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Nicholas Smith (actor)
Nicholas Smith (5 March 1934 – 6 December 2015) was an English actor. He was best known for playing the bald and jug-eared manager, Mr Rumbold, in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?. Smith is the last surviving member of the original cast of Are You Being Served?.
Diophantus
Diophantus of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician. He is well known for his series of books called Arithmetica. He mainly focused on solving algebraic equations. His work was built upon by Pierre de Fermat, a French mathematician, who claimed that a certain equation created by Diophantus was unsolvable. The attempts to prove this claim, now known as Fermat's Last Theorem, led to major advances in number theory.
Biography
Not much is known of Diophantus's life. Some information is given by another Greek mathematician, Metroduros, through various problems that he wrote which supposedly contained hints about Diophantus' life.
Arithmetica
Diophantus' main notable work is his series of books called Arithmetica. It is a collection of problems and solutions to those problems. These problems have come to be known as Diophantine equations. The method in which they are solved is now called Diophantine analysis.
John Cage
John Milton Cage, Jr. usually known as just John Cage, (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer, writer, philosopher, and visual artist. He was one of the first composers (or musicians) to introduce different styles of music to popular culture. He made mostly avant-garde music and electronic music, and was very well known for making the piece 4'33", which challenged what music is. He also wrote music for pianos that had been "prepared" by having screws and nails placed in them. He was gay. His life partner from 1943 until his death was choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009). Cage died of a stroke in New York City.
4'33"
This piece is in 3 movements (sections), and is special in that all of the movements are silent, the score having the Latin word for silence three times (tacit, tacit, tacit). Some people think that it is just a joke because of this, as there is nothing to listen to. It was written in 1952, and is 4 minutes and thirty three seconds long. Cage got the idea from being in a soundless chamber, but realising that even here there was no true silence because he could hear his heart beating.
Lousigam
Lousigam (Lousikam) is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Derby Museum and Art Gallery was started in 1879 in a new building given to Derby by a local brewer. The collection today includes paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby and porcelain from Derby and the surrounding area.
Wright of Derby
In 2011, Derby City Council announced that it was to use Joseph Wright of Derby to brand the city of Derby. At the same time, the Museum announced that it was "joining forces" with Wikipedia to improve the quality of its information. In February 2011 it was announced that Derby Museum had been given an award for its collection of paintings and drawings by Joseph Wright.
Ram Ranch
Several sequels to Ram Ranch have been released, usually named via numbers, with the most recent being Ram Ranch 542 released on February 11 2022.
Freedom Convoy
The song was used in 2022 during the Canada convoy protest. The song was used by counter-protesters to flood Zello channels, to troll protesters at the protests.
2012 Russian presidential election
Incumbent president, Dmitry Medvedev, decided not to run for a second term.
Vladimir Putin, from United Russia, easily won the election. He received 64% of the vote.
Aftermath
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe gave an overall positive review of the election, but they did notice some issues. They found that Putin was given more airtime than other candidates. There were also some cases of carousel voting (which is a type of electoral fraud where supporters drive to multiple polling stations and vote multiple times). Ruža Tomašić, a OSCE observer from Croatia, noted that there were no violations at the five polling stations she observed. A few days after the election, 15,000–20,000 people protested in Moscow against the results. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not recognize the results.
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Drifter (東京流れ者) is a 1966 Japanese action crime movie directed by Seijun Suzuki. It stars Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawaji, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Ryūji Kita and was distributed by Nikkatsu.
1993–94 NHL season
The 1993–94 NHL season was the 77th regular season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-six teams each played 84 games. The New York Rangers were the Stanley Cup champions. It was the Rangers' fourth championship. In addition, the final game started the 1994 Stanley Cup riots in Downtown Vancouver.
The play of Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils and Dominik Hasek of the Buffalo Sabres brought in a new era of goaltending dominance in the NHL. Only three teams reached the 300-goal plateau, and only one team, the Detroit Red Wings, averaged more than four goals scored per game. Goaltenders combined for 99 shutouts during the regular season.
Regular season
This was the first and only season (as of the 2007-08 season) that all 4 former WHA teams (Edmonton, Hartford, Quebec, Winnipeg) missed the playoffs since joining in 1979.
Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Chives
Chives are herbs which are related to the onion. Its leaves are used for flavoring.
1993–94 NHL season
Western Conference
Note: x = clinched playoff berth, y = clinched division title, z = won Presidents' Trophy
NHL Awards
The NHL Awards presentation took place on June 16, 1994.
First games
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1993–94 (listed with their first team, stars(*) mark start in playoffs):
Seneca, South Carolina
Seneca is a city in Oconee County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 8,102 at the 2010 census.
Porta di Prada
Porta di Prada is a mountain in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, northern Italy, particularly in the territory area of the village of Lierna and Mandello del Lario, on Grigna settentrionale, near the Refuge Bietti Buzzi (Lake Como).
Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais
Benedetto of Savoy (Benedetto Maria Maurizio; 21 June 1741 – 4 January 1808) was a prince of Savoy and Duke of Chablais. He was born in the reign of his father Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia. He has no descendants but had a distinguished military career. He married his niece and was the owner of the Palazzo Chiablese in Turin.
Porta di Prada
The Prada door is present in the background of the Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci, with a view of Lierna, Olcio and Menaggio.
The peak reaches 1,626 metres in altitude.
Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais
Biography
Chablais was born at the Palace of Venaria and was the was the youngest child of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine. His mother died giving birth to him. He was named after Pope Benedict XIV who became pope the year before his birth. His maternal cousin's included the future Queen of Naples and the famous Marie Antoinette. He was his fathers favourite child.
His uncle Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor wanted him to marry his daughter daughter Maria Christina of Austria as but it never happened. In 1753 his father gave what is now the Palazzo Chiablese as a home. Chablais extended the palace. His father gave him the title of Duke of Chablais in 1763. As the son of a reigning King he was entitled to the style of Royal Highness.
Chablais married his niece Princess Maria Anna of Savoy on 19 March 1775. The marriage produced no children. Maria Anna died in 1824.
Tamisuke Watanuki
Tamisuke Watanuki (綿貫 民輔) is a Japanese politician. He was born in Nanto, Toyama, Japan. He was elected to the Diet in 1969 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from July 2000 to November 2003.
James White (New Mexico politician)
James P. "Jim" White (October 4, 1942 – January 15, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the New Mexico Senate from 2016 until his death. White was a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. White was a member of the Republican Party.
White died on January 15, 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 77.
M20 motorway
The M20 is a motorway in Kent, England. It connects Folkestone and Dover to the M25 and London. The motorway is important because Dover and Folkestone are where you can use a ferry, or a train through the Channel Tunnel, to get to France.
Mel Gibson
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, United States. His father, Hutton Gibson, was a veteran soldier during World War II, and was also a famous writer. His family moved to Australia in 1968, when he was 12. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. He also has Irish citizenship.
During the 1980s, Gibson founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which Atom Egoyan described as "an alternative to the studio system". When director Peter Weir cast him as a major character in World War I drama Gallipoli, he earned a Best Actor from the Australian Film Institute Awards, which cemented him as an serious, versatile and recognisable actor.
In 1995, Gibson received the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on Braveheart. He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ in 2004, a controversial drama regarding Jesus, which was viewed as antisemitic by several. Allegations of antisemitism and racism by Gibson led to a downfall in his career, and later revived his career, particularly with the 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional four.
Early life
Mel Colme-Cille Gerard Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, as the sixth of 11 children. He is of Irish descent, and the second son of Hutton Gibson, a writer, and Irish-born Anne Patricia (nee Reilly, died 1990). Gibson’s paternal grandmother was opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920), who was born in Australia, to Irish parents, while his paternal grandfather, John Hutton Gibson, was a millionaire and tobacco businessman from the South. One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name is derived from St. Mel’s Cathedral, located in his mother's hometown of Longford, Ireland. His second name, Colmcille, is also shared with an Irish saint. Because of his mother, Gibson possesses dual Irish and American citizenship. Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident.
Gibson's father was awarded US$145,000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against the New York Central Railroad on Valentine's Day, 1968, and soon afterwards relocated his family to West Pymble, Sydney, Australia. Gibson was twelve at the time. The move to his grandmother's native Australia was for economic reasons, and his father's expectation that the Australian Defence Force would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War.
During his years in high school, Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leo’s Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales.
Stylophone
The Stylophone is a instrument with keyboard and stylus. It was invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis and marketed the next year by Dubreq. The instrument is mostly known because it is easy to use and learn.
Flurlingen
Flurlingen is a municipality of the district of Andelfingen in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
Juliet Moss
Juliet Moss is an American water polo player. She was a member of the United States women's national water polo team. She played at the 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup.
She played for San Jose State University's women's water polo team.
Abfaltersbach
Abfaltersbach is a municipality of the district Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Ainet
Ainet is a municipality of the district Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Lukram
Lukram is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Freienstein-Teufen
Freienstein-Teufen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Vittorio Catani
Vittorio Catani (17 July 1940 – 23 November 2020) was an Italian science fiction writer. He was born in Lecce and worked in Bari, Italy. He started publishing essays and fiction in 1962. His first novel, Gli universi di Moras, won the Urania in 1990. Some of his works were published for La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.
His second science fiction novel, Il Quinto Principio, was published in December 2009 by Urania.
Catani died in Bari on 23 November 2020, at the age of 80.
Feelin' So Good
"Feelin' So Good" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. It was for her debut studio album On the 6. It has rappers Fat Joe and Big Pun. It is a hip hop and R&B song. It is mainly about enjoying life.
Alipurduar district
Alipurduar district is a district in West Bengal, India. The headquarters of this district is Alipurduar city. This district was created in the year of 2014. This is the 20th district of West Bengal.
The district contains nine census towns and rural areas of 66 gram panchayats. These are under six community development blocks: Madarihat - Birpara, Alipurduar I, Alipurduar II, Falakata, Kalchini and Kumargram.
The nine census towns are Paschim Jitpur, Chechakhata, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Bholar Dabri, Sobhaganj, Falakata, Jaygaon and Uttar Latabari and Uttar Kamakhyaguri.
Maharabam
Maharabam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Ben Thanh Market
Ben Thanh Market is a city market in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1. It is open every day from 6am to 10pm. It is one of the oldest buildings still standing in the city.
Utatsusaurus
Utatsusaurus is the earliest-known form of an ichthyopterygian. It lived in the earliest Lower Triassic period, about 250–245 millions years ago. It is nearly 3m (about 9 feet) long with a slender body.
The name Utatsusaurus was given after the city Utatsu-cho where the first specimen was found. The fossils have been found in the Lower Triassic of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan and British Columbia, Canada.
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula in the far north of Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoilt wilderness in eastern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth. The area is mostly flat and about half is used for grazing cattle. Much of the wildlife is threatened by introduced species and weeds. However, the eucalyptus wooded savannah, tropical rainforests, and other types of habitat are now recognized as being globally important.
Utatsusaurus
Utatsusaurus is one of the most primitive (basal) types of ichthyosaur. It has transitional features between its ancestral land-dwelling forms and the more derived ichthyosaurs. Unlike the more advanced ichthyosaurs, Utatsusaurus has no dorsal fin and has a broad skull. The snout gently tapers, compared to the more rounded one of more derived ichthyopterygians. The tail had a long low fin, quite different from the tail shape of later forms. This suggests that the animal swam by undulation, waving its body to & fro, rather than using its paddles and tail.
Cape York Peninsula
Geography and geology
The Cape York Peninsula region covers an area of about 137,000 km² north of 16°S latitude. From the tip of the peninsula, Cape York, it is about 160 km to New Guinea across the island and coral reefs of Torres Strait.
Utatsusaurus
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed the local museum, but fortunately the specimens were not there at the time.
Cape York Peninsula
Geography and geology
The west coast is bordered by the Gulf of Carpentaria and the east coast by the Coral Sea. There is no clear border to the south, but the boundary in the Cape York Peninsula Heritage Act 2007 of Queensland follows the 16°S latitude.
At the peninsula’s widest point, it is 430 km from the Bloomfield River, on the east coast, to the Aboriginal community of Kowanyama on the west coast. It is some 660 km from the southern border, to the tip of Cape York. The largest islands in the Torres Strait include Prince of Wales Island, Horn Island, Moa, and Badu Island.
Cape York is the northernmost point on the Australian continent. It was named by Lieutenant James Cook on 21 August, 1770, after Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany. The Duke was a brother of King George III of the United Kingdom, and died from illness in 1767 when he was only 20 years old:
The tropical landscapes are among the most stable in the world. There has been no tectonic activity for millions of years. The peninsula is an extremely eroded, almost level, low plain with mighty meandering rivers and vast floodplains. There are some very low hills, about 800m above sea level in the McIlwraith Range on the eastern side around Coen.
Purba Bardhaman district
Purba Bardhaman district is a newly created district of West Bengal. Bardhaman district of West Bengal was divided into two new districts. These were named Purba Bardhaman district and Paschim Bardhaman district. This district has its headquarters at Bardhaman city.
Cape York Peninsula
Geography and geology
Part of Australia’s Great Dividing Range, the Peninsula Ridge, is like a backbone along the peninsula. This mountain range is made up of ancient (1,500 million year-old) Precambrian and Palaeozoic rocks. To the east and west of the Peninsula Ridge lie the Carpentaria and Laura Basins, themselves made up of ancient Mesozoic sediments. There are several important landforms on the peninsula: the large area of undisturbed sand dunes on the east coast around Shelburne Bay and Cape Bedford-Cape Flattery; the huge piles of black granite boulders at Black Mountain National Park and Cape Melville; and the limestone karsts around Palmerston in the south.
The soils are poor, even compared to other areas of Australia. They are ancient and weathered, not suitable for ploughing and do not respond to fertilizers. Because of the poor soil, the region is thinly settled. Attempts to grow commercial crops have usually failed.
Purba Bardhaman district
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India, Purba Bardhaman district had a total population of 4,835,532. There were 2,469,310 (51%) males and 2,366,222 (49%) females. Population below 6 years was 509,855.
Cape York Peninsula
Geography and geology
The climate on Cape York Peninsula is tropical and monsoonal. The heavy monsoon season is from November to April, during which time the forest becomes almost inhabitable. The dry season is from May to October. The temperature is warm to hot, with a cooler climate in higher areas. The mean annual temperatures range from 18 °C at higher elevations to 27 °C on the lowlands in the drier southwest. Temperatures over 40 °C and below 5 °C are rare.
Annual rainfall is high, ranging from over 2000 mm. in the Iron Range and north of Weipa to about 700 mm. at the southern border. Most of this rain falls between November and April. Only on the eastern slopes of the Iron Range is the median rainfall between June and September above 5mm (0.2 inches). Between January and March, however, the median monthly rainfall ranges from about 170mm (6.5 inches) in the south to over 500mm (20 inches) in the north and on the Iron Range.
Rivers
The Peninsula Ridge forms the drainage divide between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. To the west, large, winding river systems including the Mitchell, Coleman, Holroyd, Archer, Watson, Wenlock, Ducie and Jardine flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria. During the Dry season, those rivers become a series of waterholes and sandy beds. Yet, with the heavy rains in the Wet season, they become mighty waterways, spreading across huge floodplains and coastal wetlands and giving life to many freshwater and wetland species.
On the Eastern slopes, the shorter, faster-flowing Jacky Jacky Creek, Olive, Pascoe, Lockhart, Stewart, Jeannie and Endeavour Rivers flow towards the Coral Sea. These provide important freshwater and nutrients to the healthiest section of the Great Barrier Reef. Along their banks, those wild, undisturbed rivers are lined with dense rainforests, sand dunes or mangroves.
The floodplains of the Laura Basin are now protected in the Lakefield and Jack River National Parks. The plains are crossed by the Morehead, Hann, North Kennedy, Laura, Jack and Normanby Rivers.
The Peninsula’s rivers are famous for their hydrological integrity. This means that they are still in their natural state, with water flows and vegetation unchanged. Cape York Peninsula is one of the few places where tropical water cycles remain unchanged. Cape York Peninsula has as much as a quarter of Australia's surface runoff. With less than 3% of Australia's land area it produces more run-off than all of Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The peninsula’s rivers are also important as they put water back into central Australia’s Great Artesian Basin. The Queensland Government is planning to protect 13 of Cape York Peninsula’s wild rivers under the Wild Rivers Act 2005.
Geological history
Around 40 million years ago, the Indo-Australian tectonic plate began to split apart from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. As it crashed into the Pacific Plate on its northward journey, the high mountain ranges of central New Guinea were made around 5 million years ago. Protected from this collision zone, the ancient rocks of what is now Cape York Peninsula were did not move.
During the Pleistocene epoch Australia and New Guinea have been land-linked and separated by water a number of times. During the ice ages with their low sea levels, Cape York Peninsula was a low-lying land bridge. Another link existed between Arnhem Land and New Guinea, at times making a big freshwater lake, Lake Carpentaria, in the centre of what is now the Gulf of Carpentaria. In this way, Australia and New Guinea were joined until the shallow Torres Strait was last flooded around 8,000 years ago.
Plants
Cape York Peninsula has a range of intact tropical rainforests, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands, tropical savannahs, heath lands, wetlands, wild rivers and mangrove swamps. These are home to about 3300 species of flowering plants. Almost all of the Cape York Peninsula (99.6%) still has its native vegetation. Cape York Peninsula also contains one of the highest rates of endemism in Australia, with more than 260 endemic plant species found so far. Because of this, parts of the Peninsula have been noted for their very high wilderness quality. The plants of the peninsula includes original Gondwanan species, plants that have developed since the breakup of Gondwana and species from Indo-Malaya and from across the Torres Strait in New Guinea. Most variety is in the rainforest areas. Most of the Cape York Peninsula is drier than New Guinea which stops the rainforest plants of that island from moving across to Australia.
Most of the Cape York Peninsula is covered in grass and woodlands. These have a tall, thick grass layer and scattered trees, mostly eucalypts. The most common tree is the Darwin stringybark. Although common and complete on the peninsula, tropical savannahs are now rare and in poor condition in other parts of the world.
Tropical rainforests cover an area of 748,000 ha, or 5.6 percent of the total land area of Cape York Peninsula. Rainforests need some rainfall during the long Dry season. These conditions are mostly on the eastern slopes of the Cape’s coastal ranges. These are old-growth forests and support a huge range of plants. These rainforests are of high conservation significance. The largest rainforest area on the Cape is in the McIllwraith Range-Iron Range area. The Gondwanan plants of this area includes Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae conifers and Arthrochilus, Corybas, and Calochilus orchids. This rainforest has at least 1000 different plants, including 100 rare or threatened species, and 16% of Australia's orchid species.
On poor, dry soils there are tropical heathlands. Northeast Cape York Peninsula has Australia’s largest areas of this highly diverse ecosystem.
The big wetlands on Cape York Peninsula are “among the largest, richest and most diverse in Australia”. 19 wetlands of national significance have been identified, mostly on the large floodplains and in coastal areas. Important wetlands include the Jardine River National Park, Lakefield National Park and the estuaries of the great rivers of the western plains. Many of these wetland only happen during the Wet season and have rare or uncommon plant types.
The Peninsula’s coastal areas and river estuaries are lined with mangrove forests of kwila and other trees. Australia’s largest mangrove forest is at Newcastle Bay.
Erika Lava
Erika Lava is an Italian water polo player and coach. She was a member of the Italian women's national water polo team. She played at the 2003 European Waterpolo Championship, 2003 FINA World Championships, and 2004 FINA Women’s Water Polo Superfinal.
Cape York Peninsula
Animals
The Cape has lots of animals, with more than 700 vertebrate land animal species. Of these, 40 live only here. Because of its geological history, the plants and animals "of Cape York Peninsula are a complex mixture of Gondwanan relics, Australian isolationists and Asian or New Guinean invaders” (p. 41). Birds include Buff-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix olivii), Golden-shouldered Parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius), Lovely Fairywren (Malurus amabilis), White-streaked Honeyeater (Trichodere cockerelli), and Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (Meliphaga notata). Some, such as Pied Oystercatcher, live in other parts of Australia but have important populations on the peninsula. The Cape is also home to the Eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous snakes. Mammals include the endangered rodent Bramble Cay Melomys, which lives only on Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait.
The rainforests of the Iron Range have species that also live in New Guinea, including the Eclectus Parrot and Southern Common Cuscus. Other rainforest animals includes 200 species of butterfly including 11 endemic butterflies one of which is the huge Green Birdwing, the Green Tree Python and the Northern Quoll. Number of this forest marsupial have dropped because they have tried to eat the introduced poisonous cane toads.
The riverbanks of the lowlands are home to specific wildlife of their own. The rivers including the Jardine, Jackson, Olive, Holroyd and the Wenlock are rich in fish. The wetlands and coastal mangroves are noted for their importance as a fish nursery and crocodile habitat, providing important drought refuge. The Great Barrier Reef is off the east coast and is an important marine habitat.
Threats and preservation
Cattle farms use about 57% of the total area, mostly in central and eastern Cape York Peninsula. About 20% is indigenous land, with the entire West coast being held under Native title. The remainder is mostly National Park and managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Land uses include broad acre pastoralism, bauxite and silica sand mining, nature reserves, tourism and fishing. There are big deposits of bauxite along the west or Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Weipa is the centre for mining. Much has been damaged by overgrazing, mining, fires, wild pigs, cane toads, weeds, and other introduced species. But Cape York Peninsula remains fairly unspoilt with intact and healthy river systems and no recorded plant or animal extinction since European settlement.
The "Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy" study, by the Australian government in 1990, created plans to protect the wilderness. A nomination for World Natural Heritage is currently being looked at by the Queensland and Australian Federal governments. Major national parks include the Jardine River National Park in the far north, Mungkan Kandju National Park near Aurukun, and Lakefield National Park in the southeast of the bioregion.
People and culture
The first known contact between Europeans and Aborigines took place on the west coast of the peninsula in 1606. It was not settled by Europeans until the 19th century when fishing communities, then cattle ranches and later mining towns were started. European settlement led to the displacement of Aboriginal communities and the arrival of Torres Strait Islanders on the mainland. Today the peninsula has about 18,000 people. About 60% of them are Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
The administrative and commercial centre for much of Cape York Peninsula is Cooktown, in its far southeastern corner. The peninsula’s largest settlement is the mining town Weipa on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Most of the Peninsula has few people, with half the people living in very small settlements and cattle ranches. Along the Peninsula Developmental Road, there are small service centres at Lakeland, Laura and Coen. At the tip of Cape York, there is a sizeable service centre on nearby Thursday Island. Aboriginal communities are at Hopevale, Pormpuraaw, Kowanyama, Aurukun, Lockhart River, Napranum, Mapoon, Injinoo, New Mapoon and Umagico. Torres Strait Islander communities on the mainland are at Bamaga and Seisia. A completely sealed inland road links Cairns and the Atherton Tableland to Lakeland Downs and Cooktown. The road north of Lakeland Downs to the tip of the Peninsula is sometimes cut after heavy rains during the wet season (roughly December to May).
The Peninsula is a popular with tourists in the Dry Season for camping, hiking, birdwatching and fishing. Many people make the adventurous, but rewarding, drive to the tip of Cape York, the northernmost point of mainland Australia.
Some of the world's most extensive and ancient Aboriginal rock painting galleries surround the town of Laura, some of which are available for public viewing. There is also a new Interpretive Centre from which information on the rock art and local culture is available and tours can be arranged.
References
Further references
All Killer, No Filler
All Killer, No Filler is the first studio album by Canadian rock band, Sum 41. It was released on May 8, 2001. The producer of the album was Jerry Finn. The album was ranked as the 9th greatest punk pop album of all time by Top40.com.
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The F-15 Eagle is a fighter jet that originally made by McDonnell-Douglas (later Boeing). It is known around the world for its toughness and undefeated record, meaning that it has never been shot down by an enemy plane. It is used primarily by the United States Air Force, but it is also used in Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. It usually carries missiles and an M61 Vulcan gun to shoot down enemy fighter jet planes. More than a thousand have been made.
Redesign
In 1981, the F-15 was redesigned to include the ability to carry bombs, allowing the F-15 to do the job of attack aircraft. This means it can also destroy things on the ground. This new variant of the aircraft was called the  McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle.
Francisco Cumplido
Francisco Guillermo Cumplido Cereceda (23 October 1930 – 16 July 2022) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. He was the Minister of Justice under Patricio Aylwin's government from 1990 to 1994. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Party. Cumplido was born in Santiago, Chile.
Cumplido died on 16 July 2022 in Santiago at the age of 91.
Takeshi Hamano
Takeshi Hamano (浜野たけし, Hamano Takeshi, April 26, 1949 [age 72]; Shikoku) is a Japanese writer and musician. He became drummer for Yukio Miya (who he left the band after an argument with the music directors) and was about younger than Shin Okamoto, whom he was born on April 20th and lead member of The Jaguars.
Career
Hamano joined the the group as a drummer after Yukio Miya left in April 1968. In 1970, a mischievous fire broke out in his apartment, which caused him to leave the group and retire from the entertainment world.
John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights leader. He was the U.S. Representative for GA's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Lewis, who as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
Early Life
John Lewis was born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama to Eddie Lewis and Willie Mae Lewis (née Carter), who were sharecroppers in Pike County, Alabama. Sharecroppers were people who were allowed to rent a part of a piece of land for return of a share of the crops they harvested. He was the third of ten children.
He experienced segregation as a young boy in the Southern United States. When he went to visit relatives in the Northern US, he learned that places there were integrated and served Black people and white people equally.
Personal Life
Lewis married Lilian Miles in 1968. They had a son, John-Miles. Lillian died on December 31, 2012.
Death
In December 2019, Lewis was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 17, 2020 from the disease, aged 80. His funeral was held at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke (14 May 1927 – 16 July 2022) was an Austrian scientist and writer. He was a computer artist. He created computer graphics and early digital art since the late 1950s. Franke worked on future research and speleology.
Rachel McAdams
She had major roles in The Hot Chick, Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Red Eye, The Family Stone, State of Play, The Time Traveler's Wife, Sherlock Holmes, Morning Glory, Midnight in Paris, The Vow and About Time.
She was nominated for the Orange Rising Star Award in 2006.
Blanca Soto
Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides (born January 5, 1979 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, model, and former beauty queen. She is known for her leading role in Eva Luna.
Woman of the Year
Woman of the Year is a 1942 American romantic comedy movie directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Roscoe Karns. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was nominated for 2 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1943.
Amlach
Amlach is a municipality of the district Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Kolkata district
Kolkata district is an administrative district of West Bengal. The city of Kolkata is headquarters of the district.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India, Kolkata district has a population of 4,486,679. This gives it a ranking of 35th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 24252 PD/sqkm.
Future Nostalgia
Future Nostalgia is the second studio album by English singer Dua Lipa. It was released on 27 March 2020. It has the singles "Don't Start Now", "Physical", "Break My Heart", and "Levitating". The standard edition of the album was re-released to include a remix of "Levitating" which features rapper DaBaby, along with the track "Fever" with Angèle. It is also available in a bonus edition and a Moonlight Edition.
The album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2021.
Maibram
Maibram is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Eva Luna (telenovela)
Eva Luna is a 2010 telenovela produced by Venevisión International with Univision Studios. It starred Blanca Soto, Guy Ecker, and Jorge Lavat as the main protagonists, and Julian Gil and Susana Dosamantes as the main antagonists.
It is a remake of Telemundo's 1997 telenovela Aguamarina. Univision aired Eva Luna weeknights at 8pm/7pm central from November 1, 2010 to April 11, 2011, and a TV-14 rating was applied for all episodes. Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas aired Eva Luna from September 19, 2011 to January 6, 2012.
Maibam
Maibam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Caprie
Caprie is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Yael Danon
Yael Danon (born in Panama City, January 16, 2006) is a Panamanian singer. She is best known for having been a contestant on the Israeli edition of the talent competition series Israel's Got Talent. She is also known for her popular song "To Change" and for her covers of the songs "Hello" by Adele, "Fix You" by Coldplay and "Wonderwall" by Oasis. She began gaining attention as a singer in November of 2015 when she began posting videos of her singing through Instagram and her YouTube channel, as well as performing in musicals. She was then featured on Got Talent in December 2018. She is known to have been the winner of the Youth Category of the Israel Got Talent competition after she performed a one-time rendition of the Oasis song "Wonderwall." Although she was born in Panama, she grew up with her parents in Israel.
The Day the Fish Came Out
The Day the Fish Came Out is a 1967 Greek British comedy movie directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely, Sam Wanamaker, Candice Bergen, Ian Ogilvy, Dimitris Nikolaidis. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Bible de Genève
The English Bible of 1560 which is called the Geneva Bible is a different translation.
Maikam
Maikam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Maimom
Maimom is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Nikolai Krogius
Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius (July 22, 1930 – July 14, 2022) was a Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He coached World Champion Boris Spassky for many years. He also was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation. He was the co-winner of the 1993 World Senior Chess Championship.
Krogius died on July 14, 2022 in New York City, eight days before his 92nd birthday.
Anras
Anras is a municipality of the district Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Kid Krrish (movie)
Kid Krrish is an 2013 Indian Hindi-language television film based on Krrish. It is about the kid version of him as a superhero. It released on October 2, 2013. It was directed by Sooraj MK and executive produced by P Jayakumar. It was also produced by Toonz Animation, Film Kraft Productions, and Turner International India.
Plot
Krishna has inherited some special powers from his father, Rohit. Jadoo, an alien, comes down to earth to complete an unfinished job. Jadoo and Krishna meet and go on an exciting journey.
Peter Lichtner-Hoyer
Peter Lichtner-Hoyer (28 December 1925 – 23 November 2020) was an Austrian sportsman and colonel. He was born in Graz, Austria. He competed during the 1956 Summer Olympics in show jumping and 1960 Summer Olympics in pentathlon.
Lichtner-Hoyer was born in Graz and died on 23 November 2020 in Vienna at the age of 94.
Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips (born May 16, 1955) is an American merchant mariner and author. He served as captain of the MV Maersk Alabama during its hijacking by Somali pirates in April 2009. He was played by Tom Hanks in the 2013 movie ''Captain Phillips.
Arne Åhman
Per Arne Åhman (4 February 1925 – 5 July 2022) was a Swedish athlete. He won the triple jump event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Caravino
Caravino is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Juan de Dios Castro Lozano
Juan de Dios Castro Lozano (25 March 1942 – 24 November 2020) was a Mexican lawyer and politician. He was a member of the National Action Party. He was a member of the Congress of the Union between 1979 to 1985, 1991 to 2000 and 2003 to 2006. Castro Lozano was born in Torreón, Coahuila.
He also was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2003 to 2004.
Castro Lozano died on 24 November 2020 from COVID-19 in Mexico City, aged 78.
Assling
Assling is a municipality of the district Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Sharon Begley
Sharon Begley (June 14, 1956 – January 16, 2021) was an American journalist. She was the senior science writer for Stat, a publication from The Boston Globe. She regularly contributed articles to the Yale Scientific Magazine while at University. She was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
Begley died on January 16, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 64.
Tadamori Ōshima
Tadamori Ōshima (大島 理森) is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Fishmonger
A fishmonger is someone who sells fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers. In many places there are fewer fishmongers than there used to be. Supermarkets have often replaced independent seafood sellers. Female fishmongers used to have a separate name, fishwife.
Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
The fishmongers guild was started in the City of London by a Royal Charter from Edward I soon after he became king in 1272. Guild members could not have foreign partners. Selling fish was tightly controlled to make sure it was fresh and to keep profits low. However, the guild grew rich. After Edward's victory over the Scots, they put on a great show, including one thousand mounted knights.
While Edward II was king, the fishmongers lost political power. Parliament made a rule that a fishmonger could not become mayor of the city. This rule was soon canceled, though. The fishmongers guild became richer so that while Edward III was king the guild could give £40 to the war against the French. This was a large amount of money at that time.
The guild was then reformed as the Mystery of the Fishmongers of London. They were the only ones allowed to advertise or sell fish. They also regulated catching fish in the Thames. The river had many fish such as salmon at that time. The guild still continues today as one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies.
Fishmongers in culture
In the English translation of the Asterix series, the village fishmonger is called Unhygienix. In the film The Beach, the island's chef has only fish for meat, and is named Unhygienix after to the Asterix character.
Charles Fort included the story of the Mad Fishmonger or "St. Fishmonger" in his book Lo! According to the story St. Fishmonger made crabs and periwinkles fall from the sky. The story later appears in the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
Dr. Ahmed Fishmonger is a writer and artist active in the Church of the Subgenius.
In many countries, the fishwife had a reputation for speaking boldly. In Medieval France, fishwives in Paris were allowed to speak honestly and directly to the King himself when he went into the marketplace. They could be critical without fear of punishment.
Geroldswil
Geroldswil is a municipality of the district Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Al Hilal SFC
Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club (نادي الهلال; The Crescent), also known simply as Al-Hilal, is a Saudi Arabian football team from Riyadh. With 55 total titles, they are the most successful club in the country.
Mainam
Mainam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Maitham
Maitham is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Peace's Road
Peace's Road (A béke útja) is a 1917 Hungarian silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz.
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), (Wright of Derby), was an English landscape and portrait painter. He painted the Industrial Revolution."
Wright showed the contrast of light and dark. His paintings of early science in the English Midlands, show the Age of Enlightenment.
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen, November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004) was an American comedian, movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, writer, and singer. He was known for his catchphrase "I don't get no respect!" He was in the movies Easy Money, Caddyshack, and Back to School. He won a Grammy Award.
Dangerfield was born on November 22, 1921 in Babylon, New York. He was married to Joyce Indig from 1949 until they divorced in 1961. They remarried in 1963 and divorced again in 1973. From 1993 until his death in 2004, he was married to Joan Child. He has two children with Indig. Dangerfield died on October 5, 2004 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California from complications from surgery, aged 82.
Saint-Mars-du-Désert, Loire-Atlantique
Saint-Mars-du-Désert is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Yoshio Mochizuki
Yoshio Mochizuki (望月 義夫) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) from 1996 to 2009, and from 2011 until his death in 2019. He was also Minister of the Environment from 2014 to 2015. He was a native of Shimizu, Shizuoka and a graduate of Chuo University.
Mochizuki died on 19 December 2019 at a hospital in Shimizu, Shizuoka of liver failure. He was 72.
Jamaal Charles
Jamaal Charles (born December 27, 1986 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American football running back. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Texas, and also ran in track and field there.
Professional career
In the Chiefs' final game of the 2009 season, Charles rushed for 259 yards and two touchdowns against the Denver Broncos. This is the most yards that a Chiefs player has ever rushed for in one game.
Huncho Jack
Huncho Jack is an American hip hop duo. The members are Houston-based rapper/producer/singer Travis Scott and Atlanta-based rapper/producer/singer Quavo of Migos. The group was formed in 2016. In December 2017, the duo released their first album titled Jack Huncho, Huncho Jack.
The group's name comes from Quavo's nickname "Huncho" and Travis Scott's legal first name Jacques (the French equivalent of Jack in English).
Mairembam
Mairembam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Glattfelden
Glattfelden is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.