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A Prairie Home Companion (movie)
Home media
The movie's DVD was released on October 10, 2006. Special features included deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and commentary by Altman and Kline. A Prairie Home Companion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on May 23, 2006, by New Line.
Lapis lazuli
Lapis is famous for its beautiful blue colour: its name means "stone of blue". Lapis Lazuli has been used for many things. Its has been made into beads and used in jewellery since Prehistoric times. It can be carved into statuettes (little sculptures). The major use was as a pigment (colour) in artists' paint. During Medieval and Renaissance times, lapis was ground into powder, and mixed with oil. It was used as the colour for painting the sky, and blue clothes. It can be seen in the fresco paintings of Giotto and the tempera paintings of Fra Angelico.
Sources
Lapis lazuli is a metamorphic rock made from several minerals, but mainly Lazurite. Lazurite has been mined for over 6,000 years in Iran. It is also mined at Lake Baikal in Siberia; at Mount Vesuvius in Italy; in Burma; Canada; and the United States.
Iran was the source of lapis for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as the Ancient Greeks and Romans. During the height of the Indus Valley civilization about 2000 BC, the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.
In addition to the Persian deposits, lapis has been extracted for many years in the Andes (near Ovalle, Chile), the Lake Baikal region of Russia; Siberia; Angola; Argentina; Burma; Pakistan; Canada; India; and in the USA in California and Colorado.
Alternatives
Lapis lazuli is commercially "synthesized" (actually simulated) by a chemical process, using artificial ultramarine and hydrous zinc phosphates. There are also various substitutes for lapis.
Lester, Alabama
Lester is a town of Alabama in the United States.
Malvaceae
Malvaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 1000 species in 75 genera. They are found in tropical and temperate regions. They are not found very often in places such as Antarctica because those places are too cold for Malvaceae plants.
Odo of France
Odo of France (c. 857 – January 1, 898) was a king of the Franks (888 - 898). He was a son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and is sometimes called duke of France and also as count of Paris. His family is known as the Robertians. Odo made Paris his capital and that was important to making the start of modern France.
Malvaceae
Okra is one example it is called lady’s finger or gumbo
820
820 (DCCCXX) was.
List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church
This article lists the heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since the creation of the church as an autocephalous Archbishopric in 1219 to today's Patriarchate.
The list includes all the Archbishops and Patriarchs that led the Serbian Orthodox Church under the Serbian Archbishopric and Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.
Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was an attack that happened on 5-6 September during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. 11 members of the Israel Olympic team were murdered after being taken hostage. A German police officer was also killed.
The terrorists demanded the Israeli government to release 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. Of the eight attackers, five were killed by the police and three were arrested. The three were released from jail.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is part of the West Division of the Canadian Football League. The team started in 1930. It has won the league's Grey Cup championship ten times.
The team's home stadium is called Investors Group Field.
Zeneggen
Zeneggen (Walliser German: Zeneggu) is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Blood cell
A blood cell is any cell of any type found in blood. There are three main types of blood cells in mammals:
Discovery
Jan Swammerdam a scientist from the Netherlands was the first person to observe red blood cells under a microscope. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, another scientist from the Netherlands, was the first to draw an illustration of "Red Blood Cells".
Zanzibar
Zanzibar is the name of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean 25–50 km off the coast of East Africa. There are many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, sometimes informally referred to as 'Zanzibar') and Pemba Island.
The archipelago was once the separate state of Zanzibar, which united with Tanganyika to form Tanzania (derived from the two names). Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous within the union, with its own government.
The capital of Zanzibar is Zanzibar City. It is on the island of Unguja. The city's old quarter, known as Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site.
The people are mostly African Bantu, with some Asians of Indian origin.
Politics
Zanzibar has its own government, known as the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. It is made up of the Revolutionary Council and House of Representatives.
The main Parties are the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the Civic United Front (CUF). Since the early 1990s, the politics of the archipelago have been marked by repeated violent clashes between these two political parties.
Independence claimed
In October 2009, Zanzibar President Amani Karume met with CUF Secretary Seif Shariff Hamad at the State House to discus how to save Zanzibar from future political turmoil and to end the backlash between them, a move which was welcomed by many people including the USA and political parties. It was the first time CUF agreed to recognize Karume as the legitimate president of Zanzibar.
The relationship between Zanzibar government and Tanzanian Mainland has not been good in recent years since Tanzania Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda's remark about the Isles' sovereignty. He said that Zanzibar is not an independent country outside the Union Government, within which it can only exercise its sovereignty.
Members from both the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), and the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) disagreed with Mr Pinda's interpretation and stand firmly in recognizing Zanzibar as a fully autonomous and full state. The move was not recognized by the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.
In 2008, Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete tried to silence the debate when he addressed the nation in a live conference by saying that Zanzibar is a state internal but semi-state international. There the matter rests for the time being.
A proposal to amend Zanzibar’s laws to allow rival parties to form governments of national unity was adopted by 66.4 per cent of voters, after official results of a referendum which was held on July 31, 2010.
Religion
Zanzibar is 95% Islamic in religion, and has been so for hundreds of years. It was once part of the Persian Empire, then under the Caliphate of Oman. It was ruled by a Sultan. Zanzibar was conquered by the British in the late 19th century. The islands were involved in the Arab slave trade, and the British conquest was an attempt to stop this. They appointed puppet rulers, and Zanzibar became a 'protectorate', not a colony.
Zanzibar gained independence on 10th December 1963 from the British.
Spices
Zanzibar's main industries are spices (which include cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper), raffia, and tourism. Zanzibar is also the home of the endemic Zanzibar Red Colobus and the elusive Zanzibar Leopard. The word "Zanzibar" probably derives from the Persian زنگبار, Zangi-bar ("coast of the blacks") and it is also known as Zanji-bar in Arabic. Zanzibar is sometimes referred to as the "Spice Islands," a term that is more often used for the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Pemba Island is the only island apart from Zanzibar that still produces cloves on a major basis which is the primary source of spice income for the islands.
Economy
The islands are poor, and the economy is in trouble. Zanzibaris are living a hard life compare to the mainland. In 2000, the annual income per capita was US$220.
During May and June 2008, Zanzibar suffered a major failure of its electricity system, which left the island without electricity for nearly a month. Another blackout happened from December 2009 to March 2010, due to a problem with the submarine cables and the local plant. This led to a serious and ongoing shock to the island's fragile economy, which is heavily dependent on foreign tourism.
Cloves
Zanzibar's economy is based primarily on the production of cloves (90% grown on the island of Pemba), the principal foreign exchange earner. Exports have suffered with the downturn in the clove market.
The clove, originally from the Moluccan Islands (Indonesia), was introduced to Zanzibar by the Omani sultans in the first half of the XIX century. Zanzibar, mainly Pemba Island, was once the world's leading clove producer, but annual clove sales have plummeted by 80% since the 1970s. Zanzibar's clove industry has been crippled by a fast-moving global market, and international competition.
Tanzania's failed experiment with socialism in the 1960s and 1970s, when the government controlled clove prices and exports, is also a factor. Zanzibar now ranks a distant third with Indonesia supplying 75% of the world's cloves compared to Zanzibar's 7%.
Other options
Tourism is a major foreign currency earner. A number of new hotels and resorts having been built in recent years.
The Government of Zanzibar legalized foreign exchange bureaux on the islands. The effect was to increase the availability of consumer commodities. The government has also established a free port area. This stimulates trade and support services. There is a management system for re-exportation of goods.
There is also a possibility of oil exploration in Zanzibar on the island of Pemba. Oil would help boost the economy of Zanzibar, but there have been disagreements about dividends between the Tanzanian mainland and Zanzibar, the latter claiming the oil should be excluded in Union matters. A Norwegian consultant has been sent to Zanzibar to investigate its oil potential.
Leonel Marshall
Leonel Marshall Borges Jr.  (born September 25, 1979 in Havana) is a Cuban volleyball player. He was a member of the Cuban men's national team in 1997–2002. Marshall is an outside hitter. He is well known for his outstanding vertical jump.
843
The year 843 (DCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Sports betting
Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports and placing wagers on the outcome. Some suggest bets were placed for the first time in Ancient Greece, while others insist there is evidence of similar betting activities even before that.
The frequency of sports that is bet upon differs with culture. Most of those bets are placed on basketball, baseball, mixed martial arts, boxing and auto racing at both professional and amateur levels.
In many parts of the United States, sports betting is illegal. It is legal in several other states. They include Iowa, New York, Rhode Island, Colorado and Nevada. In countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden sports betting winnings are not taxed. Other jurisdictions, like Germany, impose taxes on wagering profits, but naturally the percentage varies from one country to another.
Sports betting can be done on several Internet websites or in public.
Bookmaker
The bookmaker, also known as “a betting agency” or “sportsbook” is a company or a person that provides the sports betting services at odds, agreed upon in advance.
San Marcos, California
San Marcos is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. It has a population of 83,781 people. The city was incorporated on January 28, 1963.
Berlin Friedrichstraße
Berlin Friedrichstraße is a railway station in the center of Berlin. It has regional and suburban railways connections. During the times of East Germany, it was the only station served by some underground lines from West Berlin.
Montreal Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes is a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec. It is part of the CFL's East Division. It has won the league's Grey Cup championship seven times, the last time in 2010.
The team plays its home games in Percival Molson Memorial Stadium.
U.S. Route 81
U.S. Route 81 or U.S. Highway 81 (US 81) is a major north–south U.S. highway. It goes for 1220 mi in the central United States. It is one of the original United States Numbered Highways created in 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
As of 2004, the highway's northern endpoint is just north of Pembina, North Dakota, at the Canadian border.
Its southern endpoint is in Fort Worth, Texas, at an intersection with I-35W and US 287. Between 1926 and 1991, US 81's southern endpoint was at the Mexican border in Laredo, Texas. In 1991, the endpoint was moved to San Antonio.
Electrical impedance
Electrical impedance is the amount of opposition that a circuit presents to current or voltage change.
Ayubia
Ayubia is a protected area located in Abbottabad District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is also known as Ayubia National Park and was called a national park in 1984. It is a small natural park 26 km from the Murree hill station. Ayubia was named after Ayub Khan, the second president of Pakistan. it is managed by the Wildlife and Parks Department of Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Electrical impedance
The two main ways to write an impedance are: (see the 2nd figure, "complex impedance plane")
Ayubia
Geography
Ayubia is spread around an area of 8184 acre. It is surrounded by forests, villages and three towns of Khanaspur, Nathia Gali and Thandiani.
Electrical impedance
The Impedance and the resistance are quite similar:
In the case of resistance, a resistor resists any current going through it. The higher the resistance, the higher the voltage that is needed to achieve a given current. The formula is:
Ror Wolf
Ror Wolf (born Richard Georg Wolf, 29 June 1932 – 17 February 2020) was a German writer, poet, and artist. He also published under the pseudonym Raoul Tranchirer. He wrote audio plays, novels, and poems and made collages. Wolf was born in Saalfeld, Thuringia. Wolf became contributing editor of literature for the Hessischer Rundfunk broadcaster for two years. He worked freelance from 1963.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Samaranch died of cardio-respiratory failure on 21 April 2010, aged 89.
Ror Wolf
His first novel appeared in 1964. He was awarded the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden in 1988.
Wolf lived in Mainz, Germany. He died on 17 February 2020 at the age of 87.
Electrical impedance
V = R * I, where V is the voltage, R is the resistance, and I is the current.
In the case of impedance, an inductor resists changes to the current and the capacitor resists changes to the voltage.
For the inductor:
For the capacitor:
Where Z is the symbol for impedance, j is the imaginary number \sqrt{-1}, \pi is the constant pi, f is the frequency, L is the inductance and C is the capacitance. The units for the resistance and the impedance are the same, the ohm with the symbol \Omega (capital omega).
As indicated by the formulas above, the impedance varies depending on the frequency, for example, at zero Hertz, or DC, the impedance of the inductor is zero, the same as a short-circuit, and the impedance of the capacitor is infinite, the same as an open-circuit. Most signals are the sum of many sine waves at various frequencies (see the fourier transform for more details), and each of them experience a different impedance.
Similarly to the resistance, the higher the impedance, the higher the voltage that is needed to achieve a given current. The formula is:
V = Z * I, where V is the voltage, Z is the impedance, and I is the current.
At the physical level, simplifying many things:
One important difference between the resistance and the impedance is that a resistor dissipates energy, it gets hot, but an inductor and a capacitor store the energy and can return that energy to the source when it goes down.
If the impedance of the source, cable and load are not all equal, then a fraction of the signal is reflected back to the source, wasting power and creating interference. The ratio of the reflection can be calculated with:
Any medium that can have a wave has a wave impedance, even empty space (light is an electro-magnetic wave and it can travel in space) has an impedance of about 377\Omega.
Phase
Across a resistor, both the voltage and the current goes up and down at the same time, they are said to be in phase, but with an impedance it's different, the voltage is shifted by 1/4 wavelength behind the current in a capacitor, and forward in an inductor.
A 1/4 wavelength is usually represented with the imaginary number "j", which is also equivalent to a 90 degree shift.
The use of the imaginary number "j" makes the mathematics much simpler, it allows to calculate the total impedance the same way as it's done with resistors, for example a resistor plus an impedance in series is R+Z, and in parallel it's (R*Z)/(R+Z).
Ayubia
Wildlife
The park has 104 species of plants. Some of the main species are Cedrus deodara, yew, horse chestnut and oak. The park harbors up to 203 species of birds. including the golden eagle, the vulture. It has 31 species of mammals. It also has animals like the Asiatic leopard.
Jemison, Alabama
Jemison is a city in Chilton County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 2,585.
Rossens, Fribourg
Rossens was a municipality of the district Saane in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of Corpataux-Magnedens, Farvagny, Le Glèbe, Rossens and Vuisternens-en-Ogoz merged to form the new municipality of Gibloux.
Oscar Yanes
Oscar Armando Yanes González (25 April 1927 – 21 October 2013) was a Venezuelan journalist and bestselling author. Yanes is considered to be a pioneer in Venezuela's broadcast journalism department.
He was awarded three times with the National Prize for Journalism. In 1992, he won the Silver Book Prize, awarded by Planeta Publishing, for the largest book circulation of the year.
Biography
Yanes was born on 25 April 1927 in Caracas, Venezuela. As a child, he attended the Zamora School, in San Juan Parish. The idol of the parish was the boxer Armando Best. Pompeyo Márquez and Eloy Torres also studied at that school. Both were boxers who were going to end up as communist leaders.
Later, Yanes went to the University and studied as a journalist after he had seen a notice from the newspaper. He entered the first school of journalism that existed in Venezuela, at the Free University "Augusteo", which had been founded in October 1941 by Monsignor Rafael Lovera under General Isaiah Medina Angarita. Press freedom was given by Angarita and allowed the circulation of three newspapers that made history: Últimas Noticias, El Nacional and El Morrocoy Blue. Yanes signed up for the founding squad of Últimas Noticias and stayed there for a few years.[1]
At age 25, he assumed the direction of the newspaper La Esfera. Ramón David León, who gave him the chance at 13 of getting to know the world of journalism, gave him his office and his position 12 years later, when he decided to sell the newspaper to Miguel Ángel Capriles.
Leading the team of Venevisión, a Venezuelan network, Yanes was sent in 1966 to Vietnam as a war correspondent and press officer. For two months, he made six reports that were distributed throughout Latin America: "The War on the Sea" (la guerra en el mar), "The War in the Air" (la guerra en el aire), "The War in the Jungle" (la guerra en la selva), "The Vietcong, "The Religion "(la religion) and "The Vietnamese Woman" (la mujer vietnamita).
He stood out as professor of the first class of the School of Social Communication of the Central University of Venezuela (Universidad Central de Venezuela) and taught a class in the Andrés Bello Catholic University (Universidad Catolica Andres Bello) of Caracas.[2]
He won on three occasions the National Prize for Journalism, the Monseñor Pellín Prize and the First Prize of the Association of Writers of Venezuela in the contest of biographies of famous Venezuelans, for his work "Carlos J. Bello, the Forgotten Sage." He also won the Silver Book Award in 1992, which is awarded by Editorial Planeta for the book with the highest circulation of the year.
Considered one of the pioneers in real-time television journalism, with particular interviews confronting many in front of the cameras, he became famous for his television programs.
Doonga Gali
Doonga Gali is a tourist town of the Galyat area of Ayubia. It is in Abbottabad District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is at a height of 2500 meters.
Oscar Yanes
Biography
He died on 21 October 2013 in Caracas from pneumonia, aged 86.
Pommiers
Pommiers is the name of several communes in France:
Gahirat
Gahrat is a village in lower Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Gahirat castle was built here in 1912.
List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh
The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh is a state head and representative of the President of India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. The current governor is B. D. Mishra.
Araceae
Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a 'spathe' or leaf-like bract.
Also known as the Arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroid. This family of 107 genera and over 3700 species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and north temperate regions.
Some genera of araceae include:
Egon Krenz
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (born 19 March 1937 in Kolberg,Nazi Germany) was a former East German politician of the German Democratic Republic. He served in the East German Army, NVA (Nationale Volkes Armee), where he attained the rank of Unteroffizere (Corporal). He was a high-ranking member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was the successor to Erich Honecker as leader of East Germany from 18 October 1989 until 3 December 1989, for a few weeks. Later, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison and released in 2003.
Ute Bock
Ute Bock (June 27, 1942 – January 19, 2018) was an Austrian educator. Bock was born in Linz, Austria. She was known for her projects helping asylum seekers. In Vienna, there was the campaign Bock auf Bier in which a small percentage of the price of the beer (the price was increased) was earmarked to Bock—who gave therewith asylum seekers a home.
Bock died in Vienna, Austria at the age of 75.
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis), also known as Order of Malta is a sovereign country in Rome, that has no territory. It was founded around 1048 in Jerusalem with the goal of giving medical care to anyone in need, regardless of religion or race.
Leader and Founder
The founder and leader at the time was Gerard. He was an Italian Roman Catholic.
History
They originated in Jerusalem, and after being exiled from the city they moved to the Rhodes. After that to Malta, and then lastly the went to Rome and the Pope Paschal II declared them as an independent nation though they had no territory.
Alba Solís
Alba Solís (née Ángela Herminia Lamberti; 18 October 1927 – 3 February 2016) was an Argentine singer, actress and vedette. She was born in Buenos Aires. She was known for her roles in La cigarra está que arde, Estrellas de Buenos Aires, De turno con la muerte and Escándalo nocturno.
Solís died in Buenos Aires on 3 February 2016 from heart failure. She was aged 88.
Mooresville, Alabama
Mooresville is a town of Limestone County in the state of Alabama, in the United States. It is located southeast of the intersection of Interstate 565 and Interstate 65, and north of Wheeler Lake.
The town is between Huntsville and Decatur, and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area; its population as of the 2010 census is 53, down from 59 in 2000.
898
Year 898 (DCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Trickle-down economics
Trickle-down economics is an economic theory: if you tax less the businesses and the wealthy, then that should make it easier for them to invest and create businesses. This will help them but also help those poorer or less rich. Hence the "trickle-down" effect from the rich to poor.
Sequoyah
Sequoyah was a Cherokee man. He invented a syllabary (alphabet based on syllables) for his people. Before that, they did not have an alphabet for their language.
Trickle-down economics
It does not always work. Some people have accused supply-side economics, such as "Reaganomics" for naively believing that trickle down economics would help everybody.
Sequoyah
Childhood
Sequoyah was born into the Cherokee Nation. His mother was Wut-teh. Not many people know about his early childhood. There are different stories on what happened.
Trickle-down economics
General supply-side theory wants to lower taxes for everyone. But trickle-down theory more specifically wants to lower taxes for the rich (the upper end of the economic spectrum).
Sequoyah
Making the syllabary
Sequoyah met many white people. He was fascinated by their "talking leaves," which was their writing system on paper. He wanted to make an alphabet for Cherokees to communicate too. He began making it around 1809. First he tried to make a symbol for every word, like in Chinese. That required too much remembering. Then he tried to make one for every idea, but gave up. Finally he made one symbol for every syllable in the Cherokee language. He made a syllabary with 86 letters. Many of the letters look like English because he had an English book that he could not read.
Influence
Sequoyah became a hero for giving Cherokee people a written language. Cherokee is still taught and used. There are now 85 symbols, instead of the original 86.
Balram Jakhar
Balram Jakhar (23 August 1923 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian politician. He was a member of parliament and served as Governor of Madhya Pradesh from June 2004 to June 2009. Before being governor, Jakhar was the 8th Speaker of the Lok Sabha, serving from January 1980 to November 1989. He was born in Punjab.
Jakhar died from complications of pneumonia on 3 February 2016. He died in Delhi. He was aged 92.
Gao Wenbin
Gao Wenbin (December 1921/1922 – 7 September 2020) was a Chinese historian, translator, university professor and jurist. He was the last surviving member of the Chinese delegation which represented the Republic of China at the Tokyo Trial. He was born in Yueyang, Hunan.
In 1952, he was arrested by one of the teachers of the Soochow University Law School terming him as a "special suspect" and was sentenced to a minimum of ten years of labour reform.
He joined the China Democratic League in 1985.
He had lectures at the University of Maine School of Law and at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He also taught maritime law and international law at the Shanghai Maritime University.
Gao died on 7 September 2020 at a hospital in Shanghai from a long-illness, aged 99.
St. Antönien
St. Antönien is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a former municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden.
The former municipality of St. Antönien Ascharina merged on 1 January 2007 into St. Antönien.
The municipality of St. Antönien on 1 January 2016 merged into Luzein.
Petäjävesi
Petäjävesi is a municipality in Central Finland. About 4,100 people lived there in January 2014. Petäjävesi is next to the municipalities of Jyväskylä, Jämsä, Keuruu, Multia and Uurainen.
Kishori Ballal
Kishori Ballal (1937/1938 – 18 February 2020) was an Indian actress. She was known for her works in Kannada cinema. Ballal was born in Karnataka, India. Her best known works were Gair Kaanooni, Ek Alag Mausam and in Aakramana.
Ballal died at a hospital in Bengaluru, India on 18 February 2020 at the age of 82.
Lakshadweep
Lakshdweep, formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy and Aminidivi Islands are a group of islands in the Arabian Sea. They belong to India. Their capital is Kavaratti. It covers an area of 11 mi2. Eleven of the 36 coral atoll islands of Lakshadweep are inhabited. Lakshadweep is known for its exotic and sun-kissed beaches and lush green landscape. The name Lakshadweep in Malayalam and Sanskrit means 'a hundred thousand islands'.
Apart from the emerging tourism, government jobs, fishing and coconut production are the mainstays of the Lakshadweep economy.
Kyūan
Kyūan (久安), also romanized as Kyū-an, was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Ten'yō and before Ninpei. This period spanned the years from July 1145 through January 1151. The reigning emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇).
Hiroyuki Abe
Hiroyuki Abe (阿部 浩之) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Abe was born in Kitakatsuragi District, Nara on July 5, 1989. After graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University, he joined J1 League club Gamba Osaka in 2012. He played many matches from first season. However Gamba was relegated to J2 League end of the 2012 season. In 2013, Gamba won the champions and was returned to J1 in a year. In 2014, Gamba won all three major title in Japan; J1 League, J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. In 2017, he moved to Kawasaki Frontale. In 2017, he scored 10 goals and Kawasaki won the J1 champions first time in the club history. Kawasaki also won the J1 champions in 2018. In 2020, he moved to Nagoya Grampus.
In November 2017, Abe was selected the Japan national team for 2017 E-1 Football Championship. At this tournament, he debuted against North Korea on December 9. He played 3 matches at this championship.
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Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is a 2017 bestselling political book authored by former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, published by Henry Holt and Co. It is aimed at teenage readers.
The book is a YA version of 2016's Our Revolution. Sanders created the book to help young people "to fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment, and provides healthcare for all."
The book features many graphics and illustrations in the hopes of breaking down complex issues like income inequality, climate change, healthcare, law enforcement reform, prison system reform and student loan debt.
Windsurfing
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing gained a popular following across Europe and North America by the late 1970s and had achieved significant global popularity by the 1980s. Windsurfing became an Olympic sport in 1984.
Newer variants include windfoiling, kiteboarding and wingfoiling. Hydrofoil fins under the board allow the boards to safely lift out of the water and fly silently and smoothly above the surface even in lighter winds.
Windsurfing is a recreational, family friendly sport, most popular at flat water locations around the world that offer safety and accessibility for beginner and intermediate participants. Technique and equipment have evolved over the years
Major competitive disciplines include slalom, wave and freestyle. Increasingly, "foiling" is replacing traditional events and the IQfoil class is the new Olympic windsurfing racing class for France in 2024.
Modern windsurfing, as a sport and recreational activity, did not emerge until the latter half of the 20th century. The earliest version of a sailboard design utilizing a freely articulating sail on top of a board was created in 1962 by American Newman Darby. Independently, engineer Jim Drake invented and co-patented the version we all know today and called it Windsurfing- a new new concept in sailing.
Thor
Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology, associated with strength, storms, hallowing and fertility. He is the son of Odin and Jörð, the personification of the Earth, and is the strongest of the Æsir.
The champion of Asgard, Thor is said to protect both it and Midgard from the likes of the jǫtnar, a race of beings native to Jötunheimr. He is known in Old English as Þunor (Thunor) and in Old High German as Donar (runic þonar ᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ), all of which stem from the Proto-Germanic *Þunraz, meaning "thunder".
The modern English weekday Thursday (from Old English Þūnresdæg, “Thunor’s [Thor’s] day”) bears the god's name.
Family
Thor is the son of Odin, chief of the Æsir, and Jörð, the living personification of the Earth. He is the eldest of Odin's sons and is the half-brother of Baldr, Höðr, Víðarr, and Váli.
He is married to the golden-haired goddess Sif, with whom he has a daughter, Þrúðr. With his jötunn lover Járnsaxa, Thor has two sons, Móði and Magni. He has a stepson, Ullr, who is Sif's son by a previous marriage.
Possessions
Other attributes of Thor include a pair of gauntlets known as Járngreipr, which he is required to wear in order to wield Mjölnir, a belt, Megingjörð, which doubles his strength when he wears it, and a staff, Gríðarvölr, which, along with Járngreipr, was given to him by the jötunn Gríðr. Thor was believed to travel in a chariot drawn by two goats named Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr.
Barilla (company)
Barilla Group is a large Italian food company that makes pasta. They are the world's leading pasta maker. Barilla also provides pasta products to restaurants worldwide. They are the leading seller of bakery products in Italy. By purchasing the Swedish bakery company Wasabröd, they became the leading producer of flatbread in the world.
History
The company was founded in 1877 in Ponte Taro, Italy by Pietro Barilla. The company is privately held, and is now in the fourth generation of Barilla family ownership. It is controlled by three brothers, Chairman Guido Barilla, and Vice Chairmen Luca Barilla and Paolo Barilla.
Company
Barilla Group has many production plants all over the world. These are in Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, the United States and Mexico. The company also operates mills in Italy, Greece, Sweden, Turkey, and the US, while its central office is in Parma, Italy. Barilla Group controls Barilla (multinational pasta maker), Mulino Bianco, Gran Cereale, Pan di Stelle, Pavesi, Voiello, First and Academia Barilla (Italy), Harrys (France), Catelli (Canada), Wasabröd (Sweden), Pasta Evangelists (United Kingdom), MISKO (Greece), Filiz Makarna (Turkey), Yemina and Vesta (Mexico) trademarks. The wheat used to make the final product is purchased from around the world.
Controversy
In 2013 the owner of Barilla, Guido Barilla, made controversial remarks about being for traditional family values and not gays. In a few hours Twitter had hundreds of messages protesting the company. This made the brand Barilla one of the top topics. Many messages called for a boycott of all the company's products. Guido later apologized by saying, “I apologise if my words generated misunderstandings or arguments, or if they offended the sensibilities of some people. In the interview I simply wished to underline the central role the woman plays within the family.”
In November of 2013 the Barilla Group announced they would start a "more active, global leadership position on diversity, inclusion and social responsibility." This included creating a board of experts to advise Barilla on these sensitive issues. Barilla also created of a new position in the company, a Chief Diversity Officer.
List of Louisiana metropolitan areas
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of nine Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Thirty (30) of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. As of the 2010 census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,340,667 (74.8% of the state's population). Based on a July 1, 2009, population estimate, that figure had increased to 3,356,913 (74.7% of the state's population).
See also Louisiana statistical areas.
The following table lists Louisiana's metropolitan areas, ranked by population as of February 1, 2013.
Louisiana parishes classified as part of a Metropolitan Statistical Area from 1950 to 2003
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Virtual Magic Kingdom was an online game community run by Disney. It was made to be an online version of the Magic Kingdom in Disney World which is in Florida. The game opened in 2005 and closed in 2008.
La Leyenda
La Leyenda (in English: The Legend) is a "Greatest Hits" album by Mexican-American singer Selena. La Leyenda was released on March 9, 2010 as four different box-sets. Q-Productions and EMI Latin teamed up and promoted La Leyenda around the world, La Leyenda had personal messages from Selena's family, friends, and fans across the world.
Four Disc Edition
Bonus Tracks
Bouns Tracks
Two Disc Special Edition
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
Tom Rolf
Ernst R. "Tom" Rolf (December 31, 1931 – July 14, 2014) was a Swedish-American movie editor. He worked on at least 48 movies in the space of fifty years. His best known works were Taxi Driver (1976) and The Right Stuff (1983). He and his team won an Academy Award in 1983 for Best Film Editing for The Right Stuff.
Rolf was born in Stockholm to actor parents. His father was Ernst Rolf and his mother was Norwegian-born Tutta Rolf. He moved to the United States and joined the United States Marine Corps.
Rolf died from problems caused by hip surgery on July 14, 2014 in France. He was 82.
Hubert Parry
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (born Bournemouth, 27 February 1848; died Rustington, near Worthing, Sussex, 7 October  1918) was an English composer. His music influenced other English composers such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Parry wrote a great deal of music, but by far the best known piece he wrote is the song Jerusalem. Another piece which is often sung is the anthem I was glad written for the coronation of Edward VII.
His early life
Parry was born into a rich family. He went to school in Eton and got his music degree while he was still there. He then went to Oxford to study. He learned from the English-born composer Henry Hugo Pierson in Stuttgart, and with William Sterndale Bennett and the pianist Edward Dannreuther in London. He started to compose a lot of chamber music which was first performed at Dannreuther’s house. He became famous in 1880 when Dannreuther played his piano concerto and his choral work Prometheus Unbound was performed at the Gloucester Festival. Other choirs started to ask him to write music for them. One of his best choral pieces was the ode Blest Pair of Sirens (1887). Other choral works include Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day (1889), the oratorios Judith (1888) and Job (1892). “Judith” includes a tune which became a well-loved hymn tune called “Repton” sung in churches to the words “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”.
His orchestral works from this period include four symphonies, a set of Symphonic Variations in E minor, the Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy (1893) and the Elegy for Brahms (1897). He also wrote for the Greek play 'The Birds' by Aristophanes.
Later years
During the last decade of his life he wrote some of his best works, including the Symphonic Fantasia '1912' (also called Symphony No. 5), the Ode on the Nativity (1912), Jerusalem (1916) and the Songs of Farewell which includes the song “My Soul, there is a Country”. These were songs about the needless suffering in the war. He died of influenza in Rustington, Sussex.
His influence
Parry had a lot of influence on English music in the 20th century. This was not just because of his music, but also through his teaching and his writings about music. The composers he liked best and who influenced his style were Bach and Brahms. His music is firmly tonal (always in clear major or minor keys), and Elgar and Vaughan Williams learned a lot from studying his music.
Parry was a man who always liked to help people, and so he took on a great deal of work, which did not do his health much good. When he had free time he enjoyed driving fast cars and sailing.
He was made a knight, and the first Baronet of Highnam in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1902.
The house in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth where he was born is marked with a blue plaque.
References
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians ed Stanley Sadie (1980) ISBN 1-56159-174-2
Philadelphia City Hall
The Philadelphia City Hall is a city hall in Philadelphia, United States. It is 167 meters (548 feet) tall and has 9 floors. It was built in 1901.
Philadelphia City Hall was the tallest building in the world from 1901 to 1908. Before it was built, the tallest building in the world was Philadelphia City Hall. The Singer Building became the tallest seven year later.
Graeme McMahon
Graeme McMahon (1940 – 1 July 2014) was an Australian rules football player and executive. He played over 100 games for Prahran Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He was later the chairman of Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1996 to 2003. He was also the CEO and chairman of Ansett Australia.
McMahon was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and died from pancreatic cancer on 1 July 2014, aged 74.
List of countries in the 1910s
This is a list of countries in the 1910s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1910 and 31 December 1919. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes widely recognized sovereign states, and entities which were de facto sovereign but which were not widely recognized by other states.
Sovereign states
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A
Widely recognized independent state from August 8, 1919.
Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica by the Balkan League states. Recognized independent state de facto from July 29, 1913.
Widely recognized independent state.
Widely recognized independent state
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized independent state. Australia is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. Australia had two external territories:
B
Widely recognized state. Belgium had one colony and one concession:
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized state. Brazil was a federation of 20 states, one territory, and one federal district.
C
Widely recognized state. Canada is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom.
Widely recognized state.
Autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire; de jure until December 1, 1913.
Artificial language
An artificial language is a language specially made for a purpose. These languages can be based on an existing natural language or can be artificial.
Some types of artificial languages are:
List of countries in the 1910s
D
Widely recognized state. Denmark had two colonies and one dependency:
Widely recognized state.
E
Widely recognized state.
F
Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of France:
G
Widely recognized state. Immediately recognized by Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of Germany:
Widely recognized state.
H
Widely recognized state.
Unrecognized state from August 1 to 8, 1919.
I
Widely recognized state. Italy had four colonies and one concession:
J
Widely recognized state. Japan had three dependencies and two concessions:
Japan administered one League of Nations mandate:
K
Widely recognized state. Annexed by Japan from August 29, 1910 to April 11, 1919.
L
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica.
M
Widely recognized state. Mexico had one territory:
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized state. Still dependent from China.
Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918.
De jure sovereign state under French and Spanish protectorate from 1912.
N
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized state. The Netherlands had two colonies and one possession:
Widely recognized state. Newfoundland is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom.
Widely recognized state. New Zealand is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. The following are territories of New Zealand:
Widely recognized state. Norway had three possessions:
O
Widely recognized state. Ottoman Empire had one protectorate:
Widely recognized state.
P
Widely recognized state.
Widely recognized independent state.
R
Widely recognized state. Russia had two protectorates, one concession and one autonomous grand duchy:
S
Widely recognized state. Limited sovereignty for occupatio bellica to December 1, 1918.