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Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Road Chip
Plot
During the dinner, Suggs catches up with the Chipmunks, but they trap him in an elevator. Miles and the Chipmunks return the ring to Dave saying they accept Samantha and Miles into the family, but Dave reveals he never intended to propose to Samantha for the time being, and the ring belonged to his friend Barry, who was proposing to his girlfriend, Alice, who is disgusted to find a breath mint inside the container, which Alvin had placed there as a replacement for the ring. Dave is very disappointed in the Chipmunks, so they try to make it up to him by singing a new song to him at the launch party with the help of the Chipettes, Ashley and Miles. They also return the ring to Barry, who reattempts his proposal to Alice, and this time, Alice accepts. Having forgiven them (while also apologizing for going overboard with his no music policy), Dave returns to Los Angeles with the Chipmunks and officially adopts them as his sons, but becomes frustrated after discovering that the squirrels destroyed everything at their house. Later, Suggs escapes the elevator and decides to relax by the pool, only for two security guards to carry him out of the hotel.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin (11 November 1925 – 27 September 2015) was a movie director. He was born in London and attended the University of Cambridge.
He was known for his movies I Was Monty's Double (1958), Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959), Never Let Go (1960), Tarzan Goes to India (1962), Waltz of the Toreadors (1962), The Blue Max (1966), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), King Kong (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), Sheena (1984) and King Kong Lives (1986).
Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.
John Elliott (historian)
Sir John Huxtable Elliott (23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was an English historian and Hispanist. He was Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was born in Reading, Berkshire.
Elliott was hospitalized on 5 March 2022 for pneumonia and kidney failure in Oxford, Oxfordshire. He died five days later on 10 March at the age of 91.
Rosary
The Rosary is a Catholic form of prayer using beads. It is a cycle of repeated formal prayers, such as the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary, done while thinking about important events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. This is called "saying the Rosary" or "praying the Rosary." A rosary can also be the series of joined beads that a person holds while saying these prayers.
The Church has always recognized the efficacy of this devotion John Paul II said “Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as by the hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
Prayer is for every person to obtain graces and consolations for oneself or for others, for the diffusion of good actions in the world, for the solution of international conflicts, for conversion and spiritual growth. Prayer, in the room of your home or into the church, at any time of the day, is a moment of peace and serenity that distracts from the worries of the day and it is a moment of communication with Divine Mercy through the most beautiful prayers. The graces result from the experience not only of saints and religious but also of ordinary people who have left public witness of the graces received requested to the Virgin Mary.
A person who says a Rosary usually thinks about certain events from the Bible. Each day has a traditional list of these events, called "Mysteries of the Rosary."
Adam McQuaid
Adam McQuaid (born October 12, 1986 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is an Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Boston Bruins. McQuaid played hockey in the OHL for 4 seasons with the Sudbury Wolves. He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets with the 55th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft but never played a game with them and was traded to the Bruins for a fifth-round pick. He won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins on June 15, 2011 when the Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks in game 7 by a score of 4–0.
Patrice Bergeron
Patrice Bergeron-Cleary (born July 24, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He currently plays for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is the captain. Bergeron played hockey in the QMJHL for 2 seasons with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. He was drafted by the Boston Bruins with the 45th overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He won a gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships and in the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins on June 15, 2011 when the Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks in game 7 by a score of 4-0.
Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a 2007 American drama movie based on actual events. It stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Patrick Dempsey, and Pat Carroll. It was released in January 5, 2007.
Timer
A timer is a kind of clock for measuring time intervals. A timer which counts upwards from zero for measuring time is often called a stopwatch. A device which counts down from a specified time interval is more usually called a timer. A simple example is an hourglass. Some timers sound an audible alarm that the time is up. Time switches, timing mechanisms which activate a switch, are sometimes called "timers".
Anglo-Zanzibar War
Overview
The current Sultan (the person who rules the Sultanate of Zanzibar), Sultan Hamad bin Thwaini, who was pro-British, died. While he was alive, because he was English Council approved, he and the Sultanate of Zanzibar were on good terms with England, but when he died, a new Sultan was needed. Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, his 29-year-old nephew eventually became his successor, but Khalid was no-longer approved by England, now making him and his state enemies with the English Army. England told him to come out of hiding, but the new Sultan's response was to barricade himself in his palace even more. As expected, the Sultanate of Zanzibar was absolutely destroyed by the English Army, which led to what we know today as the Anglo-Zanzibar war, the shortest recorded war in history that lasted between 38 to 45 minutes.
Dirndl
A dirndl [ˈdɪʁndl̩] is a type of dress worn by women in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol. It is made to look like the traditional clothing that peasants from the Alps used to wear. Originally the term Dirndl meant girl in Bavarian. Now it can mean either the dress or a girl. It was also called a Dirndlgewand. In the 1800s servant girls wore a very similar dress. They were very plain. A heavy, often dark colored dress was worn in winter. It had a long sleeve dirndl blouse and thick apron to go with it. In summer a light version was worn. Summer dresses were worn with a short puffed-sleeve dirndl blouse. Different styles were worn in different regions. The bow on the apron is tied on the left (she is single) or the right side (she is not single).
Propulsion tools
Propulsion is the use of force to make movement.
For ground propulsion the first instrument was the wheel.
For water propulsion pole, paddle, oar and sail have been used. Nowadays the most common types are underwater propellers. Sails are still common, and historically represented the most important form of early propulsion for large ships.
For air propulsion, the most common types are propeller and jet engine. Others have been used experimentally.
Frank Lovejoy
Frank Andrew Lovejoy Jr. (March 28, 1912 – October 2, 1962) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in The Hitch-Hiker and for starring in the radio drama Night Beat.
Domestic worker
A domestic worker or domestic servant is a person who works within the scope of a residence. A domestic worker is a paid employee. They are free to leave their employment if they wish. Many domestic workers are required by their employer to wear a uniform when in their employer's home.
In the Victorian era, Britain had many domestic workers. The butler was the most important one. At meal times he would be like a head waiter. Other male domestic workers were often called "valets". A valet (sometimes said with a silent "t") usually looked after his master’s clothes and comforts, and possibly looked after money matters as well. Female domestic worker were usually maids who cleaned, cooks who prepared the meals, and nannies who looked after the children. Gardeners did the gardening.
Leda
Leda is a person in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of a king, and the wife of King Tyndareos of Sparta.
Domestic worker
Today in many parts of the world domestic workers from poorer countries are often employed by people in the richer countries.
To ensure the right of decent work for all kind of domestic workers including migrant workers, International Labour Organization has made Convention No. 189 on domestic workers.
Ehime Prefecture
Ehime Prefecture (愛媛県) is a prefecture in the Shikoku region of Japan on the island of Shikoku. The capital city is Matsuyama.
Leda
Zeus seduced her as a swan, and Leda laid two eggs. When they hatched, her children Helen, Klytaimnestra, Castor and Pollux) came out.  Helen was a child of Zeus, and the myths vary on who was the father of the others.
Guhyasamāja Tantra
Guhyasamāja Tantra (Sanskrit: Guhyasamājatantra; Tibetan: Gsang ’dus rtsa rgyud; English: Tantra of the Secret Community) is a tantra method of Tibetan Buddhism. The central figure is called "Vajra‐pāni" which means a vajra-carrier or a vajra-master.
Åre Municipality
Åre Municipality (Åre kommun) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. The seat is in Järpen.
Ehime Prefecture
History
Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime prefecture was known as Iyo Province. The name Ehime comes from the Kojiki. It means "beautiful maiden."
Passamaquoddy
Maps
Maps showing the approximate locations of areas occupied by members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (from north to south):
Vilonia, Arkansas
Vilonia is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Guhyasamāja Tantra
The Guhyasamāja Tantra was the secret gathering based on thought that having sexual relations with many women would contribute to Buddhism awakening. The legitimate wives of the vajra‐sattvaḥa, called "dakinis", were limited only to virgins. Although the number of dakinis is variously drafted according to the literature, it probably amounts to a number of geometrical progressionwise.
Also statues and pictures were made to beautify the method. However, because those acts had no integrity to fundamental buddhist precepts, it is no longer done in Tibetan Buddhism. On the contrary, warning symbols and festivals, such as Citipati, are widely spread.
Ehime Prefecture
History
After the Battle of Sekigahara, the Tokugawa shogun gave the area to his allies. Kato Yoshiaki built Matsuyama Castle which became the center of the modern city of Matsuyama.
Drought is common in Ehime history.
Walden
Walden is a book written by the author, Henry David Thoreau. This book is a satire. This book is also a book on the author's life and experiences.
Ehime Prefecture
Geography
Ehime faces the Seto Inland Sea in the southwestern part of Shikoku. The prefecture is bordered by Kagawa Prefecture and Tokushima Prefecture in the east. Kōchi is to the south. The prefecture has a long coastline and it includes many islands.
The Yanase Dam was built in 1953.
National Parks
National Parks are established in about 7% of the total land area of the prefecture.
Shrines and Temples
Ōyamazumi jinja is the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Dampierre-en-Crot
Dampierre-en-Crot is a commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France. About 203 people lived there in January 2019.
Djoser
Djoser (other names include Netjerikhet, Tosorthos, and Sesorthos) was the first Pharaoh, or king of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, c. 2670 BCE. He is known for the building of the first pyramid built in Egypt, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. The Third Dynasty, based in Memphis, was the beginning of the Old Kingdom, a period of stability, achievement and unity.
There have been claims that he was not the first king, as the Abydos King List and the Turin King List give a king by the name of Sanakht. There is no archaeological evidence to support this, and most experts agree that Djoser was the first. He ruled for at least 20 years, but he had so many temples, tombs and monuments built that some experts say he may have ruled for up to 30 years.
There is a painted limestone statue of Djoser, which is the oldest discovered life sized Egyptian statue. It was found in Saqqara during archaeological digging in 1924-1925. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Step Pyramid
The building of the Step Pyramid was quite an achievement. It is the first massive monument built in stone, about 62 meters in height. It is surrounded by a 10 meter high wall, which encloses an area of about 16 hectares. It shows that the kingdom must have been stable and wealthy to have spent so much time and money to build it. The man who designed it and supervised the building was Imhotep, the oldest named architect known to us. Thousands of years later, Djoser was known to Egyptians as the "opener of stone", recognising his legacy of using stone for buildings.
The Famine
The Egyptians believed in a story of how Djoser was able to end a famine. There is no evidence from the time of his rule, but an engraved stone, a stele, was made 2000 years later giving the details. Even if the story is a legend, it does show that Djoser was remembered as a great pharaoh. Egypt had been suffering from a famine for seven years, when the god of the Nile, Khnum, spoke to Djoser in a dream. Djoser rebuilt Khnum's temple on Elephantine, an island near modern Aswan. This pleased the god, and the famine ended. The ruins of the temple are still visible today.
Ideal Landscape with a Young Man Killing a Snake
Ideal Landscape with a Young Man Killing a Snake is an oil painting by Franz Caucig (1755 – 1828), a Neoclassical painter. He made the painting before 1810. The size of the painting is 122 by. The painting is in the National Gallery of Slovenia.
On the left is an aqueduct and a group of trees. On the right a young man kills a snake on the bank of a river. The sky has dark clouds. The sun shines on the river and on the young man.
The theme of nature is common in Neoclassicism. The works of Immanuel Kant and neoclassical English philosophers were popular at this time.
Honeydew
Honeydew is a liquid sugar that aphids and some scale insects make when they eat plant sap. Honeydew is very sticky.
To eat plant sap, the aphid or scale insect pushes its mouth parts into the plant. Plant sap is under pressure inside the plant. The pressure inside the plant pushes the sap into the insect. Sometimes the pressure is so great that the sap is forced out of the rear of the insect. This is how honeydew is made. The honeydew then drops from the insect and makes a sticky layer on the plant.
Honeydew on plants can cause sooty mould, which is white and appears as powder on the plant.
Honeydew is collected by some insects, such as some wasps and bees. Some honey bees make honeydew into a dark, strong honey, called honeydew honey. Honeydew honey is valuable in parts of Europe and Asia because people think it can be used as a medicine.
Virieu-le-Petit
Virieu-le-Petit is a former commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Arvière-en-Valromey.
Oar
An oar is a tool used to move a boat through water. Oars have a flat blade at one end. The oarsmen grasp the oar at the other end. The difference between oars and paddles is that paddles are held by the paddler, and are not connected with the vessel. Oars generally are fastened to the vessel. The use of oars is called rowing. An oar used at the stern (rear) of a boat to steer is called a steering oar.
Grizzly Rage
Grizzly Rage is a Syfy (used to be called The Sci-Fi Channel) television movie.
Plot summary
Four high school friends go to the woods to celebrate their graduation. When they break into a part of the woods that is closed, they hit and kill a grizzly cub with their car. Now the mother of the cub tries to attack and kill the four teenagers.
DVD
The movie is widescreen, has a Dolby Digital English 5.1 stereo track, and has no extras.
Cassandra
Cassandra or Kassandra (Κασσάνδρα, also 'Alexandra') was a person in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Priam of Troy and Hecuba, and twin sister of Helen. She was famous for her prophesies of bad events.
The god Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy so that she would love him, but Kassandra did not want him. This made Apollo angry, but he could only change his gift and not take it away. So he made it that Kassandra could only foresee bad things, and that no one would ever believe her.
There is a work called Alexandra by Lykrophon. The poet is only known through this work which was done between 196 and 190 BC. The work has 1474 lines, which are done in jambic trimeters. This is what most Greek tragedies were written in.
Benjamín Prado Casas
Benjamín Prado Casas (4 January 1926 – 7 March 2022) was a Chilean politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Party. He was in the Senate of Chile from 1965 to 1973. Prado Casas was born in Valparaíso, Chile. From 1970 until 1971, he was the President of the Christian Democratic Party.
Prado Casas died in Concón, Chile on 7 March 2022, at the age of 96.
Plouarzel
Plouarzel (Plouarzhel) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Maltese
Maltese might mean:
Dampierre-en-Graçay
Dampierre-en-Graçay is a commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France. About 240 people lived there in January 2019.
Marianne Williamson 2024 presidential campaign
Marianne Williamson, an author who was a candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020, announced her campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on March 4, 2023. Williamson was the first major Democratic candidate to officially announce their candidacy.
Earlier in 2023, many former staffers from her 2020 campaign, who remained anonymous, said that her campaign was a toxic work environment and that Williamson had anger issues and was abusive to staffers.
United Liberation Front of Assam
The United Liberation Front of Assam is a separatist group from Assam, among many other such groups in North-east India. It seeks to establish a sovereign Assam via an armed struggle in the Assam conflict.
Fuel cell vehicle
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles are a type of vehicle that use hydrogen gas as a source of fuel to generate electricity. They are one of the cleanest forms of transportation.
Santiago, Nuevo León
Santiago is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area and it has an area of about 763.8 km2. , there were 37,886 people living in there.
Fuel cell vehicle
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles use a fuel cell stack in order to convert the chemical energy that’s being stored in hydrogen into electrical energy. This energy will then be used to power an electric motor. A Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle starts with Hydrogen gas being stored inside a high pressure tank located within the vehicle. The hydrogen is given to the fuel cell stack, which is made of an Anode, Cathode, and an Electrolyte. Hydrogen molecules from the storage tanks are then introduced into the anode compartment of each fuel cell. The Hydrogen molecules then usually encounter a catalyst which creates the electrochemical reaction. The electrochemical reaction is done with the help of the catalyst, which helps split the hydrogen molecules into protons, labeled “H+”, and electrons, labeled “e-”. Once this step is done, the protons move through the proton exchange membrane, while the electrons are forced to use an external circuit because the proton exchange membrane is very selective. The electrons flow through the external circuit, which creates an electrical current. This will power the electric motor in the vehicle. On the other hand, Oxygen is provided to the cathode inside the fuel cell stack, which has the electrons that have taken the external path, and the protons. While inside, they are all mixed to create water (H2O), which will be the only thing the car will leave behind. Using this technology, we are able to assure that Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles will not produce anything that will harm the environment nor use any non-renewable resources aside from the transportation of the Hydrogen needed to power the vehicle.
Plonévez-Porzay
Plonévez-Porzay (Plonevez-Porzhe) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Eddie Fenech Adami
Edoardo "Eddie" Fenech Adami (born 7 February 1934) is a Maltese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996, and again from 1998 until 2004. He was the seventh President of Malta from 2004 to 2009. He is pro-European, Fenech Adami is the longest serving Maltese prime minister since Malta's independence, and was important for Malta being part of the European Union.
Amieva
Amieva is a municipality in Asturias, Spain.
Abyssinia Crisis
Both Italy and Ethiopia did not like each other. The League of Nations said:"At places where there is not a single Italian national, a consul establishes himself in an area known as consular territory with a guard of about ninety men, for whom he claims jurisdictional immunity. This is an obvious abuse of consular privileges. The abuse is all the greater that the consul's duties, apart from the supplying of information of a military character, take the form of assembling stocks of arms, which constitute a threat to the peace of the country, whether from the internal or the international point of view."
Brassaï
Brassai was a surrealist photographer who was born on 9th September 1899 in what is now known as Romania. He passed away on 8th July 1984 in his home on the French Riviera near Nice. Brassaï trained as an artist and settled in Paris in 1924. There he worked as a sculptor, painter, and journalist and associated with such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, and the writer Henry Miller.
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Archipiélago de Colón in Spanish) are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean which now belongs to Ecuador. The islands are famous for having many native animals, including giant tortoises, that are found nowhere else on Earth. These animals helped Charles Darwin towards his theory of evolution by natural selection after he visited the islands in 1835.
Ecclesiastical Latin
The term Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin or Italian Latin) is the Latin that is used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies. It is not a distinct language but a form of Latin used for ecclesiastical purposes because it can be used also for commercial or other purposes.
The Church issued the dogmatic definitions of the first seven General Councils in Greek, and even in Rome, Greek remained at first the language of the liturgy and the language in which the first popes wrote. The Holy See is not obliged to use Latin as its official language, and in theory, it could change its practice.
However, Latin has the advantage that the meaning of its words is less likely to change radically over the centuries. That helps to ensure theological precision and orthodoxy. Accordingly, recent Popes have reaffirmed the importance of Latin for the Church, particularly for those in ecclesiastical studies.
Galápagos Islands
People
People live on only 5 of the 19 islands of the Galápagos: Baltra, Floreana, Isabela, San Cristobal and Santa Cruz. Puerto Ayora is the biggest town, where about 10,000 people live. Puerto Ayora is on Santa Cruz Island. The second biggest town is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristobal with about 5,600 people. Puerto Villamil is the town of Isabela Island, where about 2,000 people live. There are approximately 30,000 people living in the Galapagos as of 2012.
Tourism has steadily grown over the last two decades; in 2012 it is estimated that 200,000 tourists will visit the Galápagos Islands.
Galápagos Province
There are three cantons in the province. Each canton has a seat, which is a town like a capital. All of the islands of the province are in one of the three cantons.
Noteworthy species
Noteworthy species include:
Virignin
Virignin is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Simbang big-eyed tree frog
The Simbang big-eyed tree frog (Nyctimystes obsoletus) is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea. Scientists found it on the Huon Peninsula.
This frog's ear is hard to see when it is alive. The ear is easier to see when it is dead and preserved.
Telemachus
Telemachos (or Latin Telemachus) is a person in Greek mythology. He is the son of Odysseus of Ithaca and Penelope. While Odysseus was trying return home, many believed him to be dead. Suitors surrounded his home, trying to claim Penelope as their wife. Athena came to Telemachus in disguise and gave him advice. She told him to search for evidence that his father was still alive. If he was alive he could force the suitors away. However, if he believed his father to be dead, he would let one of the suitors claim her. He gathered a search party and set out to question many of the people Odysseus served with in the war. He decided that his father was dead. Telemachos held a competition for the suitors to claim Penelope. Odysseus showed up in secret, won the competition and rejoined his family.
Edith Wilmans
Edith Wilmans ( December 21, 1882 - March 21, 1966) was a politician. She helped lead in the Democratic party, fighting for women’s rights. Wilmans was born in Louisiana as Edith Eunice Therrel. She was married in 1900 to Hall Wilmans, and later they had three daughters. Wilmans first started fighting for women’s rights when she undertook organizing a Dallas organization for women’s rights. In 1918 Wilmans decided she wanted to become a lawyer to help women’s voting rights. She then got a job for the Texas legislature in 1923, three years after the 19th amendment was passed. During her time on the job, she was part of the office that passed laws to give more money to schools in Dallas. In 1925 she was asked by Pat M. Neff to be part of state Supreme Court. She then later left because she didn't have the training to be on the court.
Aliya Mustafina
Aliya Fargatovna Mustafina (Алия́ Фарга́товна Муста́фина; born 30 September 1994) is a Russian gymnast. She won four medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and three medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Mustafina was the most successful athlete that was not a swimmer at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Mustafina has won 11 medals at the World Championships. She was the 2010 World Champion in the all-around and in the team competition. She was the 2013 World Champion on the balance beam.
Gucci Mane
Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper and record executive.
Gucci released his first studio album Trap House in 2005. In 2007, he founded his own label, 1017 Records. He has released 12 studio albums and over 70 mixtapes.
He has a large tattoo of an ice cream cone tattooed onto his face which he got after he was released from the hospital.
Personal life
In 2017, Gucci married Keyshia Ka'oir. They have one son (born in 2020).
Bettenhausen, Switzerland
Bettenhausen is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 the former municipality of Bollodingen merged into the municipality of Bettenhausen.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Ahmed Zaki Yamani (أحمد زكي يماني; 30 June 1930 – 23 February 2021) was a Saudi Arabian politician. He was Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources from 1962 to 1986.
He died on 23 February 2021 in London, aged 90.
Rumour Has It (Adele song)
"Rumour Has It" is the fourth hit single from the Adele album 21. It was released on 5 November 2011. The song was given lots of positive reviews from music critics in. The song was written by Adele along with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, who also produced the song. It reached number 16 on the charts in the US and Canada. In the US, it was certified double-Platinum for shipments of over two million copies.
Åre
Åre is a locality in Åre Municipality in the county of Jämtland in northern Sweden. It is a famous ski resort, and hosted the Alpine Skiing World Championships in the years of 1954 and 2007. Alpine skiing world cup competitions are often held here.
Drevant
Drevant is a commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France. About 549 people lived there in January 2019.
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新) is a Japanese architect.
Early life
He studied with Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kurokawa, and Fumihiko Maki at the University of Tokyo. He graduated in 1954.
Career
Isozaki worked for Kenzo Tange & Urtec from 1954 to 1963. He started his own design office in 1963.
In 2005, Arata Isozaki started another office in Italy called Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates.
Isozaki was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2019.
Viola, Arkansas
Viola is a town in Fulton County in the state of Arkansas in the United States.
Crazy in Love
Music video
The music video (released in May 2003) was filmed by Jake Nava and does not have a story. The opening scene begins with Knowles wearing a tank top, shorts, and red high-heels. She performs a dance on a riser. The scene shifts to a gold set detailing a mock photo shoot, before moving into a scene with dancers detailing Knowles and dancing against a wall while wearing caps and full length pants. In a controversial sequence, the video then shifts into its next scene, which shows a helpless Beyoncé struggling inside a car. She is apparently unaware that there is a trail of gasoline outside of the car, which Jay-Z ignites, causing the car to explode.
Knowles does not appear injured; next, she is dancing to Jay-Z's solo rap in an exotic silk print over a fur coat, and decides to kick a fire hydrant. She continues to dance whilst the water is flying all over the place. The video ends with Knowles and her dancers in front of a giant fan in vibrant dresses in contrast to the more neutral colors of the background.
Tyndareus
Tyndareos (or Latin Tyndareus) was a character in Greek mythology. He was the king of Sparta, and husband of Leda.
He was the father of Klytaimnestra and Kastor. His wife Leda also had Helen and Polydeukes by the god Zeus.
Menelaos, husband of Helen, became the next king of Sparta after Tyndareos.
Sandra Izbașa
Sandra Raluca Izbaşa (born June 18, 1990) is a Romanian gymnast. She has won two Olympic gold medals, at the floor event at the 2008 Olympics and at the vault event at the 2012 Olympics.
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (20 November 1940 – 27 May 2014) was a German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She was known for directing Germany, Pale Mother.
Sanders-Brahms was born in Emden. She died in Berlin on May 27, 2014 after a long illness, aged 73.
George Papandreou
Georgios A. Papandreou (Γεώργιος Α. Παπανδρέου  born 16 June 1952) is a Greek politician. He became Prime Minister of Greece from October 2009. His term ended in November 2011.
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI (Paulus PP. VI; Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 263rd Pope from 1963 until his death in 1978. Paul was a spiritual leader and the head of the church bureaucracy. Pope Benedict XVI declared in 2012 that Paul had lived “a life of heroic virtue.” Two years later he was beatified by Pope Francis. He was canonized by the same pope in October 2018.
Early life
Montini was born in Concesio. That is near Brescia in northern Italy. His father was editor of a Roman Catholic newspaper. He received degrees in civil and canon law, theology and philosophy.
George Papandreou
His father Andreas was Prime Minister in the 1980s and again in the middle 1990s. His grandfather Georgios was also Prime Minister of Greece in the middle 20th century.
Pope Paul VI
Before the papacy
Montini was ordained and celebrated his first mass in 1920. He worked in the Vatican diplomatic corps. During World War II, he was in charge of the Vatican's work for refugees and prisoners of war. He was made Archbishop of Milan in 1954. Pope John XXIII made Montini a cardinal in 1958.
Pope
Cardinal Montini was elected Pope in 1963. Pope Paul continued the Second Vatican Council which was begun by Pope John XXIII. His first encyclical is the only one in the Vatican archives which is in the handwriting of the pope who delivered it. Paul VI was known as the "pilgrim" pope for his numerous travels. He was the first pope to fly in an airplane.
Perm (hairstyle)
A permanent wave, commonly called a perm, is the chemical treatment of hair to produce curls.
Pope Paul VI
Pope
In 1964, Paul was the first pope to travel from Rome to the Holy Land. He flew first to Amman in Jordan. Then he traveled by car to Jerusalem. In 1970, the pope visited Australia, the Phillipines, and Indonesia. In 1975, Paul declared 1975 to be a "jubilee" year with themes of renewal and reconciliation.
In 1978, Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome. Pope Paul VI made an offer to exchange his life for Moro's. The offer was not accepted. Moro was killed 55 days later.
Perm (hairstyle)
The first chemical treatment for curling hair that was suitable for use on people was invented in the year 1906 by the German hairdresser Karl Nessler (1872-1951). He used a mixture of cow urine and water. The first public demonstration took place on October 8, 1906, but Nessler had been working on the idea since 1896. Previously, wigs had been set with caustic chemicals to form curls, but these recipes were too harsh to use on human skin.
Pope Paul VI
Death
At the age of 80, Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, from a heart attack.
Legacy
The Pope Paul VI Hall is the modern building in which mass papal audiences are held.
More reading
Serafian, Michael. (1964). The Pilgrim. New York: Farrar, Straus. OCLC 386084?
C-sharp
C-sharp (also written as C or C#) could mean:
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree (สรพงษ์ ชาตรี; born Pittaya Tiamswate; 8 December 1950 – 10 March 2022) was a Thai actor. He was born in Maha Rat, Ayutthaya, Thailand. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 2021. Chatree was known for his roles in Out of the Darkness, Plae Kao and The Legend of Suriyothai.
Drama
Drama is a type of literature. A drama can be in the form of a novel, television show, movie, play or dance. Although drama is a Greek word meaning "action", most dramas focus more on the relationships between people than on the actions. Dramas usually have a serious feel to them. Drama is considered the opposite of comedy, but drama and comedy can be used at the same time. Drama is full of sensational action, dialogue, incidents etc.
Shakespeare influenced the theatre industry by showing what could be done with plot and language.
Ditat Deus
Ditat Deus is the state motto of Arizona. It is featured on the state's seal. It means "God enriches" in Latin.
Eintopf
Eintopf is a traditional recipe in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. At the base it is a vegetable soup to which other ingredients, usually meat or sausages are added. It is commonly eaten during the winter months. An eintopf should be a complete meal.
What Makes You Beautiful
"What Makes You Beautiful" was the first single released by the British-Irish boyband One Direction. It is from their album Up All Night (2011). It was released by Syco Records on 11 September 2011. Written by Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk and Savan Kotecha and produced by Yacoub and Falk, "What Makes You Beautiful" is a teen pop song.
"What Makes You Beautiful" sold 153,965 copies in its first week. In the United States, the single became the highest Billboard Hot 100 debut for a U.K. act since 1998.
Church of Sweden Abroad
The Church of Sweden Abroad (Svenska kyrkan i utlandet) serves under the Diocese of Visby within the Church of Sweden, and consists of congregations within the church, located outside Sweden.
Vongnes
Vongnes is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Yevhen Deidei
Yevhen Serhiyovych Deidei (Євген Сергійович Дейдей; 12 July 1987 – 10 March 2022) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the battalion of the Special Tasks Patrol Police "Kyiv-1". He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from November 2014 until August 2019. In 2012 he was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery but was later released.
Marc Bulger
Marc Robert Bulger (born April 5, 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the St. Louis Rams and Baltimore Ravens. He played his entire NFL career with the Rams and was only the backup quarterback for Joe Flacco on the Ravens. He was voted Most Valuable Player of the 2004 Pro Bowl.
On August 2, 2011, Bulger retired from playing professional football.
North to the Future
North to the Future is the state motto of Alaska. It was adopted in 1967.
Chaat
Chaat (Hindi/Nepali: चाट, Urdu/Punjabi: ) is a term describing good snacks. Chaat is most likely to be found at road-side tracks from food carts in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Chaat is made of fried dough, which can be filled with different ingredients. Chaat commonly contains pieces of potato, chickpeas, and spices.
John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 - November 16, 1985) was an American politician from Alabama. He ran in the 1952 United States Presidential election.
Dun-sur-Auron
Dun-sur-Auron is a commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France. About 3,655 people lived there in January 2019.
Tamil Nadu Liberation Army
The Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA) is a small militant separatist movement in Tamil Nadu. It seeks an independent nation for the Tamil people. It began about 1985 as the military part of the Tamil Nadu Communist Party Marxist-Lenisist. It began a campaign of murders and bombings which it said were aimed at enemies of the people. They always put up posters to explain their reasons for these attacks. The leader of the group, Thamizharasan, was killed when he and a small group tried to rob a bank in Ponparappi.
Their next leader, known as Lenin, increased the number of members in the group. They began to bomb police stations and steal police weapons. Lenin was killed when one of his bombs exploded while being taken to an attack on a police station in 1994. The group took a movie actor, Dr. Rajkumar, prisoner in July 2000.
The TNLA is believed to get support from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The TNLA was listed as a terrorist organization in 2002 by the government of Tamil Nadu. The TNLA has said it wants a Greater Tamil Homeland which would include all of Tamil Nadu, the Laccadive Islands, Minicoy Island, the 'Tamil Eelam' in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore, and Mauritius.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, born 18 October 1960) is a Belgian martial artist, actor, fight choreographer, filmmaker, and director. Nicknamed "The Muscles from Brussels", he is well known for his action films. Credited with helping popularize martial arts in film, Van Damme is widely regarded as one of the most iconic martial arts action stars of all time.
Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, at the age of ten his father enrolled him in a  Shotokan Karate school. From there, he went on to develop his fighting skills, studying Kickboxing, Taekwondo, and Muay Thai. He was a member of the Belgium Karate Team when it won the European Karate Championship on 26 December 1979. Van Damme has stated that Bruce Lee was an inspiration for him in his journey to becoming a renowned martial artist and fighter.
With the desire of becoming an actor, he moved to the United States in 1982, eventually getting his break as the lead in the film Bloodsport (1988). Van Damme became a popular action film star and followed up with Cyborg (1989), Kickboxer (1989), Lionheart (1990), Death Warrant (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Nowhere to Run (1993), Hard Target (1993), Timecop (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Sudden Death (1995), The Quest (1996), Maximum Risk (1996), etc.
Trapezius muscle
In human, trapezius muscle or trapezius is a large muscle that extends longitudinally on the upper portion of a human spine. Its functions are to move the scapulae and support the arm.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
He was married to Maria Rodriguez from 1980 until they divorced in 1984. Then he was married to Cynthia Derderian from 1985 until they divorced in 1986. Then he was married to Darcy LaPier from 1994 until they divorced in 1997. Then he was married to Gladys Portugues from 1987 until they divorced in 1992; they remarried in 1999. He has three children. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Van Damme has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Trapezius muscle
The trapezius has three functional regions: the superior region, which supports the weight of the arm; the intermediate region, which retracts the scapulae; and the inferior region, which rotates and depresses the scapulae.
Exercising
The upper portion of the trapezius can be developed by elevating the shoulders. Middle fibers are developed by pulling shoulder blades together. The lower part can be developed by drawing the shoulder blades downward while keeping the arms almost straight and stiff.
Waldenburg, Arkansas
Waldenburg is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Palm cockatoo
The palm cockatoo (binomial name Probosciger aterrimus) (also known as the goliath cockatoo) is a black or dark-gray parrot of the cockatoo family.
In the wild, it eats nuts and palm tree fruit by cracking them open with its strong and curved beak. In captivity, people feed palm cockatoos a variety of fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Palm cockatoos are native to Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia, the Aru Islands, Papua New Guinea, and other surrounding smaller islands. Palm cockatoo are common in these places, but scientists believe they are becoming less common because people are using their habitat for mining. They are intelligent and can be kept as pets.
Fausto Gresini
Fausto Gresini (23 January 1961 – 23 February 2021) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He was World Champion in 1985 and 1987. He was in his later years team manager for the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP team. He was born in Imola, Italy.
Gresini died on 23 February 2021 in Bologna, Italy from problems caused by COVID-19 at the age of 60.
Alfred Sant
Alfred Sant (born 28 February 1948) is a Maltese politician and a novelist. He led the Labour Party from 1992 to 2008. He served as Prime Minister of Malta between 1996 and 1998 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1992 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2008.
Gyo Obata
Gyo Obata (小圃 暁, February 28, 1923 – March 8, 2022) was an American architect. He co-founded the global architectural firm HOK. He designed the McDonnell Planetarium and GROW Pavilion at the Saint Louis Science Center, the Independence Temple of the Community of Christ church, the National Air and Space Museum and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Obata died in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 8, 2022, at the age of 99.
Blue Earth River
The Blue Earth River is a tributary of the Minnesota River. It is 108 miles (174 km) long and can be found in the southern part of Minnesota and the northern part of Iowa in the United States. It has two headwaters: the Middle Branch Blue Earth River and the West Branch Blue Earth River. The Blue Earth River is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The river was named for old deposits of bluish-green clay that could be seen along the banks of the river. However, you are no longer able to see these deposits. It was called Makato Osa Watapa by the Dakota Indians. This had the meaning "the river where blue earth is gathered."
Vonnas
Vonnas is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Helen Westcott
Helen Westcott (born Myrthas Helen Hickman, January 1, 1928 – March 17, 1998) was an American actor. She is best known for her work in The Gunfighter (1950).
William of Ockham
William of Ockham was a Franciscan friar who lived in the 14th century. He was born around 1285, in Ockham, Surrey, England, and died April 9, 1347 in Munich. He was a scholastic philosopher and theologian. He is most famous for inventing Occam's razor. He wrote about logic, epistemology, natural philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics and ethics.
William of Ockham went to school at the University of Oxford, where he studied theology. After he graduated, he became a teacher of philosophy at the school. However, the Church did not like the ideas he was teaching, and brought him to court on charges of heresy in 1327. Because he was afraid he would be executed, William of Ockham fled the school and spent the rest of his life living with a group of friars who also did not like the large power that the Church had.
René Clemencic
René Clemencic (27 February 1928 – 8 March 2022) was an Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He was director of the Capella Musica Antiqua and of the Drama Musicum in Vienna. In 1958, he founded Musica Antiqua to perform early music. In 1968, he founded the Clemencic Consort.
Clemencic died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 94.
Mast
The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. Larger ships have several masts, with the size depending on the style of ship.
Until the 20th century, a ship's masts would be wooden spars, originally constructed from a single straight tree trunk. As ship sizes increased, taller masts were constructed by lashing up to three spars together.
My Gal Sal
My Gal Sal is a 1942 American musical movie directed by Irving Cummings and stars Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color. It was also nominated for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Waldron, Arkansas
Waldron is a city in the US state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,386. It is the county seat of Scott County.
Amber Montana
Amber Dawn Montana (born December 2, 1998) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead role in the Nickelodeon TV show The Haunted Hathaways as Taylor Hathaway.
Early life and career
She was born in Tampa, Florida. When she was eight years old she moved to California to pursue opportunities as an actress. In 2008 Amber got the role of a girl who is kidnapped in the movie She Could Be You. In 2012 he appeared on the Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge. In 2013 she landed the lead role in the Nickelodeon TV show The Haunted Hathaways.