cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Rachel Carson
As author
Her 1951 bestselling book The Sea Around Us allowed her to work full-time as a nature writer. People recognized her as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the republished version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. Together, the three books explore all parts of ocean life, from the shores to the surface to the deep sea.
Death
Rachel Carson died young, at the age of 56. She had breast cancer earlier. It was treated, but after several years cancer came back. She died April 14, 1964.
2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach
A global wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in January 2021 after four zero-day exploits were discovered in Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers.
Ivan Bloch
Ivan Bloch may refer to:
2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach
In March 2021, it was estimated that 250,000 servers fell victim to the attacks, including servers belonging to around 30,000 organizations in the United States, 7,000 servers in the United Kingdom, as well as the European Banking Authority, the Norwegian Parliament, and Chile's Commission for the Financial Market (CMF).
Katie, Oklahoma
Katie is a town of Oklahoma in the United States.
Foster, Oklahoma
Foster is a town of Oklahoma in the United States.
Deaths in April 2020
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in April 2020. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Individuals listed must have notability. Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
North India
Northern India, also known as Hindustan, is a land and cultural region of India. In traditional Indian geography, India is pieced into five major zones: North India, North-east India, East India, West India and South India.
As a linguistic-cultural and political region, North India consists of six Indian states: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan also The National Capital Territory of Delhi is also a part of northern India. It shares some of its cultural, historical, musical, and linguistic heritage with neighboring Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, which was part of British India empire prior to the 1947 Independence. The North Indian Plain is a large part of it.
Can-can
The can-can (also spelled cancan) is a music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, like the fashions of the 1890s. The can-can was first danced in low class ballrooms of Montparnasse in Paris about 1830. The dancers of the 1890s, such as La Goulue and Jane Avril, were highly paid for their appearances at the Moulin Rouge and elsewhere. The female dancers of the French Second Empire and the fin de siècle developed the various cancan moves.
The Galop from Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is the tune most often played with the can-can (a somewhat simplified form and a more evolved one Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld). Performed on the accordion ).
The can-can was adapted as an American movie titled "Can Can"(1960), acted by Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine with music by Cole Porter.
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819, in Cologne – 5 October 1880, in Paris) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era. He is seen as one of the originators of the operetta form. He was of German-Jewish descent. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century. Many of his works are still played today.
Offenbach's many operettas, such as Orpheus in the Underworld, and La belle Hélène, were extremely popular both in France and elsewhere in the 1850s and 1860s. They combined political and cultural satire with witty grand opera parodies. His popularity in France declined in the 1870s after the fall of the Second Empire. He fled France, but during the last years of his life, his popularity came back. Several of his operettas are still performed. While his name remains most closely associated with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is Offenbach's one fully operatic masterpiece, Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), composed at the end of his career, that has become the most familiar of Offenbach's works in major opera houses.
Cadmium oxide
Cadmium oxide is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CdO. It has cadmium and oxide ions in it.
Properties
Cadmium oxide can be a colorless powder, brown powder, or red-brown crystals. All forms dissolve in acid. It is carcinogenic. Breathing the dust is harmful. It is similar in some ways to zinc oxide.
Preparation
Cadmium oxide is made by burning cadmium in air or reacting an alkali with any soluble cadmium salt.
Wing-banded antbird
The wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis torquata) is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It feeds by hopping on the ground, turning dead leaves over in search of insects. It uses its long bill to do this, and never picks the leaves up.
Specialty Records
Specialty Records was an American record label from Los Angeles. It was founded as Juke Box Records in 1946, but renamed by its owner Art Rupe when separated from some of his former partners. Speciality is known for its rhythm and blues, blues, gospel and early rock and roll music which the label recorded. Specialty also had two music publishing companies, Venice Music and Greenwich Music. During the 1960s Speciality stopped the recordings and only sold the old records. In 1968, because of interest in the early days of rock and roll, Rupe started the label again and reissued much of the old material.
Art Rupe was famous for being one of the most honest men in recording business. He paid and recorded his musicians well and he never paid for being played in the radio. On Speciality you can hear some of the wildest rhythm and blues of this time because Rupe gave a lot of freedom to his musicians.
In 1991 the label was sold to the Concord Music Group which has reissued albums by a number of Specialty's original artists.
Vidin Province
The Danube forms the border with Romania. Magura Cave, with its cave painting from 10,000 BC, is in the province.
Municipalities
The Vidin Province has 11 municipalities. The following table shows the names of each municipality, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of December 2009.
Little Hug
Little Hug (also known as Little Hug Fruit Barrels ) is a brand of fruit-flavored drink. The product was first sold in 1974. On March 9, 2015, it was announced Wessanen would sell the Little Hugs Drink Maker for $55 million.
Rap metal
Rap metal is a subgenre of rap rock which fuses vocal and usually instrumental elements of hip hop music with heavy metal. Rap metal is often confused with rap rock and rapcore.
Helvetia, West Virginia
Helvetia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 59 at the 2010 census. The community was settled by Swiss starting in 1869, and is known today for maintaining Swiss traditions, food, and folkways.
Be Alright (Ariana Grande song)
Be Alright is an R&B house song by Ariana Grande. The song was part of the Dangerous Woman album. The song is about being hopeful and looking forward to better days.
The song was first performed on Saturday Night Live on March 12.
Ariana Grande was accused of copying the 2015 song "Firefly" by Mura Masa and Nao. Some fans and critics pointed out that the songs sounded similar.
Otto of Greece
Otto (Όθων, Óthon, Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Bayern; 1 June 1815 — 26 July 1867) was a Bavarian prince who ruled as King of Greece from the establishment of the monarchy in 1832, under the until he was overthrown in 1862.
The second son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Otto was elected king of Greece, the newly formed kingdom that gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832. However, Otto did not reach Greece until on 6 February 1633. As a young man, the people of Greece were optimistic that Otto would be a great king as he was the first king of modern Greece after the Greeks suffered under the Ottoman Empire.
During his reign however, Greece was very unstable because he did not care about the people. He heavily taxed them, was not Greek Orthodox but was Roman Catholicism, invited more people from Bavaria to come to Greece, his closest advisors were Bavarian rather than Greek, and he could not speak Greek because he did not bother learning it. He only spoke his native German.
MonsterVerse
The MonsterVerse is a trilogy of series of action-adventure monster movie franchise featuring Godzilla and King Kong, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. most films appeared in Godzilla (2014), Godzilla 2 (2019), Kong Skull Island (2017),  Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).
Cast and characters
other note was the creatures including Skullcrawler vocalizations by Frank Welker, JD Hall as Mechagodzilla mo-cap and vocalizations.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU) is an American television spin-off of the original police drama series Law & Order which is set in New York City, inside the fictional 16th precinct of Manhattan.
Slav defence
The Slav defence is an important reply to 1d4. It is popular with top players. The Slav usually begins:
Other fourth moves for White are 4.e3, 4.cxd5 and 4.Qb3.
The Slav proper
Now 4...dxc4 is the Slav:
Mainline
This line was explored in two world championship matches between Alekhine and Euwe in 1935 and 1937.
Kim Yu-sin
Kim Yu-Sin (김유신, 金庾信, 595 – July 673) was a general and politician of the Silla Kingdom in ancient Korea. He belonged to the royal family of Gaya, and served as a soldier of Silla. He conquered the kingdoms of Goguryeo and Baekje. After his death, he was given the title of Heungmu the Great (흥무대왕).
Cadmium iodide
Cadmium iodide is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CdI2. It has cadmium and iodide ions in it.
An Jung-sik
An Jung-sik (1861–1919) was an artist who lived in the late Joseon dynasty. In 1918 he organized the association of paintings and writings artists (Seohwa-hyeopae; 서화협회;書畵協會)'. And he founded Gyeongmokdang in which artists and supporters gathered and communicated with each other. As the leader of the association he made an effort to educate younger artist generation. He was excellent at landscape, portrait, flowers and birds.
Slav defence
The Russian variation
Sometimes called the Botvinnik variation.
Cadmium iodide
Properties
Cadmium iodide is a white or pale yellow solid. It is known for its crystal structure. Many other chemical compounds have a cadmium iodide crystal structure. It easily dissolves in water. It is toxic.
Preparation
It is made by reacting cadmium with iodine. It can also be made by reacting cadmium, or cadmium oxide with hydriodic acid.
Uses
Cadmium iodide is used to make phosphors (things that light when struck by UV light), photography, and electroplating.
Barbary macaque
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), also known as Barbary ape or magot, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco. It is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.
Yalta Conference
Agreements
The allies agreed at Yalta :
Province of A Coruña
A Coruña (La Coruña ; historical Corunna) is the most northwestern Atlantic-facing province of Spain. It is one of the four provinces which make up the autonomous community of Galicia. This province is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and north. The Pontevedra Province surrounds it to the south and the Lugo Province to the east.
An Jung-sik
His main works are:
In his period, the western modern art was introduced to Korea, and the Korean traditional art was declining. He not only tried to succeed the traditional art but also adapt the western art, a realistic trend.
Franklin Park, New Jersey
Franklin Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking (or Trafficking in human beings) is a way to exploit people. People are sold, bought, traded much like slaves, and are even sold to couples who don't have children. It is estimated to be a $5 to $9 billion-a-year industry. Trafficking victims typically are recruited by using force or because they are deceived, or fraud is used, power is abused, or they are simply abducted. Threats, violence, and economic problems can often make a victim consent to exploitation.
Human trafficking should not be confused with human smuggling.
General
Exploitation includes forcing people into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children exploitation may also include forced prostitution, illegal international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, or recruitment as child soldiers, beggars, for sports (such as child camel jockeys or football players), or for religious cults.
The norms based on international human rights law, such as Vienna Declaration and the Yogyakarta Principles prohibit human trafficking and Council of Europe and Charter of Fundamental Rights of European Union also prohibit them and do effort to save the victims.
Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking is human trafficking, where the main idea is to trick or force people so they can be used for sexual needs. This is fundamentally different from sex work or prostitution. Prostitution and sex work is legal in many countries. Human trafficking is almost always illegal.
Who are the victims?
Many are women, but it is not rare for men to also be trafficked. Their ages, ethnic and their socioeconomic background all vary. Still there are groups of people that are more high-risk.
Who does it?
In 2017 they analyzed 1,416 child sex traffickers that were arrested in the United States in the past 10 years and it was found that 75.4% of traffickers are male and 24.4% are female. In average they were younger than 30 years.
Child trafficking
Child trafficking is defined as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, and/or receipt" of a child for the purpose of exploitation. The commercial sexual exploitation of children can take many forms. This includes forcing a child into Child prostitution or it can be other forms of sexual activity like child pornography. Exploitation may also involve forced labour or services like slavery. It can mean practices similar to slavery such as servitude or the removal of organs, illegal adoption, or recruitment as child soldiers.
Los Andes, Chile
Los Andes is a Chilean commune and city; it is the capital and main city of the Los Andes province, in the Valparaíso region.
History
Los Andes was founded in July 31, 1791 as Villa Santa Rosa de Los Andes by Ambrosio O'Higgins, Governor of Chile, in a place called Las Piedras Paradas ("The Standing Stones"). The town was named after Saint Rose of Lima, the first Catholic saint of the Americas.
Geography
The commune of Los Andes is in the upper part of the valley of the Aconcagua river, at and altitude of 833 m above sea level. The commune has an area of 1248.3 km2. It is at 15 km from San Felipe, at 84 km from the national capital of Santiago and at 146 km from Valparaíso, the capital of the region.
The commune is bordered on the north and northeast by the San Esteban commune, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Calle Larga commune, on the southwest by the Rinconada commune and on the west and northwest by the San Felipe commune.
The city of San Felipe is along the Aconcagua river, the main river of the province and of the Valparaíso region.
Population
(last national census), there were 60,198 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².
The city of Los Andes has an urban area of 16.42 km2 and a population, in 2002, of 55,127 inhabitants.
Its inhabitants are called Andinos (women, Andinas).
Shane MacDougall
He is also known for The Dark Show, which in the late 1990s was Canada's longest running independent comedy show. Held at Toronto's famous Rivoli club, The Dark Show featured some of Canada's top comedians doing material on topics from school shootings to date rape, and also generated protests from some citizens.
For two years Shane was a comedy reporter and humorist for eye Weekly in Toronto, then in 2000 moved to New York City where he worked as a writer for various MTV shows.
In 2005, MacDougall completed filming on a documentary entitled "Wiener Takes All", which followed the competitive dachshund racing circuit. The documentary screened such venues as the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, the 27th Atlantic Film Festival, BendFilm, the Laguna Beach Film Society/Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic revival. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country. Financially speaking, Waterhouse was probably the most successful of all Victorian architects. Though expert within Gothic and Renaissance styles, Waterhouse never limited himself to a single architectural style.
Province of Córdoba (Spain)
Córdoba (قرطبة, Qurṭuba), called Cordova in English, is a province of southern Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Málaga, Sevilla, Badajoz, Ciudad Real, Jaén, and Granada. Its area is 13,769 km². It is majority Muslim with a large Catholic minority.
Feeling
Feeling can mean:
Bloons
Bloons is a video game series. It is made by Ninja Kiwi.
Fort Towson, Oklahoma
Fort Towson is a town of Oklahoma in the United States. On June 23, 1865, the last Confederate General, Stand Watie, surrendered his Indian Brigade to Union forces near Doaksville.
Bloons
Making
The first Bloons game was made by Stephen and Chris Harris, who are two brothers from New Zealand. Before working on Bloons, the brothers had released Cash Sprint, which was a racing game. After Cash Sprint proved to be successful, the brothers made their own website for flash games. However, the site wasn’t successful. The brothers decided to focus on making their own games, and made a website called Ninja Kiwi, which had five games when it opened. The site was a success, and this led to the brothers’ work on Bloons.
The basic concept for Bloons came from Stephen's wife. When Stephen asked her what would be fun in a new game, she talked about carnival games with darts and balloons. The first version of Bloons was developed quickly, and the game was released in April 2007. It proved popular, and soon reached nearly 100,000 players per day. By 2011, Bloons had been played over 3 billion times.
Vratsa Province
Vratsa Province is a province in Bulgaria. The capital city is also named Vratsa.
It is between the Danube in the north and Stara Planina mountain in the south. Vrachanski Balkan Natural Park and the cave Ledenika are both in the province.
Municipalities
The Vratsa Province has ten municipalities. The following table shows the names of each municipality, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of 2016.
Dalton Highway
The James W. Dalton Highway, usually called the Dalton Highway and signed as the Alaska Route 11, is a road in Alaska. It used to be called North Slope Haul Road, and some people still call it this. The road is 414 mi long. It starts from the Elliott Highway just north of Fairbanks and travels north, ending near to the Arctic Ocean coast at Deadhorse. It follows the path next to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Many people think the highway is one of the most dangerous in the world. It was on one of the episodes of the BBC's programe World's Most Dangerous Roads.
There are only three very small towns along the route: Coldfoot (population: 10), Wiseman (population: 22), and Deadhorse (population: 25). Prospect Creek and Galbraith Lake only have campers there, and nobody lives there. The road is made mostly of gravel. About 109 mi of the road is paved. People who travel on the road are told to bring first aid kits and other items for survival, in case they have an emergency.
Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe against violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
As of August 2022, it has been signed by 45 countries and the European Union. On 12 March 2012, Turkey became the first country to ratify the convention, followed by 37 other countries from 2013 to 2022. The Convention came into force on 1 August 2014.
Yambol Province
Yambol is a province in southeastern Bulgaria. The capital city is also named Yambol. Other municipalities are Bolyarovo, Elhovo, Straldzha, and Tundzha.
William the Silent
William I of Orange-Nassau (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584) was an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War. He was the first leader of the Netherlands. He held the title of Prince of Orange.
William of Orange is better known as William the Silent (in Dutch: Willem de Zwijger). It is not known how he got this name. One story says that when the kings of France and Spain proposed to William to kill all Protestants in his area, William did not reply.
William was born in Nassau in Germany. The king of Spain made him stadtholder (a sort of leader) of several Dutch provinces. But William converted to Protestantism, the religion of the Dutch people, and joined their struggle for independence. The king of Spain offered a reward for the person who would kill William. In 1584 William was shot by Balthasar Gerards in his house in Delft. William's last words were in French: "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de moi et de ton pauvre peuple" (My Lord, My Lord, have pity on me and your poor people). Balthasar Gerards never received his reward, because he was killed by the angry Dutch.
In the Netherlands, people often call him "Father of the fatherland". The Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus, is about William.
Funk rock
Funk rock (also typed as funk-rock) is a music genre that fuses funk and rock elements. Its earliest incarnation was heard in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s by acts such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience (last two albums), Eric Burdon and War, Trapeze, Parliament-Funkadelic, Betty Davis and Mother's Finest. In the 1990s acts such as Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine and Faith No More revived the genre.
Low islands
Low Island Geographically is an island of coral origin. The Term applies whether the island was formed as a result of Sedimentation upon a Coral reef or the uplifting of those kind of islands the term is used to distinguish those kind of islands from high islands, whose origins are volcanic
2021 Boulder shooting
The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, was arrested by police after they shot him in the right leg. He was briefly hospitalized before being moved to the county jail.
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States in Potsdam, Germany from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Clement Attlee), the President of the United States (Harry S. Truman) and the dictator of the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) met to talk about Germany on July 1945 and to discuss what should happen to it now that the Second World War was over.
The first conference was held at Yalta, but the Allies did not agree on anything very important. However, a lot had happened since the Yalta Conference. Firstly, the United States had a new president, Truman, who was much tougher on communism than the previous president, Franklin Roosevelt, had been, which was a problem for Stalin. Also, Winston Churchill had been voted out in the United Kingdom and replaced by Clement Attlee. Stalin saw himself as far more experienced than the new leaders and also caused trouble, as some of what the allies agreed on at Yalta was that Poland should have a neutral government. Stalin had killed the neutral government leaders and replaced them others, who did what he wanted. That caused many problems at Potsdam since other countries no longer trusted the Soviets.
The agreements
The allies talked about and agreed:
The disagreements
The allies talked about but did not agree on the following:
Askar Mamin
Askar Uzaqpayevich Mamin (Асқар Ұзақбайұлы Мамин; born 23 October 1965) is a Kazakh politician. He was Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2022.
Nahe
The Nahe is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left tributary to the Rhine. It is also a famous wine region of Germany.
The name Nahe comes from the Latin word Nava, which is of Celtic origin and means the wild river. The Nahe separates the northern part of the Palatinate from the Hunsrück.
It rises in the area of Nohfelden (Saarland), flowing through Rhineland-Palatinate and joining the Rhine river in Bingen. Its length is 116 km. Towns along the Nahe include Idar-Oberstein, Kirn, Bad Kreuznach and Bingen.
One Sweet Day
"One Sweet Day" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey. It is a duet with American boy-group Boyz II Men. The song was written by Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff and the members of Boyz II Men. "One Sweet Day" was produced by Carey and Afanasieff for her sixth album Daydream. It was released as the album's second single in late 1995. The song speaks about losing a loved one, and one day seeing them in heaven once again. Both Carey and Boyz II Men wrote the song about specific people in their lives. "One Sweet Day" was positively reviewed by music critcs. The song became a hit in many countries around the world, especially in the United States. It spent sixteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became number one in Canada and New Zealand, and reached the top-ten in Australia, Belgium, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The music video for "One Sweet Day" featured clips of Carey and Boyz II Men in the studio recording the song.
Blair House
Blair House, also known as The President's Guest House, is an official residence in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The President's Guest House has been called "the world's most exclusive hotel" because it is used as a state guest house to host visiting dignitaries and other guests of the president.
President Harry S. Truman and his family lived in the original Blair House from 1948 to 1952 during the White House Reconstruction.
Nelson County, Kentucky
Nelson County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,437. Its county seat is Bardstown.
List of Bangladesh Premier League captains
The Bangladeshi Premier League is a Twenty20 cricket tournament.
Destroy All Humans! (video game series)
Destroy All Humans! is a video game series, developed by Pandemic Studios, Locomotive Games (original series) and Black Forest, (reboot series) and published by THQ and THQ Nordic.
Battle of the year
Battle of the year (acronym BOTY) is a worldwide breakdancing tournament held every year. In 1990, Thomas Hergenröther founded BOTY in Hannover, Germany. There were 9 crews and 400 visitors at that time. As break-dancing became more popular, BOTY grew in size and found a new location in Braunschweig, Germany.
Regional BOTY (BOTY France, BOTY Korea and so on) first takes place to choose a single crew that will represent each nation in the upcoming BOTY international. Representing crews compete against each other first in a showcase in which every crew presents their own choreographed performances within 6 minutes or so. According to the rankings of the showcase, 2 semi finals in total between 1st and 4th crew and 2nd and 3rd crew takes place. The final battle follows between the winners of the semi finals to judge the champion crew of the year.
Judging Criteria for a showcase include; synchronicity, stage-presence, theme & music and choreography. Criteria for individual B-Boys include; top rock, footwork, freeze and power move. Criteria for a battle include; response, routines, strategy and attitude.
Takahiro Matsumoto
Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto (born March 27, 1961 in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese guitarist. He is the lead arranger of rock band B'z.
A5 autoroute
The A5 is an autoroute (motorway) in France. It was built in 1990 to lower the amount of cars on the A6. It goes from Paris to the Langres area. It is a toll road. The autoroute is about 238 km long. It is part of the E54, E511, and E17 European routes.
Sodium acetate
Sodium acetate is a chemical with the compound CH3COONa. It is the sodium salt of acetic acid. Sodium acetate is an irritant, but has many uses.
On concrete
Sodium acetate is used to reduce the effects of water damage to concrete. It does this by acting as a concrete sealant. Compared to epoxy, which is commonly used, sodium acetate is cheaper and does not damage the environment.
Preparation
While sodium acetate is usually purchased, it can be produced in the laboratory by the reaction of acetic acid with sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, or sodium hydroxide.
Hot Shots Golf 2
Hot Shots Golf 2 released in Japan as Minna no Golf 2 (Everybody'sGOLF 2) and Everybody's Golf 2 in PAL regions is a sport video game of golf. It was developed by Clap Hanz (previously game by Camelot Software), and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the second installment of Hot Shots Golf series, and sequel to Hot Shots Golf.
Alexander of Greece
Alexander VI (Αλέξανδρος ΣΤ', romanized: Aléxandros VI; 1 August 1893 — 25 October 1920) was King of Greece from 1917 until his death in 1920. The Greek government considered him a puppet king and tried imprisoned him at his own palace, but then failed. During Alexander's reign, World War 1 ended.
Alexander became king after his father, King Constantine XII, was forced to abdicate. Because Alexander's older brother, Crown Prince George, was not yet ready to rule, Alexander became king. During his reign, the king supported Greek troops during their war against the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Under his reign, the territorial extent of Greece considerably increased, following the victory of the Entente and their Allies in the First World War and the early stages of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.
Alexander ruled Greece effectively. He almost ended war thst had happened in Greece for a long time. However, on 25 October 1920 in Athens at the age of 27 after being bitten by a Barbary macaque at his palace in Athens. His injury became infected and soon developed sepsis.
Because Alexander did not have an heir, an election was held shortly after his death. The election was about return and restoration of Alexander's father, Ex-king Constantine XII, to the throne. Almost 99% of the vote were cast in favour of his return thus Constantine was restored to the throne just two months after Alexander's death.
Izu Peninsula
The Izu peninsula (伊豆半島, Izu-hantō) is a Large mountainous peninsula with a indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific Ocean of the island of Honshū in Japan Previously known as Izu Province Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture.
Metal Max (video game)
Metal Max (Metaru Makkusu) is a 1991 video game has released for Nintendo Famicom, and Super Famicom. Developed by Crea-Tech, and publihsed by Data East. The gameplay is a turn-based, open world, nonlinear, vehicle combat role-playing, and as a part of first Metal Max series.
Metal Max is set on a futuristic post-apocalyptic world, where the surviving humans cluster in underground villages, and ruins for "monster hunters". The game has followed by sequel Metal Max 2. A direct sequel called Metal Saga: Season of Steel released in 2006 for Nintendo DS.
Korean International School of Hong Kong
The Korean International School of Hong Kong (KIS) was founded on March 1988. It is in Lei King Wan, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, near Tai Koo Shing. Tai Koo Shing has many Koreans.
Structure
The school has an English section and a Korean section. The Korean Section uses Korean textbooks. The students there prepare to take the KSAT (Suneung) so they can go to Korean universities. The English section uses English textbooks and follows the Cambridge International Primary Programme.
KIS has many facilities, like a tennis court, swimming pool, soft-surface playing fields, and a gymnasium. Students use the facilities for physical education classes and activities outside of classes. Higher grade students take a school trip to England.
The students are in four "house teams"- Cougars, Eagles, Lions and Pandas. Each house has their own chant and their own colour.
Investigation
In the past the school has had problems with bribery. A person in the cleaning company paid a bribe to a school officer. So the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigated the school and arrested one person. Koreans in Hong Kong were disappointed. They said they lost confidence in the school's management.
94 (number)
Ninety-four is a number. It comes after ninety-three and before ninety-five, and is an even number. It is divisible by 1, 2, 47, and 94.
In Roman numerals, it is XCIV.
Salgueiro Maia
Fernando José Salgueiro Maia was a captain of the Portuguese army. His actions helped the Carnation Revolution remain peaceful.
March 2021 Rohingya refugee-camp fire
On 22 March 2021, a fire started during late afternoon in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. It destroyed a large part of the camp, killed over a dozen people, and left nearly a thousand injured or missing.
The fire forced roughly 50,000 Rohingya refugees out of their camps and destroyed many buildings, including schools and food storage centres. First responders to the crisis were refugees from the camp itself.
Palatinate (region)
The Palatinate (germ.:Pfalz), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (lat.: palatinatum Renensis; germ.: Rheinpfalz), is a region in south-western Germany. It occupies more than a quarter of the German federal state (Bundesland) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz).
Geography
The western and northern part of the Palatinate is densely forested and mountainous. The highest point is the Donnersberg (687 m) near Kirchheimbolanden. The Palatinate forest (Pfälzerwald) covers more than a third of the region and is the largest uninterrupted forest in Germany. The eastern part is lower, and is a well known wine region, the Palatinate wine region through which passes the German wine road (Deutsche Weinstrasse). Most of the cities of the Palatinate (Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Landau, Frankenthal, Neustadt) lie in the Rhineplain in the east.
Traditionally, the Palatinate is divided into the regions of Anterior Palatinate (Vorderpfalz), West Palatinate (Westpfalz), North Palatinate (Nordpfalz), and South Palatinate (Südpfalz).
Administratively, the following districts and independent cities are part of the Palatinate:
Independent cities:
Districts:
Crescent City, California
Crescent City is the county seat of Del Norte County, California in the United States.
Diplocaulus
Diplocaulus (meaning "double stalk") was an early amphibian, now extinct. It had a boomerang-shaped head formed by two long bones at the back of the head. It had four short legs, and a short, flattened tail. It was about 3 feet (1 m) long.
Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the province of Punjab, which is located in Lahore in eastern Pakistan. The Assembly was established under Article 106 of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan as having a total of 371 seats, with 66 seats reserved for women and eight reserved for non-Muslims.
Funk metal
Funk metal is a subgenre of funk rock that fuses elements of heavy metal and funk. AllMusic has said that "Funk metal evolved in the mid-'80s when alternative bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Infectious Grooves, Mordred and Fishbone began playing the hybrid with a stronger funk underpinning than metal". Faith No More have also been described as funk metal that dabbled in rap-metal. Rage Against the Machine's mix of funk and metal not only included rap, but also elements of punk rock. Primus, a band that has never had a clear genre, have been called things such as "thrash metal-funk meets Don Knotts, Jr." Living Colour have been cited by Rolling Stone as "Black-funk-metal pioneers."
Certain bands not from an alternative background, such as Bang Tango and Extreme, have also put funk into their musical style many times.
The Lone Ranger (2013 movie)
The Lone Ranger is a 2013 action and western movie. The movie is about the Old West in the late 19th century. Johnny Depp plays Tonto. Helena Bonham Carter plays Red.
This movie was released on July 3, 2013. The reviews were mixed to negative. The box office, though, was more than $260 million.
Fishbone
Fishbone is an American alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, and other musical styles. Critics considered Fishbone to be one of the most distinctive and varied bands of the late '80s. With their hyperactive, self-conscious diversity, goofy sense of humor, and sharp social commentary, the group gained a large cult following during the late '80s, yet they never became mainstream.
Sparta, North Carolina
Sparta is a town in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,817 people as of the year 2000. It is the county seat of Alleghany County.
Teapot Museum
The Sparta Teapot Museum is being built right now and should be finished by the summer of 2008.
Cadmium sulfide
Cadmium sulfide is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CdS. It has cadmium and sulfide ions in it.
Properties
Cadmium sulfide is a yellow orange solid. It does not dissolve in water. It reacts with hydrochloric acid to make hydrogen sulfide and cadmium chloride. It is used in an odd reaction where cadmium sulfide is sprinkled into a sulfide solution and light is shined on it. It starts making small amounts of hydrogen gas.
Occurrence
Cadmium sulfide is only found in two rare minerals. It is normally made artificially.
Preparation
Cadmium sulfide is made several different ways. Cadmium salts, normally the sulfate or the chloride (cadmium chloride), are reacted with hydrogen sulfide to make a bright yellow cadmium sulfide solid. When it is made for pigment, the cadmium sulfide is then washed, heated (to change it into the right form), and ground to a powder. It is then mixed with paint.
Uses
Cadmium sulfide is used as a yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow is the name of the pigment. If selenide is added during the roasting process (seen above in "preparation" section), it can make an orange or a yellow pigment. Cadmium sulfide is a good pigment because it does not break down easily, is very bright, and does not react with air like other pigments can. It is toxic, though.
It is also used in photoresistors that are sensitive to infrared and red light. Cadmium sulfide is found around some bacteria that reduce sulfate to sulfide.
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and educator. Marsalis became known in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a member of a well known musical family in New Orleans, with sons Branford Marsalis and Wynton Marsalis becoming internationally known. He was born in New Orleans.
In the 1950s and 1960s he worked with Ed Blackwell, Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, and Al Hirt. During the 1970s he taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. His students have included Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr., Donald Harrison, Kent Jordan, Marlon Jordan, and Nicholas Payton.
In 2008, Marsalis was added into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
On April 1, 2020, Marsalis died at the age of 85 after being hospitalized in New Orleans with COVID-19 symptoms.
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729-9 July 1797) was an important Irish politician, and writer. He became a member of the British Parliament with the Whigs in 1765.
Burke supported the American Revolution. He opposed the French Revolution for killing Catholics and other dissenters. His most famous book was Reflections on the Revolution in France, which created many of the ideas in conservatism.
The World Set Free
The World Set Free is a 1913 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It was published in 1914. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as ''A Prophetic Trilogy. That form was made up of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free''.
The novel tells the story of man’ using the (at that time) newly-discovered power of the atom. It tells how this power almost destroys civilisation in a war. In a sense, the book seems to have ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. The World Set Free is an example of how science and science fiction can work together and build upon each other.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson (born Ketanji Onyika Brown; September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer, politician and judge. She is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since June 30, 2022, replacing Stephen Breyer.
Jackson was the Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2021 to 2022, replacing Merrick Garland. She was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 until 2021. She was nominated to the court by President Barack Obama. From 2010 until 2014, Jackson was Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
In March 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 53-44 vote.
In February 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by a 53–47 vote in April 2022. She is the first black woman to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Early life
After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard College. She graduated in 1992 with an A.B. She also performed improv comedy and took classes in drama while at Harvard.
Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993. She graduated in 1996 from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor cum laude.
Legal career
Jackson began working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. She also clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000. Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003.
On July 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson on February 11, 2010. Jackson was on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time, she helped reduce sentences for people charged with drug offenses.
District court (2013–2021)
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to be a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. Her time in this court was known for ruling against executive decision made by the Trump administration.
Court of Appeals (2021–2022)
On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his plans to nominate Jackson to be a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace Merrick Garland. On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate.
On April 28, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During her confirmation hearing, some senators questioned her about her rulings against former President Donald Trump. The committee supported her nomination with a 13–9 vote. On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 53–44 vote.
Nomination and confirmation
Jackson was seen as a possible Supreme Court Justice nominee since Joe Biden was elected president. On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced he would nominate Jackson to the United States Supreme Court, replacing retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.
On February 28, 2022, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate. After the Judiciary Committee vote ended in an 11-11 vote tie, her nomination was advanced on April 4 by a 53–47 procedural vote in the Senate to discharge the committee deadlock vote. This was first time that the Senate has discharged the Judiciary Committee from consideration of a Supreme Court nomination since 1853. Jackson was confirmed by the Senate, 53–47, on April 7, 2022, to replace Breyer. She will become the first black woman on the Supreme Court. She will also be the first Supreme Court justice to have been a public defender.
Jackson was sworn-in as Associate Justice at the end of the Supreme Court's 2021–2022 term on June 30, 2022.
Legal positions
According to Sahil Kapur, writing for NBC News, "Jackson fits well with the Democratic Party and the progressive movement's agenda" because she is relatively young, has a background as a public defender, and a history of labor-friendly rulings.
Politico reported that "Jackson is popular with liberal legal activists looking to replace Breyer with a justice willing to engage in ideological combat with the court's conservatives."