cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Alexander Rusev
Career
Before becoming a professional wrestler, Barnyashev became a professional rower. He was also a powerlifter and was considered for the Bulgarian national powerlifting team in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Desert locust
The desert locust is potentially the most dangerous of the locust pests because of the ability of swarms to fly rapidly across great distances. It has two to five generations per year. The last major desert locust upsurge in 2004–05 caused crop loss in West Africa and reduced food supply in the area. The desert locust alone is not responsible for famines, but it is a contributing factor.
Development
In the solitary phase the hoppers do not group together but move about independently. Their colouring in the later instars tends to be greenish or brownish to match the colour of the herbage.
Nuremberg Laws
They were: On the 14th of November 1935, the Nuremberg laws were expanded prohibiting Roma (Gypsies), Blacks or any of their offspring from engaging in marriage or sexual relations with 'Those of German or German related blood'.
1981 Irish hunger strike
The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike was a hunger protest in Northern Ireland by Irish republican prisoners during the Troubles. During the protest, seven prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army and three from the Irish National Liberation Army starved themselves to death in the hunger strike. The first to die, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom during his hunger strike.
Deaths
By the end of the protest 10 prisoners had died. Their names, paramilitary affiliation, dates of death, and length of hunger strike are as follows:
Bad News Brown
Albums
Bad News Brown released 1 studio album before his death:
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss scientist. He invented Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann wrote more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child (1979).
Alfie Evans case
The ventilatory support was removed on 23 April 2018 following a series of unsuccessful appeals from Alfie's family. Alfie continued to breathe naturally after the removal of his breathing tube. He died on 28 April 2018 at the age of 1.
J. P. Morgan
Childhood
In 1852, when Morgan was 15 years old, he had rheumatic fever. After recovery he was deformed. J.P. Morgan was aloof and refused to have his photograph taken; all of his professional portraits were retouched.
The Panic of 1893
During the Panic of 1893, when a shortage of the gold caused a devaluation of the Dollar, the US president Grover Cleveland asked J.P. Morgan to loan $65 million in gold to the US Treasury. J.P. lent the gold, "saving" the Treasury and the Dollar.
Track and field athletics
Athletics is a very common sporting event over the world. Athletics is a combination of different sports, generally running, jumping and throwing events. Running events include marathons, hurdle races, long distance and short-distance events. Some jumping events are high jump, long jump, triple jump and pole vault. Throwing events involve javelin throw, discus throw, hammer throw and shot put.
Badminton
The winner of the match is the first to win 2 sets.
History
Badminton traces its history to a game called George Cajoles, which was played in Pune, India in the 19th century by the British military officers stationed there. This game was taken by retired officers back to England where it developed and quickly grew in popularity.
Ronnie Lott
Professional
Lott switched to the safety position in 1985. He had the end of his left pinky finger removed after the 1985 season because it was crushed while playing. A 1986 injury made him not play that season's last two games. He still had 10 interceptions. This was the most in the league and his personal best. In his 10 years with the 49ers, Lott helped them win four Super Bowls: XVI (1981), XIX (1984), XXIII (1988), and XXIV (1989).
El Cid
Later life
In October 1086, Alfonso had a battle with the Almoravids. They attacked each other at Sagrajas, where Alfonso was defeated. The loss made Alfonso reconsider banishing El Cid. Alfonso called him back, hoping El Cid could defeat the Almoravids. However, the trust issues led the two men to go their separate ways yet again. The Alfonso and El Cid were meet together with their armies, but they failed to because of miscommunication. People convinced King Alfonso that El Cid had planned to not show up, and let Alfonso and his army be defeated. Once again, Alfonso exiled El Cid. El Cid and his small army left, and invaded land in eastern Spain. Four years later, he ruled a large, wealthy territory. Its capital was Valencia.
Marc Ferro
Ferro died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in April 2021 at the age of 96.
Paulo Sérgio (footballer, born 1954)
Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Lima (born 24 July, 1954) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
International career statistics
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Mario Teaches Typing
Ratings
Steve Fountain from the Evening Sentinel reviewed the CD-ROM/Windows version of the game, saying that "Mario Teaches Typing is less fun than a normal computer game, but a whole lot better than ploughing through a dull typing manual" (simple words: Mario Teaches Typing is not as fun as a normal computer game, but much better than reading through a boring keyboard instruction book).
Bolligen
Bolligen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Insect
Insect bodies
9. mesothorax
13. mid-gut (stomach)
14. dorsal tube (Heart)
24. tibia
26. trochanter
28. thoracic ganglion
31. subesophageal ganglion
32. mouthparts
On the thorax, insects have wings and legs. All insects have six legs (three pairs of jointed legs) and usually four wings (two pairs).
Respiratory and circulatory systems
Many insect larva e live in water. Many of those have gills that can extract oxygen dissolved in water. Others must rise to the water surface to get air which may be held or trapped in special parts of their body.
Origin of insects
If Rhyniognatha is not an insect, then Rhyniella from the same place is the first known insect. Also 411 mya.
Razan Zeitouneh
Education and career
Zaitouneh finished law school in 1999. In 2001 started her work as lawyer, and she became a member of the team of lawyers for defense of political prisoners. In the same year, she was one of the founders of the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS). In 2005, Zaitouneh started SHRIL (the Syrian Human Rights Information Link), to report about human rights problems in Syria. In 2005, Zaitouneh became a member of the Committee to Support Families of Political Prisoners in Syria.
Extrajudicial killing
If forces of the state kill someone this is seen as extrajudicial killing, if none of the following applies:
Willandra National Park
History
It is believed that Aboriginal colonisation dates back at least 15,000 years. The Willandra Creek was roughly the border between the settlement areas of the Wiradjuri in the south and the Wongaibon in the north.
Powhatan people
History
The British first settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. They were with Captain Christopher Newport. There was conflict right away. John Smith was the first English colonist to see Powhatan. He was a captive of the Powhatan people. According to Smith, Pocahontas saved him. Colonists needed the Powhatans as allies. The colonists needed the Powhtatan for survival and to know the lands.
Edevaldo
International career statistics
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Natasha Chandel
Career
Natasha was born in Sharjah, UAE. Natasha has worked as a producer for top networks such Maker Studios- Disney Digital Network, CBC, Rogers Television and MTV News. In 2016, she created and began hosting the dating podcast KINDA DATING, which has featured Sunny Leone, Laura Clery and Dr. Wendy Walsh. Natasha has also appeared as a leading actress in several TV series including Mumbai Chopra: Misadventures of an It Girl, The Can, The Mindy Project and M.V.P.
Corey Haim
Haim was born on December 23, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was raised in Toronto. Haim studied at Zion Heights Junior High School. He never married. He died on March 10, 2010 in Burbank, California from pneumonia, at the age of 38.
Cricket
Averages
There is a separate set of averages for each type of cricket listed above.
Derek Kinne
Early life
Kinne was born in Nottingham and raised in Leeds.
George Cross citation
Fusilier KINNE escaped for the first time within 24 hours of capture but was retaken a few days later while attempting to regain our own lines. Eventually he rejoined a large group of (prisoners being marched North to prison camps, and despite the hardships of this march, which lasted a month, rapidly emerged as a man of outstanding leadership and very high morale. His conduct was a fine example to all his fellow-prisoners.
Garnet Exelby
John Garnet Exelby (born August 16, 1981 in Craik, Saskatchewan) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman that played for the Providence Bruins of the AHL.
George Sand
Relationships
Later in life, she wrote letters to Gustave Flaubert. Despite their obvious differences in temperament and aesthetic preference, they eventually became good friends.
Writing career
Further theatre pieces and autobiographical pieces include Histoire de ma vie (1855), Elle et Lui (1859) (about her affair with Musset), Journal Intime (posthumously published in 1926), and Correspondence. Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate.
In addition, Sand authored literary criticism and political texts. Her most widely used quote being, "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
Jefferson County, Arkansas
Jefferson County is a county in the Arkansas Delta of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,260. Its county seat and largest city is Pine Bluff. Jefferson County was founded on November 2, 1829, and named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801–1809).
Ranked list of Spanish autonomous communities by area
This is a ranked list by area for Spain's autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Night Editor
Night Editor is a 1946 American crime movie directed by Henry Levin and was based on the radio program of the same name. It stars William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Charles D. Brown, Paul E. Burns, Frank Wilcox and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Milutin Milanković
The first contribution was the "Canon of the Earth’s insolation", which explained the climates of the planets of the Solar system. He founded cosmic climatology by calculating temperatures of the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere as well as the temperature conditions on planets of the inner Solar system, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, as well as the depth of the atmosphere of the outer planets.
Sebastian Koto Khoarai
Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I. (11 September 1929 – 17 April 2021) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho from 1977 to 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2016 and was the first and so far the only cardinal from Lesotho.
Fletcher, Vermont
Fletcher is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States.
Sidewalk
A sidewalk is a path for pedestrians that runs along the side of a road. It is called a sidewalk in American English, but can also be called a pavement (mainly British English and South African English), a footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term).
Lewisville, Arkansas
Lewisville is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The 2016 movie The Legend of Tarzan (movie), is a remake of this movie.
Art Shay
Shay died in April 2018 at the age of 96 in Deerfield, Illinois from heart failure.
Good Morning Revival
Good Morning Revival is the fourth studio album by American pop punk band, Good Charlotte. Good Morning Revival was released on March 27, 2007. It was the first Good Charlotte album to feature Dean Butterworth on the drums after Chris Wilson left the band in 2005. Benji Madden came up with the name of the album. It was the last album to be released on the Daylight Records due to Good Charlotte signing with Capitol Records. The Japanese edition featured two bonus tracks; "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl (Broken Spindles Remix)" and "Face the Strange".
House of Representatives (Nigeria)
The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber.
Cow urine
False Beliefs
Although many Hindus believe cow urine can cure cancer, it is not backed by scientific research with some scientists saying cow urine may not have any medicinal value at all. Some Hindus including political figures in India believe that cow urine contains gold which is also a myth.
Le Rouret
Le Rouret is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Molar
Molars are special teeth found in mammals, and also the most complex sort of teeth. They are used for grinding food.
Humans have 12 molars in total, in four groups of three at the back of the mouth. The molar which is the farthest back in each group is called a wisdom tooth. The wisdom teeth are the last teeth to appear, usually at around the age of eighteen. These final molars do not erupt in many people.
All molars and premolars have a structure for grinding food. They have elevated (~pointed) parts called cusps. These cusps are characteristics of the species in question, but in general they are found on the molars, and to a lesser extent on premolars.
Le Mas
Le Mas is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American writer, perhaps best known for his play A Streetcar Named Desire. He was of English, Welsh and Huguenot ancestry. He was gay. He was an alcoholic and drug addict who died of an accidental drug overdose.
Richard Corliss
Richard Nelson Corliss (March 6, 1944 – April 23, 2015) was an American movie critic. He was one of several editors of Time magazine who focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects. He created the widely used term "Drop Dead Gorgeous" in 1985 when describing Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in the movie, Into the Night.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American screenwriter, movie producer and director. He directed Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back.
Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora. It is the biggest and most well-known species of fox. Red foxes are sometimes hunted for sport, or killed as pests or carriers of rabies.
Foxes in Australia
There are about 1.7 million foxes in Australia. Early settlers brought red foxes to Australia in the 19th century, because they wanted to hunt the foxes as a sport. In the next 100 years, foxes spread across Australia and became an invasive species. Red foxes kill hundreds of millions of animals in Australia every year, which strongly hurts the continent's biodiversity. Currently, there are efforts to reduce the fox population.
Rick James
Career
In 1978 James released his first single "You and I". He produced Eddie Murphy's 1985 single "Party All the Time". In 1990 he sued MC Hammer.
Jerusalem Delivered
The work belongs to the Italian Renaissance tradition of the romantic epic poem. The poet frequently borrows plot elements and character types directly from Orlando furioso ("The Frenzy of Roland"), written in 1516 by Ludovico Aristo (1474-1533). Tasso's poem also has elements inspired by the classical epics of Homer and Virgil, especially in those sections of their works that tell of sieges and warfare. One of the most typical literary devices in Tasso's poem is the emotional conflict suffered by characters torn between their heart and their duty; the depiction of love at odds with martial courage or honor is a central source of lyrical passion in the poem.
Karl Toft
Toft was thought as one of Canada’s worst sex offenders. Toft was convicted of 34 sex-related charges and sentenced in December 1992 to 13 years in prison. In 1994, Toft appealed the sentence but lost. He served 11 years of his sentence and was freed. He was represented by Daniel Watters, who maintained that two-thirds of the allegations were untrue.
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American crime thriller movie based on Cogan's Trade. It stars Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Shepard and Ray Liotta. The subject is organized crime and illegal gambling during hard economic times in 2008.
Les Ferres
Les Ferres is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Robotics
Robotics is a part of engineering and science. It is the work of creating and building robots. It is interdisciplinary, involving people who have studied mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or computer programming. It also needs people who understand the work of the robot. As an example, geologists need to be involved in making a robot that will take soil samples on another planet.
Johnson County, Arkansas
Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,749. The county seat is Clarksville. Johnson County was founded on November 16, 1833 and named for Benjamin Johnson, a Territorial Judge.
Green Light
Green Light is an R&B/funk song written by Beyoncé Knowles, Sean Garrett, and Pharrell Williams for Knowles' second solo studio album, B'Day (2006). Co-produced by Pharrell and Beyoncé, it was released as fifth UK single on July 30 2007. The Freemasons remix of "Green Light" was on the BBC Radio 1 A-list by July 18 2007.
Chart performance
The album version was released in the Netherlands where it debuted on the Dutch Singles Chart at number 30.
Gustatory system
Salt
This is the simplest receptor found in the mouth.
Paul Junger Witt
Witt died of lymphoma in Los Angeles, California on April 27, 2018 at the age of 77.
Eduard Gallas
Eduard Gallas (3 September 1911 – 25 August 1976) was an Austrian footballer. He played as forward mainly for Wiener Sport-Club.
Mother Mother
Albums
As of 2021, Mother Mother has released 7 albums:
Iron Man (movie)
Plot
Tony Stark is the CEO of Stark Industries, a company that makes weapons and bombs. He flies to Afghanistan to show off a new weapon called the "Jericho" missile to the United States Army. He and four other soldiers drive off in a Humvee, which is then attacked. One of the attack weapons was a bomb that Stark Industries had made. The soldiers are killed. Stark is badly injured by shrapnel from the bomb and is kidnapped.
Time in Armenia
Armenia Time (AMT) is the standard time that is used in Armenia. It is 4 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+4). During its DST period, it used Armenia Summer Time (AMST) which was 5 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+5). The time zone was discounted in 2012.
Mop
A mop is a tool used for cleaning. It is usually pieces of cloth or a sponge attached to the end of a long stick.
The word (then spelled mappe) was first used in English as early as 1496, but new designs and variations of the original mop designs have been introduced, from time to time. For example, American inventor Jacob Howe received U.S. patent #241 for a mop holder in 1837, and Thomas W. Stewart (U.S. patent #499,402) received a patent for a mop holder in 1893.
Drummondville Voltigeurs
The team is named after the Canadian Voltigeurs, a Quebec-based regiment that fought in the War of 1812. The team has won the Jean Rougeau Trophy in 2009. They have also won the President's Cup against the Shawinigan Cataractes in 2009.
Shafali Verma
Early life
There were no cricket academies for girls in Rohtak. Shafali played cricket in a boy's academy when she was young.
Outsourcing
IT Outsourcing
One of the most commonly outsourced professional service, information technology (IT) represents the wide range of services. Companies can outsource research and prototype development, development of software, maintenance, and support. Such contracts allow reducing the costs as contractors can be hired for the period required.
Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps
The Brewarrina fish traps (Also known as Baiames Ngunnhu) are located in the town of Brewarrina on the Barwon River in the north west of New South Wales, around 800 km northwest of Sydney. It is the largest known Aboriginal fish trap facility in Australia. It is believed to be the oldest human construction in the world although it hasn't been confirmed yet.
Elaine Luria
Elections
Luria ran for the United States House of Representatives in VA's 2nd congressional district. In the June 10 Democratic primary, she got 62% of the vote, defeating Karen Mallard, who got 38%.
April 2018 inter-Korean summit
The summit was focused on the North Korean nuclear weapons program and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The Panmunjom Declaration was made following the summit.
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrzych and Jelenia Góra Voivodeships.
Stowe, Vermont
Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.
Mandelieu-la-Napoule
Mandelieu-la-Napoule is a commune. It is found in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Symptoms of LGV can begin a few days to a month after coming in contact with the bacteria. Symptoms include:
Bardsey Island
The island has been an important religious site. In AD 516, Saint Cadfan built a monastery on Bardsey. In medieval times many pilgrims visited the island, and by 1212 the monastery was part of the Augustinian Canons Regular. In 1537 Henry VIII closed the monastery and had the buildings pulled down, but pilgrims still visit the island.
Peter Shotton
Later life
John Lennon was murdered late in 1980. When Shotton heard the news, he drove to George Harrison's home, Friar Park, and spent the day with Harrison. Later he wrote his memoir.
Shotton gave up his supermarket, and began a chain of restaurants, Fatty Arbuckle's, which became a success. He later sold this business, and retired to live in Ireland. When former members of Lennon's Quarry Men re-formed in the 1990s as a nostalgia act, Shotton performed with them. He later sang "Imagine" at a tribute to Lennon and the Beatles in Woolton.
Bardsey Island
History
The island had a population of 132 in 1881; by 1961 it had fallen to 17. The island's small school, opened in a former chapel in 1919, closed in 1953. By 2003 the population was down to 4.
Bardsey Island Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Ynys Enlli) bought the island in 1979. It was given money by the Church in Wales and many Welsh academics and public figures. The trust gets its money from membership subscriptions, grants and donations. It wants to protect the wildlife, buildings and archaeological sites of the island. It also promotes its artistic and cultural life, and wants people to visit as a place of natural beauty and pilgrimage. In 2000, the trust advertised for someone to run the 440 acre sheep farm on the island. They had 1,100 applications. The farm is now run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; and the land is managed to keep the natural habitat. Oats, turnips and swedes are grown; goats, ducks, geese and chickens kept; and there is a mixed flock of sheep and Welsh black cattle.
Bardsey Lighthouse
Bardsey Lighthouse stands on the south end of the island and guides vessels passing through St George's Channel and the Irish Sea. It is the only square lighthouse looked after by Trinity House. Lt. Thomas Evans R.N., asked for a light on the island in 1816. In 1821 Trinity House built the lighthouse at a cost of £5,470 12s 6d with another £2,950 16s 7d for the lantern. Joseph Nelson was the engineer and builder. He had served under Daniel Alexander, a Trinity House architect, whose influence can be seen on parts of the design including the heavy weathered string-course near the base and the blocked and hooded directional-light window. Joseph Nelson is linked to the design of at least 15 lighthouses, mostly in the Bristol Channel.
Wildlife
Thousands of birds pass through each year on their way to their breeding or wintering grounds. Chiffchaffs, goldcrests and wheatears are usually the first to pass through, followed by sedge warblers and willow warblers, whitethroats and spotted flycatchers.
Suga Mama
Music video and other promotion
Knowles rehearsed the pole dancing using two ballet bars, which was when it was decided to add a pole above her head to form an arc. Though Knowles is from Texas, she had never previously been on mechanical bull. There were no problems during warm-ups, but the man operating the bull during the video shoot programmed it to go faster, causing Knowles to fall off when she tried to perform tricks such as lifting up her foot, leaning back and turning around. To minimise the time Knowles spent on the bull, the director shot the sequence at twelve frames per second (see frame rate) and Knowles sang twice as quickly, but it was not until 4:00 a.m. that they completed work.
Unterhaching
Unterhaching (Central Bavarian: Untahaching or simply Haching) is a municipality in the Munich Rural District in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Gyrwas
The Gyrwas had their own leaders as late as the first half of the 7th century. Bede records a Tondbert, priceps of the South Gyrwas. He asked for the hand in marriage of Etheldreda, the daughter of King Anna of East Anglia. Tondbert died shortly after the wedding and Ethelreda was then given in marriage to Ecgfrith of Northumbria. Underkings and leaders of tribes like the Gyrwas probably did not claim descent from ancient Germanic gods, as many kings of the heptarchy did. But they were of high enough status to marry Anglo-Saxon royalty.
Judith Jones
Judith Jones (née Bailey; March 10, 1924 – August 2, 2017) was an American writer and proofreader. She was best known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones also helped publish Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Lawrence County, Arkansas
Lawrence County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,216. The county seat is Walnut Ridge. It was founded on January 15, 1815.
Geoffrey Howe
He was MP for Bebington from 1964-1966, for Reigate from 1970-1974 and for East Surrey from 1974-1992. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979-1983 and was Foreign Secretary from 1983-1989. He was made a life peer in 1992. He was close friends with Denis Healey. Healey died a few days before Howe.
Lane Evans
Evans announced that he would not seek reelection in November 2006 and retired at the end of the 109th Congress due to his bad health.
Manitas de Plata
Manitas de Plata (born Ricardo Baliardo; 7 August 1921 – 5 November 2014) was a French Gitano flamenco guitarist. He had toured the whole world since 1967, and recorded discs. He played with the dancer Nina Corti. In 1968 he played at the Royal Variety Performance in London.
Moulinet, Alpes-Maritimes
Moulinet, Alpes-Maritimes is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Dave Reichert
In June 2023, Reichert filed paperwork to run for Governor of Washington in 2024.
Beyoncé The Ultimate Performer
Beyoncé The Ultimate Performer is a DVD by R&B artist Beyoncé Knowles. It was released in the US on November 24, 2006. It features some of her exclusive footages in France, Japan, United Kingdom, New York among other places during her worldwide tour, the makings and music video.
Gardens by the Bay
Flower Dome
• Bulbine namaensis
• Ceiba chodatii
• Dracaena draco
• Echinocactus grusonii
• Faucaria tigrina
• Xanthorrhoea glauca
Cloud Forest
The Cloud Forest features a 42 m "Cloud Mountain". It is accessible by elevator and is a structure completely covered in epiphytes such as orchids, ferns, peacock ferns, spike- and clubmosses, bromeliads and anthuriums. The design by Grant Associates was inspired by the Maiden Hair Fungus and consists of a number of levels, each with a different theme, including The Lost World, The Cavern, The Waterfall View, The Crystal Mountain, The Cloud Forest Gallery, The Cloud Forest Theatre and The Secret Garden.
The following is a partial list of plants growing in the Cloud Forest:
• Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' (O. Honolulu × O. Jamie Sutton)
• Rhynchostylis gigantea
Titan arum
The record size is 3.1 m (10 ft 2.25 in) tall.
Food and Drug Administration
History
In June 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Clean Food and Drug Administration Act of 1906, also known as the "Wiley Act" after its main advocate.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act on June 24, 1938. In 1962, the Kefauver-Harris Amendment to the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act was passed and it became a global change in the FDA regulatory body.
Ride the Cyclone
Musical numbers
These are usually sang by all six of the teenages and sometimes the Amazing Karnak.
Common pipistrelle
It is 3.5–4.5 cm long with a wingspan of 19–25 cm, with brown fur. It is common in woodland and farmland but is also found in towns, where it roosts in lofts and buildings.
Lan Tianye
Lan Tianye (3 May 1927 – 8 June 2022) was a Chinese actor and painter. He was known for his role as Jiang Ziya in the television series The Investiture of the Gods.
Richard Belzer
Belzer was a cousin of actor Henry Winkler.
MLS Golden Boot
The MLS Golden Boot (currently the Audi Golden Boot for sponsorship reasons) has been awarded since the 2005 MLS season to the Major League Soccer regular–season leading scorer. The award replaced the MLS Scoring Champion Award that was awarded since the league's creation in 1996.
Shen Daren
Shen died on August 2, 2017 in Beijing at the age of 89.
Jim Marrs
Jim Marrs (December 5, 1943 – August 2, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist and The New York Times best-selling writer of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover ups and conspiracies. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
SilkAir Flight 185
Passengers and crew
SilkAir issued a press release on 19 December 1997 with a passenger count by nationality, and another the following day with crew details and a complete passenger manifest.
Traditional pop
History
On the Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show in the 1930s and 1940s, a number of popular songs were written by many songwriters - such as: Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter.
Good improvements were added then. These are string sections or orchestral parts and put more importance on the vocal presentation before the listenners. In this way, rich sounds of strings can be heard in much of the popular music throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Songs made by these writers became popular among people in America. Some of these are now forgotten, but others called standards by people at present time.
John Ziegler Jr.
John Augustus Ziegler Jr. (February 9, 1934 – October 25, 2018) was an American lawyer and ice hockey executive. He was the fourth president of the National Hockey League from 1977 to 1992. Ziegler received the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1984 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987. He was the leading figure in making hockey players wear helmets during hockey games.
2021 Nagaland killings
On 4 December 2021, a unit of 21 Para Special Forces, the special forces unit, killed six civilians near the Oting village of the Mon district in Nagaland, India.
Dragonfruit
Yellow Pitaya
The dragon fruit in the photo above. The yellow skin has white flesh. It has the highest sugar content among dragon fruits. In Chinese, it is called giraffe family and is commonly found in Hong Kong. The ripe ones are really sweet like sugar.
Pope Boniface V
After over a year of vacancy, he replaced Pope Adeodatus I. He was described by Liber Pontificalis as "the mildest of men", whose chief distinction was his great love for the clergy. He died on 25 October 625 and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica. He was succeeded by Pope Sisinnius.
Symphony No. 39 (Haydn)
Music
The symphony is written for two oboes, four horns, and strings. It has four movements:
The Insider (movie)
It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Russell Crowe).
Pacific plate
Note the Ring of Fire zones on the ocean's edges. The oldest seafloor is destroyed by going down into the Asian oceanic trenches. The oldest part disappearing this way is early Cretaceous (145 to 137 million years ago).
Inherit the Wind (play)
Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It was first shown in 1955. The story is a fictional version of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial and the McCarthy trials.
Pearl Harbor (movie)
Reviews
Many Pearl Harbor survivors did not like the movie. They called it grossly inaccurate and pure Hollywood. In an interview, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was quoted saying, "We tried to be accurate, but it's certainly not meant to be a history lesson".
Roberto Dinamite
Carlos Roberto de Oliveira (13 April 1954 – 8 January 2023), better known as Roberto Dinamite, was a Brazilian footballer and politician. He played for the Brazil national team.
Maralinga
Damage
Referred to as "Section 400" this secret operation exposed surrounding Indigenous communities to radiation by contaminating the soil and water sources. Walter MacDougal, who threatened to go to the press, was tasked with searching 100, 000km by car to alert local Aboriginals, of the dangers, in some cases forcing them to leave their home. Despite this over one thousand Indigenous people were exposed to radiation, alternatively known as black mist by the locals.
Sydney Lotterby
Lotterby died in July 2020 at the age of 93.
Electronic music
Electronic music is music which is made with electronic equipment such as synthesizers or computers. Sometimes electronic music artists create special sounds using tape recorders too.
After World War II, when tape recorders had been invented and were becoming popular, composers started to use them to make music. The tape recorder was needed for the performance. Composers used them to combine lots of different sounds. Sometimes it was music played on ordinary (acoustic) instruments which was then changed in some way by the tape recorder. Sometimes they took sounds from everyday life such as the sound of water, traffic noise or bird song. All these noises were put together in the way the composer wanted by using the tape recorder. Tapes of sounds were often cut into pieces, then the pieces were 'spliced' – put back together in a different order. The results were often very interesting, but there were problems. Some people asked: “Is it music?” Others thought it was boring to just look at a tape recorder during a concert instead of being able to watch live musicians play.
Marco Luzzago
Luzzago died on 7 June 2022 near Macerata, Italy from a heart attack, aged 71.
Electronic music
EDM music
In 2018, Billboard released a market statistic that proved the value and worth of the electronic dance music market. In this statistical statement, the company shows a 12-percent growth within one year where many changes took place with this musical revolution. One of the biggest helpers in this EDM market growth was YouTube.
Neuried, Bavaria
Neuried (Central Bavarian: Neiriad ba Minga) is a municipality in the Munich Rural District in Upper Bavaria in Germany.
Richard Dudman
Dudman served as chief of the Washington bureau during the 1970s which landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
The Adventures of Martin Eden
The Adventures of Martin Eden is a 1942 American adventure movie directed by Sidney Salkow and was based on the 1909 novel Martin Eden by Jack London. It stars Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Frank Conroy, Stuart Erwin, Evelyn Keyes and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Mullumbimby
Mullumbimby is a town in New South Wales, Australia. It is sometimes called The Biggest Little Town in Australia.
The Thorn Birds (miniseries)
The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim.
Refugee camp
This has not been the case for the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, for example. Those camps have existed since the mid-1970s.
Xiomara Castro
She was the First Lady of Honduras between 2006 and 2009. Catro has been married to former President Manuel Zelaya since 1976.
Extraterrestrial sky
In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view of outer space from the surface of a planet (or related body in space) other than Earth.
Extraterrestrial skies seem to vary because of a number of reasons. An extraterrestrial atmosphere, if present, has a large bearing on visible characteristics. The atmosphere's density and chemical composition can contribute to differences in color, opacity (including haze) and the presence of clouds. Astronomical objects may also be visible and can include natural satellites, rings, star systems and nebulas and other planetary system bodies.
The Sun from Mercury
Due to its slow rotation, a day on Mercury lasts around 176 Earth days.
The Moon
The Moon's atmosphere is very thin so its sky is always black, as in the case of Mercury. However, the Sun is so bright that it is impossible to see stars during the daytime, unless the observer is well shielded from sunlight.
Jupiter's moons as seen from Jupiter
Aside from the Sun, the most prominent objects in Jupiter's sky are the four Galilean moons. Io, the nearest to the planet, would be slightly larger than the full moon in Earth's sky, though less bright, and would be the largest moon in the Solar System as seen from Jupiter. The higher brightness of Europa would not overcome its greater distance from Jupiter, so it would not outshine Io. Ganymede, the largest moon and third from Jupiter, is almost as bright as Io and Europa, but appears only half the size of Io. Callisto, further out, would appear only a quarter the size of Io.
All four Galilean moons stand out because of the swiftness of their motion, compared to the Moon. They are all also large enough to fully eclipse the Sun.
The skies of Jupiter's moons
From the moons of Jupiter, solar eclipses caused by the Galilean satellites would be spectacular, because an observer would see the circular shadow of the eclipsing moon travel across Jupiter's face.
Pluto and Charon
Pluto's atmosphere consists of a thin envelope of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide gases, all of which are derived from the ices of these substances on its surface. When Pluto is close to the Sun, the temperature of Pluto's solid surface increases, causing these ices to sublimate into gasses. This atmosphere also produces a noticeable blue haze that is visible at sunset and possibly other times of the Plutonian day.
Stars
If the Sun were to be observed from the Alpha Centauri system, the nearest star system to ours, it would appear to be as a star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Due to the proximity of the Alpha Centauri system, the constellations would, for the most part, appear similar.
Ming dynasty
History
When Zhu Yuanzhang took Khanbaliq, he said that the Yuan was over and that his family would be a new dynasty called the Ming. He said that 1368 was the 1st year of the Hongwu Era and became known as the Hongwu Emperor. Toghun Temür and other Mongolians still fought him, but now they were known as the Northern Yuan and the Ming became the real government of most of China.
Union (American Civil War)
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Spectrometer
A spectrometer is an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Early life
He began selling drugs at the age of 12. As a teenager, he began rhyming to entertain people on street corners and in neighborhood groups.
Musical career
His posthumous albums, Born Again (1999) and Duets (2005), became number one hits.
Karen Berg
She wrote four books; God Wears Lipstick: Kabbalah for Women; Simple Light, Wisdom from a Woman's Heart; To Be Continued, Reincarnation and the Purpose of our Lives; and Finding the Light through the Darkness, Inspirational lessons rooted in the Bible and the Zohar.
Cuestión de prioridades
Cuestión de prioridades is a Spanish television program presented by José Luis Martín in La 7.
History
It started in 2020 due to the new programes appeared due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chippewa County, Michigan
Chippewa County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, 36,785 people live here. The county seat is Sault Ste. Marie.
Central Hockey League
History
The first CHL season was in 1992-1993. It started with six teams, including the Oklahoma City Blazers, the Tulsa Oilers, the Wichita Thunder, the Memphis RiverKings, the Dallas Freeze and the Fort Worth Fire.
The CHL commissioner is now Duane Lewis, who succeeded Brad Treliving on an temporary basis after Treliving took a position with the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes following the 2006-2007 season. Treliving co-founded the WPHL in 1996, and after the 2001 merger, served with the CHL for seven years. Lewis was named the permanent commissioner in June 2008.
Ron Padgett
Padgett worked with New York City's Teachers & Writers Collaborative for twenty years. In 2016, he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Elder Tadej Štrbulović
Early life
About this time the boy was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The treatment prescribed to him was painful and complicated, but according to the doctors he would die within 5 years without it. This illness became a turning point in Tomislav’s life. He later recalled: "I made a decision to no longer live for this world but to devote my last remaining days to the Lord". Having made this decision, he left the hospital under his sole responsibility.
Monastery and monastic life
Monks of the Milkovo monastery followed a very austere prayer life with long services and daily liturgies.
In the Mikovo monastery the young man became acquainted with Hieromonk John Maximovich. They enjoyed each other’s company and used to have long conversations while doing numerous monastic jobs.
Father Thaddeus went through several prisons before he in March was transferred to the monastery Voylovitsa. Hieromonk Vasily Kostic recalled that father Thaddeus was very weak, nevertheless on March 13 he already served the Divine Liturgy together with the Bishop Nicholas (Velimirovic).
Fay, Somme
Fay is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Dickie Hemric
Hemric died on August 3, 2017 at his home in Akron, Ohio at the age of 83.
Observation
Testing and improvement
Other scientists may start their own research and enter the process at any stage. They might adopt the characterization and formulate their own hypothesis, or they might adopt the hypothesis and deduce their own predictions. Often the experiment is not done by the person who made the prediction and the characterization is based on experiments done by someone else. Published results of experiments can also serve as a hypothesis predicting their own reproducibility.
Chemical warfare
Chemical warfare means using chemical compounds in war to injure or kill people. The chemicals used for chemical warfare are poisonous.
World War I
The three types of gas used in World War One were: At first, very basic ways of spreading these gases were used. Even so, many soldiers could be hurt or killed. This was partly because World War I was fought using trench warfare, so many soldiers would be in the same place at the same time, and escaping from poisonous gases would be very hard.
Germany was the first country in World War I to use chemical warfare in battle. They simply opened containers of chlorine upwind of enemy soldiers, so that the wind would carry the chlorine gas to their enemies.
Modern use
During the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq used chemical weapons (Iran did not). Many people believe that Iraq used chemical weapons against the Kurdish people.
Laws about chemical weapons
The first international law to make chemical warfare illegal was the Hague Convention in 1899.
David Stern
David Joel Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer. He was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1984 through 2014. He started with the Association in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980.
Epping Forest (district)
About 130,000 people live in the borough. The M25 and M11 go through it.
Mary Peltola
Before, she was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009.
Argument
A argument is a way to persuade someone of something. Reasons are given to accept the conclusion. The general structure of an argument in a natural language is that premises (propositions or statements) support the claim or conclusion.
Reason
The opposite is a "weak argument" or an "unconvincing argument". Arguments can be valid or invalid or a combination of both. Some arguments may appear reasonable, but they turn out to be misleading or wrong.
Consumer electronics
Many consumer electronics have planned obsolescence, resulting in E-waste.
High Rock Lake
High Rock Lake is a reservoir lake located in Davidson and Rowan counties of North Carolina. It serves as a border between them. It is a reservoir for hydroelectric power generation. It is the northernmost of the Uwharrie Lakes. High Rock is the second largest lake in North Carolina after Lake Norman. Its water surface covers 15180 acre and there are 365 mi of shoreline. High Rock Lake begins at the confluence of the Yadkin River and the South Yadkin River. The lake's name comes from nearby "High Rock Mountain", the tallest mountain in the Uwharrie Mountains. High Rock Lake is currently managed and operated by the Alcoa company.
Yamanashi Gokoku Shrine
The souls of 25,062 soldiers from many wars are worshipped here. The wars are as follows: First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War II. Gokoku shrines were made to honor the souls of people who died in wars. Yasukuni Shrine leads the shrines.