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Irma Grese
Early life
Irma Grese was born in Germany in 1923. In 1936, when Grese was 13, her mother killed herself by drinking hydrochloric acid, a poison, after finding out that her husband had an affair (a relationship with another woman). Grese's father probably joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and got married again in 1939.
Strange Kind of Woman
"Strange Kind of Woman" is a 1971 song by British rock band Deep Purple and was originally released as a follow-up to their single Black Night. It went to number 1 in Denmark and number 8 in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Irma Grese
Early life
When she was 14, Grese quit school. By then, she was a member of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel), a Nazi group for girls.
Concentration camp guard
Grese volunteered to work in a concentration camp. In 1942, when she was 19 years old, she started working as a guard at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp for women. In March 1943, she was sent to work at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a year, Grese was promoted to Rapportführerin - warden - at Bergen-Belsen. This was the second-highest rank that a woman could reach. In this job, she helped choose which prisoners would be killed in the concentration camp's gas chambers.
When British soldiers were getting close to Bergen-Belsen to liberate it (take it over and free its prisoners), Grese and some other people in the SS decided not to run away. They were captured by the British on 17 April 1945, and taken to prison.
In her famous memoir called Five Chimneys, Olga Lengyel (who had been a prisoner in a camp where Grese worked) wrote about how Grese acted there. Lengyel wrote that Grese liked hurting prisoners, making them afraid of her, and choosing which ones would be killed in the gas chambers.
Trial and execution
Grese was put on trial for war crimes at the "Belsen Trial." Instead of having one big trial with hundreds of defendants, the Nuremberg Trials were separated into smaller trials. For example, people who were accused of committing crimes at Bergen-Belsen were put on trial at the Belsen Trial. Grese was tried there with 44 other people. Her trial lasted from September to November 1945. She was given a lawyer named Major L. Cranfield.
Two other female guards were tried at the Belsen Trial. However, Grese was the only woman to get the death penalty.
On Thursday, 13 December 1945, in Hamelin Jail, Grese was executed by hanging.
List of districts of Jharkhand
Jharkhand, a state of India, has twenty-four administrative districts.
Administration
A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues.
History
At the time of formation, Jharkhand state had 18 districts. Later, six more districts were carved out by reorganizing these districts. The 23rd and 24th districts, Khunti and Ramgarh came into existence on September 12, 2007.
Total Districts
Below is the list of districts.
Rainbow Serpent
A Rainbow Serpent is an animal in the Dreamtime which many of the indigenous people of Australia, the "Aborigines", believe created the mountains, rivers and lakes. The Rainbow Serpent stories are found all across Australia, and especially in Arnhem Land, in the north of Australia. The serpent is known by different names, such as Almudj and Ngalyod, in different Aboriginal languages. The Rainbow Serpent lives in waterholes and controls the supply of water.
Aboriginal artists have painted the Rainbow Serpent on cave walls or on pieces of bark. The earliest cave paintings found are about 8,000 years old. In special ceremonies, they sometimes honour the Rainbow Serpent by painting their handprints on the magic snake. Scientists believe the Rainbow Serpent stories began at the end of the last ice age. The rising sea levels would have forced a lot of people to move inland. The Rainbow Serpent became a symbol of both creation and destruction, and of unity and peace. This makes the Rainbow Serpent a symbol of the world's oldest continuing religion.
History
In the Dreamtime, the Rainbow Serpent helped the world along with rain. At the beginning of time, the Rainbow Serpent awoke from its sleep and pushed through the Earth's crust. As it travelled over the empty land, it left behind deep tracks. The Rainbow Serpent called to the frogs to come out from beneath the earth. It tickled the frogs' bellies, and when they laughed, water poured out from their open mouths. The water filled the Rainbow Serpent's deep tracks, making rivers and lakes. Slowly, grass began to grow. Then all kind of creatures in Australia - birds, lizards, snakes, kangaroos, koalas, and dingoes - woke up and took their places on the earth.
Don't ask, don't tell
Don't ask, don't tell was a rule of the United States Military. It said that openly homosexual or bisexual people could not serve in the military. Gay, lesbian, or bisexual people could only serve in their military if they did not tell anyone their sexual orientation. This is sometimes called being "in the closet". Officers were not allowed to ask military members if they were gay. They were also not allowed to discriminate against people who thought they were gay. However, people could be discharged, or sent out of the military, for having sex with a person of the same sex.
Maternal health
Maternal health is the health of a woman during pregnancy, childbirth and her postpartum periods. It includes the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal and postnatal caring.
Folke Alnevik
Arvid Folke Alnevik (31 December 1919 – 17 August 2020) was a Swedish sprinter. He was born in Arbrå, Sweden. He had his best results in the 4×400 metre relay, winning bronze medals at the 1946 European Championships and 1948 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in both contests.
Alnevik was a career military officer and retired with the rank of major. Between the 2018 Winter Olympics until his death, he held the status as the oldest living Olympic medalist.
Alnevik died on 17 August 2020 in Gävle, Sweden at the age of 100.
Maternal health
The risk of maternal death is higher in some areas, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, than in others. Poverty is a problem in some countries, in particular, the developing countries. In addition to sub-Saharan Africa, Black women in the US also frequently experience high maternal death rates. High rates of poverty, untreated illnesses, and a lack of access to health care, according to maternal health specialists, are to blame for the sharp rise in maternal mortality rates. Other societal causes of maternal deaths include the absence of professionals, inadequate resources, early marriages, poverty in remote rural areas, and a lack of facilities and access. Pregnancy problems during and after delivery are caused by the high prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in pregnant black women. These ladies may experience potentially fatal complications depending on the severity of the condition (Howell,2018)
Prenatal care is very vital when it comes to maternal health. According to the CDC Prenatal care can support both your and your unborn child's health. Infants born to mothers who receive prenatal care are five times less likely to die and three times more likely to have low birth weights than babies delivered to mothers who do not (CDC, Prenatal Care). Even the Bidens health care cris. Plans make sure to diversify the prenatal workforce and try to make it widely available to all women, in order to help decrease the maternal mortality rates in the United States(Johnson, 2022). Furthermore, there are a lot of reasons why females choose to not engage in proper prenatal care. Around 71% of low income women, according to a US study, had difficulty having access to prenatal care. Income is highly associated with prenatal health care.
Despite major advancements in prenatal care, the maternal mortality rate in the USA has is at its ultimate high. Rates have risen in the twenty-first century, and efforts to halt this pervasive problem have made little to no headway (Callaghan, 2012). In the US, there are different variations in maternal death rates (Callaghan, 2012). Callaghans study aims to study and understand why the  maternal mortality phenomena,  and pinpoint the contributing factors of these deaths  especially for black women.
Chen Ning Yang
Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (born October 1, 1922), also known as Yang Zhenning, is a Chinese-born American physicist and mathematician. He works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. Yang and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics. This was for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction.
List of rivers of the Americas
The following is a list of rivers of the Americas, and includes all the major rivers of the Americas:
Denis Goldberg
Denis Theodore Goldberg (11 April 1933 – 29 April 2020) was a South African social campaigner of Jewish descent. As a member of the South African Communist Party he was active in the struggle against apartheid and was imprisoned along with other key members of the anti-apartheid movement such as Nelson Mandela at Robben Island.
After the first non-racial elections in South Africa, Goldberg founded the development organisation Community H.E.A.R.T. in London in 1995 to help to improve the living standards of black South Africans. With the support of German friends, he established Community H.E.A.R.T. e.V. in Essen, Germany in 1996.
Goldberg returned to South Africa in 2002 and was appointed Special Adviser to MP Ronnie Kasrils, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry until 2004. In 2010 he published his autobiography, The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa (STE Publishers, Johannesburg).
Goldberg was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer in July 2019 while on a tour in Germany. He died from the disease in Cape Town on 29 April 2020, aged 87.
Cold Comfort Farm (movie)
Cold Comfort Farm is a British comedy movie from 1995. It was directed by John Schlesinger. It is based on Stella Gibbons' book of the same name. The movie stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell. It was first shown on the BBC on 1 January 1995.
Dora the Explorer
The series earned $2.5 billion in sales in 2010 alone.
Broadcast
TVOKids SCN Knowledge Kids Treehouse Yoopa and Access, TV (Canada) Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. (United States)
Foreign Adaptations
Dora the Explorer has been produced in various other languages worldwide. It facilitates the learning of important foreign language words or phrases (mostly English), interspersed with a local language (e.g. Norwegian, Russian, Hindi or German), with occasional use of Spanish (used in the Irish, Serbian, and Turkish versions) through its simplicity and use of repetition.
As shown in the list above, Spanish is the second language taught in the original English language version of the show (also broadcast for Malay speakers), in the Irish, Serbian, and the trilingual Turkish versions, but for other versions of the show, the language being taught is English.
Plagues of Egypt
There were ten plagues in Egypt at the time of the Exodus: They were:
Hairdresser
A hairdresser's job is to organise hair into a particular style or "look". They can cut hair, add colour to it or texture it. A hairdresser may be female or male. Qualified staff are usually called "stylists", who are supported by assistants. Most hairdressing businesses are unisex, that is, they serve both sexes, and have both sexes on their staff.
Male hairdressers who simply cut men's hair (and do not serve females) are often called barbers.
Used Cars
Used Cars is a 1980 American black comedy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, Cheryl Rixon, Alfonso Arau, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Hairdresser
Qualifications for hairdressing usually mean a college course, or an apprenticeship under a senior stylist. Some aspects of the job are quite technical (such as hair dying) and require careful teaching.
Emmer-Compascuum
Emmer-Compascuum is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe.
Jacqui Katona
Jacqui Katona is an Aboriginal woman who tried to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory. In 1998 the Mirrar Aboriginal people, together with environmental groups, created one of the largest protests in Australia's history. Katona won the 1999 U.S. Goldman Environmental Prize because she protected her country and culture against uranium mining.
Emmer-Compascuum
Emmer-Compascuum has an elevation of 12 meters (42 feet) and a population of about 8,000.
List of college athletic conferences
In college athletics in the United States, schools typically join together in conferences for regular play.
Region members
Northern Region
Southern Region
Eastern Region
Western Region
Tamila Sarikhanova
Tamila Sarikhanova (uz: Tamila Sarixanova, ru: Тамила Сарыханова born June 13, 1992) - is a team manager of Uzbek Tigers and Uzbekistan Olympic Boxing Team, Vice Chariman of IBA's (International Boxing Association) technical management committee and first female IBA Supervisor from Uzbekistan.
Biography
Tamila Sarikhanova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 13 June in 1993. She has graduated from Management Development Institute of Singapore in Tashkent 2015 and started working for Uzbekistan Boxing Federation as a head of International department. In 2016 she began managing the Uzbek Tigers, the team obtained bronze medal of WSB (World Series of Boxing) at the end of the season.
Rickenbach, Thurgau
Rickenbach is a municipality of the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Umar tree frog
The Umar tree frog (Litoria umarensis) is a frog from Indonesia. Some black guys saw it on the Wandammen Peninsula.
Scientists say this frog is related to the black-dotted tree frog.
Friends on the Other Side
The Telegraph called it as a "trippy voodoo number".
Chief Minister of Gibraltar
The chief minister of Gibraltar is the head of His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar.
Jim Playfair
James Playfair (born May 22, 1964) is the former associate coach of the Arizona Coyotes. He is a former NHL ice hockey player and a former head coach of the Calgary Flames.
Dalby Forest
Wildlife
Dalby Forest is home to many species of wildlife such as badgers, and roe deer. There are also many species of trees including oak, beech, ash, alder, hazel and Scots pine (Aldus sylvestris).
Property damage
Property damage is destruction to private or public property caused either by person(s) or natural phenomena, such as severe weather or tropical cyclones. One form of property damage is called vandalism. The term vandalism, however, is often used to mean superficial or mild damage to property.
Frösön
Frösön (Frey's island; ; "fɾøːsœʏːa" in the local dialect, Jamtlandic) is the largest island in the lake of Storsjön. It is located west of the town of Östersund in Sweden, Sweden. On the island is the "Frösö Runestone". That Runestone is dated from 1030-1050 AD.
The Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger had a summerhouse on the island. In 1930, he made it his permanent home.
Eurasian people
A Eurasian person is a person of mixed European and Asian descent or mixed parentage (someone with one Caucasian parent and one Asian parent). In Hawaii, the term hapa is used. Eurasian people can also mean people who live in Europe or Asia, or by the Ural Mountains
Louis Beel
Louis Joseph Maria Beel (April 12, 1902 in Roermond - February 11, 1977 in Utrecht) was a Dutch politician.
He was a member of the Roman-Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later on of its post-war successor the Catholic People's Party (KVP) (a predecessor of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)).
Beel was prime minister from 1946 to 1948, and again from 1958 to 1959. He was also a government minister and a deputy prime minister. Both in 1946 and in 1948 he was a member of the Second Chamber for a short time.
He studied law at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and was also a professor in administrative law and public administration theory at the same university.
Cindy McCain
Cindy Lou Hensley McCain (born May 20, 1954) is an American businesswoman and politician. McCain is the Executive Director of the World Food Programme since 2023. She was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023. She was the wife of Republican Senator John McCain. During the Donald Trump presidency, she became a critic of the president and the Republican Party.
In the 2020 presidential election, she was one of the few key Republicans who supported form Vice President Joe Biden over President Trump.
In late November 2020, McCain was seen as a possible pick for an ambassador role in the Biden administration. In May 2021, it was reported that President Biden would nominate McCain to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. McCain was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on October 26, 2021.
In April 2023, McCain became the Executive Director of the World Food Programme.
Stan Freberg
Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg (August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, comedian, puppeteer, radio personality, voice actor and advertising creative director. His career began in 1944. He was still active in the industry in his mid-80s, nearly 70 years after he started.
Freberg was born on August 7, 1926 in Pasadena, California. He studied at Alhambra High School. Freberg was married to Donna Freberg from 1959 until her death in 2000. He had been married to Betty Hunter since 2001. He had two daughters with Donna.
In 1985, Paul McCartney said that Freberg was an influence to The Beatles’ "anarchic humor".
Nickel silver
Nickel silver, sometimes called German silver, is an alloy. It normally has copper, nickel, and zinc in it. Despite the name, it does not contain any real silver. It is common in utensils. It is also used in cymbals, keys, zippers, and musical instruments. Some coins use nickel silver. It is sometimes used to trick people into thinking it is silver. A German industrial chemist named E.A. Geitner discovered nickel silver in the early 19th century.
Nodosauridae
The Nodosauridae is a family of ankylosaur dinosaurs, from Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous strata of what are now North America, Asia, Antarctica and Europe. They are the family of ankylosaurs which do not have club-shaped tails. They often have spikes protecting their head and shoulders.
All nodosaurs, like other ankylosaurs, are medium-sized to large, heavily built quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaurs, with small denticulate teeth and rows of osteoderms (a type of armour) on the dorsolateral (top and sides) surfaces of the body.
Phylogeny
The clade Nodosauridae may be defined as "all ankylosaurs closer to Panoplosaurus than to Ankylosaurus. Vickaryous et al. considered the most primitive member of the Nodosauridae to be Cedarpelta. A cladogram from a 2011 analysis is shown by Richard S. Thompson and colleagues.
Roggwil, Thurgau
Roggwil is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Alison, New South Wales
Alison is a partly rural suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It on the north bank of the Wyong River. It is named for the Alison Homestead in Cape Road.
Caracas
Caracas is the capital city of Venezuela. Santiago de Leòn de Losada founded the city in 1567. It is where Simon Bolivar was born. The city has nearly 6 million people, who live in the metropolitan area. Caracas is the center of the economical activity of the country and also hosts the main government offices of Venezuela.
After WW2 the city has experienced a huge growth, thanks to the oil revenues of the country. Nearly half a million Europeans immigrated to the city in the 1950s ( that had in those years only one million inhabitants) and so Caracas developed a typical western-European look in the new modern areas.
Sports
All the best teams of the sports done in Venezuela are concentrated in the metropolitan area of Caracas. Between those teams we have:
Buildings
Many beautiful modern buildings can be seen in the city. Here there are some of them:
Eppie Lederer
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer, better known as Ann Landers (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), was an American writer. She is best known for writing the famous advice column "Ann Landers." For almost 45 years, it was a part of many newspapers across North America. In it, people wrote for advice and she answered.
Lederer and her twin sister Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, writer of the advice column "Dear Abby", were daughters of Russian Jewish emigrants.
South Bend, Indiana
South Bend is a city in northern Indiana in the United States. It is the county seat of St. Joseph County near the St. Joseph River. In the year 2000, the city had 107,789 people living in it. It is the fourth largest city in Indiana. The University of Notre Dame is in South Bend.
Gay bar
Gay bars are drinking establishments that cater to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. The term gay is used as an inclusive concept for LGBT communities. Gay bars once served as the centre of gay culture. They were one of the few places people with same-sex orientations and gender-variant identities could openly socialize. Other names include boy bar, girl bar, lesbian bar or dyke bar.
The Stonewall Inn in New York City is one example of a gay/lesbian bar. The gay rights movement was born there.
Hafu (gamer)
Rumay Wang (born April 18, 1991), better known as Hafu, is an American Twitch streamer. She is known for being a professional World of Warcraft, Bloodline Champions and Hearthstone player. Hafu was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She has over 1 million followers on her channel.
She has been a well known critic of sexual harassment in gaming.
In September 2020, Wang began streaming and posting videos of her playing Among Us, making her popular and the second most-viewed female streamer in the month of November.
Stem (linguistics)
The stem of a verb is the main part of the verb to which the endings are added.
References
Radiko
Thread (computer science)
A thread in computer science is short for a thread of execution. Threads are a way for a program to split itself into two or more simultaneously (or pseudo-simultaneously) running tasks. Threads and processes differ from one operating system to another but, in general, a thread is contained inside a process and different threads in the same process share the same resources while different processes in the same multitasking operating system do not. Threads are lightweight, in terms of the system resources they consume, as compared with processes.
Homo economicus
Homo economicus (or H. economicus for short, meaning "economic man") is an economic theory which suggests that humans are purely rational and think and act in their own self-interest (what is best for them). It is a play on words with Homo sapiens.
Wouter Bos
Wouter Jacob Bos (born July 14, 1963) was a Dutch minister of finance, deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Dutch Labour Party. He won the election of Dutch Labour Party leader, defeating Jouke de Vries. He led the party until March 12, 2010, the day he left. His successor is Job Cohen, who used to be the mayor of Amsterdam. He left because he wanted to spend more time with his family.
He left as minister of finance and deputy Prime Minister because the government felt over the decision of Uruzgan. The Dutch Labour Party was in the coalition, together with Christen Democraten Appèl and the ChristenUnie, both Christian parties. The Dutch Labour Party did not agree and stepped out of the coalition.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Willem Biesheuvel (April 5, 1920 in Haarlemmerliede - April 29, 2001 in Haarlem) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).
Biesheuvel was prime minister from 1971 to 1973. He was also a deputy prime minister, a government minister, a member-parliamentary leader of the Second Chamber and a member of the European Parliament.
He studied law at the Free University Amsterdam.
Biesheuvel was a Reformed Christian. He died in 2001, aged 81.
Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (小野 太郎) is an American actor, musician, singer and writer.
Lennon was born on October 9, 1975 at New York Hospital in New York City, He is the son of John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono. He is Japanese on his mother's side and English, Welsh and Irish on his father's side. This makes him Eurasian. He has the same birthday as his father.
Lennon is currently dating model/musician Charlotte Muel. Lennon had been engaged to musican Bijou Phillips.
Groups involved in
Lennon has worked with Mark Ronson and childhood friend Jordan Galland. He has been a member of the groups Cibo Matto, Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger and Dopo Yume.
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political activist leader. He started the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He inspired Rastafarians and the Nation of Islam. Garvey was a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism.
Garvey was born in Jamaica. He left Jamaica in 1910. He lived in Costa Rica for a few months. In 1912 he moved back to Jamaica. The Marcus Garvey Award is given each year to a Jamaican by JAM. He was an important activist during the Back-to-Africa movement.
Garvey was controversial because he supported the separation of black and white people and even supported the Ku Klux Klan. He thanked white people for Jim Crow laws as well.
Garvey had a stroke in January 1940 and this caused many to believe he had died. In fact, many early obituaries of Garvey were released, some of which Garvey read himself. He died in London on June 10, 1940 shortly after reading another early obituary of him, aged 52.
Respect for Marriage Act
The Respect for Marriage Act is a federal law in the United States. It requires all states and territories of the United States to accept marriage between people of the same sex or different races. It was passed by Congress on December 8, 2022, and became law on December 13, 2022.
Background
] Until 1967, each U.S. state could choose if they wanted to allow people of different races to marry, or not. That year, the Supreme Court heard a case called Loving v. Virginia. They decided that the U.S. Constitution requires people to be free to marry someone of any race. Laws against interracial marriage could not be enforced any more.
Until 2015, each U.S. state could choose if they wanted to allow same-sex marriage or not. That year, the Supreme Court heard a case called Obergefell v. Hodges. They ruled that same-sex marriage was a fundamental or basic right under the Constitution, so it must be legal everywhere in the United States. Of the nine judges on the Supreme Court, five agreed, and four did not.
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court heard a case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. They ruled that abortion was not a fundamental right under the Constitution. This allowed states to ban abortion. It reversed another court case from 1973, Roe v. Wade which said that abortion was a fundamental right. Six judges agreed with the decision in Dobbs, and three did not. Clarence Thomas was one of the judges who agreed. He wrote that, just as abortion was not protected, same-sex marriage may not be protected. Some people thought the same argument could be used against interracial marriage.
The law
The law officially repealed, or canceled, the Defense of Marriage Act. It says that if people are married anywhere in the United States, no state can refuse to accept their marriage based on race, ethnic group, or sex. It does not require religious groups, such as churches, to be involved in any marriage ceremony.
Opinions
In September 2022, a poll showed that 74% of Americans thought same-sex marriage should be protected, 13% did not, and 13% were uncertain. A poll from 2021 showed that 94% of American supported interracial marriage.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or Mormon church) supported the law, although they think same-sex relationships are wrong. The Southern Baptist Convention and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed it. The Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Union for Reform Judaism, United Church of Christ, and Presbyterian Church (USA) supported it.
X (Kylie Minogue album)
X is the tenth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It is her first album released since the compilation Ultimate Kylie (2004), and her first studio album since Body Language (2003). The album was released on 21 November 2007 by Parlophone Records.
Nine Lessons and Carols
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is a form of church service used at Christmas in the Anglican Church. There are nine lessons (readings) and between each reading there is a carol sung, either by the choir on its own or by the whole congregation. The story is told from the beginning of the Bible in which Adam disobeys God, to the coming of the baby Jesus.
The form of the service was started by Edward White Benson who was Bishop of Truro in Cornwall, for use on Christmas Eve (24 December) 1880. The service is now used by other churches all over the world, not just in Anglican churches, but also in some Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches. In the UK, the service has become the standard form for schools' Christmas carol services.
The best-known Nine Lessons and Carols service is the one held in King's College, Cambridge every Christmas. The choir carols are sung by the famous Choir. This service has been broadcast by the BBC for more than half a century.
Service at King's College, Cambridge
The first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge, was held on Christmas Eve in 1918. The music at the first service was directed by Arthur Henry Mann, who was the organist from 1876 to 1929. The choir had 16 trebles which was the number that Henry VI said there must be when he founded the college. Until 1927 the men in the choir were choral scholars and lay clerks. Today, 14 undergraduates from the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, sing the men's parts.
The service was first broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1928 and, except for 1930, has been broadcast every year since, even throughout World War II in spite of the stained glass having been removed from the Chapel and the lack of heating. The service is slightly different today: not all the readings are from the Bible. Most of the carols are sung by the choir. There are generally more than nine carols. The service starts with the famous carol "Once in Royal David's City". Verse one is always sung as an unaccompanied solo by one of the boys in the choir. The boy is not told that he is the one who has been chosen to sing the solo until just before the service begins.
Since 1982 the Director of Music has been Stephen Cleobury. Each year he commissions a composer to write a new carol for the Choir. The service ends with the carol "O Come all ye faithful". This is followed by the Organ Voluntary: "In Dulci Jubilo" (BWV 729) by Johann Sebastian Bach and then another Organ Piece (which is heard on the radio but not on television).
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (also called Cinderella: A Twist in Time) is the second sequel to Disney's animated movie Cinderella.
Mount Logan
Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada. It is the second-highest mountain in North America, after Denali (Mount McKinley). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan. He was a Canadian geologist and the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is in Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwestern Yukon. People think that Logan has the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth. The massif has eleven peaks over 5000 m.
Temperatures are extremely low on and near Mount Logan. On the 5,000 m (16,400 ft) high plateau, air temperature stays around -45 C in the winter. It reaches near freezing in summer. Little snow melt leads to a large ice cap, reaching almost 300 m in certain spots.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Summary
Frollo gets the fairy godmother's wand and reverses all of which the fairy godmother did. Everything that she had made (the dress, the horses and the carriage) which were the reasons why and how Cinderella went to "The Ball". So when all the magic is gone will there be a happily ever after all? What will Cinderella do?
Release
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time was released on February 6, 2007 and went back to the Disney Vault on January 31, 2008.
DVD Features
Bibbidi-Bobbidi Game
Cinderella's Ballroom (DVD-ROM) "I Still Believe" Music Video By: Hayden Panettiere Backstage At Disney Cruise Line's "Twice Charmed"
First Look At The New DVD, "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales"
Romanshorn
Romanshorn is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Outlaws (band)
The Outlaws is an American country rock band formed in 1972. They are a Southern rock/country rock band. Some of their best known hits were "There Goes Another Love Song" (1975), "Green Grass and High Tides" (1975) and "Ghost Riders In The Sky".
Like other southern rock bands, the Outlaws used two lead guitars. However, the Outlaws’ used three and four part vocal harmonies which made them different from other southern rock bands who usually had a single lead singer.
Over the years there has been many changes in the band's members. The current lineup includes Henry Paul and Monte Yoho who were original band members. The other three original members - Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones and Frank O'Keefe - have all died.
Free University Amsterdam
Free University Amsterdam (Dutch: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), shortened to VU, is a (Calvinist) public university in Amsterdam, a city in the province of North Holland, and also the capital city of the Netherlands.
Free University Amsterdam was established by Abraham Kuyper in 1880.
It has about 30,000 students.
Its focus is on all sorts of sciences.
Malcolm & Marie
Malcolm & Marie is an American drama movie, written and directed by Sam Levinson. It stars John David Washington and Zendaya as the title characters.
It was released on February 5, 2021, by Netflix.
Plot
Writer-director Malcolm Elliott (John David Washington) returns home from his film premiere with his girlfriend Marie Jones (Zendaya). Malcolm eagerly anticipates the critical reviews following the emotional audience response from the screening. When he notices Marie looking displeased, he urges her to tell him what is bothering her. Initially reluctant to start a fight in the middle of the night, she tells him that she is upset that she was not thanked or acknowledged in his speech at the premiere.
Marie believes that she is the basis of his film, a drama about a struggling black female drug addict named Imani, as she herself was a drug addict when they met. Malcolm dismisses her accusations, claiming that Imani is not based on her and is an amalgamation of different people. Marie insists that he would not have authentically portrayed Imani's struggles with drug abuse and addiction if they were not together. Malcolm believes that Marie is overreacting, claiming that, because she quit acting years ago, she is jealous of the actress who played Imani and that she is projecting her personal problems on him and his film. Marie affirms her position on his lack of acknowledgment and calls his talents "mediocre". While Marie is taking a bath, Malcolm describes to her the different women he had relationships with, who inspired the character of Imani, stating that only Imani's feelings of hopelessness were based on Marie. After drying herself from the bath, she responds by playing Dionne Warwick's song "Get Rid of Him" on her phone, while the two are sitting silently outside.
Heading back inside, Malcolm then finds and reads the first critic review posted about his film. Despite the review being positive, he rants about the white female critic's political interpretation of his film as he did not intend it to be political. He laments that film critics are focusing too much on his black male identity and projecting politics into their interpretations, rather than judging him for his own merits. Marie playfully belittles his angry reaction to the positive review and his inability to take criticism, before the two appear to be bonding again following their arguments.
Before the two can begin to have sex, Marie provokes him when she asks why he did not cast her as Imani, believing that she would have brought a vulnerability and authenticity to the character that could have made the film better. After they angrily accuse each other of being egotistical, Marie then brings out a knife and acts out a scene as Imani to demonstrate authenticity, scaring but impressing Malcolm over how convincing she is. The two go to their bedroom and argue once more, until Marie lectures him about him taking her for granted and his lack of acknowledgement of how their genuine love for each other inspired the film.
Their arguing finally stops as they go to bed without saying anything to each other, only thanking each other before they sleep. Malcolm wakes up alone in bed in the morning daylight. He finds Marie alone outside and joins her as they look across the distance, leaving the fate of their relationship unknown.
Release
In September 2020, Netflix bought the movie's distribution rights for $30 million, paying a higher price than companies such as HBO, A24 and Searchlight Pictures. The film was released on February 5, 2021.
Franconian Dialect
The Franconian Dialect (Fränkischer Dialekt) is a dialect, which is spoken in Flanders and French Flanders, the Netherlands (except the northeast), Luxembourg, the western central part of Germany and bordering France.
Balkan Romance languages
The Balkan Romance languages are a branch of Eastern Romance languages spoken in the Balkans. There are four languages in the branch, Aromanian, Romanian (also called Daco-Romanian), Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian.
Peter Caruana
Sir Peter Richard Caruana, (born 15 October 1956) is a retired Gibraltarian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1996 to 2011 and Leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) from 1991 to 2013.
Tilde de Paula
Tilde de Paula (November 14, 1972) is a Swedish television host and presenter. She was born and raised in Chile and has won many awards for her television work in Sweden.
Peter Caruana
Caruana was named Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to Gibraltar.
Wyong River
The Wyong River is a perennial river in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The river starts near the Watagan Mountains west of Martinsville. It flows generally south and southeast. It ends at Tuggerah Lake, near Tacoma. The Pacific Motorway crosses the river west of Wyong. During periods of heavy rainfall, the Wyong is prone to flooding.
Debby Boone
Debby Boone (born Deborah Ann Boone on September 22, 1956) is a singer, songwriter, and children's book author. She is the daughter of singer Pat Boone. She has won three Grammy Awards; in 1977, 1980 and 1984.
Nerf N-Strike
Nerf N-Strike is an video game that was made by Electronic Arts. It is part of the Nerf series. It was released on the Wii and Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008.
History
In August 2007, Electronic Arts gained the rights to some Hasbro brands, like Monopoly, Littlest Pet Shop, and Nerf. In February, EA Casual Entertainment announced that their EA Salt Lake Studio would develop and release video games for Littlest Pet Shop and Nerf N-Strike.
Homestar Runner
Homestar Runner, also called H*R, is an Internet surreal comedy cartoon series that was made using Adobe Flash. It usually gets updated every Monday (but, except for an update on April Fools' Day of 2014 and a few cartoons since, it has not been actively updated since December 2010) with a cartoon, a game, or a Strong Bad Email. The people that made the website are Mike Chapman and Matt Chapman. They are brothers and are called The Brothers Chaps. The cartoons on the website normally show Homestar Runner or Strong Bad, who are the main characters on the cartoon.
Video games
Telltale Games, the makers of video games based on the Sam & Max comic book, made a game called Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for Windows and the Wii's WiiWare. It's an episodic game with five episodes, and it is made with 3 dimensions instead of 2 dimensions like Homestar Runner is. The first episode was called Homestar Ruiner, and ended with 8-Bit is Enough.
French grammar
French grammar is the rules about how to speak and write the French language. It is similar to the grammar of other Romance languages.
French is moderately inflected. This means that some words change their form in different situations.
Verb
In French, verbs are conjugated to show information. That means they change endings.
Person
Verbs are conjugated to match with grammatical person.
Irregular Verbs
Most French verbs are regular, which means that the someone can guess how to conjugate a verb based on what letters a verb ends with. However, some verbs are irregular. Irregular verbs do not follow the normal pattern of conjugation. Instead, the forms must be learned differently. An example of an irregular verb in French is être (to be).
Gender
Every French noun has a gender. A noun can be either masculine or feminine.
Number
The plural of a noun usually ends with -s. For example, dog (chien) becomes dogs (chiens). However, if a noun ends in -au, -eu, or -ou, it can have -x at the end as a plural. For example, game (jeu) becomes games (jeux). If a noun already ends with -s, -x, or -z, it does not change in the plural.
Adjectives
In French, adjectives change in order to agree with the gender and number of the noun it describes.
Word order
The word order in French is subject-verb-object. In the sentence Je mange le gâteau (I eat the cake), je (I) is the subject and le gâteau (the cake) is the object. However, if the object is a pronoun, it goes before the verb. If le gâteau is replaced by le (it), the sentence becomes Je le mange (I eat it).
Dream (YouTuber)
Clay (born August 12, 1999), better known online as Dream, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. He is known for playing Minecraft. He is well known for his YouTube series Minecraft Manhunt. He won a Streamy Award in 2020.
Dow Chemical
Dow Chemical is a company which has its headquarters in the United States. It is the second-largest producer of chemicals in the world, after BASF.
Lexus UX
The Lexus UX is a car made by Lexus, Toyota's luxury car brand.
It is a small Japanese crossover SUV that was shown to the public in March 2018, at the Geneva Motor Show. It has a bold and stylish design with a small size. 'UX' stands for 'Urban Crossover', as the UX is made for places like smaller areas in cities.
Details
The UX is sold in over 80 countries worldwide. It started in the U.S in December 2018, started in Thailand in March 2019, Europe in October 2019, and it started in the first 3 months in Australia.
Italo-Western languages
The Italo-Western languages are the largest branch of Romance languages. They are made up of two branches, the Italo-Dalmatian languages and the Western Romance languages.
Canton of Zürich
Districts
The Canton of Zürich is divided into 12 districts:
Municipalities
The canton of Zürich has 171 municipalities:
Southport, Indiana
Southport is a city in Indiana in the United States.
Ensign (rank)
Ensign is the lowest rank of a officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy.
Sullivan, Indiana
Sullivan is a city in Indiana in the United States.
Northern bluefin tuna
Northern bluefin tuna are the largest kind of tuna fish. They live for 11 to 26 years. It is one of the largest, fastest, and most colorful of all the world’s fishes.
Origin
Their name comes from the Latin: Thunnus Thynnus
Appearance
The normal size is 6.6 ft (2 m) at about 1,100 lb (500 kg). The I.G.F.A. record for a bluefin caught on rod and reel is 1,496 lb.
Feeding habits
Bluefins feed on mackerel, herring, mullet, whiting, squid, eels, and crustaceans. They are very powerful and fast and can swim at speeds up to 50 mph.
Catching areas
The following are percentages of tuna caught in different regions in the world.
Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn (or just Stonewall) is a gay/lesbian tavern and recreational bar in New York City. It was also the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots. The original inn closed in 1969. In 1990, a bar named "Stonewall" opened in the western half of the original location.
In June 2015, the Stonewall received an official landmark status from New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its role as the catalyst of the LGBT movement. It is the first landmark in New York City that has been recognized due to its status in LGBT history.
Chile national cricket team
Chilean cricket team is the national cricket team of Chile. The team played their first test match against Argentina in 1893.
Michael D. Griffin
Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer. He was the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Before, he was Administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009.
In 2007 he was included in the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people.
Yanshan University
Yanshan University is a university in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
Tell City, Indiana
Tell City is a city in Indiana in the United States.
Mount Parnassus
Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos, is a mountain of limestone in central Greece. It is north of the Gulf of Corinth. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the home of the Muses.
Mythology
Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus. Parnassos was leader of a city that was flooded by rains. The people ran from the flood up the mountain slope. There the survivors built another city and called it Lykoreia. According to some traditions, Mount Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses. As the home of the Muses, Mount Parnassus became known as the home of poetry, music, and learning.
Mount Parnassus was the site of several unrelated minor events in Greek mythology.