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Mortar (weapon)
Use
From the 18th to the early 20th century, very heavy siege mortars were used. These were very difficult to move around. These had up to one metre calibre. They were often made of cast iron. Smaller designs that were easier to move around were brought in during the First World War. Mortars are still used today.
Light and medium mortars are easy to move around. They are usually used by infantry units. Mortars can fire from a trench or defilade.
Heavy mortars are usually between 120- and 300-mm calibre. These weapons are usually towed or put on to vehicles. They are sometimes loaded from the back (breech-loaded). They are usually used by infantry in battalions or divisions. Even mortars this large are simpler and cheaper than howitzers and field guns.
A mortar can be moved around by one or more people (bigger mortars can usually be broken down into parts) or moved around in a vehicle. An infantry mortar can usually be set up and fired from a mortar-carrier. A mortar-carrier is a modified armoured vehicle or one built especially to be a mortar-carrier. They have a big hatch on the roof. Mortars with two barrels—like the AMOS PT1—are the latest kinds of heavy mortar. They are put on carriers such as armoured personnel carriers, tank chassis and patrol boats.
Light versions of mortar are usually used by at least two men. Heavier mortars are fired by three to five men. Lighter mortars can be fired from anywhere that gives a good firing position. However, medium mortars are usually fired from prepared, well fortified positions.
Design
Most mortars used today are made up of a barrel, a plate for the barrel to stand on, and a bipod.
Mortars are mainly medium calibre weapons. However, mortars both bigger and smaller than this have been made. An example of a smaller mortar is the British 51 mm Light Mortar. The 51 mm is carried by just one soldier. It is made up of only a tube and a base plate. A bigger example is the Soviet 2S4 M1975 Tyulpan (tulip flower) 240 mm self-propelled mortar.
Mortars are not very stable if they are used on snow or soft ground. This is because the recoil pushes them into the ground. The Raschen Bag can be used to avoid this problem.
Ammunition
The ammunition fired by mortars are properly called "bombs". One possible reason for this is that the fins that stabilise the round when it is flying, and the shape of the round makes it look like a bomb dropped from aircraft.
Mortars can fire many different bombs. Some of these are:
Special features of mortars
Mortars are usually smaller and lighter than howitzers and field guns. When the mortar bomb is launched, it descends at a very steep angle (almost straight down).
Mortars can be very helpful if they are used in hidden places. It can be even more helpful if there are people around the battlefield that help tell the mortar where to fire (forward observers).
History
Mortars have existed for hundreds of years. They were first used in sieges. A European description of the Siege of Belgrade (1456) by Giovanni da Tagliacozzo says that the Ottoman Turks used seven mortars that fired "stone shots one Italian mile high". The speed of these was said to be very slow. It was also said that men could be prevented from being injured by putting observers out who warned the troops of what angle the mortars were firing at.
Early mortars like the Pumhart von Steyr were big and heavy. They were also difficult to move around. An early mortar that could be moved easily was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn (Siege of Grave, 1673 ). At the Siege of Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant reported making mortars "by taking logs of the toughest wood that could be found, boring them out for six or twelve-pound shells and binding them with strong iron bands. These answered as coehorns, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy."
Mortars were very useful in the muddy trenches of the Western Front. A mortar round could be aimed to fall straight into a trench because of the deep angle that the bombs fell at.
During the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Imperial Japanese Army used twelve 320 mm mortars against the American forces.
Biggest mortars
The biggest mortars ever made were the French "Monster Mortar" (36 French inches; 975 mm; developed by Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1832), Mallet's Mortar (36 inches; 910 mm; designed by Robert Mallet and tested by the Woolwich Arsenal, London, in 1857) and the "Little David" (36 inches; 914.4 mm; developed in the United States for use in World War II). All three mortars had a caliber of 36 "inches". However, only the "Monster Mortar" was used (at the Battle of Antwerp in 1832).
"Home-made" mortars
"Home-made" mortars have been used by insurgent groups. They are usually used to attack well defended military bases or to scare civilians. An early example was the Davidka. This was used during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. The Provisional Irish Republican Army used some of the best-known examples during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The biggest types came to be known as "barracks busters". They were usually made of heavy steel piping put onto a steel frame.
Well-known events using "home-made" mortars include the 1985 Newry mortar attack. This was when nine members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary were killed. Another well-known event is the Downing Street mortar attack in 1991. In this, the IRA mortared 10 Downing Street during a meeting. Three bombs were launched but only one exploded. It landed in the back garden of the British Prime Minister's house. It only broke the windows at the back of the house. Prime Minister John Major had to move to Admiralty House while the windows were being fixed.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is the fourth studio album by Silver Jews. The album was released on November 20, 2001.
Donetsk
Donetsk is an important city in the eastern part of Ukraine, in the center of Donbas. Before the War in Donbas, which started 2014, about 1.1 million people lived in the city and its surroundings. Donetsk is important for the industry in Ukraine. Before the war, it was the fifth-biggest city of the country. From 1924 to 1961, the city was called Stalino, before 1924 its name was Jusowka, named after its founder, John Hughes. Hughes founded a metallurgic factory in 1869. The factory soon developed into the city of modern-day Donetsk. Most people in Donetsk use Russian in everyday life. According to a census, about 48 percent were Ukrainians, and about 46 percent Russians.
Curaçao national football team
The Curaçao national football team is the football team that represents Curaçao. This is not to be confused with the Territory of Curaçao national football team, which existed until 1954 when Curaçao merged into the Netherlands Antilles national football team. The Netherlands Antilles dissolved into different countries on 10 October 2010. The Curaçao national football team is seen as the official successor of the Netherlands Antilles national team.
The team's first match as a new country was played on 18 August 2011 against the Dominican Republic.
Episode (Bardi)
Episode (also known as Episodio) was painted in oil (120x140 centimetres) by the italian painter Mario Bardi, created in 1966, it has been part of the permanent collection of the Museo civico di Castelbuono (Palermo) in the department of the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery.
Description
The painting by Mario Bardi, belonging to the artistic movement of Realism, the painting the "Episode" represents the battle between Garibaldi and Bourbon, during the famous Battle of the Volturnus 0f 1860, considered one of the most important battles of the "Italian Risorgimento" for the Italian unification.
Bardi represents the battle with a warm color and excited forms to give drama to the characters, pushed to the limit of their verisimilitude to become an emblem of the spirit of struggle and rebellion of Sicily.
Rebus
A rebus is a picture, letter, number, or symbol that is used to represent a different word that has a similar pronunciation. In English, if a person was writing the sentence "I see you tonight" in a text message, the person might write "⊙ L C U 2nite", in which the symbol "⊙", which is a picture of an eye, represents the word "I" because it sounds the same, "L" stands for the contracted "will" as in "I'll", the letter "C" represents the word "see", the letter "U" represents the word "you", the number "2" represents the word "to", and the word "nite" is represents the word "night".
This Merry Planet
This Merry Planet (Эта весёлая планета) is a 1973 Soviet science fiction movie directed by Yuri Saakov and Yuri Tsvetkov. It stars Viktor Sergachyov, Leonid Kuravlyov, and Yekaterina Vasilyeva.
Messier 87
Messier 87 (also known as M87, Virgo A or NGC 4486) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy. It was discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer Charles Messier, who catalogued it as a nebulous feature. The second brightest galaxy within the northern Virgo Cluster, it is about 16.4 million parsecs (53.5 million light-years) from Earth.
A jet of energetic plasma known as a blazar is thrown out by the black hole at near the speed of light. It goes outward at least 1,500 pc. In pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the motion of Messier 87's jet was measured at four to six times the speed of light. This motion is probably an optical illusion caused by the relativistic velocity of the jet.
Stars
The stars in this galaxy form about one sixth of Messier 87's mass. They are spread out symmetrically, but the density of stars decreases with distance from the core. The galactic envelope extends out to a radius of about 150 kpc, where it stops—possibly cut off by an encounter with another galaxy. Between the stars is a diffuse interstellar medium of gas that has been chemically enriched by elements emitted from evolved stars.
Orbiting the galaxy is a huge number of about 12,000 globular clusters, compared to 150–200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way.
Messier 87 is one of the most massive giant elliptical galaxies near Earth, and one of the brightest radio sources in the sky, It is a popular target for both amateur and professional astronomy study.
Mollie O'Callaghan
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Car of the Century
The Car of the Century (COTC) was an international award given to the most important car of the Twentieth Century. The election was run by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation. The winner was the Ford Model T. It was announced at an awards event on 18 December 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
AI Song Contest 2020
The AI Song Contest 2020 was the inaugural edition of the AI Song Contest, organised by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, in collaboration with NPO 3FM and NPO Innovation. It was held at 8:30 pm on May 12, 2020 and was held in the Netherlands, presented by Lieven Scheire. Thirteen teams from eight countries took part in the contest. The contest was won by the Australian team Uncanny Valley with the song "Beautiful the World".
Format
Each participating team had to submit a "Eurovision-like" song of up to three minutes that had been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). Human input was allowed, but the more AI was used, the more points the entry would get from the jury. The entries were also evaluated by the public through online ratings. The winner was announced that evening.
Venue
The contest was online by cause of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and was broadcast via a live stream on YouTube and was presented the points from the online voting were announced by Dutch television presenter Emma Wortelboer.
Competing entries
The contest count with thirteen teams from eight countries. As there were no pre-qualifying rounds, multiple teams from each country could enter the competition. The contest featured the following competing entries:
Luther Blissett
Luther Blissett is a Jamaican-born former English football player. He has played for England national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group. His wealth was at $17.2 billion as of October 2019. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
As of 2019, Forbes ranked Schwarzman at 100th on its World's Billionaires List. He was Chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum in 2017.
Explosion (1973 movie)
Explosion (Explozia) is a 1973 Romanian drama movie directed by Mircea Drăgan and starring Radu Beligan, Gheorghe Dinica, Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, George Motoi, Draga Olteanu Matei.
Ora Namir
Ora Namir (אורה נמיר‎; 1 September 1930 – 7 July 2019) was an Israeli politician and diplomat. She was born in Hadera. During her political career, she was a member of the Alignment, the Israeli Labor Party and One Nation. She served as a member of the Knesset from 1974 to 1996. She held the positions of Minister of the Environment and Minister of Labour and Social Welfare during the 1990s. She was also the country's ambassador to China and Mongolia from 1996 to 2000.
Namir died in Tel Aviv on 7 July 2019, at the age of 88.
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (Simonyi Károly, ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-born American software architect. He started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office.
He founded and led Intentional Software.
In April 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. In March 2009, aboard Soyuz TMA-14, he made a second trip to the International Space Station.
Napkin
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Charles Simonyi
His net worth is US$3.3 billion. He was born in Budapest.
Sherry Lynn
Sherry Lynn is an American voice actress who has played roles in anime, animated television series and video games. She portrayed Sasami Jurai in the Tenchi Muyo! franchise.
Eric Braeden
Personal life
In April 2023, Braeden announced he as diagnosed with "high-grade" bladder cancer.
Chaussy
Chaussy is the name of two communes in France:
Bonheiden
In 2007, 14499 people lived there.
Sicilian landscape (Bardi)
Sicilian landscape (also known as Paesaggio Siciliano) was painted in oil (50x70 centimetres) by the italian painter Mario Bardi, created in 1970, it has been part of the permanent collection of the Museo civico di Bagheria (Palermo).
Description
In the painting "Sicilian landscape" by Mario Bardi, belonging to the artistic movement of Magic Realism, as in many of his landscapes from this period, color hints at perspectives and depth, revealing the anguish of a Sicily tormented by events and calamities..
Bardi is in the representation of Baroque Sicily, of its domes overloaded with decorations and yet so light as to be able to hover in the air, of the goose-breasted balconies or the palaces of the historic center that the memory of Bardi becomes more intense, surreal and almost hypnotic. The scarlet red skies attract the eye that never tires of discovering on small canvases overlaps of baroque architecture, spirals and twisted columns, sharp geometric surfaces or sweet curves, hatched with the skilful hand of the engineer-artist.
Joseph Mascolo
Joseph Mascolo (March 13, 1929 – December 8, 2016) was an American musician and former dramatic actor.
Mascolo was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Miami and at the United States Military Academy. He began acting in 1957.
During his long career, he has acted in many movies such as Jaws 2, Heat and The Trail of the Incredible Hulk. He was best known for playing super villian Stefano DiMera, a role he originated in 1982 on NBC's Days of Our Lives until his retirement in January 2016.
Mascolo was married to Rose Maimone in 1953. She died in 1986. They had one son. Mascolo then married Patricia Schultz in 2005. He lived in Los Angeles. California. Mascolo was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015 and suffered a crippling stroke the same year.
Mascolo died on December 8, 2016 at his home in Los Angeles from complication of the disease, aged 87. He was survived by his wife Patricia, his sister Marie, his son Peter and a step-daughter Laura.
Step Up
Step Up is a 2006 American romantic musical teen drama movie set in Maryland. This movie is similar to "Bring It On" (which was released in 2000), except there is hip hop involved. This movie was released August 11, 2006 in the United States. The reviews were mixed to negative, though the movie had a high box office intake.
Sequels
The sequel, Step Up 2: The Streets, was released February 14, 2008. It stars Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, and Cassie and directed by Jon Chu. A second sequel called Step Up 3D was released on August 6, 2010. A third sequel called Step Up Revolution was released in 2012 and the fifth and final movie, Step Up: All In, was released in 2014.
Fontenay-sur-Vègre
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Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)
"Give It Away" is a song by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band. It is on the band's fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991). It is the lead single for the album. Warner Bros. Records released the single in September 1991. The music in the song was written by John Frusciante and Flea. They wrote it months before recording the album. Anthony Kiedis, the singer for the band, wrote the words to the song.
The song was popular. It was number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks music chart. It was the band's first number one single. In 1992, the song went on the Billboard Hot 100. It was number nine on the UK Singles Chart. The song won a Grammy Award in 1992. The band plays the song at many of their concerts. They also played it at Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.
La Rioja Province, Argentina
La Rioja is one of the provinces of Argentina. It is in the west side of the country. The province's two largest cities are La Rioja and Chilecito.
Petroglyphs at the Talampaya National Park are dated around 10,000 years BCE.
Tom's Rhinoplasty
"Tom's Rhinoplasty" is the eleventh episode of the first season of South Park. It was first shown on Comedy Central in the United States on February 11, 1998. The episode was the series' first Valentine's Day episode. It was written by the show's co-creator Trey Parker.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone said that they were originally not happy with the final product and they thought that fans of the show would hate. They were surprised that fans responded positively to it.
Plot
When Valentine's Day approaches, Wendy suggests to her boyfriend Stan ways to try and spend time together. After their schoolteacher Mr. Garrison decides to get a rhinoplasty, he introduces their new substitute teacher, Ms. Ellen (voiced by Natasha Henstridge). The boys in class fall in love with her, including Stan, especially when she talks to him. This makes Wendy become incredibly jealous and she warns Ms. Ellen to stay away from Stan, oblivious to the fact that Ms. Ellen does not return Stan's affection.
When Ms. Ellen becomes worried about the student's education, she says that the winner of a spelling test will be bought a dinner. The boys attempt to date Ms. Ellen but Chef tells them that she is a lesbian and that she only likes other lesbians. They don't know what this means and they try to become lesbians themselves to try and attract Ms. Ellen. They try wearing Birkenstocks, listening to an Indigo Girls album and "licking carpet" (they mistake this for literally licking the carpet floor).
Meanwhile Mr. Garrison's gets a nose job that makes him one of the most attractive men in South Park with his face resembling David Hasselhoff. He decides to quit teaching and try to pursue women. Stan is able to win the spelling test and the dinner but he finds out that Ms. Ellen has no attraction or intention of making love with him. The next day, while Ms. Ellen is teaching the class, several Iraqi men burst through the door and say that she is actually an Iraqi fugitive. She resist her arrest but accidentally kills Kenny by impaling him in the face with a sword. They take her into custody and shoot her into the sun with a rocket.
Mr. Garrison later becomes a model with great success, but he finds himself being chased throughout the streets by a large group of women and doesn't want the attention. He returns to Tom's Rhinoplasty and regains his original look. Wendy speaks fluent Arabic to a group of Iraqi men and pays them with with a wad of American money. She then watches happily in the sky as the rocket gets blown up in the sun. Kyle realizes that Wendy hired the Iraqi men to murder Ms. Ellen and Wendy says "I told her: 'Don't... fuck... with... Wendy... Testaburger!'" as the episode ends.
Vienne (disambiguation)
Vienne may refer to:
J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble "J. K." Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor. He played Emil Skoda in Law & Order, J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Mac MacGruff in Juno, Terence Fletcher in Whiplash and Commissioner Gordon in Justice League.
He also voiced Tenzin in The Legend of Korra between 2012 to 2014.
Simmons was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio and in Missoula, Montana. Simmons studied at the University of Montana originally to be a composer. He married Michelle Schumacher in 1996. They have three children. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for his role in Whiplash. In 2022, he was nominated for another Academy Award for his role as William Frawley in Being the Ricardos.
Big Boi
Antawn André Patton (born February 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper and record producer. He grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He is a former member of the hip hop duo Outkast with fellow rapper André 3000. They have won six Grammys.
Big Boi is married to Sherlita Patton.
Studio albums
Big Boi released 3 studio albums:
Ambleville
Ambleville is the name of two communes in France:
Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922-13 January 1976) was an English actress. She acted in many television shows and movies all across western Europe and North America. Leighton was born in England. She died from multiple sclerosis.
Chun Kuk Do
Chun Kuk Do (, commonly abbreviated as CKD) is a martial art (or type of fighting style) that Chuck Norris created. It is said to be based upon Tang Soo Do, another martial art.
Bédeille
Bédeille is the name of the two communes in France:
Franconville
Franconville is the name of two communes in France:
Raymond Sackler
Raymond Sackler (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) was an American physician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Sackler and his brothers Arthur and Mortimer worked together and independently. They had careers as psychiatric researchers and practitioners, business leaders, and philanthropists.
Sackler was known for being closely associated with the now global reach of Purdue Pharma LLP, in the United States, Canada and Mundipharma Ltd. in Europe, Asia and Africa. Sackler and his wife Beverly established the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Medical Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine (UK).
Sackler was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at New York University. He married Beverly Sackler in 1944. Sackler died on July 17, 2017 of pneumonia at his home in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 97.
Zheng Xiaosong
Zheng Xiaosong (September 1959 – 20 October 2018) was a Chinese politician and diplomat. He was Director of the Macau Liaison Office until he fell to his death in October 2018. He was Deputy Director of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China, Vice Governor of Fujian Province, and secretary-general of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Zheng was a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
On 20 October 2018, Zheng died in Macau after falling from a tall building where he lived, aged 59. Many believed Zheng committed suicide as he suffered from depression at the time of his death.
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club (F.C.) is a football club that plays in the Premier League. They play their home games at Old Trafford which is in Greater Manchester.
Matt Busby led the club to lots of success by using the youth players until the Munich air disaster in 1958, where many United footballers and staff died. Sir Alex Ferguson led the club to many titles, including the treble (Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League), from 1986 to 2013, when he retired. The club has 3 UEFA Champions League titles, 20 league titles, 12 FA Cups, and a FIFA Club World Cup.
History
Manchester United are the most successful club in England and have won 20 league titles, which is more than any other team. They have also won 12 FA Cups and 3 European Cups. The club started as Newton Heath L&YR F.C. in 1878. All of the team worked at Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath. After nearly closing in 1902, John Henry Davies took over and changed the club's name to Manchester United F.C.. Manchester United made Matt Busby their manager after World War II. Matt Busby used the youth team to get new players, and this was very successful. The club won the Football League in 1956 and 1957. The success was stopped by the Munich air disaster in 1958, when eight of the club's players died. It was thought that the club might close, but it did not. They won the Football League in 1965 and 1967, and the European Cup in 1968.
Sir Alex Ferguson era
In 1986, manager Ron Atkinson was sacked by the club because they were in danger of being relegated. They brought in Sir Alex Ferguson. He did not win anything for the first couple of years.
The team won their first trophy under Ferguson, the 1990 FA Cup, against Crystal Palace in the replay after a 3-3 draw. The next season, United won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup. In 1993, Manchester United won the very first Premier League. In 1999, Manchester United won the treble, made of the Premier League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League. Manchester United won the league 7 times again until Sir Alex Ferguson retired after the 2012–13 season. From the 2006–07 season to the 2008–09 season, Man United won the league 3 times in a row. The club also won its third UEFA Champions League in 2008 against Chelsea F.C., and almost won the next season as well but lost to FC Barcelona in the final. They won their first FIFA Club World Cup in December 2008.
2018 - Present
Since Mourinho was fired in the middle of the season, United brought in a temporary manager for the rest of the season. A former player, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer moved from his position at Molde to manage Manchester United. Under Solksjaer, United won 14 of their remaining 19 games that season. This good run meant they qualified for UEFA Champions League that season. United made Solksjaer their permanent manager in March 2019.
League position
* Bold indicates a place of third or higher.
Grounds
The Old Trafford became the club's home ground in 1909, and the stadium was constructed to a capacity of 77,000. In the Second World War, bombings damaged the stadium. While the stadium was being fixed, they played "home" games at Manchester City's Maine Road. The stadium was converted to an all-seater stadium in 1993 for safety reasons, but the capacity fell to 44,000. In 1995, expansions in the North Stand raised the capacity to 55,000. In the middle of 1999, the East and West Stands were expanded to give the stadium a capacity of 67,000. Then between 2005 and 2006 8,000 more seats were added to make a capacity of 75,000.
Rivalries
United has many rivalries including Liverpool, Manchester City, Leeds United and Arsenal. Their most intense rivalry is with "The Citizens" (Manchester City). This is because both clubs are from Manchester and each time they play against each other it is called the Manchester Derby.
Chinese architecture
Chinese architecture refers to the architecture of China. Sometimes it might also mean architecture outside of China but built in the same style. Chinese architecture is very influential in East Asia where many other countries and cultures' architecture also modeled upon it. Well known example of Chinese architecture are the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City.
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer. She won many awards. She won the Hugo and Nebula awards more than once. She won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1995.
Early life
Butler was born in Pasadena, California on June 22, 1947. She lost her father at a young age. Butler was raised by her mother, who worked as a maid. Butler started creating her own stories early on. Butler was dyslexic but she didn't let it challenge her from developing a love of books. She decided to make writing her life's work at the age of ten. As a child Butler was known for her shyness and her impressive height. She attended many colleges. She earned her associates degree at Pasadena City College. She also went to California State University, and University of California at Los Angeles.
Public life
Butler studied fiction with Harlan Ellison and became an author of books for both children and adults. She was a very good science fiction writer. Important books she wrote were Pattermaster and Mind of My Mind. She won the 1984 Best Short Story for "Speech of Sounds," and she won the Nebula Award. Octavia was known for African American Spiritrualism.
Death
Butler died at her home of a stroke in Seattle, Washington on February 24, 2006.
Muiderberg
In 2012, 3,070 people lived there.
Takuma Tsuda
Takuma Tsuda (born 4 October 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Ventforet Kofu.
Fyé
Fyé is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Takuma Tsuda
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Muiden
Muiden is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. Since 2016, it has been part of the new municipality of Gooise Meren.
It is known for its castle-museum Muiderslot and consists of two villages: Muiden and Muiderberg.
No Return (1973 movie)
No Return (Возврата нет) is a 1973 Soviet drama movie directed by Aleksei Saltykov. It stars Nonna Mordyukova, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, and Olga Prokhorova.
Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 – August 23, 2001) was an American actress. She was known for playing the role of maids and secretaries in many comedies, especially directed by Jerry Lewis. She was in 11 comedies directed by Lewis in the 1950s and '60s. She also appeared in The Blues Brothers (1980) and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994).
A lesbian, Freeman was in a partnership with Helen Ramsey until her death.
Freeman died on August 23, 2001 at a New York City hospital from lung cancer, aged 78.
Charmont
Charmont is the name or part of the name of the following communes in France:
Cardinal Richelieu (Amisani)
Cardinal Richelieu (also known as Richelieu) is a 19th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani, made in 1890, is kept in the Villa Necchi Campiglio of Milano in Italy.
Giuseppe Amisani's work portrays Cardinal Richelieu.
Separate classroom
Separate classroom or special class is a class for students with a disability who are grouped together for a special education program based on how similar their needs are. They may have the same disability or have different disabilities but their needs should be the same. Students attend separate classrooms while also attending a regular school. For example, a child with moderate intellectual disability is eligible for special classes in which self-care is emphasized instead of academic achievement.
Countryman (movie)
Countryman is a 1982 Jamaican action adventure drama movie directed by Dickie Johnson. It stars Edwin Lothan, Hiram Keller, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane, Freshey Richardson, Kristina St. Clair, Papa Threecards and Ronnie McKay.
Granville Woods
Granville Woods worked for Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company in 1878.
Woods' first patent was for an improved steam boiler furnace. He later developed the telephone transmitter. Woods developed what would become trolley's. Woods registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime.
Woods died in 1910 from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Uzbek League
Uzbek League is a football league which is top division in Uzbekistan.
Super Kirby Clash
Super Kirby Clash is a video game for the Nintendo Switch. It was made by HAL Laboratory and Vanpool and it released in 2019.
Gameplay
Kirby has limited time to kill the bad guy he is fighting. There are many bad guys to kill, and Kirby can fight in 1 of 4 ways. There can be 4 or less Kirbys fighting a bad guy at one time.
Story
Bad guys attack the town. Kirby and his friends must kill them. One of the bad guys is named Parallel Nightmare. He is the main bad guy.
Saint-Blaise
Saint Blaise was a physician and bishop of Sebaste, martyred in 316.
Saint-Blaise is the name of several places: In Canada:
In France:
Ganga Ram
Sir Ganga Ram, KCSI (1851 – 1927) was a famous civil engineer and philanthropist of the Punjab, in British India. He was born in Mangtanwala, a small village of Punjab province in British India (now in Punjab (Pakistan)).
Biography
He was especially well known for designing many of the fine buildings in colonial Lahore, which city he settled in and called home. These included the Lahore General Post Office, the Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, Mayo School of Arts (now the National College of Arts), Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan Girls High School, the chemistry department of the Government College University, the Albert Victor wing of Mayo Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram High School (now Lahore College for Women), the Hailey College of Commerce (now Hailey College of Banking & Finance), Ravi Road House for the Disabled, the Ganga Ram Trust Building on the Mall and others.
He built Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore (1921), the Lady Mclagan School and some other structures and public facilities with his own money.
The Nutcracker (1973 movie)
The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик) is a 1973 Soviet animated movie directed by Boris Stepantsev.
Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
Fresnay-sur-Sarthe is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France. On 1 January 2019, the former communes of Coulombiers and Saint-Germain-sur-Sarthe were merged into Fresnay-sur-Sarthe.
Neutral particle
In physics, a neutral particle is a particle with no electric charge.
Other neutral particles
Other neutral particles are very short-lived. They decay before they can be detected by a particle detector. They have been observed only indirectly, such as tracks of ionized particles in a particle accelerator. They include:
Virtual reality
Virtual reality (often just called VR) is the name for computer technology that makes a person feel like they are somewhere else. It uses software to produce images, sounds, and other sensations to create a different place so that a user feels like he or she is really part of this other place. That other place can be a real place (to take a tour in another country, for instance) or imaginary (playing a game).
Grandchamp, Sarthe
Grandchamp is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Virtual reality
Virtual reality is different than augmented reality, which shows the real place that a person is in, but changes or adds to it. Pokémon Go is an example of augmented reality. Augmented reality headsets are also commercially available such as the Microsoft HoloLens.
Return statement
A return statement is the information that part of a computer program gives to another part. In object-oriented programming, the term return is used by methods to perform an output. Much like when a button is pressed on a vending machine, then the item you bought comes out (the vending machine returns your item), and so when an object performs a method, something is returned. Specifically what is returned depends on an special identifier called a return type.
Return Type
A return type is a required part of any method, because it tells the computer what the user wants to be returned to whatever called (used) the method. If an integer was expected, then typically the method would have a return type of, as int is the common name for an integer in computer science. There are several return types that can be found to most programming languages.
Double
Means a method returns a double value. This is the default method of using numbers with decimal points.
Gesnes-le-Gandelin
Gesnes-le-Gandelin is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Hitch (movie)
Hitch is a 2005 romantic comedy movie. The movie is about a professional dating consultant who teaches men how to get women to like them. Will Smith plays Alex. Eva Mendes plays Sara. Amber Valletta plays Allegra.
The movie was released on February 11, 2005. The overall reviews were positive. The box office was also positive.
Boom, Belgium
Boom is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
In 2007, 16326 people lived there.
It is at 51° 05 North, 04° 22 East.
Pope Pius VIII
Pope Pius VIII (Pius Octavus; 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830), born Francesco Saverio Castiglioni was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 254th Pope from 1829 and 1830.
Early life
He was born in Cingoli near Ancona.
Bishop
In 1800, Pius VII named Castiglioni to be Bishop of Montalto.
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five, also known as the DC5, were an English pop rock band formed in Tottenham, a town in the London Borough of Haringey, in the year 1958.
Pope Pius VIII
Cardinal
Pius VII made Castiglioni a cardinal in 1816. Cardinal Catiglioni was made Bishop of Frascati in 1822.
Pope
Cardinal Castiglioni was elected Pope 1829; and his reign lasted only 20 months.
Villiers-sous-Mortagne
Villiers-sous-Mortagne is a commune in the Orne department in northwest France.
The Dave Clark Five
Forming (1958-1962)
The group was first formed by Dave Clark to help fund new equipment for his football team, under the name The Dave Clark Five Featuring Stan Saxon. Eventually, it became an actual full-time rock band.
The Dave Clark Five Featuring Stan Saxon members included: Stan Saxon singing vocals, Mick Ryan on guitar, Chris Walls on bass, and later Rick Huxley on guitar. In 1961, Saxon, Ryan and Walls left and their name was shortened to The Dave Clark Five. Huxley switched to Bass and Mike Smith, and Lenny Davidson joined that same year. A year later, Denis Payton joined on guitar, saxophone, and harmonica.
Worldwide Success (1963-1972)
In 1963, they signed to EMI records and started releasing songs. Around this time, The Beatles had recently came into the spotlight. By 1964, the British Invasion phenomena had begun and the Dave Clark Five became rivals to the Beatles. The Dave Clark Five first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in March 1964 (one month after the Beatles). The Clark Five would appear on the Ed Sullivan show the most (when compared to other British Invasion groups).
The Dave Clark Five would have hit after hit, including Glad All Over, Bits And Pieces, Over and Over, and Because, among others.
In 1970, the Dave Clark Five would split up, however, Clark and Smith would rebrand the group into Dave Clark and Friends. The Dave Clark and Friends split in 1972. The Dave Clark and Friends members included: Alan Parker (guitar), and Eric Ford (bass).
Post-Clark Five
Clark is an entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He owns a house in West London that costs £12 million. Clark owns the rights to all the Dave Clark Five music masters. In the 1980s he acquired the rights to the 1960s UK music show Ready Steady Go!. Clark was close friends with Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, who he first met in the year 1976. He was by Mercury's bedside when Mercury died on 24 November 1991. Clark produced an album called Time in the 1980s.
Smith worked as a solo artist. He was paralysed in 2003 and died of Pneumonia in 2008. He died eleven days before The Dave Clark Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Davidson opened an antique shop and organ-repair shop. He also teaches guitar in the UK county Buckinghamshire.
Payton worked in real estate. He died of Cancer in 2006.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Dave Clark Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. The ceremony was attended by Clark, Davidson, and Huxley. Mike Smith died of Pneumonia eleven days before the ceremony. They were inducted by Tom Hanks.
Bagale Thapa
Bagale Thapa or Bagalya Thapa (बगाले थापा/बगाल्या थापा) is a prominent Kshatriya clan within Khas Thapa. Bagale Thapa belong to Atreya Gotra and Suryavansha (solar) dynasty in Hinduism. They trace their ancestry to legendary Khas King Kalu Thapa since Saka Era 1111 or Vikram Samvat 1246. Bagale Thapa were powerful family while living at Jumla as per Gorkha Rajbanshawali, the Royal Genealogy of Gorkha Kingdom. Bada Kaji Amar Singh Thapa belonged to this clan. Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa, the grandson of Kaji Birbhadra Thapa, also belonged to this clan. His niece Lalit Tripura Sundari and nephew Mathabarsingh Thapa went on to become Queen and Prime Minister of Nepal respectively. War commander Ujir Singh Thapa, General Ranabir Singh Thapa and Colonel Bakhtawar Singh Thapa also belonged to this clan being family members of PM Bhimsen Thapa.
Indonesian
Indonesian might mean:
Dannemarie
Dannemarie is the name of three communes in France:
Prima Donna (song)
"Prima Donna" is a 2010 song from Christina Aguilera. It is about empowerment of women. The single was released in June 2010. It received positive reviews from critics.
Chaussy, Loiret
Chaussy is a French commune. It is in the Loiret department.
Boortmeerbeek
Boortmeerbeek is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
In 2007, 11561 people lived there.
It is at 50° 58 North, 04° 34 East.
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
'"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"', is the ninth episode in the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 5, 1997.
Story
In the episode, Homer eats several hot chili peppers and hallucinates. It causes him to go on a mysterious travel. Following this, he questions his relationship with Marge. He also goes on a journey to find his soulmate.
La Vergne, Tennessee
La Vergne is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Step Up 2: The Streets
Step Up 2: The Streets is a 2008 American musical teen drama movie. It is the sequel to Step Up. This sequel is set in the Baltimore region and was released in February 2008. The movie got substandard reviews, though it received almost $151 million throughout the world.
Lake County, South Dakota
Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 11,059 people lived there. Its county seat is Madison. It was created in 1873.
Alhamra Arts Council
The Alhamra Theatre Complex or the Alhamra Arts Council Cultural Complex or Alhamra Art Galleries and Hall is a multi-purpose cultural theatre and performing arts venue in Lahore, Pakistan. It was completed in 1992. It is situated on The Mall, a big old avenue from British Indian times.
The Council also has a new venue of the same type, named the Alhamra Gadaffi Stadium Complex, which is located near Lahore's main sports stadium and which was made more recently.
Alexandria, South Dakota
Alexandria is a city in Hanson County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 615 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Hanson County.
Borgloon
Borgloon is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg.
In 2007, 10206 people lived there.
It is at 50° 48 North, 05° 20 East.
Dave Clark
David Clark was born on the 15th of December 1939. Clark was born in Tottenham, then lived in Middlesex. He left school without qualifications at the age of 15 and claims to have become a film stuntman, performing in over 40 films (although IMDB only claims that he has four pre-fame film credits).
The Dave Clark Five
Clark formed The Dave Clark Five to help fund new equipment for his football team, under the name The Dave Clark Five Featuring Stan Saxon. Eventually, it became an actual full-time rock band. In 1963, the band (now called simply The Dave Clark Five) signed to EMI records and started releasing songs. Around this time, The Beatles had recently came into the spotlight. By 1964, the British Invasion phenomena had begun and the Dave Clark Five became rivals to the Beatles. The Dave Clark Five first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in March 1964 (one month after the Beatles). The Clark Five would appear on the Ed Sullivan show the most (when compared to other British Invasion groups).
The Dave Clark Five would have hit after hit, including Glad All Over, Bits And Pieces, Over and Over, and Because, among others.
The band split up in 1970. In 2008, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Time
Time is the name of an album Clark made in the 1980s.
Personal Life
Clark is an entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He owns a house in West London that costs £12 million. Clark owns the rights to all the Dave Clark Five music masters. In the 1980s he acquired the rights to the 1960s UK music show Ready Steady Go!. Clark was close friends with Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, who he first met in the year 1976. He was by Mercury's bedside when Mercury died on 24 November 1991.