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SriLankan Airlines
Rebranding
Air Lanka, which was state-owned, was partially privatized in 1998, with investment by Dubai-based Emirates Group, when Emirates and the Sri Lankan government signed an agreement for a ten-year strategic partnership. This agreement included exclusive rights for all aircraft ground handling and airline catering at Colombo-Bandaranaike airport for ten years. Emirates bought a 40% stake worth US$70 million (which it later increased to 43.6%) in Air Lanka and sought to refurbish the airline's image and fleet. The government retained a majority stake in the airline. Though they gave full control to Emirates for investment and management decisions. In 1998, the Air Lanka re-branded to SriLankan Airlines.
2000s
In 2008, Emirates notified the Sri Lankan Government that it would not renew its management contract, which then expired on 31 March 2008. It claimed that the Sri Lankan Government was seeking greater control over the day-to-day management of the airline. Emirates sold its 43.63% stake in the airline to the Government of Sri Lanka in a deal that was finalized in 2010, thus ending any affiliations the two airlines had with each other.
In 2008 when Emirates pulled out, the profit of SriLankan was Rs. 9.288 billion in that financial year. From 2008 to 2015, when the government administration ran it, the loss for the seven years was Rs. 128.238 billion (US$875 million).
2010s
Following the ownership transfer, SriLankan took the decision to promote Colombo as a hub for flights to Asia. The first destination of the expansion plan was Shanghai; the route started on 1 July 2010. The airline started flights to Guangzhou on 28 January 2011.
The airline closed three European routes – Frankfurt, Paris and Rome – by end of 2016.
Ivory (color)
Ivory is a color that is mostly white, but with a small amount of yellow. It looks like ivory, the material from which the teeth and tusks of animals (such as, notably, the elephant and the walrus) is made. It has a very slight tint of yellow.
Ruben Salazar
Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 – August 29, 1970) was a Mexican-American civil rights activist and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was the first Mexican-American journalist from mainstream media to cover the Chicano community. He was born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Salazar was killed, aged 42, on August 29, 1970, in Los Angeles, California after he was hit by a tear-gas projectile fired by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy. No criminal charge was filed, but Salazar's family reached an out-of-court financial settlement with the county.
Marie Dubois
Marie Dubois (Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé; January 12, 1937 - October 15, 2014) was a French actress. Dubois was born in Paris, France. She studied at l'École de la rue Blanche (ENSATT). She made her movie debut in 1959. She was first gaining notice as Léna in Shoot the Piano Player.
She was known for her roles in Jules and Jim, The Thief of Paris, Hot Line, La Ronde, La Grande Vadrouille, and Monte Carlo or Bust. In 1978 she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dominique Montlaur in La Menace.
Dubois married French actor Serge Rousseau in 1961. They remained together until his death in 2007. Dubois died in Paris, France from multiple sclerosis, aged 77.
Owen Barfield
Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet and critic. He was a member of the Inklings. He was known for his philosophy collection Saving the Appearances.
Bill Slayback
William Grover "Bill" Slayback (February 21, 1948 – March 25, 2015) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He appeared in 42 games, 17 as a starter for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1972 until 1974. He later became a musician and singer-songwriter, releasing several singles such as "Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry)".
Slayback was born in Hollywood, California. He had two daughters, Samantha and Kelli.
Tamara Buciuceanu
Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, (August 10, 1929 – October 15, 2019) was a Romanian actress. She was one of the most successful Romanian actresses of the 1960s–2000s who worked at Odeon Theatre. She was known for Liceenii (1986), Liceenii Rock'n'Roll (1992), Silent Wedding (2008) and Everybody in Our Family (2012). Buciuceanu was born in Tighina, Moldova, Romania.
Bill Slayback
Slayback died on March 25, 2015 at his home in La Crescenta-Montrose, California, aged 67. He had been ill for some years before his death.
Chieming
Education
In Chieming there are
Tamara Buciuceanu
Buciuceanu died of cardiovascular disease at a Bucharest hospital on October 15, 2019 at the age of 90.
Turkish alphabet
The Turkish alphabet is used for writing, speaking and reading in Turkish. This alphabet is modified from the Latin alphabet. There are 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet of Turkey. The English letters, "Q", "W" and "X" are not in Turkish alphabet. Seven Turkish letters (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş, and Ü) are in the Turkish alphabet.
There are 8 vowels in the Turkish alphabet: A,E,I,İ,O,Ö,U,Ü
There are 21 consonants in the Turkish alphabet: B, C, Ç, D, F, G, Ğ, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, Ş, T, V, Y, Z.
Eleven Hopes
Eleven Hopes (Одиннадцать надежд) is a 1975 Soviet comedy movie directed by Viktor Sadovsky and stars Anatoly Papanov, Lyubov Virolaynen, and Yuriy Demich.
Engelsberg
Engelsberg is a municipality in Traunstein in Bavaria in Germany.
Le Plan-de-la-Tour
Le Plan-de-la-Tour is a commune. It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France. In 2019, 3,048 people lived there.
Elizabeth Peña
Elizabeth Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an Cuban-American actress and television director. She was known for her roles in The Incredibles, Rush Hour, Jacob's Ladder, and La Bamba. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Peña died at the age of 55 on October 14, 2014 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from septic shock and cardiopulmonary arrest complicated from cirrhosis of the liver.
Orangeburg, New York
Orangeburg is a hamlet and census-designated place, in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Tappan, south of Blauvelt, east of Pearl River and west of Piermont. The population was 4,568 at the 2010 census.
The Kippax
The club left the Maine Road ground in 2003 and moved to the new City of Manchester Stadium.. This of course bought the end for one of City's most loved stands, The Kippax. Unofficially, the East stand in the new stadium is also named Kippax.
Q'eqchi' people
Q'eqchi '  (K'ekchi ', or simply Kekchi) are one of the Maya peoples in Guatemala and Belize. Their language is also called Q'eqchi'.
Before the Spanish came in the 1520s, Q'eqchi' were mostly in what are now the departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in Guatemala. With the activity the Q'eqchi' moved into other regions of Guatemala, southern Belize, and smaller numbers in El Salvador, Honduras and southern Mexico.
Doc Rivers
Doc Rivers is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He has coached for the Orlando Magic, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers, and the Philadelphia 76ers. As a player, he played for the Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, and the San Antonio Spurs.
On May 16, 2023, the 76ers fired Rivers.
Saint-Paterne
Saint-Paterne is a former commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Saint-Paterne - Le Chevain.
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English football club from Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club plays in the Championship, currently managed by Owen Coyle. They play their home games at the DW Stadium. In 2012-13 they won the FA Cup by beating Manchester City 1-0 and so they played in the UEFA Europa League in the season 2013/14. A few days later they were relegated from the English Premier League to the Football League Championship, becoming the first FA Cup-winning side to be relegated in the same season. Manager Roberto Martínez left the club shortly after to join Everton. Owen Coyle replaced him.
Helmut Ruge
Helmut Ruge (7 February 1940 – 8 October 2014) was a German comedian, author, director and actor. He was born in Stuttgart. Ruge was originally a graduate sociologist and psychologist. He wrote 37 cabaret programs and ten plays.
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Supporters
Wigan Athletic Official Supporters Club (formally known as Wigan Athletic Supporters Travel Club) is the official supporters' association of Wigan Athletic Football Club. The supporters club are a non-profit organisation run by volunteers and meet before home matches in the South Stand Bar.
Helmut Ruge
Ruge lived in Munich since 1967. Ruge died on October 8, 2014 at the age of 74 years after a long illness in Munich.
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Rivalries
Since Wigan Athletic's admission to the Football League in 1978, the club has built up several rivalries, mainly with Bolton Wanderers. They also have a rivalry with Manchester City, because they are from the same city and have the same blue club color.
Managers
As listed on the official Wigan Athletic website.
Cup
Wigan's victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final qualified them for European football for the first time, earning them an automatic place in the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.
Species description
When a new species is discovered, it needs to be described. This is known as species description. Today, this description is done in the form of an article or paper, published in a scientific journal. The scientific description has to follow strict rules. The person who is the author of the scientific article is also the person who is seen as the one who discovered the species. Usually, he or she can propose a name for the species. If the article has many authors, all of them are seen as discoverers of the species. Describing a species belongs to taxonomy.
History
Species descriptions have also been done in historic times. That way, Aristotle's History of Animals is probably among the first such publications. The book was published around 343 BC. In it, Aristole describes some of the creatures of his homeland, mostly fish and invertebrates. He also included a few mythical creatures, such as the manticore.
In the year 77 AD, Pliny the Elder described several species, in his work Natural History. He probably read Aristonle's work, as he also describes many of the mythical creatures Aristole does.
In the 13th century, the didactic text Konungs skuggsjá was written. It had many descriptions of whales, seals, and monsters of the Icelandic seas. The descriptions were short, and often contained errors. The descriptions include those of a mermaid, and of a large sea monster called Hafgufa. At first, the author did not want it, because he thought it was too big, but felt it was important enough to be included in his descriptions. Today, we know that the Hafgufa does not exist.
Carl Linnaeus wrote Systema Naturae in 1735. He was the first to use the modern system of taxonomy, which is still used today.
John Charles Daly
John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991) was an American journalist, personality, actor, and game show host. He was known for hosting What's My Line. He was also the Vice President of ABC during the 1950s. He was the son-in-law of Chief of Justice Earl Warren.
Early life
Daly was born on February 20, 1914 in Johannesburg, South Africa to an American family. His parents were on a trip in Johannesburg when he was born. After his father died, Daly and his mother moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Daly studied at the Tilton School and at Boston College.
Personal life
He was married to Margaret Griswell Neal from 1937 until they divorced in 1959 or 1960. They had three children. Then he was married to Virginia Warren from 1960 until his death in 1991. Virginia was the daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Death
Daly died on February 24, 1991 in his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland from cardiac arrest, four days after his 77th birthday.
Awards
Daly won an Emmy Award in 1955, an Golden Globe Award in 1962, and three Peabody Award in 1954, 1956, and in 1957.
Livilliers
Livilliers is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
Liberal Party (Norway)
The Liberal Party (Venstre, V) is a centrist political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and it is the oldest political party in Norway. It is a liberal party.
Linas, Essonne
Linas is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France. In 2020, 6,864 people lived in the commune. The inhabitants are known as Linois. Linas is known for its motor racing circuit Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry. It has a church called Saint-Merry.
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 comedy movie produced by Mort Engelberg and directed by Hal Needham. It stars Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Mike Henry. The movie spawned with two sequels, Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit 3.
Harshad number
In mathematics, a harshad number (also known as a Niven number) is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits in a given base. A harshad number in base n is called an n-harshad number.
Ethyl iodide
Ethyl iodide (also called iodoethane) is a colorless and flammable chemical compound. It has the chemical formula C2H5I. It is prepared by heating ethanol with iodine and phosphorus.
Alzette
The Alzette (Uelzecht, Alzig) is a river in France and Luxembourg. It is a right tributary of the Sauer river, and so it is part of the drainage basin of the Rhine river.
Geography
The Alzette river has a length of 73 km but only 2.7 km of them are in France. Its drainage basin has an area of 1172 km2, most of it in Luxembourg.
Course
The Alzette has its source in France in the territory of the commune of Thil in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lorraine), at an altitude of about 305 m. It passes through the French communes of Villerupt (Weller) and Audun-le-Tiche (Deutsch-Oth, Däitsch-Oth.
After a few kilometers, the Alzette enters Luxembourg, flowing through the city of Esch-sur-Alzette (Esch-Uelzecht, Esch-an-der-Alzette or Esch-an-der-Alzig, Esch-sur-Alzette). At Lameschmillen (near Bergem) it is joined by the Mess river.
It flows on a wide floodplain before getting into a narrow valley near Hesperange. Then it flows through the Luxembourgish cities of Luxembourg (where it is joined by the Pétrusse river) and Mersch (where is joined by the Mamer and Eisch rivers). It joins, as a right tributary, the Sauer river near Ettelbruck, at about 193 m of altitude.
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Alzette rivers are left tributaries; those that join the river by the right side are very small streams.
Tappan, New York
Tappan from the Lenape word "tuphanne" thought to mean "cold water," is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. The population was 6,613 at the 2010 census.
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta. The population of Red Deer was 90,564 in 2011. The mayor of Red Deer is Morris Flewwelling.
Whirlwind
A whirlwind is a vortex of wind (a straight rotating column of air) that forms because of turbulence created by heating and flow (current) differences. Whirlwinds happen all over the world and in any season.
Amphoe Pai
Amphoe Pai is small district in the northeast of the province of Mae Hongson, Thailand. Pai is very famous for Thai and foreign visitors. There are many important rivers flowing through the district.
History
Amphoe Pai was settled back in human prehistory. The Pai area part of the kingdowm of King Mungrai, or Mung Rai during the 1200s. In 1774-1784 Pai was developed into village and then developed into Amphoe Pai.
Tourist attractions
Many people come to Amphoe Pai to visit:
Saint-Paul-le-Gaultier
Saint-Paul-le-Gaultier is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Berberis hayatana
Berberis hayatana is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae. It was first described in 1952 then renamed in 1954. It is found mainly in Taiwan. Berberis hayatana is a low evergreen shrub. It is common to the Central Mountain Range at elevations of between 2000 ft and 3000 ft.
Oleum
Oleum is a chemical. It does not have a chemical formula because it is a mixture, not a chemical compound. It is made by dissolving sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid. It is part of the contact process used to make sulfuric acid. It is a fuming (releases toxic fumes) liquid. It can be dissolved in some water to produce concentrated sulfuric acid.
Saint-Pavace
Saint-Pavace is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Littorious
Ahmahd Isaiah Daniels, known professionally as Littorious, is a talented musical artist, singer, and songwriter hailing from Staten Island, New York.
Early Life & Professional career
He was born on January 21, 1999, and made his debut in 2017 with the song "Aquaman," which quickly became popular. This track became the first song on his recent EP, "Aquaman," which features other popular tracks like "Super Soaker," "Harder," "Give me The Loving," and "What You Want".
Discography
2017
2022
Saving Grace (movie)
Saving Grace is a 2000 British comedy movie set in Cornwall. Brenda Blethyn stars in the movie. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Critical reaction to this movie was positive. The movie received favorable notice for an independent British comedy; it was nominated for awards.
Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress, model and voice artist. She played Becky Thatcher in Tom and Huck (1995). She played Laney Boggs in She's All That (1999). She played Laura King in the movie Vampire (2011).
Ammonium sulfate
Ammonium sulfate is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is (NH4)2SO4. It contains ammonium and sulfate ions. It is slightly acidic because ammonia is a weak base. It is made by reacting ammonia with sulfuric acid. It breaks down when heated. It is used in fertilizers to provide both sulfur and nitrogen to plants. It is banned in some parts of the Middle East because it was being used to make explosives. It rarely occurs in the ground.
Rachael Leigh Cook
She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
René de Obaldia
René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. He began his career in 1960. His first major play, "Génousie," was presented at the Théâtre national populaire.
This was followed by Le Satyre de la Villette, with André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a comedy which ranked him with his literary forebears Jacques Audiberti, Ionesco, Beckett. He has been, for more than fifty years, one of the most-produced French playwrights on the planet, as well as the most internationally renowned (having been translated into 28 languages).
In 1985 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Française.
De Obaldia died in Paris on 27 January 2022, at the age of 103.
Potassium sulfate
Potassium sulfate, also known as arcanite, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is K2SO4. It contains potassium and sulfate ions.
Properties
It is a white crystalline solid. It dissolves in water easily. It does not dissolve in potassium hydroxide or concentrated ethanol. It can react with additional sulfuric acid to make potassium bisulfate.
Accrington Stanley F.C.
Accrington Stanley Football Club is an English football club.
Potassium sulfate
Preparation
It is made by reacting potassium hydroxide and sulfuric acid. It can also be made by reacting potassium chloride with sulfuric acid. It can also be made by reacting sulfur dioxide, oxygen, and potassium chloride with some water.
Accrington Stanley F.C.
The club will play in League Two (the English fourth division) in the 2015/16 season.
Potassium sulfate
Uses
Potassium sulphate is an important salt in everyday life. It is primarily used:
Occurrence
Arcanite is the mineral form of potassium sulfate.
Accrington Stanley F.C.
They were re-founded in 1968 after going bankrupt (having no money) in 1962. They were first founded in 1921. They are thought of a hard working club but having no chance of success. Their nickname is Stanley. They play at the Interlink Express Stadium in Accrington in Lancashire, in England.
Candy Shop
"Candy Shop" is a 2005 song by American rapper 50 Cent featuring American R&B singer Olivia and is the second single from his second studio album The Massacre. It topped the single charts in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. It went to the top ten in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland and the United Kingdom. The song was nominated for an Grammy Award in 2006 and was nominated for MTV Video Music Award in 2005.
Abdullah Kobayashi
Yōsuke Kobayashi (小林 洋輔) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He competes under the ring name Abdullah Kobayashi which is a tribute to his trainer Abdullah the Butcher. He is best known for his time in Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). He has also competed for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) where he appeared in the Tournament of Death IX. He made it to the second round but was defeated by JC Bailey. Kobayashi is best known for competing in brutal deathmatches.
In mid-2013, Kobayashi took a long break from in-ring action to undergo treatment after he was diagnosed with hepatitis C.
2015 Illapel earthquake
On 16 September 2015, an 8.3 Mw earthquake happened 46 km offshore Illapel, Chile. 12 deaths and 34+ injuries were reported. The cities of Coquimbo and Concón reported flooding from a tsunami. Six aftershocks were also reported.
Tsunami warnings were given to Ecuador, Peru, New Zealand, Fiji, Japan, the Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, and the U.S. states of Hawaii and California. The earthquake was felt in Argentina and Brazil.
Saint-Pierre-de-Chevillé
Saint-Pierre-de-Chevillé is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Roman timekeeping
The Romans were pioneers in the creation of modern timekeeping. They were the first to give a name to the days of the week, naming them after their gods, and they revolutionised the idea of using the sun and the light to keep a record of the hours in a day.
Tomato
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a vegetable/botanical fruit, or specifically, a berry (but not a fruit as ordinary people use the word).
It is shiny and smooth. It has many small seeds. It is also very good for health. Most tomatoes are red. The tomato is green when it is unripe. It slowly changes color from green to red as it gets ripe, and as it gets ripe it gets bigger and bigger. There are many different types of tomatoes. Some kinds of tomato are yellow or orange when they are ripe. Tomatoes are used a lot in Italian food. They are also used to make ketchup. Tomatoes are called fruit, because they contain seeds. Tomato seeds get spread around by being eaten by animals. After being eaten the seeds pass through the animal's digestive system. Although tomatoes are really fruits, many people call them vegetables and treat them like vegetables when they cook.
History
The tomato is native to western South America. Wild versions were small, like cherry tomatoes, and most likely yellow instead of red. The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish and Italian food. The French and northern Europeans wrongly thought that they were poisonous as they are a member of the deadly nightshade family. The leaves and immature fruit contains tomatine, which in large amounts would be toxic. However, the ripe fruit contains no tomatine.
As food
The tomato is grown and eaten around the world. It is used in many ways, such as raw in salads or in slices, stewed, a part of a wide variety of dishes, or processed into ketchup or tomato soup. Unripe green tomatoes can also be breaded and fried, used to make salsa, or pickled. Tomato juice is sold as a drink, and is used in cocktails such as the Bloody Mary.
Longuesse
Longuesse is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
Walter Hooper
Walter McGehee Hooper (March 27, 1931December 7, 2020) was an American writer and literary advisor. He was in charge of the estate of C.S. Lewis. He was a literary trustee for Owen Barfield from December 1997 to October 2006. He was born in Reidsville, North Carolina. In 1977, Hooper published the unfinished science fiction novel The Dark Tower by Lewis.
Hooper died on December 7, 2020 from a stroke caused by COVID-19 in Oxford, Oxfordshire at the age of 89.
Elaine Stritch
Stritch was born on February 2, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan to an Irish-Welsh family. She studied at The New School in New York City. Stritch was married to John Bay from 1973 until his death in 1982. She lived in Birmingham, Michigan.
Stritch died at her home in Birmingham, Michigan from complications of stomach cancer and diabetes on July 17, 2014 at the age of 89.
Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and actress. Lovato was first in Barney & Friends (2002–2004), but became more popular from being in the television movies Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010). One of the songs on the first Camp Rock movie was "This Is Me", which Lovato sang with Joe Jonas. This song was popular and was in the Billboard Hot 100.
Early life
Demetria Devonne Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was the child of an engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato (March 12, 1951 – June 22, 2013) and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna Lee Hart (born Dianna Lee Smith; August 8, 1962). Lovato has an older sister, Dallas (born February 4, 1988); a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza (born December 28, 2001), and an older paternal half-sister, Amber, to whom she first spoke to when she was 20. Lovato's parents divorced in the late summer of 1994, shortly after her second birthday. Lovato's father was of Mexican, Indigenous Mexican, Jewish, Portuguese and Spanish descent, and her mother is of Italian, English, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Patrick's patrilineal great-grandmother, Maria Cristina Perea, was a daughter of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea (1830–1913) and a great-granddaughter of Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Xavier Chávez. She received her high-school diploma through homeschooling in April 2009. She began playing piano at age seven and guitar at ten, when she also began dancing and acting classes. Lovato told Ellen DeGeneres that she was bullied so much that she asked for homeschooling.
Music
As a solo musical artist, Lovato released her first album, Don't Forget, on September 23, 2008. The album started at number two on the Billboard 200. It sold 89,000 copies in the first week. It has since shipped over 500,000 copies in the United States. This earned it a gold certification in the United States. Lovato released her second album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. The album started at number one on the Billboard 200. It sold 108,000 copies in the first week. Her third studio album, Unbroken, was released on September 20, 2011. It peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. Her fourth studio album is Demi. It reached #3 on the Billboard 200.
Lovato released her third album, Unbroken, on September 20, 2011. Begun in July 2010, the album experimented with R&B and featured less pop rock. The album and the stylistic change received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who saw a growth in musicianship because of her struggles and have praised Lovato's vocals but found the music more generic than her previous efforts. The record was a commercial success, peaking at number four on the Billboard 200, with sales exceeding 97,000 copies in its first week of release, and going on to sell over 500,000 copies in the United States, being certified Gold.
The album's lead single, "Skyscraper", was acclaimed for its messages of self-worth and confidence, peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling 176,000 downloads during the first week of release, becoming Lovato's highest first week sales, until the release of "Heart Attack" by Lovato in 2013. The song also Lovato's highest-peaked single since "This Is Me" reached number nine in August 2008. The song also debuted at number two on the Hot Digital Songs chart. "Skyscraper" received the Best Video with a Message award at the September 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. The album's second and final single, "Give Your Heart a Break", peaked Billboard Hot 100 at number 16, making Lovato's fourth highest peaking song. Also, it has peaked at number 12 on the US Adult Top 40 chart, number 1 on the US Pop Songs chart and became the longest climb by a female artist to #1 in the Pop Songs chart history. In April 2014, the song was certified three-times platinum by the RIAA; as of October 2014, it has sold 2.1 million digital copies.
Lovato released her fourth studio album, Demi, on May 14, 2013. It became a top-three album in the US. The album’s first single, "Heart Attack", reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. The next two singles, “Neon Lights” and “Really Don’t Care” with British singer Cher Lloyd, reached the top 40 and were both certified platinum.
Her fifth studio album, Confident, was her first album to have a Parental Advisory label. It entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number two and was released on October 16, 2015. Confident became her first album issued through Island Records and Safehouse, a label she formed with singer-actor Nick Jonas. The first single from Confident, “Cool for the Summer”, reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was certified platinum in the US and became her first top-ten hit in the UK. The single “Confident” was performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in support of Hillary Clinton. “Stone Cold” was issued as the third single from Confident. The album gave Lovato her first Grammy Award nomination when it was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Lovato released her sixth studio album, Tell Me You Love Me, on September 29, 2017. It opened at number three on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US. It featured the single “Sorry Not Sorry”, which became her highest-charting song in the US when it reached number six on the Hot 100. It also reached number nine in the UK. Lovato performed this song at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. The promotional singles “Tell Me You Love Me” and “You Don’t Do It for Me Anymore” were also released from the album.
Fridolfing
Fridolfing is a municipality in Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany.
Demi Lovato
Music
Lovato released her sixth studio album, Dancing with the Devil… the Art of Starting Over, on April 2, 2021.
Acting career
Lovato's Disney Channel sitcom Sonny with a Chance, with her character Sonny Munroe the newest cast member of the show-within-a-show So Random!, premiered on February 8. Lovato's acting ability was described by Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times as "very good", and he compared them favorably to Hannah Montana star (and friend) Miley Cyrus. That June, she co-starred as Princess Rosalinda with Selena Gomez in the Disney Channel film, Princess Protection Program. The film, the third highest-rated Disney Channel original movie, premiered to 8.5 million viewers.
In May Lovato guest-starred as a teenage schizophrenic in the sixth-season Grey's Anatomy episode, "Shiny Happy People". Critics praised her versatility.
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, with Lovato reprising her role as Mitchie Torres, premiered on September 3, 2010. The film premiered to eight million viewers, the number-one cable-television movie of the year by the number of viewers.
That month Lovato also announced her departure from Sonny with a Chance, putting her acting career on hiatus and ending the series; she later said that she would return to acting when she felt confident doing so. Her departure led to the spin-off series So Random! with the Sonny cast, featuring sketches from the former show-within-a-show. The series was cancelled after one season.
Personal life
Lovato has an eating disorder and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Lovato’s father, Patrick, died of cancer on June 22, 2013, at age 53. On October 17, 2017, Lovato released a YouTube documentary called Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, in which she described her teenage use of cocaine and performing on American Idol while hungover. Lovato considers having the right support system to be lifesaving.
Sexuality, gender and relationships
She dated Joe Jonas, whom she first met while filming Camp Rock in 2007 through 2010. Lovato dated actor Wilmer Valderrama on-and-off from 2010 until 2016.
On May 19, 2021, Lovato announced that she was gender nonbinary and her shift to using singular they pronouns. She later changed her pronouns to include she/her in April 2022.
Health
On July 24, 2018, the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at Lovato's home for Lovato suffering an alleged drug overdose. She was later revealed to be in stable condition.
Américo Tomás
Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás (19 November 1894 – 18 September 1987) was a Portuguese Navy officer and politician who was the authoritarian 13th President of Portugal from 1958 to 1974.
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
The Flight of Mr. McKinley (Бегство мистера Мак-Кинли) is a 1975 Soviet science fiction movie directed by Mikhail Schweitzer and stars Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova, and Angelina Stepanova.
Saint-Pierre-des-Bois
Saint-Pierre-des-Bois is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Rapture
The Rapture (meaning "to carry to another place" ) is a future event in Christian theology where Jesus Christ will return to Earth to bring his followers to Heaven. In Christianity it is believed that following this amazing event, the world will go through what is called the tribulation. Then later following, will come the millennium (a thousand years).
Telford United F.C.
A.F.C Telford United is a football club based in Telford, Shropshire, England. They are currently a member of the National League North, the sixth tier of English football.
They were founded in 2004. They are based off the original Telford United, which folded in 2004 after financial problems.
Grabenstätt
Grabenstätt is a municipality in Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany.
Rapture
Tribulation
The tribulation (or the great tribulation) is supposed theory of a period of time somewhere around the rapture, where the Antichrist comes to power and controls the world. It is not entirely agreed among Christians whether the rapture occurs before (Pre-tribulation view), in the middle of (Pre-wrath view), or after the end of (Post-tribulation view) the tribulation, but most Christians seem to hold a Pre-tribulation view. Most Christians agree that the period lasts around seven years.
Millennium
The Millennium is the period following the rapture, and the tribulation, that Christians believe they will live in glory on the Earth. They also believe that Jesus Christ will be in total control over earth for 1,000 years (a millennium).
Books
In 1950, the novel Raptured by Ernest Angley was published, and in 1995, the first of the Left Behind series was published. These and other books have made the story of the rapture and the tribulation popular.
Movies
The Rapture story has been retold in many movies. The most well-known production company is Cloud Ten Pictures. Which have created the Left Behind film series (Left Behind: The Movie, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force, and Left Behind: World at War), as well as several other movies. Some other notable end times movies are A Thief in the Night and The Omega Code.
Copycat suicide
After a famous suicide, there may be more copycat suicides. This is called the Werther effect. Sudden rises in copycat suicides can spread through a home, schools, or even across an entire country. These are called cluster suicides.
Tavira
Tavira is a city and municipality in the east of the Algarve region on the south coast of Portugal. It is in the Faro District. In 2011, 26,167 people lived there and its area is 606.97 km².
Blonde Ambition
Blonde Ambition is a romantic comedy movie. This is about a small town girl who moves to New York City and becomes a businesswoman. Jessica Simpson plays Katie. Rachael Leigh Cook plays Haley, and Penelope Ann Miller plays Debra.
This movie was released in December of 2007. It did not do well at the box office.
Blauvelt, New York
Blauvelt is a hamlet and census-designated place, formerly known as Greenbush and then Blauveltville, in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 5,689.
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards are theatre awards. They are given every year in a number of categories. They are the only major New York theatre honors in which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category. Presented since 1955, they are thought as one of the most important American theatre awards along with the Tony Award.
All in a Night's Work
All in a Night's Work is a 1961 American romantic comedy movie. It is about romance and several people in a newspaper department. Dean Martin plays Tony, and Shirley MacLaine plays Katie.
It was released in 1961.
Disco Inferno (50 Cent song)
"Disco Inferno" is a 2004 song by American rapper 50 Cent and is the lead single from his second studio album The Massacre (2005). It went to number 3 in the United States and number 87 in the United Kingdom. The song was nominated for an Grammy Award in 2006, but lost to Kanye West's song "Gold Digger".
Saint-Pierre-des-Ormes
Saint-Pierre-des-Ormes is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Pierre Rosenberg
Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936 in Paris) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie française. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge in 1987.
Dungeon
A dungeon is a room or cell in a castle to keep prisoners. Most dungeons are underground, others are high up in towers.
An oubliette is a type of dungeon that can be entered by using a trapdoor in the ceiling. People were thrown into an oubliette from the ceiling and left there to starve or dehydrate to death, making it akin to immurement.
Craig of the Creek
Craig of the Creek is an American animated television series. It was created by Matt Burnett and Ben Levin for Cartoon Network. The show's pilot episode debuted directly on the official app on December 1, 2017. The series premiered online on February 19, 2018, with a double-premiere event airing on March 30, 2018. The series received mostly positive reviews from fans and critics.
Music
The show's music is composed by Jeff Rosenstock.
A.F.C. Wimbledon
AFC Wimbledon is an English football club from London. The club are currently in EFL League One.
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 by fans angry at Wimbledon F.C. moving to Milton Keynes, 70 miles away from South London. They play at Plough Lane in London.
Étienne Pierre Ventenat
Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1 March 1757 – 13 August 1808) was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat (1765–1794).
Ventenat took a trip to England while he was employed as director of the ecclesiastic library Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. While in England, he visited the country's botanical gardens. This inspired him to pursue a career in science. Later he studied under and worked with a botanist named Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746–1800). In 1795, he was elected a member of the Institut national des sciences et des arts. They later changed their name to be the Académie des sciences.
In 1794 he wrote a treatise on the principles of botany. It was called Principes de botanique, expliqués au Lycée républicain par Ventenat. It did not receive much interest when it was released, and Ventenat became so disappointed that he reportedly made efforts to buy all copies of the book and have them destroyed. In 1798 he published a French translation of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu's Genera plantarum as Tableau du règne végétal selon la méthode de Jussieu. In his translation of the work, Ventenat added information about the properties and uses of plants.
In 1799 he published ''Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.-M. Cels''. This book described plants in the botanical garden of Jacques Philippe Martin Cels (1740–1806). In 1803 he published Le Jardin de la Malmaison because Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763–1814) asked him to write it. He wanted to make sure the rare species of plants found in the gardens and greenhouses of Château de Malmaison were remembered forever. The pictures and drawings in the two aforementioned works were performed by famed botanical artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840). Ventenat is also credited with continuing the work on Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard's Histoire des champignons de la France. This was a landmark (very important) work on mushrooms native to France.
Red Skies
"Red Skies" is a 1982 song by English new wave band the Fixx and is the third single from their debut studio album Shuttered Room. It was re-recorded for their live album React in 1987.
Hymenocallis
Hymenocallis is a genus of plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. It contains some fifty species native to tropical and subtropical America. Hymenocallis are bulbous perennial herbs. The flowers have their stamens united to a characteristic corona.
Pearl River, New York
Pearl River is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. The population was 15,876 at the 2010 census.
This is Me (Demi Lovato song)
"This Is Me" is a song sang by Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas. It is from the 2008 television movie Camp Rock. It was written and produced by Adam Watts and Andy Dodd. The song was on the Camp Rock soundtrack and was released as a single.
Play My Music
"Play My Music" is a 2008 song performed and recorded by The Jonas Brothers. The song was featured on the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock. "Play My Music" is also on the original version of The Camp Rock Soundtrack and the pre-release album (Camp Rock Soundtrack (Pre-release)).
Diana Lynn
Diana Lynn (July 5, 1926 – December 18, 1971) was an American actress of the stage, cinema and television.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a romantic comedy-drama movie. It is about affairs and swinging Las Vegas and California. Robert Culp plays Bob. Natalie Wood plays Carol. Elliott Gould plays Ted. Dyan Cannon plays Alice.
Diana Lynn
Early years
Lynn was born Dolores Marie Loehr on July 5, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Louis Loehr, was an oil supply executive. Her mother, Martha Loehr, was a concert pianist. She was considered a child prodigy. She began taking piano lessons when she was 4 years old, and by the age of 12, she played with the Los Angeles Junior Symphony Orchestra.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The movie was rated R for sexual material. This was released in September 1969.
Diana Lynn
Career
As a solo pianist, she released at least one single on Capitol Records, accompanied by the Paul Weston orchestra.
In 1964, Lynn had a six-month stint on Broadway, replacing Barbara Bel Geddes in Mary, Mary. In the early 1950s, she starred with Maurice Evans in The Wild Duck on Broadway.
Death
Before filming started on Play It as It Lays, Lynn suffered a stroke and died on December 18, 1971. She was 45.
Proton
A proton is part of an atom. They are found in the nucleus of an atom along with neutrons. The periodic table groups atoms according to how many protons they have. A single atom of hydrogen (the lightest kind of atom) is made up of an electron moving around a proton. Most of the mass of this atom is in the proton, which is almost 2000 times heavier than the electron. Protons and neutrons make up the nucleus of every other kind of atom. In any one element, the number of protons is always the same. An atom's atomic number is equal to the number of protons in that atom.
Protons are made of quarks. A proton is believed to be made up of 3 quarks, two up quarks and one down quark. One down quark has a charge of -1/3, and two up quarks have a charge of +2/3 each. This adds to a charge of +1. A proton has a very small mass. The mass of the proton is about one atomic mass unit. The mass of the neutron is also about one atomic mass unit. The size of a proton is determined by the vibration of the quarks that are in it, and these quarks effectively form a cloud. This means that a proton is not so much a hard ball as an area that contains quarks.
Louvres
Louvres is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
Screwball comedy
Screwball comedies are an American genre of comedy movies. This genre became popular during the Great Depression. It first became popular with It Happened One Night in 1934.
The elements of the screwball comedy can be traced back to plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado about Nothing.
Screwball comedy has farce or slapstick material.
Reidsville, North Carolina
Reidsville is a city in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 14,520.
Sheffield F.C.
Sheffield Football Club is a football club in England.
Sheffield F.C. is the oldest football club in the world. It was set up in 1857 in the city of Sheffield.
Unlike Sheffield United F.C. and Sheffield Wednesday F.C., it does not play in a national league.
Ambergris Caye
Ambergris Caye is the largest island of Belize. It is in the northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea. It is administered as part of the Belize District. The closest point on the mainland is part of the Corozal District. Caye is pronounced as "key". It means an island.
The Caye is about 40 km long from north to south, and about 1.6 km wide. It was named after large lumps of ambergris which washed ashore here.
The Belizean island is mostly a ring of white sand beach around mangrove swamp in the centre.
A Maya community lived on the island in Pre-Columbian times. They made polished red ceramics.
San Pedro Town is the largest settlement and only town on Ambergris. There are a number of small villages and resorts.
The main attractions are the Belize Barrier Reef and its beaches. The barrier reef is the second-largest in the world. Only the Great Barrier Reef of Australia is bigger.
Luzarches
Luzarches is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
Grassau, Bavaria
Grassau is a market town in Traunstein in Bavaria in Germany. It is south of lake Chiemsee in the valley of the Tiroler Ache.
Subdivisions
Grassau has the following districts of: