cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Tom Parker (singer)
Thomas Anthony Parker (4 August 1988 – 30 March 2022) was an English singer, record producer and sound engineer. He was best known for being a member of the British-Irish boy band The Wanted. He was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
In October 2020, Parker was diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma. He died from the disease on 30 March 2022, aged 33.
Quincy-sous-Sénart
Quincy-sous-Sénart is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France.
Muzaffargarh
Muzaffargarh (مظفر گڑھ) is a town in southwestern Punjab, Pakistan. It is on the bank of the Chenab River. It is the capital city of Muzaffargarh District.
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque (Nasir ol molk) is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran.
Sangla Hill Tehsil
Sangla Hill is a Tehsil in Pakistan in Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab Province.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Ann Reaser (born 15 June 1975) is an American actress. She played Esme Cullen in the Twilight movies. She also played Rebecca Pope/Ava in Grey's Anatomy in the 2007-2008 season.
Reaser was born in Bloomfield, Michigan.
Kot Addu Tehsil
Kot Adu is a city of Muzaffargarh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city, which is subdivided into 3 Union Councils, is the capital of Kot Adu tehsil. It is located in the southern part of the province, and is a very historic city. It has a population of over 1 million, making it the 400th largest city in Pakistan. It is just east of the Indus River, more or less in the centre of the country, about 866 km from Karachi, 600 km from Islamabad, 100 km from Multan, 80 km from D.G. Khan, 60 km from Muzzafargarh, 60 km from Layyah and 16 km from Taunsa Barrage.
Kot Addu City, being a historic and prosperous city, attracts tourists and is known as the 'City of rivers'. The city was named after Addu Khan whose grave is still there in the middle of the city. Kot Addu has been considered for the capital of country due to strategic location of the city. It is politically and culturally rich. Many famous poets, singers and patricians were born in this tehsil.
Shahkot Tehsil
Shahkot is a Tehsil of Nankana Sahib District, Pakistan.
Control Machete
Control Machete were an Mexican rap group from Monterrey, Nuevo León, and its members were Fermín IV, Pato Machete and DJ Toy Selectah.
The rap group started in 1996 and lasted until 2004. Control Machete achieved in just 6 months to sell 500 thousand units from their disk Mucho Barato both in México as América. Their capacity of convocation were presented before the crowds of 10.000 people in Spain with great success performing concerts throughout South America presented an total audience estimated more than 458 thousand people. It has been such an impact that they have generated, that they have been in charge of several events of carving international as it is the concert of the multi-awarded alternative musician David Bowie in the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez before more than 40 thousand people.
Later, Control Machete would face a challenging challenge entering fully into the major leagues to be the official opening group of the most important tour of the year in Mexico: Pop Mart, of the Irish band U2. And if that were not enough, they were in charge of opening the 50 Cent's concert that was offered in Mexico at the Palacio de los Deportes in March 2004. They were invited to participate in several compilations, highlighting the album of José José's tribute (BMG, 1998), where they played Amnesia, and 2001 they were also in the tribute to the Argentine band Soda Stereo, playing the song Camaleón. They participated in Outlandos D'Americas (EMI, 1998), the album that pays homage to The Police.
The group participated in a national tour with Molotov, on tour Molochete, teniendo gran aceptación en México. In 2001 one of the members, Fermin IV left his career as solo of Christian music, becoming a Pastor of the Congregation "Semilla de Mostaza" in Mexico City, has been influence for many young people leave from gangs and follow the example, also is the vocalist of the group with the same name.
Fontaine-lès-Clerval
Fontaine-lès-Clerval is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Doubs department in east France.
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Jean-Claude van Itallie (25 May 1936 – 9 September 2021) was a Belgian-born American playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher. He was best known protesting against the Vietnam War and for writing America Hurrah; The Serpent and his translations of Anton Chekhov's plays. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.
Van Itallie died in New York City on 9 September 2021 from pneumonia at the age of 85.
Hour
An hour (abbreviation: h or hr) is a unit of measurement used to measure time. An hour is equal to 60 minutes. 24 hours are equal to one day. Unlike the second, the hour is not a base SI unit.
Chicago Theatre
The Chicago Theatre is a theatre in Chicago, Illinois where stage plays, magic shows, comedy, speeches, and popular music concerts are held every year. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, and it was listed as a Chicago Landmark on January 28, 1983. The theatre is also known for the bright color lights that light-up the words Chicago side to side.
Joan Carreras i Goicoechea
Joan Carreras i Goicoechea (born in Barcelona, 1962) is a Catalan journalist, screenwriter, and writer. He is a professor in the Faculty of Communication at Blanquerna. He teaches digital journalism. He worked for ten years at the broadcasting company Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals. He was the director of Canal 33. He was also the manager of the program Info-K. At television channel 324.cat he tried out new formats and digital narratives. He has also worked for many newspapers, such as Avui, Diari de Barcelona and El Temps. In 2014, he received the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for his novel L'àguila negra (The black eagle).
Narowal Tehsil
Narowal Tehsil is a subdivision (tehsil) of Narowal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 39 Union Councils of Pakistan, four of which form the tehsil capital Narowal
Taillades
Taillades is a commune. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Vaucluse department in south France.
Rob Mul
Rob Mul (born 11 November 1940) is a Dutch former football defender. He played from July 1960 to June 1969 for NAC Breda. He became professional on 11 November 1961 and played 100 matches in the Eredivisie. He has been the team captain. In 1965 he suffered from a serious concusion after a collision with Sportclub Enschede player Willem de Vries. In 1966 a referee stopped a turbulent match against Xerxes while, according to Mul, the referee told him while walking from the field that three more minutes has to be played.
His father was international football goalkeeper Evert Mul.
Other websites
Category:1940 births Category:Dutch footballers Category:People from Breda Category:Association football defenders
César Franck
César Franck (born Liège, 10 December, 1822; died Paris, November 8, 1890), was a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian and German origin who lived in France. He was one of the great musicians of his time. He was organist at the church of Sainte Clotilde in Paris for more than 30 years, and he taught many talented young musicians. Most of the music for which he is famous was composed when he was already quite old.
Life
César Franck was born in Liège, a town which is now in Belgium. His father came from near the German-Belgian border and his mother was German. Because his father wanted him to be a concert pianist, he was sent to study at the conservatoire in Liege before going to the Paris Conservatoire in 1837. In 1842 his father made him come back to Liège so that he could practise for his career as a virtuoso pianist. He went back to Paris in 1844 and stayed there for the rest of his life. He told his father he did not want to be a concert pianist. This made his father very angry.
During his first years in Paris, Franck made his living by teaching and playing the organ. In 1848 he married. His parents came to the wedding although they were still angry with him for not wanting to be a pianist.
In 1858 he became organist at a new church called Saint Clotilde Basilica. He stayed there for the rest of his life. He decided to improve his organ playing, in particular in the use of pedals and in improvisation. At that time changes were being made in France to the pipe organ. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was a very famous organ builder. He built an organ for Saint Clotilde Basilica and Franck gave the first recital on the new instrument in December 1859. Franck became famous for the way he improvised on the organ after the services. However, for many years he did not compose much.
Franck was becoming known as a teacher of organ and composition. His group of pupils became known as the bande à Franck (the Franck band). They included Henri Duparc, who introduced him to Alexis de Castillon. Franck became organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire. The students he taught included Vincent d'Indy, Ernest Chausson, and Louis Vierne. His organ works, especially the Grande Pièce Symphonique, were some of the best organ pieces to come from France (or anywhere else) in over a century. They helped to prepare for the French symphonic organ style, which was to include many famous composers from the late 19th century onwards: people such as Vierne, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré.
In 1872 he wrote an oratorio Rédemption. It was not a success when it was first performed, but this was mainly due to the instrumental parts which had been badly copied, and by the famous conductor Edouard Colonne who conducted it very badly. The work became popular years later after Franck had died.
Franck was now starting to compose the works which made him really famous. He wrote a very large oratorio called Les Béatitudes. Later he wrote a Piano Quintet and the symphonic poems Le chasseur maudit and Les Djinns. His piano music included Prélude, choral et fugue and the Variations symphoniques. In 1885 he was awarded the cross of the Legion d’honneur. A year later he became president of the Société Nationale de Musique. He wrote a Violin Sonata (1886) and a Symphony (1888), which are probably his two most famous compositions now.
In 1890, Franck was knocked down by a horse tram while crossing the road. He died shortly afterwards, although he still managed to compose his Trois chorals for organ just before he died.
His music
Many of Franck's works use "cyclic form", a way of making a long work with several movements sound like one piece by making the main theme or themes come back in later movements. He wrote in a Romantic style which was partly influenced by the music of Wagner and Liszt. Franck had big hands and when he wrote for the piano he often made the pianist play chords with very wide stretches.
He remains famous for just a small number of compositions written in his last years. One of his best known shorter pieces is the motet Panis Angelicus, which was originally written for tenor solo, but is more often heard sung by a soprano or treble.
Jannah
Jannah (جنّة) is the Islamic conception of paradise. The Arabic word Jannah is a short version of the word "Garden".
Kwethluk, Alaska
Kwethluk is a city in Alaska.
Geography
Kwethluk has a total area of 11.8 square miles.
Bernard Mayes
Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes (October 10, 1929 – October 23, 2014) was a British-born American broadcaster, university dean and author. He was known for being the founder of America's first suicide prevention hotline. Mayes was gay and was also known for being a gay rights activist.
Mayes died in San Francisco, California from Parkinson's disease, aged 85.
Philippe Adrien
Philippe Adrien (19 December 1939 – 15 September 2021) was a French stage director, actor and playwright. An actor, he was known for his role in the 1959 war movie Green Harvest. Adrien began to write plays in the late 1960s. In 1985, Adrien founded the L'Atelier de Recherche et de Réalisation Théâtrale.
Adrien died on 15 September 2021 at the age of 81.
Gymnasium
A gymnasium (often called a gym) is a place used for physical activity. The word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion) was used in Ancient Greece. It meant a place for both physical and intellectual education of young men (see gymnasium (ancient Greece)).
The intellectual education meaning persisted in German and other languages to mean a certain type of school providing secondary education, the Gymnasium, whereas in English the meaning of physical education was pertained in the word gym. However, the word "gymnasium" is not used very often in English nowadays. The term favoured in English is "sports centre", which perhaps seems more natural.
Some gyms offer memberships where people can train to improve their physical appearance and health. Commercial gyms offer sometimes help from qualified trainer. Again, another term is more used today: "fitness centre".
Sports such as basketball and volleyball are often played in gymnasia.
Shakargarh Tehsil
Shakargarh Tehsil is a subdivision (tehsil) of Narowal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 35 Union Councils, three of which form the tehsil capital Shakargarh.
Sinj
Sinj is a town in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. In 2011, 24,826 people lived there.
Jhal Magsi
Jhal Magsi is a town in Kachhi District, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Sunnah salat
Sunnah salat (صلاة السنة) are optional prayers that can be performed by Muslims at almost any time of the day. These prayers are performed in addition to the five daily prayers, which are compulsory for all Muslims.
James Snyder Jr.
Snyder Jr. ran for the United States Senate running against U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole in the Republican primary. He lost the nomination to Dole. He ran twice for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, losing both times in 2004 and 2008.
Snyder Jr. died on September 12, 2021 at his home in Lexington at the age of 76.
Yanni
Yiannis Chryssomallis (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni, is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer. He was born in Kalamata, Greece.
At least sixteen of Yanni's albums have peaked at No. 1 in Billboard's "Top New Age Album" category, and two albums (Dare to Dream and In My Time) received Grammy Award nominations. His career began in 1980.
Raphael Ravenscroft
Ravenscroft died on 19 October 2014 at a hospital in Exeter, England from a suspected heart attack, aged 60.
Kingdom of Afghanistan
The Kingdom of Afghanistan (د افغانستان واکمنان; ) was a constitutional monarchy in Central Asia established in 1926 as a successor state to the Emirate of Afghanistan. It was proclaimed by its first king, Amanullah Khan, seven years after he acceded to the throne. The monarchy ended in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état.
Shota Kimura
Shota Kimura (born 17 October 1988) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Matsumoto Yamaga.
Club career statistics
33||5||5||1||0||0||38||6 33||5||5||1||0||0||38||6
Sepahan S.C.
Sepahan Esfahan is an Iranian football club based in Isfahan, Iran. Sepahan is the last champion of the IPL in 2009-10 season.
Individual Honours
Top Goal Scorer in the Iranian Premier League
Sister clubs
The following list of clubs are affiliated with Sepahan:
Fontenelle-Montby
Fontenelle-Montby is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Doubs department in east France.
Wolfsberger AC
Wolfsberger AC is a football club from the city of Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria. The club was founded in 1931. The colours are black and white.
The club competed in twenty seasons on the second level of the Austrian football leagues. Between the 2007–08 and 2011–12 seasons, Wolfsberger AC united with SK St. Andrä to compete under the name '''WAC/St. Andrä'''. Both clubs stayed independent, but had a central administration and marketing. In 2010 they reached the Austrian football first league. In their first season they reached the 4th place. After 2011/12 season the club was promoted to Austrian Bundesliga for the first time in their history.
Wolfsberg finished third in the 2018–19 Austrian Football Bundesliga. They were qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage. They finished in fourth place in Group J of the UEFA Europa League in the 2019–20 season.
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (spelled Addis Abeba by the Ethiopian Mapping Institute, also called Finfinne) is the capital city of Ethiopia. It is also the political capital of the African Union and the Oromia region of Ethiopia.
History
Addis Ababa is both a city and a state. The city has people living in it from as many as 40 different countries speaking 80 different languages. There are many different communities in the city including Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities. Addis Ababa is about 2,500 m above sea level. It has about five million people.
The site was chosen by Empress Taytu Betul. The city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The city is at the foot of Mount Entoto. In 1935 the city (renamed Addis Abeba) was conquered by the Italians and was made the capital of their empire in eastern Africa until 1941. Italians made huge improvements and modern projects to the city.
The city has grown since World War II and is now a huge metropolis that has nearly 09.98 million people living there as of 2019.
Addis Ababa University is in the city. Addis Ababa University was formerly known as Haile Selassie I University. It was named after the former Emperor of Ethiopia, who gave his palace to be used the main campus of the university in 1961.
Salat al-Janazah
Salat al-Janazah (صلاة الجنازة) is the funeral prayer held by Muslims before the burial but after the shrouding of the body. Muslims do this so their soul can rise to Allah.The people prying ask for forgiveness from Allah to let te person go to heaven.
List of Sony Greatest Hits games
PlayStation
The following titles have been released on the Greatest Hits label for PlayStation.
PlayStation 2
The following titles have been released on the Greatest Hits label for PlayStation 2.
PlayStation 3
The following titles have been released on the Greatest Hits label for PlayStation 3.
John Delaney 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of John Delaney, the U.S. Representative representing Maryland's 6th congressional district, was announced on July 28, 2017. He became the first major Democrat to announce their campaign for President.
List of Sony Greatest Hits games
PlayStation Portable
The following titles have been released on the Greatest Hits label for PlayStation Portable.
John Delaney 2020 presidential campaign
His campaign launched with the publication of an editorial on the Washington Post 's website. On the same day, he launched a campaign Twitter account and YouTube account, on which he posted a five-minute video telling voters of his plans. He ended his campaign in January 2020.
Background
Rumors of Delaney's campaign broke the day before the publication of his editorial.
Harry J. Enten wrote in FiveThirtyEight the day after the campaign's announcement that it was highly unusual for a serious presidential candidate to announce so early. Before Delaney, Pierre S. du Pont IV had held the record of the earliest announcement before the presidential primary season when he announced his campaign for the 1988 election in 1986, 615 days before the start of the Iowa caucuses.
Delaney ended his campaign on January 31, 2020 after falling in poll numbers and failing to qualify for the debates.
Kalmar Cathedral
Kalmar Cathedral (Kalmar domkyrka) is a cathedral in the town of Kalmar in Sweden. Belonging to Kalmar Cathedral Parish of the Church of Sweden, it served the old Diocese of Kalmar, and was opened in 1682.
Marion Lorne
Marion Lorne MacDougall (also Marion Lorne; August 12, 1883 – May 9, 1968) was an American television, stage and movie actress. She worked in theater in New York City and London, England. She made her first movie in 1951. She had had many small roles in movies or television during her career. She played Aunt Clara in Bewitched on television.
Lorne was born in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. She died of a heart attack in New York City.
Ricky Talan
Rick "Ricky" Talan (3 November 1960 – 30 September 2015) was a Dutch footballer. He was striker. He played for the clubs AZ Alkmaar, Vitesse, Cercle Brugge and Haarlem between 1979 and 1988.
Talan was born in Katwijk, South Holland. His younger brother, Jeffrey Talan, was also a footballer.
Talan died from brain cancer on 30 September 2015 in Zevenaar, Gelderland. He was 54.
Minute
A minute is a customary unit of time. It is equal to 60 seconds. There are 60 minutes in an hour. Unlike the second, the minute is not an SI unit.
A minute is also 1⁄60 of a degree. In this context, a minute is also called an arcminute, and is written with the ' symbol.
For example, the Sun and Moon both have angular diameters of about 30 arcminutes—when seen from Earth.
Mr. Satan
He is portrayed as a great fighter, champion of the world, cheered by all humanity. In reality he hides a clumsy and cowardly personality. Usually this duality is used for comedic gags.
He also has a daughter, Videl who will marry Son Gohan, son of Goku. In the Majin buu saga he befriends the good side of the antagonist.
Because "Satan" is also the name of the main evil spirit in Christianity, the character's name sparked so much controversy that when Dragon Ball was imported to North America, his name was changed to Hercule.
Uchaux
Uchaux is a commune. It is found in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Step Brothers (movie)
Step Brothers is a 2008 American comedy movie directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller, and stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. It was released in movie theaters on July 25, 2008, and released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 2, 2008.
Moro
Moro is a city and a tehsil in the Naushahro Feroze District of Sindh, Pakistan. It is in the centre of Sindh. It is at 26°40'0N 68°0'0E. It has an altitude of 28 m. It is 12 km east of the River Indus.
Walker Lake
Walker Lake is a salt lake in Nevada.
Eisei Tomioka
Eisei Tomioka (born 1 July 1984) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
12||1||0||0||0||0||12||1 13||0||||||||||13||0 25||1||0||0||0||0||25||1
Margaret Nolan
Margaret A. Nolan (29 October 1943 – 5 October 2020) was an English visual artist, actress and model. She was best known for her appearances in the 1964 movies Goldfinger and A Hard Day's Night. Nolan was born in Norton Radstock, Somerset. Her career lasted from 1964 to 2019.
Travaillan
Travaillan is a commune. It is found in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
2017 New Zealand general election
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to elect the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament along with the Prime Minister of New Zealand. The last parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and officially ended on 22 August 2017.
Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand's third female Prime Minister, and Winston Peters again became Deputy Prime Minister, a role he had first held in 1996–98. This ended nine years under the National Party Government. Ardern became Prime Minister after the Labour Party agreed to create a coalition with Peters's New Zealand First party, thus making him Deputy Prime Minister. Their shared votes were larger than that of English, thus defeating him.
About
Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a system in which 71 members were elected from single-member electorates and 49 members were elected from closed party lists.
Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election, with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out. Advance voting proved popular, with 1.24 million votes cast before election day, more than the previous two elections combined.
Candidates
The centre-right National Party, led by Prime Minister Bill English, had governed since 2008 in a minority government. It was the first election for English as incumbent Prime Minister, having replaced John Key on 12 December 2016 and the first since 1975 where both major parties had leadership changes. The main opposition parties to the National government were Labour (the official opposition), led by Jacinda Ardern, the Green Party, and New Zealand First.
Martín Vilallonga
Martín Vilallonga (born 7 October 1970) is a former Argentine football player.
Mehrabpur
Mehrabpur is a town and a tehsil in the Naushahro Feroze District of Sindh in Pakistan. It is on the main railway line between Karachi and Lahore. It is a junction station with a disused branch line to Naushahro Feroze.
Martín Vilallonga
Club career statistics
7||0||0||0||2||2||9||2 7||0||0||0||2||2||9||2
Mehrabpur
On 19 December 2007, at 2:30 am an overcrowded express train travelling from Karachi to Lahore derailed 2 km south of Mehrabpur killing over 40 people and injuring hundreds more. Derailment seems to have been caused by defective rails.
Home directory
In computing, a home directory is a special directory (or location in the File system, Apple calls directories folders). Very often, there is one such home directory per user. Some users, which were created by the system and usually do not log in, do not have such a home directory.
A home directory is used to store personal files of the respective user, including written document and settings for programs.
Unix and Linux
On Unix and Linux-like operating systems, the directory is usually called like the username. It is usually in the /home hierarchy. A user fred would therefore his home directory in /home/fred.
It can be written as ~.
Mac OS X
In Mac OS X, the home directory is in /Users.
Bhiria
Bhiria is a city in the Naushahro Feroze District of Sindh in Pakistan.
Bhiria city is situated at National Highway Pakistan. It is Tehsil of District Naushahro Feroze. It had remained the city of Education in the days of Indo-Pak. This city has produced many literate persons who had served at distinct posts of Pakistan like; in Juidiciary, education, politics, economy, engineering, business. The population of the city is around 15 thousands inhabitants. The most important of this city is its sweat known as "Pera". It is somewhat made of milk, sugar, & other some stuff. Other cities nearby this city are Bhiria Road, tharooshah, Kandiaro, & Mehrapur.
Vehari Tehsil
Vehari Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Vehari District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Vehari is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 26 Union Councils.
John Derek
He was known for his marriage with Bo Derek, which lasted from 1976 until his death in 1998. He was born in Los Angeles.
Derek died on May 22, 1998 from heart disease in Santa Maria, California at the age of 71.
Mailsi Tehsil
Mailsi Tehsil is a subdivision (tehsil) of Vehari District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 31 Union Councils of Pakistan, two of which form the tehsil capital Mailsi.
Pat Carroll
Patricia Ann "Pat" Carroll (May 5, 1927 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress. She voiced the character of Ursula in The Little Mermaid. In Laverne & Shirley, she played Mrs. Feeney. She played Miriam Stein in Police Woman. Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She won an Emmy Award in 1956 and a Grammy Award in 1981.
Carroll died on July 30, 2022 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts from problems caused by pneumonia, aged 95.
Satoshi Hirayama
Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama (平山智) was an American baseball player. He played for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan's Central League. Hirayama was an All-Star twice in Japan. He was born in Exeter, California, to Japanese parents.
Hirayama died on September 15, 2021, in Fresno, California. He was 91.
Cheetah
A cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a medium large cat which lives in Africa. It is the fastest land animal and can run up to 112 kilometers per hour for a short time. Most cheetahs live in the savannas of Africa. There are a few in Asia. Cheetahs are active during the day, and hunt in the early morning or late evening.
Characteristics
The cheetah compared to other big cats is light and slimly built. Its long thin legs and long spotted tail are necessary for fast running. Its lightly built, thin form is in sharp contrast with the robust build of other big cats. The head-and-body length ranges from 112 - 150 cm. The cheetah stands 70 to 90 cm at the shoulder, and weighs 21 - 72 kg.
The slightly curved claws are only weakly retractable (semi-retractable). This is a major point of difference between the cheetah and the other big cats, which have fully retractable claws.
Diet and behavior
Cheetahs are active during the day, and hunt in the early morning or late evening. Cheetahs are carnivores. They prey on antelope, wildebeest, zebras, warthogs, hares, birds, rodents, snakes, fish, lizards and even jackals.
When the cheetah hunts, it slowly and secretly moves toward its prey. When it is close to the prey (about 10–30 meters), it runs after it very quickly. Cheetahs kill their prey by tripping it during the chase. To kill medium- to large-sized prey, the cheetah bites the prey's throat to suffocate it to death. A bite on the back of the neck or the snout is enough to kill smaller prey.
The cheetah cannot defend itself against lions or hyenas who would take the cheetah's prey away. The prey is taken to a shaded place. The cheetah, exhausted after the chase, rests beside the kill and pants heavily for some time. Once they recover, cheetahs eat quickly, and consume large quantities as soon as they can.
Reproduction
Pregnant females give birth to about 3 to 5 cubs or kittens after three months pregnancy. It takes two years of full-time supervision by the mother before the cubs are ready to live independent lives. They need to learn how to catch prey, and that takes time. The young are vulnerable to larger predators: lions especially try to kill cheetahs.
Genetics
The cheetah has unusually low genetic variability and a very low sperm count. Their sperms also suffer from deformed flagellae, and so their movement is damaged. Apparently, cheetahs went through a great reduction in numbers during the last ice age. Inbreeding after the event further reduced the variation (genetic drift).
Cheetah as a pet
In modern times, cheetahs probably are the most difficult wilds cats to have as pets, due to the necessity for wide open spaces for cheetah for them to run at full speed. It's very important to feed them properly, because cheetahs in captivity must eat only lean steamed meat so they do not get sick and perish.
Interesting facts
The cheetah is the fastest land dweller. The acceleration of a cheetah allows it to reach speeds of up to a hundred kilometers per hour in three seconds (its maximum speed is 112 kilometers per hour). The speed that a cheetah can develop from the start in three seconds cannot be matched by any sports racing car.
Fontenotte
Fontenotte is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Doubs department in east France.
Cheetah
Interesting facts
The nearest challenge to the cheetah's speed comes from the pronghorn and springbok.
Fourbanne
Fourbanne is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Doubs department in east France.
Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin, a MP and a FRSA (born 19 May 1956) is an English politician. He is currently the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office as well as the Chairman of Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. He is the Member of Parliament for the West Dorset constituency in the United Kingdom. He was first elected in the 1997 general election.
He is a member of the Conservative Party.
He married Isabel Grace Davidson on 14 September 1984 in Cambridge. They have a twin son and daughter born in July 1993.
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy
The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy was given the code name Operation Grapeshot. It was the Allied attack by Fifth United States Army and British 8th Army into the Lombardy Plain. It started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of German forces in Italy.
Background
The Allies had done their previous major attack on the Gothic Line in August 1944. The British 8th Army attacked up the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The U.S. 5th Army attacked through the central Apennine Mountains.
They managed to break through the Gothic Line defences. But they failed to get into the Lombardy Plains before the winter weather stopped them. They had a hard time in the cold winter weather. They planned to attack again in the spring.
Command changes
Harold Alexander was promoted to Field Marshal. He was made the Allied Supreme Commander Mediterranean on 12 December.
On 23 March, Albert Kesselring was appointed Commander-in-Chief Army Group West.
Orders of battle
In the spring, the problems of getting troops continued. The 15th Army Group had 1,334,000 men with Eighth Army having 632,980 men and Fifth Army 266,883. Against them were 21 much weaker German divisions and 4 Italian divisions, a total of 25.
Plan of attack
Clark made his plan on 18 March. He wanted destroy the maximum number of enemy forces, cross the Po and capture Verona.
The Eighth Army was to go north west to capture Ferrara and Bondeno. The U.S. Fifth Army was to go past Bologna to surround German forces south of the Po. The Fifth Army was to go west towards Ostiglia. Next, the Allies would capture bridge across the Po and go north.
The Fifth Army plan (Operation Craftsman) aimed to pull German reserves away from Route 65. II Corps would then attack.
Battle
In the first week of April, attacks were launched on the right and left of the Allied lines. The goal was to draw German reserves away from the main attacks to come. Axis forces had to use sea, canal and river routes for supply. Axis shipping was being attacked in bombing raids.
The main attack started on 6 April with an artillery bombing of the Senio defenses. On 9 April, 825 heavy bombers dropped bombs near the Senio. From 15:20 to 19:10, artillery was fired. As well, 28 Churchill Crocodiles and 127 Wasp flamethrower vehicles were sent out. By 12 April, the 8th Indian Division was on the far side of the Santerno. The British 78th Division moved to attack Argenta.
The U.S. 5th Army began its attack on 14 April. First, there was a bombing by 2,000 heavy bombers and 2,000 artillery pieces. Then troops attacked. By 20 April both corps had broken through the German defences and reached the Po valley. 10th Mountain Division went north. By 19 April, the British 6th Armoured Division was moving to surround the German armies defending Bologna. Bondeno was captured on 23 April. Bologna was entered on 21 April. U.S. IV Corps reached the river Po at on 22 April. They went north to Verona which they entered on 26 April. British V Corps entered Padua on 29 April. Partisans had captured the German garrison of 5,000.
Afterwards
Secret surrender talks between the Germans and Western Allies were held in Switzerland (Operation Crossword) in March. The Soviets did not like that the Western Allies were trying to arrange a surrender that did not include the Soviets. On 29 April, the Germans surrendered.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is a cricket and Australian Rules Football stadium in Melbourne, Australia. It has a capacity of 100,000. It was used as the main stadium for the 1956 Summer Olympics.
The Melbourne Cricket Club started to use the area for cricket in 1853. Their old ground, now Southbank, was often flooded by the Yarra River, and was also in the way of a new railway line. In 1859, the first game of Australian Rules Football was played at the ground.
The MCG is run by a trust. The first chairman of the trust was the first Premier of Victoria, William Haines.
Mariestad Cathedral
Mariestad Cathedral (Mariestads domkyrka) is a cathedral in the town of Mariestad in Sweden. Belonging to Mariestad Parish of the Church of Sweden, it served the old Diocese of Mariestad, and was opened in 1625.
Diocese of Kalmar
The Diocese of Kalmar (Kalmar stift) was a diocese of the Church of Sweden, established in 1603, and disestablished in 1915, becoming a part of the Diocese of Växjö. Covering circa half of Kalmar County, it used the Kalmar Cathedral as its seat.
Milton Wolff
Milton Wolff was an American commander in the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915. He died in 2008. He was friends with the author Ernest Hemingway.
Pyramid Texts
Pyramid Texts is the name for several religious texts, found on the wall of several pyramids of the 5th and 6th and 8th dynasties. They are the biggest corpus of Ancient Egyptian texts.
Pavle Merkù
Pavle Merkù (12 July 1927 – 20 October 2014) was a Slovene composer, ethnomusicologist, Slovene specialist, and etymologist. Merkù received the Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement in 2014. He was known for composing Ljudsko izročilo Slovencev v Italiji (Slovene Folk Heritage in Italy).
Merkù died in his birthplace in Trieste, Italy, aged 87.
Vani Kola
Vani Kola is an Indian venture capitalist. She is the founder and managing director of Kalaari Capital, a venture capital firm. Vani was listed in the Fortune magazine's Most powerful women in Indian business list for the year 2014 , 2018 and 2019.
Early life
She was born in 1964 in Hyderabad, India. She completed her engineering education from Osmania University.
The Signpost
History
The Signpost was started in January 2005 by Michael Snow. In its first edition he wrote: "I hope this will be a worthwhile source of news for people interested in what is happening around the Wikipedia community."
Vani Kola
Career
At the age of 22, Vani Kola founded a company called Certus Software in Silicon Valley and served as CEO. After working in Silicon Valley for 22 years, she returned to India in 2006 and founded Kalaari Capital in partnership with various venture capital companies. The company was established in 2012 with an investment of US$150 million. Under Vani's chairmanship, the company's investment reached US$650 million in 2017, which was US$150 million in 2012.
The Signpost
History
Snow was The Signpost's main editor (editor-in-chief) until August 2005. Ryan Lomonaco became the new editor-in-chief, but Snow still wrote articles for the newsletter until February 2008. He stopped when he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. In July 2008 he was elected Chairman of the Board. He was the Chairman for two years.
When it started, the newsletter's title was The Wikipedia Signpost. In 2011, the title became simply The Signpost. From 2005 to March 2016, The Signpost came out every week. Then it changed to coming out every two weeks because it did not have enough editors. In March, April and May of 2016 it did not come out at all. As of 2019, it comes out once a month.
On April Fool's Day, The Signpost sometimes publishes joke articles and pictures. Examples of joke articles from April Fool's Day 2015 are "Special Report: Pictures of the Year 2015" (with joke pictures) and "Featured Content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved". Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe".
In other newspapers and magazines
Journalists from other newspapers and magazines have used articles in The Signpost to help write their own articles.
Stephen Heller
Stephen Heller (Heller István) (15 May 1815 – 14 January 1888) was a Hungarian pianist, teacher and composer. Heller was an important figure for later Romantic composers.
Eduardo Bustos Montoya
Eduardo Bustos Montoya (born 3 October 1976) is an Argentine football player. He plays for Temperley.
Chōtoku
Chōtoku (長徳) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Eiso and before Chōhō. This period started in February 995 and ended in January 999. The reigning emperor was Ichijō-tennō (一条天皇).
Eduardo Bustos Montoya
Club career statistics
28||9||2||0||3||0||33||9 28||9||2||0||3||0||33||9
Emili Rosales i Castellà
Emili Rosales i Castellà is a Catalan writer and editor. He began in the field of poetry, but quickly changed to writing novels. After publishing three books in four years, he dedicated five years to publish the fifth. The effort was rewarded when La ciutat invisible won the Sant Jordi award. It received good reviews. The novel has been translated to Spanish.
His works have been translated to German, English, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Chinese.
Tanning
Tanning is the process of turning animal skin (often called "hide") into leather. Tanning makes the skin tougher and often changes its color. Tanning helps make the animal skin become more flexible and less vulnerable to bacteria damage.
Before tanning an animal skin, the animal must be killed and skinned before the body heat of the animal leaves the animal's body. Next, tissue on the inside of the skin and hairs on the outside are removed. Salt in the skin is removed and the skins are soaked in water ffor six hours to two days.
The actual process of tanning is done by soaking the leather in a bath of Chromium III sulphate ([Cr(H2O)6]2(SO4)3). In past centuries a natural substance called tannin was used, which was got from oak or fir trees.
A tanner is someone whose job is tanning.
A tannery is the place where the tanners worked with the animal skins.
Overweight
Overweight is the condition of a person when they have more fat in their body than is healthy.
Overweight means the person's body is too heavy. To find out if a person is overweight, you can calculate their body mass index. People with a BMI of 25 or more are overweight. Anything above 30 is obese (very overweight). Overweight used to be a BMI of 27 or more. In 1998 this changed.
Being overweight is associated with health problems such as Type 2 diabetes. Obesity is associated with greater health problems than overweight. In 2006 Adams et al. estimated that the risk of death increases by 20 to 40 percent among overweight people. Some people think that being overweight is not as unhealthy as is commonly thought. A 2013 review of 97 PubMed articles with a sample size of 2.88 million found that overweight is associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality (death) than 'normal' weight. Body fat contains energy that the body can use to heal when it is sick. 51.3% of overweight adults are metabolically healthy. Metabolically healthy overweight women are no more likely to die or have a heart attack or stroke than metabolically healthy normal weight women.
Doctors often tell overweight people that losing weight would be good for their health. People usually try to lose weight by eating less. This is called 'dieting'. They may exercise too. Dieting is often ineffective. 41% of dieters weigh more four to five years after the end of the diet than before it began.
Some people might use herbal teas, powders and pills to help to lower their mass.
Animals can also be overweight.
Overweight is not just associated with bad health. People think that being overweight means that a person is lazy or bad. Overweight people are often treated badly by other people for because of this. This is called fatphobia.
More than 2 billion adults are overweight in the world. The amount of overweight people is increasing.
Wild Dances
"Wild Dances" is a song by Ukrainian pop-star Ruslana Lyzhichko (Ruslana). It won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004.
Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands (Tungaru; in the past Kingsmill or King's-Mill Islands) are a group of sixteen islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is the main group of islands in Kiribati.
They were named after British Captain Thomas Gilbert. He sailed there in 1988.
Jean Martin (pianist)
Jean Martin (7 November 1927 – 7 October 2020) was a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, France.
Martin began a teaching career, starting in Grenoble in 1953. He recorded two albums dedicated to the works of Carl Maria von Weber, five dedicated to Robert Schumann, two to Stephen Heller and Gabriel Fauré. In 1970, he played with the Trio Delta with violinist Flora Elphège and cellist Claude Burgos.
Martin died on 7 October 2020 in Paris, aged 92.
Caroline Spelman
Dame Caroline Alice Spelman DBE MP (née Cormack, born 4 May 1958) is an English politician. She was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. She is the Meriden constituency in England. She was first elected in the 1997 general election.
In May 2010 she became Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010. She served in this role until September 2012, when she was dismissed in a cabinet reshuffle. In 2015, she became Second Church Estates Commissioner.
She is a member of the Conservative Party.
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France is an administrative region of France. It was created in 2016. It was created by combining the former regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. .The capital of the région is Lille.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy was the temporary name for the region.
Luleå
Luleå (, Lule sami Luleju, Finnish Luulaja) is a city in northern Sweden. In 2010, 46,607 people lived there. It is the seat of Luleå Municipality and the capital of Norrbotten County.
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is a term that describes the style of architecture which was used in Europe from the late 10th century until the 12th century when it changed to the Gothic style. The Romanesque style in England is called Norman architecture.
Buildings in the Romanesque style have very thick walls and round arches, Castles and churches or cathedrals were built in this style. Some of them are still standing.
Harue Sato
Harue Sato (佐藤 春詠) is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Sato was born in Isesaki on January 1, 1976. After graduating from high school, she joined Nikko Securities Dream Ladies in 1994. The club was disbanded in 1998 due to financial strain. She moved to OKI FC Winds in 1999. However, the club was disbanded end of season. She moved to YKK Tohoku Ladies SC Flappers (later TEPCO Mareeze) in 2000. In 2000 season, she was selected Best Eleven. She retired in 2006.
On May 31, 2000, Sato debuted for the Japan national team against Australia. She played at 2001 AFC Championship. She played 17 games and scored 4 goals for Japan until 2002.