cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War. It is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its armed forces. The recipient must have distinguished themselves at the risk of their own life above and beyond the call of duty in action against an enemy of the United States. Due to the nature of this medal it is commonly presented after the recipient has been killed (posthumously).
Chen Ling
Chen Ling is an archer from China. She was born on on 16 June 1987 in Danyang. Ling competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Great Wall of Qi
The Great Wall of Qi is the oldest part of the Great Wall in China that is still standing. It started being built in 441 BC (during the Spring and Autumn period) by the state of Qi. It was made to defend itself against attacks from the states of Jin and Yue. It was done being built during the Warring States period and became Qi's defense against enemies states like Ju, Lu, and Chu. The wall goes from Guangli village of today's Changqing District, Jinan.
Denisse van Lamoen
Denisse Astrid van Lamoen is an archer from Chile. Lamoen was born on 12 September 1979 in Arica. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Giant virus
A giant virus is a very large virus. They are sometimes called a girus. Some of them are larger than typical bacteria. All known giant viruses belong to the phylum Nucleocytoviricota.
The genomes of many giant viruses code for unusual genes which are not found in other viruses. These include genes involved in glycolysis and the TCA cycle, fermentation, and the cytoskeleton.
The first giant viruses to be described were discovered in 1981.
Note, in the illustration from an electron microscope, the virus is surrounded by a thick (~100 nm) layer of filamentous protein fibres.
Origin
There are two main hypotheses. Either they evolved from small viruses by picking up DNA from host organisms; or they evolved from very complicated organisms by genome reduction.
Prambanan
Prambanan (Candi Prambanan) is an 8th-century Hindu temple compound in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, dedicated to three Hindu Gods: the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu) and the Destroyer (Shiva) known as Trimurti. The Prambanan temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia after Angkor Wat. Main characteric of its Hindu architecture is tall and pointed architecture and towering with 47 m height in the central building (Shiva temple). These temple compounds originally consists of 240 temple structures (including 224 ruined Pervara temples), and represents the magnificent ancient Java's Hindu architecture and structure. Together with Buddhist Borobudur temple which were built at the same era and are physically located very close one to another, it is considered as a masterpiece and symbol of peace and religious harmony in Indonesia. Prambanan attracts many domestic visitors and also from around the world.
The Firm (2012 TV series)
On February 3, 2012, NBC and Global announced that the series would be pulled from its Thursday 10/9c slot immediately, and placed on Saturdays at 9/8c starting on February 18.
Ribeira Square
The Ribeira Square (Praça da Ribeira) is a historical square in Porto, Portugal. It is in the historical centre of the city and is designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The square is located in the historical district of Ribeira, part of the São Nicolau parish. The Ribeira district spreads alongside the Douro river. During the Middle Ages, Ribeira Square was the site of many shops that sold fish, bread, meat and other goods.
Cao Hui
Cao Hui is an archer from China. She was born on 7 September 1991 in Benxi. Hui competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
2011–12 United States network television schedule
The following is the 2011–12 United States network television schedule.
ABC
Returning series
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CBS
Returning series
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Not returning from 2010–11:
The CW
New series
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Fox
Returning series
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NBC
Returning series
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Ba Yongshan
Ba Yongshan is an archer from China. He was born on 6 August 1961. Yongshan competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Gutian people
The Guti or Quti, also known by the derived Gutians or Guteans, were a nomadic people of West Asia, around the Zagros Mountains (Modern Iran) during ancient times.
History
Their homeland was known as Gutium (Sumerian: ,Gu-tu-umki or ,Gu-ti-umki). There has been little scholarly support for theories linking the Turkic names Kutrigur and Utigur to the Gutians. Widely believed to have spoken an Indo-European (rather than Turkic) language. Iranologist W. B. Henning proposed that the Yuezhi were descended from the Guti (Gutians) and a closely associated but little known tribe referred to as the Tukri (Turki), who were native to the Zagros mountains during the mid-3rd millennium BC. Analysing the grammatical structure of the Gutian language, German Assyriologists Benno Landsberger, however, came to the conclusion that the Gutians not only were closely related to Turkic peoples, but most probably even identical.
SS Potrero del Llano
The SS Potrero del Llano was a Mexican oil tanker built in 1912, it served under the administration of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex for its acronym), it would be torpedoed by a U-boot off the coast of Florida, and it would also be one of several oil tankers sunk which would push the entry of Mexico into the Second World War on the Allied side.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work by Robert Chambers. It was published anonymously in England. The book openly discussed the transmutation of species in an attractive way.
Cheng Ming
Cheng Ming is an archer from China. She was born on 11 February 1986. Ming competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges became an international bestseller. Its theme contradicted the natural theology fashionable at the time. Its ideas were reviled by clergymen. The ideas in the book were popular with a wider public. Prince Albert read it aloud to Queen Victoria in 1845. Vestiges caused a shift in popular opinion which – Charles Darwin believed – prepared the public mind for the scientific theories of evolution by natural selection as in his On the Origin of Species in 1859.
For decades there was speculation about the authorship of Vestiges. The 12th edition of 1884, revealed that the author was Robert Chambers, a Scottish journalist. He had written the book in St Andrews between 1841 and 1844 while recovering from illness. Initially, Chambers had proposed the title The Natural History of Creation, but he was persuaded to revise the title in deference to the Scottish geologist James Hutton. Hutton had remarked of the timeless aspect of geology: "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end".
Publication
The book was published in October 1844 by John Churchill in London. The secret of the authorship was kept from from Churchill.
SS Potrero del Llano
Historial and Sinking
The Potrero del Llano would be built in England and had previously served a Belgian company based in Antwerp SA d'Armement, d'Industrie & de Commerce, from 1921 to 1930 when it had been sold to the Società Italiana Transporti Petroliferi of Genoa and would be renamed Lucifero. She would be decommissioned by the Mexican Government in 1940 and she would be renamed Potrero del Llano (name of a locality in Veracruz) and registered at the Port of Tampico.
The German submarine U-564, which was circling the Florida coast under the command of Captain Reinhard Suhren, at 7:17 a.m. on May 14, 1942, the Potrero del Llano with a load of 6,132 tons of petroleum, at first he thought it was an Italian flag ship, but realizing that it had the Eagle of the Mexican Shield, he decided to sink it, which would happen killing 13 crew members, only 22 survived and would be rescued by a US coastal ship that would take them to Miami, among the survivors was José Reyes Sousa, survivor of the SS Las Choapas, which would be sunk by the U-129, one month later.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Difficulties appreciated
"In other words, the fact of extinction — which can be observed in the fossil layers — suggests that some designs were flawed... Some other idea must then come with regard to the mode in which the Divine Author proceeded in the organic creation. (p153)
"...how can we suppose that the august Being who brought all these countless worlds into form by the simple establishment of a natural principle flowing from his mind, was to interfere personally and specially on every occasion when a new shell-fish or reptile was to be ushered into existence on one of these worlds? Surely this idea is too ridiculous to be for a moment entertained". (p154)
The general scandal caused by Vestiges meant Darwin was reluctant to publish his own ideas until he had well researched answers to all possible objections.
Dai Xiaoxiang
Dai Xiaoxiang is an archer from China. He was born on 15 December 1990 in Xiamen. Xiaoxiang competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Reaction
The first edition of 1,750 copies sold out in a few days. The book was translated into five languages, and many editions were published in the U.S.A.
Chambers followed the book with another, this time dealing with all the questions raised by the first book: Chambers, Robert 1845. Explanations: a sequel to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. London: John Churchill.
Dieter Schatzschneider
Dieter Schatzschneider (born 26 April 1958) is a German former footballer who holds the record for the highest number of 2. Bundesliga goals (154). He is well-known mostly for being associated with Hannover 96, for whom he is also their record goalscorer.
He played in the 1984 Olympics for the West Germany football team.
Since retiring from playing, he has coached as numerous clubs including Emden, Sportfreunde Ricklingen, Arminia Hannover and SVG Göttingen 07. He is currently a Scout for Hannover 96
Austria (European Parliament constituency)
Austria (Österreich) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Austria. It was created in 1996.
Duoji Qiuyun
Duoji Qiuyun is an archer from China. He was born on 15 December 1962. Qiuyun competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Monke
Monke may refer to:
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger is a Japanese television series. It is the 39th in Toei's Super Sentai series. Super Hero Time joined Kamen Rider Drive and then Kamen Rider Ghost.
Bichir
Bichirs and the reedfish comprise a freshwater fish family, the Polypteridae, of ancient ray-finned fishes. They are the only family in the order Polypteriformes. All occur in freshwater habitats in tropical Africa and the Nile River system, mainly swampy, shallow floodplains and estuaries.
A closely related group, the Scanilepiformes, are known from the Triassic, and are ancestral to them. The oldest polypterids are around 100 million years old, from the early Late Cretaceous of South America and Africa. They are living fossils.
Anatomy
Polypterids are elongated, dragon-like freshwater fish with a series of dorsal finlets instead of a single dorsal fin. They have have a maximum body length ranging from 25 cm (9.8 in) to over 100 cm (39 in) depending on specific species and morphology.
Government of Portugal
The Government of Portugal is one of the four sovereignty bodies of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts. The government is responsible for the general politics of the country and is the superior body of the Portuguese public administration.
Bichir
Bawitius
Main article: Bawitius The scales were different, apart from size, from those of modern bichirs: they feature a discontinuous ganoine layer, a rectilinear shape, and small articular processes.
Serenoichthys
Main article: Serenoichthys
Serenoichthys was a small polypterid. In comparison, the giant polypterid Bawitius could reach up to 300 cm (9.8 ft). It resembled a carp instead of the bichir.
In the aquarium
Polypterids are popular subjects of public and large hobby aquaria, but tend to stay on the ground. Though predatory, they are actually peaceful. They are sometimes called dragon bichir or dragon fin in pet shops for a more appealing name due to their dragon-like appearance. They are also called dinosaur fish due to their resemblance to dinosaurs.
Jimmy Hartwig
William "Jimmy" Hartwig (born 5 October 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played for Kickers Offenbach, TSV 1860 Munich, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Köln and FC Homburg of the Bundesliga and for Austria Salzburg of Austria. The son of an African-American soldier and a German mother, Hartwig was one of the first black players in German and Austrian football.
Bulgaria (European Parliament constituency)
Bulgaria (България) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Bulgaria. It was created in 2007.
Jimmy Hartwig
Hartwig won the European Cup in 1983 with Hamburger SV, and was three times German league champion in 1979, 1982 und 1983 and three times league runner-up with Hamburger SV. He also earned two caps for the West Germany national team, making him only the second non-white player (after Erwin Kostedde) to achieve this feat.
After his playing career, Hartwig worked as a coach at FC Augsburg in 1989 and FC Sachsen Leipzig in 1990. He entered the TV business, where he has been working ever since, whilst also appearing in the theatre as an actor.
São Nicolau (Porto)
São Nicolau was a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória. The population in 2011 was 1,906, in an area of 0.25 km².
Bokmål
Bokmål is one of two official written forms of Norwegian; the other is Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85-90% of the population in Norway and the usual way to teach to foreign students.
Bokmål is regulated by the government's Norwegian Language Council. A more conservative orthographic standard is called Riksmål, which is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.
Oostmalle Airfield
Oostmalle Airfield is an airport in the Antwerp province of the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is east of the town of Zoersel, south of the town of Oostmalle, and west of the town of Wechelderzande, in the municipality of Malle.
John Monke
Monke was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham in 1689 and stood until 1690.
Monke died in November 1701.
Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony (pronounced ; born 1961) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader. He is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). While he had a lot of support from the public, the LRA turned against its supporters. They said that they did this to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy ruled by the Ten Commandments.
The LRA is known for the very bad things it does to civilians. Two of these things are murder and rape.
The LRA has become known for what it does against the people of several countries. Some of these countries are northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Sudan. It has stolen and forced about 66,000 children to fight for them.
In 2005, Kony was accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. He has not yet been captured.
Early life
Kony was born in 1961 in Odek. Odek is a village which is east of Gulu in northern Uganda. He is a member of the Acholi people. His father was called Luizi Obol. He was a farmer. His mother was called Nora. Kony had a good relationship with his siblings, but if they had arguments, he would quickly fight back. Also, when challenged he would often use physical violence. Kony was an altar boy for several years. However, he stopped going to church around the age of 15 and also dropped out of school.
As a teenager, Kony was being trained to be the village witch doctor by Jamie Brow, his older brother. When Jamie died, Kony took over the position.
War crime accusation
On October 6, 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that the arrest warrants had been given for five members of the Lord's Resistance Army. These were for crimes against humanity. On the next day Ugandan defence minister Amama Mbabazi said that the warrants include Kony, his deputy Vincent Otti, and LRA commanders Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odiambo, and Dominic Ongwen. The Ugandan military says that the Ugandan army killed Lukwiya on August 12, 2006. The BBC heard that Otti had been killed on October 2, 2007, at Kony's home. In November 2022, Al Jazera reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) was trying to reopen their court case against Kony.
Dmitry Bortniansky
Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (Дмитрий Степанович Бортнянский; Дмитро Степанович Бортнянський; 28 October 1751 in Glukhov – 10 October 1825 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian and Ukrainian composer and musician. He was an important composer of Orthodox church music.
Early life
Bortniansky was born in Glukhov, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). He studied music and sang in the local church. People noticed that he had a beautiful voice. So, he was chosen to become a singer in the imperial chapel choir in St. Petersburg. He was able to study music and composition in St. Petersburg. He studied music with Baldassare Galuppi. Galuppi returned to Venice in 1768. Galuppi asked Empress Catherine to send Bortniansky to Italy. Catherine accepted this request. She sent Bortniansky to Venice.
In Venice, Bortniansky continued his training with Galuppi. In 1776, his first opera, Creonte was performed in Venice. However, it was not a success. So, he wrote two more operas, Alcide and Quinto Fabio in 1778. These were successful. In Italy, he also wrote music for Catholic liturgy. This includes an Ave Maria.
Career
Bortniansky returned to St. Petersburg in 1779. He became a composer in the imperial court chapel. In 1783, he became the Kapellmeister for Prince Paul. In 1796 Prince Paul became Emperor of Russia. He made Bortniansky the director of the Imperial Chapel.
The imperial court chapel was in a bad condition. The singers were not talented. They were not disciplined. Bortniansky worked to improve the chapel. He improved the living conditions of singers. He increased the singer's salaries. He made sure that the singers received proper education. He introduced choral music from Western European composers. This includes Mozart, Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven.
In 1816, the imperial court chapel received a monopoly for all church music. This means that Bortniansky had full control of the church music in the Russian Empire. He gets to say if a piece of church music can be published or not. However, Bortniansky never published any of his own compositions.
Bortniansky died in St Petersburg on October 10, 1825. It is said that he invited the court chapel to his house before he died. He wanted to hear his favorite choral concerto, Vskuyu Priskorbna Yesi, Dusha Moya? (English: "Why are you mournful, O my soul?" ). He died after the choir finished singing.
Music
Bortniansky's greatest contribution was his church music. He was an important composer of the choral concerto. He was not allowed to use musical instruments in his church music. This is because the Orthodox Church does not allow musical instruments in their church.
Bortniansky wrote over 100 religious pieces. Tchaikovsky edited his works after he died. Tchaikovsky later regretted his decision. He did not think that Bortniansky's music was good. He thought that Bortniansky's music did not fit Russian Orthodox liturgy. On the other hand, Hector Berlioz praised Bortniansky's music.
Repunit
A repunit is a number like 11, 111, or 1111. It only has the digit 1 in it. It is a more specific type of repdigit. The term stands for repeated unit and was coined in 1966 by Albert H. Beiler in his book Recreations in the Theory of Numbers.
A repunit prime is a repunit that is also a prime number. Primes that are repunits in base-2 are Mersenne primes.
Definition
The base-b repunits can be written as this where b is the base and n is the number that you are checking in whether or not it is a repunit:
This means that the number Rn(b) is made of of of n copies of the digit 1 in base-b representation. The first two repunits base-b for n = 1 and n = 2 are
Painkiller (Judas Priest song)
"Painkiller" is a 1990 song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest and is the title track to their 12th studio album Painkiller. It went to number 74 in the United Kingdom and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1991. It was covered by death metal band Death.
Repunit
Definition
The first of repunits in base-10 are with
Base-2 repunits are also Mersenne numbers Mn = 2n − 1. They start with
Factorization of decimal repunits
Prime factors that are are "new factors" that haven't been mentioned before. Basically, the prime factor divides Rn but does not divide Rk for all k < n.
The smallest prime factors of Rn for n > 1 are
Nyctimantis rugiceps
The brown-eyed tree frog (Nyctimantis rugiceps) is a frog that lives in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Scientists think it might live in Brazil too. Scientists have seen it between 200 and 1200 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 55.3 to 67.6 mm long from nose to rear end. The adult female frog is 59.7 to 63.0 mm long. The frog's skin is brown in color. It is dark brown on the sides and toes and light brown on the back. It has one to three large orange spots by its middle. It has a wide head, big black eyes, and large disks on its toes for climbing. It lives in primary forest and secondary forest in the Amazon lowlands.
The male frog finds a hole in a tree trunk with a pool of water in it 10 to 40 cm deep. The holes are sometimes as close to the ground as 2 meters, but there are more of them more than 10 meters above the ground. If something frightens the male frog, it will hide in the water. The female frog comes to the tree trunk and lays her eggs in the water. The male frog sings all year, and he may stay near the same place for a long time.
The female frog lays her eggs in the hole and the male frog fertilizes them. The female comes back to the hole to lay unfertilized eggs, which the tadpoles eat.
Run to the Water
"Run to the Water" is a 2000 song by American alternative rock band Live and is the second single from their fourth studio album The Distance to Here. It went to the top 50 in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Australia and Finland and went to number 1 in Iceland.
Track listings
European CD single
European maxi-CD single
Australian CD single
Sirajul Islam
Sirajul Islam is Bangladeshi historian, writer, columnist, professor and academician. He is the chairman of the Board of Editors of Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh.
Hason Raja
Dewan Hason Raja Chowdhury ( Simply known as Hason Raja ) was a Bengali mystic poet and songwriter from Sunamganj District, Greater Sylhet, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh).
Dewan Taimur Raja Chowdhury
Dewan Taimur Raja Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi politician and poet. He was the former member of parliament from Sylhet-7 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He is the grandson of Hason Raja.
Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson or Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter known for her military paintings.
Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on 3 November 1846. She went to school at the Female School of Art in London. Thompson visited Paris in 1870. She saw military pictures painted by the French painters Edouard Detaille and Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier.
Thompson painted large scenes from the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars. In 1874 Thompson showed her painting Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea at the Royal Academy. The painting was so popular that the police were placed at the painting to protect it from crowds. Queen Victoria bought the painting. The painting is now in the Royal Collection Trust.
In 1877 Thompson married Sir William Francis Butler (1838–1910). Her name became Lady Butler. She had five children.
Even though she was a very important military painter she was not allowed in the Royal Academy. She died on 2 October 1933 in Gormanston, Ireland.
Cyprus (European Parliament constituency)
Cyprus (Κύπρος, Kıbrıs) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Cyprus. It was created in 2004.
Snake Island (Ukraine)
Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island or Zmiinyi Island, is an island belonging to Ukraine located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta.
Evolution of fish
The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion. One of the earliest jawless fish include Haikouichthys, a craniate. The conodonts were another Agnatha. The earliest jawed vertebrates developed during the late Ordovician period.
Agnatha
The Agnatha (meaning "no jaws") is a superclass of fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata. Agnatha comes from the Greek. The first armoured agnathans were the ostracoderms, precursors to the bony fish and hence to the tetrapods.
Conodonts
The conodonts are an extinct group of agnathans that looked like eels. They appeared 520 ma and died 200 ma. One of them is Promissum.
Chondrichthyes
Main article: Chondrichthyes
The Chondrichthyes, consisting of sharks, rays and chimaeras, appeared by about 395 million years ago, in the middle Devonian.
Living fossils
Main article: Living fossil
Actinopterygii
Main article: Actinopterygii Actinopterygii is the class of ray-finned fish. Actinopterygians are the largest class of vertebrates.
Sarcopterygii
Main article: Sarcopterygii
Lobe-finned fishes, class Sarcopterygii, are mostly extinct bony fishes. They lived a very long time ago. Most of them died already, while few, such as the coelacanths, have survived.
Placodermi
Main article: Placoderm
Dunkleosteus
Main article: Dunkleosteus Dunkleosteus was a giant arthrodire that lived during the Devonian period.
Materpiscis
Main article: Materpiscis
Materpiscis was a ptyctodontid fish from the Late Devonian.
Phocis
Phocis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It is near the western mountainsides of Parnassus.
Hermann Gerland
Hermann "Tiger" Gerland (born 4 June 1954) is a German professional football manager and former player who worked as an assistant coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.
Next Fijian general election
The next Fijian general election will be held either in or before 2026 to elect all 55 members of the Parliament of Fiji. It will be conducted by the Fiji Electoral Commission (FEC).
The incumbent coalition government between the People's Alliance (led by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka), the National Federation Party (NFP; led by Biman Prasad) and the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA; which currently has no leader) will be trying to win a second term in government. They will be challenged by the FijiFirst party, led by Opposition Leader Inia Seruiratu.
Hermann Gerland
Playing career
Born in Bochum, Gerland spent his entire professional career from 1972 to 1984 playing at VfL Bochum. He played as a striker until 1975, when he switched to defence, where he played until the end of his career. He made 204 Bundesliga appearances and scored four goals.
Club
VfL Bochum
Manager
Bayern Munich II
Scinax ruber
The red-snouted tree frog, Allen's snouted tree frog, common snouted tree frog or two-striped snouted tree frog (Scinax ruber) is a frog that lives in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Guianas. Human beings also brought it to Puerto Rico.
The adult male frog is 3.1 to 3.7 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 4.0 to 4.2 cm long. The male frog is yellow or almost white in color and the female frog is brown or gray in color. This frog has dark brown spots down its sides and yellow or orange spots on its legs and middle.
This frog lives in trees and looks for food at night. This frog can lay eggs at any time, but it usually does when the weather is rainy. The male frog sits on a tree branch over the water and sings for the female frog. The female frog lays her eggs, about 590 eggs at a time, on plants near the water. When the tadpoles hatch from the eggs, they fall into the water.
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is a commune of 5,270 people (2008). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the south of France.
Education
A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile is located in the commune ,.
Czech Republic (European Parliament constituency)
The Czech Republic (Česká republika) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of the Czech Republic. It was created in 2004.
Estonia (European Parliament constituency)
Estonia (Eesti) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Estonia. It was created in 2004.
Hu Huizi
Hu Huizi (born 17 March 2001) is a Chinese sitting volleyball player. With the national team she won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
She is a member of the China women's national sitting volleyball team and her club Shaanxi Province.
She competed at the 2019 ParaVolley Oceania.
Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock is a large rock formation that sits on its own, surrounded by flat lowlands. It can be a hill, ridge or small mountain. They are found in hot, dry areas of land. The name means "island mountain".
Foras na Gaeilge
Foras na Gaeilge (abbreviated as FnaG) is a public organisation that promotes the Irish language in the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Xu Yixiao
Xu Yixiao (born 4 August 1983) is a Chinese sitting volleyball player. She is a member of the China women's national sitting volleyball team.
With the national team she won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Denmark (European Parliament constituency)
Denmark (Danmark) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Denmark (not including the Faroe Islands or Greenland, which are not in the European Union). It was created in 1979.
Qiu Junfei
Qiu Junfei (born 11 August 1985) is a Chinese sitting volleyball player.
She is a member of the China women's national sitting volleyball team and her club.
With the national team she won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games and the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships.
She competed at the 2019 Asian Para Games.
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949) was an American actor. His real name was Francis Phillip Wuppermann. He was born in New York City. He attended Cornell University. His brother, Ralph, was in show business. Morgan began acting in 1914. On movies, he played various characters in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Morgan was married and had a son. He died of a heart attack on September 18, 1949. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely (born March 28, 1959) is an American Film composer, Arranger and Conductor. he is best known for his film, video game and television scores. He frequently collaborates with George Lucas, Luc Besson, Stephen Sommers, Ron Howard, Dan Povenmire, Tom Ruegger, Steven Spielberg & Seth MacFarlane and contributes to various projects by Ubisoft, Nintendo and Nintendo.
Gao Wenwen
Gao Wenwen (born 19 March 1990) is a Chinese former para rower and current sitting volleyball player.
Gao has a limb deficiency due to a car accident when she was six years old. As a para rower she competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. She became 2008 "Red Banner Holder" by the provincial government in Liaoning.
She competed at the 2010 Asian Para Games, winning a gold medal.
With the China women's national sitting volleyball team she won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Le Spectre de la rose
Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose) is a short French ballet. It is about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball. Jean-Louis Vaudoyer wrote the ballet story. He based it on a verse by Théophile Gautier.
The dances were designed by Michel Fokine. The music is Hector Berlioz's 1841 orchestration of Carl Maria von Weber's piano music Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance). Léon Bakst designed the original sets and costumes.
The ballet was first presented in Monte Carlo on 19 April 1911. Nijinsky danced The Rose and Tamara Karsavina danced The Young Girl. It was a great success. Spectre became internationally famous for the leap (jump) Nijinsky made through a window at the ballet's end.
Origin
In 1911, Ballet Russes producer Sergei Diaghilev hoped to present Nijinsky's ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun). It was not ready for the stage, so he needed another ballet to take its place. That ballet was the idea of writer Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. In 1910, he had sent an idea for a ballet to Ballets Russes set and costume designer Léon Bakst. His idea was based on Le Spectre de la rose, a verse by Théophile Gautier, and Aufforderung zum Tanz, a work for piano by Carl Maria von Weber. Diaghilev liked Vaudoyer's idea. He thought it could easily take the place of Faune. He put Vaudoyer's idea into development at once. Diaghilev liked the idea of a ballet based on Gautier's Spectre because it could be tied to the centennial of Gautier's birth.
Music
In 1819, Carl Maria von Weber wrote a work for piano called Aufforderung zum Tanz. He also wrote a program for this work about a young man and woman who meet, dance, and part at a ball. The quiet music at the opening of Aufforderung leads to some beautiful (and busy) waltz tunes before the work ends with the opening music. In 1841, Hector Berlioz orchestrated Aufforderung. This version of the music was used for a short ballet in Weber's opera Der Freischütz at the Paris Opéra. It was the Berlioz version that was used for the ballet Le Spectre de la rose.
Dance
Michel Fokine completed the dance in three or four rehearsals. He later wrote that the ballet was almost an improvisation. Grace Robert writes in The Borzoi Book of Ballets that Spectre is a pas de deux, but not the sort of pas de deux that looks back to complex 19th-century technique and virtuosity. Instead, it is a forward-looking, modern dance of continuous movement and expressiveness.
Fokine dropped the port de bras (position of the arms) of classical ballet in designing the dances for Nijinsky. He used instead curving, tendril-like movements of the arms and fingers. Nijinsky became an androgynous character in this ballet, one showing masculine power in his legs and a feminine delicacy in his arms. Some of his gestures, Ostwalt writes in Nijinsky: A Leap into Madness, "lent a feminine aura (an invisible force)" to the character.
Nijinsky's leap
The ballet became famous for Nijinsky's leap through one of the two large windows at the back of the stage. The height of the leap was an illusion though. Nijinsky took five running steps from the middle of the stage and leapt through the window on the sixth step. The skirting board (base board) under the window was very low, giving the illusion that the leap was higher than it was. Behind the set, four men caught Nijinsky in the air and put warm towels on him. No one saw Nijinsky land. It looked like he would fly on for all time. The illusion was helped by the conductor in the orchestra pit who held the next to the last chord. In doing so, the leap was given a sense of great length and height.
Story of the ballet
The curtain rises on a girl's bedroom. The Young Girl comes into the room dressed in a white bonnet and ball gown. She has come home from her first ball. She holds a rose as a souvenir of the evening. She drops into a chair and falls asleep. The rose falls from her fingers to the floor. The Spirit of the Rose is seen at the window. He steps to the floor and nears The Young Girl. Still asleep, she rises and dances with him. He leads her back to the chair, kisses her, then leaps through the window and into the night. The Young Girl awakes and rises. She picks up the rose she dropped and kisses it. The curtain falls.
First night and what people thought
Spectre was first presented on 19 April 1911 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo. Tamara Karsavina danced The Young Girl and Nijinsky danced The Rose. Grace Robert writes that Spectre was an "immediate success". Diaghilev was surprised; he thought Spectre a trifle not worth notice, but the little ballet became one of the most loved productions of the Ballets Russes.
After Nijinsky
Many dancers attempted to match Nijinsky as The Rose, but failed. After all, the ballet had been designed for Nijinsky's very special talents. The Young Girl has been called "the forgotten woman of ballet", and, as time passed, the part became routine. By the middle of the 20th century, Spectre had become nothing but a stunt ballet: people paid only to see the leap through the window.
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
23 August is the Day of the National Flag (День Державного прапора України Day of the National Flag of Ukraine) in Ukraine. It was first celebrated in 2004. 24 July was originally the Day of the National Flag.
Le Spectre de la rose
After Nijinsky
Spectre was one of the first ballets Rudolph Nureyev danced in the West after leaving Russia. This was for German television in 1961. He first danced The Rose on stage (24 times) in New York City for the Joffrey Ballet's Diaghilev program in 1979. Spectre was the last ballet Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn danced together. That was in June 1979, when the ballerina was 60. He danced The Rose in Paris in 1981 and 1982, and last danced the part in August 1987 at the London Coliseum with the Nancy Ballet.
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
Since 1992, Independence Day of Ukraine has been celebrated on 24 August.
History
Originally, the National Flag Day was only celebrated in Kyiv. It was celebrated this holiday on July 24, which was one-and-a-half years before the flag was officially made the National flag of Ukraine. It was raised over Kyiv City Hall. The first raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag was on July 1990 at the flagstaff in the Kyiv City Council.
On August 23, 1991, after the failure of the coup in Moscow, the people's deputies brought out the flag into the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada. The consecration of the National Flag was held by the UAOC priest Petro Boyko.
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Names in bold show airports with scheduled service on commercial airlines.
Wang Li
Wang Li (born 14 November 1982) is a Chinese para archer, and sitting volleyball player. She is a member of the China women's national sitting volleyball team.
As an archer she won the silver medal in the compound event at the 2007 World Championships and competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
Wang started with sitting volleyball when she was 21 year old. She plays at the middle blocker position. With the national team she won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Latvia (European Parliament constituency)
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Werner Olk
Werner Olk (born 18 January 1938) is a German former professional football player and manager.
Club career
Olk started his football career as a youth player with SG Letter 05 (Hanover region) in 1948 and eventually switched into the youth team of TuS Seelze. Before his transfer to Bayern Munich, he played 1956–57 in the Oberliga Nord with Arminia Hannover and after the relegation of the club from 1957 to 1960 in the second tier, which in this part of Northern Germany was the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen.
He spent his career in the 1960s through to 1970 with German club Bayern Munich in the Oberliga Süd and the Bundesliga. His honors with Bayern include the DFB-Pokal in 1966, 1967 and 1969; winner of the German Championship in 1969; and winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1967. After the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965 until 1970, Olk served as Bayern's captain, a function in which he was succeeded by Franz Beckenbauer.
International career
Olk won his only cap for the West Germany national team in 1961. He was an available member of the German squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. In the amateur squad of the Germany national team, Olk was called up three times. He was also called up into the youth national team in 1961 for a match against England.
Coaching career
After his time with Bayern, Olk became player-manager with Swiss second division side FC Aarau. He stayed there until 1973, although he had been sacked by December 1972, and was replaced in this role by Jiří "Georges" Sobotka. Afterwards, Olk became a manager for German clubs such as Eintracht Braunschweig, SV Darmstadt 98 (with which he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1981), SC Freiburg, SC Preußen Münster, and Karlsruher SC (with which he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1984). He also had a brief engagement managing St. Gallen in the Swiss League during the 1985–86 season.
From 1990 to 1992, Olk coached the Morocco national team, with which he qualified for the African Nations Cup in January 1992 and the Olympic Games later in the same year in Barcelona. Morocco remained in both competitions without win. From 1995 to 1997, he was in charge of El Zamalek of Cairo, Egypt, with which he won the African Cup of Champions Clubs of 1996, where they prevailed in the finals over Nigeria's Shooting Stars SC.
Olk also had two spells as assistant coach at Bayern Munich. From 1975 to 1977, he was assisting Dettmar Cramer in a period when the club the European Champions' and Intercontinental Cups of 1977. Between 1986 and 1988, he served under Udo Lattek and Jupp Heynckes, being part of the team that won the German championship of 1987.
Greece (European Parliament constituency)
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Regional units of Greece
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Alon Abelski
Alon Alexander Abelski (born 29 May 1989) is a German-Israeli footballer who is currently playing for Sportfreunde Baumberg.
Germany (European Parliament constituency)
Germany (Deutschland) is a European Parliament constituency representing the entire country of Germany. It was created in 1979.
Before German reunification in 1990, only West Germany was a member of the European Union, so the constituency of Germany did not include East Germany. In 1990, when they both merged again to become Germany, the constituency expanded to include all of Germany.
Chaharshanbe Suri
Meaning
Chaharshanbe in Persian means Wednesday and Suri means red or fire or sun. The sun was one of the early Gods of the people in old times, praise of the sun have deep root in the old festivals and Suri festival also has relation with the praise of sun and the dead. Sur means red also means sun solar deity and Surya with the same root of the Sul. As Herodotus explained Ertaeyan(Iranian) were worshiping the sun. the importance of fire can be felt while we look at the stone inscriptions of Achaemenid kings also the very first mantra of Rig Veda is in the praise of Fire. Chaharshanbe Suri and Holi festival had the same roots in ancient Arian religions.
Jumping over the fire
Before the start of the festival, people gather brushwood in an open space. At sunset, after making one or more bonfires, they jump over the flames, singing sorkhi-ye to az man, zardi-ye man az to, literally meaning "[let] your redness [be] mine, my paleness yours", or a local equivalent of it. This is considered a purification practice.
Fortune telling (fal)
Another popular practice on Čahāršanba-sūrī is fortune telling from a jug (fāl-e kūza, fāl-e bolūnī), usually one with a wide mouth (bolūnī).
Burning rue (Esfand)
Burning rue seeds (esfand) or frankincense (kondor) at parties on the eve of Čahāršanba-sūrī is a widespread practice in most regions of Persia. It is considered a necessary precaution against the evil eye and malevolent spirits, devils, and genies (cf. above on fumigation to avoid the evil eye). While rue and a small amount of salt are thrown on the fire the people recite rhymes, which, though varying with the local dialects, usually go something like this: “Rue shrubs and rue seeds (esfandūne, i.e., esfand-dāna), rue shrubs with thirty-three seeds (dūne), rue shrubs know themselves; let them blast (be-tarkūne, i.e., be-tarakānad) the jealous eye” (or “the evil eye”).