cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Anaconda
Hunting and diet
All snakes are carnivores (meat-eaters). Anaconda eat 4 to 5 times each year. This is because it takes them 3 to 4 months to digest their food. Anacondas normally hunt at night. Anacondas kill by constricting (squeezing) the prey until it can no longer breathe. They may also drown their prey. Like all snakes, they swallow the prey whole. They swallow it head first. The anaconda's top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments/b This lets let the snake swallow animals wider than itself. Snakes do not chew their food. They digest it with strong acids in their stomach. Anacondas eat pigs, deer, caiman (a type of crocodilia), birds, fish, rodents (like the capybara and agouti) and other animals. After eating a large animal, the anaconda does not needs food for a long time/ It will rest for weeks after eating. The young (called neonates) can care for themselves soon after birth. This includes hunting. At this age, they are mostly defenseless against large predators. They eat small rodents (like rats and mice), baby birds, frogs and small fish.
Other species
There are four species in the genus Eunectes:
Jonathan Haagensen
Jonathan Sirney Haagensen Cerqueira (born February 23, 1983) is a Brazilian actor, model and singer. He started his career in 2000 in Palace II, a special episode of the series Brava Gente. He gained national and international fame in 2002 in the film City of God, acted in some soap operas such as Da Cor do Pecado in 2004, Paraíso Tropical in 2007 and Os Mutantes in 2008. Jonathan is twin brother of actor Phellipe Haagensen.
Haagensen was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Treaty of Berlin (1742)
The Treaty of Berlin was signed on July 28, 1742 between Austrian archduchess Maria Theresa and Frederick II of Prussia.
Terms
Based on the treaty, Maria Theresa gave most of Silesia to Frederick. This treaty, along with the Treaty of Breslau, officially ended the First Silesian War.
National Bank of Romania
The National Bank of Romania (Banca Naţională a României, BNR) is the central bank of Romania. It started in April 1880. It is in the capital city, Bucharest. The bank's first governor was Eugeniu Carada.
Scandal
In 1916, the Central Powers invaded Romania. All valuable objects of the National Bank of Romania and the Romanian Treasure were sent to Moscow for safekeeping. They were never returned.
Robbery
On July 28, 1959, an armed group of six members of the Romanian Communist Party stole from an armored car of the National Bank of Romania 1,600,000 lei (about US$250,000 at 1959 prices).
Responsibilities
The main tasks of the National Bank of Romania are:
Cirkus
Cirkus is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language period comedy drama film. It is directed and produced by Rohit Shetty. The movie is also jointly produced by Rohit Shetty Productionz and T-Series.
Plot
In 1944, Dr. Roy Jamnadas (Murali Sharma), who is working on the theory of nature vs nurture, separates two sets of identical twins he finds at the doorstep of the orphanage he runs and gives them up for adoption to two different families, based in two different cities. One pair is given to a couple in Ooty and the other pair to a couple in Bangalore, and both the couples name them Roy and Joy. Roy 1 (Ranveer Singh) and Joy 1 (Varun Sharma)'s father runs a circus and after his death, they both take up the responsibility of running the circus. Roy 2 and Joy 2's father is a wealthy industrialist. Roy 1 has a strange connection with electricity and electric currents do not affect him. He uses this ability to show tricks at the circus and becomes famously known as 'Electric Man'. Elsewhere, Roy 2 receives electric shocks whenever Roy 1 comes into contact with electricity.
The story then moves forward 30 years. Roy 1's wife, Mala (Pooja Hegde), cannot conceive and wishes to adopt a child from the Jamnadas Orphanage, but Roy 1 is against the idea. Roy 2 is in love with Bindu but her father Rai Bahadur is skeptical about him as he had seen Roy 1 with Mala in Ooty and had mistaken him for Roy 2, thinking that he is cheating on Bindu. Roy 2 and Joy 2 come to Ooty to buy a tea estate and there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding as people mistake them for the other pair of twins. Three robbers - Momo, Mango, and Chikki are after them to rob their money. They back off when Roy 2 gives them electric shocks and their boss, Polson Dada later comes to take revenge. They also come across Nagmani, the shady cab driver, and Bagheera, the dacoit turned hotel owner. Roy 2 thinks they are all part of a huge criminal gang that wants to rob them, and when they come across Mala, they think that she is the gang's leader.
Roy 1 decides to gift a diamond necklace to Mala but the jeweler mistakenly gives it to Roy 2, creating further confusion. Moreover, Bindu's father is now convinced that Roy 2 is married to Mala. On hearing this, Bindu threatens to end her relationship with him, not knowing that Mala is actually Roy 1's wife. All the confusion is cleared when both the pairs of twins come face to face at the circus and Dr. Jamnadas reveals the truth to them and his real intention behind separating them. They all reconcile and Roy 1 and Mala finally adopt a child from the orphanage and Roy 2 and Bindu plan to get married soon.
Later, five orphan boys - Gopal, Laxman 1, Madhav, Laxman 2, and Lucky come to stay at the orphanage, hinting at the events before Golmaal Again.
Yorkville, Illinois
Yorkville is a city in Illinois in the United States. It is the county seat of Kendall County, Illinois.
Hossein Wahid Khorasani
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Vahid Khorasani (born Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh (Persian: محمدحسین ملاصالح)‎; 1 January 1921) is an Iranian writer and Shia marja'. He was born in Nishapur, Iran. He is the head of the Qom Seminary. Khorasani is said to be the most learned Shia religious figure. His lectures and quotes have been used against the thinking of the supreme leader of Iran.
David Byrne
David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member and performer with the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Treaty of Berlin (1889)
Terms
Based on the treaty, Samoa became independent and was allowed to choose its own king to rule it. However, the king would be advised by the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. In 1899, the treaty was replaced by the Treaty of Berlin (1899).
David Byrne
He has received Academy, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. He has also been honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.
Girls, Girls, Girls
"Girls, Girls, Girls" is a single by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. It is the first single from the album of the same name, released on May 11, 1987 and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #12 and #20 on the Mainstream rock charts. American pop artist Lady GaGa wrote the song "Boys Boys Boys" as an homage to this song.
Music video
Mötley Crüe"s first video of "Girls, Girls, Girls" was banned from MTV due to nudity, it was shot at the Seventh Veil Strip Club in Los Angeles. There was trouble when finding a location because most strip clubs did not serve alcohol. The dancers were from mainly the Tropicana which was Vince Neil's favourite club and the Seventh Veil. The song and album were both written during a time when main songwriter Nikki Sixx, and co-writer Dominic Catanzarito were both addicted to heroin.
Treaty of Berlin (1899)
The Treaty of Berlin was signed on 14 November 1899 between the United States, Germany, and the British.
Before the treaty was signed, the British, Germans, and Americans wanted Samoa to trade with. Based on the treaty, Samoa was divided between Germany and the United States. Western Samoa went to Germany, while Eastern Samoa went to the United States.
Long-nosed bandicoot
The long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta, is a member of the bandicoot family which lives along the east coast of Australia from Victoria to Queensland. They are also found on the island of Tasmania. There are four species of long-nosed bandicoots, but Perameles nasuta is found in forests and rainforests. It has the shortest gestation and highest reproduction rate of all mammals.
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. (known as Virgin Atlantic) is an airline that is based in the United Kingdom. Virgin Atlantic is owned by 2 companies, Virgin Group and Delta Air Lines. Virgin Atlantic goes from its main hubs at London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport to many places like the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. More than 75% of Virgin Atlantic's flights go/come to London Heathrow Airport. The rest mostly fly from London Gatwick Airport, Manchester Airport or Glasgow Airport. Virgin flies to 31 cities. These are either in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States or the Caribbean.
Long-nosed bandicoot
They live in small hidden nests, in among shrubs, hollow logs, or old rabbit burrows. Bandicoots are protected by law, but the areas they like to live in have been cleared for farming or housing. They are also hunted by dogs, cats and foxes. Rabbits have eaten many of the plants and made it unsuitable for bandicoots. Around Sydney, they listed as an endangered species.
River Trent
The River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. It is the third longest river in the United Kingdom. It starts in Staffordshire. It flows through the centre of England until it joins the River Ouse to form the River Humber (estuary) which empties into the North Sea.
Long-nosed bandicoot
Description
The long-nosed bandicoot is a small animal, from 20—42.5 cm long with a thin rat like tail, from 7.5—17 cm in length. They weigh between 0.5—1.9kg. They are covered in coarse grey to brown fur, sometimes with a hint of yellow or orange. Their underbelly is a cream color. Being a marsupial the females have a rear opening pouch to carry their young. They have five clawed toes fingers on their front legs.
River Trent
The name "Trent" comes from a Celtic word possibly meaning "strongly flooding". More specifically, the name may be a contraction of two Celtic words, tros ("over") and hynt ("way"). It is unusual amongst English rivers in that it flows north (for the second half of its route), and is also unusual in exhibiting a tidal bore, the "Aegir". The area drained by the river includes most of the northern Midlands.
Long-nosed bandicoot
Breeding
The long-nosed bandicoot lives by itself, often chasing away other bandicoots. Their breeding season depends on the region in which they live. The female gives birth to two or three young after a short gestation period of 12 days. The tiny babies, blind and hairless, about 13mm in length, then move to the pouch where they are able to drink milk from the females eight nipples. They leave the pouch at about 54 days. The female is then ready to breed again. they live for between three and five years.
Diet
The long-nosed bandicoot is a nocturnal animal, coming out at night to find and eat insects, beetles, snails, worms, mice, lizards and tree roots. They are able to smell their food to find it. They use their front claws to dig a hole big enough to get their long nose in to find the food. They can be very unpopular in urban areas for digging up gardens. While looking for food they make a shrill high pitched squeak.
Virgin Atlantic Airways
It was founded by British businessman Sir Richard Branson in the 1980s.
River Trent
Navigation
The river is legally navigable for some 117 mi below Burton upon Trent. However, for practical purposes, navigation above the southern terminus of the Trent and Mersey Canal (at Shardlow) is conducted on the canal, rather than on the river itself.
Trent Aegir
At certain times of the year, the lower tidal reaches of the Trent experience a tidal bore which can be up to 5 ft high.
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Planes
Virgin Atlantic owns 10 Airbus A330 11 Airbus A340 planes, 10 Boeing 747-400 planes and 5 Boeing 787 planes. It also has an order for 6 Airbus A380 planes but were later cancelled and replaced by an order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 planes, another order is for 8 Boeing 787 planes.
Virgin Atlantic used to have some other aircraft too. It used to own 5 Airbus A320s, 3 Airbus A321s, 1 Boeing 747-100, 22 Boeing 747-200s and 4 Vickers Viscounts. Virgin Atlantic's first plane was a Boeing 747-200.
Inside the planes
Virgin Atlantic uses three different classes on their planes: Economy, Premium Economy and Upper Class.
Economy
Economy class is the standard class on Virgin Atlantic aircraft. It is the cheapest part of the plane to travel in. Passengers usually get a free meal, some drinks and a bag with gifts in like a toothbrush. The seats in this class have a maximum pitch of 31 in, but this depends on what plane the passenger goes in.
Premium Economy
In November 2006, Virgin made a new seat. It is wider than the old one and has a plug for laptops. It is being put on all planes and now, all Airbus A340s and all Boeing 747s that fly from London Heathrow Airport have the new seats.
Upper Class
Upper Class is the name for Virgin Atlantic's business class. They do not have a first class service. Virgin says the seats are the biggest lie flat beds on any business class (it is 202 cm long and 84 cm wide), but Air Canada and Singapore Airlines have said this too. The seats have plugs for laptops and iPods.
In-flight Entertainment
All the seats on all the aircraft have screens in the back of the seats to provide entertainment for passengers. Most planes have a newer system where the passengers can choose what they want to watch called V:Port. Older systems called "Odyssey" and "Super Nova" just offer different channels for the passengers to pick from. The screens on the older systems are also smaller. Virgin was among the first airlines to have games on its personal screens.
Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Iwashimizu Hachimangū (石清水八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Shinto belief
People worship Hachiman at the shrine. Hachiman is the Shinto kami of Imperial legitimacy. Since it was built in 859, Hachiman has been recognized as Emperor Ojin.
Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and sometimes an actor. He has released five albums with The Stooges. In 1977 he released his first solo album.
Juan Fernández fur seal
The Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii) is a type of fur seal. It is the second smallest type of fur seal. They are only found on the Juan Fernández Islands and the Desventuradas Islands.
Margaritaville
"Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by Jimmy Buffett and taken from his seventh studio album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. It went to number 4 in Canada, number 8 in the United States, number 33 in New Zealand and number 98 in Australia. It has been covered by country singer Alan Jackson for his 1999 album Under the Influence.
Transonic
Transonic means breaking the sound barrier by travelling faster than the speed of sound (1,236 kph or 768 mph).
The speed of flight is divided into four groups based on speed.
Treaty of Berlin (1921)
The Treaty of Berlin (1921) was between the United States and Germany. The US did not agree with parts of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and wanted to sign a different treaty.
Vasily Borisov
Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov (Василий Фёдорович Борисов; born 12 December 1922) is a retired Soviet rifle shooter.
He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.
Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won more than 20 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, Borisov and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.
Paatje Phefferkorn
Verdi Phefferkorn von Offenbach (26 February 1922 – 1 January 2021), better known as ‘Paatje Phefferkorn’, was an Indonesian-Dutch practitioner and mixed martial artist. He was born in Bandung, Dutch East Indies. He was the creator of the 'Indo Melati' flag and emblem. In 1967 he started a small mixed martial arts school in the city of Utrecht. Soon he created a second school and in the end ran 17 schools throughout the Netherlands.
Phefferkorn died due to COVID-19 on 1 January 2021 in Amsterdam at the age of 98.
Lise Thiry
Lise Thiry (born 5 February 1921) is a Belgian scientist and politician. She was voted as one of the top 100 Belgians on a television show on the Belgian French-speaking public channel RTBF. Thiry was born in Liège, Belgium. She worked as a researcher and virologist at the Pasteur Institute and looked for ways to detect AIDS. In 1990, she became a Senator.
Thiry turned 100 in February 2021.
Ayrshire
Ayrshire is a county on the west coast of Scotland. The county town is Ayr but the biggest towns are Kilmarnock and Irvine.
There used to be three districts called "bailieries" which were later put together to make up the shire of Ayrshire. The three districts were:
For local government, the county is divided into three council areas:
Banh mi
Bánh mì is a Vietnamese sandwich. The word bánh mì literally means "bread" in Vietnamese, but it can also mean "sandwich", since sandwiches are made of bread. It often has ingredients such as herbs, meats, vegetables and sauces that are often found in Vietnam. It is a food that was created because of French influence in Vietnam. When Vietnam was part of the colony French Indochina, French colonists taught the Vietnamese how to make bread. Unlike French bread, bánh mì has rice flour in it.
History
Back then, wheat flour had to be imported from Europe so it was very expensive. Some people mixed it with rice flour, which was cheaper because it was made in the country. The rice flour also made the bread fluffier. This was how Vietnamese bánh mì was made.
After the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese refugees moved to other countries and opened up bánh mì shops.
Sandwich
A Vietnamese bánh mì sandwich is made of bread and fillings.
Danka system
The danka system (檀家制度) was a historical government system in Japan where households would be required to register with Buddhist Temples. This effectively put a lot of the work of administration on the temples rather than the government.
Banh mi
Vegetables
Picked carrot and radish, jalapeno, cucumber, and cilantro are some vegetables put into bánh mì.
Danka system
It was used to persecute Christians.
In the Meiji Restoration it was replaced with Shrine Parishioner Registration.
Banh mi
Sauces
Some sauces put into bánh mì are mayonnaise and liver pâté.
Jalognes
Jalognes is a commune. It is in Centre-Val de Loire in the Cher department in central France. In 2020, 273 people lived there.
Treaty of Berlin (1926)
The Treaty of Berlin was signed on 24 April 1926. It was between Germany and the Soviet Union. Each promised to stay neutral if another country attacked them for the next five years.
Meadow brown
The meadow brown, Maniola jurtina, is a butterfly found in European meadows. Its larvae feed on grasses.
The evolutionary significance of the upperwing eyespots is probably defence against predators. Small, peripheral eyespots deflect the attacks of birds to non-vital parts of the body. They can fly perfectly well when their wings have one or two beak-shaped clips on them.
Ramsey Lewis
Lewis died on September 12, 2022 at his home in Chicago from cardiac arrest at the age of 87.
Massively multiplayer online game
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are video games where players play together over the internet. These games are different from other online video games because they have very many players all playing with each other at the same time. Other online video games have fewer players playing with each other at the same time. The most popular kind of MMOG is the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Examples are RuneScape, World of Warcraft (WOW), Roblox and Transformice.
Karmin
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Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty (9 September 1980 – 25 September 2017) was an Egyptian woman who was thought to be the heaviest living woman in the world and the second heaviest woman in history (after Carol Yager). Her initial weight was claimed to be around 500 kg (1100lb). She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Her family has stated that she weighed 5kg (11 pounds) at birth. Suffering from a thyroid problem, she had to stop school.
In May 2017, she was hospitalized and taken to India for health problems due to her weight. She was later transferred to the United Arab Emirates for further treatment. She lost around 715 pounds during her hospital stay.
Abd El Aty died on September 25, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from septic shock caused by kidney failure. She was 37 years old.
Nick Leddy
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He was drafted with the 16th overall pick by the Minnesota Wild in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He began his hockey career when he played at the University of Minnesota with the Golden Gophers. He was drafted by the Wild and was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks along with Kim Johnsson for Cam Barker on February 12, 2010.
He played his first NHL game on October 8, 2010 against the Colorado Avalanche and scored his first NHL goal on October 11, 2010 against Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.
Rosy boa
The rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata) is a snake of the Boidae family. The rosy boa is native to southwest America, and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. It is one of only two boas native to the territory claimed by the United States. The other is the rubber boa (Charina bottae).
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art was a landmark exhibition held at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art from November 10, 1994 until March 5, 1995. Organized by curator Thelma Golden, Black Male was a survey of the changing representations of black masculinity in contemporary art from the 1970s to the 1990s. The show included almost seventy works by twenty-nine artists of varying race, gender, and ethnicity. It also featured an extensive film and video program that explored representations of blackness in Hollywood, the independent cinema, video, and television. Black Male was widely labelled controversial and heavily criticized for its political subject matter, to which Golden responded, "There was no way to speak about the image of the black male in an art exhibition without speaking about what was going on politically and culturally. Many people saw this as either a beginning, in a hopeful way, or an end ... To embrace change and to embrace the new, for some, means giving something up, something being taken."
Overview
On December 12, 2014, the Education department at the Whitney Museum presented Looking Back at Black Male, a public program to mark the twentieth anniversary of the exhibition. The event featured Golden in conversation with writer Hilton Als, who edited the exhibition catalogue, and Huey Copeland, art historian and critic, to discuss the exhibition and its impact on the contemporary art scene.
Works
The exhibition features work across a variety of mediums, including photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, and video art. Among the works in the exhibition were:
Participating Artists
Exhibited artists included:
Reception
Black Male was met with mixed, predominantly negative reviews. The most direct criticism came from New York Times reviewer Michael Kimmelman, who wrote, "The result? 'Black Male' will almost certainly be remembered for the debates it provokes, which may be considerable and important. The Whitney is proud of the breadth of issues it tackles, and not altogether wrongly so. It's paradoxical, then, that with 'Black Male,' it succumbs to such chic and narrow thinking."
The exhibition traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles after its opening show at the Whitney. The exhibition at the Hammer Museum included a comment book in which visitors could express their responses to the show; a total of five spiral-bound notebooks were filled during the run of the exhibition. The responses in the comment book illustrate a wide range of responses to the show, among them:
Charlie Baker
Charles Duane "Charlie" Baker, Jr. (born November 13, 1956) is an American businessman and politician. Since March 1, 2023, he has been president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Baker was the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 2015 to 2023. He was a cabinet official under two Massachusetts governors, spent ten years as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He was also the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in his unsuccessful bid in 2010.
Photographic filter
A photographic filter is a lens that is used in photography to filter the light. There are different kinds of filters:
Filters can be cheap or expensive. Glass (or plastic) that is treated or coated in different ways usually costs more. Some filters can be screwed in front of a lens that is made for this. Others can be placed in the back of the lens, or in special filter holders screwed in at the front.
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken is a city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the county seat of Aiken County.
Verwood
Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England.
Schlierbach
Schlierbach can mean:
Saba Azad
Saba Azad is an Indian actress, singer and musician. She is one of the two members of the Mumbai-based electronic fan group Madboy / Mink. Saba is best known for playing the lead role in the 2011 romantic comedy Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge. The movie was very well liked by college students across the country. She played the role of Dingo in Y-Films' web series, Ladies Room, in 2016. She made her Bollywood debut in 2006 with the lead role of Raga in the movie Dil Kabaddi. She has acted as a model in advertisements for companies such as Cadbury, Ponds,Tata Sky, Google, KitKat, Vodafone and Nescafe.
Early life
Azad is the niece of Safdar Hashmi, a great actor of stage drama. She has performed with Hashmi's Natyadal Jan Natya Mancha from a very young age. She has worked with actors like Habib Tanvir, MK Raina, GP Deshpande and NK Sharma. She has trained in Orissa, ballet, jazz, Latin as well as contemporary dance. Along with her Orissa dance teacher Kiran Segal, she has danced in India and abroad in England.
Afternoon finishing school, she entered the movie world starring in a short movie, Guroor. It was directed by Ishan Nair. The movie was screened at festivals in New York and Florence. Since then she has acted in several short movies.
Career
Azad made her Bollywood debut in 2006 starring Anil Sr. in the independent Hindi movie Dil Kabaddi. In that movie, she acted opposite Rahul Basu. She then played the lead role in Y-Films  Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge, where she played the role of Preeti Sen opposite newcomers Nishant Dahiya and Shakib Selim.
Personal life
On March 1, 2013, Imam Shah announced that he and Azad had entered into a "live-in" relationship.
Queenborough
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Allen Covert
Allen Stephen Covert (born October 13, 1964) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his starring role in the classic 2006 comedy movie Grandma's Boy. He was born in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He was in many movies with actor and friend Adam Sandler such as Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Little Nicky (2000), Mr. Deeds (2002), Anger Management (2003), 50 First Dates (2004) and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007).
Sondra Locke
Sondra Locke (May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018) was an American actress who was known for starring mostly in movies. She starred as Laura Lee in The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976. The following year, she played Augustina Mally in The Gauntlet (1977). Locke was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
Locke was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mick Kelly in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968).
Locke died in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 2018 from cardiac arrest complicated by breast and bone cancer, aged 74.
Hans Rudolf Spillmann
Hans Rudolf "Hansrüdi" Spillman (born 7 January 1932) is a retired Swiss sports shooter.
Spillman won silver medals in the rifle 300 m three positions event at the 1960 Olympics and 1962 World Championships.
Baton
A baton is a stick. Different batons are used by different people, for different things.
Policemen often carry batons, which can be used as weapons. These batons are also sometimes called "nightsticks."
Runners pass batons to one another in relay races.
Musical conductors use batons to lead an orchestra.
Various people in a parade or marching band might twirl batons for people to see.
Ray Dalio
Raymond Thomas Dalio (born August 8, 1949) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, author, and philanthropist. He is the co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates since the company was founded in 1985.
The firm received a US$5 million investment from the World Bank's retirement fund. It was listed as the largest hedge fund in the world in 2013.
Early life and education
Dalio was born in New York City. He studied at the C.W. Post College of Long Island University before he received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in the year 1973. He then launched Bridgewater in his apartment 2 years later.
In 2020, Bloomberg ranked him as the world's 79th-wealthiest person.
Zeigler, Illinois
Zeigler is a city in Illinois in the United States. The population was 1,801 in 2010 census.
Mach number
M=v/a
Where v is the speed of the object, and a is the speed of sound.
It is named after the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach. When writing a speed as a Mach number, the number comes after "Mach." For example, the Concorde airplane could fly at Mach 2, and a satellite re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about Mach 25.
Categories of Mach numbers
Flying speed less than Mach 0.8 is called subsonic. Almost all airplanes, helicopters, and other aircraft are subsonic.
Flying speed from Mach 0.8 to Mach 1.2 is called transonic. If an airplane is moving at this speed, then some of the air around it moves faster than the speed of sound, but some of the air moves slower than the speed of sound.
Flying speed from Mach 1.2 to Mach 5 is called supersonic. An aircraft moving at this speed makes a shock wave. This can be heard as a very loud sound called a sonic boom. Supersonic aircraft are used in war, as fighter jets. Today, there are no supersonic aircraft for passenger use. There were some in the past, mainly the Concorde.
Flying speed above Mach 5 is called hypersonic.
Sukhoi Su-17
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Ethan Cutkosky
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Mark D. Maughmer
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Joe Hart (politician)
Joe Hart (May 8, 1944 – September 11, 2022) was an American Republican politician. He was the 11th State Mine Inspector of Arizona from 2007 to 2021. He also was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing Arizona's 2nd Legislative District from 1992 to 2001. Hart was born in Kingman, Arizona.
Hart died on September 11, 2022 at the age of 78.
Susan Howard
Jeri Lynn Mooney (born January 28, 1944), also known as Susan Howard, is an American actress and writer. She works in both movies and television series. She played Maggie in Petrocelli. She played Donna in Dallas from 1979 to 1987. In The Love Boat, she played Cynthia.
Mooney was born in Marshall, Texas.
Anatoly Gromyko
Anatoly Andreyevich Gromyko (Анато́лий Андре́евич Громы́ко, 15 April 1932 – 25 September 2017 ) was a Russian scientist and diplomat. He was born in Barysaw, Soviet Union. He specialized in American and African studies, as well as international relations. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Union of Russian Artists.
Between 1961 and 1965, he worked at the Soviet Embassy to the United Kingdom. After that, he took leading positions at the Institute for African Studies and Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He then returned to diplomacy, and acted as the Soviet deputy ambassador in the United States (1973–74) and East Germany (1974–75).
Zion, Illinois
Zion is a city in Illinois in the United States.
Discourses on Livy
It is a discussion about the history of early Ancient Rome. Although it strays very far from this and also uses modern political examples to illustrate points. Machiavelli presents it as a series of lessons on how a republic should be started and structured.
While it more openly explains the advantages of republics, it also has many similar themes from his other works. For example, Machiavelli said that to save a republic from corruption, it is needed to return it to a "kingly state" using violent means. He excuses Romulus for killing his brother Remus and co-ruler Titus Tatius to gain absolute power for himself in that he made a "civil way of life". Commentators disagree about how much the two works agree with each other, as Machiavelli often refers to leaders of republics as "princes". Machiavelli even sometimes acts as an advisor to tyrants. Other scholars have pointed out the power-hungry and imperialistic features of Machiavelli's republic. Nevertheless, it became one of the central texts of modern republicanism.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The story
Dr James Mortimor comes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to seek their help with the Baskerville family of Devon. Sir Charles Baskerville, the last of his Baskerville family was an elderly man. He believed that there was a curse on the family. In 1647 his ancestor, Hugo Baskerville, had attempted to catch a young woman whom he carried off; the girl had died of fear while Hugo was killed by a gigantic hound. Sir Charles Baskerville died of a heart attack while apparently fleeing a gigantic hound. As he was unmarried with no heirs, his estate goes to his nephew, Henry Baskerville, of Canada who is arriving in London. Although Holmes is not superstitious he does decide to take the case. Upon meeting the heir, several odd things happen: an unsigned note is delivered to Henry Baskerville warning him to stay away from the moor; then Henry's shoes beginning missing and turning up; first a new shoe and then an old one; lastly Holmes spots a stranger in a cab following Henry and Dr Mortimor.
Holmes cannot go to Devon so he sends Dr Watson in his place as both a bodyguard to Sir Henry and as a spy. Dr Watson reports the eccentric happenings in Devon: the Baskerville's butler Barrymore and his wife who act strangely; Jack Stapleton an ex-schoolmaster and eccentric butterfly collector and his sister Beryl; a local busybody/and crank Frankland and his estranged daughter Laura Lyons. Lastly there is a deranged convict escapee named Sheldon on the moor. Beryl Stapleton first mistakes Watson for Sir Henry, warning him to go away; when she meets Sir Henry who begins to be attracted to her; although her brother strongly objects to their meeting together. Watson and Sir Henry find out the reason for the Barrymores strange actions, they are secretly helping Mrs Barrymore's brother, the escaped convict. Barrymore does reveal that he accidentally found a burned note to Charles Baskerville asking him to meet outside the hall from someone named L.L.
Watson confronts Laura Lyons who admits that Charles Baskerville had financed her typewriting business and says she did not meet him on the night of his death. Watson is also confronted by Franklin who claims that he saw the escaped convict on the moor hiding in a old stone hut. Watson decides to investigate and finds the stranger is none other than Holmes! Holmes reveals that his prime suspect is Stapleton, who is the husband not the brother of Beryl. When they hear a scream they run out to find a dead man at the foot of a cliff. It is Sheldon the convict who was wearing Henry Baskerville old clothes. After meeting Stapleton, Holmes and Watson go to Baskerville Hall where Holmes tells Sir Henry to keep his dinner engagement with the Stapletons for the next night, although neither Holmes or Watson can go with Sir Henry as they must leave for London. Instead of leaving for London, Holmes and Watson confront Laura Lyons who is forced to admit that Stapleton had promised marriage to her. The meeting with Sir Charles was to have been a loan connected with her divorce expenses. It was Stapleton who persuaded her not to meet with Sir Charles at the last second and also to keep quiet about the note. Holmes and Watson meet Inspector Lestrade who has a arrest warrant. That night the three men spy on Stapleton and Sir Henry; when Sir Henry leaves to walk home, a gigantic glowing hound nearly attacks him but is killed by Holmes and Watson. At Stapleton's house they find Beryl who has been tied up and beaten by Stapleton. Stapleton flees to the moor but falls into the Grimpen Mire.
Holmes reveals his deductive reasoning: the warning note had a woman's perfume scent; the theft of the shoes gave a clue that the dog was real; Stapleton, who was a spiritual and physical throwback to Hugo Baskerville (Holmes noticed the resemblance to the family portraits); his real name was Rodger Baskerville Jr (his father was the youngest of the Baskerville brothers and had to flee England for Central America). After marring a local beauty Beryl Garcia, he had stolen public money and fled Central America to England in 1885 where he used the money to start a public school in Yorkshire. The tutor he had hired died of consumption and the school which Baskerville then tried to use to teach his pupils crime was forced to close after an epidemic killed three students. In 1887 He then fled to his ancestrial home in Devon with the remains of his fortune, his wife and his taste for Entomology; Holmes cannot prove it but he theorizes that Baskerville supported himself by burglaries and in the process committed a murder. When he found out that one life was between him and a valuable estate and that Sir Charles had both a weak heart and took the family legend seriously, he bought a large savage dog and hid it on the moor. He tricked Laura Lyons into writing the appointment note for Sir Charles and sent the dog, coated with phosphorous, after the old man who died of a heart attack. He tried the same trick on his cousin Henry twice-the first time however it was the convict wearing Henry clothing that fell victim. He had tied up his wife so she could not warn Sir Henry of the danger he was in. In Holmes words: Roger Baskerville aka Jack Stapleton has for years been a dangerous and desperate man and one of the few foes worthy of confronting Sherlock Holmes The others being Dr Grimesby Roylott and Professor Moriaty).
Scottish English
Scottish English, also known as Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE), is a dialect of English that is spoken in Scotland. People can tell Scottish English from British English by their accents, grammar, and vocabulary.
Scottish English should not be confused with Scots, a language which is very much like, but separate from English. The Scots language itself has affected Scottish English by means of contact with the Standard English after the 17th century. Still, many speakers of both Scots and Scottish English put them into different registers and smoothly switch between the two.
Mats Hummels
Mats Julian Hummels (born in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany on 16 December 1988) is a German football defender who plays for Bayern Munich and represents the Germany national football team. He represented Germany in both the UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Since 2010, Hummels has been a regular for the German team.
Christine Woods
Christine Elizabeth Woods (born September 3, 1983) is an American actress. She appeared in the HBO series Hello Ladies. She played FBI Special Agent Janis Hawk in the ABC series FlashForward.
Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in northeastern Texas. At the 2010 census, 23,523 people lived there.
Philippi, West Virginia
Philippi (pronounced 'FILL-uh-pea') is a city in — and the county seat of — Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,966 at the 2010 census.
Astraea
Astraea is a goddess from Greek mythology. She is the goddess of justice, innocence, and accuracy. Many stories say she is the constellation Virgo. Her name means "starry night" or "star maid".
Dunbartonshire
Dunbartonshire (Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann) or the County of Dumbarton is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
Joan Blondell
Joan Rosebud Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. She performed in movies and television for nearly fifty years. She played Rosie Sturges in Kansas City Princess. She also played Gloria Fay in the movie Miss Pacific Fleet.
Blondell was born in New York City on August 30, 1906. Her sister Gloria Blondell was also an actress. She died on December 25, 1979 in Santa Monica, California from leukemia.
Bobby Knutt
Robert Andrew Wass, known professionally as Bobby Knutt (25 November 1945 – 25 September 2017), was a English television actor and comedian, He started in entertainment as a stand-up comedian. He was best known for playing Albert Dingle in Emmerdale. Knutt also appeared in Last of the Summer Wine, Heartbeat, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, All Creatures Great & Small, Our Friends in the North, and Coronation Street as garage boss Ron Sykes.
Knutt died suddenly of a heart attack in France on 25 September 2017 at the age of 71.
Schweighouse-Thann
Schweighouse-Thann is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments is a book written by Dr. Ali-Asghar Hekmat. It was published in 1956, 1958 and 2013. New print has the Persian texts of more than 200 stone inscriptions found on historical places in India, many of which are now listed as national heritage or UNESCO world heritage sites.
Third edition
After being lost for over 50 years, a third edition of the book has been printed by Dr. Mohammad Ajam with 200 pictures. the book is important for students of Persian language and teachers.
Book contents
In India, Persian inscriptions are usually found on buildings such as mosques, tombs,forts, palaces, gateways, water tanks, wells, gardens and bridges. Certain movable objects such as seals, signets, vases and eating pot. Most pre-Mughal Indian quranic and Persian inscriptions in India date from the last decade of the 12th century AD, when Muhammad Ghori (Guri) conquered Delhi and established his ruling there. However, a small number of inscriptions have been found in Haryana, Gujarat and Kerala which bear earlier dates. the persian language was official language of courts in India for 600 years. .
Palaces, citadels
The book explain Persian Inscriptions on many palaces and fort in India including:
Mausoleums
The book describes 47 Mausoleum and tombs in India inscribed with Persian Inscriptions.
Persian inscription in the mosques
The book had described Persian inscription in the 14 mosques in India including: . Shah Jahan also built the Taj Mahal, at Agra and the Red Fort in Old Delhi, which stands opposite the Jama Masjid.it remained the royal mosque of the emperors until the end of the Mughal period.
Gallery
some Pictures of the Indian important places which have Persian inscriptions and have been explained in the book: more pictures in flicker [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajam43/? 3d pan white]
Monkfruit
The monkfruit, or luohan guo (Siraitia grosvenorii) is a herbaceous plant from the gourd family. It is native to southern China and northern Thailand. The plant is used to get something called mogroside, which is sweeter than table sugar. It has been used as a low-calorie sweetener for drinks and in traditional Chinese medicine.
Overview
The plant is a vine which is about 3-5m long. The narrow, heart-shaped leaves are 10–20 cm long. The fruit is round, 5–7 cm in diameter, smooth, yellow-brownish or green-brownish in color.
The fleshy inside of the fruit is eaten, and the rind is used for making tea. The fruit is mostly known for being very sweet.
Yeadon
Yeadon is a town near Leeds in England. It is in West Yorkshire and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is home to Leeds Bradford International Airport.
Tocharian languages
The Tocharian languages were a branch of the Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken on the northern side of the Tarim Basin (now in Xinjiang, China). Writing was found from around the 5th century to the 8th century AD. There were three known languages in the branch, named A, B and C.
The Greatest (Sia song)
"The Greatest" is a 2016 song by Australian singer-songwriter Sia and is the third single from her seventh studio album This Is Acting. The song features a new part with the American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It topped the single charts in Belgium, Mexico and Switzerland. It went to the top ten in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom and missed the top 10 in the United States. It is an electropop song.
The music video features American dancer Maddie Ziegler together with 48 other young people.