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Curt Stern
Human genetics
After the war his research focused on human genetics, pioneering in what is now known as gene regulation. Although not a physician, he engaged in clinical work in human genetics. In 1943 he began teaching a course in human genetics to medical students at the University of Rochester. The first edition of Stern's pioneering textbook The Principles of human genetics was published in 1949. Both his teaching and his textbook were instrumental in re-founding human genetics on a non-racist basis, in contrast with pre-war German and American traditions in the subject. Stern was a signatory of the 1950 UNESCO statement The Race Question, a statement by leading scientists in many fields that questioned the validity and scientific foundations of racism.
The Curt Stern Award, established by the American Society of Human Genetics in 2001, recognizes a scientist who has made major scientific achievements in human genetics during the previous 10 years.
Happiness
Happiness is a feeling of pleasure and positivity. When someone feels good, proud, excited, relieved or satisfied about something, that person is said to be "happy". Feeling happy may help people to relax and to smile.
Happiness is usually thought of as the opposite of sadness. However, it is very possible to feel both at once, often about different things, or sometimes even about the same thing. You are often excited when you are happy. Happiness can also be inspired too.
Many philosophers have said that people in the world go back and forth between times of happiness and sadness, but there is nobody who is always happy or always sad. Happiness sometimes causes people to cry when they laugh because the emotion takes control of them. Happiness was thought of as the key to love in ancient civilizations such as the Inca and the Maya.
Gwen Margolis
Gwen Margolis (October 4, 1934 – June 8, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Margolis was a member of the Florida Senate from 1980 to 1992, 2002 to 2008, and 2010 to 2016. She was Senate President for the 1990 to 1992 term. She was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980.
Margolis died on June 8, 2020 in Miami, Florida of natural causes at the age of 85.
Palestine at the Olympics
Palestine at the Olympics is a history which includes 5 games in 5 countries and 10+ athletes. Since 1996, Palestine (PLE) has contributed to the growth of the "Olympic Movement".
Barney Gumble
Barnard "Barney" Gumble is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. Dan Castellaneta is the voice actor for him. He was first seen in the first episode of the show ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"). He is Homer Simpson's best friend. He is very drunk, but he became sober in the episode "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses".
Pyramid scheme
A pyramid scheme is a way of making money that cannot continue very long. It involves promising people payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part. It does not supply any real investment or sale of products or services to the public. Pyramid schemes are a form of fraud. For this reason, pyramid schemes are illegal in many countries.
This type of scheme has existed for at least a century (100 years). The way the scheme is described is sometimes changed to hide what it is doing. Many people believe that multilevel marketing (MLM) is also a pyramid scheme.
Concept and basic models
A successful pyramid scheme combines a business that seems real with a simple-to-understand money-making description which is used for profit. The idea is that the first person, Mr. X, makes a payment. To get money, Mr. X has to recruit others like him who will also make a payment. Mr. X gets paid out of money received from those new people (recruits). The recruits go on to involve others. As each new recruit makes a payment, Mr. X gets a part. He is promised always increasing benefits as the "business" expands. Such "businesses" do not have real products or services. To make them more believable, most such scams have fake letters from successful members and information. Only the first person (sometimes called the "pharaoh") and a very few at the top levels of the pyramid make a lot of money. The amounts get much smaller further down the pyramid. Someone at the bottom of the pyramid loses money. They paid to enter, but cannot get anyone else to join.
The "Eight-Ball" model
Recruiting a large number of others into a scheme can be difficult so a system is used that seems more simple. In this model each person must recruit only two others. However, a larger number of levels is needed before the person gets paid any money. The scheme requires a person to recruit two others, who must each recruit two others, who must each recruit two others.
The "eight-ball" model contains a total of fifteen members. This scheme has been called the "Airplane Game" and the four tiers labelled as "captain," "co-pilot," "crew," and "passenger" to denote a person's level.
Such schemes may hide their pyramid nature by calling themselves as "gifting circles" with money being "gifted." The eight passengers must each pay (or "gift") a sum (e.g. $1,000) to join the scheme. This total of $8,000 goes to the captain who leaves the scheme. Everyone remaining moves up one level. There are now two new captains so the group splits in two with each group requiring eight new passengers. A person who joins the scheme as a passenger will not get any money until they advance through the crew and co-pilot levels to captain. Therefore, the participants in the bottom 3 tiers of the pyramid lose their money if the scheme collapses. Popular schemes such as the "Women Empowering Women" do this.
Everybody Plays the Fool
"Everbody Plays the Fool" is a 1972 song by soul band The Main Ingredient and taken from their album Bitter Sweet. It went to number 3 in the United States, number 6 in Canada and number 44 in Australia. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1973. It was covered by Aaron Neville in 1991 and went to number 8 in the United States and number 1 in New Zealand.
Steve Marmel
Steve Marmel is an American television writer and producer who worked on The Fairly OddParents, and Danny Phantom and who created Sonny with a Chance and So Random!.
Early life and career
Marmel was born in 1964. In 1982, he started doing stand up comedy. In 1996, Hanna-Barbera hired him to work as a writer for a cartoon called Johnny Bravo.
Television career
After working on Johnny Bravo, Marmel worked on the cartoons Cow and Chicken and I am Weasel and Monster Farm. In 1999, Marmel started writing for Family Guy. He later became a writer and producer for The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom.
After working on Danny Phantom, Marmel created the shows This Just In, Sonny with a Chance and So Random!.
Okinawa (disambiguation)
Okinawa is one of Japan's southern prefectures.
Okinawa may also refer to:
Transcaucasian SFSR
The Transcaucasian SFSR was a Soviet republic consisting of modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan with its capital in Tbilisi. It lasted from 1922 to 1936. The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia was also a part of the Transcaucasian SFSR, while it exiusted (1921 - 1931). After protests, Lavrenty Beria dispanded the republic in 1936. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia again became independent republics (part of the sSoviet Union). The Abchasian SFSR had been merged into Georgia earlier.
Odivelas (Lisbon Metro)
Odivelas station is the northern terminal station on the Yellow Line of the Lisbon Metro in the Odivelas neighbourhood, north west of central Lisbon.
Sumatran rhinoceros
The Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is a member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant rhinoceroses. It is the smallest rhinoceros, standing about 120–145 centimetres (3.9–4.8 ft) high at the shoulder, with a body length of 250 centimetres (98 in) and weight of 500–800 kilograms (1100–1760 lb).
The Sumatran rhinoceros is a small, hairy rhinoceros which survives in limited numbers in pockets of Indonesian and Malaysian rain forests. Only three institutions showcase Sumatran rhinos, the Cincinnati Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Borneo.
Pickup truck
Form
The back of the truck is open, like some other types of trucks. It is very powerful for its small size. Pickup trucks have different shapes, sizes, and uses. Sometimes people would go ride in the back of the trucks to work. The back of the truck where the goods are placed is called a cargo bed. The cargo bed may be covered with a tonneau cover made of cloth, metal or plastic, to protect the cargo from rain and dirt.
Pickup trucks are easy to load and unload. They are especially popular in the countryside, where they are used to carry various agricultural cargo or tools.
Pickup trucks often have the same chassis as vans. Usually, pickup trucks are same size as normal cars. You usually may drive a pickup truck with the same driver's license as an ordinary car, but heavy pickup trucks may require a light truck license. The smallest pickup trucks are made from scooters by replacing the rear seat and rear wheel with an axle and cargo bed, and some have only three wheels.
Hellertown, Pennsylvania
Hellertown is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. Hellertown is located in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. The population of Hellertown was 5,898 at the 2010 census. Hellertown is located at 40.58417°N, -75.33806°W (40.584099, -75.338139).
The Slipper and the Rose
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a 1976 British romantic musical movie directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Gemma Craven, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Gable, Kenneth More, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Hordern, Edith Evans, Rosalind Ayers, Sherrie Hewson, Annette Crosbie. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and was 2 Academy Awards in 1978.
The Day the Sun Went Out
The Day the Sun Went Out is the debut studio album by Boysetsfire. The album was released on October 7, 1997.
Alfred Sturtevant
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant made the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. In his career he worked on the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan.
Morgan was both a help and a hindrance to Sturtevant. Morgan supported him through the early part of his career, but took much of the credit for the research. Morgan's Nobel Prize in 1933 was not shared with Sturtevant, who was the lab's main researcher.
Later in his career, Sturtevant had another important relationship, this time with Theodosius Dobzhansky. The research was into the genetics of natural populations of Drosophila. This relationship, too, became uneasy, and they split up after a few years. Sturtevant was one of the most outstanding genetics researchers not to get a Nobel Prize. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science.
Clutier, Iowa
Clutier is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Urbie Green
Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. The 1980s and beyond saw a slowing down of Urbie Green's recording career. Both albums recorded by him during this period are live, straight jazz works; Just Friends, and Sea Jam Blues. In 1995 he was elected into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Green died in Hellertown, Pennsylvania from congestive heart failure on December 31, 2018, aged 92.
Hermann Muller
Several people are named Hermann Muller or Hermann Müller:
Max Lundgren
Max Lundgren, born 22 March 1937, dead 27 May 2005, was a Swedish children's books writer. His debut book, Hunden som äntligen visslade, was released in 1962. He wrote totally circa 50 books. Some of his books also TV series. Among his more famous works are Pojken med guldbyxorna and the books about fictional Swedish soccer club Åshöjdens BK.
Spintharus berniesandersi
Spintharus berniesandersi is a species of Spintharus ("smiley-faced spiders") in the family Theridiidae. It is endemic to Cuba.
It was described in 2018 by academics at the University of Vermont. This revision is in contrast to Herbert Walter Levi's taxonomy, which considered it to be intraspecific variation within Spintharus flavidus.
The spider is named after United States Senator Bernie Sanders.
Member of the House of Keys
Member of the House of Keys, or MHK is the title given to a person who has been elected into the House of Keys, the lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man. There are twenty-four Members of the House of Keys. Elections are held every five years; the last election took place in November 2006. The leader of the House is the Speaker of the House of Keys, Juan Watterson.
The House of Keys is in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man. The Old House of Keys, their former chamber, is in Castletown, the former capital. It is now a museum.
Member of the House of Keys
Norman Fell
Norman Fell (Norman Noah Feld; March 24, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American actor of movie and television. He is famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers. He won a Golden Globe Award.
Fell was born on March 24, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family. He studied at Central High School of Philadelphia and at Temple University. He also studied at The Actors Studio.
Fell was married was married to Diane Weiss from 1961 until they divorced in 1973. Then he was married to Karen Weingard from 1975 until her death in 1995.
Ratnasambhava
Ratnasambhava is one of the five Dhyani Buddhas.
His mandala is yellow and is in the southern direction. Ratnasambhava embodies Dharma that changes pride, miserliness and avarice into equanimity. He is shown with his right hand extended down, palm facing outwards. His left hand holds a precious jewel in his lap. He is associated with changing poverty into wealth. Ratnasambhava’s blessings allow us to overcome pride and miserliness, thereby developing inner calm. The wealth-giving Buddhas or Jambhalas are associated with the family of Ratnasambhava.
Adibuddha
Arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains
The arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Haute-Savoie département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Thonon-les-Bains.
History
When the Haute-Savoie department was created in 1860, the arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains is bordered to the west, north and east by Switzerland, to the south by the arrondissement of Bonneville and to the southwest by the arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.
It is most northern of the arrondissements of the department and is the second smallest arrondissement with an area of 907.7 km2, but it is the one with fewest people living in it, with 142,090 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains, there are only 3 cantons:
Communes
The arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains has 68 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Karrösten
Karrösten is a municipality of the district of Imst in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Ute Berling
Ute Berling (born 1957 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German singer.
Life and career
Ute Berling was born in Heidelberg, West Germany. She appeared under a stage name. She created German-language songs, and German-language cover versions of songs in other languages. Berling appeared on the ARD television program Musikladen in 1978 and on the ZDF television program Disco in 1980 and on the ZDF-Hitparade in 1981. In 1981, with a German-language cover version of the song Bette Davis Eyes, Als ob sie Bette Davis wär, she ranked at number 21 in the German music charts for one week.
Secretary
A secretary is a person who is employed to help in an office, and help the people in charge of the office do their job.
By definition, the main task of a secretary is to keep organized paper and electronic files for the business, school, hospital, or government agency they work for. Other common jobs that secretaries do are answering telephones; typing and writing letters; plan and schedule meetings with guests; and manage the website of their office.
In different workplaces, and for different reasons, a secretary may also be called an administrative assistant, receptionist, clerk, or executive assistant.
In the past, most secretaries were men. Today, 98% of secretaries are women, according to the US Census.
In 1952, several groups, for example the National Secretaries Association, founded Secretary's Day. It is celebrated in the 4th week of April. It has been renamed "Administrative Professional's Week" to represent the more challenging roles of secretaries today.
Other secretaries
In government, secretaries are important people who hold high positions in government. Many secretaries in government are in charge of government agencies.
Most members of the United States Cabinet are called "Secretary" including the United States Secretary of State, who deals with other countries.
In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State is a senior Cabinet Minister in charge of a Government Department.
In the US, United States Secretary Defense is the head of the US Department of Defense.
Parliament of Albania
The Parliament of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) or Kuvendi is the unicameral representative body of the citizens of the Republic of Albania; it is Albania's legislature. The Parliament is made up of not less than 140 members elected to a four-year term.
Hydrangea
Hydrangea, common name Hortensia, is a genus of 70-80 species of flowers. The earliest kinds of hydrangea came from southern and eastern Asia.
The colour of the flowers can tell you how much acid is in the soil the plant is growing in.
Absolutely Everybody
"Absolutely Everybody" is a 1999 song by Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi and is the second single from her 2000 debut album The Power. It went to number 1 in Hungary, number 2 in Ireland, number 3 in Austria, number 5 in Germany, number 6 in Australia, number 7 in the United Kingdom, number 8 in Switzerland and number 10 in New Zealand.
Track listings
Australian and Japanese CD single
UK CD single
European CD single
South Semitic languages
The South Semitic languages are a branch of Semitic languages. They are mainly spoken in East Africa and Southern Arabia. Linguists do not agree on where South Semitic languages come from. Some say they came from Ethiopia, while others say Southern Arabia. A recent study found that they probably came from Southern Arabia. There are two branches of South Semitic languages.
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City
Ceremony history
Obie Award ceremonies have been held at Webster Hall in Manhattan's East Village since the 2010-2011 season.
Justin Morneau
Justin Ernest George Morneau (born May 15, 1981 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian baseball player. He currently plays as a first baseman for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball.
He made his MLB debut for the Minnesota Twins on June 10, 2003. He won the American League MVP Award in 2006. He also won the 2008 Home Run Derby and two Silver Slugger Awards in 2008.
General Pinto
General Pinto city was founded on October 23, 1869. It was named after General Manuel Guillermo Pinto (1783-1853). It belonged to Lincoln government until its autonomy was declared in 1891.
It has 6557 inhabitants. There are many public buildings such as a Town Hall, a hospital, a police station, a bank, a fire station and schools.
You can get to the city from Route 188 and Route 7.
Sports
People can play football and hockey in Pintense or Deportivo, but they can play tennis in Deportivo and volleyball in Pintense only.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
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Lisa's Sax
"Lisa's Sax" is the 3rd episode of the 9th season of The Simpsons. It was first shown on the Fox network on October 19, 1997. The episode is about how Lisa Simpson got a saxophone.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s The decade of 1810s featured the 1810–1819 Atlantic hurricane seasons. While info for every storm that happened is not available, some parts of the coastline were had enough people to give info of hurricane happenings. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone formation is between June 1 and November 30.
Lisa's Sax
Story
Homer and Bart try to watch television. They can not hear it because they think Lisa's saxophone is too loud. Bart goes to her room and tries to take it from her. Bart accidentally throws it out of the window. The saxophone gets hit by a car. Lisa gets very sad and does not remember how she got a saxophone. Homer tells her by using a flashback on how she got it.
In the flashback, Bart goes to his first day of school. He is sad because school is not going well for him. Homer and Marge go to the school's psychologist. While they are talking about Bart, the psychologist learns that Lisa is very smart. He tells them that they should care for Lisa's smart intelligence. They try to put Lisa in a private school, but it costs too much money. Their town then gets a very big heat wave. Homer tries to save some money to buy an air conditioner. Marge does not want Homer to buy one until they know how to help Lisa. At the school, Bart becomes friends with Milhouse Van Houten and other students because he is humorous.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
1810 Atlantic hurricane season
I. On July 30 and 31, this tropical storm impacted Jamaica.
Lisa's Sax
Story
Homer learns that musical instruments are great for a smart child. He uses the money he saved to buy a saxophone for Lisa. After the flashback, Homer buys a new saxophone for Lisa.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
1810 Atlantic hurricane season
II. On August 12 a hurricane hit Trinidad, causing heavy damage. The system apparently moved to Jamaica by the 15th.
III. A tropical storm hit near Charleston, South Carolina between September 11 and 13, causing minor damage.
Lisa's Sax
Production
"Lisa's Sax" is the first episode to be written by Al Jean without someone else. Before this, he would write with Mike Reiss. Jean, Reiss, and David Stern made small changes to the screenplay. This is the 6th episode to be about flashbacks. The first episode that does this is "The Way We Was". In that episode, Homer graduates from high school in 1974. This made it not easy to write the time of "Lisa's Sax" because the episode is in 1990. Jean thought that the episode was short, so they made Lisa play her new saxophone at the end of the episode.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
1810 Atlantic hurricane season
IV. A tropical cyclone impacts eastern Cuba on September 28.
Lisa's Sax
Production
Dominic Polcino is the director of the episode. He thought that the epsiode was easy to direct. At the start of the episode, Policno made a pastel drawing of Krusty the Clown. He said that it is the only drawing he has made for the show all done by him. This is the last episode that has Doris Grau as the voice actor for Lunchlady Doris. She died two years before the episode was first shown on television. Tress MacNeille became the new voice actor for Doris in 2006.
Reception
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood (authors of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide) said that it is "a terrific episode". They thought it was nice to see Bart younger. Robert Canning from IGN said that the episode is "very funny" and that it is "loaded with Simpson heart." Stephen Becker from The Dallas Morning News thought that the 9th season has a "special affinity for Lisa". He thought this after seeing this episode, "Das Bus", and "Lisa the Simpson". The San Diego Union-Tribune said that this episode, "All Singing, All Dancing", and "Trash of the Titans" are memorable episodes of the show.
1810s Atlantic hurricane seasons
1810 Atlantic hurricane season
V. The "Salty Storm" strikes Cuba on October 24 and 25 before continuing onward into the southwest Atlantic. The pressure at Havana falls to 29.35"
1811 Atlantic hurricane season
I. A minor hurricane that impacted Cuba continued onward to Charleston, South Carolina on September 10, causing many deaths, tornadoes, and crop damage as it moved across the state.
II. On October 4 a major hurricane hit near St. Augustine, Florida. Many homes were destroyed, and 35 people drowned in the sinking of a U.S. Gunboat.
III. On October 11 a hurricane impacts Pensacola, Florida and Fort Stoddard, Alabama.
IV. A hurricane moved through the western Caribbean west of Jamaica to Cuba between October 20 and 25. On October 26 a Spanish ship is lost at Elliot Key from a hurricane.
1812 Atlantic hurricane season
I. Between June 5 and 11, a tropical storm moved through the northwest Caribbean Sea.
II. A tropical cyclone impacted Puerto Rico on July 23.
III. On August 8, a tropical storm moved into South Carolina.
Great Louisiana hurricane
IV. A tropical cyclone was sighted east of Jamaica on August 14. By August 19, it struck southeast Louisiana as a major hurricane after raking the Caribbean Islands. It passed just to the west of New Orleans, almost destroying the levee north of town. The hurricane caused severe flooding, damaged 53 boats, caused $6,000,000 in damage, and 100 deaths. The British fleet in the War of 1812 was disrupted.
V. There is record of another hurricane affecting Puerto Rico on August 21.
VI. Later in the season, a hurricane hit Jamaica on October 12, affecting the island into the 14th. It continued northwestward, hitting Cuba on the 14th before moving into the southwest Atlantic east of Bermuda by October 17. It destroyed 500 houses and many ships.
1813 Atlantic hurricane season
III. Between August 3 and 7, a tropical cyclone passed nearby Bermuda, with a bulk of the impact occurring on August 4 and early August 5. It was the worst hurricane to impact the island since 1793 and forced the construction of a breakwater to prevent a similar harbor disaster from recurring; more than 30 ships were driven ashore by the "violent gale." Winds were estimated at 90 mi/h during the cyclone's passage. (from the book Beware the Hurricane )
IV. A powerful hurricane hit Dominica and Martinique beginning August 25, causing 3000 deaths. The cyclone moved south of Jamaica by August 28.
V. A system that affected the Caicos Islands on August 24 moved northwest to strike as a compact major hurricane near Charleston, South Carolina on August 27, causing many deaths due to drowning. The system passed northward through the Mid-Atlantic States by August 29.
VI. Northeast Florida/Southeast Georgia was hit by a major hurricane on September 16, causing strong storm surge and 50 casualties.
1814 Atlantic hurricane season
II. A hurricane impacted Dominica and Puerto Rico between July 22 and 24.
III. A hurricane made landfall near Washington, D.C., including a tornado that "tore through the center", curtailing the Burning of Washington by the British.
1815 Atlantic hurricane season
I. Cape Lookout, North Carolina was hit by a major hurricane on September 3. It moved northeastward across the state, reaching the Atlantic Ocean near Maryland. It weakened over land to a tropical storm, but still brought gusty winds to New England. It caused at least 4 deaths.
III. A tropical storm was located off the coast of South Carolina on September 28, but did not make landfall.
V. A minor hurricane hit Saint Bartholomew on October 18. It turned northwestward, and moved up the Chesapeake Bay on October 24, delaying ships' arrivals.
1816 Atlantic hurricane season
Records from ship logs have determined both 1815 and 1816 were active hurricane seasons, with at least 12 tropical cyclones ascribed to 1816 alone. 1816 was the Year without a Summer, and there is some evidence that a northward-displaced Intertropical Convergence Zone appears to be partially responsible for the increased 1816 tropical cyclone activity.
I. June 5–8: A hurricane brushed the Florida Keys, causing the loss of 5 ships. Interestingly, it appears to have been lured northward by an unusual June snowstorm across New England
II. Haiti, around Port-au-Prince, was struck by a hurricane on August 18
III. Martinique, eastern Cuba, and South Carolina were impacted by a hurricane between September 3 and 11.
IV. A tropical storm affected Virginia on September 18 before moving northeast into New York. The tropical storm caused heavy flooding in the James River area.
V. There is record of a hurricane moving by Dominica and Barbados on September 15 before devastating Puerto Rico on September 18. The cyclone then recurved between the United States East coast and Bermuda by September 25.
VI. On October 16–17, a severe gale was experienced in Dominica and Martinique. During the storm, an earthquake shook the region.
1817 Atlantic hurricane season
I. A hurricane was first observed near Tobago on August 1 before continuing through the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico by August 6. It crossed over Florida, and when it reached the western Atlantic, it paralleled the coastlines of Georgia and South Carolina. It moved inland over southern North Carolina, and brought heavy rain to the Norfolk, Virginia area, delaying mail delivery and causing flooding through the mid-Atlantic as it moved northward into Pennsylvania by August 9. Its track appears similar to that of Hurricane Charley of August 2004.
II. Barbados was struck by a hurricane on October 21, causing 250 deaths as it moved through the Lesser Antilles. The hurricane subsequently moved into Nicaragua by October 26.
1818 Atlantic hurricane season
II. A hurricane passed by the Cayman Islands in early September. It crossed the Yucatán Peninsula, and turned northwest when it reached the Bay of Campeche. The hurricane intensified to a Category 2-3 before hitting Galveston, Texas on September 12 and continuing onward to Mississippi. The hurricane was "quite severe", destroying all but six houses on Galveston Island.
III. A tropical cyclone seriously affected Puerto Rico on September 22. It possibly recurved sharply offshore the Eastern Seaboard, as the frigate Macedonian encountered a hurricane on the 26th and 27th to the east-northeast of Bermuda. The breeze freshened that afternoon as the ship lay near 35.6N 55.7W. By sunset, waves increased to nine feet, and southeast gales lashed the system after midnight on the 27th. Winds continued to increase into that afternoon, as seas increased to 18 ft. One man fell overboard by 5 p.m. and drowned. The hurricane reached its full violence by 10 p.m., splitting the storm staysails, and making the rigging useless. The main mast cracked under the strain by 2 a.m. on the 28th, and the mizzenmast followed suit by 4 a.m.. Seawater poured into the ship from all sides, as the wooden hull twisted under the force of the 40 ft waves. The ship finally cleared the storm without capsizing by noon, and finally got to see a sunset by the evening of the 29th (from Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian 1809-1922 p. 129-139).
V. Between November 6 and 13, another hurricane moved across the southwest Caribbean Sea into Jamaica and Cuba.
Bay St. Louis Hurricane
The exact origin of this hurricane is unknown, but it likely formed off the coast of Cuba before heading on a west-northwest track towards the Gulf Coast. A small hurricane, it reached an estimated Category 3-4 strength before making landfall on July 27 in southeastern Louisiana, bringing heavy winds and a 5–6 ft storm surge. The hurricane continued northeastward, making a second landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi before dissipating inland. Known as one of the most destructive hurricanes to affect the United States during the first half of the 19th century, the Bay St. Louis Hurricane caused severe damage across Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, leaving behind the remains of shattered buildings and uprooted trees. Several vessels (from small boats to 60-ton brigs) were driven ashore by the hurricane's storm surge. One of them was the capsizing of the U.S. warship Firebrand, drowning 39 sailors. Several U.S. solders were caught off guard by the hurricane and died in its midst. There were also reports of people being attacked by alligators, snapping turtles, and snakes, which further added to the death toll. The hurricane caused over $100,000 dollars (1819 US dollars) in damage, and killed between 43 and 175 people, some of them later found washed up across the Gulf Coast.
Other storms
II. A tropical storm hit between New Orleans and Apalachicola in September.
III. Between September 19 and 26, a hurricane tracked through the northeast Lesser Antilles and southwest of Bermuda. During September 21 and 22, this hurricane hit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, causing heavy damage and loss of life.
IV. From October 13 to 15, a hurricane passed through the Leeward Islands.
V. A hurricane is recorded to have impacted Cuba on October 27 before moving onward to the Bahamas on October 28.
Warren Plunkett
Warren Francisco Plunkett (August 4, 1920 – December 30, 2018) was a former American football player and judge. He played as a blocking back on one season with the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League in 1942. He played college football at the University of Minnesota. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Plunkett died of complications from pneumonia in Austin, Minnesota on December 30, 2018 at the age of 98.
Coburg, Iowa
Coburg is a city in Iowa in the United States.
East Coast (New Zealand electorate)
East Coast is an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
Werdenberg
Werdenberg is a historical village in the canton of St. Gallen. It lies just outside Buchs. Today, between 55 and 60 people live there. There are about 40 houses, some of them only used for holidays. Werdenberg has a castle, which is often visited by tourists.
There was a county of Werdenberg. It included the city itself, the villages of Grabs, Buchs, Sevelen and the right to judge in Wartau. The first count of Werdenberg died in 1182. In 1402, his successors let the county to the Count of Montfort-Tettnang. In 1485, it was sold to the City of Lucerne. In 1517, it was sold to the Canton of Glarus. During Napoleon's reign in Switzerland (called the Helvetic Republic, 1798-1803), Werdenberg was made part of the Canton of Linth (which also included the modern-day Canton of Glarus, and parts of the Canton of Schwyz). After the end of the reign, Werdenberg was made part of the canton of St. Gallen.
Raúl Ramírez (actor)
Raúl Ramírez (28 January 1927 – 22 June 2014) was a Mexican movie actor, director, and screenwriter. He was known for his roles in Juan el enterrador (1981), De pulquero a millonario (1982) and La salvaje ardiente (1984). He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Ramírez died in Mexico City, Mexico from a long-illness, aged 87. He is survived by his wife, actress Marcela Daviland and his son, Raúl.
Taken 3
Taken 3 is a French action thriller movie. It was directed by Olivier Megaton. It was produced by Luc Besson. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker, and Famke Janssen. It was released on 9 January 2015.
The soundtrack was composed by Nathaniel Méchaly.
Plot
The ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has an ordeal behind that after his daughter was kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers (Taken) and he had to rescue his family from the clutches of the vengeful Albanians (Taken 2), this time he even persecuted. His wife is murdered by unknown people who manage to make it appear as the main suspect. He manages his arrest to come before, but the wily Inspector Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) attaches itself to his heels. Mills must succeed to find the mastermind behind the murder before Dotzler tightens the noose around him and before his wife's killer may also jeopardize his daughter. He is a hunter and hunted at the same time and all he can demonstrate are his exceptional ability and talent.
Längenfeld
Längenfeld is a municipality of the district Imst in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Carlos Sánchez (actor)
Carlos Sánchez (1935 – 29 December 2018) was a Colombian actor. He was known for playing Juan Valdez for over thirty years, from 1969 to 2006. He was originally a coffee farmer from Antioquia, Colombia.
Sánchez in Medellín on 29 December 2018 from a respiratory tract infection, aged 83.
Odivelas
Odivelas ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal.
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Ethnology
Ethnology is part of anthropology. It studies different ethnic groups.
Åshöjdens BK
Åshöjdens BK is a book series about a fictional soccer club in northwestern Scania in Sweden. The stories were created by Max Lundgren
Plot
The series consists of four novels. It depicts a soccer club which is promoted across a promotion and relegation-based Swedish league system. Finally, they lose the Allsvenskan qualifying game. In 1985, a TV series based on the book series was made.
Sometimes, sports journalists talk of the "real Åshöjdens BK". That occurs when a club, often in rural districts, quickly is promoted from the lower to higher divisions within some seasons. An example is Ljungskile SK. That club was promotion higher and higher during the early-mid 1990s.
Eileen Filler-Corn
Eileen Robin Filler-Corn (born June 5, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician. She was the 56th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2020 to 2022. She has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2010. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
She is also the first woman and Jew to serve as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Integrated Services Digital Network
Integrated Services Digital Network is an international standard for a communication network. It is often shortened to ISDN. It is used for telephone lines. Before ISDN, telephone lines were mainly seen as a way for people to make phone calls, so the main idea was to use circuit switching. When a phone call is made, a line is set up between the two participants. This phone call is analogue. With ISDN, this view changes. As the signal is now digital ISDN can be used to offer a number of services, which use the telephone line to transport data. There were different services, like telex or teleprinters before ISDN, but they used their own networks. At specific locations, there were gateways between these networks. With ISDN, this changes. There is only one network, and it offers different services. Some of them are for voice, to make phone calls, others are for data, for example to send telefaxes.
Channels
ISDN offers a number of data channels, and a signalling channel. The data channels carry the actual service data. The two data channels are completely independent and can be used independently. The usual setup has two such data channels. That way, it is possible to send a fax through one channel, while doing a phone call over the other channel, for example. If the main focus is on a high quality voice connection, the two channels can be combined into one single channel carrying twice the amount of a single channel enhancing the quality dramatically.
Isle of Man Government
The Isle of Man Government (Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man. The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, representing HM Queen Elizabeth II, Lord of Mann. The executive head is the Chief Minister.
The Civil Service has more than 2000 employees and the total number of public sector employees including the Civil Service, teachers, nurses, police, etc. is about 9000 people. This is somewhat more than 10% of the population of the Island, and a full 23% of the working population. This does not include any military forces, as defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom.
Government structure
Statutory boards and offices are listed below the Department to which they report.
Lieutenant Governor
Before modern times the government of the Isle of Man was in the hands of the Governor (or Lieutenant Governor), who representated the Lord of Man, assisted by his Council, consisting of the other permanent officials (the Bishop, Archdeacon, Deemsters, Attorney General, etc.). The Council became the Legislative Council, the upper chamber of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man.
After the Revestment (when the rights of the Lord of Man were "placed in" or "vested" in the King of Great Britain) in 1765, the Lieutenant Governor and his officials were the agents of the British Government, and not democratically responsible to the Manx people. Conflict between the House of Keys (popularly elected after 1866) and the Lieutenant Governor came to a head when Lord Raglan was Lieutenant Governor between 1902 and 1918.
Council of Ministers
After World War I the Lieutenant Governor gradually gave up control to Tynwald, a process guided by the reports of commissions and other bodies in 1911, 1959 and 1969. An Executive Council, chaired by him and including members of Tynwald, was established in 1949, and gradually thereafter became the effective government of the Island. Finance and the police came under local control between 1958 and 1976. The Lieutenant Governor stopped chairing the Executive Council in 1980, and was replaced by a chairman elected by Tynwald, and the Council was reconstituted in 1985 to include the chairmen of the eight principal Boards; in 1986 they were given the title 'Minister' and the chairman was styled 'Chief Minister'. In 1990 the Council was renamed the 'Council of Ministers'.
Departments
During the 19th century several bodies, which came to be known as 'Boards of Tynwald', were created to exercise functions under democratic control. These included the Board of Education (1872), Highway Board (1874), Asylums Board (1888), Government Property Trustees (1891) and Local Government Board (1894). However, although direct taxation was levied by Tynwald, the Boards' freedom of action before the 1960s was limited by the Lieutenant Governor's control of the Island's budget and his power to appoint certain of their members.
The structure of the Boards of Tynwald, along with other bodies variously called 'Statutory Boards' and 'Commercial Boards', became increasingly unwieldy after the 1950s, and was eventually reformed in the 1980s, when a system of 'ministerial government' was set up.
Until 1 April 2010 the Departments were as follows. Created in 1985-87, they were the successors of the former Boards of Tynwald.
The structure and functions of the Departments were re-organised with effect from 1 April 2010. The existing Departments, except the Treasury and the Departments of Education and Home Affairs, were dissolved, and the Department of Education was renamed "the Department of Education and Children". The Departments and their functions are now as follows:
Statutory Boards
As noted above, a number of 'Statutory Boards' and 'Commercial Boards' were created at various times. Some were taken over by the Departments in 1985-1987, but others continued as separate Statutory Boards after 1987:
Modern South Arabian languages
The Modern South Arabian, or Eastern South Semitic, languages are a branch of Semitic languages. They are spoken by a small number of people in Southern Arabia in the countries of Yemen and Oman, as well as Socotra Island.
National Geographic (magazine)
The National Geographic, formerly The National Geographic Magazine, is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published since the first issue in 1888. This was nine months after the Society itself was founded. It mostly contains articles about world culture, history and geography. Its famous trademark is the yellow rectangular border that goes around the cover of each issue.
As of 2015-2016 the magazine had a worldwide circulation of 6.8 million per month. Its U.S. circulation is around 3.5 per month.
In 2008 the magazine won three National Magazine Awards. This included an award for general excellence the second year in a row.
Gramoz Ruçi
Gramoz Ruçi (born 6 December 1951) is an Albanian politician. He was the head of the parliamentarian group of the ruling Socialist Party of Albania until 2017. In September 2017, he became the Chairman of the Parliament of Albania for the new parliamentary session.