cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Amelia Vargas
Amelia Graciela Vargas Ipaneca (16 January 1928 – 21 April 2019) was a Cuban actress and dancer. She lived and worked in Argentina. She starred in the comedy movies Arroz con leche (1950), The Phantom of the Operetta (1955) and Cleopatra Was Candida (1964). She was born in Havana.
Vargas died in Buenos Aires on 21 April 2019. She was 91.
Robert Juranic
Career
He played in six matches for the Austria national football team from 1926 to 1928 and scored three goals. He debuted on 30 May 1926 in a 4-1 win versus France. In this match he also scored his first goal for the national team. His last match was a 2-0 win versus Switzerland on 28 October 1928.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (May 11, 1921 – December 7, 2016) was a German liberal politician. She was the federal state secretar from 1969 to 1972 and from 1977 to 1982. In 1993 she became the Free Democratic Party's candidate for the federal presidency elections to be held the following year.
Hamm-Brücher was born in Essen, Germany. She died in Berlin, Germany on December 7, 2016 from congestive heart failure, aged 95.
Victor, California
Victor is a census-designated place (CDP) in California in the United States.
Team Lotus
Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar and sports car racing. More than ten years after its last race Team Lotus remains one of the most successful racing teams of all time, winning seven Formula One Constructors' titles, six Drivers' Championships, and the Indianapolis 500 in the United States, between 1962 and 1978. Under the direction of founder and Chief Designer Colin Chapman Lotus was responsible for many innovative and experimental developments in motorsport, in both technical and commercial arenas. In 2010 Lotus has returned to F1 as Lotus Racing.
Tolipir
Tolipir is a hilltop area located in Rawalakot in Poonch District of Azad Kashmir. It is at a height of 8800 feet above sea-level.
Sound of...
Sound of... is a yearly BBC poll of music critics and industry figures. The people polled say who they think is the most promising new music talent. It was first done by the BBC News website in 2003. It is now widely covered by the corporation's online, radio and TV outlets, as well as other media. A longlist of 15 artists is published each December. A ranked shortlist and the yearly winner is announced the following January.
Smooth-coated otter
The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a type of otter. It is found in India and Southeast Asia, and in Iraq. It is a vulnerable species. It is threatened by habitat loss, pollution of wetlands and poaching.
Flag of Guinea-Bissau
The flag of Guinea-Bissau was created in 1973 when independence from Portugal was proclaimed.
Taipan
A taipan is a snake of the genus Oxyuranus. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous snakes in the elapid family.
Taipans are endemic to Australasia. There are three species, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. It is one of the deadliest known snakes.
Romney, West Virginia
Romney is a city in and the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 1,848.
Solarpunk
Solarpunk is a genre aesthetic and political idea that fuses the high-tech elements of cyberpunk with low-tech sustainable ways of living. The term was first used in 2008. Solarpunk media often portrays themes of equality, anti-capitalism, and sustainability. People who call themselves Solarpunks often support anarchist, libertarian socialist, or environmentalist politics.
On the Buses
On the Buses is a British sitcom set in fictional Luxton in Essex. It ran from 28 February 1969 until 6 May 1973.
The show stars Reg Varney as bus driver Stan Butler, Bob Grant as his conductor and best friend Jack Harper and Stephen Lewis as their inspector Blakey. Anna Karen plays Stan's sister Olive Rudge and Michael Robbins plays her husband Arthur Rudge. The role of Stan's widowed mother Mabel Butler was played by Cicely Courtneidge in series 1 and by Doris Hare in the other series.
Piero Tosi
Piero Tosi (10 April 1927 – 10 August 2019) was an Italian costume designer. He designed costumes for Senso, Bellissima, The Leopard, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Death in Venice, The Night Porter, and La Traviata.
He won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes twice. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design twice, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design five times.
Tosi died in Rome on 10 August 2019, at the age of 92.
Principality of the Pindus
The name Principality of the Pindus or Principality of Pindos has been used ,mainly to describe an attempt to form an autonomous district in the Pindus mountains in northern Greece in July, and August 1917. At that time, near the end of the World War I, mayors and sd other leaders from several Vlach villages in the Pindus mountain, including Samarina, Avdella and Metsovo, wanted to create an autonomous protectorate of Italy. This effort was not successful. Neither a principality, autonomous State, or autonomous district ever actually came into existence in 1917. All these events lasted only a few days. One of the members of the temporary committee that wanted to form a government for this district was the young Alcibiades Diamandi, an ethnic-Aromanian who played a significant role 25 years later in 1941-43.
The name "Principality of the Pindus" was used later to describe a similar idea which was discussed by members of the "Roman Legion" (1941-1943). This "Roman Legion" was a group of Vlachs working together with the Italian army that occupied Greece during part of World War II. Alcibiades Diamandi created and was the first leader of this "Roman Legion". The Legion never declared any kind of autonomous state. The Legion stopped existing after the surrender of Italy to the Allies in 1943.
Continuum (album)
Continuum is the 3rd studio album by rock musician John Mayer. The album was released in September 2006. The album holds singles by John Mayer like "Waiting on the World to Change", "Gravity", and "Belief".
Ryosuke Yamanaka
Ryosuke Yamanaka (山中 亮輔) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Yamanaka was born in Kashiwa on April 20, 1993. He joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol from their youth team in 2012. Although he did not play many matches, Kashiwa won the champions in the 2012 Emperor's Cup and 2013 J.League Cup. In 2014, he moved to J2 League club JEF United Chiba on loan. In 2015, he returned to Kashiwa. In 2017, he moved to Yokohama F. Marinos. He became a regular player as left side back and Yokohama won the champions in the 2017 Emperor's Cup and 2018 J.League Cup. In 2019, he moved to Urawa Reds.
Continuum (album)
Discography
Album
Ryosuke Yamanaka
Biography
On November 20, 2018, Yamanaka debuted and scored a goal for the Japan national team against Kyrgyzstan. He played 2 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 2019.
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Reed–Solomon error correction
Reed-Solomon codes are used in many different kinds of commercial applications, for example in CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, in data transmission technologies such as DSL & WiMAX, and broadcast systems such as DVB and ATSC.
Overview
Reed-Solomon codes are block codes. This means that a fixed block of input data is processed into a fixed block of output data. In the case of the most commonly used R-S code (255, 223) – 223 Reed-Solomon input symbols (each eight bits long) are encoded into 255 output symbols.
The Reed-Solomon code, like the convolutional code, is a transparent code. This means that if the channel symbols have been inverted somewhere along the line, the decoders will still operate. The result will be the complement of the original data. However, the Reed-Solomon code loses its transparency if virtual zero fill is used. For this reason it is mandatory that the sense of the data (i.e., true or complemented) be resolved before Reed-Solomon decoding.
In the case of the Voyager program R-S codes reach near optimal performance when concatenated with the (7, 1/2) convolutional (Viterbi) inner code. Since two check symbols are required for each error to be corrected, this results in a total of 32 check symbols and 223 information symbols per codeword.
Basic idea
The key idea behind a Reed-Solomon code is that the data encoded is first visualized as a polynomial. The code relies on a theorem from algebra that states that any k distinct points uniquely determine a polynomial of degree at most k-1.
The sender determines a degree k-1 polynomial, over a finite field, that represents the k data points. The polynomial is then "encoded" by its evaluation at various points, and these values are what is actually sent. During transmission, some of these values may become corrupted. Therefore, more than k points are actually sent. As long as enough values are received correctly, the receiver can deduce what the original polynomial was, and decode the original data.
Bonstetten, Switzerland
Bonstetten is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Victor, Indiana
Victor is an unincorporated community in the state of Indiana, in the United States.
Scenario (disambiguation)
Scenario may refer to:
Hampshire County, West Virginia
Hampshire County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 23,964. The county seat is Romney.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth largest city in Texas. It is the 16th largest city in the United States. It has gotten so big that it has overlapped the next biggest city next to it, Dallas, Texas. Because of this, the area is often referred to as Dallas/Ft. Worth, or DFW.
Fort Worth is the county seat of Tarrant County. Texas Motor Speedway is also in Fort Worth.
There are a few interesting landmarks in Fort Worth. One is Sundance Square, a popular place to enjoy in downtown. Another is West 7th, an entertainment destination. At last, there is the Fort Worth Stockyards, where rodeos are held.
Franz Raschid
Franz Raschid (18 October 1954 – 22 October 2010) was a German professional football player and manager.
Career
Raschid, who played as a left midfielder, spent his entire professional career with Bayer Uerdingen, scoring 51 goals in 364 League appearances. He later became a football manager, taking control of Arminia Bielefeld between 1990 and 1991.
Death
Raschid died on 22 October 2010, aged 56, from pancreatic cancer.
Flag of Lesotho
The current flag of Lesotho was created in 2006.
Appearance
It has a horizontal bands of blue, white and green, with a black mokorotlo (a Basotho hat) centred on the white band.
Karen Rojo
Karen Paulina Rojo Venegas (born 9 July 1980) is a convicted former Chilean politician.
From 2012 to 2020, she served as mayor of the Antofagasta commune. On 27 July 2020, she was suspended from her position as mayor as a result of a judicial investigation for tax fraud and incompatible negotiation. On 19 November 2020, she officially resigned from office. On 18 January 2021 she was sentenced to 5 years in prison, a fine, and lifelong disqualification from exercising political rights. She fled to the Netherlands to try to get out of her sentence. in an attempt to apply for asylum there she was arrested in Ter Apel on 13 July 2022.
Hui people
The Hui people (, Xiao'erjing: خوذو, Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group. They are mostly Chinese-speaking muslims who live in China. They live mostly in the northwestern provinces of the country and in the Zhongyuan region. As of the 2011 census, China is home to about 10.5 million Hui people. Most of Hui people are Chinese-speaking Muslims. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also part of the Hui ethnicity.
They have a connection with Islamic culture. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and do not eat pork. Pork is the most commonly eaten meat in China. They hve created their own version of Chinese cuisine. Hui clothing is different from that of the Han Chinese. Some men wear white caps (taqiyah) and some women wear headscarves, This is the case in many Islamic cultures.
The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The government says the Hui people include all Muslim communities that are not included in China's other ethnic groups. They are seperate from other Muslim groups such as the Uyghurs. The Hui mostly speak Chinese. There are some Arabic and Persian phrases in their speach. The Hui ethnic group is not associated with a non-Sinitic language.
The Hui people are more concentrated in Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang) in Northwestern China. Communities exist across the country.
Many Hui are clerics, interpreters, jewelers, tea traders, tanners, butchers, caravaneers, cavalrymen, shepherd, innkeeper, restauranteers and jade carvers.
Wally Carr
Wally "Wait-awhile-Wal" Carr (11 August 1954 – 13 April 2019) was an Australian professional boxer. He was described by Boxing 1970–1980 as having "boxing ability to burn" and "outstanding skills". He was professional from 1971 to 1986. He had 100 pro fights, winning 53 (27 by knockout), losing 38 and drawing nine times. In 2010, he was added to the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame.
Carr was born in Wellington, New South Wales. He was an indigenous man of the Wiradjuri people. He had four children. His grandson, Joshua Addo-Car (born 1995), is a rugby league player.
Carr died of stomach cancer on 13 April 2019 in Newtown, New South Wales. He was 64.
Jürgen Möllemann
Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann (15 July 1945 – 5 June 2003) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
He served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office (1982–1987), as Federal Minister of Education and Research (1987–1991), as Federal Minister of Economics (1991–1993).
Martin Böttcher
Martin Böttcher (17 June 1927 – 19 April 2019) was a German composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for composing the scores for the 1960s movies based on the Karl May books. His music is said to have helped inspire the Italian movie industry to make their own Westerns. This created a new genre, Spaghetti Westerns. In his career, he worked on more than 50 movies and 300 television shows.
Böttcher was born in Berlin. He died on 19 April 2019, at the age of 91.
Jürgen Möllemann
Möllemann was born in Augsburg, Germany.
He was accused of illegal arms deals and tax evasion. After his parliamentary immunity had been lifted, he (probably) committed suicide by not opening his reserve parachute after jumping off an airplane. He was aged 57.
Southern river otter
The southern river otter (Lontra provocax) is a type of otter. It is found in Chile and Argentina. It lives in both saltwater and freshwater environments. It is an endangered species because of poaching, water pollution, and habitat loss.
Indigo Prophecy
Indigo Prophecy known in Europe as Fahrenheit is an action-adventure psychological thriller developed by Quantic Dream and published by Atari. Originally released for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox in September 2005. The player can play as Lucas Kane, a man who murdered someone while supernaturally possessed, and two police detectives investigating the case. Gameplay involves the player making decisions to change the story.
Writer and director David Cage completed the 2,000-page script in one year. Quantic Dream, and then almost eighty people, took two years to developed the game. Indigo Prophecy was praised for the story, characters, voice acting and music, but criticised for the ending and graphics. It sold more than one million copies. The remastered version released as Fahrenheit in 10th anniversary for iOS, Android, macOS, and Linux in 2015, and PlayStation 4 in 2016.
List of governors of Karnataka
The Governor of Karnataka is the constitutional head of the South Indian state of Karnataka. The governor is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years.
Akdamar Island
Akdamar Island (also known as Aghtamar, Ahktamar, and Aght'amar; Armenian: Աղթամար, Kurdish: Axtamar) is a small island in Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey.
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese, or simply Mandarin, is the language of government and education of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with the notable exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau where a local dialect of Chinese called Cantonese is more often used.
Mandarin is one of five major regional languages of China. It spreads wider than any other regional variety, from the whole northern part of China to Yunnan Province in the southwest corner of China. In that big area there are many regional differences in vocabulary, so somebody who moves from Beijing to Yunnan could not understand people there who were speaking their own dialect, Yunnanhua. The problem is bigger than for a person in Great Britain or the United States to go to Australia. Therefore, starting in the 1920s, the Chinese government set up a national language based on the Beijing dialect and on the most widely understood words and pronunciations.
Mandarin is a standard language. It is nobody's native language, but a good average between various language forms and a common language everyone can understand and communicate with. Although it is based on the Beijing dialect, it is not the same as Beijing dialect.
Schools use a dialect called Standard Mandarin, Putonghua (普通话/普通話) meaning "common (spoken) language" or Hanyu (汉语/漢語) meaning "language of the Han". In places such as Malaysia, it is known as Huayu (华语/華語). In Taiwan, it is known as Guoyu (国语/國語) meaning "national language." There are some minor differences in these standards.
Mandarin is spoken by over 800 million people around the world, more than any other language. Most people emigrating from the Greater China region now speak Mandarin, while in past centuries most spoke Cantonese or Taishanese, another local Chinese dialect.
Standard Mandarin is one of the six official languages at the United Nations. The others are English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.
Writing
Mandarin is written with Chinese characters called Hànzì (漢字 or 汉字) which literally means "Han characters". Each Hànzì has its own pronunciation and meaning. An ordinary dictionary will contain about 10,000 characters. Spoken Mandarin uses very many compound words, words that combine meanings the way English does in such terms as "machine gun," "fire truck," "playground," etc.
The Hanzi are ideograms: one character means one idea. The various concepts are derived from the ideograms by combining them. Mandarin can also be written phonetically (that is: written as it is spoken) with the Latin alphabet as you really cannot see the spelling from Hanzi characters. That is called transliteration. The most popular transliteration system is called Pinyin.
In most dialects of ancient Chinese, one character was generally enough for one word, but modern spoken Mandarin uses mostly compounds like "媽媽 māma," which is just "mama,"
Other examples show different ways of combining components:
Just as the English used in Great Britain favors "petrol" but the English used in the United States almost always uses "gasoline," different regional languages in China may use different compound words to name the same thing.
Thus, one-character words in Classical Chinese like became the Mandarin compound words to clearly distinguish such words from their homophones, otherwise the already mentioned characters could be mistaken for similar sounding characters like thus making spoken language difficult to understand without the compound words.
Difference between Mandarin (Beijing Accent) and Beijing Dialect
Beijing also has some local dialects that are not included by Mandarin or standard Chinese language yet. But with Beijing being the capital city as well as the political, economic, cultural and education center of China, more and more new Beijing dialects have been or will be accepted as Mandarin or standard Chinese language. The other dialects, such as Shanghainese, Cantonese, Hakka etc., have few opportunities to be included into Mandarin or standard Chinese language or be accepted by the whole of China.
The following samples are some Beijing dialects which are not yet accepted as standard Mandarin. 倍儿: bèi'ér means 'very much'; 拌蒜: bànsuàn means 'stagger'; 不吝: bùlìn means 'do not worry about'; 撮: cuò means 'eat'; 出溜: chūliū means 'slip'; 大老爷儿们儿: dàlǎoyérmenr means 'men, males';
The following samples are some Beijing dialects which have been already accepted as Mandarin in recent years. 二把刀: èrbǎdāo means 'not very skillful'; 哥们儿: gēmenr means 'good male friends'; 抠门儿: kōuménr means 'parsimony'; 打小儿: dǎxiǎo'ér means 'since childhood'
Grottaglie
Grottaglie is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, Apulia, in southern Italy.
Daisen, Akita
Daisen (大仙市) is a Japanese city in Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
Grottaglie
Geography
Grottaglie is in the Salento peninsula, a whole rock of Limestone dividing Adriatic Sea from Ionian Sea. The countryside around the city has many large and deep ravines.
Daisen, Akita
The National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region (NARCT) is in Daisen.
Grottaglie
History
The name Grottaglie comes from the Latin Cryptae Aliae, meaning "many ravines". People lived here since the paleolithic Age. The fief of Grottaglie was given by the Norman overlords to the Archdiocese of Taranto in the 11th century. In the 14th century the church gave the fief a walls and a castle.
Since the 15th-17th centuries the jurisdiction over Grottaglie fief was split between the ecclesiastic administration (civil law) and the lay feudal lords (criminal law, Cicinelli-Caracciolo family). Fights between these two competing authorities and revolts by the heavily-taxed population were common until the end of feudalism (1806).
Economy
Grapes and ceramics are two main elements of the local economy.
Alenia Composite is a factory of Alenia group making parts for the Boeing 787.
Sodium periodate
Sodium periodate is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula can be NaIO4 (sodium metaperiodate) or Na5IO6 (sodium orthoiodate). It has sodium and periodate ions in it.
Properties
Sodium periodate is a colorless solid. It reacts with acids to make periodic acid. It breaks down when heated to make sodium iodate and oxygen gas. It is a strong oxidizing agent.
Preparation
It can be made by oxidation of sodium iodide with sodium hypochlorite in a nitric acid solution.
Glenn E. Summers
Glenn E. Summers (February 19, 1925 – February 16, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Democrat. From 1947 to 1951, he served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for Liberty County.
Summers was born in Bristol, Florida. He died on February 16, 2020, at the age of 94.
Boppelsen
Boppelsen is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
7 Up
7 Up is a product of a lemon-lime flavored caffeinate-free soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States, and PepsiCo (or its licensees) in the rest of the world, including Puerto Rico. The origin of the name is unclear. It has been reformulated several times since its launch in 1929. 7-Up Soft Drink contains no caffeine and now has no artificial ingredients or preservatives, and only half the sodium as before. It is distributed by the 7-Up/Dr. Pepper company. The company promotes the product as having a crisper, more refreshing lemon-lime taste than before.
7 up is type of goods from the Dr Pepper company, it started produce at 1987. At other country, 7 up is goods from Pepsi Co. It first produced in Missouri, St.Louis.
Flag of South Sudan
The flag of South Sudan is a horizontal tricolour of black, red, and green, fimbriated with white stripes; with a blue equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bearing a gold star.
Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American movie director. Her movies include: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, Look Who's Talking Now, Clueless, A Night at the Roxbury and Loser.
Heckerling was born in The Bronx and spent her childhood there, before moving to Queens.
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in June 1850, it is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. Harper's Magazine has won 22 National Magazine Awards.
Lila Tretikov
Lila Tretikov (Лайла Третиков; born January 25, 1978) was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2014 to 2016. She is a specialist in software engineering.
Career
Tretikov was born in the former Soviet Union in 1978. She emigrated to America in 1994. She studied art and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
In May 2014, Tretikov was selected as the future executive director of Wikimedia Foundation, replacing Sue Gardner and took up the post on June 1, 2014.
Victor, New York
Victor is a town in Ontario County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, 14,275 people lived in Victor.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a union territory of India. The name is often shortened to A & N Islands, or ANI.
The islands are in the Indian Ocean, in the southern part of the Bay of Bengal. The capital of this territory is the Andamanese town of Port Blair.
It is made of two island groups - the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands - separating the Andaman Sea to the east, from the Indian Ocean. These two groups are separated by the 10° N parallel, the Andamans lying to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south. The channel that separates ANI is the 10° degree channel. This islands have the only active volcano in India, Barren Island. These islands are also uninhabitated. It also has the lowest point in India, The Indira Point
The territory's population in the last (2001) census of India was 356,152. Added together, the total land area of the territory is around 6,496 km² or 2,508 mi², it is larger than the Palestinian territories but smaller than Georgia territory of Abkhazia.
Chōgen
Chōgen (長元) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Manju and before Chōryaku. This period started in 1028 and ended in April 1037. The reigning emperors were Go-Ichijō-tennō (後一条天皇) and Go-Suzaku-tennō (後朱雀天皇).
Linda Partridge
Partridge is the Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London, and director of UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing.
She is also founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.
Awards
Partridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and appointed CBE in 2003. She was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2008.
In 2009, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), and received the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society.
In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda was one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
BBC interview
In a recent BBC radio interview Partridge talked about her life and work.
Shantha Mayadunne
Shantha Mayadunne (ශාන්තා මායාදුන්නේ; 4 April 1951 – 21 April 2019) was a Sri Lankan chef, writer and television personality.
Career
She had thirty years of experience in the culinary arts and became one of the most popular Sri Lankan television chefs. She learned advanced international cooking techniques at reputable cooking schools in many countries such as Australia, UK, Singapore, Thailand and India. As her popularity grew, she started to conduct classes, through workshops, mass media programs. She published two books, the first in 2001 while the second was in 2005.
Death
She was killed on 21 April 2019 by a suicide bomber during a series of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. Her daughter was also killed in the attacks when both of them stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo for breakfast.
Easton, Connecticut
Easton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 7,605.
Katagami, Akita
History
In 2005, the city was created by the merger of the towns of Tennō, Iitagawa and Shōwa.
Periodate
Periodate is an ion. Its chemical formula is either IO4- (metaperiodate) or IO65- (orthoperiodate). They are the salts of periodic acid. The iodine is in its +7 oxidation state. Periodates are similar to perchlorates. They are strong oxidizing agents. Sodium periodate is the most common periodate.
Tomoya Ugajin
Tomoya Ugajin (宇賀神 友弥) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Ugajin was born in Toda on March 23, 1988. After graduating from Ryutsu Keizai University, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 2010. He played many matches as left side back from first season. Urawa won the 2nd place in the 2014 and 2016 J1 League. In 2017, Urawa won the champions the 2017 AFC Champions League. Urawa also won the 2nd place in the 2019 AFC Champions League.
Statistics
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Camillo Berneri
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; 1877, Lodi–May 5 1937, Barcelona) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist.
Berneri, a World War I veteran, University of Florence professor of humanities, and a member of the Unione Anarchica Italiana, fought always Fascists, and he started to fight fascism until 1926, when he was forced to escape from Italy and he went in France, then Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and finally the Netherlands. In all these countries, Berneri was frequently placed under arrest, and then often expelled, because he was an anarchist. When he was in these countries he wrote lot of anti-clerical and anti-fascist articles.
With Carlo Rosselli, Berneri organized the first troop (column) of Italian volunteers to fight in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco. After months he became highly critical of the involvement of Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) members in the Popular Front government, and he sent a letter to Federica Montseny (Anarchist minister for Health in the government against fascism).
During the Barcelona May Days, as troop of Communist Party of Spain members (apparently under orders from Joseph Stalin) searched and then murdered him. His body, riddled with bullets, was found during the night, near the headquarters of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
He was married to Giovanna Berneri and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliane Berneri. The children were anarchists as the father Camillo.
Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither
Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither (born in Hampshire, October 16, 1845 - died at sea, July 19, 1890) was an engineer and writer.
Demolition
Demolition is a process in which buildings are torn down. Demolition is different from deconstruction, which is carefully taking a building apart to reuse its parts. For small buildings, such as houses, demolition is often simple. Buildings are often pulled down with excavators, bulldozers or small cranes. Other specialized equipment may also be used. Larger buildings may use a wrecking ball swung by a crane. This works well for masonry buildings. Sometimes building implosion is used. This involves using carefully placed explosive charges. If done correctly, the building falls in on itself and not on nearby buildings.
Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither
Between 1871 and 1875, he participated in an expedition in the Brazilian province of Paraná in southern Brazil.
After returning to England, he published the book Pioneering in South Brazil. He also published an article called "The valley of the Tibagy, Brazil".
In the 1880s, he worked as chief engineer of a railroad in India. In 1890, he became ill. When he returned to England, he died on the ship and was buried at sea.
Flag of Seychelles
The flag of Seychelles was adopted on January 8, 1996. It has a white diagonal cross divided into four triangles of blue (top and bottom) and red (hoist-side and fly-side).
912
912 (CMXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Scenario
In context with theatre and movies a scenario (from Italian, that which is pinned to the scenery) is a description of an event or series of actions and events. In the Commedia dell'arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the story of a play that was literally pinned to the back of the scenery.
Surviving scenari from the Renaissance contain little other than character names, brief descriptions of action, and references to specific lazzi with no further explanation. It is believed that a scenario forms the basis of a fully improvisational performance though it is also likely that they were simple reminders of the plot for those members of the cast who were literate.
In the creation of an opera or ballet, a scenario is often developed initially to indicate how the original source, if any, is to be adapted. This sketch can be helpful in "pitching" the idea to a prospective producer, director, or composer.
Scenarios are also used in policy planning, and when trying out strategies against uncertain future developments. Here the key idea is for the scenario to be an overview, a summary, of a projected course of action, events or situations. Scenarios are widely used by organizations of all types to understand different ways that future events might unfold.
Tahir Salahov
Tahir Salahov (Azerbaijani, in full: Tahir Teymur oğlu Salahov, Таир Теймур Салахов; 29 November 1928 – 21 May 2021) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani-born Russian painter and draughtsman. He was First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1973 until 1992. He also was the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts from 1997 until his death.
Salahov died on 21 May 2021 in Berlin, Germany at the age of 92.
Fred Eckhardt
Otto Frederick Eckhardt (May 10, 1926 – August 10, 2015) was an American brewer, homebrewing advocate and publicist. He wrote about brewed beverages—beer and sake, and wrote the 1989 book, The Essentials of Beer Style. He called himself a "beer writer," a "beer historian," and a "beer critic." He was a local celebrity in Portland, Oregon, which Eckhardt described as "the brewing capital of the world."
Deportation
Deportation, means the removal of someone from a country. People may be deported from a country for many reasons. For example, one may be deported from a country if he has got into the country illegally, or without a visa (permission).
Deportation can also happen inside a country. A person or a group of people may be forced to move to a different part of the country, as a punishment.
Victor, South Dakota
Victor is an unincorporated community in Roberts County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
History
Victor was planned out in 1913, and named after Victor Township, in which it is located. A post office called Victor was created in 1913, and remained in operation until 1955.
Chōryaku
Chōryaku (長暦) was a Japanese era (年号,) after Chōgen and before Chōkyū. This period spanned the years from April 1037 through 1040. The reigning emperor was Go-Suzaku-tennō (後朱雀天皇).
Periodic acid
Properties
Periodic acid is found as a colorless solution. It is a strong oxidizing agent, like perchloric acid. It breaks down when heated to iodine pentoxide and oxygen, as well as water. It does not form I2O7. It is found as HIO4 in dilute solution and H5IO6 in concentrated solution. When H5IO6 is heated, it turns into HIO4.
Preparation
It is made by reacting a periodate with a strong acid.
Uses
It is used to look at the structure of certain organic compounds.
Kazan
Kazan (Каза́нь; Казан) is the capital city of Tatarstan and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture. Kazan lies at the meeting of the Volga (İdel) and Kazanka (Qazansu) rivers in central European Russia.
Name
The origin of the name is unclear. The literal translation of Tatar qazan is a boiler or cauldron. Or, it may have come from qazğan, Tatar for dug [ditch].
"Qazan" is originally a name for a special cooking pan, a kind of a wok, but heavier. It was believed that the city of Kazan is named after this object because of its geographical similarity with a "qazan"-pan; namely the city is in a U - shape lowland.
Another, more romantic legend tells a story of a Tatar princess Söyembikä, who dropped a golden dish (golden qazan) into the river on which the city is located while washing it.
Nevertheless, Chuvash legends refer to Bulgarian prince Khusan (Chuvash rendering of Muslim name Hassan) and Chuvashes call this city Хусан after the name of this prince.
History
In 2021, nine people were killed in a mass shooting.
Now That You Got It
"Now That You Got It" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her second solo studio album, The Sweet Escape (2006). Stefani co-wrote the song with its producers Sean Garrett and Swizz Beatz. The album version of the song is a hip hop and R&B song and the remix is a reggae song.
Brütten
Brütten is a municipality of the district of Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
Now That You Got It
Music video
The song's music video was directed by The Saline Project and was shot in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. The Puerto Rico scenes were filmed after Stefani's concert there on July 19, 2007. Most of the video were shot in a studio, including scenes of Stefani riding a motorbike in front of a green screen.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Sweet Escape.
Mikveh
A mikveh or mikvah (, pl. mikva'ot, mikvoth, mikvot, or (Yiddish) mikves, lit., "a collection") is a Jewish ritual bath. It is used to cleanse ritual impurity. Immersion in a mikveh is also a part of the traditional process for converting to Judaism.
Sabrina Washington
Sabrina Fredrica Washington (born 27 October 1978) is a British singer. She writes songs and dances, and is also businesswoman and TV personality. She was a member of the female garage/hip hop band Mis-Teeq.
Nicobar Islands
The Nicobar Islands are an island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are part of India.
The Nicobar islands include 22 islands of different sizes. The largest one is Great Nicobar. The total land area of the chain is 1841 km². The highest point on the Nicobars is Mount Thullier at 642 m. The population of the islands was 42,026 in 2001, roughly 65% of whom are indigenous peoples (the Nicobarese and Shompen peoples, listed among the Scheduled Tribes of India), and 35% migrants from India and Sri Lanka.
The Nicobars are located southeast of the Indian subcontinent. They are separated form the subcontinent by the Bay of Bengal by about 1,300 km and are separated from the Andaman Islands to the north by the 150 km wide Ten Degree Channel and are 189 km from the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southeast. The Andaman and Nicobar islands separate the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea. Until the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Indira Point, south of Great Nicobar, was the southernmost point in India.
The islands cluster into three groups. The northern group includes Car Nicobar (127 km²) and uninhabited Batti Malv (2 km²). The central group includes Chowra (8 km²), Teressa (101 km²), Poahat (13.3 km²), Katchal (174 km²), Camorta (188 km²), Nancowry (67 km²), and Trinket (86 km²); the Isle of Man and Tillangchong (17 km²) are uninhabited. Tillangchong is a wildlife sanctuary. The southern group includes Great Nicobar (1045 km²), Little Nicobar (157 km²), Kondul (4 km²) and Pulomilo (1 km²); the islets of Meroe, Trak, Treis, Menchal, Cubra, Pigeon, and Megapod are uninhabited. Megapod is a wildlife sanctuary.
Vahe
Vahe was a legendary king of Armenia (351 BC–331 BC). He was the last offspring of the Hyke dynasty. He revolted against Alexander the Great and fought a war for Darius the Great of Persia.
Klaus Kinkel
He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1991–1992), Foreign Minister (1992–1998) and Vice Chancellor of Germany (1993–1998) in the government of Helmut Kohl.
He was also chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1995. He was President of the Federal Intelligence Service (1979–1982).
Kinkel was born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg. He died on 4 March 2019 in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia, aged 82.
Ashley Walters
Ashley Walters may refer to:
Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en (, ca. 1500–1582), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in Huainan, Jiangsu. He studied in ancient Nanjing University for more than 10 years.
His most famous novel is Journey to the West in which a monk encounters the Flaming Mountains. The novel has been enjoyed by many generations of Chinese and is the most popular Chinese classic folk novel. The most famous English translation of the novel is by Arthur Waley and entitled Monkey.
Mollie King
Mollie Elizabeth King (born 4 June 1987) is a British female singer. She is a member of the five-piece female band The Saturdays.
Rey, Iran
Rey, Rayy, Ray, Rhages or Rages (ری; Ῥάγαι (Rhágai); Rhagae) also known as Shahr-e-Rey (شهر ری), is the oldest city in the state of Tehran, Iran. Rey today has been added into the Greater Tehran city. It is linked by the Tehran Metro to the rest of Tehran and has many industries and factories in use. A settlement began here c 6,000 BCE as part of the Central Plateau Culture. The settlement was used as a capital by the Medes called Rhaga. In classical Roman geography it was called Rhagae. Its name dates back to the pre-Median.
Leeton, New South Wales
Leeton is a town in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia. It is about 550 km West of Sydney and 450 km North of Melbourne in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, Leeton town population in 2016 was 6,931. Leeton is in one of the most productive farming regions in the state, the town was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and purpose-built for the irrigation schemes announced by the New South Wales government in the early 1900s. Citrus, rice, cotton, grapes, walnuts and wheat farms can all be found throughout the Leeton Shire. Leeton is called Australia's Rice Capital and as The Heart of SunRice Country, as it is home to the SunRice headquarters. Other industry includes the Arnott’s Group (previously Freedom Foods), the Daily Drinks Co., JBS Australia, Webster Limited (walnuts and cotton) and Murrumbidgee Irrigation Limited.
Jun Amano
Jun Amano (天野 純) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Amano was born in Miura on July 19, 1991. After graduating from Juntendo University, he joined J1 League club Yokohama F. Marinos in 2014. He played many matches as offensive midfielder from 2017. In July 2019, he moved to Belgian First Division B club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen. Although he played many matches, the club was disbanded end of the 2019/20 season due to financial strain. In May 2020, he returned to Yokohama.
Leeton, New South Wales
Historic Hydro Motor Inn
The Hydro Hotel was constructed in 1919. It was built so that the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission managers had somewhere to stay when in Leeton. It was only licensed to sell alcohol in 1924, after the alcohol prohibition in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area was stopped.
Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Community Theatre was built in 1929 and opened in April 1930.
Jun Amano
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Leeton, New South Wales
Climate
Leeton has hot dry summers and cool winters.
Notable citizens
Australian poet and writer Henry Lawson lived in Leeton for two years, from 1916 to 1917. Lawson was hired to write about the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area to attract people to move to the area.
Madhan Bob
S. Krishnamoorthy (born 9 October), better known by his screenname Madhan Bob, is a popular comedian and Tamil film actor from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He started his film career as a musician and became an actor instead. Apart from appearing in supporting roles in Tamil films he also appears in the Sun TV comedy show Asathapovathu Yaaru as one of the judges. His debut film was Vaaname Ellai. It was Madan Bob who first taught Maragathamani music.
He was eighth child in his family, so he was named Krishnamurthy which also happened to be his uncle’s name and there was a lot of confusion in the house, so they changed his name to Madan. his brother’s name is Padmanabhan a.k.a. Babu. Both started a music group called ‘Madan and Babu’. In time, the Babu became Bob and that’s how director Balachander introduced him in his first film.
Su-Elise Nash
Su-Elise Nash (born Su-Elise Michelle Nash on 22 May 1981 to parents) is a British R&B singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the female group Mis-Teeq.
History
Su-Elise Michelle Nash was born in England on 22 May 1981. She joined the female band Mis-Teeq.
Bodil Malmsten
Bodil Malmsten (19 August 1944 – 5 February 2016) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She wrote over fifteen books from 1977 to her death. Her best known book was the English translation of Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère) which was awarded Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4.
Malmsten was born in Bjärme, Jämtland. Her grandfather was designer and architect Carl Malmsten (1888–1972).
Malmsten died from cancer on 5 February 2016 in Stockholm. She was aged 71.
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera (in Arabic: الجزيرة al-Jazi'yra) is an Arabic-language television channel from Doha, Qatar. Al Jazeera means The Island in Arabic. It is named that way because it claims to be the only independent news network in the Middle East. At first it was a satellite TV channel which broadcast in Arabic only. Now there is also a channel in English, a sports channel, a conference channel, a documentary channel and a children's channel.
Channels
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History
The first Al Jazeera channel was created in 1996. This was made possible with 150 million US$ from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa.