cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Violet Brown
Death
Brown died on 15 September 2017 at a hospital in Montego Bay, Saint James Parish, Jamaica of heart failure caused by dehydration at the age of 117. She was the 4th oldest recorded person in history at her death, behind Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss and Marie-Louise Meilleur.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
In 1982, a new constitution was made. MBasogo was given the newly created post of president. He was re-elected in 1989, 1996 and 2002. In 1989 he was the only candidate, in the 1996 and 2002, international observers said the election results were false.
Junagadh State
History
On 15 August 1947 upon the independence of India, the Nawab of Junagarh decided to merge it into newly formed Pakistan. The Indian government maintained the people of Junagadh should decide. Pakistan waited until 13 September to respond saying they accepted Junagarh's acceptance of Pakistani rule. This caused a general revolt among the Hindu majority of Junagadh as well as protest movements in the surrounding states that had acceded to join India. The Nawab then occupied territory in several of those states claiming he had rule over them. When the Indian government sent a small force to restore order, the Nawab fled to Pakistan. His Dewan (Prime minister) agreed to rule by India. This resulted in the integration of Junagadh into India.
Thomas Spurgeon
Thomas Spurgeon (20 September 1856–October 1917) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher. He was the pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle. He was one of two non-identical twin sons of the famous Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892).
Lowndes County, Alabama
Lowndes County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,311. The county seat is Hayneville. It is named in honor of William Lowndes, a member of the United States Congress from South Carolina.
Viktor Bryukhanov
Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Брюханов; 1 December 1935 – 13 October 2021) was an Uzbek politician and engineer. He was the manager of construction of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the director of the plant from 1970 to 1986. Bryukhanov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Robert Braithwaite (engineer)
Braithwaite died in the early hours of 7 March 2019, aged 75.
São Tomé and Príncipe
History
The first successful Portuguese settlement in the archipelago was in 1493. The volcanic soil of the islands proved to be good for sugar crops. Hard work was needed to grow and harvest the sugar crops. Slaves were brought from Portugal to do the work. Because other countries began producing more sugar, the islands were not able to make money from it. Instead it became a stopping place for the slave trade.
Volcanology
A volcanologist is a person who studies volcanoes and their eruptions. Volcanologists visit volcanoes often, especially active ones. This makes it a dangerous science. They analyze physical and chemical variations related to historical and current activity of the volcanoes.
Procedural animation
Procedural animation vs. traditional animation
Procedural animation is a rule-base approach to creating animations. These rules are typically some form of mathematical or statistical functions which tell the animation software how an object is to be animated. In order for the geometry to be animated, these functions typically require some form of time-based variable as its input. Therefore, one can apply a chain of logical rules and algorithms to create animations without manually specify any key poses.
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
History
The Department of ICS was first established as an independent department back in 1968, and in 2002 it was officially declared as a school.
Acorn Stores
Acorn Stores were a chain of clothing shops in the United States. The company closed in until 2008. The stores were originally part of the Michael L. Wallace Inc, until they were bought by Christopher & Banks in November 2004.
Thayer, Kansas
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 497 people, 197 households, and 136 families living in Thayer.
Stone Age
Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into three sections: Paleolithic ("old stone"), Mesolithic ("middle stone"), and Neolithic ("new stone"). During the Neolithic period, people invented farming and pottery, and started to care for animals like cows and pigs.
Province of Vicenza
The Province of Vicenza (Provincia di Vicenza) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Vicenza.
Largest municipalities
The following shows the 12 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.
Pink tide
Second pink tide
A second pink tide has been seen in the late 2010s to early 2020s as there was a rise in left-wing politicians being elected presidents. It was first seen in Mexico in 2018 and Argentina in 2019. Other left-wing victories were later seen in Bolivia in 2020, along with Peru in 2021, Honduras in 2021, Chile in 2021, Colombia in 2022, and Brazil in 2022.
Meetei
Meetei may refer to:
Wallace County, Kansas
Presidential elections
Wallace has been one of the most Republican counties in Kansas. Only two Democratic Presidential nominees have ever won Wallace County – Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Since 1944 only three Democratic Presidential candidates have won 31 percent of Wallace County's vote – Harry S. Truman in 1948, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. In the 2016 election Hillary Clinton won less than six percent of the county's vote. The last five Republican nominees have all won at least 84 percent.
Revolutions of 1989
Outside Europe
Outside Europe, communist and socialist governments in Africa, Asia and the Middle East also lost power in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, as did the short-lived People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada in 1983 (after the Americans invaded Grenada).
Le Bourget
Le Bourget is a commune. It is found in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in France.
Jean-Claude Paye (OECD)
Jean-Claude Paye (born 26 August 1934) is a French politician. He was the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1984 to 1996.
Digital light processing
Digital light processing (DLP) projector is a kind of video projector. It uses small mirrors that reflect light. The mirrors can be moved to either reflect light or not reflect light. The mirrors move very fast. When the mirror reflects light more often, it makes a lighter color. When the mirror reflects light less often, it makes a darker color. DLP projectors can be bright and have a high resolution. This can make the picture look better. DLP projectors can be small so they can be moved more easily. Some DLP projectors are small enough to fit in a smartphone. Big DLP projectors are often used in movie theaters.
Celestial mechanics
History
About the same time, ancient Egyptians found the length of the solar year to be 365.25 days. In Europe, this figure was in used until the Gregorian calendar was introduced in the 16th century.
Kadyrzhan Batyrov
He fled from Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine in 2010. Batyrov received a life sentence for his alleged role in ethnic conflicts in southern Kyrgyzstan in summer 2010.
Archosauromorph
Archosauromorpha is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs than to lepidosaurs.
Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune of the Aube département in the north-central part of France.
Celestial mechanics
History
In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler observed the motion of planets in the sky. He created three laws of planetary motion that described their orbits.
Guiana Shield
Mountains
The Guiana Highlands is formed by small plateaus and mountain ranges. The western part of the Highlands, mainly in Venezuela, is where are the higher mountains. From west to east, the mountains ranges and plateaus are:
Climate
As a whole, the Guiana Shield region has a tropical climate characterized by a relatively high mean annual temperature over 25 °C at sea level. Because of the Guiana Shield is just north of the equator, its climate varies primarily according to elevation and the effects of the trade winds. The trade winds blow from the east and northeast, off of the Atlantic Ocean onto northeastern South America.
Aplastodiscus eugenioi
There are fewer of this frog than there were. This is because human beings change the places where the frog lives to make room for farms, towns, and places for animals to eat grass. Chemicals made to kill pests, fertilizers, pollution, and diseases can also kill this frog.
List of United Arab Emirates Twenty20 International cricketers
List of players
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Hernán Gaviria
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Industrial park
An industrial park is an area made for industrial development. It is similar to a business park or an office park. An industrial park can have factories, oil refineries, and warehouses. They can also have other industrial buildings.
Utah
Economy
In eastern Utah petroleum making is a big industry. Near Salt Lake City, petroleum refining is done by a number of oil companies. In central Utah, coal mining accounts for much of the mining activity.
Ethiopia
History
The Gondarian dynasty, which since the 16th century had become the centre of Royal pomp and ceremony of Abyssinia, finally lost its influence as a result of the emergence of powerful regional lords, following the murder of Iyasu I, also known as Iyasu the Great. The decline in the prestige of the dynasty led to the semi-anarchic era of Zemene Mesafint("Era of the Princes"), in which rival warlords fought for power and the Yejju Oromo እንደራሴ enderases ("regents") had effective control. The emperors were considered to be figureheads. Until a young man named Kassa Haile Giorgis also known as Emperor Tewodros brought end to Zemene Mesafint by defeating all his rivals and took the throne in 1855. The Tigrayans made only a brief return to the throne in the person of Yohannes IV in 1872, whose death in 1889 resulted in the power base shifting back to the dominant Amharic-speaking elite prior to Yejju Oromo and Tigrayan rule. His successor Menelik II an Emperor of Amhara origin seized power. League of Nations in 1935 reported that after the invasion of Menelik's forces into non Abyssinian-proper lands of Somalis, Harari, Southern Oromo, Sidama, Shanqella etc., the inhabitants were enslaved and heavily taxed by the gebbar-feudal system leading to depopulation.
Fermilab
History
Weston, Illinois was a community next to Batavia. It was a subdivision of pre-fabricated homes started in the early 1960s. Sales were very slow, so the land developers tried to attract Fermilab to be a new employer on the edge of the new town. However, it turned out that the amount of land needed would swallow up the entire town. So, the town voted to sell all of the land, including the houses that had been built to Fermilab. The town then dissolved.
Before the new buildings could be finished, the scientists moved into the Weston houses and also moved all of the farm houses on Fermilab to that location for use as office space. They renamed Weston, "Fermilab Village." It still houses visiting scientists.
Ethiopia
History
The Kingdom of Aksum, the first known kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia, rose during the first century AD. The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time. It was in the early 4th century that a Syro-Greek castaway, Frumentius, was taken to the court and over time changed King Ezana to Christianity, making Christianity Ethiopia's religion. For this, he received the title "Abba Selama". At different times, including a time in the 6th century, Axum ruled most of modern-day Yemen just across the Red Sea.
During the rule of Emperor Lebna Dengel, Ethiopia made its first good contact with a European country, Portugal in 1520. When the Empire was attacked by Somali General and Imam, Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Portugal responded to Lebna Dengel's request for help with 400 musketeers, helping his son Gelawdewos beat al-Ghazi and remake his rule. However, Jesuit missionaries over time offended the Orthodox faith of the local Ethiopians, and in the mid-17th century Emperor Fasilidos got rid of these missionaries. At the same time, the Oromo people began to question the Ethiopian Christian authorities in the Abyssinian territories, and wanted to keep their own religion.
Ethiopians
Ethiopia's population is highly diverse with different languages and ethnic groups. Most of its people speak a Semitic or Cushitic language which are both part of the Afroasiatic language family, while others speak Nilo-Saharan languages. The Oromo, Amhara, Somali and Tigrayans make up more than three-quarters (75%) of the population, but there are more than 80 different ethnic groups within Ethiopia. Some of these have as few as 10,000 members.
Regions, zones, and districts
There are nine regions, sixty-eight zones and two chartered cities. Ethiopia is further divided into 550 woredas and several special woredas.
The Polar Express (movie)
The Polar Express is a 2004 American computer animated musical fantasy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis. It was produced by Tom Hanks. It is based on the book, The Polar Express. It stars Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Eddie Deezen, Jimmy Bennett, Steven Tyler, Nona Gaye, and Michael Jeter. It was released on November 10, 2004.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, known as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, was a German politician. He was born in Munich, Bavaria, on 5 December 1971.
Princess Mononoke
Story
Ashitaka rescues the injured men. They reach the village Tatara, where they live. Eboshi Gozen organized there. People made iron weapons there. She wanted to get the Forest of Shishigami, turn all Gods in the forest out, and make it a men-centered place.
Stock market
A stock market is an institution where humans and computers buy and sell shares of companies.
List of colonial heads of Sierra Leone
Governors (1792-1827)
On 1 January 1808, Sierra Leone (including the coastal area) becomes a Crown colony of the United Kingdom, and the Sierra Leone Company stopped being in charge.
Samar Badawi
Campaign for women to drive
In 2011 and 2012, Samar was part of the Women to drive movement. She drove regularly, and she helped other women drivers with police and court cases. In November 2011, Samar and Manal al-Sharif applied for driver's licenses. Their applications were refused. They filed charges with the Grievances Board against the Saudi Arabian General Directorate of Traffic.
List of governors of the Bahamas
Pirate Rule (1706–1718)
From 1706 until July 26 1718, the Bahamas were ruled by the anarchic Privateer's Republic, including:
Drue Wawrzynski
She played for California State University, Long Beach's women's volleyball team.
Stranger in a Strange Land (Iron Maiden song)
Track listing
'7" single
Simu Liu
Simu Liu (born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor and stuntman. He is best known for playing Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Story
An African expedition led by James Parker is searching for the elephant burial grounds. Parker's daughter Jane is captured by Tarzan. At first, Jane is terrified. As time passes, she accepts him. She wants him to come to London with her, but Tarzan returns to the jungle. The expedition is captured by pygmies. Jane sends Tarzan's ape friend Cheeta for help. Tarzan comes to the rescue. Jane's father dies. Jane stays in the jungle with Tarzan.
Lord Voldemort
Character development
Voldemort and his followers, the Death Eaters believe wizards should rule the world and conquer non-magical people instead of hiding from them. He also thinks that "pure-blood wizards", wizards who do not have any non-magical parents or ancestors, are superior to other people.
Korean Canadian
Koreans Today
Korean Canadians are usually one of three types: first generation immigrants, the “1.5” generation who began their schooling in Korea but moved to Canada in their childhood or teen years, and the second generation born in Canada. Each group is very unique, but Korean Canadians are very loyal to their Korean culture. They do this by local culture activities, university and alumni groups, seniors’ groups, language schools and business contacts. Vancouver and Toronto have Korean-language newspapers, and Korean television and radio programs. Korean dance, music art, as well as martial arts and Korean cuisine, are very popular in Canada.
Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo
Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is a Brazilian police officer. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
List of cities in Liberia
• Buchanan
• Harbel
• Monrovia (capital)
• Robertsport
• Tuzon
Peter Simonischek
Simonischek died on 29 May 2023 from a short-illness in Vienna, Austria at the age of 76.
List of cities in Liberia
• Zorzor
Tipton, Kansas
History
Tipton was first called Pittsburg. It was created as Pittsburg in 1872. The people realized that another Pittsburg existed in Kansas, so they changed the name to Tipton. It was named after Tipton, Iowa, the former home of a local resident.
Siedah Garrett
Early life
Garrett was born Debra Christine in Los Angeles.
Maryam Durani
Awards
In 2012, Time Magazine chose Maryam as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". According to Time, "As the owner and operator of a radio station (Merman Radio) that focuses on women's issues and as a member of the Kandahar provincial council, Durani stands up for the region's women with remarkable bravery."
Sea of Galilee
History and scripture
The Sea of Galilee is on the ancient Via Maris road which linked Egypt with the northern empires. The Greeks, Hasmoneans, and Romans started towns and settlements here: Gadara, Hippos, Tiberias and others. The 1st century historian Flavius Josephus wrote of a large fishing industry at this time, with 230 boats regularly working in the lake.
Modern times
A key attraction is the site where the Kinneret's water flows into the Jordan River. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world come to be (re-)baptized there every year.
I've Got a Secret
The show was canceled in 1967 and then brought back for the 1972-1973 season and again from June 15 to July 6, 1976, for a summer run. Another production ran on the Oxygen cable channel in a daily version, airing from 2000 through 2003. GSN ran a revival from April 17 to June 9, 2006 with an all-gay panel. In October 2006, GSN decided not to renew the show for a second season, although reruns remained on its schedule for some time afterward.
Theme music
Tim Mosher and Stoker are credited with the 2000 theme, while Alan Ett and Scott Liggett contributed an up jazz theme for Bil Dwyer's 2006 version of the show for GSN.
Egon Günther
His movie Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. In 1985, his movie Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Later years
In the late 1970s, the Maple Leafs were a good team, with players such as centre Darryl Sittler (who scored a record 10 points in one game) and Swedish defence Borje Salming (one of the first Europeans to play in the NHL). However, there were 18 NHL teams by then, so it was hard to come first. Wendel Clark was a strong player in the 1980s; he became the team's all-time top scorer. Mats Sundin was another Swedish star in the 1990s and 2000s. They also had some good goaltenders around this time: Curtis Joseph, then Ed Belfour.
References
Notes
Walloon Brabant
Geography
Also the geographical centre of Belgium is in the province, in the municipality of Walhain.
Lady beetle
Lady beetles are the Coccinellidae, a family of beetles. All species are protected by noxious fluids based on cyanide, and most have warning colouration, such as red with black spots or black stripes.
Franklin County, Georgia
Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, 23,424 people lived there. The county seat is Carnesville.
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are an ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Michael Gielen
Gielen died on 8 March 2019 in Mondsee, Austria from pneumonia, aged 91.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Gentileschi was raped by an older member of the workshop, Agostino Tassi, in 1611. Her father sued him in 1612. After the trial, Gentileschi married Pietro Antonio di Vicenzo Stiattesi and moved to Florence, Italy. They had five children. In 1620 Gentileschi and her family moved back to Rome. Around 1623 Gentileschi and her husband separated. Gentileschi moved to Naples in 1630 and visited London, England in 1639. Gentileschi died in Naples, but the exact date is unknown. It was some time after 1654.
Legacy
Gentileschi was not included in the history of 17th-century art after her death. Many of her paintings were thought to have been made by her father or students of Caravaggio. Scholars started paying attention to her work in the early 1900's. In the 1970s she became a champion of second wave feminist art historians. Artist Judy Chicago included a place setting for Gentileschi in the 1979 art installation The Dinner Party.
Hogwarts
Gryffindor
The Gryffindor Common Room (the place where the Gryffindor students spend their time and do their homework) is in one of the castle's towers, at the seventh floor. At the door, there is the Fat Lady, or the Lady who is fat. She lets the students in only after they give her the password (which changes from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year). The Fat Lady wears a blue dress. In the room there is a place with fire, many chairs and tables, and two pair of stairs which take the girls and boys to their sleeping rooms.
List of well-known Gryffindors
• Peter Pettigrew
• Alicia Spinnet
List of well-known Ravenclaws
• Cho Chang
Slytherin
The Slytherin Common Room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts and is placed under The Black Lake, in the school grounds.
The house is usually in competition with the Gryffindor house, as they "don't like each other on principle".
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 movie)
Tarzan of the Apes is a 1918 silent movie. It was directed by Scott Sidney. It stars Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey. The movie was the first Tarzan movie ever made. It is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's book Tarzan of the Apes. The movie adapts only the first part of the book. The rest of the book became the sequel, The Romance of Tarzan. The movie is considered the most faithful to the book of all the movie adaptations.
Hogwarts
List of well-known Slytherins
• Tom Riddle / Voldemort
Barney & Friends
The last episode aired on November 2, 2010. Reruns aired on Sprout from 2005 until 2015, and have aired since December 17, 2018 under Sprout's new name Universal Kids. It also aired internationally and on Peacock for "I Love You, You Hate Me on October 12, 2022, and a controversial reboot animated series will be premiered on 2024.
Harry Reid International Airport
The airport is named after U.S. Senator Harry Reid. From 1968 until 2021, the airport was called McCarran International Airport, and before 1968 it was named McCarran Field, after U.S Senator Pat McCarran.
The Bahamas
Geography and climate
In 1864 the Governor of the Bahamas reported that there were 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 rocks in the colony.
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was a poet in the Latin language. His poems are about gods and their mythology. Virgil's most famous epic poem is called the Aeneid.
Morrison Hotel
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band The Doors. It was released on 9 February, 1970 through Elektra Records and went to number 4 in the United States, number 6 in the Netherlands and number 12 in the United Kingdom.
Bullfrog
A female bullfrog can lay up to 20,000 eggs. Bullfrog tadpoles take up to a year to become a young frog. Males will stay behind and take care of the tadpoles. Males are territorial and will attack any animal, including their own kind, if they come near them. Bullfrogs can reduce the mosquito population. They do this by eating most of the mosquito's larvae. Bullfrogs do not move during the day, except if there is food nearby or when threatened.
Bullfrog legs are eaten by humans. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) rates the bullfrog as "Least Concern", which means that they are not an endangered species. However, they are dying because of habitat loss, water pollution, pesticides, and over harvesting.
Taxonomy
Bullfrogs were first described in 1802 by George Shaw. Shaw described the bullfrog in his book General Zoology or Systematic Natural History. A bullfrogs call is a slow deep g-r-r-u-u-u-u-m. Young bullfrogs will make a high pitch chirp before going in the water. Bullfrogs have toxic skin, though it is not harmful to humans. The toxins make it less likely that other animals will eat them.
Adults
The American bullfrog is the largest of the "true frogs" family. Bullfrogs can reach a length of 6 to 8 in. Females are larger than males. Bullfrogs can weigh up to 1.7 lb. Bullfrogs are either brown or green. They also have darker spots on their back. Bullfrogs have webbed feet for swimming. They can leap up to 6 ft. Male bullfrogs can be heard roaring when mating with a female. Males also have bigger tympanic membranes which cover their ears. Bullfrogs have brown or gold eyes. They also have broad flat heads and bodies. The mouth of a bullfrog are small and have tiny teeth inside.
Human use
Bullfrogs are a source of food for Southern United States and the Midwestern United States. People hunt bullfrogs at night near rivers. The bullfrogs' legs are cooked, while their backs are fried. In China, bullfrogs are sold alive for eating. They are then killed and cooked with vegetables. In the state of California, people must have a license to catch bullfrogs for food. In schools, bullfrogs are dissected in biology classes. Usually, this is done in middle school. The dissecting is a method for teaching students the anatomy of a bullfrog. Bullfrogs are also kept as pets. They are kept in aquariums or a terrarium. A terrarium is a tank that is decorated with plants and soil on one side. On the other side, there is water. A bullfrog would need one place for land and another for water.
Pete McCloskey
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey, Jr. (born September 29, 1927) is an American politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing California from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon.
Keizer, Oregon
Keizer is a city in Oregon in the United States.
Todd Gitlin
On December 31, 2021, Gitlin went into cardiac arrest at his home in Hillside, New York. He was hospitalized in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he tested positive for COVID-19. He died there on February 5, 2022, one month after his 79th birthday.
Barbarastollen underground archive
The Barbarastollen tunnel is the only cultural property in Germany under the protection of the Hague Convention of UNESCO. It is named after Saint Barbara. The entire complex is buried under 400 meters of rock. It is intended to survive a nuclear war. It is estimated that its contents should survive for at least 500 years without any serious damage.
Bruce Lansbury
William Bruce Mageean Lansbury (12 January 1930 – 13 February 2017) was an English-American television producer. His career lasted over 30 years, starting from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was known for producing many famous television shows such as The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Knight Rider and Murder, She Wrote.
Career
His career began in 1953, but became frequent in the 1960s. He retired officially in 1996, but returned to write a screenplay for a TV movie about Murder, She Wrote in 2003.
Death
Lansbury died on 13 February 2017 at his home in La Quinta, California from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.
Jenny Slate
She is also known for her season as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2010 and for her appearances in shows such as House of Lies, Married, Parks and Recreation, Bob's Burgers, Hello Ladies, Kroll Show, and Girls and Star vs. the forces of evil as Pony Head.
Binyavanga Wainaina
Personal life
In 2014 he tweeted that he is gay. In 2016, he was diagnosed with HIV.
H. C. Stackpole III
Henry Charles "Hank" Stackpole III (May 7, 1935 – May 29, 2020) was an American lieutenant general in the Marine Corps. His awards include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and Defense Superior Service Medal. He entered the Marine Corps in 1957. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Olene S. Walker
Walker died from a stroke on November 28, 2015 at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, aged 85.
Grosse Ile (Michigan)
Grosse Ile is the largest island in the Detroit River. It is the most populated island in the state of Michigan. It is on the American side of the river and is part of Wayne County.
Fashion doll
Fashion dolls are a type of doll that can be created by various popular toy companies like Mattel and Hasbro. Popular fashion dolls include Barbie dolls, Ever After High dolls (which includes Apple White and Raven Queen) and Disney Princess dolls.
Jejemon
The word Jejemon came from people who like to write "hehehe" as "jejeje" because "jeje" is Spanish for hehe due to the sound J makes in Spanish. "-Mon" is added at the end. This is from the Japanese anime Pokémon. "-Mon" means "monster." They are "jeje-monsters."
People
People who are Jejemons are described based on levels. These are "mild," "moderate", "severe", or "terminal."
Clem Eischen
Eischen died on December 7, 2020 in Oregon at the age of 93.
Melissa Bell (singer)
Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell (5 March 1964 – 28 August 2017) was an English singer. From 1993 to 1996, Bell was one of the lead singers of British R&B act Soul II Soul, with whom she released a single titled "Wish". She also created her own band called Soul Explosion, which started in 1999. She also worked with Liza Minnelli, Whitney Houston, and Stevie Wonder.
Career
In June 2010, she released her autobiography Heart and Soul: The Emotional Autobiography of Melissa Bell.
Dinosaur
Dinosaur features
Dinosaurs were, at the start, small and bipedal: they walked on their hind legs. They laid eggs in nests, and included both carnivores and herbivores. We now know that birds are their living descendents, and more about that later.
London Bach Society
The London Bach Society was started in 1946 by Paul Steinitz because he wanted to perform Bach in a style which was like the way it sounded in Bach's time. Bach lived from 1685 to 1750. By the 20th century a lot of things had changed in music. Choirs and orchestras were much bigger and instruments were made differently. Steinitz wanted to get back to the sort of sound that Bach would have known. He started a choir called the London Bach Society so that they could give concerts of Bach's music, making it sound much clearer than it did with huge, romantic choirs.
Dinosaur
Extinction
Did any terrestrial dinosaurs survive the great extinction event? Several fossils have been found in the Hell Creek Formation about 40,000 years later than the K/T extinction event. Many scientists dismiss the "Paleocene dinosaurs" as re-worked, that is, washed out of their original places and then re-buried in much later sediments. An associated skeleton (e.g. more than one bone from the same individual) found above the K/T boundary would be convincing, but no such finds have been reported.
Dinosaurs in fiction
Books about dinosaurs have been popular, especially with children, but adults have also enjoyed these kinds of books. In Edwardian times, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel about a plateau filled with dinosaurs which he called The Lost World.
Nick Jr. (German TV channel)
Nick Jr. is a German television channel. It broadcasts for children in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The channel was launched on September 12, 2005. It was first launched as a programming block on Nickelodeon. The channel began broadcasts as a separate channel from March 31, 2009. Before the channel launched, some of its programs were broadcast on Super RTL and Disney Channel.
Heihe
Heihe is a city in China. It is in Heilongjiang province, on the border with Russia's Amur Oblast.
Manila hostage crisis
Since some Hong Kong people blamed the Philippine Government for not handling the incident properly, the relationship between Hong Kong and the Philippines had become much worse.
Murderer
Rolando del Rosario Mendoza was formerly a policeman. In 2008, he was fired because of complaints that he forced an arrested chef to admit drug trafficking that he had not done.
Hong Kong
Many websites of Hong Kong turned their logos gray. "A Symphony of Lights", a firework and light show held every evening at 8:00 pm in Hong Kong was suspended.
Thirteen Colonies
New England had small farms and focused on fishing, forestry (trees and lumber), shipping, and small industry to make money.
After the French and Indian War, Great Britain made new taxes and other laws that angered some people in the colonies. That led to a war between Great Britain and its former colonies: the American Revolutionary War.
NPY Women's Council
Region
The NPY Women Council's covers about 350,000 square kilometres of the remote area where the borders of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory meet. The region has a total population of about 6000. The council serves women belonging to the three indigenous groups in this region: the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, who are closely related to one another. The area covered includes:
Recognition
The NPY Women's Council has achieved recognition for its work. Awards include:
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Af Ornäs died on November 28, 2015 in Gothenburg from natural causes, aged 94.
Pernilla Wahlgren
Her parents are actors Christina Schollin and Hans Wahlgren.
Pororo the Little Penguin
Characters
Petty - A little female penguin. She is good at sports although bad at cooking.
Propædia
The Propædia is the first of three parts of the Encyclopædia Britannica, the other two being the 12-volume Micropædia and the 17-volume Macropædia. The Propædia is supposed to be a book that organizes the things in the Britannica, and a guideline to the index of the other two parts. It was introduced in 1974 with the 15th edition of the encyclopaedia to replace the index, but when many people complained, Britannica put the index back in two books in 1985. The core of the Propædia is its Outline of Knowledge, which is supposed to give people a classification of what we know, but the Propædia also has some parts listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the Britannica.
Aoi festival
Saiō
The Saiō was a young female member of the imperial family. She was the high priestess of the Kamo Shrines. During festivals, the Saio performed rituals at the shrines. In modern times, an unmarried woman from Kyoto is chosen each year to be Saio. She must go through purification ceremonies before the festival. She is taken through the procession on a palanquin.
Charles Byron Renfrew
Renfrew served as the Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California after being appointed by President Richard Nixon. He served as judge from 1971 through 1980. He then served as United States Deputy Attorney General from 1980 to 1981 under the Jimmy Carter administration.
Jack Neo
Neo received the Best Director Award at the Silver Screen Awards in 1998. He was also awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award in the following year for his contributions to Singapore's media industry. In 2004, Neo became the first moviemaker in Singapore to be honoured with the Public Service Award. He also received the Cultural Medallion on 21 October 2005 together with musician Dick Lee.
Neo married Irene Kng in 1988 and they have four children. It is his second marriage. He is a Christian and worships at City Harvest Church.
Evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is a way to think about how and why evolution changed our bodies over time to make us sick or healthy. People use Darwinian medicine to study biomolecules. They think about how these small molecules in our bodies work together through something called physiological mechanisms. Physiological mechanisms are things our bodies do that make us feel either sick or healthy. People who study Darwinian medicine use these ideas to think about how those mechanisms have changed over time. Understanding these changes can be important to know why some people are more likely to be sick than others.
Ship's cat
Cats naturally attack and kill these rodents. Cats also have a natural ability to get used to new surroundings, so they could get used to serving on ships. They also offered companionship (friendship), a sense of home and security, and lifted sailors' spirits. This was helpful to sailors who could be away from home for long periods, especially in times of war.
Morelos Municipality, Coahuila
In 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1,516.
Ship's cat
Mrs. Chippy
Mrs. Chippy was the ship's cat aboard Endurance, the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. (The Expedition's goal was to cross the Antarctic by land.) After about a month, the crew realized that "Mrs. Chippy" was actually a male cat. However, by then, everyone was used to the name "Mrs. Chippy," and kept using it.
Walliswil
Walliswil can mean:
Municipalities of Campeche
The state of Campeche in Mexico is made up of 11 municipalities (municipios).
Macropædia
Since it was created, it has not stayed the same. New articles are always being added, older articles can be split, shortened, merged, or even deleted.
Wayne Gretzky
Career
He set 61 NHL records and was nicknamed the Great for his achievements. For his outstanding contribution to the development of world hockey in 1994, Wayne Gretsky was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy. The athlete is also recognized as the best NHL hockey player of all time, immortalized in the "Hockey Hall of Fame". Number 99, under which he played, is assigned to him in all NHL teams.
Stillbirth
United Kingdom
In the UK, any baby that leaves its mother's body after 24 weeks and does not show any signs of life is called a stillbirth. The mother or father must tell the government about the baby. A Stillbirth Certificate is given to the family.
Nina Wengst
Nina Wengst (born 20 March 1979) is a German water polo player. She was part of the German women's national water polo team at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships, 2007 World Aquatics Championships, and 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
Altero Matteoli
Matteoli was a member of Forza Italia party. He served as a member of Senate of the Republic. From June 2001 to May 2006, he was the Minister of Environment. He served as Minister of Infrastructures and Transport from May 2008 to November 2011. He was also the mayor of Orbetello from 29 May 2006 to 16 May 2011.
Micropædia
With some exceptions, the 65,000 articles of the Micropædia have no bibliographies and no named contributors. It is supposed to be for fast-checking to find out the main things about the topic, and as a guide to the 700 longer articles of the Macropædia. People use it to know just a little, but the Macropaedia is used to know in detail.
Robbie Cooke
Cooke played as a forward in the Football League. He played for Peterborough United and Brentford.
Hot stick
Hot sticks are usually used when the installation being worked on is live, or "hot". Most electrical work on High Voltage networks is done whilst the power is still active, making equipment like this a very important piece for safety purposes. Working "hot" saves electricity users from being disconnected while routine maintenance is taking place.
Georgi Slavkov
Slavkov scored 61 goals in 112 games for Trakia between 1976 and 1982.
Arseny Roginsky
Arseny Borisovich Roginsky (Арсе́ний Бори́сович Роги́нский; 30 March 1946 – 18 December 2017) was a Soviet dissident and Russian historian. He was born in Velsk, a town in the Arkhangelsk Region (Northwest Russia).
During perestroika Roginsky was one of the founders of Memorial, an international historical and civil rights society. that came into existence in the late 1980s. He served as its head from 1998 until his death. A first attempt was made by the authorities to close Memorial in 2014. If Memorial was closed, commented Roginsky at the time, then the organisation's many branches would have to re-register and thereafter restore contacts across the country.
Dan van Husen
Van Husen died on 31 May 2020 in Somerset, England of COVID-19, aged 75.
Irwin, Idaho
Irwin is a city in Idaho in the United States.
Northern shoveler
The northern shoveler (Anas clypeata) is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and is a rare vagrant to Australia. In North America, it breeds along the southern edge of Hudson Bay and west of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon.
Bernard Francis Law
Law was the Archbishop of Boston from 1984 until his resignation on December 13, 2002. He resigned in response to the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal after church documents showed he had known of sexual abuse committed by dozens of Catholic priests within his archdiocese.
Evan H. Turner
Life
From 1955 to 1959, he was assistant director of the Wadsworth Atheneum. From 1959 to 1964, he was director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. From 1964 to 1977, he was director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From 1978 to 1983, he was director of the Ackland Art Museum. From 1983 to 1993, he was director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He won a 1991 Cleveland Arts Prize.
Patuakhali Government College
Academic departments
• Department of Accounting
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Chemistry
Stiff-tailed duck
These are freshwater diving ducks. Their legs are set far back, making them awkward on land, so they rarely leave the water.
Björn Koreman
Björn Koreman (born 6 March 1991) is a Dutch long-distance runner competing in the marathon. His trainer is Bram Wassenaar.
Hart Memorial Trophy
The Hart Trophy is given to the most valuable player of the National Hockey League every year. It was given to the NHL by Dr. David Hart, father of NHL coach and manager Cecil Hart. It was first awarded in 1924.
Joan Dougherty
Dougherty died on December 18, 2020 in Montreal from COVID-19 at the age of 93.
Roy Dotrice
Dotrice was born in Guernsey on 26 May 1923. One of his daughters, Michele, was famous for playing the role of Betty, the wife of Frank Spencer in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
Dotrice died on 16 October 2017 in London at the age of 94.
GMA Network (company)
GMA Network, Inc., commonly known as GMA, is a Philippine media company based in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting, with subsidiaries dealing in various media related businesses. The majority of its profits are derived from publicity and marketing incomes associated to television distribution. GMA is the largest media company in the Philippines in terms of market capitalization, net income, revenue, reach, audience share and number of stations.
Jaffa (disambigation)
Jaffa can stand for different concepts:
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American satire author. He is well known for writing the award-winning book Fight Club. It was later made into a movie directed by David Fincher. He lives in the state of Washington.
Jane Pierce
Marriage
How she met Pierce, a young lawyer with political ambitions, is unknown, but her brother-in-law Alpheus S. Packard was one of Pierce's instructors at Bowdoin. Franklin, almost 30, married Jane, 28, on November 19, 1834, at the bride's maternal grandparents' home in Amherst, New Hampshire. The Reverend Silas Aiken, Jane's brother-in-law, conducted the small ceremony. The couple honeymooned six days at the boardinghouse of Sophia Southurt near Washington, D.C.. Franklin Pierce was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives by the time they married and became a U.S. Senator in 1837. Jane hated life in Washington, D.C., and encouraged her husband to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in 1842. Service in the Mexican-American War brought him the rank of Brigadier General and local fame as a hero. He returned home safely, and for four more years the Pierces lived quietly at Concord, New Hampshire, in the happiest period of their lives, where they watched their son Benjamin "Benny" grow up.
Ara Parseghian
Ara Raoul Parseghian (Արա Ռաուլ Բարսեղյան; May 21, 1923 – August 2, 2017) was an American-Armenian football player and coach. Parseghian guided the University of Notre Dame to NCAA Division I national championships in 1966 and 1973. He was thought of being one of the best coaches in Notre Dame history.
Julia Grant
Engagement to Grant
After her schooling, she and Ulysses S. Grant got engaged in 1844. At that time, Ulysses S. Grant was a Lieutenant in the US Army. In the meanwhile, Mexican War began. Ulysses went to war. He returned from the war after many years. They married in 1848.
First Lady
She entered the White House in 1869 to begin, in her words, "the happiest period" of her life. With Cabinet wives as her allies, she entertained extensively and lavishly. The social highlight of the Grant years was the White House wedding of their daughter in 1874. Contemporaries noted her finery, jewels, and silks and laces. After four years of war, an assassination, and an impeachment trial, Washington was ready for a little levity, and Julia obliged. She offered a full array of events and became a popular hostess. She planned lavish state dinners, where guests enjoyed expensive wines and liquors.
Cleveland State University
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Vikings. They have 17 varsity teams and they compete in the Horizon League and the Eastern Wrestling League for wrestling.
Jeff Bingaman
On February 18, 2011, he announced that he would not run for reelection in 2012.
Amando Samo
Samo died on August 7, 2021 at the age of 72.
Motorcycle taxi
A motorcycle taxi are a form of transport in some countries. The motorcycle taxi carries one passenger, who sits behind the motorcycle driver. In some countries two passengers will sit behind the driver.
Alexander Acosta
United States Secretary of Labor (since 2017)
After the unsuccessful nomination of Andrew Puzder to be United States Secretary of Labor, President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to fill the position on February 16, 2017.
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor. He has played in movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Smoke, and Thelma and Louise.
Lito Cruz
Cruz created and produced Sueños de milongueros in 2009, a musical written in homage to authors Jorge Luis Borges and Alejandro Dolina, and cartoonist/satirist Roberto Fontanarrosa.
Albert Brewer
Brewer was born in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. He studied at the University of Alabama. He was married to Martha Farmer from 1950 until her death in 2006. Brewer died on January 2, 2017 in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, aged 88.