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Operation Ichi-Go
Course of the campaign
400,000 men, 12,000 vehicles and 70,000 horses took part in operation Ichi-Go. The Japanese army included the very well trained Kwantung Army units and equipment from Manchukuo, North China and Japan. It was the largest land operation by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Many of the new American-trained Chinese units were fighting in Burma under General Joseph Stilwell using weapons leased from the United States. Chiang Kai-shrek had agreed that Stilwell could manage the distribution of American arms. In Operation Kogo, 390,000 Chinese soldiers, led by General Tang Enbo, defended Luoyang. The Japanese 3rd Tank Division crossed the Yellow River around Zhengzhou in late April and defeated the Chinese near Xuchang. They then moved around to the right and put Luoyang under siege. Luoyang was defended by three Chinese divisions. The 3rd Tank Division began to attack on May 13 and won Luoyang on May 25.
The second part of Ichigo began in May. Japanese forces moved south and occupied Changsha, Hengyang, Guilin and Liuzhou. In December 1944, Japanese forces reached French Indochina and completed the operation. Despite this success, US air forces moved inland from the threatened bases near the coast. The U.S. Air Force often stopped the railway between Beijing and Liuzhou that had been started in Operation Ichigo. Japan continued to attack airfields where US air forces were stationed up to the spring of 1945.
USA's XX Bomber Command were using B-29 bombers like the ones that were attacking Japan. They were forced to move as well, but this affected their efficiency for only a short time. In early 1945 the Twentieth Air Force moved to newly established bases in the Marianas under the command of the newly established XXI Bomber Command.
Aftermath
The failure to hold the coastal airfields led to a loss of confidence in General Joseph Stilwell by Chiang Kai-shek. Stilwell was replaced in October 1944 by President Roosevelt. The new Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-Shek and commander of the U.S. Forces in China was Major General Albert Wedemeyer. Stillwell's other responsibilities in China, Burma and India were given to other officers.
A very different version of events was that General Joseph Stilwell was asking for a fuller use of Chinese forces and had made diplomatic connections with the Chinese Red Army commanded by Mao Zedong. They had agreed to follow an American commander.
Because Chiang Kai-shek was ignored by the American general, he had Stilwell called back to the United States. New York Times reporter Brooks Atkinson wrote at the time: "The decision to relieve General Stilwell represents the political triumph of a moribund, anti-democratic regime that is more concerned with maintaining its political supremacy than in driving the Japanese out of China. America is now committed... to support a regime that has become increasingly unpopular and mistrusted in China, that maintains three secret police services and concentration camps for political prisoners, that stifles free speech and resists democratic forces... The Chinese Communists... have good armies that are now fighting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in North China... The Generalissimo regards these armies as the chief threat to his supremacy... has made no sincere attempt to arrange at least a truce with them for the duration of the war... No diplomatic genius could have overcome the Generalissimo's basic unwillingness to risk his armies in battle with the Japanese...." But the Time Magazine article in which Atkinson was quoted went on to talk about the true failure of Stilwell's goals by saying that: "The Chinese, exhausted by seven years of almost singlehanded war against Japan, were reluctant to give General Stilwell the troops he wanted for the Burma offensive; the Japs might suddenly crack down on them in earnest. When the Japs began the drive that last week seemed on the verge of cutting China in two, Chiang Kai-shek's Government might well have felt that its go-slow policy was justified...'"
This loss and the poor opinion in the U.S.A. caused the Americans to lose confidence in the Chinese troops. Instead the U.S. focused all its resources on the island-to-island war in the Pacific.
Metropolitan county
There are six metropolitan counties in England, which each cover large urban areas, typically with populations of 1.2 to 2.8 million. They were created in 1974 and are each divided into several metropolitan districts.
There are no county councils any more since 1986. Most of their functions were taken over by the individual boroughs. So the boroughs became unitary authorities. The remaining functions were taken over by so-called joint-boards.
The metropolitan counties have population densities of between 838 (South Yorkshire) and 28 (West Midlands) people/km². Individual metropolitan districts range from 4 people/km² in Liverpool to only 500 people/km² in Doncaster.
Counties and districts
The six metropolitan counties and their metropolitan districts are:
The structure of Greater London is similar to the metropolitan counties, but it is not one. It was created earlier in 1965, by the London Government Act 1963. The idea for creating administrative areas based upon the large conurbations outside London based on the model of the County of London or Greater London.
The metropolitan counties were established by the Local Government Act 1972, the county councils were first elected in 1973, and were formally established in April 1974.
Since 1995, the cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield have come together in the English Core Cities Group. This organisation has no distinct legal status but seems to move towards a role of these cities as regional capitals outside of London.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium is one of the most famous museums in Belgium.
The museum
The museums are in the capital of Brussels in the downtown area on the Coudenberg. There are four museums. Two of them, the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, are in the main building. The other two, the Constantin Meunier Museum and the Antoine Wiertz Museum, are dedicated to specific Belgian artists. They are much smaller and are a few kilometers from the city center.
The Royal Museum has over 20,000 drawings, sculptures, and paintings, which date from the early 15th century to the present. The museum has a large collection of Flemish painting, among them paintings by Bruegel and Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens. The museum is also proud of its "Rubens Room", which houses more than 20 paintings by the artist.
The building
The main building, which now houses the Museum of Ancient Art, was built as the Palais des Beaux-Arts. It was designed by Belgian architect Alphonse Balat and paid for by King Leopold II. The building was completed in 1887.
Hurricane Felix
Hurricane Felix was a strong Category 5 hurricane with fastest wind speeds of 175 mph. It was part of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
Antz World Sportz
Antz World Sports is a sports game developed by M4 Limited and published by L.S.P for the Game Boy Color platform. Antz World Sportz was never released in the United States, it was instead only released in European countriesin 2001 and is based on the film of the same name.
Description
Meet the Antz World Sportz challenge, and experience the excitement of ant-thlete sportz - down to the tiniest detail!
- Meet your favourite Antz characters once again: Z, Princess Bala, Weaver and General Mandible will all be joining the games!
- 8 world-class sportz activities designed on an insect scale for the Antz colony, including a 100 millimetre race, cotton swab javelin throw, Antz-style street skating and the wild termite "bull-riding" rodeo, plus many others just waiting to be discovered.
Backmasking
Backmasking (also known wrongly as backward masking) is a recording technique. In backmasking, a sound or message is recorded backwards onto a track that is meant to be played forwards. It was made popular by The Beatles. Some people think that backmasking causes subliminal persuasion.
Malus
Malus is a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous apple trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies say it includes 55 species, including the domesticated orchard apple, or table apple as it used to be called. The other species and subspecies are generally known as "wild apples", "crab apples", "crabapples" or "crabs".
The genus is native to the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, in Europe, Asia and North America.
Apple trees are small, usually 4–12 m tall when full grown. The leaves are 3–10 cm long, positioned opposite from each other. They have a simple shape with a saw-tooth edge. The flowers come from corymbs, and have five petals, which may be white, pink or red, with usually red stamens that produce lots of pollen, and an ovary which is below them. Flowering takes place in the spring and pollination is by insects (typically bees, which freely visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen).
Uses
The fruit of the other species is not an important crop in most areas because they are very sour and (in some species) very like wood, and are rarely eaten raw for this reason. However, crabapples are an excellent source of pectin, and their juice can be made into a ruby-coloured jelly. Some kinds of crab apples make good applesauce.
Crabapples are widely grown as trees for the pleasure of their appearance, grown for their beautiful flowers or fruit. There are cultivars selected for these qualities and for resistance to disease.
Dickie Davies
Richard "Dickie" Davies (30 April 1928 – 19 February 2023) was a British television presenter who was famous for presenting World Of Sport on ITV from 1965 to 1985 as well as hosting many other sports programmes on the station. Davies married Liz Hastings, a vision mixer at Southern Television, in 1962. They had twin sons.
Malus
Uses
Some crab apples are used as rootstocks for domestic apples to stand up to cold or drought.
Dickie Davies
Davies died on 19 February 2023, at the age of 94.
Malus
Uses
They are also used as tree for pollinating food apple trees in apple orchards. Varieties of crab apple are selected to bloom at the same time as the apple trees in an orchard, and the crabs are planted every sixth or seventh tree, or limbs of a crab tree are grafted onto some of the apple trees. See also fruit tree pollination.
Dickie Davies
Davies is mentioned in the song "Dickie Davies Eyes" by Half Man Half Biscuit.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) "MacGregor" Mathers, born as Samuel Liddell (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), was one of the most influential figures in modern occultism.
Early life
Samuel Liddell was born on either 8 or 11 January 1854 in Hackney, London, England. His father, William M. Mathers, died while Samuel Liddell was still a boy. His mother, whose maiden name was Collins, died in 1885. He attended Bedford Grammar School, and worked in Bournemouth, Dorset, as a clerk, before moving to London following the death of his mother.
Egide Charles Gustave Wappers
Biography
He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and during 1826 in Paris. The Romantic movement with its new ideas about art and politics was happening in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to use this form. His first painting, "The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden," appeared at the right time. It had much success in the Brussels Salon during 1830, the year of the Belgian Revolution.
Wappers was invited to the court at Brussels. In 1832 the city of Antwerp made him Professor of Painting.
He showed his masterpiece, "Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830" at the Antwerp Salon in 1834. He was then made painter to Leopold, King of the Belgians. At the death of Matthieu-Ignace Van Brée in 1839 he was raised to director of the Antwerp Academy. One of his students was Ford Madox Brown, another was the Czech history painter Karel Javůrek.
He has many works. Some of them in traditional devotional modes, while others show the Romantic view of history.
After retiring as director of the Antwerp Academy, he lived in 1853 in Paris. He died in 1873.
Văleni River
Văleni River can be any of the following rivers in Romania:
Murder of Shauna Howe
Shauna Melinda Howe (July 11, 1981 – October 27, 1992) was an 11-year-old girl from Oil City, Pennsylvania, who was murdered in October 1992. She was abducted and murdered after her kidnappers threw her off a bridge. In September 2006, her murderers were caught and charged with murder.
Legacy
After Shauna Howe was killed, the city council banned trick-or-treating for 15 years. It was unbanned in 2008, two years after her murderers were caught.
The Jet Age of Tomorrow
The Jet Age of Tomorrow (or The Super 3) is an American production duo from Atlanta, Georgia that is made up of producer-singer Matt Martians, and producer-rapper Pyramid Vritra.
Arthur L. Thurlow
Arthur Louis Thurlow (May 5, 1913 – May 27, 2020) is a Canadian politician and judge. He served as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg County. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
Thurlow was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He turned 100 in 2013.
Leopold III of Belgium
Leopold III went to the throne of Belgium on 23 February 1934 following the death of his father, King Albert I.
Early life and family
Crown Prince Leopold fought as a private during World War I while still a teenager. He was sent by his father to Eton College in the United Kingdom, in 1915. After the war, in 1919, he went to St. Anthony Seminary in Santa Barbara, California. He married Princess Astrid of Sweden in Stockholm on 4 November 1926.
On 29 August 1935, the King and Queen were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Leopold lost control of the car which plunged into the lake, killing Queen Astrid and her unborn fourth child.
Leopold married Lilian Baels on 11 September 1941 in a secret, religious ceremony. It was not valid under Belgian law.
In 1944, Heinrich Himmler ordered Leopold deported to Germany. Princess Liliane followed the next day under an SS armed guard. The Nazis held the family in a fort at Hirschstein in Saxony from June 1944 to March 1945, and then at Strobl, Austria.
Leopold was freed by the United States in early May 1945. Because of the controversy about his conduct during the war, Leopold III and his wife and children were unable to return to Belgium. They spent the next six years in exile at Pregny-Chambésy near Geneva, Switzerland. A regency under his brother Prince Charles had been made by the Legislature in 1944.
On his return to Belgium in 1950, Leopold was met with one of the most violent strikes in the history of Belgium. The country stood on the edge of civil war. Belgian banners were replaced by Walloon flags in Liège and other municipalities of Wallonia. To avoid tearing the country apart, and to keep the monarchy, Leopold decided on 1 August 1950 to withdraw in favour of his 20-year-old son Baudouin.
In retirement, he followed his passion as an amateur social anthropologist and entomologist and travelled the world. He went, for instance, to Senegal and he explored the Orinoco and the Amazon with Heinrich Harrer.
Leopold died in 1983 at Woluwe-Saint-Lambert.
County council
A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries.
British Isles
County councils were responsible for more strategic services in a region, with smaller urban district councils and rural district councils responsible for other activities. The new system was a major modernisation, which became necessary because of the increase of functions carried out by local government in late Victorian Britain.
England and Wales
In England and Wales, a county council is the local government that governs a county.
County Councils were introduced in 1889 in England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888. They took over the administrative functions of the unelected Quarter Sessions.
Scotland
The system was soon extended to Scotland, by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, and the island of Ireland by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Except in Scotland, the areas they covered were called administrative counties and were not always the same as the traditional shire counties.
United States
In the United States, most of the individual states have counties as a form of local government; in nine states, they are headed by a county council. In other states, each county is headed by a county commission or a county board of supervisors.
References
Kunnanvaltuusto Suomessa Kommunfullmäktige (Finland)
Viol
The viol (rhymes with "mile") is a string instrument that is played with a bow. The viol was a popular instrument from the 15th to the 18th century. Small viols are held on the lap, and the larger ones are held between the knees, which gave them the name of "viol da gamba", meaning a leg viol. The bow is held with the palm of the hand facing upwards: the other way round from today's bowhold for violins, violas or cellos. The viol is a gentle-sounding instrument. When the violin family became popular in the 17th century and people started to go to concerts in large concert halls, and to operas, the viols became less important.
Shire
A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain (also county) and Australia. It is a kind of local government.
History
The first shires were created by the Anglo-Saxons in central and southern England. Shires were controlled by a royal official known as a "shire reeve" or sheriff. In modern English usage shires are sub-divided into districts.
Individually, or as a suffix in Scotland, the word is pronounced (to rhyme with "fire"). As a suffix in an English or Welsh place name it is pronounced (rhymes with "fir").
Viol
Sizes
Viols were made in different sizes. A set of viols of different sizes - perhaps four or five instruments - were sometimes kept together in a chest (large box) which is why they were called a "chest of viols". When they were played together people talked of a "consort of viols". A consort would normally have at least one treble, tenor and bass instrument. A "broken consort" meant a mixture of different instruments: viols, recorders etc. Lute and bass viol were often played together. They were tuned in fourths, with a major third in the middle.
Shire
Shires in Great Britain
In England and Wales, the term "shire county" is used to refer to counties which are not metropolitan counties.
Viol
Sizes
The strings of a bass viol (equivalent to the cello in the modern violin family) are tuned (from the lowest note, nearly two octaves below middle C, upwards) to D - G - C - E - A -D. The tenor viol was often called a viola da gamba (literally: "viol of the leg"). It was the most popular size for solo music and many composers wrote sonatas for the viola da gamba. The biggest viol is called the violone. It developed into the modern double bass. This is why the double bass is a little different in shape from the violin, viola and cello. Some double bass players today hold the bow with the palm (inside) of the hand facing upwards, like viol players.
Shire
Shires in Great Britain
It can also be used in a narrower sense, referring only to traditional counties ending in "shire". These counties are typically (though not always) named after their county town.
Viol
History
After the mid-18th century people forgot about the viol until the 20th century when there was a new interest in early music and people like Arnold Dolmetsch started making them again so that Renaissance and Baroque viol music could be played. Today there are many societies for people who are interested in playing the viol.
Samuel Bailey
Samuel Bailey (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher and writer. He was called the "Bentham of Hallamshire".
Viol
History
There are now many societies for people with an interest in the viol. One of these, The Viola da Gamba Society has a worldwide membership. Some modern composers have also written for the viol e.g. John Tavener, Sally Beamish, Thea Musgrave, Tan Dun and Poul Ruders. There is a group called Fretwork which perform viol music.
Shire
Shires in England
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire.
Samuel Bailey
Life
Samuel Bailey was born at Sheffield on 5 July 1791. He was the son of Joseph Bailey and Mary Eadon. His father was one of the first of those Sheffield merchants who went to the United States to establish trade connections. After a few years in his father's business, he retired with a fortune from all business concerns, with the exception of the Sheffield Banking Company, where he was chairman for many years. Although he was an avid liberal, he did not take part in political affairs very much. On only two occasions he ran for Sheffield as a "Radicals (UK)|philosophic radical", but he did not win.
He died on 18 January 1870, leaving over £80,000 to the town trustees of Sheffield so that it can be used for the public.
Shire
Shires in England
Of these, all but Huntingdonshire and Yorkshire are also administrative counties (but with different boundaries). Huntingdonshire is now administered as a district of Cambridgeshire, and Yorkshire is split between East, North, South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham.
Shires in Wales
Brecknockshire, Caernafonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire
In Wales, the counties of Merioneth and Glamorgan are occasionally referred to with the "shire" suffix. The only traditional Welsh county that never takes "shire" is Anglesey.
Shires in Scotland
Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, Fifeshire, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, Wigtownshire
Shires in Australia
Shire is the most common word in Australia for the smallest local government areas by population. The states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia use shire for this unit. South Australia and Tasmania use district. A shire has the same powers as the next largest units, the town and city. In NSW, the expression 'The Shire' commonly refers to the Sutherland shire.
Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain means the history of Spain over the 16th and 17th centuries (1506–1700). This was when Spain was ruled by the major branch of the Habsburg dynasty. Under Habsburg rule (mostly under Charles I and Philip II), Spain reached the height of its influence and power. The Hapsburgs had land including the Americas; the East Indies in Asia; the Low Countries, territories now in France and Germany in Europe. From 1580 to 1640 they had the Portuguese Empire; and various other lands such as small enclaves like Ceuta and Oran in North Africa. Habsburg Spain was, for well over a century, the world's greatest power. For this reason, this period of Spanish history has also been called the "Age of Expansion."
With the Habsburgs, Spain was one of the greatest political and military powers in Europe and the world for much of the 16th and 17th centuries. During the Habsburg's period, Spain ushered in the Spanish Golden Age of arts and literature producing some of the world's most outstanding writers and painters and influential intellectuals, including Teresa of Ávila, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez and Francisco de Vitoria.
Spain or "the Spains", referring to Spanish territories across different continents in this period, initially covered the entire Iberian peninsula, including the kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, León, Navarre and, from 1580, Portugal.
The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1469 resulted in the union of the two main crowns, Castile and Aragon, which eventually led to the de facto unification of Spain, after the culmination of the Reconquista with the conquest of Granada in 1492 and of Navarre in 1512-1529. Isabella and Ferdinand were bestowed the title of "Catholic King and Queen" by Pope Alexander VI in 1494, and the term Monarchia Catholica (Catholic Monarchy, Modern Spanish: Monarquía Católica) remained in use for the monarchy under the Spanish Habsburgs. The Habsburg period is formative of the notion of "Spain" in the sense that was institutionalized in the 18th century.
Spain as a unified state came into being de jure after the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707 that succeeded the multiple crowns of its former realms. After the death in 1700 of Spain's last Habsburg king Charles II, the resulting War of the Spanish Succession led to the ascension of Philip V of the Bourbon dynasty and began a new centralizing state formation.
Among the most outstanding figures of this period were Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Miguel de Cervantes, Teresa of Ávila, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de Soto and Francisco Suárez.
Ruth Apilado
Ruth Mosselle Apilado (née Mays; April 30, 1908 – August 15, 2021) was an American writer and anti-racism activist. She was known as the founder of the quarterly magazine America's Intercultural Magazine (AIM). She founded AIM in 1973.
Apilado was born in Chicago, Illinois. She turned 100 in 2008, and 110 in 2018. Apilado died on August 15, 2021 in Federal Way, Washington at the age of 113.
Antz Racing
Antz Racing is a racing video game developed by RFX Interactive and published by Acclaim Entertainment in United States & Electronic Arts in Europe it was released in 2001 for Game Boy Color based on the computer animated film Antz produced by DreamWorks.
Gameplay
This game represents the racing challenge between 6 main characters (Z, Bala, Weaver, Mandible, Cutter, and Azteca). Each character has own racing machine as well as parameters for Resistance, Holding, and Speed. There are two game modes: Quick Race and 4 Seasons Championship. During Quick Race player choose the season and the track based on random selection. During 4 Seasons Championship player should win each race to earn a password and progress further. The gameplay represents a race between four drivers in top third-person view on several laps. Player should control selected driver, collect different power-ups, speed up, avoid obstacles, jump in machine, shoot, etc. to win a race. When damage level of the machine reaches its critical point, the machine will stop for some time to be repaired. The game has three difficulty levels and is available in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian languages.
Sequel
A sequel called by Antz Extreme Racing were released for the Microsoft Windows, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance
Description
It's up to you to find all the pieces to the map that will lead you to "iINSECTOPiA"!
Featuring your favorite characters from the hit movie Antz - Z, Bala, Weaver, Colonel Cutter, Azteca and General Mandible.
Zoom around in zany vehicles like the sardine can, nutshell and more!
Race through 5 different locations based on Antz environments.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a sea in Eurasia between Europe, Caucasus, and Anatolia. Many rivers flow to the Black Sea, including the big rivers, the Don, Danube, Dniester and Dnieper.
It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Bosphorus strait, the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles strait, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. 90% of the sea has no oxygen. The water is saltwater but less salty than the ocean. During the last ice age, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake.
History
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts traveled on the sea. Greeks set up colonies around the sea because it was important to trade for many countries in ancient history. The Gallipoli Campaign during World War I was a fight for access to the Black Sea. It was also important in World War II.
Geology
The Black Sea sits on continental plates which have subsided. It is a geologic basin, and therefore is a genuine inland sea. Its maximum depth is about 2000 metres. The Black Sea is the world’s largest basin where the deep waters do not mix with the upper layers of water that receive oxygen from the atmosphere. As a result, over 90% of the deeper Black Sea volume is anoxic water. The upper layers are generally cooler, less dense and less salty than the deeper waters, as they are fed by large river systems, whereas the deep waters come from the warm, salty waters of the Mediterranean. The Crimean Peninsula divides this sea. The Bosporus and Dardanelles connect the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Regional lockout
Regional lockout is something used to prevent the playing of media for device, sold in another country. It can be programming practice, code, chip, or physical barrier. Regional lockout may be used in movies, video games and computer printers. The DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and UMD media formats all support the use of region coding
10NES
The 10NES system is a lock-out system. It was designed for North American and European versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It is used to prevent pirated games and games from other regions to be played, but various companies found ways to bypass the authorization chip.
SN 1006
SN 1006 was a supernova that was probably the brightest stellar event in recorded history.
It got to about −7.5 visual magnitude, more than sixteen times the brightness of Venus. This "guest star" was described by observers across China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and the continent of Europe. Modern astronomers now think its distance from Earth was about 7,200 light-years.
It was likely a white dwarf star that had been pulling matter off an orbiting companion star. When the white dwarf mass exceeded the stability limit (known as the Chandrasekhar limit), it exploded.
Kenzaburō Ōe
Kenzaburō Ōe (born January 31, 1935 in Ehime; died March 3, 2023 aged 88 ) was a Japanese writer and peace activist. He was the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Autofellatio
Autofellatio is an act of masturbation where a man sucks or licks his own penis.
Only men who have enough flexibility, penis size or both can perform autofellatio. Autofellatio is a niche in pornography. In some animals, like the Cape ground squirrel, scientists have seen these animals doing autofellatio and also manual masturbation.
According to historians, autofellatio in Ancient Egypt had a religious meaning.
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was born on November 3, 1718 and died on April 30, 1792 in Great Britain. He is known for the person the sandwich is named after.
Torajan people
The Torajans are an ethnic group, indigenous to a part of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There are about 650,000 of them around the world. 450,000 of these still live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja"). Most of them are Christian. Others of them are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). The Indonesian government has recognized this animist belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").
Walensee
The Walensee, also known as Lake Walen or Lake Walenstadt from Walenstadt, is a lake in eastern Switzerland. It is in the cantons of St. Gallen and Glarus. Other towns and villages at the lake include Weesen, Quinten, Quarten, and Murg.
The three main rivers leading to this lake are the Seez, Murgbach, and Linth. The last continues its course from Walensee to Lake Zurich. The Schnittlauchinsel, at the eastern end of the lake, is the only island in the Walensee.
The Churfirsten range raises steeply on the north side from the lake's level at 419 m to 2,306 m above sea level.
Budaun district
Budaun district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Budaun city is the headquarter. It is the part of Bareilly division.
Tehsils
There are 5 tehsils in Budaun district.
Get Heavy
Get Heavy is the first album from the Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band Lordi.
The Monsterican Dream
The Monsterican Dream is an album from the Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band Lordi.
Verín
Verín is a town and municipality in the southeast of the province of Ourense, autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
Paula Sémer
Paula Sémer (9 April 1925 – 1 June 2021) was a Belgian actress and politician. She was a member of Forward. She was a member of the Senate of Belgium from 1995 to 1999. She worked for VRT. She was born in Antwerp, Belgium.
Sémer died on 1 June 2021, aged 96.
Ernie Lively
Lively died on June 3, 2021 from heart failure in Los Angeles, aged 74.
Hanau
Hanau is a town in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main, where the little river Kinzig joins the river Main. About 100,000 people live in Hanau.
History
Hanau was first mentioned in 1143 and became a city in 1303.
During World War II, Hanau was almost completely destroyed by British airstrikes in March 1945.
Nine people were killed in two shootings in Hanau on 19 February 2020.
Addo Bonetti
Addo E. Bonetti (April 4, 1926 – June 6, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1967 to 1979, as a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Torrington, Connecticut.
The Monster Show
The Monster Show is an album from the Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band Lordi.
Landry, Savoie
Landry is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Savoie department in southeast France.
Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu
The Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu (Cultural Leonese Association of the Leonese Language El Fueyu) is a Leonese language who wants to promote the knowledge of Leonese language and the defense of the rights of Leonese language speakers.
History
Leonese language association El Fueyu born in Llión in 2005, an actually develops its activities mainly in the provinces of Llión, Zamora and Salamanca (Spain).
Courses
The Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu have signed many agreements with the most important leonese institutions for teaching Leonese language in official courses. Between them, there are the City Councils of Llión, Mansilla de las Mulas, Coyanza, La Bañeza or Zamora, and the Provincial Government of León
Leonese Language Day
With the agreement signed between the Provincial Government of León and the Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu born the Leonese Language Day on June 20th, 2006. After that year, the Leonese City Council organizes that Day with the support of the Leonese language associations.
Leonese literature
Leonese language book Cuentos del Sil (Tales of the Sil) was published with the agreement between the Provincial Government of León and the Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu. In its edition collaborated the Asociación Berciana en Defensa de la Llingua Llïonesa El Toralín. In this book several authors from or with rellations with El Bierzu wrote stories in Leonese language.
Gérard Vergnaud
Gérard Vergnaud (8 February 1933 – 6 June 2021) was a French mathematician, philosopher, educator, and psychologist. Vergnaud was a professor emeritus of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. He was known for his creation of the Theory of Conceptual Fields. He was born in Doué-la-Fontaine, France.
Vergnaud died on 6 June 2021 in Paris, aged 88.
Villaroger
Villaroger is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Savoie department in southeast France.
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Haute-Savoie department in southeast France.
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Anthony Stokowski, (born near London, 18 April 1882; died 13 September 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor. He conducted many of America's greatest orchestras. Many people will recognize him from Disney’s film Fantasia in which he conducts the orchestra and is seen shaking hands with Mickey Mouse. Stokowski had a long conducting career which started in 1909. He appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.
Chitin
Chitin is a semitransparent material that is the main component of the exoskeletons of arthropods, such as crustaceans (e.g. crab, lobster and shrimp) and insects (e.g. ants, beetles and butterflies), of the cell walls of fungi, the radula of molluscs and the beaks of cephalopods (e.g. squid, and octopuses). Chitin has also proven useful for several medical and industrial purposes.
Bareilly
Bareilly (बरेली) is a city in Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the capital of Bareilly division. In 2015 Bareilly is selected one of the smartest cities of India.
According to 2011 Census of India, the population of the city is 904,797 out of 477,515 are males and 427,282 are females.
Yuji Miyahara
Yuji Miyahara (born 19 July 1980) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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High Force
High Force is one of Britain's great waterfalls. It is in Teesdale, County Durham. It was created by erosion when a river went through the rock and did not erode the hard upper layer of igneous rock, but eroded the bottom layer of soft limestone, a sedimentary rock. It is one of the biggest waterfalls in the UK.
James B. Brennan
He was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1959 until 1961.
Brennan died on June 5, 2021 in Milwaukee, aged 95.
Lintong District
Lingtong District (临潼区, pinyin:Líntóng Qū) is a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is in east of Xi'an, and about 20 km from the center of Xi'an. Weinan Municipality is to the east. Gaoling District, Baqiao District and Xianyang Municipality are to the west. Lantian County is to the south. Yanliang District is to the north. The district covers 915.97 km2. As of November 2010, 655,874 people lived there.
Long ago it called Yueyang (栎阳). Firstly, Lingtong District called Lingtong County, and belong to Weinan Municipality. Then it was given to Xi'an. In 1988, it renamed to Lingtong District.
Lingtong is famous for tours, there are many monuments. It's also important for Xi'an, in military.
Édith Moskovic
Édith Moskovic (12 August 1931 – 8 June 2021) was a Hungarian-born French Holocaust survivor and activist. In 2009, she was made a knight of the Legion of Honor. Moskovic was sent to the Camp du Récébédou from 1941 until 1942, when she escaped after bribing the guards.
Moskovic died on 8 June 2021 in Montpellier, France at the age of 89.
Vera Zelinskaya
Vera Zelinskaya (26 August 1944 – 6 June 2021) was a Russian movie production designer. She was known for her works on Window to Paris, Time for Sorrow Hasn't Come Yet and Of Freaks and Men. Zelinskaya was born in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Zelinskaya died in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 6 June 2021, aged 74.
Ben Roberts (actor)
Bennett "Ben" Roberts (1 July 1950 – 7 June 2021) was a Welsh actor. He was known for his role as Chief Inspector Derek Conway in the ITV British television series The Bill. Roberts was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. His career lasted from 1978 until 2019.
Roberts died on 7 June 2021, aged 70.
Radula
The radula is the toothed chitinous ribbon in the mouth of most molluscs. It can be compared with the tongue of human beings but, unlike our tongue, it is used for cutting and chewing food before it enters the esophagus.
Deadache
Deadache is an album from the Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band Lordi.
Radula
The radula is present in all molluscs except bivalves, and only in molluscs. For example, Gastropods use it to graze and scrape diatoms and other microscopic algae off rock surfaces and other substrata. Squid use it for cutting up their prey.
East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and is the eastern half of the Midlands.
The counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire belong to this region.
The highest point in the region is Kinder Scout, in Derbyshire at 2,088 ft (636 m).
Population and settlement
Its main cities are Nottingham, Leicester, Lincoln, Derby, and Northampton. Leicester is officially the largest city in the region, although the largest area is the Nottingham Urban Area.
East Midlands Airport is situated between the three main cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham.
Midland Mainline and GNER trains go to London and to Birmingham and the South West.
The M1 motorway serves the three largest cities.
History
A historical basis for such an area exists in the Five Burghs of the Danelaw. The current government office region was created in 1994.
Local government
The official region consists of the following subdivisions:
Hurricane Cesar-Douglas
Hurricane Cesar-Douglas was a Category 4 hurricane that crossed the Atlantic as Hurricane Cesar. The storm continue to move west to the Pacific as Hurricane Douglas. The storm was the strongest storm for the 1996 Pacific hurricane season. It was the second hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, in the Atlantic it was a category 1.
Meteorological History
The start of this storm goes back to a tropical wave near Dakar, Senegal. It crossed the Atlantic and did not start until it was close to the Windward Islands. On July 24 it became Tropical Depression Three. Tropical Depression Three became Tropical Storm Cesar on July 25. Cesar did not strengthen much because it was close to land. It did start to strengthen more as it entered the Southwestern Caribbean Sea. After about half way between Nicaragua and South America, Tropical Storm Cesar became a hurricane on July 27. Hurricane Cesar reached its highest winds on July 28, which were at 85 mph. Later that day, Hurricane Cesar made landfall near Bluefields, in Nicaragua while it still had its highest winds. Cesar weakened into a tropical storm over Central America. But it did survive crossing Central America.
Bad Kötzting
Bad Kötzting (before 2005: Kötzting) is a town of the district of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany.
Hurricane Cesar-Douglas
Meteorological History
Late on July 28, Cesar reached the Pacific Ocean and was renamed Tropical Storm Douglas. By the next day, Tropical Storm Douglas became a hurricane. Later, on August 1, Hurricane Douglas reached its highest wind, which were at 130 mph. Douglas started getting weaker because of cooler waters. On August 5, Hurricane Douglas died.
Retirement
The name "Cesar" was retired and the name "Douglas" was not retired. In 2002 and 2008 the name Cristobal was used instead, it was not retired. For the Pacific, the name "Douglas" used in 2002 and 2008, it still wasn't retired.
Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton supports and protects an animal's body from outside and not like the internal endoskeleton - of, for example human beings - from inside.
Many invertebrate animals (such as shelled mollusks) have exoskeletons in the sense of external hard parts. But if one speaks of an exoskeleton one mostly means that of arthropods (i.e. insects, spiders, myriapods and crustaceans).
Exoskeletons contain rigid and resistant components that fulfil a set of functional roles including protection, excretion, sensing, support, feeding and (for terrestrial organisms) acting as a barrier against desiccation. Exoskeletons first appeared in the fossil record about 550 million years ago, and their evolution has been seen as critical as a driving role in the Cambrian explosion of animals that took place after this time.
The exoskeleton ( exoskeleton suit) is a device intended to restore the lost motion functions of a person or other living being. The exoskeleton also serves to increase human muscle strength and range of motion by means of an external skeleton and drive elements.
Thomas Brisbane
Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (July 23, 1773 – January 27, 1860) was the sixth Governor of New South Wales. Brisbane was very interested in astronomy and brought two assistant astronomers to Australia with him. When he went back to England, he left his books, telescopes and other equipment behind as gift, and these were the beginnings of the Sydney Observatory.
The Brisbane River was named after Sir Thomas, and the capital city of Queensland, takes its name from the river.
Nottingham (disambiguation)
Nottingham is the name of several places in the world:
UK:
USA:
and a succession of Royal Navy destroyers:
Nottingham also refers to a housing cooperative in Madison, WI.
Lee Dong-gook
Lee Dong-Gook (born 29 April 1979) is a South Korean professional athlete. He is best known as an association football player. He was a member of the Korean national team.
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Kantorovich theorem
In mathematics (especially numerical analysis), the Kantorovich theorem (or the Newton-Kantorovich theorem) is a mathematical statement about the convergence of Newton's method. This theorem was named after Leonid Kantorovich, and it is frequently used in the field of validated numerics.
Lee Dong-gook
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