cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Comunità montana Monte Cervino
Geography
The Comunità montana Monte Cervino has a total area of about 335.50 km2 and a population of 16,797; its population density is of inhabitants/km2.
The headquarters of the mountain community are in Châtillon.
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian movie, television, stage and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Andrew "Pope" Cody in Animal Kingdom, Russell in Killing Them Softly, John Daggett in The Dark Knight Rises, Orson Krennic in Rogue One, King George VI in Darkest Hour and as Nolan Sorrento in Ready Player One.
Duane E. Dewey
Duane Edgar Dewey (November 16, 1931 – October 11, 2021) was an American combat Marine. He received the U.S. military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions on April 16, 1952 during the Korean War. Although wounded by an enemy grenade, he fell on another exploding grenade with his own body to save the life of a corpsman and the other Marines around him.
Romansh language
Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of Switzerland's four national languages. (The other three are French, German and Italian.) 50,000 people in the canton of Graubünden use it as their native language.
Khoo Chin-bee
Khoo Chin-bee (born 4 May 1977 in Perak) is a former Malaysian female tennis player.
Khoo has won one singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 15 September 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 329. On 17 August 1998, she peaked at world number 209 in the doubles rankings.
Playing for Malaysia at the Fed Cup, Khoo has a win-loss record of 25-17. Khoo retired from tennis 2009.
Paul Taylor
Paul Belville Taylor, Jr. (July 29, 1930 – August 29, 2018) was an American choreographer. He was among the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Taylor works include Big Bertha (1970),, Airs (1978), Arden Court (1981), Sunset (1983), Last Look (1985), Speaking in Tongues (1988), Brandenburgs (1988), Company B (1991), Piazolla Caldera (1996), Black Tuesday (2001), Promethean Fire (2002), and Beloved Renegade (2008).
Chinchillidae
The family Chinchillidae contains the chinchillas, viscachas, and their fossil relatives. They are restricted to southern and western South America. Often they can be found in the Andes. They are large rodents, weighing from 800 grams to 8 kilograms. They have strong hind legs and large ears. All species have thick, soft fur. Their fur is considered valuable in some species.
Classification
There are three extant and three fossil genera currently recognized.
Paul Taylor
Taylor died of renal failure on August 29, 2018, at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 88.
Gemlik
Gemlik is a harbor town in Turkey. It has 70,000 people living there. Gemlik is a district of Bursa Province. It has a free industrial zone. This zone helped the development of industry in Gemlik. Agriculture is mostly olives for eating. Olive oil is important to the economy of Gemlik.
There is a seaport in the town. Gemlik is between Bursa and İstanbul. Because of this location, the town developed rapidly after the 1990s.
Stop error screen
A Stop error screen, also called as a Blue screen of death is a screen that a device shows when it has an error it cannot fix and has to stop. These screens are usually called screens of death because the device cannot recover from the error and the operating system or firmware has to close.
The screens are usually color-coded such as a Microsoft Windows computer showing a Black Screen of Death (BSoD) or an Xbox showing a green screen of death when they have errors.
History
These screens are usually caused by problems in device drivers. They can also be caused by hardware errors, such as bad RAM or power supplies, overheating of the inside of the system, or hardware which is run at higher rates than the limits. This is called overclocking.
These errors were in all the Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1.
Windows 3.x, 95, 98, and ME
The first BSOD that looked like an error was in Windows 3.1. BSODs like that appeared in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. These showed an error message with an all-blue screen. The error screen was shown when there was a startup error, or when there was some other error such as an error occurring in a hardware driver file.
When Bill Gates was showing Windows 98 to the public, a BSOD happened. The computer crashed when his assistant, Chris Capossela, connected a scanner to show that Windows 98 could support Plug and Play. Bill Gates responded: "That must be... er... that must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet!"
Windows NT family
Beginning with Windows 2000, the BSOD remained an all-blue color, but changed to show more detailed technical information, and also listed a few steps that the user could do to fix the problem causing the BSOD to appear. The same screen was used in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
Windows 8
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 uses a lighter blue color for the BSOD, and made the message easier to read. It even added an emoticon of a frowing face. The technical details was replaced with a simple line of text showing the name of the crash error so that the user could look it up on the Internet.
Windows 11
Windows 11 has a black screen of death instead of blue.
Country-western dance
The country-western dance (also country dance or cowboy) is dancing that is performed mostly to country music. It is also called kicker dancing in Texas. There are several forms of it.
Duncan Laurence
Duncan de Moor (born 11 April 1994), professionally known as Duncan Laurence, is a Dutch singer who representend the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song "Arcade" from the album Loving You Is a Losing Game and won the contest.
Country-western dance
The western couple dance is social dancing that involves several people. Other dances include line dance and square dancing.
Duncan Laurence
Laurence was born in Spijkenisse and is bisexual.
Protractor
The protractor is a tool used to measure angles. It usually has marks with labels of the degrees. Protractors are usually half circles or full circles.
Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge)
The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge is a truss cantilever bridge. It goes over the Mississippi River. US 190 travels on the bridge, as well as a rail line. It helps people go between East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
The bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen. People in Baton Rogue call the bridge "the old bridge".
Mimasaka Province
Mimasaka Province (美作国) or Sakushu (作州) was an old province of Japan in the area of Okayama Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
Country-western dance
Other versions of the dance include:
Mimasaka Province
The province had borders with Bitchū, Bizen, Harima, Hōki, and Inaba Provinces.
Bérénice Marlohe
Bérénice Lim Marlohe (born 19 May 1979) is a French actress. She played Bond girl Sévérine in the twenty-third James Bond movie Skyfall. She was born in Paris.
Mimasaka Province
The ancient capital city of the province was Tsuyama.
Oriented strand board
Oriented strand board, commonly called OSB, is a type of particle board which is made of carefully positioned strands of wood. Aspen and other similar woods are cut into long strands parallel to the grain of the wood. It is manufactured into sheets made up of wood strands, wax, and resin adhesives. Sheets are formed under pressure and heat. The finished sheet size varies by country. OSB is very strong making it ideal for building construction. Its most common uses in construction are for covering walls, floors and roofs before the finish products are applied.
Mimasaka Province
History
In 713 (Wadō 6, 3rd month), the land of Mimasaka was separated from Bizen Province.
Oriented strand board
OSB can also be made from trees from areas burned over by forest fires.
Mimasaka Province
History
Mimasaka was the home of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi who is known for writing The Book of Five Rings.
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Mimasaka Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Emilia Plater
Emilia Plater was a Polish-Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary.
Mimasaka Province
Shrines and Temples
Nakayama jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Mimasaka.
Country-western dance
The dance dates back to the late 18th century.
CERN
CERN is a research institute near Geneva, Switzerland. The full name is Organisation Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research). The letters "CERN" are left over from the older Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). CERN was founded in 1954. Today 22 nations are members of the organisation. It is the world's biggest laboratory for particle physics. About 2600 people work there full-time, and over 7800 scientists from about 500 universities and research institutes work there in total.
Emilia Plater
Plater led soldiers in several engagements during the November Uprising in the Polish-Russian Wars of 1830-1831. She became ill toward the end of the Uprising and died.
Tim Wilson (comedian)
Wilson died from a heart attack. He was aged 52.
CERN
The Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator in the world, is at CERN.
Emilia Plater
Though she did not fight in any large battles, her story inspired many works of art and literature. She is a national heroine in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, all formerly parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Boko Haram
Boko Haram is a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The name of the group means "Western" or "non-Islamic" education is a sin. The group is centred in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. It wants to make Islamic law the only law in Nigeria. It also wants to outlaw education that is not based on Islam. The group sees itself as similar to the Taliban, which are active in Afghanistan. Locally, the group is known as the "Taliban". The official name of the group is Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad." They also call themselves 'Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
The group was formed in Maiduguri, Borno State, in 2002. Its insurgency began in 2009. They follow an extreme version of Sunni Islam. Local residents of the area soon called the group Boko Haram. Loosely translated from the local Hausa language, this means Western education is forbidden. Residents gave it the name because of its strong opposition to Western education, which it sees as corrupting Muslims. The term "Boko Haram" comes from the Hausa word 'boko' meaning "Animist, western or otherwise non-Islamic education" and the Arabic word 'haram' figuratively meaning "sin" (literally, "forbidden").
Gianni Rivera
Giovanni "Gianni" Rivera (born 18 August 1943) is an Italian politician and former footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career as a footballer he was mostly used as an attacking midfielder.
Frankie Fredericks
Frank Frankie Fredericks (born 2 October, 1967) is a Namibian runner.
Gianni Rivera
Honours
AC Milan
Frankie Fredericks
Biography
Fredericks was born in Windhoek. He went to college at Brigham Young University in the United States.
Bilal Hassani
Bilal Hassani (born 9 September 1999) is a French singer and YouTuber. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 by singing "Roi". She scored 200 points in the final of Destination Eurovision. At the Eurovision final, Hassani finished in 16th place, with 105 points.
Frankie Fredericks
Biography
Fredericks won silver medals in the 100m and 200m in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. He won gold medals at the World Championships and World Indoor Championships. He used to be the 200m world record holder, and is still the 200m indoor record holder. He finished 4th at the 2004 Olympics, even though he was 36 years old.
Boko Haram
Boko Haram opposes not only Western education, but Western culture and science as well. The group also forbids the wearing of shirts and trousers and the act of voting in elections. In its view, the Nigerian state is run by non-believers.
Gianni Rivera
Honours
Italy
Boko Haram
In a 2009 BBC interview, Mohammed Yusuf, the group's leader at the time, said he rejects the fact that the earth is a sphere and views it as contrary to Islam, along with Darwinism and the fact that rain comes from water evaporated by the sun.
Gianni Rivera
Honours
Individual
Boko Haram
Boko Haram often carry out bombings, kidnappings and shootings, as well as arson and looting. They have killed thousands of people in Africa, attacking civilian and military targets. There are many terrorist activities for which Boko Haram have claimed responsibility:
Boko Haram is not associated with the group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta which fights against the oil industry in the Niger Delta, since 2006.
On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenagers from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno. Boko Haram killed at least 100 people in Baga, Borno, in January 2015. About 620 buildings were damaged or destroyed by fire.
In the mid-2010s, Boko Haram extended its activities into Cameroon, Chad and Niger. It became part of Islamic State in March 2015.
Cheap (ward)
Cheap (meaning market ) is a small ward of the City of London.
Nero (1909 movie)
Nero (Nerone, o la caduta di Roma) is a 1909 Italian silent movie. It stars Alberto Capozzi, Lydia De Roberti, and Mirra Principi. The movie is about the Roman emperor Nero.
You Suffer
"You Suffer" is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. It is from their first album, Scum. The Guinness Book of Records has mentioned the song as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long.
Pakistan's Message
Pakistan's Message is a religious ruling requested by the Government of Pakistan to defeat terrorism. It was prepared by International Islamic University and signed by 1,800 scholars.
You Suffer
The song was written by band members Nicholas Bullen and Justin Broadrick. This was during the sessions for the From Enslavement to Obliteration demo recording in March 1986. The song is featured on the album Scum, released in 1987.
According to Broadrick, "You Suffer" was meant as a joke. He called it "retarded", "ridiculous" but "hilarious". He added that they played the song "in front of 30 local kids, like, every weekend." for about thirty times.
Nic Bullen said that the short length of the song was inspired by Wehrmacht's 1985 song "E!"
Zak Smith quotes the lyrics to the song, which he describes as the "shortest punk song on the subject of suffering (or any subject)" at the conclusion of his memoir We Did Porn.
Video
A music video produced by Earache records was released for the song in March 2007. This was on the same day that the Scum dualdisc was released.
Robert E. Simanek
Robert Ernest Simanek (April 26, 1930 – August 1, 2022) was a United States Marine. He was a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War.
The Medal of Honor was presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a White House ceremony on October 27, 1953. He was the 36th Marine to receive the medal in the Korean War.
In addition to the Medal of Honor, he was also awarded the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal with two bronze service stars, the United Nations Service Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal.
Simanek died on August 1, 2022 in Novi, Michigan at the age of 92.
Yuki Kobayashi
Yuki Kobayashi (小林 祐希) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Kobayashi was born in Higashimurayama on April 24, 1992. He joined J2 League club Tokyo Verdy from their youth team in 2010. He played many matches from 2011. In July 2012, he moved to J1 League club Júbilo Iwata. He did not play many matches and Iwata was relegated to J2 end of the 2013 season. He played many matches from 2014 and Iwata was promoted to J1 end of the 2015 season. In August 2016, he moved to Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen. He played for the club in 3 seasons. In September 2019, he signed with Belgian First Division A club Waasland-Beveren. In September 2020, he moved to Qatar Stars League club Al-Khor.
On June 7, 2016, Kobayashi debuted for the Japan national team against Bosnia and Herzegovina. He played 8 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 2019.
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Pontypridd
Pontypridd is a town in southern Wales. It is about ten miles south of Wales' capital city, Cardiff. Its name comes from the Welsh "Pont-y-ty-pridd” which means 'bridge by the earthen house'.
Myomorpha
Suborder Myomorpha has 1,137 species of mouse-like rodents, almost a quarter of all mammals. mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, lemmings and voles are in the group. They are grouped according to how the jaw looks like and how the molar teeth look like. They are very good at biting and chewing. Myomorphs are found all around the world, except Antarctica, in almost all land places. They are usually animals who are more active at night and they are seed-eaters.
Most myomorph species belong to superfamily Muroidea:
Togo mouse
The Togo mouse (or Büttner's African forest mouse or the Groove-toothed forest mouse, Leimacomys buettneri) is a unique muroid rodent. It is known from only two specimens, which were taken near the locality of Bismarckburg, near Yege, Togo in 1890.
Description and natural history
The entirety of known material for this species consists of a single poor quality dry skin, a fluid preserved animal, and a cranium and mandible. The cranium and mandible are from different animals. The material is deposited in the Zoologisches Museum of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
The War of the Worlds: Next Century (Wojna światów – następne stulecie) is a 1981 Polish science fiction drama movie directed by Piotr Szulkin and was inspired by the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It stars Roman Wilhelmi, Mariusz Dmochowski, Krystyna Janda.
Togo mouse
Classification
Leimacomys has been transferred back and forth between the Dendromurinae and the Murinae since its discovery. It most closely resembles Lophuromys which has been transferred to a newly erected Deomyinae on the basis of molecular data. The association with Lophuromys is thought to be due to convergent evolution due to a similar diet (Dieterlen, 1976). Tooth characters resemble dendromurines, Mystromys or basal gerbils. Denys et al. (1995) generated a phylogeny that suggested with limited support that Leimacomys is a sister taxon to the Gerbillinae.
Musser and Carleton (2005) chose to erect a new subfamily, Leimacomyinae, to house this species. They placed it in the family Muridae due to its potential connection to either the Gerbillinae or Deomyinae, but emphasized that a broad phylogenetic study including Leimacomys, and a host of nesomyids and murids is needed to determine its appropriate position.
Conservation status
The Togo Mouse is considered to be either critically endangered or extinct depending on the authority. Schlitter (1989) classified it as extinct, because subsequent surveys to the area failed to recover it. Grubb et al. (1998) noted that these surveys inadequately sampled appropriate habitat in Togo and neighboring Ghana, and they were reluctant to declare the species extinct. Musser and Carleton (2005) emphasized that insectivorous muroids as a group have proven difficult to capture, and that intense surveys of high elevation forest in this region are required to determine if it still persists.
The IUCN currently describes the Togo Mouse as "data deficient".
Adam Musiał
Adam Musiał (18 December 1948 – 18 November 2020) was a Polish football player and later became a football manager. He played for clubs such as Wisła Kraków, Arka Gdynia, Hereford United (England) and Eagles Yonkers New York (USA).
Musiał died on 18 November 2020 in Kraków, Poland at the age of 71.
Kapellmeister
Kapellmeister, (pronounce: Ka-PEL-my-ster), is a German word which means a musician who is in charge of music-making. The word comes from the Latin word for "chapel". In German "Kapelle" got the meaning: "choir" (because they sang in a chapel). "Meister" means "master".
The French word is maître de la chapelle. In Italian he is Maestro di Capella. In English he might be called Chapel Master or, more generally, Director of Music.
The Kapellmeister's job
The word Kapellmeister is used to describe musicians in Germany who worked for a king, prince or rich nobleman. Until about 200 years ago, these people often had their own private orchestras. The Kapellmeister was like a Director of Music. He would be responsible for choosing any new musicians, rehearsing and conducting the orchestra, and composing any music that was needed.
Many famous composers had jobs as Kapellmeister. Johann Sebastian Bach worked from 1717 to 1723 as Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. George Frideric Handel was Kapellmeister for George, Elector of Hanover, who later became George I of Great Britain. Joseph Haydn worked for many years as Kapellmeister for the Eszterházy family, a very important noble family of the Austrian Empire.
A Kapellmeister could also be the Director of Music for a church. Sometimes, this would be called "Kantor" in Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach was called "Kantor" when he was Director of Music at the church of St Thomas in Leipzig from 1723-1750.
By the 19th century, society in Europe had changed. The nobility were not as rich as they had been before, and many composers started to make a living as a freelance composer. Beethoven, for example, never became a Kapellmeister.
Sometimes, the word "Kapellmeister" is used in German today to mean the Director or conductor of an orchestra or choir. The title shows that they have to organize the orchestra or choir as well as conduct it.
Hingchabi
A Hingchabi (ꯍꯤꯡꯆꯥꯕꯤ, ꯍꯤꯡꯆꯥꯄꯤ ) is a mythical creature in Meitei mythology, folklore and religion (Sanamahism) of Antique Kangleipak (Ancient Manipur). She has characters similar to those of the vampires as well as the witches. The terms, "hing" means "raw" and "chaa" means "to eat" in Meitei language (Manipuri language).
Mahmood (singer)
Alessandro Mahmoud (born 12 September 1992), better known by his stage name Mahmood, is an Italian singer-songwriter. Mahmood first came to prominence after competing in season six of the Italian version of The X Factor. In 2019, he won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Soldi", and will represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. He had earned a spot at the Sanremo Music Festival by winning the second night of the standalone Sanremo Giovani 2018 competition on 21 December 2018 with the song Gioventù bruciata. He won the Sanremo Music Festival 2022 once again, alongside Blanco with the song "Brividi", and will represent Italy again in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin.
Northwest Florida Regional Airport
Northwest Florida Regional Airport (airport code KVPS) serves the city of Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
The following Airlines serve Northwest Florida Regional Airport:
Facilities and aircraft
Northwest Florida Regional Airport and Eglin Air Force Base share two runways: 12/30 with a 12,005 x 300 ft (3,659 x 91 m) asphalt/concrete surface and 1/19 with a 10,012 x 300 ft (3,052 x 91 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2006, the airport had 126,060 aircraft operations, an average of 345 per day: 71% military, 19% scheduled commercial, 8% general aviation and 2% air taxi.
The airport has a 110,000 sq. ft. airport passenger terminal building. It has three second-level gates with passenger jet ways and three ground-level commuter gates with regional jet boarding bridges
Nursing a Viper
Nursing a Viper is a 1909 American silent movie directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, and Frank Powell.
Charles Kettles
Charles S. Kettles (January 9, 1930 – January 21, 2019) was a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was a Medal of Honor recipient for his services in the United States Army. Kettles received the Medal of Honor on July 18, 2016, nearly 50 years after his actions while serving as a flight commander assigned to 176th Aviation Company (Airmobile) (Light), 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division.
Nagato Province
Nagato Province (長門国), often called Chōshū (長州), was an old province of Japan in the area of Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
Charles Kettles
Kettles died on January 21, 2019 in Ypsilanti, Michigan at the age of 89.
Nagato Province
The province had borders with Iwami and Suō Provinces.
The ancient capital city of the province was Shimonoseki.
History
The Japanese battleship Nagato was named after this province.
Shrines and Temples
Sumiyoshi jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Nagato.
Nagano (city)
Nagano (長野市) is a city in Japan. It is the capital of Nagano Prefecture (長野県). Nagano has been recognized as a core city since 1999.
As of October 1, 2007, 2,182,190 people lived in Nagano.
History
In 1998, the Olympic Games were held in Nagano.
Gentile
A Gentile is a person who is not Jewish. It is polite to use this word when needed to describe a person who is not Jewish, as in "my friend Robert is a Gentile." Up until about a hundred years ago, it was very hard (and unlikely) for Jews and Gentiles to be close friends. This is because they would be expected to ask each other over for dinner, but Jews follow strict laws about what they can and cannot eat. They can only eat what is kosher.
Mokhtar Hashim
Mokhtar Hashim (1 May 1942 – 17 November 2020) was a Malaysian politician. He was the Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1983 and the Minister of Youth and Sports from 1981 to 1983.
Hashim died on 17 November 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the age of 78.
Onager
The Onager (Equus hemionus) is a large mammal belonging to the Equidae family. It is native to the deserts of Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir, Israel and Palestine, and western China. It is sometimes known as the Asian Wild Ass.
Firsat Sofi
Firsat Sofi Ali (فرسەت سۆفی عه‌لى, 21 May 1978 – 18 November 2020) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He was born in Gazna village in Choman District. Firsat was the Erbil governor from 2019 until his death.
Sofi died on 18 November 2020 in Ankara, Turkey from COVID-19 at the age of 42.
Darude
Ville Virtanen (born July 17, 1975), better known by his stage name Darude (/dəˈruːd/), is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Finland. He started making music in 1995 and released the platinum-selling hit single "Sandstorm" in late 1999. Darude represented Finland in Eurovision 2019.
Anne Plunkett
Plunkett was born in Armidale, New South Wales. She is married and has three children.
Shah Alam II
Shah Alam II, (25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806) was the eighteenth Mughal Emperor and the son of Alamgir II. He became the emperor of the Mughal Empire; his power was so depleted during his reign that it led to a saying in the Persian language, Sultanat-e-Shah Alam, Az Dilli ta Palam, meaning, 'The kingdom of Shah Alam is from Delhi to Palam', Palam being a suburb of Delhi.
Sledgehammer Games
Sledgehammer Games is an American video game developer. It was founded in 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, who worked at Visceral Games and have been an important of the Dead Space franchise development.
History
Sledgehammer Games began to work on a Call of Duty third-person shooter in 2009, which would have changed the series dramatically: they planned to turn it into an adventure game. But when Jason West and Vince Zampella, and many other employees from left Infinity Ward in spring 2010, Activision stopped the developement of that new game. Instead, they asked Sledgehammer Games to work with Infinity Ward to develop Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 together. Sledgehammer Games had spent six months working on the Call of Duty third-person shooter before they began working with Infinity Ward. In October 2011, Sledgehammer Games have said that they will likely cancel the third-person shooter development, but will maybe continue developing in the future.
Reception
Sledgehammer's first title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, sold 6.8 million copies in the US and UK alone and grossed $470 million within 24 hours. It grossed more than $775 million globally in the first 5 days. Modern Warfare 3 also topped the UK video game sales chart in the first seven days. By November 21, 2011, the game was the bestselling title in the United Kingdom, sales dropping by 87%. Modern Warfare 3 was still the top spot on the UK charts in the third and fourth week. The PS3 version of Modern Warfare 3 also topped the Japanese chart in its first week on sale. The PS3 version sold 180,372 copies, while the Xbox 360 version sold around 30,000.
Eumuroida
Eumuroida are a group of all muroid rodents, or the true muroids. It was made in 2004. The group is not in the standard taxonomic classification, but it is between superfamily and family. The Eumuroida is the clade including all organisms which evolved from the most recent ancestor of the Calomyscidae, Nesomyidae, Cricetidae, and Muridae.
Lobbying
Lobbying is the act of trying to persuade people or governments to make decisions or support something. Lobbying can be done by many sorts of people, alone or in groups. Often it is done by big businesses, political parties, social movements, or ethnic groups. It can also be done by politicians and by ordinary citizens. Lobbyists are people whose job it is to lobby for big businesses or political parties. The word lobbying comes from the lobby of the Palace of Westminster in London. The lobby is between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and there people would try to meet politicians as they came in and went out.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The UEFA 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament was held from 4 September 2016 and 14 November 2017 and was used to determine which European teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Robert Lewandowski was the top scorer, with 16 goals.
First round
The first round consisted of 9 groups made up of 6 teams each. The winners of each group directly qualified for the world cup, while the best runners-up moved on to the second round. The draw occurred on 25 July 2015 in Saint Petersburg.
Second round
The best runners-up from the first round qualified for the second round. The draw occurred on 17 October 2017 in Zurich. The teams who win these matches will finally qualify for the world cup.
Wilderness
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth which has not been much disturbed by humans.
Wilderness areas can be found in reserves, estates, farms, conservation areas, ranches, National Forests, National Parks and even in urban areas along rivers, gulches or any undeveloped areas. These areas are important for the survival of species, biodiversity, ecology, conservation, solitude, and recreation.
Wilderness is deeply valued for cultural, spiritual, moral, and aesthetic reasons. Some nature writers believe wilderness areas are vital for the human spirit and creativity.
They may also preserve historic genetic traits and that they provide habitat for wild flora and fauna that may be difficult to recreate in zoos, gardens or laboratories.
From this point of view, it is the wildness of a place that makes it a wilderness. The mere presence or activity of people does not disqualify an area from being "wilderness". Many ecosystems that are, or have been, inhabited or influenced by activities of people may still be considered "wild." This way of looking at wilderness includes areas within which natural processes operate without human interference.
Probably no place on earth is completely untouched by humanity, either due to past occupation by indigenous people, or through global processes such as climate change. Activities on the margins of specific wilderness areas, such as fire suppression and the interruption of animal migration, also affect the wilderness.
Especially in richer, industrialized nations, it has a specific legal meaning as well: as land where development is prohibited by law. Many nations have designated wilderness, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Chongtham
Chongtham is a Meitei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is a electronics company that makes semiconductors and other electronics, such as calculators. The company started in 1924 in Tulsa, Oklahoma as "Geophysical Research Corporation", a subsidiary of Amerada Petroleum. In 1930, they started a new independent company called Geophysical Service, Incorporated. It became a subsidiary of General Instruments in 1951. The same year the name was changed to Texas Instruments (TI). The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Today TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world after Intel and Samsung. It is the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm. TI is the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors. They also make a wide range of other semiconductor products.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (born 6 November 1940) is a German aviator, airline executive and religious leader. He is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)(from 2004 to 2008 and since 2018). He was Second Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the church's First Presidency from 2008 until Monson's death on 2 January 2018. He was born in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Pantropical spotted dolphin
The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is an oceanic dolphin. It is found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans. The species was beginning to come under threat due to the killing of millions of individuals in tuna purse seines (fishing). The 1980s saw the rise of "dolphin-friendly" tuna capture methods in order to save millions of the species in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Squire Fridell
Squire Fridell (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, best known for playing Ronald McDonald in the McDonald's commercials after King Moody's retirment.
Early life
Fridell was born in Oakland, California on February 9, 1943.
Ronald McDonald character
After King Moody's retirement in 1984, Fridell was hired to replace him as Ronald McDonald in McDonald's commercials. He did this until 1991 when he was replaced by Jack Deopke.
List of governors of Ohio
The Governor of the state of Ohio is the head of the executive branch of Ohio's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws; the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Ohio Legislature; the power to convene the legislature; and the power to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment.
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is an annual award. It is a Golden Globe Award. It is given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Chungkham
Chungkham is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Klymaxx
Klymaxx was an American all-female pop, R&B and funk band. They were from Los Angeles, California. Their first album was Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman in 1981. The following year, the band released the second album Girls Will Be Girls.
The band was formed in 1979 by Bernadette Cooper and five other women. Their first album to that was recognized nationally was their 1984 album Meeting in the Ladies Room. This album had several Top 5 hit songs on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. They were "I Miss You", "The Men all Pause" and the song "Meeting in the Ladies Room". "I Miss You" topped the U.S. ''Billboard Hot 100 chart at #5.
Anjem Choudary
Anjem Choudary (انجم چودهرى; born 1967) is a British former solicitor and Islam preacher. He was the leader and spokesman for the Islamist group Islam4UK until it was banned under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Choudary was born in Welling, London to Pakistani parents. He is married to Rubana Akhtar. As of 2006, the couple have three children.
Klymaxx
The group broke up in 1989. Some band members had their own albums. After the breakup there was a legal dispute involving band member Cheryl Cooley's use of the group's trademark and name.
Klymaxx got together again in 2003.
Con de Lange
Con de Wet de Lange (11 February 1981 – 18 April 2019) was a South African-born Scottish cricketer. He was a left-arm orthodox spin all-rounder and a right-handed batsman. He played for teams in South Africa before playing for Northamptonshire in England. Although he was born in Bellville, in what is now Western Cape, South Africa, he played for the Scotland national team. For a time, he was Scotland's vice-captain. In June 2015, he played his first game for Scotland against Afghanistan. He played his last game for Scotland in November 2017 against Papua New Guinea.
In October 2018, Cricket Scotland said publicly that de Lange had brain cancer. He died on 18 April 2019, at the age of 38.
Rabbi
Rabbi (in the Hebrew classic רִבִּי ribbi; in the Hebrew modern רַבִּי rabbi) in Judaism can mean "professor, master" or literally "grand". The word "Rabbi" ("My Master") derives from the Hebrew root "Rav", that in Biblical Hebrew signifies "grand" or "respected" (in knowledge).
In Judaism, most rabbis earn their title by studying halakha at a seminary or yeshiva. The primary role of a rabbi is to teach Torah. In addition, rabbis often act as the religious leader of a Jewish community. In contrast to many other religions, a rabbi is not required to be present at life cycle events in Judaism. Nevertheless, rabbis still normally preside over life cycle events in order to ensure that it is done according to Halakha.
"Rabbi" is sometimes used as a title of respect for members of a Jewish community.
Historically, only men were rabbis. Since the 1970s and 1980s, most Jewish communities began to accept women as rabbis. However, most Orthodox Jewish communities do not accept this change.
Three rabbis together can form a rabbinic court, or beit din. This is done when there is a legal conflict between two Jews. They judge the conflict based on halakha. A beit din is also formed for somebody who wants to convert to Judaism.
Rabbis are also sometimes asked to supervise food preparation to make sure it is kosher. When packaged food is supervised, the packaging is often labeled with a hechsher. A hechsher is a symbol which means that the content of the package is kosher.
Suō Province
Suō Province (周防国) was an old province of Japan in the area of Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called Bōshū (防州).
The province had borders with Aki, Iwami, and Nagato Provinces.
The ancient capital city of the province was Hōfu.
History
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Suō Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Shrines and Temples
Tamanoya jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Suō.
Governor of New York
The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is known as His/Her Excellency while in office.
Anastasios of Albania
Archbishop Anastasi of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania (secular name: Anastasios Yannoulatos (Αναστάσιος Γιαννουλάτος, Anastas Janullatos); born 4 November 1929) is the Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania. He is the Head of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. He was elected in June 1992.
Joseph Kobzon
He went to Donetsk People's Re­public and said words in support of its separatists. He got Honorary Consul of ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ in the Russian Federation. He voted "yes" to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on March 20, 2014. He was put in the EU blacklist for that on February 16, 2015.
Kobzon died on 30 August 2018 in Moscow from prostate cancer at the age of 80.
Île d'Oléron
Île d'Oléron is an island and canton in the Atlantic coast of France (to the west of Rochefort). It is the second largest island of Metropolitan France, after Corsica. The capital, and largest town, is Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron; it is in the centre of the island. Since 1966, there is a bridge that connects the island with mainland.
Geography
The Île d'Oléron is on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.
The island is 34 km long and 15 km wide; it has an area of 175 km2. It is a very flat island and its highest point, the Grande dune de Saint-Trojan dune in the southern part of the island, is only 34 m high.
The southern point of the island is Pointe de Gatseau, the northern one is Pointe de Chassiron and the eastern one is Pointe des Saumonards. Near this last point is the Fort Boyard, a fortification in the Pertuis d'Antioche that is used for the French TV show of the same name.
Climate
The climate in Saint-Denis-d'Oléron is an oceanic climate with template summers, Cfb (Marine West Coast Climate) in the Köppen climate classification.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Saint-Denis-d'Oléron is 777.2 mm. The month with the most precipitation on average is December with 88.9 mm of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is August with an average of 40.6 mm.
The average temperature for the year in Saint-Denis-d'Oléron is 13.5 °C. The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of 20.0 °C. The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 7.3 °C.
Administration
Administratively, the island belongs to the Charente-Maritime department, arrondissement of Rochefort, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
The island was divided in two cantons: Canton du Château-d'Oléron and Canton de Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, with 4 communes each. In 27 February 2014, the number of cantons was reduced and the two cantons of the island were combined to form only one: the Canton de l'Île d'Oléron, divided in 8 communes.
Aeronautical operations technician
The degree of Technicien aéronautique d'exploitation (TAE, in English aeronautical operations Technician) was created in 2011. It is recognized by CNCP, and recorded level IV in the nomenclature des niveaux de formation (levels of training). The training is organized by the French Civil Aviation University.
Île d'Oléron
Population
The inhabitants of Île d'Oléron are known, in French, as Oléronais (women: Oléronaises).
Aeronautical operations technician
History
The TAE course started in 1962. It was originally named « Agent d'Exploitation » (Handling Agent / Flight Dispatcher). The new name was introduced in November 2010.
Île d'Oléron
Population
Île d'Oléron has a population, in 2014, of 22,032, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Aeronautical operations technician
Training
The training is in seven months in Toulouse or, since September 2012, on the Aerocampus » of Latresne. The curriculum propose, in substantially equal parts, general lessons of aeronautics and practical lessons : air navigation, telecommunications and aeronautical information, aircraft flight mechanics, navigation, avionics, meteorology, air operations, air law, English, ....
Occupations
The Technicien aéronautique d'exploitation is responsible for the flight preparation and flight planning, passengers, freight management and pricing. he works for an airline or an airport.
Île d'Oléron
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Ray (wrestler)
Ray (February 14, 1982 – August 30, 2018) was a Hong Kong professional wrestler. Ray made her professional wrestling debut in September 2003 and would for the next several years wrestle under different masks, before she began working for Smash in March 2010. She remained with Smash until the promotion folded in March 2012.
During her career, Ray held the CMLL-Reina International Junior, International Ribbon Tag Team and WNC Women's Championships, among other titles.
After being diagnosed with brain cancer in December 2015, she died on August 30, 2018 at the age of 36.
Vinicius and Tom
Vinicius is the mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Tom is the mascot of the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The mascots represent Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vinicius represents Brazilian animals, and his body has parts of cats, monkeys, and birds. Tom represents Brazilian plant life.
A Brazilian company called Birdo made the mascots. The Olympic organizers only wanted mascots made by Brazilian companies. The organizers chose Birdo's mascots in August 2013, and they showed them to the public on 23 November 2014, but the mascots did not have names yet at that time. The organizers asked the public to choose names for them. The public chose to name the mascots after Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim. Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim wrote the song "The Girl from Ipanema".
The Olympic organizers made a children's television series about the mascots. The Rio organizers also made many toys and other merchandise of the mascots. The organizers gave wrestling coaches soft dolls of Vinicius. If the coaches did not like a referee's call, then they would throw the doll into the ring. Many people thought that this was funny. Paralympic medalists got special dolls of Tom. They were special because the leaves on Tom's head were the same color as their medals. Some observers liked how the mascots looked. Others thought they looked strange.
Creation
The organizers of the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio 2016) started to ask for mascot designs in November 2012. The events were going to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so the Olympic organizers only wanted designs from Brazilian companies. Directors from the Brazilian film festival Anima Mundi helped the Rio 2016 organizers choose the mascots.