cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Mount Merapi
2006 earthquake
In 2006, scientists believed that the volcano would erupt soon. An earthquake occurred in that region on May 27, 2006, and killed about 6,200 people. On June 6, super hot gas and ash poured down the mountain. These hot gases are known as a pyroclastic flow. Two people were killed, and 15,000 people rushed to safety.
2010 eruption
After the recovery of more bodies, an official in disaster management said the death toll reached 273 up to 18 November.
Trudlerbaach
Lower Shältgen and Gaartchen Run
To the South of Lac Beriton the Trudlerbaach begins narrow flowing through a narrow channel at the border of the Schältgen. It is next to a small unpaved pathway which marks the border between the Sauerfeld and the Schälgen. Eventually it flows towards Beriton and crosses under a pathway used for access to the shooting lodge through a culvert. Further south the Trudlerbaach nears the southern end of the Shältgen and begins to broaden and deepen. The river flows much slower relative to just south of Lac Beriton. Eventually the river narrows once more and becomes very shallow to the point where the water ripples as it flows. By this point the river has left the Shältgen and now forges the border between the Sauerfeld and am Grond. Eventually the path it has been parallel to ends and the river flows directly through one of the fields in the Sauerfeld. At the end of the path, the stream crosses directly under a fence dividing plots of land. The Trudlerbaach soon after begins to split into several small channels separated by large sedge plants and at one point the path of the stream forges and island. Further south the Trudlerbaach crosses through another culvert which links a field in the Southern Sauerfeld and am Grond.
Gaardebaach
The Gaardebaach is a intermittent tribuatary of the Trudlerbaach which runs from the Gaardebesch north west of Contern to Am Grond where it reaches the Trudlerbaach. The stream flows south into the Ostrich farm and then flows though bushes onto the unpaved area of Beim Schmilberbour. The stream recieves water from Further up Beim Schmilberbour as well as 2 others from the ostrich farm.
Electric Light Orchestra
ELO
Roy Wood decided to leave ELO partway through the recording of the second album. He started another band called Wizzard. Jeff Lynne took over leadership, and McDowell, Kaminski and Gale joined. The album, ELO 2, was finished and released, but was not as well liked as the first. A single on the album was a cover version of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". It added parts of many Beethoven compositions to Berry's song. It became another radio hit.
Arrondissement of Brignoles
The arrondissement of Brignoles is an arrondissement of France, in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its capital is the city of Brignoles.
Communes
The arrondissement of Brignoles has 67 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Oromo people
The Oromo are a Cushitic ethnic group from the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. They speak the Oromo language. They are one of the largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia.
Sanford Dole
Sanford Dole (April 23, 1844 – June 9, 1926) was an American politician. Dole was a part of a group of businessmen who first forced a new Hawaiian national constitution on the country during King David Kalakaua's reign and then after his death removed Queen Liliuokalani from the throne and took control of the country in 1893. They removed the queen by threatening to use the warships of the U.S. Navy had in Honolulu harbor.
River Conon
The river is important as its water is used to make electric power.
Robert Morris University Illinois
In 2020, it merged into Roosevelt University, which formed under it a new Robert Morris Experimental College as one of several colleges at Roosevelt.
Five Colleges (Massachusetts)
This is a list of colleges and universities which are the Five Colleges, Incorporated:
Tara Air Flight 197
Victims
The flight was carrying 22 occupants, and the 19 passengers consisted of 13 Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans. There were two pilots and a flight attendant among the 13 Nepalis on the flight. NDTV stated that the four Indian passengers were members of the same family from Mumbai.
2020 Northern Territory general election
The 2020 Northern Territory general election was held on 22 August 2020 to elect all 25 members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. It was conducted by the Northern Territory Electoral Commission (NTEC).
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the home of two car manufacturers: Mercedes Benz and Porsche. Porsche is in Zuffenhausen (North) and Mercedes in Untertürkheim (Southeast).
Stuttgart has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
Rocket Man (song)
"Rocket Man" (officially titled "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)") is a 1972 song by Elton John and is the lead single from his fifth studio album Honky Château. It went to number 2 in the United Kingdom, number 6 in Ireland and the United States, number 13 in Australia and number 18 in Germany. In 2021, it was used in the Elton John and Dua Lipa single Cold Heart.
Franz Hansl
Career
He started playing football with DSV Troppau. Because there was no league matches during the First World War he went to Wiener Amateur SV. He soon became top scorer of the club. In 1921 the team became winner of the Austrian Cup, Hansl scored the first goal. This was the first title for Wiener Amateur SV. 1923-24 he became Champion. For being only supplementary player in this season he went to the just promoted Wiener AC.
Field gun
The 1960s
The US Army used long-range guns again in the 1960s with the M107 175 mm gun. The M107 was used in the Vietnam War and proved effective in artillery battles with the North Vietnamese forces. This gun needed a lot of repairs, and after the barrels began to crack it was removed from service. Production of the M107 continued through the 1980s, and the gun is still used by the Israeli military forces.
Boyhood (movie)
Boyhood is a 2014 American drama movie. The story is about a boy growing up with divorced parents. Ethan Hawke plays Dad. Patricia Arquette plays Mom. The movie took 12 years to make. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture in 2015.
Xenogears
Xenogears is a 1999 roleplaying video game created by Squaresoft. The main character is named Fei and he does not like gears or fighting. The final boss that you must kill is god.
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland is an animated movie from 1987, released by Cineplex Odeon Films. It is the last big-screen movie to star the Care Bears characters, and is loosely based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland stories.
Arrondissement of Nérac
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Nérac, there is only one canton where not all its "communes" are in the arrondissement: Les Forêts de Gascogne. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The arrondissement of Nérac has 58 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Electrical conductor
A conductor is a material which allows electricity, heat or sound to flow through it.
Metals, like iron and copper, are used to make wires to carry electric current. Plasma is an excellent conductor of electricity and is used for many purposes but metals are more used.
White Oleander (movie)
Plot
For a brief time, she is put in a place called "Mac," which houses hundreds of children. During this time, she gets into a fight with a bunch of other girls. She cuts her hair off and threatens the other girls, saying that she will slit their throats in their sleep if they attack her again.
The movie ends with Astrid, living with her new boyfriend Paul Trout (Patrick Fugit) in New York, putting together a series of suitcases that stand for all of her experiences through foster homes. She has redyed her hair blonde.
Edward Rosling
Rosling was educated at Queenwood College, Hampshire. In 1886, at the age of 23, he travelled to Ceylon. He was apprenticed as a "creeper" in Ceylon on a tea plantation in Ambagamuwa. In late 1888 he took up a position as a manager on a tea estate in Nanu Oya. He worked as a tea planter for 27 years. He served as the chairman of the Anglo-Ceylon and General Estates Company Limited. In 1899, he was elected as the president of the Hill Club in Nuwara Eliya. In 1900, he was elected as the chairman of the Planter's Association. After serving for a year, he was re-elected as chairman between 1909 and 1911. In November 1902, Rosling was appointed as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and a Justice of the Peace. He served on the Council for ten years. He was retired from the Council in 1913. His position on the Council was later filled by William Duff Gibbon.
Furnas County, Nebraska
Furnas County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 4,636 people lived there. The county seat is Beaver City.
Lynn Conway
Born a male, Conway transitioned into a woman. After IBM found out about this, she was fired in 1968. In 2020, IBM apologized for firing Conway.
Auch
History
The Romans named the town where that tribe lived as Augusta Auscorum (or Augusta Ausciorum), which means "Augusta of the Ausci". Eventually, Augusta was dropped, and the name changed into modern Gascon Aush, and modern French Auch.
Climate
The highest recorded temperature in Auch is 40.9 °C, which was recorded in August. The lowest recorded temperature in Auch is -20 °C, which was recorded in January.
Larry the Cable Guy
Early life
A CMT bio says that Whitney grew up on a pig farm in Pawnee City, Nebraska. He went to college at the Baptist University of America. He says his roommates from Texas and Georgia helped him create his imitation Southern accent. He left college after his third year to be a comedian.
American Red Cross
Leadership
Recent presidents and CEOs include Gail McGovern, Elizabeth Dole, Bernadine Healy, Mary S. Elcano, Mark W. Everson and John F. McGuire.
Metal Gear
The series is named after a type of robotic tanks for each games, whom Snake destroys each of them.
Games
MSX:
Alder
Alder trees are found in all parts of the northern hemisphere and they are often found on poor and/or wet soil. Alders have alternate simple leaves with a toothed edge. The male flowers are in the form of hanging catkins and the female flowers are much smaller catkin-like structures (see image). The pollen is transferred from the male to the female flower by the wind. The female flower parts develop into little, green, rounded cone-like fruits which turn brown in autumn and open to release the seeds.
Olshany
Olshany (Альшаны, Ольшаны) is a town in Republic of Belarus. It is in Stolin Raion, Brest Voblast. Its documental records began in 1392.
Moose Pond
Moose Pond is a pond in the U.S. state of Maine.
Sant Joan les Fonts
Sant Joan les Fonts is a municipality of 3,054 people (2022). It is in the province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
Futabasaurus
Futabasaurus was a plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous. A complete skeleton of one has not been found. It is not known very well.
Lev Yashin
Lev Yashin (22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a former Russian football player. He had played for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, while some even considering him to be the greatest.
Fortune Head
Geology
The Burin Peninsula is part of the Avalon Zone of the Appalachian Orogen, a late Precambrian episode of mountain-building. The stratigraphy is not uniform throughout the region, however. The sediments were probably deposited in shoreline environments along the former Iapetus Ocean.
Laelaps
Laelaps can mean:
Elton John
Career
John became famous in the early 1970s when he and lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote several songs which he performed and recorded. John became a huge star, not only for his musical abilities, but for his flamboyant stage personality. He composed several musicals. He also composed the music for the animated movies The Lion King (1994) and The Road to El Dorado (2000). He is active in charity work. In 1997, in honor of Diana, Princess of Wales, John co-wrote and released a version of his hit Candle in the Wind. That became the world's best-selling single of all time. It sold 37 million copies within two months.
Discography
• Honky Chateau (1972)
• Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973)
• A Single Man (1978)
• The Union (2010)
Phyllomedusa coelestis
The starry leaf frog (Phyllomedusa coelestis) is a frog that lives in Peru and Colombia. Scientists think it may live in many more places than we think. Scientists have seen this frog between 200 and 1000 meters above sea level.
Eduardo Cesti
Eduardo Cesti Vilchez (8 December 1941 – 4 December 2020) was a Peruvian actor. He was born in Lima, Peru. His career lasted between 1963 to 2011. He was best known for his roles as Rafael in Fire on the Amazon (1993) and as Conan in the telenovela La mujer de Lorenzo.
Halo 3
The game's story is based around a future war between a fictional alien race known as "the Covenant" and the human race. The player takes the role of Master Chief, a genetically enhanced "super soldier" who fights for the human race. The player is helped through the story by marines and another alien race known as "the elites". The game had many new features that were not in the first two games including more vehicles, weapons and equipment.
Aleksander Mandziara
Mandziara died on 2 September 2015, aged 75.
Let's Be Cops
The movie was released on August 13, 2014.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 musical-comedy movie. This is about a musically talented orphan named Rebecca Winstead. Her stepfather leaves her on a farm. Shirley Temple plays Rebecca.
Jeanne Ashworth
Ashworth died of pancreatic cancer in Wilmington, New York on October 4, 2018, aged 80.
2016 California Democratic primary
Other primaries/caucuses occurred on the same day. Those states included Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North and South Dakota.
L118 Light Gun
M119A1
The L119 was changed more and made under a license for the United States Army.
Steve Sims (entrepreneur)
Career
Sims began his career as a Bricklayer in London, then stockbroker job in London. He moved to Hong Kong where he was fired in 5 days.
Neolithic revolution
The Neolithic revolution led to people living in permanent or semi-permanent settlements. Because of this fewer people led a nomadic lifestyle. To be able to know who the crops grown belonged to, the concept of land ownership was developed. The natural environment was changed, population sizes grew, and people ate more vegetable and cereal foods in their diet. Hierarchies developed in society. Grain was stored, and could be traded. Surplus production from good crop yields helped societies survive bad years.
Jerrie Mock
Jerrie Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was the first woman who flew around the world by herself. She did so in 1964. She flew a single engine Cessna 180. It was named "Spirit of Columbus" and nicknamed "Charlie". The trip began inMarch 19, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. It ended on April 17, 1964, also in Columbus. The trip took 29 days.
Four Beauties
Xi Shi (c. 7th to 6th century BC, Spring and Autumn period)
Legend says that Xi Shi was so beautiful. When fish look at her, they forget to swim and sink below the water surface. Xi Shi is from Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. Zhuji was the capital of the Ancient Yue Kingdom. Goujian was the King of Yue Kingdom. He went through ten years of hardship. He wanted to defeat Fuchai. Fuchai was the King of Wu Kingdom. Xi Shi was part of his plan. Xi Shi loved Fan Li. But Goujian gifted beautiful Xi Shi to Fuchai. It was done to attract him. Fuchai fell in love with her. Fuchai lost his fighting will after he met Xi Shi. He was making Xi Shi happy all the time. Due to this, Goujian was able to defeat Fuchai. Fuchai fell sad for accepting the gift. He killed himself. There are two stories of Xi Shi. In one story, Goujian killed her by drowning her. It was because he was afraid of being charmed by her like that of Fuchai. In another story, she came to Fan Li. They lived happily ever after.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is the last book written by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in 1939.
New Academy Prize in Literature
The New Academy Prize in Literature was created in 2018 because the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 2018. The winner was announced on 12 October 2018. The New Academy will be dissolved in December 2018.
Jope Ruonansuu
Jorma Olavi "Jope" Ruonansuu (15 April 1964 – 18 July 2020) was a Finnish actor, impressionist, musician and stand-up comedian. He was born in Kemi, Finland. He won the Best performer Venla award in 2010. In 2005, he began hosting the comedy sketch show Jopet Show.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
In 2017, Ortiz-Magro appeared in the second season of the E! reality series Famously Single.
Jack Donahue
Bushranger
He next appeared in the Nepean River valley around the towns of Liverpool, Penrith, Windsor, Parramatta and Liberty Plains. They robbed the Reverend Samuel Marsden near Windsor. Donahue was working with a man known as “Darky” Underwood, and an escaped convict Jack Walmsley. The government increased the reward to £50.
Magnitude
Other:
Kansas Democratic Party
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas. The chair of the Kansas Democratic Party is Vicki Hiatt.
Bué
Bué is a commune in the Cher department, located in the Centre-Val de Loire region, France. About 318 people lived there in January 2019.
League of Ireland Premier Division
The League of Ireland Premier Division is a football league which is the top division in the Republic of Ireland. For historic reasons, one club based in Northern Ireland, namely Derry City, plays in the Republic's league system, and is currently in the Premier Division.
Mary Midgley
Midgley wrote 15 other books, including Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Wickedness (1984), The Ethical Primate (1994), Evolution as a Religion (1985), and Science as Salvation (1992). Her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva, was published in 2005.
Coco Lee
Asian Chart-topping hits and singles
Not exhaustive
Norwegian language
The Norwegian alphabet
The letters c, q, w, x and z are only used for words that have been borrowed from other languages. However, c and w are more common that q, x, and z, even more common than the letter æ which is used even in original Norwegian words.
Abusir Papyri
They were written about the 24th century BC during the Fifth dynasty of Egypt. They are just fragments, but they are some of the oldest surviving papyri we have. Later on many more fragments were found in the area.
Alexander the Great
When he was 13, Philip hired the Greek philosopher Aristotle to be Alexander’s personal tutor. During the next three years, Aristotle gave Alexander a training in rhetoric and literature, and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy. All of these are important for a ruler, which Alexander later became.
Jovenel Moïse
Jovenel Moïse (26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian politician. He served as the 42nd President of Haiti from February 2017 until his death. In 2019, political unrest and calls for his resignation became a crisis.
Volendam
Volendam is a very musical place, many groups and singers come from this town, like BZN, The Cats, Nick & Simon, and Jan Smit. The kind of music they perform has a name of itself, called the Palingsound (paling means eel).
Tyka Nelson
Tyka Evene Nelson (born May 18, 1960) is an American singer. She is the daughter of jazz musician John L. Nelson (1916–2001) and Mattie Della Shaw (1933–2002). She is the younger sister of Prince (1958–2016).
Early life
Tyka Evene Nelson was born on May 18, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Mattie Della Nelson (née Shaw; 1933–2002) and John Lewis Nelson (1916–2001). Her parents were both African-American,. Her family ancestry is centered in Louisiana. All four of her grandparents arefrom that state. Her father was a jazz pianist and songwriter. Her mother was a jazz singer. Her brothe was Prince Rogers. Both children had an interest in music. This was encouraged by their father. According to a 2008 interview with City Pages, she began writing songs when she was 10 and “hasn’t collaborated” with her brother since they were young.
Androctonus crassicauda
The Arabian fat-tailed scorpion or black Turkish fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda) is a species of scorpion. It lives in the Middle East. This scorpion can make venom. If the scorpion stings a human with its venom, it cause swelling or problems with the heart and lungs or death.
Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky
Vladimir A. Uspensky (Russian: Влади́мир Андре́евич Успе́нский; 27 November 1930 – 27 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician, linguist, writer, doctor of physics and mathematics (1964). He was born in Moscow. He was the author of numerous papers on mathematical logic and linguistics. In addition, he also penned a number of memoir essays. He led linguistic reform in Russian education.
Kansas Republican Party
The Kansas Republican Party is the state political party in Kansas of the United States Republican Party. The Kansas Republican Party was created in May 1859. It has been the main political party of Kansas ever since.
Polish literature
After failed anti-Russian uprising in 1863 Romanticism ended in Poland.
Frederico Mompou
His music
Mompou is best known as a miniaturist (someone who composes short pieces). His music often sounds as if is being improvised. When he wrote his Scènes d'enfants (1915-18) a French music critic, Émile Vuillermoz, said he would be the next great composer after Debussy. Although he did not become as famous as Debussy, his musical style shows the influence of French Impressionism and of Erik Satie. He liked using short, repeated note-patterns (ostinati), imitations of bells, and a kind of thoughtful, religious sound which is heard in his piece called "John of the Cross." His music often uses the rhythms and modes of Catalan folkmusic.
Medusa with the Head of Perseus
As survivor icon
During the #MeToo Movement, thousands of women wrote to Garbati saying what the statue meant to them. They said Medusa was a woman who had been raped who fought back.
Frederick Ward (bushranger)
Captured
While there have been stories that it was Ward's brother William who was killed, these stories are easily disproven.
Freerunning sleep
Scientific experiments
Sometimes people stay in a laboratory for a few days in very low light without any knowledge of the time. Such experiments show that adults, both older and younger, have a circadian cycle which is 24 hours and 11 minutes, on average.
Western Armenia
History
After the Armenian genocide the distinct Western Armenian dialect of the Armenian language (recognized as one of the major dialects of Armenian ) is spoken primarily in Istanbul, Lebanon, Egypt, other parts of Armenian diaspora, and formerly in eastern Turkey. It differs orthographically from Eastern Armenian, there are also phonological differences. In some parts of the diaspora, the Armenian schools, such as L'École Arménienne Sourp Hagop and the Armenian Sisters Academy instruct Western Armenian to the students, instead of Eastern Armenian, the official dialect of the Republic of Armenia.
These Days (Bon Jovi album)
These Days (also known as these days) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on 27 June, 1995 through Mercury Records. It was the first album following the dismissal of Alec John Such. It went to number 1 in Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It went to number 9 in the United States.
Planet Dinosaur
Spin-off
CBBC aired a spin-off, Planet Dinosaur Files, from 29 September, 2011, hosted by Jem Stansfield. Each episode compares three Mesozoic creatures and involves practical tests to replicate certain behaviours in an attempt to find out which creature holds a certain title, such as the "most powerful" theropod.
Dieter Kemper
Dieter Kemper (11 August 1937 – 11 October 2018) was a German cyclist. He competed professionally between 1961 and 1980. During his career he won one UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1975, seven European titles and 26 six-day road races. He finished three times in third place at world championships.
Irámuco
Irámuco is a community located 17 kilometres southwest of the city of Acámbaro in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Ann Bannon
Ann Weldy (born September 15, 1932), better known by her pen name Ann Bannon, is an American author. She is known for writing six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. The books talked about lesbian identity and she became known as the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction".
Cars 3
Plot
Lightning McQueen faces Jackson Storm, his high-tech rival who uses technology to win. He then makes friends with Cruz Ramirez, who needs training in racing, and the two learn many tricks from Smokey, who once trained Doc Hudson (Lightning's trainer in the original Cars movie). Lightning and Cruz then go to Florida to use what they learned to beat Storm, and in the end, both of them win.
Inari Okami
The traditional messengers of Inari are foxes.
Emilio Butragueño
International career statistics
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Jagiellon dynasty
Members of the dynasty were grand dukes of Lithuania 1377–1392 and 1440–1572, kings of Poland 1386–1572, kings of Hungary 1440–1444 and 1490–1526, and kings of Bohemia 1471–1526. The family was a branch of the Lithuanian Gediminaičių dynasty.
Jagiellon rulers
Jagiellons were hereditary rulers of Poland and Lithuania.
Horn (musical instrument)
The horn in the orchestra
A brass instrument gives one basic note. Changing the pressure with the lips produces a few other notes. Gradually horn players discovered that if they put their right hand in the bell they could change the basic note. This made it possible to play lots of different notes. When Mozart wrote his horn concertos he was writing for a hand horn. When a note is played using the hand in the bell it makes the note sound different: more muffled (a bit like speaking while covering your mouth with your hand). A Mozart horn concerto sounds very different when played on a modern horn.
Sidhu Moose Wala
Music career
He started his career as a songwriter for the song "License" by Ninja. He was known for his track "So High". In 2018, he released his first album PBX 1. His 2019 single "47" was ranked on the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, Moose Wala was named by The Guardian among 50 upcoming artists.
2007–08 UEFA Cup
First round
1 This match was played at Panthessaliko Stadium in Volos because AE Larissa's ground (Alkazar Stadium in Larissa) would not meet UEFA standards.
Kingdom of Portugal
History
During the 15th and 16th century, Portuguese exploration established a vast colonial empire. From 1580 to 1640, the Kingdom of Portugal was in personal union with Habsburg Spain. After the Portuguese Restoration War of 1640–1668, the kingdom passed to the House of Braganza and thereafter to the House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. From this time, the influence of Portugal declined, but it remained a major power due to its most valuable colony, Brazil. After the independence of Brazil, Portugal sought to establish itself in Africa, but was ultimately forced to halt its expansion due to the 1890 British Ultimatum, eventually leading to the collapse of the monarchy in the 5 October 1910 revolution and the establishment of the First Portuguese Republic.
Toyo Ito
He was born in Seoul. In 2013, Ito won the Pritzker Prize.
Canet d'Adri
Canet d'Adri is a municipality in the province of Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
Paul Frees
Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist, comedian and vaudevillian. He was best known for his work with MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons in the 1950s through the 1980s and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He became known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices." He is also known for being the original voice of Ludwig Von Drake from 1961 until his death in 1986.
Flag of Junagadh State
The flag of former Junagadh State is based on the Civil State Ensign of the Flag of Pakistan in the canton. According to traditional official description, The badge is a white disk with Green objects are described in the warrant as 'bezants' and 'mountains' in the centre of the disk, with the name of the state at the top, with the state badge located in the fly respectively.
History
Junagadh and Bantva-Manavadar was a Princely "Maritime State" which faced towards the Arabian Sea with Pakistan, in the Kathiawar Peninsula, the capital city was Junagarh. Ruled by Muslim rulers in British Raj till its illegal annexation into the Indian nation in 1948. It had an area of 8,904.6 Sq. Km² (3,438 Sq. Mi²) and was bigger than Puerto Rico but was smaller than the Cyprus.
In response to this Indian armed occupying forces acted very quickly and illegally entered the abandoned state by invading it inhabitants and assumed full control on the poor defenceless people, then arranged a Referendum by the GOI under their own organised auspices and even appointed its own administrator on the 9th November. The largely Hindu population were influenced and inevitably expressed an overwhelming wish to join the India. A mere 91 voters out of 201, 457 souls taking part wanted to remain and voted in favour of Pakistan. A surprising result, given that the state had a 40% Muslim population, which was considered a Dependency to the allied country by safeguarding their rights as a minority now as the claimed Disputed territory of Pakistan. Nawab Mahabat Khan III is much maligned by modern Indian "historians" and popular writers, largely because of his concern for wildlife and domesticated animals, their welfare and conservation. Much is written about a marriage party that he arranged for a favourite pet dog, but the fact of matter is that Saurashtra was blessed with its only tracts of forests land because of him, was never mentioned. He took major steps and dedication to protect the dwindling Gir forests, final abode of the remaining population of the Asiatic Lions. His interests in animal husbandry improved the breeding stock of Kathiwadi horses and Gir cattle, greatly improving the milk yields of the latter. His reign saw the opening of the massive Willingdon Dam, built the Bahadur Khanji Library and opened the Mahabat Khan free college. Upon his death in 1959 the Government of Pakistan installed and recognised the Junagadh House in Karachi, 9th October 1991. The Nawab of Junagadh Foundation Trust is also located there.
El Pepino tree frog
The adult male frog is 31.5–35.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 34.9 mm long. The skin on its back is green. The skin on its belly is white.
This frog moves at night. It lives in rainy forests and cloud forests on mountains. Scientists think this frog lays eggs in streams because other frogs in Hyloscritus lay eggs in streams.
These Days (Bon Jovi song)
"These Days" is a 1996 song by American hard rock band Bon Jovi. It was the fourth single from their sixth studio album of the same name. It went to number 7 in the United Kingdom, number 8 in Scotland, number 10 in Lithuania, number 22 in Ireland, number 25 in Iceland and number 31 in Switzerland. It did not chart in the United States.
Ensisheim
Ensisheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Humane Society of the United States
HSUS has been criticized for the way it spends its money.
Bristol, Tennessee
History
Before 1852, Bristol was owned by Reverend James King. His son-in-law, Mr. Joseph R. Anderson, bought 100 acres of the plantation, and named it Bristol after Bristol, Connecticut. The G.W. Blackley House, one of the oldest houses in Bristol, was constructed in 1869.
Hel (goddess)
Hel is a goddess of Norse mythology. Her father is Loki, and her mother is Angrboða, a giantess. Her siblings are Jörmungandr and Fenrir. Her task is to reign over the realm of the dead, also called Hel or Neifelheim, where the dead peacefully go to in the afterlife to wait until Ragnarok, the end of the gods and Asgard. The people who go there are those who did not die in battle, but instead died a peaceful death. She watches over those who die, but are not chosen by the Valkyries to go to Valhalla or chosen by Freyja to enter her household.
Yang Guifei
Princess and Taoist nun
In 733, fourteen-year-old Yang Yuhuan married Li Mao. Li Mao was the Prince of Shou and the son of Emperor Xuanzong and Consort Wu. Yang had the title of Princess of Shou. Consort Wu died in 737. So, Emperor Xuanzong was very sad by the death. Some time later, Princess Yang came into Xuanzong's favor. So, the Emperor decided to take her as his wife. But Princess Yang was already the wife of his son. So, Emperor Xuanzong arranged her to become a Taoist nun. The name Taizhen was given to her to avoid bad fame from the people. He planned of making her his wife. Yang stayed for a some time as a Taoist nun in the palace itself. Emperor Xuanzong married his son with a new bride. After that, he made Yang his imperial consort.
Ancient Egypt
Religion
The afterlife was also very important to Egyptians and they are known for mummifying their dead. These mummies are important to scientists today because they tell them about how the Egyptians lived.
All the gods were important but some were more important than others. An example of a goddess is Isis who is the goddess of the sky. Another example of a major god is Ra who was the god of the sun. The less well known god of The Nile and the crocodiles was named Sobek, which is a rather unusual name. Bastet was the goddess of cats, so the Ancient Egyptians mummified cats in honour of her, she was also the goddess of protection, joy and families.
Agriculture
Flax plants were grown for the fibers of their stems. These fibers were split along their length and spun into thread, which was used to weave sheets of linen and to make clothing. Papyrus growing on the banks of the Nile River was used to make paper. Vegetables and fruits were grown in garden plots, close to habitations and on higher ground, and had to be watered by hand. Vegetables included leeks, garlic, melons, squashes, pulses, lettuce, and other crops, in addition to grapes that were made into wine. p577; 630
Most animals were kept as food. Some animals were kept as pets. All kinds of animals were important to Egypt. Ancient Egyptians understood the animals. Animals they kept were goats, pigs, ducks, cows and geese.
Boeing 737 Next Generation
The Boeing 737 Next Generation, often called the 737NG, is a family of Boeing 737s. The 737-600, -700, -800 and -900 are all 737NG aircraft. It is the third family of Boeing 737. The family which came before it is the 737 Classic (−300/-400/-500) family. They have been made since 1991 by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. All 737s are twin-engined, narrow-body airliner s. This means that they all have two engines and only have one aisle between seats.
Further developments
On August 21, 2006, Sky News said that some 737NGs had faulty parts. The report said that Boeing had found some parts of the plane to be faulty, but they did not fix it. Boeing said that these statements were "without merit". This means that Boeing thinks Sky News is wrong. However, another show looked at 737NGs and also thought that some things were faulty.
737-700
The 737-700C is a version where the seats can be taken out to carry cargo instead. There is a big door on the left of the aircraft. The United States Navy got the first 737-700C. The Navy planes are called the C-40 Clipper.
737-900
The 737-900 is the longest 737 ever made. Alaska Airlines got the first -900 on May 15, 2001. The 737-900 has the same MTOW as the −800. It also does not carry any more fuel. The 737-900 can carry more luggage but cannot fly as far. This meant that it could not be a rival to the Airbus A321.
Orders and deliveries
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Anita
The name Anita is a very common female given name. The pronunciation of the name is [ uh-nee-tuh ]. In Spanish, the name is a version of Ana, the Spanish version of Anne. In Sanskrit, Anita means "full of grace". This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021). In 1977, a Hurricane Anita hit northeastern Mexico.
Battle of Nagashino
The Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い) was an armed conflict in 1575. The battle took place near Nagashino Castle (長篠城) on the plain of Shitaragahara (設楽原) in the Mikawa province (三河) of Japan.
Runestone
A Runestone or Rune stone is a large stone, with runes inscribed on it, dating from the early Middle Ages. Currently, about 6000 such stones are known to exist in Scandinavia. About half of them date from the tenth and eleventh century, and were found in Sweden. Most of them are like grave stones. They announce the life and death of a local person. About 10 percent of the known stones tell about the travels and deaths of persons abroad. Some of these texts are similar to what Scandinavians who travelled to Byzantium have written in Latin.
Ilkley
The town is has one railway station where trains run to Leeds and Bradford.
Balcony
There is a possibility to protect the balcony with a glazing. So called balcony glazings are important for certain areas that are heavily influenced by weather or noise. Assemblers, which create designs and static evaluation for the balcony glazing, are necessary to integrate the glazing conform with regulations and laws. Because if the glazing is assembled in the wrong way, parts could fall off and damage property or persons.
Flip-flop (electronics)
Flip-flops are mainly used as static RAM to store data in a computer. That data is represented in binary. Binary is represented in a 1 (“high state”) and 0 (“low state”). The structure of flip flops vary, but the general characteristic is that two branches affect each other's state by putting the current resulting state of one branch and using that as input for the next iteration of the other branch.
SR flip-flop
(A) S = 1, R = 0: set
The restricted combination (D) leads to an unstable state.
Victoria Woodhull
Woodhull twice went from rags to riches. Woodhull was married three times. During her third marraige, she changed her name to Victoria Woodhull Martin.
Movie
In March 2017, Amazon Studios announced production of a movie based on her life, produced by and starring Brie Larson as Victoria Woodhull.
Literary element
A literary element is a part of books and stories of narrative fiction. It is kind of verbal storytelling. It can be found in any written or spoken narrative. This is different than literary techniques. For example, plot, theme, and tone are literary elements. Figurative language, irony, or foreshadowing are literary techniques.
Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Andrew Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor. He is known for his conservative religious and political beliefs. He is the youngest of the Baldwin brothers. He was a housemated in the 2010 series of Big Brother (UK).
Don Rickles
Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and author, best known for his role as Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Toy Story 3. He was also known for being an on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and in The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
Golden, British Columbia
The current mayor of Golden is Christina Benty. The mayor in 2009, Aman Virk died suddenly of a surpise heart attack while vacationing in India.
Narrative
A narrative reports connected events, presented to the person reading or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words.
Zira, Punjab
Zira (تحصیل زرا) was one of the two tehsils of Punjab that was part of a controversy during the Partition of India. The other tehsil was Ferozpur. Sir Cyril Radcliffe created the boundary between India and Pakistan just days before the partition. A draft of the award was supposedly sent to Evan Jenkins by George Abell, Lord Mountbatten’s private secretary. Jenkings was the provincial governor of Punjab at the time. The draft had the description of the Punjab boundary. It showed that the tehdils of Ferozepur and Zira tehsils were to be a part of Pakistan.
Talyllyn Railway
Origins and construction: up to 1866
McConnel set about improving Bryn Eglwys to increase its output. In 1865 his company earmarked money for the construction of a narrow gauge railway connecting the quarry with the port of Aberdyfi. The standard gauge Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway was expanding rapidly from its base at Machynlleth however. In 1863 this railway had reached Tywyn, so McConnel decided to build his line from the quarry to Tywyn. This was the nearest point where slate could be transferred to the standard gauge railway. This was despite the line's initial isolation from the rest of the system because of difficulties in bridging the estuary of the Afon Dyfi to the south. An Act of Parliament (28 and 29 Vict, cap cccxv) allowing the company to operate passenger trains as a public railway was given Royal Assent on 5 July 186., The company appointed James Swinton Spooner as engineer for the construction. He laid out plans for a relatively straight line climbing steadily from Tywyn to the quarry and work quickly got underway. By September 1866 construction had advanced to the point where the Board of Trade inspector Captain Henry Tyler could make an initial inspection and report.
Less money is made: 1880s-1910
Starting in the 1880s, the "Grand Tour" was popular with people visiting the area, called tourists. People could take the Talyllyn and Corris trains and go through Tal-y-llyn Lake and Cadair Idris. Then, when they returned, they could use Cambrian Railways trains. The need for slate slowed down for the last twenty years of the 1880s. Many quarries fired people or closed. Even the quarries that dug up more slate due to other quarries closing often closed eventually. This made the need for the trains less, and made the railroad companies make less money.
Sandigliano
Sandigliano is a comune in the Province of Biella in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Armando Villanueva
Political career
Villanueva spent most of his early life in different prisons for his political activities. In 1940, along with other APRA political activists, Villanueva was exiled to Chile. Between the 1940s and 1960s Villanueva spent his time in between Peruvian prisons and deportations to Chile and Argentina. While living in Santiago he met and married Lucia Ortega. They had a daughter: Lucia del Pilar Villanueva Ortega.
In late 1961, before a general amnesty was granted to members of APRA, Villanueva entered Peru clandestinely. He needed to start organizing the multiple party cells in preparation for their return to full political activities. Afraid that he would be caught, he sought refuge at his cousin's house in San Isidro. Ana Maria Villanueva de Riva-Vercellotti was married to an Italian, and Armando was convinced that Peru's secret police would never find him there. He was able to stay there, unperturbed, till full amnesty was granted.
Beatboxing
Beatboxing is making percussive noises with the mouth, lips, tongue and voice. Performers try to imitate the sounds of a drum machine. They could also try to imitate turntablism and other instruments. It is used a lot in hip-hop music. This includes the use of humming, singing and tapping.
Brisbane
Sport
Brisbane has teams in all Australian sports competitions.
Hawaiian language
Related languages
There are related languages in the Marquesas, Raratonga, Samoa, some islands of what is now Fiji and New Zealand. Their languages have changed a lot over the last two thousand years or so. However, native speakers of all these languages can still understand each other.
Learning
Since the intent was to translate the Bible ("Paipala"), natives forgave some of the confusion created. They still learned how unintended "double entendres" could be funny in written form. When Hawaiian language newspapers started, native-speaking writers and editors were careful to avoid these (the type that was available to "set" did not include such "specialty" characters).
You're Cut Off!
Ep. 3: "Dress for Less"
First aired June 23, 2010
USB flash drive
Brand and product promotion
In other situations, they may be sold at less than wholesale price, or included as a bonus with another product.
Pros
Most modern operating systems can use a flash drive, without the need to install special software. To most operating systems, the flash drive looks like a hard drive. The operating system can use any file system. Some computers can start from a flash drive.
East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania
East Vandergrift is a borough in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 742 at the 2000 census.
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Religion
A 2012 survey showed these are the major religions in the oblast:
Horst Köppel
Playing career
Köppel scored 83 goals in the West German top-flight.
Urawa Red Diamonds
Köppel managed Urawa Red Diamonds from 1 February 1997 to 31 December 1997.
Hege Skjeie
Skjeie died of pancreatic cancer in Oslo on 5 October 2018 at the age of 63.
Ray Fisher (actor)
He is mainly known for playing Victor Stone / Cyborg in the DC Extended Universe such as in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and in the upcoming Justice League. Sometime in 2020, Fisher will be in a Cyborg movie.
Athletic Bilbao
Rivalries
The rivalry with FC Barcelona also is a result of the Franco-era. FC Barcelona, located in Catalunya, had the same issues with the central government such as the Basque Country. As a result of this circumstance, a rivalry between the Basque Country and Catalunya happened, which translated in football. As both Athletic Club and the FC Barcelona are the most important teams of their regions, they were the protagonists for this rivalry.
Sturgeon
Habitat
In the last century, this large fish was often regarded as a nuisance because it often became entangled in and caused commercial fishing nets to become ripped. Only much later did the sturgeon become prized for its meat, eggs (caviar) and oil. Gelatin from the inner lining of its air bladder was used to make isinglass--a substance used as a clarifying agent in jellies, glues and in the isinglass windows of carriages and early cars. Nowadays, the lake sturgeon's dark form can be sometimes be discerned in reedy shallows or near river mouths.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Biography
Aishwarya's native language is Tulu, and she also speaks English, Hindi, Marathi, and Tamil. As a child she studied classical music and dance. At an early age, she moved with her family to Bombay, where she studied at Arya Vidya Mandir high school in the suburbs of Santacruz. After graduating from Ruparel College (before that she studied at Jai Hind College for a year), she entered the university, where she began to study architecture, but then became a model. In 1994 she won the Miss World contest. After participating in the Pepsi advertising campaign, she starred for Vogue magazine.
DJ Rashad
Rashad Hanif Harden (October 9, 1979 – April 26, 2014), better known by his stage name DJ Rashad, was an American electronic musician, record producer and DJ. He started his career in the early 1990s. He was best known for his work in the footwork genre. He worked with Hyperdub Records and artists such as DJ Spinn. He was born in Hammond, Indiana and was raised in Calumet City, Illinois.