (when writing only in hangul is too ambiguous) and writing out one's own name. Today, Vietnamese does not use Chinese characters at all, but only uses the Latin alphabet, or chữ Quốc ngữ in Vietnamese. Chinese characters are only used as a decoration in Vietnam today, and they are studied by only a few Vietnamese.
Sino-Xenic pronunciations in different East Asian languages
This chart will compare the pronunciations of Chinese vocabulary terms in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Marc Ferrez
Marc Ferrez (December 7, 1843 – January 12, 1923) was a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro.
Ferrez's life was dedicated to the art of photography and he is considered one of the greatest photographers of his time. His production was massive, and his photographs document the consolidation of Brazil as a nation and Rio de Janeiro as a metropolis. His career was energized when he made part of Professor Charles Hartt's Geological Commission which covered the north and south of the country.
In 1865, Ferrez opened his own studio at Rua São José, in the center of Rio de Janeiro. He was made Photographo da Marinha Imperial and his work with images increased through his life. He photographed Brazil from south to north, but paid more attention to his home city, Rio de Janeiro. His masterpieces are the great albums of railway constructions and the great panoramic views of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its quick development.
Ferrez died in 1923 and left thousands of pictures and reproductions of his works.
Quadrature mirror filter
The quadrature mirror filters (QMF) are two filters with frequency characteristics symmetric about 1/4 of sampling frequency (i.e. \pi/2). They are used especially in process of orthogonal discrete wavelet transform design.
Simple variant
In notation of Z-transform, we can create the quadrature mirror filter H_1(z) to (original) filter H_0(z) by substitution z with -z in the transfer function of H_0(z).
By doing it, the transfer characteristic of H_1(z) is shifted to H_0(z) by \pi.
Impulse characteristic is therefore
Orthogonal filter banks
For orthogonal discrete wavelet transform H_1(z) is given by
Impulse characteristic is
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco José Ayala (March 12, 1934 – March 3, 2023) was a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine.
He was a Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year.
After graduating from the university of Salamanca, he moved to the United States in 1961 to study for a PhD at Columbia University. There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964. He became a U.S. citizen in 1971.
He was president and chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He died from a heart attack on March 3, 2023, a week before his 89th birthday.
Books
Ayala has published 950 papers and 30 books. Recently published books include:
Stone Gossard
Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 2, 1966) is an American musician. He plays the guitar and writes songs for Pearl Jam. He made the band with Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, and Mike McCready. He was put in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 for being in Pearl Jam.
Ammonium nitrate
Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is NH4NO3. It contains ammonium and nitrate ions. The nitrogen is in the -3 and +5 oxidation states.
Properties
Ammonium nitrate is a colorless solid. It dissolves in water. It makes water cold when it dissolves. It is an oxidizing agent. When it is heated gently, it turns into water and nitrous oxide. It can detonate when heated strongly. There were several disasters where ammonium nitrate exploded. Ammonium nitrate fertilizers were banned in some places because they were used to make explosives.
Preparation
Ammonium nitrate is made by reacting ammonia with nitric acid. This reaction is very violent. It can be made by reacting sodium nitrate with ammonium sulfate. This makes a solution of ammonium nitrate and sodium sulfate. When the mixture is cooled, the sodium sulfate is crystallized and can be filtered.
Uses
Ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer. It contains more nitrogen than most fertilizers. It is also used in explosives. It can be used as an oxidizer in rockets.