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Doriemus
Doriemus (17 November 1990 – 11 January 2015) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. He began his career in New Zealand and became famous Australia by winning the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in 1995. He became just the ninth horse to win both cups.
Doriemus was euthanised due to a hoof infection after a paddock accident on 11 January 2015. He was 24.
Surfing with the Alien
The album cover shows the Marvel Comics character, the Silver Surfer on the front and the hand of Galactus on the back. The image is from Silver Surfer #1 (1982). The artist, John Byrne, has said that the image was used without his permission and that he never got paid for its use. The art is from panel 1 of page 6 of SILVER SURFER #1 published in 1982. However, the album liner notes mention a Marvel Characters, Inc. copyright and say the Silver Surfer likeness is used with permission.
Track listing
All songs written by Joe Satriani.
Richard Bloch
Richard Adolf Bloch (February 15, 1926 – July 21, 2004) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955. His personal experience with cancer led him to invest in helping others fight and overcome the disease.
Bloch died of heart failure on July 21, 2004 at the age of 78. He was survived by his wife, Annette, daughters Linda Lyon, Barbara Stanny and Nancy Linsely and ten grandchildren.
List of rulers of Lithuania
The President of Republic of Lithuania is a official head of government of Lithuania.
Abu Omar al-Shishani
Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili (თარხან ბათირაშვილი; 11 February 1986 – presumedly dead in July 2016), known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani (أبو عمر الشيشاني, Abū ‘Umar ash-Shīshānī, "Abu Omar the Chechen") or Omar al-Shishani, was a Georgian Kist jihadist. He served as a commander for the Islamic State in Syria, and previously as a sergeant in the Georgian Army. In 2013, Batirashvili joined the Islamic State and rapidly became a senior commander in the organization, directing a series of battles and ultimately earning a seat on ISIS's shura council.
U.S. officials reported that Batirashvili died from injuries several days after being the target of a 4 March 2016 U.S. airstrike, near the Al-Shaddadah district in Northern Syria, however, the Islamic State denied these claims and its Amaq News Agency confirmed that Shishani was killed in July 2016 during fighting in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, Iraq.
Hamilton West (New Zealand electorate)
Hamilton West is an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives. It is in Hamilton.
Carl Long (baseball)
Long was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He grew up in Kinston, North Carolina.
Teide National Park
Teide National Park is the most visited National Park in Spain and also one of the most visited National Parks in the world.
Located in Tenerife (Canary Islands), it is centered around 3718m Mount Teide, the highest mountain of Spain and the islands of the Atlantic (it is the third largest volcano in the world from its base). It was declared a National Park on 22 January 1954, making it one of the oldest national parks in Spain.
2009 World Figure Skating Championships
Qualification
The games were open to skaters from ISU member nations who reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2008. Countries which qualified more than one country per discipline:
Schedule
(Local time, UTC-7)
Deborah Batts
Deborah Anne Batts (April 13, 1947 – February 3, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1994 to 2012, after being nominated by Bill Clinton. In June 1994, Deborah Batts was sworn in as a United States District Judge for Manhattan, becoming the nation's first openly LGBT, African-American federal judge. She took senior status on her 65th birthday, April 13, 2012. Batts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Batts died on February 3, 2020 in Manhattan from problems caused by knee surgery, aged 72.
Teide National Park
The park has an area of 18,990 hectares and was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on 28 June 2007. Since the end of 2007, it has also been one of the 12 Treasures of Spain. Midway up the mountain are the telescopes of the Observatorio del Teide. Territorially, it belongs to the municipality of La Orotava.
Kuniaki Koiso
Koiso died of esophageal cancer in Sugamo Prison in 1950.
Etty Fraser
Etty Fraser Martins de Sousa (8 May 1931 — 31 December 2018) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her best known works include Beto Rockfeller, Durval Discos and Cristina Wants to Get Married.
Carole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American songwriter and singer.
Puck (moon)
Puck is a closer moon to Uranus. Puck was found from the images taken by Voyager 2 on December 30, 1985, and was given the designation S/1985 U 1.
In Celtic mythology and English folklore, a Puck is a mischievous sprite, imagined as an evil demon by Christians; the moon is named after the Puck who appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which he travels around the globe at night with the fairies. It is also designated Uranus XV.
Puck is the biggest of the small closer moons to Uranus. It is in the middle in size between Portia and Miranda, the smallest of the five bigger moons. Puck's orbit is also located between these two moons. Little is known about it aside from its orbit, its radius about 81 km, and its geometric albedo approximately 0.11.
Of the moons found by the Voyager 2 imaging team, only Puck was found early enough that the probe could be programmed to take pictures of it in some detail. Images showed that Puck has a shape of a slightly prolate spheroid (ratio between axises is 0.97 ± 0.04). Its surface is heavily cratered and is grey in color. There are three named craters on the surface of Puck. Observations with Hubble Space Telescope and large terrestrial telescopes found water ice absorption features in the spectrum of Puck.
Etty Fraser
Fraser died on 31 December 2018 in São Paulo, Brazil from heart failure, aged 87.
Constitutional monarchy
A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchy. In a constitutional monarchy, a king or queen is the official head of state. However, their powers are limited by a constitution and they usually do not have much real power, as the legislative branch is the primary governing body. A constitutional monarchy is different than an absolute monarchy because in absolute monarchies, the monarch is able to rule with full power, and is able to change the laws freely.
Creation
Constitutional monarchy first emerged in England. At first, the British monarchy was absolute. However, the nobility under King John felt that the king had abused his power, and forced him to sign a document called the Magna Carta. This document limited the powers of the king and made him somewhat responsible for the wellbeing of his subjects. The document, however was more focused on maintaining the ability of the nobles to have a say in what the king did.
Contemporary constitutional monarchies include the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms, Belgium, Bhutan, Bahrain, Cambodia, Denmark, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Eswatini, Sweden, and Thailand.
List of current reigning monarchies
The following is a list of reigning monarchies. Except where noted, monarch selection is hereditary as directed by the state's constitution.
Bearded seal
The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped. It is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.
Fossils indicate that, during the Pleistocene epoch, bearded seals went as far south as South Carolina.
Description
Features of this earless seal include square front flippers and thick bristles on its muzzle. Adults are greyish-brown in colour, darker on the back. Occasionally the face and neck are reddish-brown. Bearded seal pups are born with a greyish-brown fur with scattered patches of white on the back and head. The bearded seal is unique in the subfamily Phocinae in having two pairs of teats. This is a feature it shares with monk seals.
Bearded seals are about 2.1 m to 2.7 m in nose-to-tail length. They are 200 kg to 430 kg in weight. Both sexes are about the same size.
Bearded seals are a main food source for polar bears and for the Inuit of the Arctic coast. The body fat content of a bearded seal is 30–40%.
Hunting and Diet
Bearded seals feed on a variety of small prey found along the ocean floor, including clams, squid, and fish. Their whiskers serve as feelers in the soft bottom sediments. Adults tend not to dive very deep. They like shallow coastal areas no more than 300 m deep. Pups up to one year old will venture much deeper, diving as deep as 450 m.
Reproduction and Lifecycle
Bearded seals give birth in the spring. In the Canadian Arctic, seal pupping is in May. Further south, in Alaska, most pups are born in late April. Pups are born on small drifting ice floes in shallow waters. They usual weigh around 30–40 kg. They enter the water only hours after they are born, and quickly become very good divers. Mothers care for the pups for 18–24 days. During this time the pups grow at an average rate of 3.3 kg per day. Pups consume an average of eight liters of milk a day. By the time they are weaned, the pups have grown to about one hundred kilograms.
Just before the pups are weaned, a new mating cycle takes place. Females ovulate at the end of their lactation period, but stay close to their pups, ready to defend them if necessary. During the mating season, male seals will "sing". This sound may attract females, or may be used by the males to say what territory is theirs or their readiness for breeding. Males live in the same areas from one year to the next.
Cucuron
Cucuron is a commune of 1,828 people (2004). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Ombudsman
An ombudsman (, also,  ) is an official who is usually hired by the government or by parliament. In some countries, an inspector general, citizen activist or other official may have duties similar to those of a national ombudsman. An ombudsman may be appointed by a state, local, or city government.
Communist Party of Greece
The Communist Party of Greece (Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας; Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas, KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece. It was founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece (adopting its current name in November 1924). It is the oldest political party in modern Greek politics. The party played a significant role in the Greek resistance. The party's membership was largest in the mid-1940s. It participated in the Greek Civil War, but ended on the losing side and was banned until 1974.
The party took part in a coalition government in 1989 when it got more than 13% of the vote.
Foundation
The October Revolution of the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917 gave rise to the foundation of communist parties in many countries all over the globe. KKE was founded on 4 November 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece (Greek: Σοσιαλιστικό Εργατικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Sosialistikó Ergatikó Kómma Elládas; acronym: ΣΕΚΕ, SEKE). The party was run by a five-member central committee. The committee consisted of Nikos Dimitratos, D. Ligdopoulos, M. Sideris, A. Arvanitis and S. Kokkinos.
The background of KKE has roots in more than 60 years of small socialist, anarchist and communist groups. These groups were mainly in industrialized areas. They followed the example of the Paris Commune and the 1892 Chicago workers' movement for the eight-hour working day. These groups pushed for the unification of Greek workers into trade unions, the implementation of an eight-hour day in Greece and better salaries for workers. Inspiration came from the Paris Commune and the communist revolutionary efforts at the beginning of the century. The destruction almost 20 years of wars brought upon the Greek workers also played a role. As a result, a unified Social-Communist party was founded in Greece.
At the Second Congress of the SEKE in April 1920, the party decided to affiliate with Comintern. The Comintern was an international communist organisation founded in Moscow in 1919. The SEKE changed its name to the Socialist Labour Party of Greece-Communist (SEKE-K). A new central committee was elected, which included Nikos and Panaghis Dimitratos, Yannis Kordatos, G. Doumas and M. Sideris. At the Third Extraordinary Congress of the SEKE-K in November 1924, the party was renamed the Communist Party of Greece and adopted Marxism–Leninism. Pandelis Pouliopoulos was elected as general-secretary. Ever since, the party has functioned on the basis of democratic centralism.
KKE between the two World Wars
KKE strongly opposed Greece's involvement in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. It considered the war an imperialistic plot to control the market of Asia Minor. KKE members advocated this position both on the front as well as in the mainland. KKE worked with the Soviet ambassador to persuade Venizelos' administration to withdraw its troops from Asia Minor. KKE also tried to persuade the Soviet Union to pressure Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to allow autonomy for Greek cities in Asia Minor.
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg (born February 14, 1947) is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from the state of New Hampshire. Before becoming a U.S. Senator, he was Governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993.
Gregg was born on February 14, 1947 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He studied at Columbia University and at Boston University School of Law. He is married to Kathleen MacLellan Gregg. They have two children.
Hooded seal
The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped. It is found only in the central and western North Atlantic. It ranges from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.
The male has a peculiar inflatable bladder on the head. This bladder hangs between his eyes and down over his upper lip in the deflated state. In addition, he can inflate a large balloon-like sac from one of his nostrils. The bulge develops when the seal is four years old. The male can blow up this bulge, so that it is the size of its head.
The hooded seal can live to about age 30 to 35.
Size
Adult males are 2.6 m long on average, and weigh 300 - 410 kg. Females are much smaller: 2.03 m long and weighing 145 - 300 kg. The colour is silvery; the body is scattered with dark, irregular marks. The head is darker than the rest of the body, and without marks.
Offspring
Pups are about 1 m long at birth and weigh about 24 kg. They are born on the ice from mid-March to early April. They are born with a slate blue-grey coat with a pale cream color on the belly. They moult after about 14 months. Nursing of the pup lasts for an average of only 4 days. This is the shortest lactation period of any mammal. During the 4 days the pup doubles in size, gaining around 7 kg/day. This is possible because the milk that they drink has a fat content of 60%. The female pup will mature between ages 3 and 6. The male pup will mature between ages 5 and 7.
2022–23 Austrian Cup
The 2022–23 Austrian Cup is the 92nd edition of the national cup in Austrian football. Red Bull Salzburg are the defending champions.
Round dates
The competition was held as follows.
First round
Thirty-two first round matches were played between 15 July and 17 July 2021.
Second round
Sixteen second round matches were played between 30 August and 1 September 2022.
Third round
Eight third round matches will be played between 18 and 20 October 2022.
Quarter-finals
Four quarter-final matches will be played between 3 and 5 February 2023
Final
SK Sturm Graz: Arthur Okonkwo – David Schnegg, Gregory Wüthrich, David Affengruber, Jusuf Gazibegović – Jon Gorenc Stankovič – Alexander Prass (89. Niklas Geyrhofer), Otar Kiteischwili (75. Tomi Horvat), Stefan Hierländer – Emanuel Emegha, Manprit Sarkaria (91. Bryan Teixeira) coach: Christian Ilzer
Surfing with the Alien (song)
"Surfing with the Alien" is the first song in Joe Satriani's second album Surfing with the Alien. The song refers to the comic book character Silver Surfer. The song was named the 30th greatest guitar solo ever by Guitar World magazine readers. It is one of his faster shred guitar style songs. The song was also the theme song for the Nintendo 64 game NASCAR 99.
Richard Burr
Richard Burr (born November 30, 1955) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from North Carolina from 2005 to 2023. He is a member of the U.S. Republican Party. He was in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005. Burr was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He succeeded Dianne Feinstein as chairman in January 2015.
In July 2016, Burr said that he would not run for re-election in 2022.
On February 13, 2021 Burr voted that no longer Republican President Donald Trump was guilty of starting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. He and six other Republican senators also voted that Trump was guilty. This was after the House of Representatives Second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Busch Gardens Williamsburg is an amusement park located in James City County, Virginia, United States.
Union Public Service Commission
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; संघ लोक सेवा आयोग) is a board in India which conduct several exams to select grade 1 officer for Indian government. UPSC is also responsible for traning and allocation of positions to its different selected candidates.
Popular exams conducted by UPSC are Civil services, CDS, IES, NDA and IFOS.
Apart from above five exams UPSC also conducts many other exams to facilitate government vaccant positions. UPSC conducts one of the toughest exam of world through which it recruits civil services aspirants for government of India.
History
Merit based civil services exam system started in India since 1854. Before 1854 Directors of East India company use to recruit or nominate civil servannts and train them at Haileybury college in London. In early days of civil services exam pappern was focused to help Britishers for this post and exam use to be conducted only at London. It was first in 1922 that civil services exam started in India as well. First Indian to clear civil servant exam was Satender Nath Tagore in 1864 and till 1922 only 4 other Indians could clear civil services. In 1935 civil service commission was brough to "government of India act" It came in affect since 1st April 1937. It was called as Federal public service commission.
Post Independence
India became Indipendent on 15th August 1947 and after inaugration of constitution of India on 26th January 1950, Federal Services commission of India was called Union Public services commission under clause (1) of article 378 of Indian constitution.
Every year about 1 Million students fill up form to apply for most prestigious and difficult exam in India called civil services conducted by UPSC.
Romāns Apsītis
Romāns Apsītis (13 February 1939 – February 2022) was a Latvian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Latvian Way. He was in the Saeima from 1993 to 1998 and was Minister of Justice from 1994 to 1995.
Music of Mexico
Music of Mexico has a lot of different forms of music genres that are performed by Mexican musicians.
Folk music
The corrido is a type of narrative song that tells a story. Corridos are recorded as a ballad and sometimes as a duet with another artist. Traditional folk music is a type of folk music that is sung by ordinary people. In popular music, this can include the ranchera, mariachi and conjunto music. Mexican folk music are based on instruments such as the violin and guitar. Mexican sones are a type of ranchera music that developed when the Spanish evaded Mexico. Tejano music is a type of folk music mixed with R&B and country. Tejano (or Tex-Mex music) is popularized in South Texas and North Mexico. Tejano began when the Germans settled in South Texas during the 1600s and brought musical instruments to the native people. Ever since, Tejano has grown to become the most widely known type of music in Mexico and has its own music awards held annually in San Antonio, Texas. "The Queen of Tejano music" is Selena and "The King of Tejano music" is Emilio Navaria. Banda and Norteño are two music genres that formed from Tejano music.
Cumbia and pop
The cumbia music is also popular in Mexico and was brought by the Cubans. "Bolero", which originated from Puerto Rico, is popular in Mexico as a mixed style with cumbia music. In recent year, Mexican Pop music has seen the rise in popularity beginning in the 2000s.
King of Bahrain
The King of Bahrain is the monarch and head of state of Bahrain. Between 1783 and 1971, the Bahraini monarch held the title of Hakim. From 1971 until 2002 the title was Emir. On 14 February 2002, the then-Emir of Bahrain, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, said Bahrain was a kingdom. He made himself the first king.
Hakims of Bahrain (1783–1971)
The Arabic title of the Hakim was Hakim al-Bahrayn. The Hakim also held the honorific title of sheikh.
King of Bahrain (2002–Present)
The Arabic title of the King is Malik al-Bahrayn. The King also holds the honorific title of sheikh.
SeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park and marine zoological park in Orlando, Florida.
Gülriz Sururi
Gülruz Sururi (24 July 1929 – 31 December 2018) was a Turkish actress and author. She presented a TV cooking show and co-owned a theatre. She was born in Istanbull. She was named "The Woman of the Year" by the Turkish Women's Association in 1966. In the 1990s, she presented five years long a cooking show A La Luna in the television channel TRT.
Sururi died in Istanbul on 31 December 2018 from bile duct cancer, aged 89.
Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell (January 12 1904 – July 3 1972) (also known as Mississippi Fred McDowell) was a Delta blues singer and guitar player. His parents died when he was young.
Netherlands Institute for Art History
The Netherlands Institute for Art History, also known as RKD, is a large institution in The Hague in The Netherlands. It is devoted to the study of art history and has a very large library. The initials RKD stand for "Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie", the older Dutch name of the institute.
Fred McDowell
Early career
McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee, near Memphis. He started playing guitar when he was 14 and played at parties around where he lived.
Netherlands Institute for Art History
The Netherlands Institute for Art History opened in 1932. Three men made the biggest contribution to the Institute's collection. The first man was Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863–1930). He was a collector, art historian and museum curator. In his will, he left the RKD his large collection of documents. These included about 100,000 photos of Dutch paintings and drawings from the 17th century. The second man was Frits Lugt (1884-1970). He was also a collector and art historian. He gave the institute over 100,000 reproductions of paintings, 22,000 auction catalogues and thousands of books. The third man was E.A. van Beresteyn (1876-1948), an archivist and historian. He gave the institute a lot of material on Dutch portrait painting.
Fred McDowell
Later career
McDowell moved to Memphis in 1926 where he played for money. Soon after, he moved to Como, Mississippi in 1940 or 1941 and worked as a farmer. He still played at parties.
Netherlands Institute for Art History
The institute has a very large library of 450,000 books and around 3,000 magazines. Much of their material is digitized—very high quality pictures of book and magazine pages which are available on the internet. Many paintings and drawings are also digitized and available on the internet. The institute's website has many pages about artists with information on their life and work. Each artist has their own RKD number. The website also has a thesaurus of words used to describe art and architecture.
Fred McDowell
Later career
Mostly, he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide. He played with the slide on his ring finger.
Fame
In the 1950s, people became more interested in Blues Music and McDowell became more famous. He recorded for the first time in 1959 with Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins. He started playing on electric guitar rather than acoustic but said "I do not play no rock and roll". He taught Bonnie Raitt the slide guitar technique, and was written about by The Rolling Stones'.
Death
McDowell died of cancer in 1972 and is buried at Hammond Hill M.B. Church, between Como and Senatobia.
Hymne monégasque
The "Hymne Monégasque" (Inu Munegascu; "Monegasque Hymn") is the national anthem of Monaco. The lyrics were written by Louis Notari and the music was composed by Charles Albrecht.
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American singer. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts.
Personal life
Coolidge is part Cherokee, and this influences her music.
Coolidge married Tatsuya Suda on June 19, 2012 in the Cook Islands. Coolidge was married to Kris Kristofferson from 1973 to 1980. They have one daughter, Casey. Coolidge also had romantic relationships with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. Her leaving Stills for Nash has been said to be a reason behind the 1970 breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Beaconsfield, Iowa
Beaconsfield is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Carolyn See
Carolyn See (born Caroline Laws; January 13, 1934 – July 13, 2016) was an American educator and critic. She was the professor emerita of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
See was the author of ten books, including the memoir, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America, an advice book on writing, Making a Literary Life, and the novels There Will Never Be Another You, Golden Days, and The Handyman. She was also a book critic for the Washington Post for 27 years.
See died on July 13, 2016 in Santa Monica, California from cancer, aged 82.
4 (Foreigner album)
4, also known as Foreigner 4 is a 1981 studio album by English American band Foreigner and was released on 3 July, 1981 through Atlantic Records. It went to number 1 in the United States, number 5 in the United Kingdom, number 2 in Canada and number 3 in Australia.
Okinawa Prefecture
Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県) is traditionally a prefecture in the Kyūshū region of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is made up of islands which are southwest of the island of Kyushu. Recent government proposals recognize the prefecture as its own region.
The capital city is Naha which is on the island of Okinawa.
Geography
Okinawa is a grouping of many islands along the border at the edge of the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean from Kyūshū to Taiwan. It is the southernmost prefecture in Japan.
Towns and villages
These are the towns and villages in each district.
National Parks
National Parks are established in about 19% of the total land area of the prefecture.
Shrines and Temples
Naminouegū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the Ryukyu Islands. In 1890, the shrine was recognized in the system of State Shinto. It is among the ranked, nationally significant shrines or Kanpei-shōsha (官幣小社) which includes five sanctuaries.
Mike Lamb
Michael Robert Lamb (born August 9, 1975) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman. Lamb stands 6 ft and weighs 205 lbs.
Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue
Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue is a commune of 6,612 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Entrechaux
Entrechaux is a commune of 1,008 people (2007). It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Vaucluse department in south France.
Flag of Scotland
The flag of Scotland is a white X-shaped cross (a saltire), which represents the cross of the patron saint of Scotland, Saint Andrew on a blue sky. The flag is called Saint Andrew's Cross or the Saltire.
History
Material evidence of the saltire's use dates from many centuries later. In 1385 the Parliament of Scotland decreed that Scottish soldiers should wear a saltire as a distinguishing mark. The earliest surviving Scottish flag consisting solely of the saltire dates from 1503: a white cross on a red background. By 1540 the legend of King Angus had been altered to include the vision of the cross against a blue sky. Thereafter, this saltire design in its present form became the national flag of Scotland.
Scottish Parliament
There are five flagpoles outside the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh. The flag of Scotland is flown every day, alongside the Union Flag and the flag of Europe. The fourth flagpole is used for special occasions such as Commonwealth Day and United Nations Day. The fifth pole is used for the Royal Standard of Scotland.
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is managed by Historic Scotland, and has a military garrison of the British Army. Like all British Army bases, it flies the Union Flag (in ratio3:5) and the Army flies it every day from the Clock Tower. The Saltire is flown every day at the Half Moon Battery.
The flying of the Union Flag at Edinburgh Castle has sometimes caused controversy. In 2001, a group of 20 Scottish National Party MSPs called for the Union Flag to be replaced by the Saltire.
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government has decreed that the flag of Scotland will fly on all its buildings every day from 8 am until sunset. An exception is made for "national days". On these days, the Saltire shall be lowered and replaced with the Union Flag. These days are the same as the flag days of the United Kingdom with the exception of 3 September (Merchant Navy Day), which is a specific flag day in Scotland and during which the Red Ensign may also be used.
Another difference with the rest of the UK's days is that on Saint Andrew's Day, the Union Flag will only be flown if the building has more than one flagpole – the Saltire will not be lowered to make way for the Union Flag if there is only one flagpole. This difference arose after Members of the Scottish Parliament complained that Scotland was the only country in the world that could not fly its national flag on its national day.
Others
The flag can be flown at any time by any individual, company, local authority, hospital or school. There is no need to get consent to fly the flag from a vertical flagpole. The flagpole itself may need planning permission.
In recent years, embassies of the United Kingdom have flown the Saltire to mark St Andrew's Day.
Most local authorities in Scotland fly the Saltire. Glasgow City Council fly the flag from the City Chambers building in George Square, while the City of Edinburgh Council fly the flag from their own city chambers.
In 2007 Angus Council led by Robert Myles decided to change the Saltire for a new Angus flag. This move led to public outcry across Scotland with more than 7,000 people signing a petition opposing the council's move, leading to a compromise whereby the Angus flag would not replace but be flown alongside the Saltire on Council buildings.
Colour and dimensions
At various times throughout history colours as light as sky blue or as dark as dark navy blue have been used (a selection apparently motivated by which colour of blue dye was available at the time). When incorporated as part of the Union Flag, the navy blue colour used was that of the Blue ensign belonging to the historic 'Blue Squadron' of the British Royal Navy. Dark blue was primarily used for reasons of expediency—it suffered less from the effects of fading resulting from prolonged exposure to the elements (namely sunlight and salt spray).
Although this navy blue colour was used specifically for depicting the Union Flag on maritime flags on the basis of durability, it soon became standard on Union Flags, both on land and at sea. This navy blue colour trend was adopted for the Saltire itself by many flag manufacturers, resulting in a variety of shades of blue being depicted on the flag of Scotland ranging from "sky blue" to "royal blue" to "navy blue". Eventually, this situation resulted in calls to standardise the colour of Scotland's national flag.
In 2003, a committee of the Scottish Parliament met to examine a petition that the Scottish Government adopt the Pantone 300 colour as a standard. (Note that this blue is of a lighter shade than the Pantone 280 of the Union Flag). Having taken advice from a number of sources including the office of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the committee recommended that the optimum shade of blue for the Saltire should be Pantone 300 (that is, 0, 101, 189 in the RGB colour model, or #0065BD as hexadecimal web colours). Recent versions of the Saltire have therefore largely converged on this official recommendation, though dark blue has continued in use.
The flag's proportion is not fixed, but is generally taken as 1:2, 2:3, 3:5 or 4:5. The bars in the cross should be 1/5 (i.e., 20%) the width of the flag.
Outside Scotland
Inverse representations (blue saltire on a white field) of the Scottish Saltire are also used outside Scotland. In Canada, an inverse representation of the Saltire, combined with the shield from the Royal Arms of the Kingdom of Scotland, forms the modern flag of the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia, the first colonial venture of the Kingdom of Scotland into the Americas.
The U.S. state of Alabama's flag is officially "a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white," but the reference is used only to describe the shape without using the vexillological term saltire as that flag's origins are from either or both of the Confederate Battle Flag or the Cross of Burgundy Flag, both of which have saltires and are associated with the history of that state. Similarly, the Spanish island of Tenerife and the remote Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia also use the saltire on their flags.
The Scottish Saltire is also used unofficially by students and graduates of Xavier University because of the university's blue and white official colors and the resemblance of the flag to the letter "X". It is also the flag for St. Andrew's Scots School, Argentina (founded in 1838) and its "spinoff" university Universidad de San Andrés.
The Dutch municipality of Sint-Oedenrode, named after the Scottish princess Saint Oda, also uses the Saltire as the basis of its flag.
Incorporation into the Union Flag
The Scottish Saltire and field is one of the key components of the Union Flag. The Union Flag has been used in a variety of forms since 1606, when the flags of the Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of England were first merged to symbolise the Union of the Crowns. (The Union of the Crowns having occurred in 1603.) In Scotland, and in particular on Scottish vessels at sea, historical evidence suggests that a separate design of Union Flag was sometimes flown to that used in England. Following the Acts of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, the standard Union Flag became the national flag of the new United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Lion Rampant
The Royal Standard of the King of Scots, also known as the Royal Flag of Scotland or the Lion Rampant, is the flag used historically by the King of Scots. It remains the personal banner of the monarch and use of this flag is restricted under the Act of the Parliament of Scotland 1672 cap. 47 and 30 & 31 Vict. cap. 17.
Despite the legal restrictions concerning the use of this flag, it is often regarded as a second, albeit unofficial, national flag for Scotland, most often seen at sporting events.
WrestleMania XII
WrestleMania XII was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event made by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on March 31, 1996 at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California. It was the twelfth WrestleMania event held by the WWF.
Paquetville
Paquetville is a Canadian village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick. It is located on the Acadian Peninsula, at the intersection of Route 340, Route 135 and Route 350. In 2006, Paquetville had a population of 642.
The village was founded by Monseigneur Paquet in 1873, who brought several parishioners with him from Shippagan.
The village is the home of Édith Butler, who sings the song "Paquetville".
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Taurus Mountains
Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları) are a mountain range in Turkey, from which the Euphrates (Turkish: Fırat) and Tigris (Turkish: Dicle) descend into Syria and Iraq. The Manavgat River comes from its southern slopes. The mountain range extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris in the east. It has many peaks rising above 10,000–12,000 ft (3,000–3,700 m), with the Demirkazık summit in the region known as Aladağlar, at 3,756 meters (12,322 ft.) as the highest point. Another important peak is Medetsiz (3,524 m/11,561 ft) in the Bolkar Dağları section.
This mountain range divides the Mediterranean region of southern Turkey from the central plateau.
Limestone has eroded to form karstic landscapes of waterfalls, underground rivers, and the largest caves of Asia.
Antônio Pompêo
Antônio Pompêo (23 February 1953 – 5 January 2016) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in the television shows Balacobaco, Rebelde, A Casa das Sete Mulheres, O Rei do Gado, Mulheres de Areia and Pedra sobre Pedra. He also appeared in the movies Xica (1976), A Samba for Sherlock (2001) and Que sera, sera (2002). He was born in São José do Rio Preto or São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo.
Pompêo was found dead on 5 January 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, aged 62.
Zhangixalus dennysi
Denny's whipping frog, Denny's gliding tree frog, Denny's large tree frog, large tree frog or Blanford's whipping frog (Zhangixalus dennysi) is a frog. It lives in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. People have seen it between 200 and 1500 meters above sea level.
Kantarō Suzuki
Baron Kantarō Suzuki (鈴木 貫太郎) was a Japanese general and politician. He was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was the final leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April to 17 August 1945.
Seascape (Filippini)
Seascape (also known as  Marina) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1882, in Milano, Italy. Is in the collection of the GAM-Gallery of Modern Art of Milan since 1931 (inv. n. 4543).
The work is connected to Filippini's 1882 "La Grande Marina", also in the collection of the GAM Museum - Gallery of Modern Art of Milan (inv. No. 4544).
The Blue Veil (1951 movie)
The Blue Veil is a 1951 American drama movie directed by Curtis Bernhardt and is the remake of the 1942 French movie of the same name. It stars Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead, Cyril Cusack, Natalie Wood, Audrey Totter, Don Taylor, Alan Napier and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1952.
Punjabi Language Movement
The Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) is a linguistic movement in Punjab (Pakistan) aimed at reviving the Punjabi language, art, culture and literature in Pakistan. The Punjabi people constitute the largest ethnic group in Pakistan though Urdu is the national language and Punjabi itself does not have an official status. The PLM's ideologies are based on Punjabi nationalism.
Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi
Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Ali Al Badawi aka Jamal Abu Abed Al Rahman Al Badawi (جمال محمد البدوي) (July 22, 1960 –January 1, 2019) was a Yemeni terrorist. He was convicted of helping plan the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000, off the port coast of Aden, Yemen. He was captured in Yemen and sentenced to death on September 29, 2004. Fox News called Al-Badawi a "mastermind" of the Cole bombing.
He twice escaped from Yemen prison, once after his death sentence was issued, and was being sought as an FBI Most Wanted Terrorist fugitive.
He was reportedly killed by an airstrike on January 1, 2019 that was conducted in Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen.
Montes Taurus
Montes Taurus is a mountainous region on the Moon. These peaks are on a highland region to the east of the Mare Serenitatis, in the northeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. The selenographic coordinates of this range are 27.32°N, 40.34°W, and they have a diameter about 170 km. Some of the peaks within the range achieve heights of 3.0 km.
Stewart Cheifet
Stewart Cheifet (born September 24, 1938) is an American television presenter and academic. He is best known for his work presenting and producing Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. He has also worked in other reporting jobs for PBS and ABC. He also works for the University of Nevada, Reno.
Montes Taurus
A number of craters lie within this range. At the southwestern edge of the range is Römer crater, and Newcomb crater is in the northeastern section. Several satellite craters also lie throughout the Montes Taurus.
The Montes Taurus were named by Johannes Hevelius for the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey.
Eddie Colón
Edwin "Eddie" Carlos Colón (born December 21, 1982) is a Puerto Rican pro wrestler. He is currently working in the WWE where competes under the ring name Primo Colon. He is the son of Carlos Colón, Sr. and the younger brother of pro wrestlers Stacy and Carly Colón, who used to wrestle as Carlito in WWE. The brothers, known as The Colóns, were the first team to win the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship at the same time, making them the first Unified WWE Tag Team Champions.
Lao People's Revolutionary Party
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ), formerly the Lao People's Party, is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Laos. It has emerged from the Communist Party of Vietnam founded by Hồ Chí Minh in 1930. It has governed in Laos since 1975. The policy-making organs are the Politburo, Secretariat and the Central Committee. A party congress is held every five years. The congress elects members to the politburo and central committee. The congress used to also elect a secretariat, but this body was abolished in 1991. As of 2016, 128 of the 132 members of the National Assembly of Laos were from the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
History
The party has its origins in the Communist Party of Indochina founded by Ho Chi Minh in 1930 (see Communist Party of Vietnam). The ICP was entirely Vietnamese at its beginning, but it grew throughout French Indochina. The Communist Party of Indochina was able to found a small "Lao section" in 1936. In the mid-1940s, a campaign to recruit Laotian members began. In 1946 or 1947, Kaysone Phomvihan, a law student at the University of Hanoi, was recruited, along with Nouhak Phoumsavan.
Frank White (baseball)
White won the World Series with the Kansas City Royals in 1985.
His number (#20) is retired by the Royals. He is one of only two Royals players to have his number retired by the team (the other is George Brett).
Ioannis Petridis
Ioannis Petridis (Ιωάννης Πετρίδης; 18 August 1931 – 6 January 2016) was a Greek economist and politician. He was a member of the New Democracy party. He served as an MP for Pieria from 1985 to 1989. He was born in Katerini.
Petridis died on 6 January 2016 in Athens, aged 84.
Invercargill (New Zealand electorate)
Invercargill is an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was created in 1866.
Scirocco in Venice Lagoon
Scirocco in Venice Lagoon (also known as Scirocco in laguna) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil 75.5 x 45 centimetres by Francesco Filippini. It was painted in 1882, in Milano, Italy. Is in the collection of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
Barnacle goose
The barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese. This genus has species with largely black plumage, setting them apart from the grey Anser species.
Description
The barnacle goose is a medium-sized goose, 55 – long. Its wingspan is 130 - 145 cm and the body mass is 1.21 - 2.23 kg. It has a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast. Its belly is white. The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars that look like they are shining when the light reflects on it. During flight a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings can be seen.
Bhootu
Bhutu (also spelled Bhootu) is a Hindi language children's comedy-drama television series that aired on Zee TV. It Stars Kinshuk Mahajan and Sana Amin Sheikh in lead roles. The Show Telecasts Monday to Friday at 6:30 P.M.
Barnacle goose
Ecology, behavior and life history
Barnacle geese often build their nests high on mountain cliffs. This keeps them away from predators (mostly Arctic foxes and polar bears) but also away from food. Like all geese, the goslings are not fed by the adults.
Instead of bringing food to the newly hatched goslings, the goslings are brought to the ground. Unable to fly, the three day old goslings jump off the cliff and fall. Their small size, feathery down, and very light weight helps to protect most of them from serious injury when they hit the rocks below. Some do die from the fall. Arctic foxes are attracted by the noise made by the parent geese during this time. They eat dead or injured goslings. The foxes also stalk the young as they are led by the parents to wetland feeding areas.
It (character)
It, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown or Bob Gray, is the title character and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It. The character is a demonic and scary supernatural entity that murders and eats the local children of the fictional town of Derry, Maine about every twenty-seven years, using many powers that include the ability to shapeshift, manipulate reality, and go unnoticed by adults. King came up with the idea for Pennywise after asking himself what scared children "more than anything else in the world", which he felt was clowns. The character has been described as one of the scariest clowns in popular culture and is a global icon.
The character was portrayed by Tim Curry in the 1990 television adaptation of the same name; and by Bill Skarsgård in the 2017 and 2019 movie adaptation. Welcome to Derry, a prequel TV series for the streaming service HBO Max based on the first two movies is officially in development.
Monad
Monad may refer to: