cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Yvette Williams
Yvette Winifred Corlett (née Williams, 25 April 1929 – 13 April 2019) was a New Zealand athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's long jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. This made her the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal. She was also the first New Zealander to hold the world record in the women's long jump. She was a national champion and a medallist at the Commonwealth Games in long jump, javelin, shot put and discus. On the 100th anniversary of Athletics New Zealand in 1987, Yvette was named "Athlete of the Century".
Williams was born in Dunedin. She married Canadian-born New Zealand sportsman Buddy Corlett in 1954. He died in 2015.
Williams died on 13 April 2019, at the age of 89.
Renzo Chiocchetti
Renzo Chiocchetti (17 November 1945 – 13 February 2020) was an Italian cross-country skier. He was born in Moena. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics. He died in Moena at the age of 74.
Barnesville, Ohio
Barnesville is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 4,193.
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan (Hindi: उदित नारायण झा) (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer. Udit Narayan is famous for singing in Hindi, where his songs have been featured mainly in Bollywood movies of Hindi language. He has sung more than 25000 songs in 36 languages languages including Nepali, Maithili and Bhojpuri. In 1978 he travelled Bombay(Now Mumbai), India on a music scholarship from Indian Embassy in Kathamandu,Nepal .His debut in Bollywood was in year 1980 from movie Unees-Bees. He has won 5 National Film Awards (of which 4 as a singer, for 2 songs in 2001, 1 each in 2002 and 2004 along with 1 as a producer in 2005) and 5 Filmfare Awards with 20 nominations and many other awards. He finally made his mark in 1988 movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, his song Papa Kehte Hai was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing. He is the only male singer in the history of the Filmfare Awards to have won in over three decades (the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s)
Notoceratops
Notoceratops (meaning "southern horned face") was a ceratopsian dinosaur known only from a late Cretaceous jaw bone. Notoceratops walked on four sturdy legs, had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, cheek teeth, and a small frill on its head.
Discovery
Notoceratops was named by Augusto Tapia in 1918 from a partial lower jaw found in Chubut, Argentina. This original Notoceratops bonarelli is missing and there is some doubt as to whether or not this fossil was actually a ceratopsian.
Udit Narayan
After the success of the movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988 which turned out to be All Time Blockbuster movie in Bollywood with more than 8 million sales of the sound track being one of the highest selling albums in the 1980s. The soundtrack was a breakthrough for the careers of Anand-Milind, as well as T-Series, one of India's leading record labels. after which he was one of the favourites of music directors. His originality of voice was appreciated by all of the music lovers across the globe. Since his childhood he had idols such as Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar whom he'd listen on his radio. In the 1990s he sung for thousands of songs including Hindi and Nepali languages. Recognising his contribution, his majesty King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev awarded him with the Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu in 2001 after which for his contribution to Indian cinema and music he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009, and in 2016 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India, an honour that has been awarded to only a handful of singers, in recognition of his achievements in various film industries across India. and Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman 2015 for Bhojpuri Cinema. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".
Early life
Udit Narayan was born in 1955 to Nepali father Hare Krishna jha and Indian mother Bhuwaneshwari jha. Narayan was born in India.
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah was born on November 1974. She is also known as Lady Phyll, is a British political activist, co-founder of UK Black Pride and executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust.
Matt Anderson
Matthew John Anderson (born April 18, 1987) is an American volleyball player. He is a member of the United States men's national volleyball team and the Russian club Zenit Kazan. He played volleyball at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. He was a NORCECA Champion 2013. He won gold medals at the 2008 Pan American Cup, 2014 World League and 2015 World Cup.
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Career
Opoku-Gyimah is a co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride, which promotes unity among all Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American as well as their friends and families, who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender. She was appointed trustee of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity, Stonewall but resigned three years later when the charity announced it would partner with UK Black Pride.
Awards
Independent on Sunday Pink List, 2011 (64), 2012 (11)
Shuji Nakamura
With Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican Party politician.
Wilson was the 36th Governor of California from 1991 through 1999. Before this, he was a United States Senator from 1983 through 1991, the Mayor of San Diego from 1971 through 1983 and a California State Assemblyman from 1967 through 1971.
A Republican, Wilson passed the anti-immigrant 1994 California Proposition 187. This helped him win reelection while being against immigrant or gay communities amidst demographic shifts. Since then, the only California Republican to win a major statewide election is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1996.
The Judge (2014 movie)
The Judge is a 2014 American crime drama movie directed by David Dobkin.
Plot
It is about a Chicago lawyer, Hank Palmer, coming home to Indiana after his mother dies. Soon afterwards, his father, Joseph Palmer, a judge, is accused of killing someone in a hit and run accident with the son quickly defending his father even though they have relationship issues.
Reception
The movie received mixed reviews. It got a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics liked Duvall's performance as Palmer. Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role.
Ivor Broadis
Ivan Arthur "Ivor" Broadis (18 December 1922 – 12 April 2019) was an English professional footballer. He played as an inside forward. His career lasted from 1946 to 1960. He played for clubs Carlisle United (two stints), Sunderland, Manchester City, Newcastle United and Queen of the South. He also played for England 14 times, including at the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He scored eight goals for his country in the early 1950s.
Broadis was born in the Isle of Dogs, Poplar in East London. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living English international footballer. He died in 2019, at the age of 96.
Le Pian-sur-Garonne
Le Pian-sur-Garonne is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Diderot effect
The Diderot effect is a phenomenon from sociology, which was named after Denis Diderot, who first described it in an essay. In the essay, Diderot talked about a robe he used to wear in the bathroom: The old robe was a little shabby, but useful. When he was given a new robe, the new robe was more shiny, and nicer, but it did not fit well with the other clothes.
Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown: I was absolute master of my old dressing gown,” Diderot writes, “but I have become a slave to my new one … Beware of the contamination of sudden wealth. The poor man may take his ease without thinking of appearances, but the rich man is always under a strain.
So, the Diderot effect describes that people often show a tendency to buy more goods after they bought one item. It is said that they do this to restore the general perception they had about their belongings.
The Wikipedia Revolution
The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia is a 2008 book by Andrew Lih. It is a book about the history of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. It covers the period from the start of Wikipedia in early 2000 to early 2008. It has biographies of Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and Ward Cunningham. Wales and Sanger started Wikipedia, while Cunningham started the first online wiki. It also talks about events in Wikipedia's history such as the Essjay controversy.
The book has a foreword (a short piece of writing found at the beginning of a book) by Wales, and an afterword (a short piece of writing found at the end of a book) by volunteers of an online wiki who talk about the problems and opportunities in Wikipedia's future.
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for Rue des boutiques obscures.
Le Porge
Le Porge is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Dietrich Mateschitz
Dietrich Mateschitz (20 May 1944 – 22 October 2022) was an Austrian billionaire businessman. He was the co-founder and 49% owner of the Red Bull energy drink company. In June 2019, Mateschitz's net worth was said to be at $19.5 billion, making him the 53rd richest person in the world. He was born in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria.
Mateschitz died on 22 October 2022 from a long-illness at the age of 78.
Welsh Dragon
The Welsh Dragon (y Ddraig Goch) is a legendary creature and heraldic symbol. It is a red dragon that is the national symbol of Wales and is shown on the Flag of Wales.
Province of Massachusetts Bay
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a British colony in North America. It was made by combining the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Province of Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. It was created in 1692 by a charter from William III and Mary II.
Chicago Spire
The Chicago Spire is a very large skyscraper that was being built in Chicago, Illinois. Because of financial problems, the project has not been finished.
As of May 2013, however, interest in the Chicago Spire site has risen, drawing in at least a half-dozen offers for the property. The developer is also considering a bid to take back control of the property, reigniting hope that the 2,000 ft. skyscraper may actually be built. In 2014, a Chicago court ruled in favor of not building the skyscraper thus abandoning plans of it being constructed.
On 4 November 2016, ownership of the property the tower was being built on was given to Related Midwest. In 2018, it was revealed that Related Midwest will build two skyscrapers at the site of the Spire.
The Gateway Tower, a proposed 2,000 ft tall condo, is proposed to be built on the site of where the Spire would have been built.
Loni Nest
Loni Nest (born Eleonore Nest; August 4, 1915 - October 2, 1990 ) was a German actress.
Early life
She was born in Berlin to American parents. At the early age of four weeks, she was first featured in a movie. She used the name Loni Nest instead of Eleonore Nest. Between 1918 and 1933, she starred in 41 movies, opposite such actors as Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Feld.
Disppearance
After more than 40 movies, she ended her movie career in 1928 at the early age of 13. In 1933 she played in one last movie in France.
Her whereabouts after 1933 remained unknown for several decades.
Death
She died at the age of 75 on October 2, 1990 in the French town Nice.
Hoax
In 2014, the website "Forever missed" published an obituary that ostensibly revealed that Nest had died on Hawaii in 2014 at the old age of 98. It also described details of Nest's life after she left Germany and moved to America. Various websites including the Internet Movie Database quickly adopted this information. However it was soon discovered, that both the time and location of her death as well as the details about her later life were completely made up.
According to the German newspaper Die Welt, German film historian Toni Schieck had discovered years before that Nest's sister Ursula had moved to the USA and died in Florida in 2007. Through her family, Schieck discovered that Nest had married and taken the last name Arnault. She moved to France where she died at the age of 75 in Nice.
391
391 was a common year.
Billy Mainwaring
William Thomas "Billy" Mainwaring (born Gwilym Thomas Mainwaring; 24 January 1941 – 3 April 2019) was a Welsh rugby union player. He played as a second row. He played for Wales in 1967–68. He appeared for his country six times. He played for amateur teams Taibach, Aberavon, Bridgend and the Barbarians. He was born in Port Talbot. He worked as a steelworker.
Mainwaring died after a long illness on 3 April 2019, at the age of 78.
Jon Shepodd
Jon Shepodd (December 19, 1924 – August 16, 2017) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Paul Martin in the television series Lassie.
Le Pout
Le Pout is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Jon Shepodd
Shepodd died on August 16, 2017 at his London, England home at the age of 92.
Aleksei Paramonov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Paramonov (Алексей Александрович Парамонов) 21 February 1925 - 24 August 2018) was a Soviet-born Russian football player and manager. He was born in Borovsk.
Paramonov died at a hospital in Moscow from respiratory failure caused by a stroke on 24 August 2018, aged 93.
Game Freak
Game Freak, Inc. is a Japanese video game company that makes video games for Nintendo game consoles. It is most well known for developing the Pokémon series of role-playing video games.
Game Freak was originally a gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game company with the same name.
Dutch rabbit
Dutch are commonly used for showing, and make challenging show rabbits because of their unique markings.
Garrick Utley
Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014), better known as Garrick Utley, was an American television journalist. He reported about the Vietnam War and was one of the first full-time television correspondent covering the war from Vietnam.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Westtown School in 1957 and from Carleton College in 1961.
Utley died of prostate cancer on February 20, 2014 in New York City, New York. He was aged 74. He was outlived by his wife Gertje Utley (née Rommeswinkel).
Le Puy, Gironde
Le Puy, Gironde is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Torbay
Torbay is a Unitary authority in England. 120,000 people live there. It is on the south coast and has over 20 beaches. Tourism is very important to the local economy.
Torbay is not a town. Rather, it contains three towns (Torquay, Paignton and Brixham) and a few villages, the largest of which is Galmpton.
Torbay was first created as a county borough in 1967, uniting the urban districts of its three towns. In 1974 it became a borough of Devon, its surrounding county. Then in 1993 It was given unitary authority status, having the powers of both a borough and a county. In 2007 a referendum led to the adoption of a directly elected Mayor.
Spanish Americans
Spanish Americans (españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.
Billy Pierce
Walter William Pierce (April 2, 1927 – July 31, 2015) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitcher. He played 18 years for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and San Francisco Giants, from 1945 through 1964.
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio (July 26, 1930 – July 8, 2014) was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist. He was with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2010.
Billy Pierce
Pierce was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Highland Park, Michigan. Pierce died in Chicago, Illinois from gallbladder cancer, aged 88.
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Sampaio was born in São Paulo, Brazil.
He graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Law in 1954. He was president of the Catholic University Youth and was an active member of Popular Action.
He has been a prosecutor, deputy in the 1988 Constituent Assembly and chaired the Brazilian Association for Land Reform (ABRA), an institution that fights for land reform in Brazil. He also directed the weekly newspaper Correio da Cidadania.
Sampaio died in a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil from bone cancer. He had cancer for about a month. He was 83 years old.
Nosimo Balindlela
Nosimo Zisiwe Beauty Balindlela (born 28 November 1949) is a South African politician. She served as Premier of the Eastern Cape from 2004 to 2008.
2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming was held on 8 November 2016. It was part of the 2016 United States presidential election, in which all other states plus the District of Columbia voted.
In the presidential election, Donald Trump easily defeated Hillary Clinton and received 3 electoral votes.
Polling
Below is a table with the polling results in Wyoming. Wyoming has voted Republican in the general election since 1968.
Democratic
The Democratic caucus occurred on 9 April 2016.
Republican
The Republican caucus occurred on 12 March 2016.
Cygnus OB2
Cygnus OB2 is a large young cluster of stars in the constellation of Cygnus.
The cluster is an OB association. It includes some of the most massive and most luminous stars known. An example is the suspected luminous blue variable Cyg OB2. The cluster also includes one of the largest known stars, NML Cygni.
Although it is huge, Cygnus OB2 is hidden behind a massive dust cloud known as the Cygnus Rift. This hides many of the stars. This means that, despite its size, it is hard to see in detail. The estimated number of massive stars range from 50 to 100 of spectral type O. Its total mass is calculated as (4–10) or 3 solar masses.
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride might refer to:
Creuse (river)
The Creuse (Cruesa) is a river in western France that flows through the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Centre-Val de Loire regions.
It rises in the Massif Central and flows into the Vienne river, as a right tributary.
Geography
The Creuse river has a length of 236.6 km and a drainage basin with an area of approximately 10279 km2.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 74.0 m3/s at Leugny, Vienne.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Leugny
Course
The Creuse river starts in the Plateau de Millevaches, a north-western extension of the Massif Central, in the commune of Le Mas-d'Artige, Creuse department, at an elevation of about 811 m. From here, it generally flows to the northwest.
Finally, the river flows into the Vienne river, on the right side, in the place known as Bec des Deux Eaux in the communes Port-de-Piles (Vienne), Ports and Nouâtre (Indre-et-Loire).
The Creuse flows through 5 departments and 80 communes, in 2 regions; some of the communes are:
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Creuse river are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (born June 26, 1968) is an independent politician and the President of Iceland. He became president on August 1 2016. Guðni holds a PhD in history from Queen Mary University of London.
Gun (Chvrches song)
"Gun" is a 2013 song by the Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches. It is the third single from their first studio album The Bones of What You Believe which was released in 2013.
Sol Hurok
Sol Hurok (Solomon Isaievich Hurok; born Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov, Russian Соломон Израилевич Гурков; April 9, 1888 – March 5, 1974) was a world-famous 20th-century American impresario.
Hurok was born in Pogar, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Bryansk Oblast, Russia) on April 9, 1888. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1914. Hurok died on March 5, 1974 from a heart attack in New York City, New York, aged 85.
List of tallest buildings in St. Louis
1. Metropolitan square 593 feet
2. At&t Building 588 feet
3. Thomas Eagleton Courthouse 557 feet
4. US Bank Plaza 484 feet
5. Laclede Gas Building 401 feet
Gray Davis
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American retired politician and attorney.
Davis served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Democratic Party, only months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.
List of tallest buildings in St. Louis
6. Southwestern Bell Building 399 feet
7. Civil Courts building 386 feet
Gray Davis
Before serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).
List of tallest buildings in St. Louis
8. Bank of American Plaza 384 feet
Gray Davis
Davis holds a BA in history from Stanford University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War.
List of tallest buildings in St. Louis
9. One City Center 375 feet
10. Park East Tower 330 feet
Satterthwaite
Satterthwaite is a village and civil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 257 people living in Satterthwaite. It has 9 listed buildings. It has a church called All Saints which has 4 stained glass windows.
Le Taillan-Médoc
Le Taillan-Médoc is a commune. It is found in the Aquitaine region in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Book of Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom (also called Wisdom of Solomon or just Wisdom) is one of the books of the Old Testament. It has been grouped among the Septuagint, or the seven wisdom books of the Bible. It is part of the Catholic and Orthodox Biblical canon, put forward by the Council of Carthage in 397 and confirmed by Catholic leaders at the Council of Trent in 1546. It was written by a Jew in Ancient Egypt in the 1st century BC and talks about wisdom among other themes.
Who wrote the book and when
The book was initially written in the Greek language, but has the style of Hebrew poetry. Tradition says that King Solomon wrote the book, but scholars reject this tradition. The Catholic Encyclopedia says: "It is freely admitted that Solomon is not the writer of the Book of Wisdom, which has been ascribed to him because its author, through a literary fiction, speaks as if he were the Son of David.".
The book has the most classical Greek language of all the books in the Septuagint. It also had much of the Hebrew style that had existed when the book was written. The writer also must have been deeply involved in the philosophical, religious, and ethical writings in Hellenistic Alexandria.
Other websites
Sirach
Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw (8 September 1938 – 14 February 2020) was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer. He was born in Amsterdam.
De Leeuw regularly conducted the Netherlands' major orchestras and ensembles, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Residentie Orchestra The Hague and ensembles such as the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the ASKO, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and the orchestras of the Dutch Public Radio.
In the 1995–96 season, he was the centre point of the 'Carte Blanche' series in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
He was involved in the organization of the series 'Contemporaries' at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Ophiolite
An ophiolite is a section of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed above sea level. The rocks which make up ophiolites are an altered form of basalt. The rocks are often green.
They are found in the mountain belts such as the Alps or the Himalayas. They show where former ocean basins were consumed by subduction. This was one of the discoveries of plate tectonics. Ophiolites have always played a central role in plate tectonic theory and the interpretation of ancient mountain belts.
David Faber
Faber died on July 28, 2015 in San Diego, California at the age of 86.
Mass media
Mass media are media like radio, television, internet or other things that reach many people. Television is most used. We can see and hear news from around the world. Radio also brings music and news. Books supply older and more detailed material. The internet is also important. We can search for all the news and information. Websites like Wikipedia and about.com give information about many things. Libraries are also important. In libraries we can read books and listen to music.
The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media (like books and manuscripts) were present centuries before the term became common.
Lop rabbit
Lop rabbit or lop-eared rabbit is a breed of domestic rabbit that was recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) in 1979 and by the Netherlands' Governing Rabbit Council in 1984. The different breeds are American Fuzzy Lop, Cashmere Lop, Canadian Plush Lop, Dwarf Lop, English Lop, French Lop, German Lop, Holland Lop (US), Meissner Lop, Mini Lion Lop, Mini Lop (US), Miniature Cashmere Lop, Miniature Lop (UK/NL), Plush Lop (Standard) not yet recognized; in development, Plush Lop (Mini) not yet recognized; in development, Teddywidder, Velveteen Lop a maximum weight of 4 lb, is one of the smallest lop-eared breeds.
List of countries in the 2010s
Members or observers of the United Nations
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A
Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state; the President of France and Bishop of Urgell were ex officio Co-Princes of Andorra. The defense of Andorra was the responsibility of France and Spain.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2015 and 2016.
Widely recognized UN member state; Commonwealth realm. Antigua and Barbuda has two dependencies, Barbuda and Redonda.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2013 and 2014. Argentina is a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It had a claim over Argentine Antarctica, which is suspended under the Antarctic Treaty. It also claims the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, both of which were British overseas territories.
Lynne Brown
Lynne Brown (born 26 September 1961) is a South African politician. She served as Minister of Public Enterprises and was also former Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa after her appointment in 2008.
List of countries in the 2010s
A
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2013 and 2014; Commonwealth realm. Australia is a federation of six states and three territories. It had sovereignty over the following external territories:
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010. EU member. Austria is a federation of nine states.
Animal roleplay
Animal roleplay or pet play is a form of sexual roleplay, where at least one person behaves and acts like an animal. It is common in the context of BDSM, where the submissive person usually acts like the animal, and the dominant person plays its master. The animals that are imitated usually are domesticated animals.
List of countries in the 2010s
A
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2012 and 2013. Azerbaijan had one autonomous republic, Nakhchivan. It included the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where a partially recognized breakaway republic had declared independence.
Lynne Brown
Early life and career
Brown was born in Cape Town. She was appointed Premier of the Western Cape following the resignation of Ebrahim Rasool in July 2008. She was also the Minister for Economic Development and Tourism.
List of countries in the 2010s
B
Widely recognized UN member state; Commonwealth realm.
Widely recognized UN member state.
Animal roleplay
Other forms also exist, but are less common. Note also, that this is a form of roleplay, between adults who agreed. It is not about sexual relations with animals (which is called zoophilia, and forbidden in most countries).
List of countries in the 2010s
B
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2019. EU member. Belgium is a federation of three communities and three regions.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2017 and 2018.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010 and 2011. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a federation of two constituent entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was itself a federation of ten cantons, and Republika Srpska.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010 and 2011. Brazil is a federation of 26 states and one federal district.
Widely recognized UN member state. Brunei claims part of the Spratly Islands (disputed by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia).
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member.
C
Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state; Commonwealth realm. Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three territories.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2014 and 2015. Chile has two special territories: Easter Island and the Juan Fernández Islands. It had a claim over Chilean Antarctic Territory, which is suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
Widely recognized UN member state and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. The People's Republic of China had five autonomous regions: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Tibet. Additionally, it had sovereignty over two special administrative regions: The People's Republic of China claims Taiwan, Kinmen, the Matsu Islands, Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, and Itu Aba, all of which were governed by the Republic of China. It also claims the Paracel Islands (disputed by the Republic of China and Vietnam), the Spratly Islands (disputed by the Republic of China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei), and South Tibet (controlled by India). The People's Republic of China administered Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract, which were within the disputed region of Kashmir.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2011 and 2012. Colombia administered Serranilla Bank and claims Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed by Nicaragua and the United States)
Widely recognized UN member state. The Comoros is a federation of three islands autonomous islands: Grande Comore, Mohéli, and Anjouan. Comoros also claims sovereignty over the French region of Mayotte and the Glorioso Islands. Comoros also claims Banc du Geyser (disputed by Madagascar and France).
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member (from 1 July 2013).
Widely recognized UN member state. The Cuban area of Guantánamo Bay is under the permanent control of the United States.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member. The northeastern part of the island is the de facto independent state of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member.
D
Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2019.
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2016 and 2017.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2018 and 2019.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2017 and 2018. Ethiopia is a federation of nine regions and two chartered cities.
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Widely recognized UN member state. Fiji had an autonomous dependency, Rotuma.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member. Finland had a neutral and demilitarised region:
Widely recognized UN member state and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. EU member. France includes five (four until March 2011) overseas departments: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte (from 31 March 2011) and Réunion. It also has sovereignty over the following overseas territories: France also claims Banc du Geyser (disputed by Madagascar and the Comoros).
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Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010 and 2011.
Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state. Georgia had two autonomous republics: Adjara and Abkhazia. The latter republic is home to a de facto independent state. Georgia also included the disputed region of South Ossetia, where a partially recognized breakaway republic had declared independence.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2011 and 2012 and 2019. EU member. Germany is a federation of sixteen states.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member. Greece has sovereignty over Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state that is jointly governed by the multi-national "Holy Community" on the mountain and the Civil Governor appointed by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and spiritually under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Widely recognized UN member state; Commonwealth realm. Grenada has one autonomous dependency, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2012 and 2013.
Rail
Rail or rails could mean:
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Widely recognized UN member state. Haiti claims the uninhabited United States possession of Navassa Island.
Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state and EU member.
Celestial sphere
In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaginary sphere (ball) of a very large unspecified size. The earth and the sphere have the same centre: they are concentric. They also rotate upon the same axis. All objects in the sky can be thought of as projected (drawn, written) upon the celestial sphere. This imaginary sphere is a very practical tool for positional astronomy.
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2011 and 2012. India is a federation of twenty-nine states and seven union territories. Indian sovereignty over South Tibet is disputed by the People's Republic of China. India administers part of the disputed region of Kashmir as the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2019. Indonesia had five special provinces: Aceh, Jakarta, Papua, West Papua, and Yogyakarta.
Celestial sphere
Sidereal time
The Earth rotates from west to east around its axis in slightly less than 24 hours. The celestial sphere and all objects on it appear to rotate from east to west around the celestial poles in the same time. This is the diurnal motion (daily motion). This is why stars will rise in the east and set in the west, (unless a star is circumpolar). On the next night a particular star will rise again, but with our normal clocks running a 24-hour 0-minute cycle, it will do so slightly less than 4 minutes earlier. By the following night the difference will be 8 minutes, and so forth with every following night (or day).
The reason for this is that the Sun does not stand still on the celestial sphere, and the stars do (except for a tiny proper motion). The sun moves about 1° per day eastwards over a great circle known as the ecliptic (which is 360° or a full circle in one year, the annual motion of the Sun). As an angle of 1° corresponds to 4 minutes in time (360° = 24 hours), we need therefore four extra minutes of diurnal motion to see the Sun back on the same meridian again, making the duration of one rotation just 24 hours exactly (on the average, ignoring small seasonal variations, see equation of time)
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Widely recognized UN member state. Iraq is constitutionally designated as a federation of autonomous regions, but only one region (Iraqi Kurdistan) had been established.
Celestial sphere
Sidereal time
Normal clocks therefore indicate solar time. Astronomers studying the movements of stars may want clocks indicating sidereal time, going around once in 23h56m (solar time units).
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Widely recognized UN member state. Israel occupies East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. These areas were not generally recognized as being part of Israel.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2017. EU member. Italy had 5 autonomous regions: Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, Sicily, and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
Celestial sphere
Star globe
A celestial sphere can also refer to a physical model of the celestial sphere or celestial globe. Such globes map the constellations on the outside of a sphere, resulting in a mirror image of the constellations as seen from Earth. The oldest surviving example of such an artefact is the globe of the Farnese Atlas sculpture, a 2nd-century copy of an older (Hellenistic period, ca. 120 BC) work.
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Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2018 and 2019.
Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (Алише́р Бурха́нович Усма́нов; Alisher Usmonov; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek-born Russian oligarch. As reported by Forbes in 2020, Alisher Usmanov has a net worth of $11.68 billion.
Usmanov built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest.
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Widely recognized UN member state; Commonwealth realm.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010 and 2016 and 2017.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2014 and 2015.
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Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2017 and 2018.
Alisher Usmanov
In 1994-1998, Usmanov, at the head of the Interbank Investment and Financial Company Interfin, collected debts for gas. In the late 1990s, Usmanov met Rem Vyakhirev; By pooling their efforts and finances, Gazprom and Interfin acquired controlling stakes in the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant (OEMK) and the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant, consolidating them into Gazmetall. In 2002, Usmanov's Interfin bought out Gazprom's stake in this company and became the sole controlling shareholder. In 2005, Usmanov, together with Vasily Anisimov, acquired Mikhailovsky GOK from Boris Ivanishvili. In 2006, all the mentioned assets were consolidated into Metalloinvest, Anisimov and Vladimir Skoch  became its co-owners together with Usmanov  (to whom the shares were transferred in 1999 after his son Andrey Skoch   became a deputy State Duma)
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state. It claims to be the sole legitimate government of Korea.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2013 and 2014. South Korea had one autonomous region: Jeju-do. It claims to be the sole legitimate government of Korean Peninsula.
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010 and 2011.
Widely recognized UN member state. Control passed due to civil war between 15 February 2011 and de facto 20 October 2011, de jure 23 October 2011.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2014 and 2015. EU member.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2013 and 2014. EU member.
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2015 and 2016. Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states and three federal territories. Malaysia claims part of the Spratly Islands (disputed by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei).
Widely recognized UN member state. Part of Mali's territory was controlled by the de facto State of Azawad from 6 April 2012 to 12 July 2012.
Widely recognized UN member state. EU member.
Widely recognized UN member state under Compact of Free Association with the United States. The Marshall Islands claims the United States territory of Wake Island.
Widely recognized UN member state. Mauritius had one autonomous dependency: Rodrigues. Mauritius also had two other dependencies: Agalega Islands and Cargados Carajos. It claims the British Indian Ocean Territory and the French territory of Tromelin Island.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2010. Mexico is a federation of 31 states and one federal district.
Widely recognized UN member state under Compact of Free Association with the United States. The FSM is a federation of four states.
Widely recognized UN member state. Moldova had two autonomous territorial units: Gagauzia and Transnistria. The latter is home to a de facto independent state.
Widely recognized UN member state. The defense of Monaco is the responsibility of France.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2012 and 2013. Morocco claims sovereignty over and controlled most of the disputed Western Sahara, which is home to the de facto independent Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Morocco disputed the Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta, Isla de Alborán, Isla Perejil, Islas Chafarinas, Melilla, and Peñón de Alhucemas.
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Widely recognized UN member state.
Widely recognized UN member state. The defense of Nauru is the responsibility of Australia.
Widely recognized UN member state. Nepal is designated as a federation, and its seven provinces were created on 20 September 2015.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2018. The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of four (three until October 2010) autonomous countries: Territory of islands without autonomy (consists of three special municipalities that are part of the Netherlands): The Kingdom of the Netherlands as a whole is a member of the EU, but Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Caribbean Netherlands are not.
Widely recognized UN member state and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during 2015 and 2016; Commonwealth realm. New Zealand had responsibilities for the two free associated states of: It also had sovereignty over two dependent territories: The government of Tokelau claims Swains Island, part of American Samoa (a U.S. dependence). New Zealand does not recognize this claim.
Widely recognized UN member state. Nicaragua had two autonomous regions: the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region and South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. Until constitutional reforms in 2014, they were referred to as the North Atlantic Autonomous Region and South Atlantic Autonomous Region.
Widely recognized UN member state. Norway had two integral overseas areas: Jan Mayen and Svalbard. The latter of area had a special status due to the Spitsbergen Treaty. Norway had sovereignty over the following dependencies:
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Widely recognized UN member state.