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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
History
Two years later the young Spanish conductor Enrique Jordá became their music director. At first things went well. He had a lot of energy, and sometimes his baton flew out of his hand as he conducted. Gradually the orchestra became less happy with Jordá who did not seem to be able to control the orchestra and did not rehearse them properly. Eventually, after George Szell, the conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, criticized him, the orchestra got rid of him.
In 1963, the Austrian conductor Josef Krips became music director. He was very strict and rehearsed them in great detail. He started a tradition of playing a special concert every New Year's Eve, "A Night in Old Vienna." with music by Johann Strauss and other 19th century Viennese composers. The Japanese Seiji Ozawa was their next conductor. He gave very exciting concerts which were always sold out. They made many recordings together. He sometimes conducted operas and ballets which were partly acted, and he used university choirs for choral works.
Ozawa was followed by Edo de Waart, the young Dutch conductor. He did not show off like Ozawa had done, but he kept the standard of the orchestra very high. He conducted the orchestra's very first performances in the Davies Symphony Hall. The orchestra used the huge new organ in the Hall for works such as Saint-Saëns' Third Symphony. In de Waart's final season, 1984-85, there were four sold-out performances of Mahler's hugh Eighth Symphony with the Symphony Chorus, the Masterworks Chorale, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus.
The orchestra started to do world tours under their next conductor Herbert Blomstedt who improved the orchestra’s sound. He is still an honorary conductor (Conductor Laureate).
Michael Tilson Thomas became music director in 1995. He had conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and had guest conducted the SFSO in 1974. He made sure the orchestra played more American music as well as plenty of Russian music. The standard of orchestral playing continues to be excellent today.
The Forest (video game)
The Forest is a survival horror video game developed and published by Endnight Games.
The game takes place on a remote forested peninsula, where the player character Eric LeBlanc must fight off cannibalistic monsters while searching for his son Timmy after a plane crash.
The game was released for Windows in April 2018, and for the PlayStation 4 in November 2018. The game was a success, selling over five million copies by the end of 2018. A sequel game, Sons of the Forest was announced to be released in October 2022, but was delayed before the final release date was set to be in early 2023.
Alfonso Wong
Wong died from organ failure on 1 January 2017 in California, United States. He was 91.
Claude Beausoleil
In 1991, Beausoleil won the Prix littéraires du Journal de Montréal for Une certain fin de siècle. He was also a finalist for the 1991 Governor General's Awards. He won the 1997 Prix Alain-Grandbois for Grand Hôtel des étrangers. La Blessure du silence won the Prix Louise-Labé in 2009, and Mystère Wilde won the Prix Heredia of the Académie française in 2015.
Beausoleil was a member of the Académie Mallarmé. His archives are kept in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Beausoleil died on 24 July 2020 in Montreal, At the age of 71.
Sutrieu
Sutrieu is a former commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Valromey-sur-Séran.
Plectrohyla pokomchi
The Rio Sananja spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla pokomchi) is a frog that lives in Guatemala. It lives in cloud forests 1400 to 2120 meters above sea level.
Thermal expansion
In physics, thermal expansion is the likelihood of matter to change in volume in response to a change in temperature. When a substance is heated, its basic particles move around more quickly and by doing so generally maintain a greater average separation. Materials that contract with an increase in temperature are very uncommon; this effect is limited in size, and only occurs within limited temperature ranges. The degree of expansion divided by the change in temperature is called the material's coefficient of thermal expansion and generally varies with temperature.
Thermometers are an example of using thermal expansion. They contain a liquid which can only move in one direction (along the tube) when volume changes along with temperature.
Thermal expansion can become a problem for trains because it can cause the rails to buckle. On the rails they will have monitors so that if it does get abnormally high in temperature they can be warned and trains could be told to slow down to reduce the heat of friction. Sometimes on the inner parts of the rails they will be painted white to reflect the sun's hot rays so that it won't cause buckling.
France Roche
France Roche (2 April 1921 – 14 December 2013) was a French actress and screenwriter. She appeared in 17 movies between 1951 and 1979. She died on 14 December 2013 from natural causes, aged 92.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Christine Williams King (September 13, 1904 – June 30, 1974) was the mother of Martin Luther King, Jr.. She was married to Martin Luther King, Sr. for 58 years.
She had an important part in the activities of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The church is now a part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. She was shot and killed in the church six years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
Alberta Christine Williams was born on September 13, 1904 in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father was Reverend Adam Daniel Williams. He was then the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Jennie Celeste (Parks) Williams was her mother. She earned a teaching certificate at the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute in 1924. Later the college name became just Hampton University.
Williams met Martin Luther King, Sr. right before she left for school at Hampton. After graduating, she and King got formally engaged at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She taught for a short time before their Thanksgiving Day wedding in 1926. She then had to quit because married female teachers were not allowed at that time. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was one of their three children.
Alberta King's mother died on May 18, 1941 of a heart attack. The King family later moved to a large yellow brick house three blocks away. Alberta was president of the Ebenezer Women's Committee from 1950 to 1962. She was also a talented musician who became the choir organist and director at Ebenezer. This may have been the reason her son was interested in Black music and art. By the end of this time, Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were sharing the role of pastors of the church.
Raymond Carr
Sir Raymond Albert Maillard Carr FBA FRHS FRSL (11 April 1919 – 19 April 2015), known as Raymond Carr, was an English historian. His works were mostly about the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. He was also Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987.
Masazō Nonaka
Masazō Nonaka (野中 正造) was a Japanese hotel manager and supercentenarian.
Biography
Nonaka was born on 25 July 1905 in Ashoro, Hokkaido as the eldest child of Masujiro Nonaka and his wife Kiyo Nonaka, and had two brothers and three sisters. In his youth, Nonaka worked as a farmer and lumberjack until 1925 when he took over Nonaka Onsen, a hot spring inn founded by his parents in 1905 and nowadays owned and managed by one of his grandchildren. In 1931, he married Hatsuno Nonaka, who died in 1992 and with whom he had 5 children (2 living).
Nonaka, who was the oldest living Japanese man since 112-year-old Masamitsu Yoshida's death on 29 October 2016, became the world's oldest living man after the death of 113-year-old Spaniard Francisco Núñez Olivera on 30 January 2018 (Núñez Olivera died on 29 January 2018 CET), and credited his long life to eating sweets and bathing in hot springs. Nonaka was also the oldest living person in Hokkaido since Teru Hatakeyama (who was just five days older) died on 3 April 2016.
Nonaka died in his sleep of natural causes at age 113 years, 179 days at 1:30am on 20 January 2019, and was succeeded as the oldest living man by Chitetsu Watanabe (born 5 March 1907), although German World War II-veteran Gustav Gerneth (born 15 October 1905?) and Mexican Domingo Villa Avisencio (born 26 August 1906?) claimed to be older than Watanabe (who, however, was the oldest living Japanese man).
Yoshiharu Ueno
Yoshiharu Ueno (上野 良治) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Ueno was born in Saitama on April 21, 1973. After dropped out from Waseda University, he joined J1 League club Yokohama Marinos (later Yokohama F. Marinos) in 1994. Initially, he played as offensive midfielder. In 1997, he was converted to defensive midfielder and became a regular player. The club won the champions in 2001 J.League Cup, 2003 and 2004 J1 League. He retired end of 2007 season.
On June 6, 2000, Ueno debuted for the Japan national team against Jamaica.
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List of Brazilian scientists
This is a list of Brazilian scientists.
Bonneville, Haute-Savoie
Bonneville (Bônavela) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Dispersion
Dispersion is the idea that the frequency of a wave influences its velocity (speed). Dispersion is most easily seen in the refraction of light, when all the colors inside white light become separated by a prism.
When a white beam is shone at the prism, all the colors in the light (color spectrum) are slowed when they meet the prism. Each color then refracts (bends) at a different angle, making us see a rainbow.
Dispersion is also important in telecommunication when different parts of a signal arrive at different times.
2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup women's football tournament is the third such tournament. It will be held in Azerbaijan from 22 September to 13 October, following a decision by the Executive Committee on 19 March 2010.
France won the title after defeating Korea DPR 1–1 (7–6 after pen.).
Mascot
The official mascot of this World Cup is The Top Top Girl. This means ball in Azerbaijani. It is a young girl with the national flag painted on her cheeks. The body is blue, red, green and white like the host's national team. Her brown hair in a ponytail is meant to look like a buta. This is a curving decorative motif widely used in Azerbaijani art.
Qualified teams
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Venues
All four venues were first to be only in Baku. There will also be matches in Lankaran. Tofik Bakhramov Stadium is the stadium where the final stages will be held.
Awards
The following awards were given for the tournament:
Granny (orca)
In January 2017, it was announced that researchers considered Granny dead. She had last been seen on October 12, 2016.
La Faloise
La Faloise is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Eulogius (Smirnov)
Eulogius (born Yuri Vasilyevich Smirnov; 13 January 1937 – 22 July 2020) was a Russian Orthodox prelate. He was the figure head at the Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Vladimir between 1990 and 2018.
Metropolitan Eulogius died on 22 July 2020, aged 83.
Cobalt(III) fluoride
Cobalt(III) fluoride, also known as cobaltic fluoride and cobalt trifluoride, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CoF3. It contains cobalt in its +3 oxidation state. It contains cobalt and fluoride ions. It is used to add fluoride ion to other chemicals. It is a brown solid. It is a powerful oxidizing agent. It reacts with water to make hydrofluoric acid, oxygen, and cobalt(II) fluoride. It is made by reacting cobalt(II) chloride and fluorine at 350 C. Cobalt(II) oxide and cobalt(II) fluoride can be used instead of the cobalt(II) chloride. It is used to make some chemicals.
Snow goose
The snow goose (Chen caerulescens or Anser caerulescens), also known as the blue goose, is a North American species of goose. Its name comes from its white feathers. Some authorities place this species in the Chen genus. Other authorities place these species in the "gray goose" genus Anser. In addition to a white phase they also have a blue phase. In the white phase they are all-white except for their primary feathers which are black. In the blue phase the head and upper neck remain white.
Subspecies
There are two known subspecies:
Bigpoint GmbH
Bigpoint GmbH is a game developer based in Hamburg, Germany which produces browser based MMORPG games that are unique in that do not require any downloads to play.
Central African Republic at the Olympics
Central African Republic at the Olympics is a history which includes 9 games in 8 countries and 40+ athletes. Since 1964, athletes of the Central African Republic have been part of the "Olympic Movement".
Bigpoint GmbH
Founded by Heiko Hubertz in December of 2002, Bigpoint has experienced record growth (more than 4500% in 5 years) since its creation and won numerous business awards including the Red Herring Award in 2007 - placing it among the top 100 most innovative businesses - and the Ruban d'Honneur at the European Business Awards in 2009.
Central African Republic at the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for the Central African Republic is CAF.
History
The Central African Republic National Olympic Committee (Comité National Olympique et Sportif Centrafricain) was formed in 1964. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1965.
Bigpoint GmbH
In June of 2008 a 70% controlling share of Bigpoint GmbH was purchased by NBCU's and GE's joint venture Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners in a $110m (€70m) deal that gave each a 35% share of the company.
This allowed the three initial venture capital investors - Aurelia Private Equity, European Founders Fund and United Internet Beteiligungen - to sell out while CEO Heiko Hubertz  re-invested his share of the sale to retain a 30% stake in the company.
Central African Republic at the Olympics
History
The Central African Republic has been in every Summer Olympic Games held between the1984 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. A team from the Central African Republic first competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
The country has not won an Olympic medal. No athletes from the Central African Republic have been at any Winter Olympic Games.
Bigpoint GmbH
Heiko Hubertz currently acts as the company's Managing Director.
Bigpoint has a portfolio of more than 40 games translated into 20 languages, with the two largest being SeaFight with approximately 15.7 million registered users and Dark Orbit with approximately 14.2 million registered users.
The company claims to receive more than 200,000 new user registrations each day.
A complete list of Bigpoint's games can be found Here
Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne
Titles and styles and Honors
(Swedish: Hans Kunglig Höghet Oscar, Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Skåne)
Talissieu
Talissieu is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna (29 December 1942 – 18 July 2012) was an Indian actor in movies. He became very famous in Bollywood after Shakti Samantha's movie Aradhana. Rajesh played both the father and son in that movie. Some of his well-known movies are Anand, Kati Patang, Safar, Sacha Jhuta, Raja Rani, Bawarchi and Amar Prem.
Imagine Dragons discography
The American pop rock band Imagine Dragons has released six studio albums, four live albums, one compilation album, ten extended plays, twenty-seven singles, six promotional singles and twenty-three music videos.
Statistics
According to Recording Industry Association of America, they have sold 74.5 million digital singles and 12 million albums in the US. Imagine Dragons has sold 46 million albums and 55 million singles worldwide. This includes 74 billion global career streams, making them among the best-selling rock bands in history. Billboard named them as the 29th Greatest Adult Alternative artist of all time, as well as the 13th Top Artist of 2010s in the United States.
EPs
Imagine Dragons released an extended play, Speak to Me in 2008. It was followed by a self-titled EP, Hell and Silence and It's Time in September 2009, June 2010, and March 2011. In February 2012, the band found success with the release of their fifth extended play, Continued Silence. "It's Time" was released as the lead single from the EP. It peaked at number fifteen on the United States Billboard Hot 100. It has since sold over 6 million copies in the United States. Continued Silence peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. As of August 31, 2021, Imagine Dragons is also one of the highest certified digital singles acts in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). They have been certified for 74.5 million digital singles in the country alone.
Album history
Night Visions, the band's debut studio album, was released in September 2012. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and got to the top of the Billboard Top Alternative Albums and Billboard Top Rock Albums charts. The album has the singles "It's Time", "Radioactive", and "Demons". "Radioactive" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and has since sold over 8.6 million copies in the United States. It also became a top–ten hit in many countries. These countries include Australia, Germany and Sweden. "Demons" has also been certified Diamond by the RIAA. It peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.
The band's second studio album, Smoke + Mirrors, was released in February 2015. It debuted at the top of the Billboard 200. The album had 3 singles: "I Bet My Life", which peaked in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28, "Gold", and "Shots". "I Bet My Life" and "Shots" both peaked in the top 10 on Billboard's Hot Rock and Alternative chart.
River Humber
The River Humber is a large deep water estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed by the River Ouse and the River Trent coming together. From here to the North Sea (about 40 miles) it forms part of the border between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north side and Lincolnshire on the south side. The Humber's only modern crossing is the Humber Bridge. At one time it the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world. Now it is the fifth longest. Before the bridge was built in 1981, paddle steamers were used to cross the mile long span.
History
In the middle ages the tides of the Humber kept armies from crossing. At that time it was thought to be an arm of the ocean. During the Anglo-Saxon period, the Humber was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. The name Northumbria came from Old English Northanhymbre meaning "the people north of the Humber". The Vikings used the Humber and its two tributaries, the Ouse and Trent, with their shallow-draft Longships to raid all over northeastern England.
Fortresses
Fort Paull was a Napoleonic era fort built in 1542 to protect the port there. The site dates back to 910 when it was a lookout for Viking raiders. The current fort is designed as a pentagon and was built from 1861–1864. It was disarmed at the beginning of the First World War and replaced by two nearby forts. One was on Sunk Island; the other was at Stallingborough. In 1960 the fort was finally closed down. But in 1964 a group of volunteers took over the fort and made it into a Museum.
Imagine Dragons discography
Album history
After taking a break of more than two years, they announced their fifth studio album, Mercury – Act 1. It was released on September 3, 2021. The album had three singles: "Follow You", "Cutthroat", and "Wrecked". "Follow You" peaked at number 7 on the Hot Rock and Alternative chart and number one on Rock and Alternative Airplay. It also received a different version named "Follow You (Summer '21)".
Erebos
Erebus is the god of darkness in Greek mythology. He came out of Chaos. He was also known to be the god fire; and he was that until Hephaestus took his place along with the ability of metal works. He is the twin of Nyx, the Goddess of Night.
Mount Erebus and a small crater on Mars are named after the Greek God.
Cobalt(II) fluoride
Cobalt(II) fluoride, also known as cobaltous fluoride, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CoF2. It contains cobalt in its +2 oxidation state. It also contains fluoride ions.
Properties
It is a reddish crystalline solid. It only dissolves a little in water. The hydrate (type with water molecules attached) can dissolve in water. It can dissolve in acid. It can react with hydrogen at 300 C to make cobalt and hydrogen fluoride.
Preparation
It can be made by reacting anhydrous (without any water molecules attached) cobalt(II) oxide or cobalt(II) chloride with a stream of hydrogen fluoride. This reaction makes the anhydrous form. The hydrated (with water molecules attached) form is made by reacting any cobalt(II) compound with hydrofluoric acid. When fluorine is reacted with cobalt at a high temperature, it makes both cobalt(II) fluoride and cobalt(III) fluoride.
Costume drama
A costume drama is a show in which complex costumes and sets are used to try to make the set look like a particular time in history. The most common type of costume drama is the historical costume drama, both on stage and in movies.
Cobalt(II) fluoride
Uses
It is used as a catalyst. It can be used as a source of the fluoride ion in dentist care. It is used in lenses.
Comoros at the Olympics
Comoros was first at the Olympic Games in 1996. They have been in every Summer Olympic Games since 1996. The nation has never been at the Winter Olympic Games.
Eyeborg
An eyeborg or eye-borg is an electronic eye that allows people to hear colors. It is mostly used by blind people or by people with color blindness. It works by using a head mounted camera that reads the colors directly in front of a person, and converts them into musical notes.
The first eyeborg was made in England in 2003 by Adam Montandon in collaboration with colourblind artist Neil Harbisson. The invention won a British award in Innovation (Submerge 2004) and a European award in Content Tools and Interface Design (Europrix 2004). In 2007, Peter Kese, a software developer from Slovenia, made further developments to the eyeborg by increasing the number of colors to 360 and adding color intensity through different volume levels. Matias Lizana, a student from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is currently developing the eyeborg into a smaller chip as part of his final year project. The new chip will allow users to hear colors in stereo and to embed the device.
Comoros at the Olympics
The National Olympic Committee for Comoros was formed in 1979 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1993.
Allied Powers of World War I
The Allied Powers of World War I were the countries who fought against the Central Powers in World War I. Major countries included the British Empire, France, the Russian Empire, the United States, Italy, and Japan. Most of these countries would fight alongside each other again in World War II, except that Italy and Japan would fight alongside Germany instead.
The Allied Powers in Europe were already allies before the war began. Serbia was an ally of Russia, and Russia was an ally of Britain and France. The war started because the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia in 1914, which led to a chain reaction of countries declaring war on each other.
At first, the United States was neutral, it was not part of either side. However, after several acts made by Germany against the US, the US declared war on Germany in 1917 and would fight for the Allied Powers.
Russia's campaign against the Central Powers went very poorly. Many Russian soldiers were poorly equipped and trained, many Russians were killed, and poverty and starvation became worse problems than before. Many Russians blamed Czar Nicholas II's poor leadership for Russia's problems, so he was overthrown and sent to exile. The Russian Provisional Government who replaced him also made many Russians upset because they promised that Russia would continue fighting the war. After the March Revolution that overthrew the Czar, communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin made a deal with Germany. The deal was that he would stop the fighting between Russia and Germany if they sent him to Russia to overthrow the government. Lenin's slogan for his communist government was "peace, land, and bread". This meant that the communist government promised no more fighting in the war, land redistribution so that everyone in Russia could have an equal amount of property, and that food would be plentiful. After the Communist Party took over Russia in the October Revolution, they fulfilled their promise to Germany and ended Russia's fighting in the war.
In World War II, Italy would join Germany in the Axis Powers because its leader, Benito Mussolini, had a similar ideology to Nazism. Japan was disappointed with the end of World War I because it did not gain as much as it wanted. Japan would also join the Axis Powers because it thought it would help the Japanese Empire grow faster than if it did with the Allies.
Elles
Elles is a 2011 erotic French drama movie. Juliette Binoche plays a journalist named Anne. Elles is about female student prostitution. This movie had an NC-17 rating because of explicit sexual content. The NC-17 rating was later surrendered. The movie was released unrated on DVD and Blu-ray disc.
Standard German
Standard German, High German, or Standard High German, (Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch, or in Swiss Standard German Schriftdeutsch), is the standardized variety of the German language used in formal occasions, and for communication between different dialect areas. It has three specific regional variants: German Standard German, Austrian Standard German, and Swiss Standard German.
Memory
Memory is the personal record of past experiences. It is the brain's ability to store information to use later. The Greeks considered memory (Mnemosyne) as the mother of Muses, for without her there would be no art and no science.
Memory is studied in sciences known as "cognitive psychology".
There are two types of memory: short-term and long-term memory, or known as working memory and reference memory.
Falvy
Falvy is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States. He only served one term as president. Before he was president, he was Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and the governor of Tennessee (1839–1841).
Early life
James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1795 in Pineville, North Carolina. His parents were Samuel Polk and Jane Gracey Polk. James’ father was an American surveyor, slave owner, planter, and businessman. It is unknown what his mother did. It is thought she was a housewife. He was very sickly as a child, so he did not do much farm work. He had surgery at 17 years old to remove bladder stones. Anesthesia was not invented yet, so he was awake the entire surgery. He was in a debate club in college. Polk studied law under a leading Nashville lawyer. He then worked as a lawyer and a statesman. He married Sarah Childress on January 1, 1824. They had no children together.
Presidency
James Knox Polk was nominated by the Democratic party and was elected as the 11th President of the United States. He was inaugurated on Tuesday, March 4, 1845 and George M. Dallas was sworn in as the vice president. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney swore in the president. During James’ 4 years in office, he accomplished many things. One event was reestablishment of the Independent Treasury System. Another important act was the reduction of tariffs. Polk also gained Oregon territory to the 49th parallel. The most important accomplishment of James K. Polk was westward expansion. He acquired more than 800,000 square miles of western territory. James K. Polk acquired this throughout the Mexican–American War. He was influenced by Andrew Jackson. James supported Jackson’s plan to dismantle the Bank of United States and replace it with a decentralized government banking system. James accomplished his 4 major goals throughout his presidency. His faults were: he held slaves;and his good intentioned territorial expansion (accidentally) helped pave the road to War Between the States maybe that's why Polk High School (married with children) has his name
Later life
James K Polk became a private citizen at the end of his 4 years in office. He and his wife decided to move to their Nashville home in Nashville, Tennessee because they wanted to retire and live a quiet life. Instead of directly returning to Tennessee, the Polks decided to tour the Southern states. Along the way he gave many speeches to the public. Within two weeks, James’ health suffered from the strains of travel. As the trip continued, the Polks were often forced to stop along the way to allow James to rest. The rest did not help. After arriving at their Nashville home, James Polk again fell ill and complained of horrible stomach pains. This time James had a serious disease called cholera. At the age of 53, James Knox Polk died on June 15, 1849. On his deathbed James asked his wife to free their slaves when she died. Sarah lived 42 more years and the Civil War freed their slaves long before she died. He was first buried at the Nashville City Cemetery then moved to his Nashville home but was later moved to the Tennessee state capitol after his Nashville home was later sold. He had the shortest retirement of any president, dying only three months after leaving office.
Canton of Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (Esch-Uelzecht) is a canton in the south-west of Luxembourg. Its capital is Esch-sur-Alzette.
Geography
With an area of 242.8 km2, and a population (2016) of 172,687, the Esch-sur-Alzette canton has a population density of inhabitants/km².
The canton borders on the south with the French departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle, and with Belgium on the west. In the Pétange commune is the point where where three countries meetː Luxembourg, France and Belgium.
Communes
The Esch-sur-Alzette canton has 14 communes (2017 population).
Bob St. Clair
Robert Bruce "Bob" St. Clair (February 18, 1931 – April 20, 2015), nicknamed "The Geek", was an American football player and politician. He played for the NFL team San Francisco 49ers from 1953 to 1963. He also served as mayor of Daly City, California from 1958 to 1961.
St. Clair was born in San Francisco, California. He was of Yaqui Native American ancestry.
St. Clair died after a short illness on April 20, 2015 in Santa Rosa, California. He was 74.
ORCID
ORCIDs usually have four groups of four numbers. An example of a person with an ORCID is John Wilbanks. His ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-0385. That is also the web address of the page about him, on the ORCID website. His ORCID can also be written as "ORCID: 0000-0002-4510-0385". Sometimes an ORCID has an "X" instead of a number at the end. An example of this is Nick Jennings's ORCID. His is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0166-248X. The final number (or "X") is a check digit.
Wilsthorpe Community School
Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College is a school for children in the town of Long Eaton in south east Derbyshire. The school is close to Nottinghamshire. The school delivers free education to local children when they are eleven until they leave school. Wilsthorpe was the first school in England to have a policeman on site in 2003. In their 2013 report, Ofsted said that the school 'requires improvement'.
Volvo B7TL
The Volvo B7TL is a 2-axle low-floor double-decker bus chassis. It was built in 1999 by Volvo Buses.
It was available with Alexander ALX400, Plaxton President, East Lancs Vyking, East Lancs Myllennium Vyking and Wright Eclipse Gemini bodywork.
The first examples were delivered to FirstGroup, Arriva, Travel West Midlands, Travel Coventry and Travel Dundee between 2000-2006.
Thézillieu
Thézillieu is a former commune. It is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the Ain department in east France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Plateau d'Hauteville.
Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel (, Migdal Bavel) story in Genesis 11:1–9 is an story that explains why the world's peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating westward, comes to the land of Shinar. There they agree to build a city and a tower tall enough to reach heaven. God, observing their city and tower, felt insulted and confused the humans so that they could no longer understand each other. He then scatters them around the world.
Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta.
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton is the second album by American rapper, Eazy-E. The album was released on November 24, 1995. The producers of the album were DJ Yella, Naughty by Nature, Rhythm D, K Loc, Mike E. Clark. It was Eazy-E's last full length album before he died. It was released posthumously about eight months after his death. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song "Ole School Shit" was a diss track to Tha Dogg Pound, Dr. Dre, Tweedy Bird Loc and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The song "Wut Would You Do" was also a diss track to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre.
Tenay
Tenay is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
David Bisconti
David Bisconti (born 22 September 1968) is a former Argentine football player. He has played for Argentina national team.
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Beth Howland
Elizabeth "Beth" Howland (May 28, 1941 – December 31, 2015) was an American actress. She worked on stage, movies and television. She was best known for playing Vera Gorman in the sitcom Alice.
Howland died of lung cancer on December 31, 2015 in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 74.
Gaia (mythology)
Gaia (Ancient Greek: Γαῖα), also spelled Gaea, is the personification of the Earth in Greek mythology. She was a primordial being, one of the first to have sprung forth from the void of Chaos. She is the mother and wife of Ouranos (Father Sky), with whom she sired the Titans, the Hekatonkheires, and the Elder Cyclopes. Other children of Gaia include Pontus (the sea), and the storm giant Typhon. Her Roman equivalent is Terra.
Family tree
Gaia is the goddess of the Earth and these are her offspring as related in various myths. Some are related consistently, some are mentioned only in minor variants of myths, and others are related in variants that are considered to reflect a confusion of the subject or association.
Thil, Ain
Thil is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Direct development
Direct development is an idea in biology. An animal does direct development if the baby animal looks like a small adult and not a larva. A frog that hatches out of its egg as a small frog has direct development. A frog that hatches out of its egg as a tadpole does not. An insect that hatches out of its egg as a small adult does direct development. An insect that hatches out of its egg as a caterpillar or grub does not.
Direct development is the opposite of complete metamorphosis. An animal does complete metamorphosis if it becomes a non-moving thing, for example a pupa in a cocoon, after being a larva but before being an adult.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain Bernard Bongo; February 9, 1959) is a Gabonese politician. He became President of Gabon on October 2009.
On 7 January 2019, soldiers in Gabon launched a coup d’etat attempt. The coup attempt failed, and the government successfully re-asserted control.
In October 2021, Ali Bongo is quoted in the “Pandora papers”, these documents on the use of offshore companies in tax havens, Ali Bongo would have been the beneficiary of two companies now dissolved.
SOCATA MS.880 Rallye
The SOCATA MS.880 Rallye is a French light aircraft used by civilian and military users. It's first mission is training.
History
It was create by Morane-Saulnier and after built by SOCATA. A military light attack version is known as Rallye 235 Guerrier. Some were built under licence in Poland as PZL Koliber.
Raymond Ndong Sima
Raymond Ndong Sima (born 23 January 1955 ) is a Gabonese politician. He was Prime Minister of Gabon from February 2012 to January 2014.
Jun Sonoda
Jun Sonoda (薗田淳) is a Japanese football player.
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Guru Somasundaram
Guru Somasundaram is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. He made his debut (started his career in cinema) in Thiagarajan Kumararaja's Aaranya Kaandam (2011). This film won him much appreciation. Suseenthiran's action film Pandiya Naadu (2013), Karthik Subbaraj's gangster (criminal gangs) film Jigarthanda (2014) and Raju Murugan's political satire (mockery or joke) film Joker (2016) made him popular for his acting. The film Joker got a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil. He is called Kollywood Heath Ledger. He lives in Tiruvannamalai.
Callulina stanleyi
The adult frog is about 42.5 mm long from nose to rear end. It is brown in color with a pattern. There are white warts on both sides of the body.
This frog climbs trees. At night, it sits on branches or on dead wood.
Reproduction
The frog lays eggs during the dry season. The mother frog sits on the eggs until they hatch. The eggs hatch into small frogs. They are never tadpoles. The frogs become adults in about eight months.
Threats
This frog is in danger of dying out because human beings change the places where the frogs live. Humans cut trees down to get wood to build with, to make places for animals to eat grass, and to build towns and cities.
Name
Scientists named this frog for William T. Stanley of the Chicago Field Museum. Stanley has studied living things in the Pare Mountains.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Pungi
The pungi, originates from the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a reservoir into which air is blown and then channelled into two reed pipes. It is played with no pauses, as the player employs circular breathing. In street performances, the pungi is used for snake charming. The pungi is also sometimes called “been.” And it is made of gourd, wax, bamboo, metal, beeswax, and coconuts. Common pungi’s are as long to be one-two feet in length.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. She was the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Scott King helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Scott King played an important role in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement.
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo rhodesiensis is a hominin species described from a single fossil skull. It was found in the colony of Northern Rhodesia, (now Zambia) at a mine called Broken Hill (now Kabwe) in 1921. The skull lacks the lower jaw, but otherwise is almost complete. In addition to the cranium, an upper jaw from another individual, a sacrum (bone of the pelvis), a tibia, and two femur fragments were also found.
Coretta Scott King
Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. She studied at Lincoln Normal School and at Antioch College.
Homo rhodesiensis
Rhodesian Man is dated to be between 125,000 and 300,000 years old. Cranial capacity of the Broken Hill skull has been estimated at 1,100 cm³. Bada & al (1974) published a direct date of 110 ka for this specimen. The brain size is rather small for such a late date. The destruction of the paleoanthropological site has made layered dating impossible.
Coretta Scott King
King was married to Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1953 until his death in 1968. They had four children: Dexter Scott King; Yolanda King; Bernice Albertine King and Martin Luther King III
Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn
Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn (c. 1362 – 30 September 1440), was a powerful Welsh marcher lord. He became Baron after his father's death in July 1388. His main military actions were against the Welsh, during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr.
Book
A book is a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers. The sheets of paper in a book are called pages. The pages have words written in them and illustrations drawn. The book is a more flexible format than the earlier idea of the scroll. The change from scrolls to books began in the Roman Empire and took many centuries to become complete.
Coretta Scott King
King was in a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico after she had a stroke and had ovarian cancer. She died on January 30, 2006 in the hospital from a stroke and respiratory failure, aged 78.
Aokigahara
Aokigahara is a forest at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The forest is known to be quiet because of the absence of wildlife and the wind-blocking density of the trees that are in it. A number of rocky, icy caverns are in the forest and some of them are popular tourist destinations. Demons in Japanese mythology are associated with the forest.
It is known as a popular suicide spot and is reportedly the most popular in Japan. It also ranks as the second in the world after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. There are signs in the forest in both Japanese and English that try to persuade people not to commit suicide. The forest is said to be haunted by the Yūrei (angry spirits) that were left to die. People that go there to take their life usually tie a thread when entering so that if they change their mind and want to make it out alive can locate their path but nobody has ever came out
Book
A writer of a book is called an author. Someone who draws the pictures in a book is called an illustrator. Books can have more than one author or illustrator.
A book can be a text that is a part of a larger collection of texts. A section of a text may be published as a book so that it only has one author or only focus on one subject area. Books written in this way can be understood without reading whole collection of writings. Examples are the Iliad, Odyssey, Bible, Quran and Torah. All of them consist of a number of “religious books” in this sense of the word. Encyclopedias often have separate articles written by different people, and are published as separate volumes. Each volume is a book.
Hardcover books have hard covers made of cardboard that is covered in cloth or leather and sewn together. Paperback books have covers made of stiff paper that is glued together. A small book is a "booklet" and may be stapled together. The words in books can be read aloud and recorded. These are called "audiobooks".
Books may be borrowed from a library or bought from a bookstore. People can make their own books and write in them, and add family photos and drawings. Some books are empty inside, like a diary, an address book, or photo album. These books are meant to be written in. Usually, the word "book" means that the pages inside have words, and often pictures.
Some books are written just for children. Some are for entertainment, and some are textbooks for studying something in school, such as math or history.
Etymology
The word book comes from Old English bōc, which in turn comes from the Germanic root *bōk-, cognate to 'beech'. In Slavic languages like Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian буква bukva—'letter' is cognate with 'beech'. In Russian, Serbian and Macedonian, the word букварь (bukvar') or буквар (bukvar) refers to a primary school textbook that helps young children master the techniques of reading and writing. It is thus conjectured that the earliest Indo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood. The Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant 'block of wood'.
Content of books
There are two main kinds of book text: fiction and non-fiction.
Homo rhodesiensis
The skull is from an extremely robust (= strong) individual, and has the comparatively largest brow-ridges of any known hominid remains. It was described as having a broad face similar to Homo neanderthalensis (i.e. large nose and thick protruding brow ridges), and has been interpreted as an "African Neanderthal". There are several features intermediate between modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. Most current experts believe Rhodesian Man to be within the group of Homo heidelbergensis. Other names, such as Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis, have also been suggested.
Book
Non-fiction
Non-fiction fiction are about true facts or things that have really happened. Some examples are dictionaries, cookbooks, textbooks for learning in school, or a biography (someone's life story).
Historical
Between the written manuscript and the book are several inventions. While manuscripts are hand-made, books are now industrial products.
Manuscripts
A common type of manuscript was the scroll. It is a long sheet that is rolled up. The sheet could have been made of papyrus (made by the Egyptians, by weaving the inner stems of the papyrus plant and then hammering them together), or parchment or vellum (very thin animal skin, first used by the ancient Greeks), or paper (made from plant fibers, invented by the Chinese). Manuscripts of this kind lasted to the 16th century and beyond. Turning the manuscript into a book required several developments.
The codex
The Romans were the first people to put separate pieces of manuscript between covers, to form a codex. This was more convenient to handle and store than scrolls, but was not yet a book as we understand it.
Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn
Reginald de Grey was responsible for giving out royal demands in the Northern March. This included calling the local nobility and gentry and their men to Royal and military service. He was had been in a long-running legal argument with Glyndŵr, claiming part of Glyndwr's land as his own. Under King Richard II the case had been found in favour of Glyndŵr. When Henry IV became king, Grey took over the land.