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1948 Summer Olympics
Participating nations
• 🇵🇱
• 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
• 🇸🇬 Singapore
• 🇿🇦 South Africa
• 🇪🇸 Spain
• 🇸🇪
•  Syria
• 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
• 🇹🇷
• 🇺🇸 United States
• 🇻🇪 Venezuela
•  Yugoslavia
Area code 609
Area code 609 is an area code for New Jersey. It was created as a split from 201 in 1958. It initially covered the entire southern parts of the state. After being split by 856 in 1999, it now covers its state capital Trenton, Princeton, as well as other parts of southern Middlesex County, including South Brunswick. It was overlaid by 640 on September 17, 2018.
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were held at Antwerp in Belgium.
The games were a financial strain for the host country and the participants. The events were not well attended.
Participating nations
A total of 22 nations sent athletes to compete at the Antwerp games.
1944 Summer Olympics
The 1944 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, were not held.
The games were cancelled because of World War II. They would have been held in London, England, which won the bid in the June 1939 International Olympic Committee election, over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal.
London hosted the next Olympic Games, the 1948 Summer Olympics, awarded without an election.
In spite of the war, the IOC had many events at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland to celebrate its 50th anniversary. These events happened on 17 June to 19 June 1944 and were called "The Jubilee Celebrations of IOC" by Carl Diem, the man who began the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay.
Polish POWs in the Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) Oflag II-C POW camp were granted permission by their Nazi captors to have an unofficial POW Olympics in 1944, showing that the Olympic spirit can survive even during war.
Duodecimal
The duodecimal system (also known as base 12, dozenal, or rarely uncial) is the number system with a base of twelve. In the duodecimal system, large numbers are expressed by groups of 12. For example, the number fifty (which we usually write as 50) would be written as 42 in the dozenal system, since it is equal to 4×12+2.
The number 12 is the smallest number that has four factors (2, 3, 4, 6). If one divide the numbers 10 and 12 with 3, the results will be 3.333... and 4, respectively. Doing the same thing with 6, the results will be 1.666... and 2. Doing the same thing with 5, the results will be 2 and 2.4. So, the duodecimal system can't control the fractions better than the decimal system.
How to represent 10 and 11 in duodecimal
There are no numerical symbols that represent 10 and 11 in duodecimal, so letters taken from the English alphabet are used, specifically X (from the Roman numeral for ten) and E (from the initial of eleven). Some people use A and B (as in hexadecimal) as well.
Edna Kramer in her 1951 book The Main Stream of Mathematics used * and  for decimal 10 and 11. The symbols were chosen because they are available in typewriters and push-button telephones.
Yoshito Usui
Yoshito Usui (臼井 儀人) was a Japanese cartoonist. His most famous work is Crayon Shin-chan. He liked to climb mountains. In 2009, when he climbed the Arafuneyama mountain in Gunma Prefecture, he slipped and died. He was 51 years old.
Wendy Smits
Wendy Smits (22 January 1983 – 9 October 2022) was an international Dutch handball player.
Smits moved in 2005 from HV SEW to the Germany and played with TuS Metzingen, HSG Sulzbach Leidersbach and Frisch Auf Göppingen. She moved back to the Netherlands and played with SV Dalfsen Handbal between 2009 and 2012. After playing for the last three months in 2012 with HSG Blomberg-Lippe she played from 2013 with Fortissimo. At the end of December 2015, she moved to Foreholte due to a conflict with her coach Kees Boomhouwer.
Smits also played 14 mathces for the Netherlands women's national handball team. She was assistant coach of the under-16 national women's team.
Smits was married and had a daughter. They lived in Almere. Due to a serious illness, Smits died in October 2022 at the age of 39 years old.
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2012)
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It was held on December 16, 2012 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was the fourth TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event held by the WWE.
Baywatch (movie)
Baywatch is a 2017 American action-comedy movie. It was adapted off the television series of the same name.
Principal photography started on February 22, 2016 across Florida and Savannah, Georgia. Baywatch was released in May 2017. The movie got substandard reviews from the critics, mostly for its crude humor and character developments. However, it had a box office intake of just over $58 million in the United States. It made another $119.8 million in several other territories. The total box office intake was around $177.8 million. The movie's budget was $69 million. Baywatch was given five nominations in the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards. The categories were the Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, the Worst Screenplay, the Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It and the Worst Picture.
Jackson County, Ohio
Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2020, 32,653 people lived there. The county seat is Jackson.
Baywatch (movie)
The reviews
Baywatch received an approval rating of only 17% under Rotten Tomatoes. Critics from the movie judging site said: "Baywatch takes its source material's jiggle factor to R-rated levels, but lacks the original's campy charm – and leaves its charming stars flailing in the shallows." It received a rating of 37 out of 100 under Metacritic. That meant "generally unfavorable reviews.".
Writing for the Rolling Stone magazine, Peter Travers was happy with the "easy rapport" from Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. Travers stated, though, "what [the film] needs more is a functional script". Travers rated the movie two out of four stars. He then said: "Think of yourself sitting down for a big two-hour wallow in instant stupid with a vat of popcorn, slathered in fake butter and possibly a mound of melted M&Ms on top. It feels great chugging it down, then your stomach hurts, your head aches and you puke the whole thing up so you can forget about it in the morning. That's Baywatch in a nutshell." Owen Gleiberman from the Variety magazine called it "stupidly entertaining... for a while". He was, however, not impressed with the movie's plot.
Clay County, Nebraska
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 6,104 people lived there. The county seat is Clay Center. It was founded in 1855.
Jackson, Ohio
Jackson is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is the county seat of Jackson County.
Coma Pedrosa
Coma Pedrosa is the highest mountain in Andorra. It is popular with mountain climbers. The nearest town is Arinsal, La Massana.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 movie)
Plot
Dr. Richard Mortimer recounts to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson the legend of the ghost hound that killed the devilish Sir Hugo Baskerville for his murder of the daughter of a servant. He asks Holmes to investigate the death of his friend Sir Charles Baskerville, in Dartmoor, from heart failure, lying in the moor surrounding his estate, Baskerville Hall, with a look of horror on his face. Mortimer fears for the life of Sir Henry, who's just come from South Africa to take possession of his inheritance and of Baskerville Hall.
Although sceptical, Holmes and Watson accept to meet Sir Henry, who is young and bold, but in truth suffers from a congenital heart problem. A incident with a tarantula convinces Holmes that Sir Henry's life is indeed in danger, and, busy with a prior commitment, he chooses to despatch Watson to Dartmoor with Mortimer and Sir Henry. Holmes reminds Sir Henry not to go out onto the nearby moor after dark.
On their way to Baskerville Hall, the trio is warned by the coach driver Perkins that a murderous convict named Selden has escaped from nearby Dartmoor Prison and is hiding on the moor. At Baskerville Hall, Sir Henry gets acquainted with his new house, helped by the butler, Mr. Barrymore, and his wife. On the walls stands a portrait Sir Hugo. A second portrait of Sir Hugo is missing, and the Barrymores are unable to offer any explanation.
One night, Watson sees a light in the moor. He and Sir Henry go out to investigate, but a strange man rushes by in the shadows, then a distant hound howls, upsetting Sir Henry so much that he suffers a heart condition. Watson spots a man silhouetted on a hill in the distance, while he helps Sir Henry back to Baskerville Hall. Watson finds the silhouetted figure to be Holmes, who has concealed his own arrival to investigate more freely. After his death, Holmes and Watson find the corpse of the convict Selden, mutilated in a ritual, while wearing clothes belonging to Sir Henry, and the legendary curved dagger used by Sir Hugo. This clue exposes the Barrymores, who confess to have helped the escapee, who was their relative, by supplying food and other provisions each time he signalled with a light from his hideout. However, Holmes has evidence that neither the Barrymores nor Selden are connected to the death of Sir Charles, so he keeps on searching for clues to confirm the existence of the mysterious hound and the identity of its masters.
Facing personal danger in an abandoned copper mine, and thanks to the stolen portrait of Sir Hugo, Holmes is able to guess the Stapletons are illegitimate descendants of Sir Hugo and are next in line to inherit the Baskerville fortune and mansion if all of the Baskervilles perish. Holmes deduces this after questioning Barrymore about the missing portrait; it was stolen because it revealed the fingers on Sir Hugo's right hand were webbed just like Stapleton's. Cecile takes Sir Henry out onto the same place where, according to the legend, the ghost hound had killed Sir Hugo. Holmes and Watson arrive just in time to hear Cecile reveal her intentions to a horrified Sir Henry. The dog attacks Sir Henry. Stapleton attacks with the dagger, but Watson shoots and wounds him. Holmes shoots the dog; it then turns on Stapleton and mauls him to death. Cecille flees after Holmes kills the beast, revealing it to be a Great Dane wearing a hideous mask to make it look more terrifying. Cecile accidentally falls into the mire and sinks to her death. Holmes and Watson take a shocked Sir Henry back to Baskerville Hall.
Writing
There are several significant changes in plot details. Among them:
The Conan Doyle Estate did not approve of the changes made to suit Hammer's more horror-centric success. Cushing, however, took no objection to the changes as he felt the character of Holmes remained intact.
Casting
Cushing was an aficionado of Sherlock Holmes and brought his knowledge to the project. He reread the stories, made detailed notes in his script and sought to portray Holmes closer to his literary counterpart. It was Cushing's suggestion that the mantlepiece feature Holmes' correspondence transfixed to it with a jackknife as per the original stories. However, when producer Anthony Hinds suggested excluding the famous deerstalker Cushing objected, saying Holmes' headgear and pipes would be expected by the audience. Cushing scrutinised the costumes and screenwriter Peter Bryan's script, often altering words or phrases. Lee later claimed to be awestruck by Cushing's ability to incorporate many different props and actions into his performance simultaneously, whether reading, smoking a pipe, drinking whiskey, filing through papers or other things while portraying Holmes. Morell was particularly keen that his portrayal of Watson should be closer to that originally depicted in Conan Doyle's stories, and away from the bumbling stereotype established by Nigel Bruce's interpretation of the role.
David Oxley had an extraordinarily powerful voice that he used to great effect, being able to fill an auditorium without the aid of microphones, and seen to best effect as Hugo Baskerville.
Diabolus in Musica
Diabolus in Musica is the eighth studio album by American thrash metal band, Slayer. Diabolus in Musica was released on June 9, 1998 through American Recordings.
The album peaked at #31 on the Billboard 200.
It is considered to be Slayer's most experimental album with most of the album's content written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman. Hanneman described writing for the album as, "When we were writing this album I was looking for something to beat; I wanted something to beat, but nothing impresses me right now. Nothing sounded really aggressive or heavy enough to inspire me to beat it, so I just had to come up with my own shit."
Vocalist Tom Araya had concerns over the lyrics that guitarist Kerry King gave to the song "In the Name of God". King said; "It's like, 'C'mon, man, you're in Slayer. You're the antichrist — you said it yourself on the first album!' You can't draw the line like that. Whether he agrees with it or not, he didn't write it — I wrote it. So you have to say, 'Well, it's just a part of being in this band.' Now Jeff and I, we don't give a fuck. If Jeff wrote something I had a problem with, I would never even raise a fucking finger. I'd be like, 'Fuck yeah, let's do it! Gonna piss someone off? Alright!'"
Detour (1945 movie)
Detour (1945) is a crime movie. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Critics liked the movie. It has received a lot of praise over the years. The movie is regarded as a good example of film noir.
Detour was chosen for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The movie was remade in 1992 with Tom Neal's son Tom Neal Jr. in his father's role.
Story
Al is hitchhiking to Hollywood. A man named Haskell picks him up. Haskell accidentally dies on the road that night. Al believes the police will think he killed Haskell. He dumps Haskell's body on the side of the road. He runs away with Haskell's money and car.
The next day Al picks up Vera at a gas station. She is a drifter. She knows Al is not Haskell. She threatens to turn him over to the police if he does not obey her orders. She reads in a newspaper that Haskell's rich father wants to find his son.
Vera orders Al to pretend to be Haskell. She wants to get the man's money. Al refuses. Vera gets drunk. They argue. Al accidentally kills her. He hits the road again, but the police nab him.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) is a science fiction children's movie. The movie is about Martians kidnapping Santa Claus so their children (who watch too much television) will have some fun. It was directed by Nicholas Webster and stars John Call as Santa Claus. Pia Zadora plays a Martian child. The movie is considered one of the worst ever made.
Monarchy of Saint Kitts and Nevis
As a Commonwealth realm, St Kitts and Nevis has the same monarch as several other Commonwealth countries, King Charles III.
In St Kitts, or when representing St Kitts in another country, he is known as the King of St Kitts and Nevis, His full official title being: Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, Kingof Saint Christopher and Nevis and of His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
Usually the King's constitutional roles are carried out by the Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Royal succession (who is next in line to the throne) is governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701, which is part of constitutional law.
Extremes (album)
Extremes is the third studio album released by American country music artist Collin Raye. Extremes became platinum in the United States for sales of over one million copies. The singles released from this album were "That's My Story", "Man of My Word", "My Kind of Girl", "If I Were You" and "Little Rock". "My Kind of Girl" was a Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs charts. The other singles all reached Top Ten.
Señorita Pólvora
Señorita Pólvora, is a television series, produced by Teleset for Sony Pictures Television and Televisa, which will be broadcast in the Latin American by TNT. It is the story of a Beauty Queen, who gets involved in a hit, which lead to the premature death of her father.
Plot
Señorita Pólvora follows Valentina, a young, beautiful and wealthy woman who falls for a hit man and thus discovers that the love of his life, and his own family, belong to one of the most powerful of Mexico drug cartels. The Chronicle of their explosive life and its gradual descent into the world of crime a journalist who tries to rescue the mortal Queen of beauty performs it.
Gangyō
Gangyō (元慶) was a 年号, (nengō,) after Jōgan and before Ninna. This period spanned the years from April 877 through February 885. The reigning emperor was Yōzei-tennō (陽成天皇).
Colfax County, Nebraska
Colfax County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 10,582 people lived there. The county seat is Schuyler. It was founded in 1869.
Area code 618
Area code 618 is an area code for Illinois. It was one of the first area codes created in 1947. It covers the entire southern portion of Illinois, consisting of cities such as Belleville, Fairview Heights, Carbondale, Cairo, Edwardsville, Collinsville, and Granite City. It will be overlaid by 730 in July 7, 2023, making it the last area code of Illinois to have an overlay.
The Futureheads
The Futureheads are a four-piece English, punk band from Sunderland. Their name comes from the title of The Flaming Lips album, Hit to Death in the Future Head.
Early days
The band met at City of Sunderland College as a quartet consisting of Barry Hyde (vocals and guitar), David "Jaff" Craig (bass), Peter Brewis (drums), and Ross Millard (vocals and guitar). Millard and Craig had been in another local band together before. They used the Sunderland City Detached Youth Project building (where Brewis and Hyde worked) as a free practice space. The project was meant to get young people off the streets by using music. They first performed in 2000. The reputation in the area grew through word-of-mouth. Hyde's younger brother Dave replaced Brewis (who went on to form Field Music).
In an interview with Channel 4's 4Music, Barry Hyde said that Dave Hyde was given a golden guitar by his parents when he was young. But Barry had taken it off him to learn to strum his first chords. Dave was left with nothing, forcing him to take up the drums.
2003-2005; self titled first album
The Futureheads played their first gig at Ashbrooke Cricket and Rugby Club in December, 2000. They debuted with their "Nul Book Standard" EP and then their "123 Nul EP" on March 10, 2003. Later that year they released their first single, "First Day," on August 4.
The Futureheads released their self-titled debut album in September, 2004 on 679 recordings. Five tracks of the tracks were produced by Andy Gill of Gang of Four. The rest of the album was produced by Paul Epworth. The song "Decent Days And Nights" from the album was featured in the video game soundtrack to Burnout 3 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox as well as EA's Rugby 2005.
On February 21, 2005, "Hounds of Love", a cover of a Kate Bush song, was released as a single. It reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart in its first week. It was named Best Single of 2005 by NME. The band toured the United States. They later supported the Pixies, Foo Fighters and Snow Patrol.
2005-2006; News and Tributes
The stand-alone EP, Area was released in November, 2005 while the band was working on their second album News and Tributes. According to NME in February, 2006, it took only five weeks to make. The first single from the album was "Skip to the End" released on May 15. The album News and Tributes was first released on May 29, 2006.
The band became bothered by major label music business and being under contract were very lucky to be set free by 679 Recordings. Hyde said "we were desperate to get out of the record deal, they could easily have kept us and made us try and make more records but we didn't want that'
2006-2008; This Is Not the World
Throughout the rest of 2006, The Futureheads started their own independent record label, Nul Records, and started working on songs for their next album.
In June, 2007, they reportedly completed work on their third album, This Is Not the World, which was released in May, 2008. Millard said that he expected the new album to be punkier than the last album. He also said that the band was close to splitting during the time after the second album was released.
The second single from their album "Radio Heart" was released on May 19, 2008 from their album This Is Not The World followed by the release of the music video for the single on April 16. A third single from the album, Walking Backwards, was released on August 4, 2008.
2008-present; The Chaos
Their latest single, "I Wouldn't Be Like This If You Were Here," was released on December 8, 2008. In 2009 the band played at the biggest open-air festival in Europe (400,000 - 500,000 rock fans every year) - Przystanek Woodstock in Poland. In November, 2009, the band allowed fans to download a new free track, "Struck Dumb," for a period of two weeks. The band released their new album, entitled The Chaos, on 26th April 2010 in the UK. The overall sound is a little darker and punkier than that of its predecessor. The Chaos will be released in the USA on 1 June 2010, on Dovecote Records.
Zak Whitbread
Zak Whitbread (born 4 March 1984) is an American soccer player. He plays for Norwich City.
Club career statistics
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1996 African Cup of Nations
The 1996 African Cup of Nations was the 20th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. The tournament was held from 13 January to 3 February in South Africa. It was also won by South Africa. The top scorer was Kalusha Bwalya, with 5 goals.
The winner of this tournament qualified for the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup tournament in Saudi Arabia.
Canandaigua (town), New York
Canandaigua (pronounced "Kan-in-day-gwuh") is a town in Ontario County, New York, United States. The population was 10,020 at the 2010 census.
Palézieux
Palézieux is a village and former municipality of the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Since 2012 it forms part of the municipality of Oron.
History
Palézieux was first mentioned in 1134 as de Palaisol.
Iran at the Asian Games
Iran first participated at the Asian Games in 1951, and has sent athletes to compete in every Asian Games since then, except for 1954, 1962 and 1978.
Palézieux
History
Under the rule of Savoy, the family de Palézieux - mentioned in texts from 1154 - had their castle near the village, of which remains can be seen today (mainly a wall). The castle controlled a bridge on the River Broye, which was a source of profit through the various tolls and taxes.
The bridge over the Broye was washed away in 1700, following a flood. It was rebuilt in 1750, following several petitions. Modernized, it is still in place.
The creation of the separate settlement at Palézieux-Gare came about with the commissioning of the railway line between Lausanne and Bern in 1862, which was built away from the original village (which became known as Palézieux-Village). In 1876 the line from Payerne was added, which runs adjacent to Palézieux-Village, and in 1903 the metre gauge line leading to the Gruyère was constructed, with its terminus at Palézieux-Gare.
Kesgrave
Kesgrave is a town on the eastern side of Ipswich in Suffolk. Its population is roughly around 14,000 people.
Medina County, Ohio
Medina County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2020, 182,470 people lived there. The county seat is Medina.
Classic NES Series
The Classic NES Series (Famicom Mini in Japan and NES Classics in Europe and Australia) are a series of video games originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (the Famicom in Japan) re-released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 and 2005. They were released for the 20th anniversary of the Famicom in Japan. 12 games were released in the United States, Europe, and Australia, while 30 games were released in Japan. The games released include Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Pac-Man. A special Game Boy Advance SP which looks like a NES controller was released to go along with the games.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a German physicist who worked in the Netherlands. He became known for the precise instruments he made. The degree Fahrenheit is named after him. He was the first to be able to determine the temperature with precision. His thermometers used Ethyl alcohol at first. When he read an article by Guillaume Amontons about using mercury in barometers, he got the idea of using that substance for his thermometers. He calibrated his mercury thermometers to a cold temperature he could produce easily, the freezing point of salt water.
In 1724 he discovered that water can be supercooled below its freezing point without turning into ice.
Fahrenheit also developed a hydrometer, a pycnometer and a hypsobarometer
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor. He became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. Wiesenthal was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Wiesenthal died in Vienna, Austria from natural causes, aged 96.
Quadrangular space
The axillary nerve and posterior humeral circumflex artery are in the space.
Protests against Donald Trump
After Trump won the presidential election, students and activists made larger protests in several major cities across the United States. The protesters chanted that Trump is "Not my President!" and other slogans.
List of NHL statistical leaders
This is a list of National Hockey League (NHL) statistical leaders through the end of the 2006–07 season. Statistics from the 2007–08 season will be included after that season is completed.
Most of these records are held by Canadian players, due to the traditional popularity of ice hockey in Canada. In the past, most NHL players were from Canada, and even today roughly half of all NHL players are born in Canada (52.0% in the 2007–08 season). To distinguish players of different nations, a flag is placed beside players born outside of Canada; the Canadian flag (🇨🇦) will not be shown next to Canadian players in order to avoid clutter.
Skaters
The statistics listed include the 2006–07 NHL season and the 2006–07 NHL playoffs Active skaters (as of September 2007) are listed in boldface.
Regular season points
Career points-per-game average greater than/equal to 1.25 (as of September 2007) are listed in boldface.
Goalies
The statistics listed include the 2006–07 NHL season and the 2006–07 NHL playoffs Active goalies (as of September 2007) are listed in boldface.
Coaches
The statistics listed include the 2006–07 NHL season and the 2006–07 NHL playoffs Active coaches (as of September 2007) are listed in boldface.
Bollingen Prize for Poetry
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a writing award given to an American poet. The award is given to a poet for the best new book or for the work of a poet's whole life. From 1948 to 1962, the prize was given every year. Starting in 1965, it was given every two years.
The prize was started in 1948 by Paul Mellon. It was named after psychiatrist Carl Jung’s home in Switzerland.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is the home of the Bollingen Prize.
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a highly popular multiplayer first-person shooter game that was created by Valve Corporation. The game was initially released on November 9, 2000, for Microsoft Windows and later released for Xbox in 2003, and for OS X and Linux in 2013. The game is divided into two teams: counter-terrorists and terrorists, where players fight against each other to achieve their mission or stop the opposing team from achieving theirs.
Initially, Counter-Strike started as a mod for Valve's popular game, Half-Life. The game quickly gained traction, and in a short period of time, Valve Corporation made it into a standalone game.
Gameplay
In Counter-Strike, players complete missions to achieve objectives such as planting a bomb, rescuing hostages, or killing the VIP on the opposing team. The game's objective changes depending on the level and mission the teams are playing. The game ends when one team finishes their mission or eliminates all players on the opposing team.
At the beginning of each round, players receive money, which they can use to purchase weapons and equipment that will help them complete their mission. As players progress through the game, they can earn more money, which can be used to purchase more powerful weapons and equipment.
Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer-songwriter. His 1978 album, City to City, reached number one on the music charts in the USA. "Baker Street", a song from the album reached the Top 10 in both the USA and Britain. It featured a distinctive saxophone solo played by Raphael Ravenscroft.
Rafferty was born in Paisley, Scotland and began playing in bands as a teenager. "Stuck in the Middle" was written in the early 1970's with his band "Stealers Wheel". It was a parody of Bob Dylan's style. It became a hit again after being used in the movie Reservoir Dogs directed by Quentin Tarantino in 1992. Rafferty also played in a folk group, the Humblebums, with Scottish comedian Billy Connolly.
He sold more than 10 million albums but did not enjoy working in the music industry which he said he "loathed and detested." He died in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, from liver failure caused by his alcoholism.
Cuming County, Nebraska
Cuming County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 9,013 people lived there. The county seat is West Point. It was founded in 1855.
Kylie Rae Harris
Kylie Rae Harris (May 15, 1989 – September 4, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter. She was born in Wylie, Texas.
Career
At age twelve, Harris was enrolled in a vocal camp and began crafting her own songs and playing guitar. By the time she graduated from high school, Harris earned a music scholarship and a welding scholarship, but took neither and decided to press on with her musical career. She was one of the featured artists in Troubadour, TX, a television show documenting her rising career as a Texas country singer/songwriter.
On July 1, 2010, Harris released her debut album titled All the Right Reasons, followed by an EP in 2013 titled Taking It Back.
In 2013, Harris began working on material for a second full-length album and toured with fellow Troubadour, TX star Zane Williams throughout the state. Then in March, 2019, she released a new self titled EP.
Death
Harris died on September 4, 2019, when her car collided with another near Taos, New Mexico. She was 30 years old. She is survived by her daughter. Taos County Sheriff’s Office claimed that Harris caused the accident. The other fatality of the crash was a teenager, Maria Elena Cruz, whose vehicle Harris hit head-on.
Buster Merryfield
Harry "Buster" Merryfield (27 November 1920 – 23 June 1999) is an English actor and army officer best known who played Albert Trotter in the BBC and GOLD comedy series sitcoms Only Fools and Horses since 1985 to 1986 and Professor Challis in The Citadel since 1937 to 1983.
Sriharikota
Sriharikota is a barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It houses India's only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (also known as SHAR) and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Sriharikota separates the Pulicat Lake from the Bay of Bengal, and is home to the town of Pulicat. It is in Sri Amarajeevi Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. The nearest town is Sullurpeta, which has the nearest railway station. The nearest business city is Sri City. It is also connected by expressways to Chennai.
1916 Summer Olympics
The 1916 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were not held.
Alberto Fouilloux
Alberto Jorge Fouilloux Ahumada  (22 November 1940 – 23 June 2018) was a Chilean football midfielder and striker. He earned 70 caps and scored 12 goals for the Chile national team during his career.
1916 Summer Olympics
The games were planned for Berlin in Germany.
Alberto Fouilloux
After retiring as a player Fouilloux went on to become a manager, serving as head coach of Huachipato and Colo-Colo.
1916 Summer Olympics
In 1912, workers began building the sports facilities for the games. The Deutsches Stadion ("German Stadium") began in 1912. In June 1913, the stadium was officially opened with 60,000 people at the ceremonies.
Cleburne County
Cleburne County is the name of two counties in the United States:
1916 Summer Olympics
The games were cancelled because of World War I.
Benjamin Böckle
Benjamin Böckle (born 17 June 2002) is an Austrian footballer. He plays as a defender for 2. Liga club FC Liefering. He also plays for the FC Salzburg U19 squad in the 2021-22 UEFA Youth League.
Carreer
He started his career with FC Lauterach. In February 2016 he went on to the FC Red Bull Salzburg Academy. In the 2020-21 season he came to FC Liefering. His debut was in September 2020, he came in for Samuel Major against SK Rapid Wien II.
Nationalteam
He played for Austria U15, U16, U17 and U18. In 2019 he played for Austria at the UEFA U17 European Championship.
Sierra County
Sierra County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Cherry County, Nebraska
Cherry County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 5,455 people lived there. The county seat is Valentine. It was founded in 1883.
Custer County, Nebraska
Custer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska, and was founded on February 17, 1877. As of the 2020 census, 10,545 people lived there. The county seat is Broken Bow.
It is the second largest county in Nebraska by area, after Cherry County.
Borée
Borée is a town and commune of the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France. In 2008, the town had a population of about 167.
Sant Julià de Lòria
Sant Julià de Lòria is one of the parishes of Andorra. It is the most southern parish of the country. Sant Julià de Lòria is also the name of the main town of the parish. The University of Andorra is in the parish.
Geography
The parish has an altitude of 850 - 2600 m; the town of Sant Julià de Lòria is at 908 m high, the lowest settlement in Andorra. The Valira river (or Gran Valira), the biggest river in the country, flows through the parish.
Sant Julià de Lòria borders with the Andorra la Vella parish to the north, with the Escaldes-Engordany parish to the northeast and with Spain to the east, south and west.
The highest mountain in the parish is Pic Negre Norte (42.46278°N, 1.55583°W) with an elevation of 2621 m above sea level; it is on the border with the Escaldes-Engordany parish.
Population
The parish had a population, in 2015 of 9,379 inhabitants, for a population density of persons/km².
Evolution of the population in Sant Julià de Lòria
Villages
There are other villages and hamlets besides the main town of Sant Julià de Lòria in the parish:
Saeed Shehabi
Saeed Shehabi is a Bahraini thinker, political activist, commentator and journalist. He is a regular columnist in the daily Arabic Al-Quds newspaper. He gives regular interviews to the BBC's Middle East Service and AlJazeera. He is also the Director of Abrar House, an Islamic community center in Central London that promotes interfaith work. He is also the leader of the pro-democractic Bahrain Freedom Movement, that is a banned Bahraini opposition group. He was also a founding member of Al-Wefaq National Party. He was previously the editor of Alalam magazine and now hosts a weekly television programme on Alalam TV. He has been living in exile in London since 1979 and returned to Bahrain on two occasions in 2002. He has a PhD in engineering from City University. Saeed Shehabi is married and has seven children.
On August 2010, Bahrain TV declared that Saeed Shehabi is accused of being the second leading member of a terrorist network. He is currently being tried in absentia along with Hassan Mushaimi. The Bahraini government claimed that a red notice was issued by interpol for his arrest, however this has not been verified. In 1996 he was similarly sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia.
In the summer of 2009, Saeed Shehabi's home was attacked by arsonists.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are a franchise cricket team. It represents the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta. The Knight Riders play at the iconic Eden Gardens stadium.
History
The franchise, which got popularity due to its celebrity owners, qualified for the IPL playoffs for the first time in 2011. They became the IPL champions in 2012, by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the final. They repeated the feat in 2014, defeating Kings XI Punjab. The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).
The side's all-time leading run-scorer is Gautam Gambhir, while their leading wicket-taker is Sunil Narine. The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re (we will perform, fight, and win!) and the official colours are purple and gold.
Steve Prestwich
Steven William Prestwich (5 March 1954 – 16 January 2011) was an English born musician who became famous as the drummer in two Australian rock bands, the Little River Band and Cold Chisel Born in Liverpool, his family moved to Adelaide, Australia, in 1971. He formed a band called "Orange" with Jimmy Barnes. This band then became Cold Chisel. Prestwich wrote, and helped write several of the bands biggest hits including "Forever Now", "When The War Is Over", "Nothin’ But You", "Monica", "Best Kept Lies", and "Flame Trees".
When Cold Chisel broke up in 1983, Prestwich joined the Little River Band. He recorded two albums with them. They recorded his song "When The War Is Over" with John Farnham. He played with Cold Chisel again when they reformed for two tours in 1998 and 2003. They had planned to record a new album in 2011. Prestwich recorded two solo albums, Since You've Been Gone in 2000 and Every Highway in 2009.
Prestwich died after surgery to treat a brain tumor in 2011.
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (also titled The Courtney Affair or Kathy's Love Affair, in the U.S.) is a 1947 British romantic drama movie directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Daphne Slater, Jack Watling, Michael Medwin, Edgar Norfolk, Edward Rigby, Coral Browne, Thora Hird, Percy Walsh.
Simon van der Meer
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Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist. He won the Nobel prize in physics. Another physicist, Carlo Rubbia, also won this prize. He won the prize because of his work for the CERN project. This led to the discovery of W and Z particles, which are the two most important things in matter.
Biography
Simon van der Meer was one of four children. He was raised in The Hague, Netherlands. His father was a school teacher, and his mother came from a family of teachers. He went to school at the city's gymnasium. He graduated in 1943 when the German army had control of the Netherlands. In 1945, van der Meer went to the Delft University of Technology. He earned an engineer's degree there in 1952. He joined CERN in 1956, and he stayed there until he retired in 1990.
In 1966, when van der Meer was skiing with his friends in the Swiss mountains, he met Catharina M. Koopman, who became his wife. They had two children – Esther (born 1968) and Mathijs (born 1970).
Scientific work
After getting his engineer's degree in 1952, Simon van der Meer worked for the Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven. When he was there, he was mainly working on high-voltage equipment and electronics for electron microscopes. In 1956, he moved to CERN, which was new at the time. When he first started at CERN, his work was mainly on technical design, and power supplies. While he was working at CERN, he invented the idea of stochastic cooling, which led to the discovery of W and Z bosons. In 1984, van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work with the project.
Phan Huy Lê
Phan Huy Lê (23 February 1934 – 23 June 2018) was a Vietnamese historian. He was born in Lộc Hà district. He was professor of history at the Hanoi National University.
Phan was the author of many studies on village society and Vietnamese history in general. He was thought by many as "doyen of Vietnamese historians." He was also director of the Center for Vietnamese and Intercultural Studies at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Phan died of heart disease on 23 June 2018 in Hanoi, aged 84.
Our Lady of Meritxell
Our Lady of Meritxell is the patron saint of Andorra. It is a Roman Catholic statue showing the Virgin Mary. The original statue is from the late 12th century. But the chapel it was in burned down on September 8 and 9, 1972. The statue was destroyed. A copy was made in 1976 by Ricardo Bofill.
Buchheim
Buchheim is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Culture hero
A culture hero is a person, usually a mythical or legendary person, who is believed to be the first one to do something. In Greek mythology, for example, Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and made it possible for humans to use it for cooking and other purposes. In Chinese mythology, one culture hero is Hou Ji, a person with a human mother and a divine father, who discovered how to grow many crops and taught other humans about farming.
Masafumi Akikawa
Masafumi Akikawa is a Japanese tenor singer. He was born October 11, 1967, in Ehime, Japan. His representative work is "Sen no kaze ni natte", this song was sung in annual NHK sponsored year-end men versus women singing contest in 2006.
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is not following a principle while telling someone else that they did not follow a principle. The person who does hypocrisy may not necessarily know that he is not following the principle.
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in Berlin, Germany.
The games were thought to be successful. The costs of the games was mostly paid for by the German government.
Participating nations
A total of 49 nations sent athletes to compete at the Berlin games.
Ben LaBolt
Ben LaBolt (born August 20, 1981) is an American political advisor who is the White House Communications Director since 2023.
LaBolt has worked on presidential campaigns for Barack Obama and Howard Dean, as well as for Jan Schakowsky, Sherrod Brown, and Rahm Emanuel.
LaBolt is openly gay, and is the first openly gay White House Communications Director.
Sue (dinosaur)
"Sue" is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, one of the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found.
Sue was discovered in the summer of 1990 by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, and was named after her. She contacted the Black Hills Institute, whose staff retrieved and prepared the bones.
First, ownership disputes were settled in court. There was a long dispute between the owners of the land, the Sioux tribe, the United States Department of the Interior, and the Black Hills Institute, whose staff had done the work.
The fossil was then auctioned in October 1997 for US$8.36 million, the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil.
After preparation, the skeleton became a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. The money had been raised by public subscription.
Gout
Some researchers think the skeleton shows evidence that Sue suffered from the painful condition known as gout.
Distorted roar
Sue's roars were created with input from Sue using various animal sounds which were altered. Some of the roars were reused for Godzilla thirty years later in the short film Mega-Godzilla: King of the Universe. Several roars were reused for Alex the Lion thirty-one years later in the animated recap The Ultimate "Madagascar" Recap Cartoon.
2022 South Australian state election
The 2022 South Australian state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect the 55th Parliament of South Australia, including all 47 seats in the House of Assembly and 11 of the 22 seats in the Legislative Council. It was conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA).
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans is a gram-positive bacterium. The cells are coccoid. The diameter lies between 0,6 and 1,1 µm. They are facultative anaerobic bacteria: They can use oxygen when it is present. It is moderate halophilic, it growth in the presence of 0–20% NaCl.
2022 South Australian state election
The incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier Steven Marshall, tried to win a second term in government. However, they were defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas.
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans belongs to the family Staphylococcaceae.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoléon Bonaparte) was a French politician and army leader who ruled France from 1799 to 1814 and for a short period (the "Hundred Days") in 1815. He became Emperor of the French and King of Italy as Napoleon I. He had power over most of Europe at the height of his power, and his actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.