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Inhambane Province
The region was visited by Vasco da Gama in 1498. He claimed Inhambane Bay for Portugal. The Portuguese created a trading post at Inhambane in 1534.
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship is a voivodeship (province) in Poland. Its capital and largest city is Olsztyn.
Steinway D-274
D-274 (or D) is the model name of the largest concert grand from Steinway & Sons. It was first built in its current version in 1884. This instrument is the first choice of most concert pianists and dominates both concert halls and recordings. A company author estimated that more than 90% of the concert grand worldwide are Steinway D-274.
Nils Århammar
Nils Rudolf Århammar (7 August 1931 – 10 January 2022) was a Swedish linguist.
Gertrude Stein
From 1893 to 1897 she went to Radcliffe College, a women's school connected to Harvard University. She was a student of psychologist William James. He asked her to study medicine. She entered Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1897, but she failed some classes and left the school. Soon she went to Europe with her brother Leo. She lived with him in the Montparnasse district at 27, rue de Fleurus. In 1905 they bought paintings by Matisse and Picasso. They began a salon every Saturday evening to show the new art to others.
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Protected areas
Protected areas in West Pomeranian Voivodeship include two National Parks and seven Landscape Parks. These are listed below.
John Ball
Jack, Johnny, or John Ball may refer to:
Conwy
The town is a popular tourist destination and is famous for its castle, built between 1283 and 1289, beach and town walls.
Bryan Stevenson
In 2014 Stevenson's book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption was read by many people. More people learned about his work for fairness in the legal system. The book became a movie in 2019.
Paradise Alley
Paradise Alley is a 1978 American sports drama movie directed and written by first time director Sylvester Stallone (who also starred) about professional wrestling. It also stars Armand Assante, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Joe Spinell, Tom Waits, Frank Stallone and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Old World blackbirds
The type species is the mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus).
Old World
The group Passerida is a fairly large group of Old World birds. They include the genus Turdus in the family Turdidae.
The blackbird (Turdus merula, or common blackbird) is a thrush. It is a member of the passerine songbird family Turdidae. There are at least seven species in the Old World, all of which have different common names.
Masao Sugiuchi
Family
His wife is Kazuko Sugiuchi, a professional player who won several female titles. His sisters in law (Sachiko Honda and Teruko Kusunoki) are also professional players.
The 1975
The 1975 are an English pop rock band from the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire who are currently based in Manchester.
Lugu Lake
Lugu Lake is a lake in the Yunnan plateau in China. The lake is part of the border between Ninglang County, Yunnan and Yanyuan County, Sichuan. It is an alpine lake. Because it is at an elevation of 2685 m, it is the highest lake in all of Yunnan. The lake is surrounded by mountains. It has five islands, four peninsulas, fourteen bays, and seventeen beaches.
Naoko Wowsugi
Career
She started creating community projects In 2019 in Charleston, she started a Community project called the Fungus among us. Inspired by the mycelium network, more than 200 community members, toddlers to elders, collaborated together to create a mushroom parade in the neighborhood. The goal of this project was to show how fungi/mushrooms are so closely connected, similar to a strong community. Apart from this, her second project was called MICROCOSMOS. It was a planetarium about mushrooms. It was open for 10 days, and more than 2,000 people attended. Wowsugi is giving her community what she didn’t have as a child. Her goal is to make sure no one feels left out, no matter their age, gender or race.
Manica Province
The Save River creates the southern border. There is also the Zambezi river in the northeast. The highest mountain in Mozambique, Mount Binga (2436 m), is in this province near the border with Zimbabwe.
Districts
Manica Province is divided into 12 districts:
Tete Province
Tete is a province of Mozambique. The capital city is also named Tete.
Nampula Province
The island Ilha de Moçambique, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is part of the province.
Chopicalqui
Chopicalqui is a 6345 m mountain in the Andes range, in Peru. It is the 28th highest mountain in the Andes.
The Curse of Quon Gwon
What happened to the film company
The film company went bankrupt after making the movie.
Niassa Province
The Ruvuma River forms much of the northern boundary of the province with Tanzania. Lake Niassa forms the western border of the province, separating it from Malawi. The province shares the Niassa National Reserve with neighboring Cabo Delgado Province.
Double Negative
Double Negative (also known as Deadly Companion) is a 1980 Canadian thriller movie directed by George Bloomfield and based on the novel by Ross Macdonald. It stars John Candy, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins, Howard Duff, Al Waxman, Kenneth Welsh, Kate Reid.
Fred Bellefroid
Bellefroid died in on 13 January 2022, at the age of 76.
Chloe Anderson
Anderson grew up in Long Beach, California. In preschool, she loved playing princesses and dressing up. A while before kindergarten she started getting bullied. She got beat up almost every day for about 7 years. When she was in middle school, she started failing classes, trying not to get noticed. Her only target was to not get noticed. She only felt excited about playing volleyball.
Christine Philip
Christine Philip is a clothing designer. She is currently the CEO of Global Glam.
Pomona, New Jersey
Pomona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Galloway Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 7,124.
Saadat Husain
On 22 April 2020, Husain died of kidney disease and other causes at a Dhaka hospital. He was 73.
Masuma Mohammadi
Work in the United States
In the US, Mohammadi has partnered with the San Jose State University (SJSU) and their Visiting Afghan Scholar program. She researched the injustices being directed towards the Hazara people and would like to research women's rights in Afghanistan. She has continued to advocate for the women in Afghanistan from the United States, and says “Please don’t forget the people of Afghanistan, especially Afghan women and girls, support them to access their rights. Your support and providing such opportunities has not only brought a positive change in the lives of people like me, but has also saved our lives.”
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, also known as a "killer rabbit attack" by the press, involved a swamp rabbit that swam toward then–U.S. President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat on April 20, 1979.
Fons Panis
Biography
Panis was born in Berkel-Enschot in 1932. His father Alphons Panis (1900–1975) was twice mayor of Berkel-Enschot and in between mayor of Haaren. His uncle was architect Constant Panis (1891-1972).
Georgette Vidor
In 2002, Vidor was elected State Representative, with 50,350 votes. She later became a Deputy and created the first permanent commission in defense of people with disabilities in State Legislative Assemblies in Brazil, She also created the accessibility seal and held seminars every year. Vidor was part of the party executive. She helped others to prepare for their jobs. As of January 2023, Vidor was Head of Municipal Secretariat for People with Disabilities. She has held this position since May 2011.
Romy Medeiros da Fonseca
References
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Jan Theelen
Biography
Theelen had had its own music studio since the 1960s, first in Venray and later in Munstergeleen. Later he had this studio named "Onger Os" together with his son. In Limburg he was particularly known as an arranger of carnival music. Much of this music was recorded in his studio, that closed in 2020.
John Podesta
On September 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Podesta as senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation.
Wahida Amiri
Activism
The Taliban said girls cannot go to school. They said women cannot have jobs. Amiri organized women to protest.
William Fey
Bishop William Regis Fey, O.F.M.Cap. (November 6, 1942 – January 19, 2021) was an American Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became a priest in 1968. Fey was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimbe, in Kimbe, Papua New Guinea, on June 8, 2010.
Assembly of the Representatives of the People
The current speaker of the Assembly is Rached Ghannouchi.
Susil Nelson-Kongoi
Early Life
Nelson-Kongoi comes from East Sepik Province. Her parents were educated. They were huge supporters of education. This inspired Nelson-Kongoi to sponsor and fight for Papua New Guineans education. Nelson-Kongoi has a Bachelor of Commerce from Canterbury College. She studied management and information systems. She also has a MBA from Divine Word University PNG.
James R. Jones
James Robert Jones (born May 5, 1939) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma between 1973 to 1987. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1993 to 1997.
Alabama's 3rd congressional district
Alabama's 3rd congressional district is a United States congressional district in the state of Alabama. The district elects a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district has been represented by Republican Mike Rogers since 2003.
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) was an American Democratic politician and environmentalist. He was born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin.
Echo of Moscow
On 1 March 2022, it was taken off the air by Roskomnadzor because of their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 3 March, the Board of Directors voted to close the station down.
Cristero War
Notable Battles
Note: The mayor battles of the Cristero War occurred in the States of Zacatecas, Colima, Guanajuato and Jalisco.
Orpierre
Orpierre is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Valeriy Chybineyev
Valeriy Viktorovich Chybineyev (Чибінєєв Валерій Вікторович; 3 March 1988 – 3 March 2022) was a Ukrainian sniper. He was commander of the sniper battalion 79th Air Assault Brigade. He fought in the war in Donbas. He was awarded the Order of the Gold Star in 2016 for his actions during a combat mission in Avdiivka.
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger is a Japanese television series. It is the 37th in Toei's Super Sentai series. It follows Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. Kyoryuger aired on TV Asahi from February 17, 2013 to February 9, 2014, joining Kamen Rider Wizard and later Kamen Rider Gaim in TV Asahi's Super Hero Time programming block. its footage would later be used for the 2015-2016 American Power Rangers season, Power Rangers Dino Charge and its follow up season, Dino Super Charge. It had a South Korean-exclusive sequel, Power Rangers Dino Brave Force.
Taline and Friends
Other websites
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Apple A11
Apple A11 is a chip that was made by Apple. It has 6 cores and runs at 2.39 GHz. It is first released in 2017.
Jurisdiction (area)
Every state in a federation has a separate jurisdiction.
2022 Peshawar mosque attack
Background
During the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Pakistan, Islamist and sectarian attacks have been very common. Thousands of people have been killed. In 2004, their attacks became an insurgency. Three attacks in Peshawar have had triple-digit death tolls. They were a market bombing in 2009, a church bombing in 2013 and a school massacre in 2014. Many attacks have had double-digit death tolls, including those at Shia mosques in 2013 and 2015.
Bogomolets National Medical University
The university was founded by Russian Tsar Nicolas I. Bogomolets National Medical University is the biggest and one of the best medical universities in Ukraine. The university has 10 departments.
Ab Blokker
Blokker built "Blokker Holding" together with his brother Jaap Blokker, with a series of important acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, including Bart Smit (1985), Leen Bakker, Casa (1988), Xenos (1989), Intertoys, Marskramer (1993) and Maxi Toys (1997). After the death of Jaap Blokker in July 2011, Ab remained the sole active family shareholder the Blokker group. However, he could not prevent the further decline of the chain and clashed with the innovative director Roland Palmer, who had to resign in 2015. In 2017, Ab Blokker stepped down as a member of the Supervisory Board. In 2021 he sold his interest in decoration chain Casa International to the management and investment company Globitas.
Screech owl
Screech owls live in the Americas. Some species formerly placed with them are nowadays considered more distinct. The common name "screech owl" is sometimes used for the not closely related barn owl as well.
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
The population of Brooklyn Park was 75,781 at the 2010 census.
Screech owl
Evolution
Scientists are not sure how scops and screech owls are related, but they do know they are related at all. Both groups of owls fill the same niche where they live. That means they eat the same kinds of foods and do the same kinds of things for the enviornment. Scops owls live in the Old World and screech owls live in the New World. A screech-owl fossil from the Late Pliocene was found in Kansas. This means these birds lived in the Americas for a long time. The scops and screech owls probably evolved at during the Miocene. They probably became separate groups about 5 million years ago. Otus and Megascops have very similar bones. Their common ancestor was probably a small owl with ear tufts and feathers on at least the upper leg.
Nossage-et-Bénévent
Nossage-et-Bénévent is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Women in Trucking
History
They publish the WIT Index every year to help understand the number of women working in trucking and if they are treated fairly. In 2022, the WIT Index says that 13.7% of truck drivers are women. More women are leaders in trucking companies. The most women work in human resources jobs for trucking companies. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the United States needs more women truck drivers.
Thanksgiving of Horror
The Fourth Thursday After Tomorrow
This part of the episode is a parody of the Black Mirror special "White Christmas". Homer wants to help Marge with Thanksgiving cooking for dinner, so Homer orders an A.I. with Marge's memories. Marge gets jealous when the A.I. can run the family better than her, so she wants to get rid of the A.I. after Thanksgiving. The A.I. cooks a big meal for dinner, which Marge says she cooked it, and tries to escape to the internet. Marge almost stops her, but the A.I. uses Maggie to help her. The A.I. tells the guests at the dinner party that she cooked the dinner, which makes everyone disappointed and leave the dinner party. Homer tries to make Marge feel better, but he accidentally shows himself as a robot. The A.I. is free and visits places around the internet, starting with Etsy.
Willibald Kirbes
International
Kirbes made his debut for the Austrian national team on 6 May 1928  in a game against Hungary in Budapest. He scored a goal. The match was the only one in the team.
Greater Lagos Fiesta
Greater Lagos Fiesta is an annual New Year's Eve event organized by the Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Art, and Culture.
Lama Hattab
Mountaineering
Hattab also loves mountaineering. She and her sister wanted to be the first Arab women to be mountaineers in the Guinness Book of World Records. They hoped to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. In 2007, the twins went to Alaska, USA, to train to climb mountains.
Their dream was to climb Mt. Everest. Jordan's King Abdullah's "Development Fund" help pay for their climb. But they could not get enough money to make the climb. They needed US$750,000. Companies did not think women can do sports, so did not give them money.
Elaine Denniston
Career
At the New England Life Insurance Company she learned to be a keypunch operator. She made the holes in punched cards. In the 1950s and 1960s, those cards were how computers got information. So, computer programmers wrote computer code on paper. Keypunch operators then punched code onto the punched cards to get the code into the computers.
Lingulodinium polyedra
L. polyedra causes red tides in southern California, with bioluminescent displays on beaches at night.
Lovelace (movie)
Plot
Six months later, Linda bails Chuck out of jail for soliciting prostitution. Chuck is desperate for money. He makes Linda become a porn actress. She soon begins working on a movie, Deep Throat. In the movie, she uses the stage name Linda Lovelace. The movie is a huge hit. It makes over $30,000 in its first week. Linda later poses nude. She attends parties.
Wilhelm Morokutti
International career
In January 1922 he debuted for the national team in a 3-3 draw against Italy. He scored his first goal for the national team in April 1925. In total he played 17 international matches and scored five goals.
Vasyl Komisarenko
Biography
He was born on January 14, 1907 in the village of Chernyakhiv (now Kaharlyk district of Kyiv region). He graduated from the Kyiv Medical School (now the Kyiv Medical School). In 1928 he entered the Kharkiv Medical Institute. After graduating from the institute in 1932, he was enrolled in the graduate school of the Ukrainian Organ Therapeutic Institute in Kharkiv. In 1935, Komisarenko defended his dissertation and worked as a senior researcher at the Ukrainian Organ Therapeutic Institute, and two years later he was appointed director of the institute.
Jerry Kiernan
Kiernan twice won the Dublin Marathon, in 1982 and 1992.
Vimeo
Vimeo, Inc. is an American online video service.
Harut and Marut
Harut and Marut are a pair of angels mentioned in the Qur'an. These angels are send down to earth and teach sorcery. Practicing sorcery is a sin Islam, so some Muslim theologians wondered how angels could do that. Some reject that Harut and Marut are really angels and that they are merely kings (in Arabic kings and angels are simialr words). Others argue that knowing or teaching sorcery isn't a sin. Only praticing it is a sin, like knowing to build an idol isn't a sin, but worshipping an idol is.
Grand Duchy of Moscow
The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia,  Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow  (Великое княжество Московское; or Muscovy in English from the Latin Moscovia) was a principality in Rus'. It was in the late Middle Ages in Moscow. It was before Tsardom of Russia which was made in the early modern period. It was ruled by the Rurik dynasty.
Evelyn Omavowan Oboro
Education and career
She received the West Africa School Certificate at Alegbo Secondary School, Effurum in 1988 before she applied to study education in Delta State University where she obtained a Bachlor's degree in 1997. She hold a Master of Public Administration in 2002 and a degree in Law in 2009 from Delta State University.
2017–18 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
Matches
''2–2 on aggregate. Roma won on away goals.''
Form taxon
Another good example are ducks. They are in the same family as swans and geese, but called "ducks" because of what they look like.
Ressha Sentai ToQger
Ressha Sentai ToQger is a Japanese television series. It is the 38th part of Toei's Super Sentai series. It follows Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. The series premiered on TV Asahi affiliates on February 16, 2014. It joined Kamen Rider Gaim and Kamen Rider Drive in the Super Hero Time programming block. The series ended on February 15, 2015. The series has a Train motif. Unlike previous series where the heroes are named after colors, the heroes in ToQger are numbered and regularly changed colors.
Parliament Heath
Parliament Heath is a hamlet in Groton, Babergh, Suffolk, England. It has 4 listed buildings, including Daisygreen Cottages, Lodge Cottage, Malting Farmhouse and Primrose Cottage.
Gaoling District
Gaoling District (高陵区 pinyin:Gāolíng Qū) is a county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is in the north part of Xi'an. Weiyang District and Baqiao District are to the south. Yanliang District is to the north. Lintong District is to the east. Xianyang Municipality is to the west. It covers 285.03 km2. As of November 2010, 333,477 people lived there.
Sherbourne Street
Sherbourne Street is a place on the Ordnance Survey in Edwardstone, Babergh, Suffolk, England. Sherbourne Street was on A Vision of Britain through Time 19th century map as Shover Street. There was a school in Sherbourne Street called Edwardstone House School, but it closed on the 31st of August 1993. It was for boys who were 8 – 13 years old. Edwardstone House is now a Listed building.
Esmeralda Soria
Esmeralda Soria is an American politician. She is currently serving as a California State Assembly member. She represents California District 27. Soria's district covers Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties. Soria won the election on Tuesday, November 8th, 2021. She was sworn in on Monday, December 5th, 2022. Soria is a member of the Democratic Party.
Career
Soria worked as a legal clerk for California Rural Legal Assistance. She became Policy Advisor for California Assemblyman Henry T. Perea. She was District Director for State Senator Michael Rubio. She then became an adjunct professor at Fresno City College.
Jaap van Benthem
Jacob Barend "Jaap" van Benthem (23 December 1937 – 9 January 2023) was a Dutch musicologist. He was specialized in the field of fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish composers.
Grace Dieu (ship)
Design and construction
Grace Dieu was designed by William Soper, a burgess of Southampton and clerk of the King's Ships. She was clinker-built with three planks nailed together along each part of her hull and waterproofed with tar and moss sandwiched between the timbers. She was 218 ft long with a 50 ft beam, comparable in size with HMS Victory and twice as large as Mary Rose. The ship weighed between 1,400 tons and 2,750 tons. Two other ships, Valentine and Falcon were built to follow her. A dock was specially built for her construction near Town Quay in Southampton.
H.D.
H. D. was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She went to college at Bryn Mawr. The poet Marianne Moore was in her class there. Later she went to the University of Pennsylvania. There she became friends with the poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. She went to Europe in 1911, and she never lived in the United States again.
Ezra Pound introduced her to many poets and writers in Europe. In 1913 Pound sent some of her poems to Poetry magazine, and they were printed. H. D. became connected to the poetry movement that Pound called imagism. In 1913 she also married the poet Richard Aldington.
TotalBiscuit
John Peter Bain (8 July 1984 – 24 May 2018), commonly known by his online aliases TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit, and TotalHalibut, was a British indie gaming commentator and game critic on YouTube. He was born in Spennymoor, County Durham.
Jacques Boël
Boël married Sybille de Selys Longchamps (1941) on 11 September 1962, but divorced in 1978. Boës was known to the general public as the legal father for fifty years of Delphine Boël. However she could prove that she was the daughter of Albert II of Belgium and so became Princess of Belgium in 2020.
Boël died on 21 January 2022, at the age of 92.
Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French movie director, producer and screenwriter.
Richard Peck
Richard Wayne Peck (April 10, 1934 – May 23, 2018) was an American novelist. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, but was raised in Chicago. He wrote young adult literature. He won the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder (the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago).
Lindsey Tye
Lindsey Tye is a settlement in Lindsey, Babergh, Suffolk, England. It has seven listed buildings, including Cottage Owned by Mr W Partridge Immediately North of Tye Cottage, Falcon Hall, Gooseberry, Ivydene, Rose Cottage, Swallow's Farmhouse and Tye Cottage. There was also a Baptist chapel built there in 1840.
Claude Sautet
His first movie, Hello Smile! came out in 1956. He was well known for his movie The Things of Life, which he wrote and directed.
Nico van Nieuwenhuysen
Biography
Before World War II Nieuwenhysen worked as a general practitioner. Because his practice was going downhill during World War II due to his pro-German attitude, he accepted the German offer to come and work in Kamp Amersfoort. He was doctor there between September 1941 and March 1942 and worked as a surgeon. Van Nieuwenhuysenhad neglected, abused, starved, and exposed his patients to disease. Van Nieuwenhuysen abused patients whom he believed were simulating an illness, to escape the strict regime in the camp. He had kicked and beaten the prisoners and made them bend their knees until exhaustion, withheld medical care from them, did not provide them with medicines when they were available, did not give them spiritual assistance and did not isolate them when they had a contagious disease; Jews and Soviet prisoners of war in particular. In September 1941 hundred and one Soviet soldiers entered the camp. During their stay they were not treated or cared for. Many died from an illness, malnutrition or abuse. After six months, the soldiers who were still alive where shot. Nieuwenhusen had the heads of two dead Russians amputated and boiled, and placed the skulls on his desk as 'trophies'. In 1942 Radio Oranje named him "De Beul of Amersfoort" (The Executioner of Amersfoort).
Chan Chun Sing
Political career
He has served as Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, Senior Minister of State for Defence, Second Minister for Defence and Minister for Social and Family Development. Other include Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Minister for Trade and Industry.
Socialist Workingmen's Party
Socialist Workingmen's Party (Turkish: Sosyalist Emekçiler Partisi; SEP) is a communist political party based in Turkey. The party was founded in 2016.
International organization
SEP, Socialist Middle East continues its internationalist organization activities through its website. As a result, the İnqilabin səsi ("Voice of Revolution") was established with Azerbaijani revolutionary Marxists in November 2022. The İnqilabin səsi noting that Azerbaijani and Armenian workers are brothers, he stressed that the enemyhood between Azerbaijan and Armenia should be ended immediately.
WTTW
The three stations share studios in the Renée Crown Public Media Center, located at 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue (adjacent to the main campus of Northeastern Illinois University) in the city's North Park neighborhood; WTTW and WYCC share transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
Henryk Chmielewski (comics)
He started working as a graphic artist in the Świat Młodych magazine, where he also published comics. He was known for creating the Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek comic book series, which began in 1966.
United States of Africa
The United States of Africa is a hypothetical plan for a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem "Hail, United States of Africa".
Pig in a poke
Meaning
The idiom "pig in a poke" is used to describe something which is purchased without the buyer being aware of its true nature or value.
Thomas Vanek
Career
Before he played in the NHL, Vanek played for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the USHL for 3 seasons and the University of Minnesota for 2 years.
Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (pronounced ; August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Canal 6 (Mexico)
Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations. It is mainly seen in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The main station of Multimedios is XHAW-TDT, It is located in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Programming inc;udes locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general programming. On weekdays, the network has around twenty hours of live daily programming. There is less during the weekends and holidays.
Heavy water
Heavy water (deuterium oxide, ', ') is a form of water based on deuterium.
Quiet room
A room that is quiet. A silent room. An enclosed space with no sounds. This may be used for people that feel: overstimulated, anxious, stressed, etc. It could be an effective way for a person experiencing the previously mentioned to relax and feel better.
William's Green
William's Green is a hamlet in Kersey, Babergh, Suffolk, England.
Landscheide
Landscheide is a municipality of the district Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Ohio, Illinois
Ohio is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Prime Minister of Haiti
The prime minister of Haiti (Premier ministre d'Haïti, Premye Minis Ayiti) is the head of government of Haiti. The office was created under the 1987 Constitution. Before all executive power was held by the president or head of state, who appointed and chaired the Council of Ministers.
Frank O'Hara
He was not well-known as a poet until some of his poems were printed in The New American Poetry in 1960. This was a collection of many younger poets who were writing in original ways.
Khatri Chhetri
Diet
Their diet mostly consists of goats and sheep. The Chhetri are indigenous native speakers of the Nepali language, which is an Indo-Iranian language. The Khas people have been referred as Parbatiya, Pahari, or Gorkhali. The Khas make up about 31% of Nepal's population. However, the word “Khas” is not used much in modern times. The Khas usually call themselves by their group names, like Bahun and Kshetri.
Pathetic fallacy
The term is not used in mediaeval logic. It is a literary term, invented by the British art critic John Ruskin in his book, Modern Painters (1843–60).
Nippon Maru
Nippon Maru (日本丸) is a Japanese museum ship. It is permanently docked at Yokohama harbor.
John Garfield
John Garfield (born  Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his roles in Four Daughters (1938) and Body and Soul (1947).
Pierre Bellemare
Bellemare died on 26 May 2018 in Suresnes, France at the age of 88.
Afro-Dominicans
Haitian Immigration
From the neighboring country, Haitians have also had an influence in the growing population in Dominican Republic. It's estimated that is around 800,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. Haitians make a large minority in the country anywhere from 4-6%. Among the Afro-Haitian population, they originated among the Ewe and Fon tribes of present-day Benin and Togo West Africa.
Culture
As Dominican slaves came from predominately West-Central Africa, many of their customs survived based-on memory and myths, along with religion, names, words, music, language etc. Known survived religions are the Regla de palo, Arara, Dominican Vudu, Santería etc. Many villages among the Dominican Republic have kept their African languages among their descendants. Recongnized African languages spoken by Dominicans are the Lucumi language which is practically the Yoruba language with very few Spanish words, the Kikongo language is still spoken, especially in places like Villa Mella, Dajabon, Altagracia, and Monte Plata. Merengue is the typical music of the Dominican Republic. Typical Dominican foods such as Mangu (mashed plantains) is of African origin.
Tesla (band)
Musical style and influences
The band stated artists like Aerosmith, Ace Frehley, AC/DC, Boston, Mott the Hoople, Scorpions, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, King Crimson, Rainbow and The Rolling Stones as influences.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Aristide was appointed to a Roman Catholic parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies to become a priest of the Salesian order.
Dead Man
Dead Man is an American western movie from 1995. Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Depp are the main stars. It got mixed reviews from many critics. It was by Miramax.
Ma Dong-seok
Ma Dong-seok (born Lee Dong-seok; March 1, 1971), also known as Don Lee, is an American-born South Korea actor. His career began with roles in The Neighbor, Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time and The Unjust. Ma's role in the zombie movie Train to Busan rose his career to international popularity.
Victor Horta
Victor, Baron Horta (6 January 1861 - 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich said he was "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture. Some people say his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels was the first time the style was used on architecture.
Jim Dale
Jim Dale, (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, comedian, composer, director and singer-songwriter. He appeared in many of the Carry On movies. He is well known narrating all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks in the American market.
Wilbur Brotherton
Wilbur Vernon "Sandy" Brotherton (July 6, 1922 – January 15, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1975 to 1988. Brotherton was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Henry van de Velde
Career
Van de Velde studied painting in Antwerp, under Charles Verlat and in Paris under Carolus-Duran. As a young painter he was influenced by Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. He used a neo-impressionist style. In 1889 he became a member of the Brussels-based artist group "Les XX". During this period he made a lasting friendship with the painter Théo van Rysselberghe and the sculptor Constantin Meunier.
Super Bowl XX
The game
The game started badly for the Bears when Walter Payton fumbled the ball and New England got the ball. Kicker Tony Franklin then scored first for the Patriots. Later, the Bears scored when Kevin Butler kicked 2 field goals, and then Matt Suhey scored. In the 2nd quarter, Jim McMahon scored a touchdown, and then Butler kicked another field goal. The Bears then scored 3 touchdowns in the third quarter, and New England would finally score a touchdown in the fourth quarter, but Patriots quarterback Steve Grogan was sacked in the end zone for 2 points.
Edwin McCain
Influences
McCain stated artists like Tom Petty, Counting Crows, Wilson Pickett, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kiss, Van Halen, Queen, Weather Report and Jaco Pastorius as influences.
Norodom Yuvaneath
Yuvaneath died on January 13, 2021 in California, aged 77.
Arno van der Heyden
Biography
Van der Heyden was diagnosed with cancer in 2019. After the treatment he had voice problems due to, among other scar tissue. However, the cancer returned and died from it in Groningen on 20 January 2023, at the age of 61.
Dorking Tye
Dorking Tye is a hamlet in Assington, Babergh, Suffolk, England.
Norddeutscher Lloyd
This shipping company was known for having had several ships that won the Blue Riband. These include the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the SS Bremen and the SS Europa (in the 1930s).
Eugène Ysaÿe
Biography
When Ysaÿe was twenty-seven years old, he was recommended as a soloist for one of the Concerts Colonne in Paris. This was the start of his great success as a concert artist. The next year, Ysaÿe received a professorship at the Brussels Conservatoire. During his time as professor at the Conservatoire, Ysaÿe continued to tour the world. This included all of Europe, Russia, and the United States.
Personal life
He had a relationship with Irma Sèthe.
Black garden ant
The ants build nests underground, commonly under stones, but also in rotten wood, or under roots. The nests can have up to 40,000 workers, but the average size is 4,000–7,000 ants. The colony has a single queen which can live up to 15 years, and it has been claimed that some have lived for 30 years. In the early stages of a colony there can two or three queens in the nest. They will tolerate each other until the first workers come, then it is most likely they will fight until one queen remains. In tests in laboratories, worker ants have lived at least four years.
Appearance
The worker ants are dark glossy black, and 3–5 mm long. The queens are 9 mm long, glossy black color, and with slight brown stripes on her abdomen. After a queen mates, she removes her wings and eats her wing muscles as food over the winter. The male ants are 3.5–4.5 mm long and are only produced by queens for mating. They have a dark glossy body, which is a different shape from the workers, and look like a wasp. They have delicate wings which stand out from the rest of the body.
Return of the Dream Canteen
Two singles from the album were released before it. These are "Tippa My Tongue" and "The Drummer". The album went to the number one spot on music charts in six countries.
Racial profiling
In the USA profiling has been tested in the courts a number of times. Terry v. Ohio was the first challenge to racial profiling in the United States in 1968. This case was about African American people who were thought to be stealing. The police officer arrested the three men, searched them and found a gun on two of the three men. One of the men searched was convicted and sentenced to jail. The sentence was challenged on the grounds that the arrest violated the search and seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court decided that the police officer acted in a reasonable manner, and with reasonable suspicion, under the Fourth Amendment. The decision in this case allowed the police to have discretion in identifying suspicious or illegal activities.
Prime Minister of Egypt
Living former Prime Ministers
As of September 2023, there are four living former Prime Ministers of Egypt, as seen below.
Skirwith
Skirwith is a village in Cumbria, England. It has a church called St John's Church.
Sundarbans National Park
Ecosystem
In 2001, Sunderban became a Biosphere Reserve. The ecosystem is recognized as part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud
Mahmoud died on 27 May 2018 in Cairo at the age of 82.
Sabail FK
Sabail FK (Səbail Futbol Klubu) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Baku. The club participates in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Eternal return
Eternal return is an idea that everything will repeat forever. It is also called eternal recurrence. Eternal return can be found in different religions or philosophies. Nietzsche wrote the most famous version of the eternal recurrence, but he started with other people's ideas. In his own writings, Nietzsche says he thinks the writer Heraclitus may have been first to write about it.
Martindale
Martindale is a village and civil parish in Eden, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 49 people living in Martindale.
Huyi District
Area
Ganting,Yuxia,Zuan,Qinduz,Dawang,Caotang,Jiangcun,Pangguang,Laodian,Ganhe,Shijing,Yuchan,Wuzhu and Weifeng.
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 is the first release of the Windows Phone mobile client operating system, released on November 8, 2010, worldwide was released on October 21, 2010. It runs on Windows CE 6.0 kernel.
Telex (band)
Like Kraftwerk, Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments.
In 1980 Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were sent to the finals. The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself. The Eurovision audience seemed unsure how to react to the performance. After the band stopped playing, there was mostly stunned silence. Michel Moers took a photograph of the bewildered audience. The band walked off to sounds of muttering. When vote-counting began, and Greece awarded Belgium three points. The announcer thought she misheard and tried to award the points to the Netherlands.
Estate (law)
An estate, in common law, is the net worth of a person at any point in time alive or dead. It is the sum of a person's assets – legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind – less all liabilities at that time.
Allyn Ann McLerie
McLerie died at her home in North Bend, Washington of Alzheimer's disease on May 21, 2018 at the age of 91.
Windows Phone 7
Office app
The "Office hub" organizes all Microsoft Office apps and documents. Microsoft Office Mobile provides interoperability between Windows Phone and the desktop version of Microsoft Office. Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, OneNote Mobile, and SharePoint Workspace Mobile allow most Microsoft Office file formats to be viewed and edited directly on a Windows Phone device.
Alectrosaurus
Alectrosaurus is a theropod dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus, Alioramus and Tarbosaurus. It lived in Mongolia and China in the Late Cretaceous period, about 90-70 million years ago. Alectrosaurus as a genus existed for about 9 million years.
Aelfric of Eynsham
Ælfric’s homilies and lives of saints describe Christian events, beliefs, and history in simple, clear language so that common Englishmen could understand. Compared to the homilies of Wulfstan (Archbishop of York), Ælfric’s texts focus more on the ideas of humility, compassion, and God’s mercy. His works also inform us of the Christian practices and the lives of monks after the English Benedictine Reform.
Bagualosaurus
Bagualosaurus (from the Portuguese regional term "bagual", referring to a person or animal of strong build ) is a sauropodomorph dinosaur. It is the seventh known sauropodomorph discovered in Brazil. It was described in 2018.
René Magritte
Early life and career
His work was exhibited in the United States in New York in 1936. It was shown again at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.
Bank vole
The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) is a small, type of vole with red-brown fur with some grey patches, its body is around 100 millimeters (3.9 in) long in length and the tail is around 50 millimeters long. They weigh around 20 to 35 grams, they have blunt noses and have small eyes and ears.
Pippo Caruso
Caruso died in Passo Corese, Italy on May 28, 2018 at the age of 82.
Standing Rock Indian Reservation
The Standing Rock Reservation  (/inyan bosdata) is located in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States. It is where the "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate" live. The sixth-largest Native American reservation in land area in the US, Standing Rock includes all of Sioux County, North Dakota, and all of Corson County, South Dakota.
Upset (competition)
An upset happens in a competition, mainly in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the favorite), either loses to or draws/ties a game with an underdog whom the majority expects to lose. It is often used in reference to beating the betting odds in sports, or beating the opinion polls in electoral politics.
Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Almost 500 people were arrested during the protests.
MoveOn
MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is a progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee. It was formed in 1998 in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton by the U.S. House of Representatives. MoveOn.org has raised millions of dollars for liberal candidates in the United States.
Serge Dassault
Dassault died at the age of 93 on 28 May 2018 in Paris of a heart attack.
1929–30 Austrian Cup
Round of 32
Replay match:
Sylvirana
Sylvirana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae. They live in South and East Asia, from northeastern India in the west to China in the north, Taiwan in the east, and Thailand in the south. Sylvirana was proposed in 1992. At first, in scientists thought Sylvirana should be a subgenus of Rana. Since then, it has been considered both a genus of its own and a synonym of Hylarana. Scientists think it should be its own genus because of molecular genetic analyses published in 2015.
Disappointment
Disappointment is an emotion that a person feels when something has gone wrong. It is usually related to failure. Failures tend to cause disappointment.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Kjell Magne Bondevik (born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician (Christian Democratic Party). He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005.
State Bank of India
History
The State Bank of India was established on July 1, 1955.
Prime Minister of Norway
Norway has a Constitution, which was adopted on 17 May 1814. The position of prime minister is the result of legislation.
Chicago Strangler
Representatives of the Chicago Police Department told the media in 2019 that there may be more than one serial killer in the city.
Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Francisco José Pereira Pinto Balsemão (born 1 September 1937 in Lisbon), is a Portuguese businessman, former journalist and retired politician. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal, from 1981 to 1983.
The Yearling
The Yearling is a 1946 American drama movie directed by Clarence Brown and was based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, Forrest Tucker, Henry Travers, Clem Beavans, Margaret Wycherly and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was nominated for 7 Oscars and won 2 Academy Awards.
Mathy Engelen
Engelen worked for several years as an architect, but became a full time artist. He made drawings, etchings and watercolors of many historic buildings, village- and town views of the Maasland region. He was good friends with the princely House of Merode and also painted their German and Belgian castles. Engelen had expositions in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Ammakandakara
The Chennampallil Sree Dharma Shasta and Devi temple are situating at the centre of the village.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com is a nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials, candidates, their staffs, lobbyists, interest groups and others involved in U.S. politics.
Pipra Dixit
Pipra Dixit is a medium sized village in Salempur tehsil of Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh. the village has total population of 1,477 as per 2011 Population Census of India.
Prime Minister of Portugal
Living former prime ministers
As of September 2023, there are seven living former prime ministers of Portugal, as seen below.
Angadickal
Religion
There are different worship centres such as
Toots Thielemans
Career
He moved to the US in 1952. He was a member of Charlie Parker's All-Stars and worked with Miles Davis and Dinah Washington. He played and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Jaco Pastorius, Peggy Lee, The George Shearing Quintet, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, The Happenings, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Elis Regina and others.
Keezhuvaipur
Climate
The climate of the place is moderate and pleasant. Tropical climate is prevailed here throughout the year.
Blockade of the Republic of Artsakh (2022–present)
The European Parliament adopted a resolution, in which it condemned Azerbaijan for the blockade of Artsakh.
Kozhencherry East
Demographics
Malayalam is the native language in Kozhencherry East.
Politics
Kozhencherry East is the part of Pathanamthitta Loksabha constituency. Mr. Anto Antony is the current Member of Parliament of the constituency.
John Dryden
In 1650 Dryden went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating, he went to London. Dryden got work with the Secretary of State, John Thurloe.
His first play, The Wild Gallant was in 1663. It was not successful. But from 1668 on he was contracted to make three plays a year for the King's Company.