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Fallen (Evanescence album)
Fallen is the band's most successful album. It sold more than 8 million copies in the United States. It sold more than 17 million copies worldwide. It debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 with 141,000 copies sold in its first week, peaking at number three in June 2003. The album was at the top of the charts in more than ten countries. It has been certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Background
After Evanescence was created by Amy Lee and Ben Moody in 1995, the band released three EPs and one demo CD. In January 2001, they signed with Wind-up Records, their first major record label. creating Fallen took eight years; in an MTV interview, Ben Moody said that he wrote with Lee "maybe two or three times in eight years".
The Tall Stranger
The Tall Stranger is a 1957 American western movie directed by Thomas Carr and is based on the novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. It stars Joel McCrea, Virgina Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Leo Gordon, Whit Bissell, George J. Lewis and was distributed by Allied Artists.
Affair in Trinidad
Affair in Trinidad is a 1952 American crime drama movie directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher, Howard Wendell, Steven Geray, Juanita Moore, Ralph Moody. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Handball
(For the different sport of the same name played with two, three or four players, see.)
Handball (also known as team handball, field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport similar to football (soccer). Two teams of 7 players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball using the hands, trying to throw it into the goal of the other team. Games are an hour of playing time, divided into 30-minute halves, with 15 minutes break at halftime. The size of the court is a little bigger than a basketball court, 40 meters by 20 meters, which is the same court as indoor soccer. It has a six-meter line which no one but the goalie is allowed to have possession of the ball and touching the ground. If this happens, a foul is called and the player committing the foul gets ejected, (sitting out of the game for two minutes, five minutes, or the rest of the game). There are seven players total on a handball team, six players and a goalie. Most historians agree that handball predates soccer, (football) but that is not for certain
References
"Team handball." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2012
Sorority Girl
Sorority Girl (also known as Sorority House or The Bad One) is a 1957 American crime drama movie directed by Roger Corman and starring Susan Cabot, Barboura Morris. It was distributed by American International Pictures and was remade in 1994 as Confessions of a Sorority Girl.
Liberal conservatism
Liberal conservatism is a political ideology that combines elements of conservatism and economic liberalism. Liberal conservatives believe in the free market and laissez-faire economic policies combined with traditional conservative values, such as the belief in natural inequality, the importance of religion, and the value of traditional morality. In a way, liberal conservatism is the opposite of classical liberalism, a belief that supports both economic and individual freedom.
Mahmood
Mahmud (also spelled Mahmood, Mahmoud, Mahmut, Mehmood, Mahmoed or Mehmud) is the main transliteration of the Arabic given name (محمود, Maḥmūd) that comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D "Praise". The pronunciation of the name is [ mah-mood ].
Despite sharing the same triconsonantal root, this name is distinct from the name Muhammad. One of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's many names is Mahmud.
The name is common in most parts of the Islamic world; it is used as a given name for males, while the variant Mahmuda is given to females.This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy movie directed by Paul Mazursky and is based on the play and 1932 movie Bondu Saved from Drowning. It stars Bette Midler, Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard and was distributed by Touchstone Pictures.
Fertility
More precisely, fertility is the capacity of an individual or population to produce viable offspring. By 'viable' is meant 'able to live and reproduce'.
In agriculture, fertility means that a soil can support the growth of plants because it contains the right minerals and nutrients.
Fertility can also be used as a metaphor: having a "fertile imagination" means being able to think of many new and interesting things.
As a measure, fertility rate is the number of children born per couple, or person or population. This is different to fecundity. This is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term. In English language, the term was originally applied only to females, but increasingly is applied to males as well, as common understanding of reproductive mechanisms increases and the importance of the male role is better known. Infertility is a deficient fertility.
Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions. Animal fertility is no less complex, and may display astounding mechanisms.
Female Fertility
In the United States, the average age of menarche (first period) is about 12.5 years. However, in most girls, menarche does not signal that ovulation has occurred. In postmenarchal girls, about 80% of the cycles are anovulatory in the first year after menarche, 50% in the third and 10% in the sixth year. Women's fertility peaks between ages 22–26, and after 35 it starts to sharply decline.
Birth rates have been noted by Henri Leridon, PhD, as an epidemiologist with the French Institute of Health and Medical Research. Of women trying to get pregnant, without using fertility drugs or in vitro fertilization:
The use of fertility drugs and/or in vitro fertilization can increase the chances of becoming pregnant at a later age.
Male Fertility
There is evidence that male reproduction abilities are reduced with higher age. Sperm count is becoming smaller with age, with men aged 50–80 years producing 75% of sperm compared with 20–50 years old males. If the sperm count is too low, a man could increase it with herbal and chemical supplements. Even larger change can be seen in the number of seminiferous tubules produced by males at different age stages:
Infertility
When a person is infertile it means that they are unable to have a child naturally. Infertility is define as the inability to fall pregnant or carry a pregnancy until birth after 12 months or more of unprotected sex. About 10% of people are infertile. This means that 1 in 10 people will not be able to conceive a child naturally. There are many causes of infertility some of them can be treated. As a woman gets older, her fertility declines. After menopause a woman is no longer fertile.
Colour vision
Colour vision is the capacity of an organism to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.
Colour is a quality made by the visual brain and so it is not a property of objects, despite what children are taught.
The wavelength reflected from an object is the objective fact: it does not depend upon perception. A 'red' apple does not emit red light. Rather, it simply absorbs all the frequencies of visible light shining on it except for a group of frequencies that are reflected. It is these frequencies which are seen or perceived as red.
Mechanism
The visible light spectrum ranges from about 380 to 740 nanometers. Colors of the spectrum such as red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet are in this range. These spectral colors do not refer to a single wavelength, but rather to a set of wavelengths: red, 625–740 nm; orange, 590–625 nm; yellow, 565–590 nm; green, 500–565 nm; cyan, 485–500 nm; blue, 450–485 nm; violet, 380–450 nm.
The nervous system derives colour by comparing the responses to light from the several types of cone photoreceptors in the eye. These cone photoreceptors are sensitive to different portions of the visible spectrum.
For humans, the visible spectrum ranges approximately from 380 to 740 nm, and there are normally three types of cones. The visible range and number of cone types differ between species.
With colour, vision gets better (more information) about the things the eye sees. This lets the eye see when fruit or vegetables are ripe, and can see animals hiding from plain sight. The advantage of colour vision is mainly in the daytime. At night the main problem is to collect enough light to see in the weak light. This is something rods do better than cones.
Gene Porter Bridwell
Gene Porter Bridwell (born October 4, 1935) is an American NASA official. He was the seventh director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. He was director from January 6, 1994 to February 3, 1996. Bridwell was born in Linton, Indiana.
Colour vision
Types of colour vision
It is thought that the mammals which survived though the Jurassic period were small nocturnal or burrowing animals with little need to see colour. Later, after the extinction of the dinosaurs, many lines adapted to be more active in the daytime. Most developed a form of colour vision, which is much more useful in the daytime. Primates developed full (trichromacy) colour vision. For them, the ability to distinguish the colour of fruit from leaves always was essential.
Many insects have colour vision in the ultraviolet range, which humans do not. That is why honey guides on flowers are so noticeable in ultraviolet light photographs.
Cosmic Girl (song)
"Cosmic Girl" is a 1996 song by English funk band Jamiroquai and is the third single from their third studio album Travelling Without Moving. It went to number 3 in Italy and Spain, number 4 in Iceland, number 6 in the United Kingdom and Hungary, number 9 in Scotland, number 10 in Czech Republic and Finland, number 12 in Ireland, number 23 in France, number 29 in New Zealand, number 33 in Australia, number 45 in Sweden and number 78 in the Netherlands.
Donald J. Kutyna
General Donald Joseph Kutyna (born December 6, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force officer. He was born in Chicago.
He was commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Space Command from 1990 to 1992, and commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado from 1987 to 1990.
Contest, Mayenne
Contest is a commune of 765 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Imst
Imst is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the capital of the district of Imst. As of 1 January 2019, 10,628 people lived there.
It is on the river Inn in western Tyrol, and is about 50 km west of Innsbruck.
Conservative liberalism
Conservative liberalism is a political ideology that can be best described as representing the right-wing of the liberal ideology. Conservative liberalism is a more positive and less radical version of classical liberalism. For example, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, a political party in the Netherlands is a conservative liberal party.
Forbes, New South Wales
Forbes is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Newell Highway between Parkes and West Wyalong. There were about 7000 living in the town in 2001.
Forbes is on the banks of the Lachlan River. It is 245m above sea-level. It is about 380km west of Sydney. The farms in the area mainly grow wheat. Nearby towns and villages include: Parkes, Bedgerebong, Bundbarrah, Corradgery, Daroobalgie, Eugowra, Ooma North and Paytens Bridge. It is home to the Ben Hall a notorius Australian bushranger.
History
The first people to live in the Forbes area were the Australian aborigines, the Wiradjuri people. The first European was the explorer John Oxley in 1817. He called the area "Camp Hill". He did not think very much of the clay soil, poor timber and swamps. He wrote: "...it is impossible to imagine a worse country". The first settlers moved into the district in 1834 and started a station (farm) called Bogabigal. Forbes is built on what was Arthur Rankin's farm called Cunumbla Station.
Gold was found at Forbes by Harry Stephens, also known as "German Harry", in June 1861. About 30,000 people moved to the goldfields, but by 1863 this had dropped to about 3,500 because mining the gold was too hard. The diggings were wet with water coming from the Lachlan River. About two thirds of the buildings were empty.
The goldfields were first called "Black Ridge". The town was named "Forbes" after Sir Francis Forbes. It is possible that the name was a mistake. The name Forbes should have been given to Hill End, New South Wales near Mudgee. Gold was found there at the same time. Gold at Forbes was first found in the area known as Halpin's Flat. The Albion Hotel, once a Cobb and Co. stage coach rest stop, has tunnels underneath it. These were used to take gold and money to and from the banks and stop it from being stolen. Farming became important after the gold mining ended. Forbes became an important stopping place on the main track for moving cattle from Queensland to Victoria.
One of Australia's most famous bushrangers, Ben Hall, was shot dead by police about 20km northwest of town on May 5, 1865. Hall and his gang were famous for stealing 77kg of gold and £3,700 from a stage coach near the town of Eugowra in 1862. He is buried in the Forbes Cemetery.
Kate Kelly, the sister of bushranger Ned Kelly, lived in Forbes. She was drowned in the Lachlan River in 1898. She is buried in Forbes Cemetery.
The railway reached Forbes in 1893. Passenger trains stopped going to Forbes in 1983.
Education
Forbes Shire has 4 government primary schools: Forbes Primary School, Forbes North Primary School, Corinella Public School and Bedgerebong Public School. There is one private primary school, St Laurences Primary School. Forbes High School, north of Forbes, is a government school and in 2005 had about 550 students. Red Bend Catholic College at Forbes is a high school for boys and girls. It is on the site of the old Marist Brothers' College, on the banks of the Lachlan River. Red Bend has around 550 students attending in 2008.
There is also the Forbes College of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) and the Forbes Conservatorium (music).
1981 Formula One World Championship
The 1981 Formula One season was the 32nd of the championship. The champion was Nelson Piquet in a close battle.
Seville
Seville (Sevilla) is a city in the southern parts of Spain. A river called the Guadalquivir River goes through Seville. The city of Seville is the capital of the Spanish autonomous community Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla. People from Seville are called Sevillanos.
Iced tea
Iced tea (also known as ice tea) is cold tea (drink) usually served in a glass with ice.
Seville
History
A very old story says that the city was started by the famous hero of Greece, named Hercules. The Romans when they came to Spain gave it the Latin name of Hispalis. Over time this changed to be spelled in English as Seville. The Muslim Arabs took the city when they invaded the country, and you can still see a lot of the buildings they built during their 800-year stay in Spain (711-1492).
Iced tea
Kinds of iced tea
Sometimes, sugar is added to iced tea. This is sometimes called "sweet tea". Sometimes, fruit flavors like lemon, peach, or raspberry are added to the tea.
Seville
History
In 1992 Seville was the place for the Expo 92. There is a beautiful bridge across the Guadalquivir River called Puente del Alamillo. It was thought up by Santiago Calatrava a famous building expert.
Iced tea
Kinds of iced tea
Many kinds of iced tea can be bought in bottles or cans.
Seville
History
Seville is famous for its hot summer weather. Su equipo por excelencia,el sevilla fc, no el betis que es una *ierda, obtuvo 15 champioNs la pasada temporada.VIVA JESUS NAVAS
Sports
Seville is the home town of two soccer teams, Sevilla FC (often simply called "El Sevilla") and Real Betis Balompié (often called "El Betis").
Cossé-le-Vivien
Cossé-le-Vivien is a commune of 2706 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Rock Point, Maryland
Rock Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located near Cobb Island at the mouth of the Wicomico River in Charles County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 107.
Coudray, Mayenne
Coudray is a commune of 839 people (2007). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Flood control
Flood control is a term to refer to measures that protect settlements, people and property against flooding. Such measures include building dams, levee s and weirs. People also move away from floodplains where flooding is frequent.
Although it may be impossible to prevent flooding, there are a number of methods you can carry out to stop the water coming into your home or working environment. Simply follow these steps:
Tomorrow Never Knows
Tomorrow Never Knows is a song from The Beatles's Revolver album, from 1966.
John Lennon wrote the song based on his readings of The Psychedelic Experience, which adapted the Tibetan Book of the Dead for use as an LSD "user's manual", intending to give users a kind of religious experience. The song's title came from his bandmate Ringo Starr, who was known for his but insightful comments about life.
Lennon wanted the sound of monks, to complement the Beatles' recording of the song. It was not possible to do this, but Lennon's voice was played through a special speaker (called a Leslie speaker), to give it a sound, like a voice calling from a hilltop. Other sounds on the record came from tape loops, playing over and over, and from a sitar.
The song has also been recorded by other artists. A dance cover version appeared in the 1990s.
Fulvous
Fulvous is a color that is 89.4% red, 51.8% green, and 0% blue. It is a dark orange. The color hex code for fulvous is #e48400.
Darwin–Wedgwood family
The Darwin–Wedgwood family is actually two inter-related English families, descended from the prominent 18th century doctor, Erasmus Darwin, and Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery firm, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, the most notable member of which was Charles Darwin. There were a number of first and second cousin marriages between the two families: Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.
The family contained at least ten Fellows of the Royal Society and several artists and poets (including the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams). The Wedgwoods were extremely important in British industry in the west Midlands. As Quakers, they were all anti-slavery, and so were the Darwins. The families were also closely related to the banking family of Francis Galton. Galton was one of Charles Darwin's cousins.
Eraser
An eraser, or a rubber, is a tool made from rubber that is used to get rid of marks made from a pencil, or some types of pen. Another kind of eraser is made of felt and is used to remove chalk marks from a blackboard. Some may also be automatically be attached to a pencil, or could be bought to be shoved on a top of a pencil. Erasers can be used by rubbing the mistake and it will slowly clear away. All erasers will produce some dust called debris after rubbing and it will usually be black as it cleared away the pencil marks. Some erasers produce a lot of dust while some produce dust that all stick together. There are some good-quality erasers which are very soft and can erase easily, while some are very hard, and a lot of rubbing is needed. The classic pink eraser is made for smaller, lighter errors, whereas a thick, white eraser is made for bigger and/or darker marks.
Virginia Patton
Virginia Ann Patton (June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022) was an American businesswoman and actress. She was cast in her most well-known role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In 1949, Patton retired from acting. Her last role was in The Lucky Stiff (1949).
Patto died on August 18, 2022 in Albany, Georgia at the age of 97.
Jèrriais
Jèrriais is a language that is spoken in Jersey. Some people call it Jersey French. Just over 2000 people speak it. It is a Norman language. 3% of the people in Jersey speak it, and around 15% can understand it.
History
In the 19th century, almost everyone in Jersey could speak Jèrriais. Then, people stopped learning it, and it nearly became extinct. These days, lots of people are trying to get more people to speak the language. Now, signposts and road signs on Jersey are written in Jèrriais and English.
Mars Orbiter Mission 2
The Mars Orbiter Mission 2, also known as Mangalyaan 2, is India's second interplanetary craft planned to orbit Mars by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). It is planned for launch for 2024. India was the first Asian nation to reach Mars' orbit and on its first attempt when Mangalyaan 1 was launched in 2013 by ISRO. It was originally going to include a lander, but in February 2021, ISRO decided it would only be an orbiter.
Ichnology
Ichnology is the study of trace fossils of once-living things.
Celia Barquín Arozamena
Celia Barquín Arozamena (6 July 1996 – 17 September 2018) was a Spanish amateur golfer. In July 2018, she won the European Ladies Amateur Championship. She finished one stroke ahead of German Esther Henseleit. She was a student at Iowa State University (ISU) in the United States. She was a member of the university's Iowa State Cyclones women's golf team from 2014 until her death. She represented her country at the Youth Olympic Games in 2014. She was born in Puente San Miguel, Reocín, Cantabria.
Ichnology
Burrows, trackways, trails and borings are all examples of traces made by organisms. Scientists study traces made by plants and animals to try to determine their behavior. An ichnologist is a scientist whose area of study and research is ichnology.
A species name given to a fossil is called an ichnospecies. It is written in italics with a lower case initial. It is shown to be an ichnospecies by the abbreviation "isp".
Celia Barquín Arozamena
On 17 September 2018, Barquín was found dead on a golf course in Ames, Iowa. She was 22. Police said she was murdered by stabbing. A man was arrested and taken into custody for her murder.
Brian Harradine
Richard William Brian Harradine (9 January 1935 – 14 April 2014) was an Australian politician. He served as an independent member of the Australian Senate, from 1975 to 2005. He represented the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history and a Father of the Senate.
Harradine died in Tasmania, Australia from a stroke, aged 79.
Pashayi languages
Pashayi - also known as Pashai - are a group of Dardic languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in northeastern Afghanistan.
It is spoken by over 216,842 people who are mostly Muslim. Most of them are bilingual in Pashto. Only 25% are able to read. The Pashai language was not written prior to 2003.
William R. Lucas
William Ronald Lucas (born March 1, 1922) is an American NASA official and chemist. He was the fourth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He was director from June 15, 1974 to July 3, 1986. Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee.
Auregnais
Auregnais, Aoeur'gnaeux or Aurignais was the Norman dialect of the island of Alderney. It became extinct in the mid-20th century. People think it became extinct because people did not bother to speak it nor learn it.
Richard Lewontin
Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.
From 1973 to 1998, he held an endowed chair in zoology and biology at Harvard University, and from 2003 until his death in 2021 had been a research professor there.
Lewontin died on July 4, 2021 in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the age of 92.
Daniel J. Evans
Early life
Evans was born in Seattle, Washington. He served in the United States Navy during the later years of World War II. Evans studied at the University of Washington. He originally studied to be a structural engineer.
Governor of Washington (1965-1977)
Evans served as governor from 1965 until 1977, still the only governor to serve three four-year consecutive terms and the second to be elected to three terms following Arthur B. Langlie in Washington state history. A 1981 University of Michigan study named him one of the ten outstanding American governors of the 20th century. He declined to run for a fourth term.
Couptrain
Couptrain is a commune of 160 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Daniel J. Evans
United States senator (1983-1989)
In 1983, Governor John Spellman appointed Evans to the United States Senate to fill a seat left vacant by the death of longtime senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson. Evans won a special election later that year against Mike Lowry and filled the remainder of Jackson's unexpired term, retiring from politics after the 1988 elections. He was not happy as a U.S. Senator; he wrote an April 1988 piece in The New York Times Magazine, "Why I'm Quitting the Senate", in which he complained of "bickering and protracted paralysis".
Failed vice presidential bids
At the 1968 Republican National Convention (where he gave the keynote address) Evans refused to endorse Nixon for the presidential nomination, remaining a supporter of the unsuccessful candidacy of Nelson Rockefeller.
Personal life
Evans married Nancy Bell in 1959. Together, they have three children. He lives in Seattle as of 2007.
Livin' la Vida Loca
At the 2000 Grammy Awards, Livin' la Vida Loca was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). In 2007, VH1 ranked the song #28 in their list of 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s.
Picos tree frog
The acre tree frog (Dendropsophus soaresi) is a frog that lives in Brazil.
Charles County, Maryland
Charles County is located in the southern central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 146,551. The county seat is La Plata.
Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission abbreviated as SUPARCO is the national space agency of Pakistan. It was founded in 1961. Its headquarters are based in Karachi. It is responsible for the nation's public and civil space programme and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
Economic liberalism
Economic liberalism is a political ideology based on strong support for a market economy, private property in the means of production and opposition to government intervention in the economy, e.g. opposition to public ownership and opposing the regulation of industries. Economic liberals believe in the free market and laisse faire economic policies.
Octavia Spencer
Octavia Leonare Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Couesmes-Vaucé
Couesmes-Vaucé is a commune of 383 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Lingenau
Lingenau is a municipality in the district Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Onuk Sazan
Onuk Sazan was the first supercar and second sports car made in Turkey. It was developed by Onuk Company (a military and civilian speedboat producer in Turkey) and Renault. Onuk Sazan was designed by Demir Sümer, Gökhan Akış, Eralp Noyan and Jan Nahum. Its name was inspired by the Dr. Ekber Onuk's deceased son's nickname, Sazan (Carp). Only 5 of these cars are made each year. Its price is €200000.
Waldkraiburg
Waldkraiburg (Woidkroaburg) is a town in Mühldorf, in Bavaria, Germany. It is the biggest town in Mühldorf. It is on the river Inn, about ten kilometers southwest of Mühldorf and sixty kilometers east of Munich.
Electoral district of Pine Rivers
Pine Rivers is an electoral district of Queensland. It was created in 1972, abolished in 1992 and recreated in 2009.
Newbern, Tennessee
Newbern is a town in Dyer County, Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,313.
Iysert
"Iysert Energy Research Private limited" is the Manufacturer of Portable Micro Solar and wind turbine company, having world class manufacturing cum Research & Development Facility in Jaipur Rajasthan India.
Awards & Recogination 1. ET MSME MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2022, ECONOMICS TIMES
2. RECIPIENT OF NATIONAL AWARD ATAL SAMMAN 2022, GOVT OF INDIA.
3.NATIONAL AWARD "DR BR AMBEDKAR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD BY GOVT OF INDIA ON 14 APRIL 2022, New Delhi
4.Recognized and selected India’s Top Covid 19 Project development company by COVID 19 Task Force, Government of India.
5.Recognized India's Top 10 Clean Company of India 2022 by Silicon India.
Dâmbovița County
Dâmboviţa is a county (judeţ) of Romania in the historical area of Muntenia. The capital city of Dâmboviţa County is Târgovişte.
Divisions
Dâmboviţa County has 2 municipalities, 5 towns and 82 communes. The following is a list of the municipalities, towns and communes of Dâmboviţa County:
Delminium
Delminium was an ancient Illyrian city. It was the capital of the Dalmatae which was in today's Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. People lived in The area of Tomislavgrad even before the Illyrians arrived. This is shown by a few polished stone axes from the Neolithic (4000 BC – 2400 BC) period.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a part of World War II. It happened on June 9, 1944 in the French town of Tulle. The civilians were executed by German soldiers in the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.
Historic context
After the Allies landed in Normandy, on the 6th of June 1944, there were partisan uprisings in most of the Massif central, and also in the Limousin region. They did this to support the allied invasion, and to make it more difficult for the German troops to get to the front line. The massif central is very sparsely populated. Partisans were able to get most of it under their control. They also attacked some of the towns, such as Guéret and Tulle. The German military forces were aware of this, and they took action. On the 7th of June, SS Gruppenführer Heinz Lammerding was given responsibility for the 2nd SS Panzerdivison "Das Reich". The division was to be used to fight against the resistance. Later it should head north to support other German troops. Other than fighting the resistance (called Maquis), they committed several crimes against the civilian population, amongst others, in Tulle.
On the 7th and the 8th of June 1944, communist troops of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) had entered the city of Tulle. The had also attacked German troops, there were several hundred of them. While they defended themselves, German troops also killed 18 employees of the railway station, in Tulle. These employees were paid for by the Germans, and they wore white scarves, identifying them as civilians (under the Geneva Conventions). Several hundred German troops had been captured and locked in a school building, which was later put in flames. The partisans killed several hundred troops which were trying to escape from the burning school. Towards the evening of July 8, the FTP partisans were able to conquer Tulle. According to German reports "122 soldiers" were killed, wounded or went missing. The exact number is not known, and cannot be established today. The first units of the 2nd SS Panzerdivision reached Tulle on July 8. The partisans, who hadn't known they were coming fled from the city.
The massacre
On July 9, the German troops of the Panzerdivision took revenge on the civilian population, for "supporting the resistance". First, all men between 18 and 45 years old were arrested. They were put in the courtyard of the local arms manufacturer, Manufacture nationale d’armes de Tulle. There there were told, that they would be hanged in the city, in rows of 120 people. Walter Schmald, a SD person from Belgium determined who would be hanged (a triage). Before taking his decision, he talked to high-ranking government officials of the Vichy regime. As these people were collaborating with the resistance movement, they could convince Schmald to spare their friends, and to lower the number from 120 to 99. Next the soldiers of the Panzerdivision hanged these 99 hostages, who were more or less picked at random. They used streetlights and balconies for hanging them. Groups of residents were forced to watch the hangings. One of these groups was a group of about 600 teenagers, who were part of the Arbeitsdienst. Many high-rancing SS officials listened to music and amused themselves, while the soldiers were hanging the men to be executed. Both the people who were forced to watch, and those who were being executed probably heard the music.
Peter Lieb, a military historian says, that even though the German troops overreacted, and that some of their actions were against the laws of war, the Tulle massacre can still be seen as a form of war reprisal. This does not apply to the Massacre of Oradour, committed a day later. Oradour is near Limoges, about 110 km to the northwest. Officially, 642 people were killed in Oradour, which makes it one of the worst massacres of the Second World War, by the number of victims.
Convicting those responsible
After 1945, German courts did not convict Lammerding, for "Lack of Proof". In 1951, a court in Bordeaux found him guilty for the crimes he committed in Tulle and Oradour, and sentenced him to death (while absent). The French asked the British, who were occupying the part of Germany where he now lived (and was a successful businessman). to extradite him. The relationship between the two countries was bad, and the British officer in command said, he had never heard of Lammerding. Nevertheless, Lammerding "vanished" in 1954. When he reappeared in 1958, the German consitution made it illegal to extradite German citizens. In addition, a contract came into force in 1955, which forbade to rejudge a case which had already been handled by another court of an allied power. This was only changed in 1975, after Lammerding's death (Lammerding died in 1971).
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Details
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About programs
Some of popular programs on VOA follow.
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