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Marc Laidlaw
Biography
On August 25, 2017, Laidlaw published Epistle 3. It tells his vision on the storyline of Half-Life 2: Episode Three he had during the time he worked at Valve.
Kansas
Rivers
About 75 mi of the Kansas's northeastern border is the Missouri River. The Kansas River is created by the junction of the Smoky Hill River and Republican River. This happens at Junction City. The Kansas River then joins the Missouri River at Kansas City. It goes 170 mi across the northeastern part of the state.
Marc Laidlaw
Books
Laidlaw had also wrote many short stories.
Kansas
Weather
Temperatures in many areas in the western half of Kansas reach 90 °F or hotter on most days of June, July, and August. Because of the high humidity, the heat index can be deadly, especially in Wichita, Hutchinson, Salina, Russell, Hays, and Great Bend. Temperatures are often high in Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal, but the heat index in those three cities is usually lower than the actual air temperature.
In summer, Kansas has experienced severe droughts. For example, in 1934, 1936, and 1939, Kansas had less than average rainfall and widespread dust storms as a part of the Dust Bowl.
Agriculture
In 2020, Kansas produced more grain sorghum and wheat than any other state in the United States. Kansas farmers produce about 400 million bushels of wheat per year. Kansas also ranks second in the United States in cropland and silage sorghum, third in cattle and raw meat, and fourth in sunflowers produced. Other agricultural products are cattle, sheep, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, cotton, hogs, corn, and salt.
Movies
The Plaza Cinema in Ottawa, Kansas was built on May 22, 1907. It is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest operating movie theater in the world.
October 24
2017 (Tuesday)
2015 (Saturday)
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Denman (horse)
Denman (17 April 2000 – 5 June 2018) was an Irish-bred National Hunt racehorse sired by Presenting. He was known as The Tank, Denman was widely known for his great rivalry with Kauto Star for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. This large horse with a front-running style won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2008.
Richard Burton
Early life
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He grew up in a working class and Welsh-speaking household. He was the twelfth of thirteen children of a Welsh coal miner. His mother died before he was two years old. He was raised by his much older sister and her husband. He took his surname from his guardian Philip Burton, a teacher who coached him until he won a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of eighteen.
Zonguldak
Zonguldak is a city in northern Turkey. The city is in the Karadeniz Region. In 2013, 125,914 people lived there.
Metaphysics
Identity and change
Identity is an important metaphysical topic. All the objects in the world seem to always be changing. Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, famously said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river is always flowing, so talking about the river as if it has remained the same river is impossible. Heraclitus concluded that identity was not real, only change was. Parmenides, another philosopher, thought the opposite: change is not real, and is an illusion. To him, everything has always been the same object. This is a view called monism.
Rational number
In mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be written as a fraction. The set of rational number is often represented by the symbol \mathbb{Q}, standing for "quotient" in English.
Iran at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Team
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Iran") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Ryuji Fujiyama
Club career statistics
Fujiyama plays for Consadole Sapporo.
Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)
History
A sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex on 20 November 1820. The crew arrived at Henderson on 20 December in three small whaleboats. They found the island's only known drinkable water-source – a brackish spring on the north shore, exposed at half tide – and ate fish, birds, eggs, crabs and peppergrass, but they had largely exhausted the available food within a week. On 27 December the three boats set sail for South America, leaving behind Thomas Chappel, Seth Weeks, and William Wright, who chose to stay. They survived until their rescue on 9 April 1821. In his account of the ordeal, Chappel reported having seen human skeletons in a cave. The report of sperm whale ramming the ship may have inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick
Tinus Bosselaar
Martinus "Tinus" Bosselaar (January 16, 1936 – June 6, 2018) was a Dutch footballer. He was active as a left winger. Bosselaar was born in Rotterdam. He played for the Netherlands national football team from 1955 to 1962. He also played for Sparta and Feyenoord.
Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)
Geography
Henderson Island is a raised coral atoll. With Pitcairn, Ducie and Oeno islands, forms the Pitcairn Island Group. The nearest major landmass is more than 5000 km away. This coral limestone island sits atop a conical (presumed volcanic) mound, rising from a depth of roughly 3500 m. Its surface is mostly reef-rubble and dissected limestone. Except for the north end, the island is encircled by steep limestone cliffs up to 15 m high.
Biological risk
Land bird populations appear to be relatively stable. The big problem is that when yachts land on the island without authorization, they introduce new predators, disease vectors or diseases. Introduction of the Eurasian black rat or the domestic cat would be likely to cause almost immediate extinction of the ground-dwelling Henderson crake and possibly other species. The endemic birds may have no immunity to the fatal avian pox which is transmitted by biting flies.
Taurine
Energy drinks
Synthetic taurine is used to make some "energy drinks". Many contain 1000 mg per serving, and some as much as 2000 mg.
Sonja Sutter
Sonja Sutter (17 January 1931 – 1 June 2017) was a German movie and television actress. She was one of the few actors that was allowed to appear in productions in both East and West Germany. She was born in Freiburg, Germany.
Children's Hearing
A child may be sent to a children's hearing because they have committed a crime, because they have been neglected or because they have not been not attending school. Often, a children's reporter will refer a child to a panel. These reporters gather information on a child from teachers, social workers, or police and decide whether or not to refer them to a panel. A children's reporter will be made aware of a vulnerable child by a referral. A referral is a notification from anyone (neighbour, teacher, police) about a child they think needs legal intervention.
Cool Silly
The name Cool Silly comes from the band's ideology that "a person can't be cool unless they're silly as well". The band insists that the personality of their music is not only "cool" but "silly" as well.
Food
People may buy food and take it home to cook it. They may buy food that is ready to eat from a street vendor or a restaurant.
Ivangorod
Ivangorod (Ивангород) is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. In 2010, 9,854 people lived there.
William L. Ogg
Ogg died on September 10, 2020 in Portsmouth at the age of 83.
Mickey Duff
He was born in Kraków to a Jewish family. His rabbi father fled with his family to the United Kingdom, escaping the Nazis, in the late 1930s. Later in life, Duff had Alzheimer's disease.
Frederick William IV of Prussia
Life
When he had dismissed the national assembly, Frederick William decided to have a constitution with a parliament with two chambers, an aristocratic upper house and an elected lower house. The lower house was elected by all taxpayers, but in a system that was based on the amount of taxes paid so that the rich had more influence than the poor. The constitution also reserved for the king the power to appoint all ministers and reestablished the conservative district assemblies and provincial diets. And it guaranteed that the bureaucracy and the military remained firmly in the hands of the king. This was a more liberal system than had existed in Prussia before 1848, but was still a conservative system of government in which the monarch, the aristocracy, and the military kept most of the power. This constitution lasted until the end of the Prussian kingdom in 1918.
After a stroke in 1857 the king was partially paralyzed and largely mentally weak, therefore his brother William became regent from 1858 until the king's death in 1861, then he became king himself as William I.
Lock (water transport)
How a lock works
The whole process of going through a lock may take about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on whether the boat has to wait. Some locks can take several boats at once, and the first one to enter may have to wait until other boats arrive.
List of Kenya ODI cricketers
This list includes all players from Kenya who have played at least one ODI match.
Nancy Wyman
Nancy S. Wyman (born April 21, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician. She was the 108th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, from 2011 to 2019.
Béla Turi-Kovács
He is the Father of the House (oldest sitting MP) since 2014 thus he opened the inaugural session of the National Assembly in 2014.
Perpetual motion
Perpetual motion refers to a movement that goes on forever once started without additional energy added. A machine that could be set in motion once would continue to move forever. Such a device or system would be against the law of conservation of energy. This law states that energy cannot be created, or destroyed, but one form of energy can be transformed into a different one.
Harjan Visscher
Harjan Visscher (born 26 February 1997) is a Dutch korfball player. He is a member of LDODK (since May 2022) and the Netherlands national korfball team.
Paradise Point
Paradise Point is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Paradise Point is a sandstone rock promontory with a natural arch.
Carla Gallo
Carla Paolina Gallo (born June 24, 1975) is an American actress. Gallo has had roles in the television series Undeclared, Carnivàle, Bones and Californication. She is known for appearing in Judd Apatow movies. Her career began in 1994. Gallo was born in New York City.
Transphobia
Transphobia is common all over the world. It is also found in social justice movements such as feminism. It is especially associated with radical feminism. 'Transmisogyny' is a word that refers to transphobia towards trans women. Julia Serano made it popular with her book Whipping Girl. Cissexism is sometimes used as a synonym for transphobia, and cisphobia is sometimes used as its antonym.
Misgendering and exclusion
Misgendering is when someone does not use the pronouns preferred by a transgender person, deliberately or by accident. Deadnaming is using a name that someone used before transitioning.
Violence against transgender people
In a 2012 study of transgender people in the United Kingdom, 14% had been sexually assaulted for being transgender. 6% had been raped because they were transgender. These are hate crimes. 38% had been sexually harassed because they were transgender.
Homelessness
In the National Transgender Discrimination Survey 19% had become homeless at some time in their lives because they were transgender.
Zafarana wind farm
Al-Zafarana farm for producing electricity from wind energy has 700 turbines, and it produces energy in different quantities. The construction of the Zaafarana station was funded with soft loans from Denmark, Spain, Japan, and Germany, and it was built at a cost of 110 million euros, and the station is entirely affiliated with the New and Renewable Energy Authority.
Richard Madden
He also starred as Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016), Prince Kit in Disney's live-action Cinderella (2015), John Reid in the biopic Rocketman (2019), and a lieutenant in the epic war movie 1917 (2019).
World Nuclear Industry Status Report
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report about the global challenges facing the nuclear power industry. The reports show that the share of nuclear-generated electricity in the overall global energy production has decreased in the 2000s. Nuclear power now accounts for about 13 percent of the world’s electricity generation and 5.5 percent of primary energy.
Bernie Morris
Playing career
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Morris played for several senior teams in Manitoba and Saskatchewan before joining the Victoria Aristocrats of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) in 1914. He moved over to Seattle the following season, and played eight seasons for Seattle, and was a member of the Stanley Cup champion 1917 team. He played in two other Finals, the ill-fated 1919 series, and the 1923 series. He had an outstanding 1917 series, scoring 14 goals in four games. In 1923, he joined the Calgary Tigers and played a season and a half before joining the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). From 1925 unil 1930, he finished his career with various teams in the minor California Pro League, the Can-Pro and International League.
Т-34
The T-34 was a Soviet tank introduced in 1940, famously deployed to the Red Army during World War II against Operation Barbarossa.
Natural rights and legal rights
The idea first came up in ancient times but was discussed most famously by English philosopher John Locke in the 1600's. Locke said that the most important natural rights are "Life, Liberty, and Property". In the United States Declaration of Independence, the natural rights mentioned are "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". The idea was also found in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Locke, Jefferson, and others think that the purpose of government is to protect peoples' natural rights. A social contract is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits. There have been many times in history that natural rights have been breached by both governments and individual people.
RPG Maker
German
It is the most successful RPG Maker game that has ever been developed in Germany. Many local magazines (Screenfun, Gamestar) wrote about this game. At first Vampires Dawn has been made for the computer like all RPG Maker games. After that Marlex developed another game about vampires for mobile phones. Currently an independent company called Clockstone is working on a release of Vampires Dawn for the Nintendo Dual Core.
This is a demonstration of a high level of the technical power of the RPG Maker 2000. Lachsen is known to be one of the best coders in the German scene.
French
Final Fantasy 0 by nhard
Hungary at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Team
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Hungary") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Skiers
Krisztina Lőrincz is an LW10.5 sit skier, competing in both cross country skiing and biathlon. In the lead up to Pyeongchang 2018, Lőrincz trained on rollers on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. She practiced shooting on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On long weekends, she would do other training focused on improving her body. She also worked with a sports psychologist. Lőrincz did this while working six to seven hours a day.
Confessions Part II
Music critics started rumors that Usher might become a father. However, he told the press that the inspiration for the song came from friends who went through similar experiences. Music critics gave mixed reviews on the song. It was released as the third single from the album. It reached number one on the Hot 100 for two weeks. It became Usher's third number one single.
Joseph Segel
Joseph Myron Segel (January 9, 1931 – December 21, 2019) was an American entrepreneur. He was the founder of over 20 American companies, most notably QVC, an American television network, and the Franklin Mint. He was seen as the inventor of television shopping channels.
Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit
Design
Each year, most of the trackside fencing, pedestrian overpasses, grandstands and other motorsport infrastructure must be erected for the race. This is done about one month before the Grand Prix weekend. They are all removed by six weeks after the event. Land around the circuit has restricted access during the grand prix weekend. This includes an aquatic centre, a golf course, a football stadium, some restaurants and rowing boathouses. Many nearby local residents are unhappy with the loss of park access. Some maintain a silent protest against the event. The event is popular with most people in Melbourne and Australia. They have a large European population and a general interest in motorsport. Middle Park (stadium), the home of South Melbourne FC was demolished in 1994 due to expansion at Albert Park.
Harry Reasoner
In 1946, Reasoner married Kathleen Carroll. They divorced in 1981. In 1988, he married Lois Harriett Weber. Their marriage would last until Reasoner's death in 1991. Reasoner had seven children.
Ebern
Creation legend
The legend is that one day two hunters were chasing a wild boar. It was finally hit, but with two spears, one from each of the hunters. They could not decide who threw the spear that caused the boar to die. The boar finally broke down exactly at the border between Seßlach and Ebern, with its head in Ebern, and its body in Seßlach, so they divided it. That is why the town Ebern is named after the boar, and the town's flag carries the head of the boar.
Pine hawk-moth
The pine hawk-moth (Sphinx pinastri) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Palearctic ecozone and sometimes the Nearctic ecozone. This species has been found in Scotland but is usually found in England. It is amongst the most common moths in many parts of Europe and the Middle East.
Irene Lentz
On November 15, 1962, Lentz jumped to her death out a hotel window near Los Angeles.
Ozai
Season One
Ozai first appears in the episode "Winter Solstice Part 2: Avatar Roku" in a vision where Avatar Roku explains to Aang that Ozai plans to use Sozin's Comet to increase his firebending ability. In the episode "The Storm" he is shown in a flashback of a story being told by Iroh explaining why Zuko is obsessed with capturing the Avatar. Zuko is challenged to a duel by Ozai and when Zuko refuses to fight, Ozai burns his son's face and banishes him. Zuko now tries to capture the Avatar to restore his honor and please his father. At the conclusion of the season 1 finale, "The Siege of the North, Part 2", Ozai sees Zuko as a failure and believes Iroh is now a traitor to the Fire Nation. Just before the episode ends, he is seen giving a task to Azula, though the details of this task are not revealed until season 2.
Personality
Ozai is revealed to be a cruel leader. He is easily angered and merciless. His cruel personality could be due to his failure in his relationship with his father, Azulon, who always favored his older brother, Iroh, over him. Ozai would prove to be a heartless father to his own son, Zuko, believing him a failure and even burning his face and banishing him. He even banished his own wife, though admitted later that he felt banishment was too light a punishment. He has a lust for power, a quality shared by his daughter Azula. He favors his daughter over Zuko, seeing her as a firebending prodigy. The expectations Ozai had for Azula caused her to become stressed and paranoid, eventually leading to her mental breakdown at the end of the series.
Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in the DC Comics as well as one of the most famous superheroes in DC. Batman is the secret identity of the very rich businessman Bruce Wayne. Batman is one of the most famous and popular superheroes. He first appeared in comic books and was later used in several radio series, movies, TV programs, books, and video games. There are also many toys and other merchandise dealing with Batman and other characters and items from the world he lives in. Batman lives in the fictional city of Gotham. Batman has a trusty sidekick Robin whose identity has been taken up by various heroes, usually his wards.
Kovland
Kovland is a locality in Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 486 people lived there.
Kaspar Hauser
Kaspar Hauser (born probably 30 April 1812; died 17 December  1833) was a child who lived in Germany. His early life is a mystery. Kaspar appeared in the street in 1828, not able to talk normally, and no one knew where he had come from.
Death
On 14 December 1833, Hauser was told to go to a garden where he would find out about the family he came from. When he got there he was attacked by a stranger who stabbed him in the chest. He managed to get home but died three days later. No one knew who had murdered him, although a strange note was found in a black purse saying that Kaspar would not be able to tell people who had killed him, but that he was from the Bavarian border and that his initials were MLÖ."  No one ever found out who the murderer was, and no one ever found out who Kaspar was.
Kharo
Kharo (تحصیل خرو) is a sub-district of the Leh District of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Habibullah Bahar College
It is a university college. This college offers honours and master's degree on 27 subjects under the National University. This college has an area of 1 acre. There are five multi-storeyed buildings, one twelve-storied building, two eight-storied building, in addition to various other buildings in the compound.
Co-curricular activities
Habibullah Bahar College has multiple organ for co curricular activity.
List of rivers of Nigeria
E
Ekulu River – Escravos River
J
Jama'are River
Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Brady (1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Monieux
Monieux is a commune of 250 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Albert Jorquera
Club career statistics
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Springdale, Washington
Springdale is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 285 at the 2010 census.
Lois Stratton
In 1983, she unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Spokane, Washington. She was member of the Spokane Tribe. Stratton was the first female enrolled tribal member in the Washington State Legislature.
Harry Hamlin
Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American actor. He is well known for his breakout role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy movie Clash of the Titans. He also played Michael Kuzack in L.A. Law.
Mycle Schneider
Publications
Schneider writes many publications on the safety and economic trends of the nuclear industry. He is co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power. His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government. Schneider and Antony Froggatt wrote the Systems for Change report for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2010. Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks. He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Fladungen
Fladungen is a town in Rhön-Grabfeld, in Bavaria, Germany. It is in the Rhön Mountains, 11 km northwest of Ostheim, 20 km west of Meiningen, and 33 km east of Fulda. It is the northernmost town in Bavaria, bordering Hesse to the northwest and Thuringia to the northeast.
Implied repeal
The doctrine is expressed in the Latin phrase leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant ("more recent laws overwrite earlier laws").
Morières-lès-Avignon
Morières-lès-Avignon is a commune of 6,535 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
The Byrds
The Byrds were a popular folk rock band, from California. Their members included Jim McGuinn (who later changed his name to Roger), David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke. Later band members included Gram Parsons, Clarence White, and Gene Parsons.
Collard greens
Collard greens are available year round. They are tastier and more nutritious in cold months, after the first frost.
Obscenity
Even though the word has been used with a sexual connotation for a long time, it can still have the meaning of "inspiring disgust". This is true in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war". It can simply be used to mean profanity, or it can mean anything that is taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting.
List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters
Main characters
Azula (Grey DeLisle) is the manipulative  princess of the Fire Nation. She is Zuko's younger sister and one of the major antagonists of the series. Azula is a Firebending prodigy and is one of the few living Firebenders capable of casting lightning. She uses fear to control her relatives or friends Mai and Ty Lee, reserving her family loyalty for her father alone.
Iroh (Mako in season one and two. Greg Baldwin in season three ) is a retired Fire Nation general, known as the Dragon of the West, and Prince Zuko's uncle and mentor. Iroh was the original heir to the Fire Nation throne until his brother usurped the throne after Fire Lord Azulon's death. On the surface, Iroh is a cheerful, kind, optimistically eccentric tea-loving old man, but he still remains a powerful warrior and a devoted surrogate parent to Zuko. Iroh is a Grand Master of the Order of the White Lotus, a secret society of men from all nations and helps retake Ba Sing Se during the series finale. Unlike most Firebenders, Iroh does not use anger as the source of his strength; instead he uses the original Firebending skills learned from the Dragons.
Supa Dupa Fly
Personnel
Credits for Supa Dupa Fly adapted from Allmusic.
Niğde
Niğde is a city in southern Turkey. The city is in the Central Anatolia Region. In 2013, 201,597 people lived there.
James Dean
Death
In 1955, Dean was killed in a road crash while driving his sports car to a race. He was buried in Fairmount, Indiana.
Zsa Zsa Gábor
In 1936 Gábor won the Miss Hungary competition. She was married nine times. In 1986 she married Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt. She had one child, Constance Francesca Hilton.
Wulingyuan
The site has over 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks, many over 200 m in height. There are many ravines and gorges with attractive streams, pools, lakes, rivers and waterfalls.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) was an English nobleman and poet.
Maceió
The city attracts many tourists and it enjoys an important location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mundaú Lake. Maceió has several urban beaches which are visited by many tourists, for example, the beaches named Pajuçara, Ponta Verde, Jatiúca and Cruz das Almas, famous for their natural beauty.
Main neighborhoods
The community of Pajussara is on the ocean coast of Maceió, with modern streets and avenues, many shops, clubs and hotels in front of the sea. Its beach is very attractive and visited by many tourists and natives. In Pajussara beach, a nice place to go is a natural swimming pool 1.500 meters east of the coast and that is placed on a sand bank of the Atlantic Ocean. The pool is formed only when tide is low and people can get there by boat.
Institut d'optique Graduate School
Research labs
Research activities at SupOptique relate to the following topics:
Ben 10
Ben 10 created by The Man of Action Studios. The first episode was shown on December 27, 2005-present on Cartoon Network. The main character, Ben Tennyson, is a ten-years old boy who can turn himself into many different aliens including 10 original aliens. Ben and his rival girl cousin named Gwen are on summer with their grandpa, Max Tennyson. The main villains are Vilgax, Kevin Levin and occasionally Charmcaster and the Forever Knights.
Alice B. Toklas
In September 1907, Toklas went to Paris and soon met Gertrude Stein. They became friends and lovers. They lived together in Paris and southern France until Stein died in 1946. Toklas managed their household. She took care of the details of everyday life. This let Stein work on her writing. In Paris they were able to hold weekly gatherings where Stein's art collection would be shown. Many important artists and writers came to these, such as Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.
Arjan de Zeeuw
Club career statistics
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Channel 5 (British TV channel)
Channel 5 is a free television channel in the United Kingdom. It started on 30 March 1997. It is owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd, and is operated by Paramount Networks UK and Australia. It is one of the main five channels in the United kingdom.
René Descartes
Descartes and philosophy (the study of abstract ideas)
In his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) Descartes used his scientific method to look at philosophical questions. He argued against skepticism (the view that the world was not real, and did not exist).
Australian desserts
Fairy Bread
Fairy bread is white bread spread with butter, and covered in Hundreds and Thousands. The bread is cut into triangles. Fairy bread is popular at children’s parties.
Corps of Topographical Engineers
Background
In 1829, John James Abert, became the head of the Topographical Bureau. In 1838, he used his political influence to persuade Congress to form an independent army unit separate from the Corps of Engineers called the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Informally they became known as “topogs".
Rachel Melhado
She played for University of Louisville, Toronto Lady Lynx, Seattle Sounders Women, Herforder SV, and FF USV Jena.
Vorpommern-Greifswald
Geography
The district has a number of lakes including:
Swadlincote
The population of Swadlincote is 33,000. It is made up of the settlements of Swadlincote, Church Gresley, Midway and Newhall.
History
Swadlincote was in the Domesday Book in 1086.
Tropical Storm Laura (2008)
Meteorological History
In late September, a large non-tropical system over the north-central Atlantic slowly moved westward away from the Azores. The low produced hurricane-force winds, but did not exhibit the characteristics of a tropical cyclone. The storm steadily weakened over the following days, but developed tropical characteristics as it moved over slightly warmer waters. By September 29, the low had developed sufficient convection and was declared Subtropical Storm Laura. Upon being upgraded, cold cloud tops began to wrap around the center of Laura and consolidate near the center of circulation. The convection organized around the center quickly and a satellite pass over the storm revealed that it could be intensifying. A later satellite pass disregarded the possibility of intensification as the intensity was confirmed to be at 60 mph (95 km/h).
Leyland, Lancashire
Industry
The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the 1950s and 1970s expanded and grew to own several British motor manufacturers, including British Motor Corporation, Standard-Triumph and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland company. The truck business still operates today as Leyland Trucks, and is owned by Paccar.
Education
To the east of Worden Park is Runshaw College. The college received the best Ofsted report, for any further education college in the United Kingdom in 2005.
Vladimír Holan
Vladimír Holan (September 16, 1905 – March 31, 1980) was a Czech poet.
Oppède
Oppède is a commune of 1,226 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Big Love
Big Love is an American television drama series that aired on HBO from March 2006 to March 2011. It is about an extreme Mormon family, in which the man has several wives. This practice is called polygamy.
Rosalina
Appearances
In the sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, a figure like her named the "Cosmic Guide" appears in the game when Mario dies multiple times in a level. Rosalina herself appears during the credits.
Rosalina appears in Super Mario 3D World, where is she an unlockable character. She can use the spin attack move that Mario can use in Super Mario Galaxy.
Rosalina will appear as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. She will fight with a Luma.
Bethpage
Bethpage is a hamlet on Long Island. It is in Nassau County, New York.
Bill Prady
Bill Prady (born June 7, 1960) is an American television writer and producer who has worked on American sitcoms and variety programs, including The Big Bang Theory.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall playes Vicky, Scarlett Johansson plays Cristina, Javier Bardem plays Juan, Penélope Cruz plays his angry, violent ex-wife Maria. The movie won a Golden Globe Award.
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal
Chittal died after a brief illness on 23 March 2014 at a private hospital in Mumbai. He was 85 years old. He was outlived by his wife and two sons.
Anna Dianova
Biography
Currently, Anna travels between New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. She is interested in Digital Art technology.
Pernes-les-Fontaines
Pernes-les-Fontaines is a commune of 10,170 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Stephen Foster
Foster wrote mainly in three musical genres: plantation songs ("Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races"), parlor songs ("Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair", "Beautiful Dreamer") and Civil War songs ("We Are Coming, Father Abraham").
Ancestry
Stephen's great-grandfather, Alexander Foster, migrated from Londonderry, Northern Ireland to the American colonies in 1725. He settled in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His son, James Foster, married Ann Barclay and moved to Virginia. Their son, James, Jr. served in the American Revolution, and sired Stephen's father William Barclay Foster in 1779.
Boyhood and youth
Family legends say Stephen played harmonies on a guitar at age two, and played a flageolet with perfection in a music store at age seven. At age nine, he sang and performed with other boys in their own neighborhood theatrical productions. African melodies were popular and Stephen sung these tunes with gusto.
Minstrel songs
The creation of the American minstrel show is credited to Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, an actor whose performance of the song "Jump Jim Crow" in the dress of an aged African American created an overnight sensation in Pittsburgh. The tune was written down and given a piano accompaniment by W. C. Peters, a music shop owner in Pittsburgh.
Death
Foster's songs had not been selling well in the months before the riots . His best days as a songwriter were over. His audience had divided itself along political, economic, and racial lines. On Saturday 9 January 1864, Foster felt sick and went to bed early. He was staying in a poor but decent hotel on the Bowery. On Sunday morning, he spoke to a maid at his door, then turned and fell, breaking a piece of crockery that gashed his neck. His comrade George Cooper (who lived only four blocks away) was sent for. He found Foster naked in a pool of blood. The songwriter whispered, "I'm done for" and asked for a drink.
The cause of his death is not known. It was probably a combination of alcoholism, poor diet, and loss of blood, a heart attack, or a stroke. Jane Foster and Stephen's brothers Henry and Morrison claimed the body and took it Pennsylvania for burial. The funeral service was held in Trinity Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, on 21 January. Foster's coffin was met at the Allegheny Cemetery by a brass band playing his tunes. He was buried near his father and mother.
Fish
Fish (plural: fish or fishes) are a group of animals with bones which live in water and respire (get oxygen) from their gills.
The English word "fish" does not fit neatly into cladistics, which is the scientific way to put living things into groups. So scientists call it a paraphyletic word. This means that the animals called "fish" in English do not fit into just one phylum. Some fish are more closely related to land animals than they are to other fish. For example, lobe-finned fish were the first animals with bones to come live on land, and all land animals are their descendants. Lobe-finned fish are more closely related to humans than to ray-finned fish.
Fish scales
All fish are covered with overlapping scales, and each major group of fish has its own special type of scale. Teleosts ('modern' fish) have what are called leptoid scales. These grow in concentric circles and overlap in a head to tail direction like roof tiles. Sharks and other chondrichthyes have placoid scales made of denticles, like small versions of their teeth. These also overlap in a head to tail direction, producing a tough outer layer. Shark skin is available for purchase as shagreen, a leather which as original is smooth in one direction, and rough in the other direction. It may be polished for use, but is always rough in texture and resistant to slipping.
Swimming
Fish swim by exerting force against the surrounding water. There are exceptions, but this is usually done by the fish contracting muscles on either side of its body. This starts waves of flexion which travel the length of the body from nose to tail, generally getting larger as they go along.
Anna Moffo
Life and Career
She pursued a successful international career as well, singing in Monte Carlo, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, etc. She remained very popular in Italy and performed there often and hosted her own television program The Anna Moffo Show from 1960 to 1973. She also appeared in movie versions of opera such as La traviata (1968) and Lucia di Lammermoor (1971), directed by her husband Mario Lanfranchi, as well as a few non-operatic movies.
Federal Council (Switzerland)
Origins of the institution
The Federal Council was set up by the 1848 Federal Constitution as the "supreme executive and directorial authority of the Confederation".
Secrecy
The meetings of the Federal Council and the result of the votes taken are not open to the public, and the records remain sealed for 50 years. This has lately been the subject of some criticism. In particular, the parties at the ends of the political spectrum argue that this secrecy is contrary to the principle of transparency. However, the Council has always said that secrecy is necessary to reach consensus and to preserve the collegiality and political independence of the individual Councillors.
Immunity
According to statements to the media by a Federal Chancellory official, in none of the few cases of accusations against a Federal Councillor has the permission to prosecute ever been granted. Such cases usually involved statements considered offensive by members of the public. However, one unnamed Councillor involved in a traffic accident immediately prior to his date of resignation was reported to have voluntarily waived his immunity, and Councillor Elisabeth Kopp decided to resign upon facing an inquiry over allegations of secrecy violations.
Assessment and calls for change
Historically, the collegial government of Switzerland has been assessed both internationally and nationally as exceptionally competent and stable. The Federal Council as a whole (although not individual members) has consistently maintained public approval and confidence rates in excess of sixty percent, possibly also because under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters can vent their displeasure with government decisions when deciding individual issues at the ballot box.
Playmobil
Playmobil is a toy brand which is owned by the Brandstätter Group (Geobra Brandstätter GmbH & Co KG), headquartered in Zirndorf, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1974 by German inventor Hans Beck.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor. He is known for killing U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning.
Homo antecessor
Homo antecessor is an extinct human species dating from 1.2 million to 770,000 years ago. It is is one of the earliest known human varieties in Europe.
The best-preserved fossil is a maxilla (upper jaw bone). It belonged to a 10-year-old individual found in Atapuerca, Spain. There were numerous examples of cuts on bones. The flesh had been cut from the bones. Maybe H. antecessor could have been cannibals.
Skandar Keynes
Personal Life
Keynes was born in London. He was the son of Zelfa Hourani and author Randal Keynes. He has an older sister, Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), who also starred in many productions of the BBC Radio 4. His grandparents by his mother’s side were Furugh Afnan and Cecil Fadlo Hourani. Cecil Fadlo Hourani used to be an author and also advisor to Habib Bourguiba, the late Tunisian president. Cecil Hourani was also the brother of Albert Hourani, a historian who studied about the Middle East. The Hourani family were immigrants to England. On his father’s side, Keynes is the grandson of Richard Keynes, the nephew of the Cambridge professor Simon Keynes, and the great-great-nephew of John Maynard Keynes, an economist. His great-great-great-grandfather was the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, who invented the theory of evolution. Keynes' great-grandparents were Edgar Adroam. 1st Barpm Adoroam and Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian, both receivers of the Nobel Prize. Keynes had stated that he is an atheist. Keynes attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005. He went to the all-boys City of London School, and took his GCSEs in May and June 2008. He studied biology, chemistry, maths, and history at A-level. In October 2010 he began his degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is currently a movie critic, writing for The Citizen, the City of London School weekly school newspaper. He is also a fan of English football club Arsenal.
Sheila Varian
Varian died in Arroyo Grande, California from ovarian cancer on March 6, 2016. She was aged 79.
Cassaigne
Cassaigne is a commune in the Gers department. It is in southwestern France.
John Fitchett
Biography
John Fitchett was born on 21 September 1776. He became an orphan very early. He studied law and became an attorney. He lived in Warrington, England. In 1796 he published his first work named Bewsey, a Poem. John Fitchett never married. He died on 20 October 1838.
Garrotte
Execution device
The garrotte (laqueus) is known to have been used in the first century BC in Rome. It is referred to in accounts of the Second Catiline Conspiracy, where conspirators were strangled with a laqueus. The implement is shown in some early reliefs, e.g., Répertoire de Reliefs grecs et romains, tome I, p. 341 (1919). It was also used in the Middle Ages in Spain and Portugal. It was employed during the conquista of the Americas, notably in the execution of the Inca emperor Atahualpa.
Iambic pentameter
The two words seem difficult, because the words are Greek. Pentameter means "consisting of five measures" and iambic "consisting of iambs".
Use in poetry
William Shakespeare's dramas are written chiefly in blank verse. The first line of the famous Hamlet's monologue is an example:
Elizabeth Spencer (writer)
Spencer died on December 22, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the age of 98.
National Stock Exchange of India
Innovations
The NSE has remained in the lead of modernization of India's capital and financial markets, and its pioneering efforts include:
Acantholipan
Acantholipan was a large, armored, quadrupedal (it walked on four legs), tank-like dinosaur from Mexico.
Roger Ebert
Working with Gene Siskel
The duo was known for their "thumbs up/thumbs down" review summaries. When Siskel died in 1999, the producers retitled the show Roger Ebert & the Movies with rotating co-hosts. In September 2000, fellow Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper became the permanent co-host and the show was renamed At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.
Beta blocker
Beta blockers is the name for a class of drugs that inhibit the hormone adrenalin and the neurotransmitter noradrenalin. Adrenalin is mainly released in stress situations; blocking its pathway will lead to lowering the heart rate, and blood pressure.
Unionist Party (Punjab)
Under the leadership of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, the party won the general elections of 1936 and formed a coalition government along with the Indian National Congress and Sikh Akali Dal from 1937 onwards. However, in October 1937, the Muslim members in the party were also allowed to merge with the All India Muslim League by an agreement reached between Sir Sikandar and Mr Muhammad Ali Jinnah at Lucknow. This famous agreement was called the Jinnah-Sikandar Pact.
Hanaskog
Hanaskog is a locality in Östra Göinge Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,251 people lived there.
Joe Balsis
Joe Balsis was an American professional pool player. He was born in Minnersville, Pennsylvania. He was Armed Services Champion in 1944. Between 1965 and 1975 Balsis was in the finals of the U.S. Open five times. He won in 1968 and 1974. He won the Billiard Room Proprietor's Association tournament in 1965 and the World All-Around championship in Johnston City, Illinois in 1966. He is a member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Behavior
Western diamondback rattlesnakes are one of the most aggressive rattlesnakes in North America, and usually coils and rattles when threatened. In the winters they hibernate in caves and burrows with other snake species. They are very poor climbers.
Ken Naganuma
Biography
In March 1954, Naganuma was selected the Japan national team for 1954 World Cup qualification. At this qualification, on March 7, he debuted and scored a goal against South Korea. He also played at 1954 Asian Games. In 1956, He was selected Japan for 1956 Summer Olympics. However, he could not play in the match for physical condition. He played 4 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 1961.
Dorothy Wise
She became a member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1981. She was the first woman to be made a member.
Yohei Toyoda
Biography
Toyoda was born in Komatsu on April 11, 1985. After graduating from Seiryo High School, he joined J1 League club Nagoya Grampus Eight in 2004. He played for Nagoya in 3 seasons. In 2007, he moved to J2 League club Montedio Yamagata. Montedio won the 2nd place in 2008 and was promoted to J1 first time in the club history. In 2009, he moved to J1 club Kyoto Sanga FC. However he could only score 1 goal in the 2009 season. In 2010, he moved to J2 club Sagan Tosu. In 2011, he scored 23 goals and became a J2 top scorer. Sagan also won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1 first time in the club history. In 2018, he moved to K League 1 club Ulsan Hyundai on loan. In June 2018, he returned to Sagan.
Rudolph Wanderone
His first nickname was "Brooklyn Fats" and then "New York Fats." Wanderone named himself "Minnesota Fats" after the character in the movie The Hustler. Wanderone was the host of a national television show, "Celebrity Billiards," during the 1960s. He is a member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.
Puget
Puget is a commune of 589 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Otitis
Scientists have found signs of ear infections in the bones of humans who lived 15,000 years ago.
Haoreima
Haoreima (ꯍꯥꯎꯔꯩꯃ) or Haoleima (ꯍꯥꯎꯂꯩꯃ) (literally, "tribal lady" ) is a goddess in Meitei mythology and religion of Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur). She was a woman from the hills. She was killed while arranging to meet her lover. She turned into a tortured spirit. She is regarded as an incarnation of Goddess Panthoibi. She is also identified with goddess Nongthang Leima.