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Perkele () is a swear word in Finnish that means "evil spirit" or a version of "god damn". It is popular, and is most likely the most known Finnish curse word in the world. Origins. The name is Indo-European. Perkwunos is the reconstructed name of the god of thunder. Other gods said to have the same origin include Perkūnas (Lithuania), Pērkons (Latvia), Percunis (Prussia), Piarun (Belarus), Peko or Pekolasõ (Estonia), Parjanya (India), Fairguneis (Gothic), and Perun or Piorun (Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia). Some researchers think "Perkele" is an original name of the thunder god Ukko, the chief god of the Finnish pagan pantheon. There are related words in other Finnic languages. In Estonian, "põrgu" means hell and in Karelian, "perkeleh" means an evil spirit. Use. It has been used as a curse as a cry for the god for strength. It still is a common curse word in colloquial Finnish. Finnish people use the word to be more serious and powerful than less powerful curses. When the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland held a contest to nominate the "most energizing" word in the Finnish language, one of the suggestions was Perkele because "it is the curse word that gave the most strength for the reconstruction of Finland after the wars." Introduction of Christianity. As Finland was Christianized, the old Finnish deities were said to be demons, so "Devil" was translated to "Perkele" for the Finnish translation of the Bible. Some later translations use "paholainen" (the evil one) instead.
There is a body of water between the Japanese islands, Russia, North and South Korea. The countries affected have not been able to agree on a common name for this body of water. So far, most countries called it "Sea of Japan". North and South Korea do not want this name, they suggested to call it "East Sea", or "East Sea of Korea". In 1992, both Koreas raised concerns about the name, at the Sixth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. The Japanese government says that only the name "Sea of Japan" (日本海) should be used. South Korea supports the alternative name "East Sea" (Korean: 동해; Hanja: 東海). North Korea supports the name "East Sea of Korea" (Korean: 조선동해; Hanja: 朝鮮東海). Currently, most international maps and documents use either the name Sea of Japan (or a translation) by itself, or include both the name Sea of Japan and East Sea. Very often, the name East Sea is listed in parentheses or otherwise marked as an alternative. The International Hydrographic Organization is responsible for naming bodies of water around the world. In 2012, it decided it was still unable to change the 1953 version of its publication S-23 – Limits of Oceans and Seas, which includes only the single name "Sea of Japan", to include "East Sea" together with "Sea of Japan". The countries have given different arguments, for their naming proposition, but each name has its problems: The International Hydrographic organisation made a resolution in 1974. In this resolution, it stated that in the case that the countries cannot agree on a common name for a body of water, all names should be accepted. However, Japan argues that the resolution only applies to the bays and straits which are shared by multiple countries, and in case of high seas such as the Sea of Japan, it is not applicable. Japan also cites the United Nations’ policy for using the Sea of Japan as an official name for their reasoning.
Jennifer Crystal Foley (born Jennifer Amie Crystal; January 26, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Christie Parker in "Once and Again" and Rachel Taub on "House". Personal life. Foley was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Janice (née Goldfinger) and actor-comedian Billy Crystal. She has an older sister, producer Lindsay Crystal. In 1994, Foley graduated from Northwestern University. She married her college boyfriend, Michael Foley, in September 2000. They have two daughters, born in 2003 and 2006.
In graph theory, a directed graph (or digraph) is a graph which has directed edges. This means one end of the edge is different from the other end. Directed edges can be thought of as arrows, or as edges which can only be travelled in one direction. Degree. For a normal graph, the degree of a vertex formula_1 is the number of edges touching formula_1. For a digraph, there are two more definitions. The "indegree" of formula_1 is the number of edges going into formula_1, and the "outdegree" of formula_1 is the number of edges going out of formula_1.
The 2012–13 North American drought was caused by less than normal snowfall the previous winter. Also, La Niña-related heat waves were taking place in the Midwestern and Western United States. This was in association with drought conditions in these areas. The drought was an extension of the 2010-13 Southern United States drought. The drought was worse than the 1988–89 North American drought. The 2012-13 drought covered more areas in the United States and Canada than the 1988-89 drought. In July 2012, the drought covered more than 81% in area. It was comparable to the droughts of the 1930s and 1950s. Drought continued in parts of North America through 2013. Beginning in March 2013, rainfall lessened drought in the Midwest, the southern Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains.
Bijan (also Bizhan or Bejan; Persian : بیژن) is a Persian given name meaning "Hero". This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Wybren Ridley van Haga (born 31 January 1967 in The Hague) is a Dutch independent politician, formerly a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Forum for Democracy (FVD). Van Haga studied engineering at Delft University of Technology and worked at Shell in Gabon, Scotland, and Oman. He was director of a homecare organization called KennemerZorg and exploits real estate. He was a member of the municipal council of Haarlem from 2010 to 2017. Since 31 October 2017, he has been an MP, until September 2019 for the VVD, until December 2020 as an independent MP, and until May 2021 for the FVD. Since 13 May 2021, he has been parliamentary group leader of the Group Van Haga, which consists of himself and two other former FVD MPs. In July 2021, he founded the BVNL (Belang voor Nederland) party.
The Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社, "Nikkatsu Kabushiki-gaisha") is a Japanese entertainment company known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio, founded in 1912 during the silent film era. The name Nikkatsu amalgamates the words Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Motion Pictures". Overview. Nikkatsu's history dates back as early as 1912 when 4 companies merged to form Nippon Katsudo Shashin Corporation, the first film conglomerate in the region to produce, distribute and exhibit theatrical films. In 1952 Chofu Studio was built in Tokyo as the largest modern film studio in the Asia Pacific Region at the time; the studio even had a permanent set of Ginza city. It quickly became the cornerstone of the company's Golden Era, together with its string of attractive stars who were then all exclusive to Nikkatsu; the legendary superstar Yujiro Ishihara, handsome young actors under the "Nikkatsu New Face" banner including Akira Kobayashi and Joe Shishido; actresses such as Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ruriko Asaoka; and directors Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura. Nikkatsu was the leading studio in Japan, enjoying box office mega-hits with its action films starring Ishihara ("Crazed Fruit"), teenage love stories starring Yoshinaga ("Cupola, Where the Furnaces Grow"), and "Branded to Kill" starring Joe Shishido, works with a continuing international appeal to this day - the films were so successful that Ishihara and Yoshinaga are still regarded as icons of the Showa period. When cinema attendance began to drop, Japanese studios slashed their annual film production. Nikkatsu, however, took a unique turn in 1971 when it launched the "Nikkatsu Roman Porn" brand, namely films for the adult audience. As one director recalls, "I had total creative freedom, as long as I kept some nudity in the film", the brand enabled Nikkatsu to be the only major studio in Japan at
Lung adenocarcinoma is one kind of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Technicians tell lung adenocarcinoma from other cancers by looking at cells under a microscope. Lung adenocarcinoma starts in glandular cells, which make for example mucus. Lung adenocarcinoma usually grows in smaller airways, such as alveoli, the pockets at the ends of the lung. Lung adenocarcinoma is usually located more along the outer edges of the lungs. Lung adenocarcinoma tends to grow more slowly than other lung cancers.
The World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's, also known as Epic McD, is a McDonald's restaurant that opened in 1976 in Orlando, Florida. It is the biggest McDonald's in the world by square footage because its floor area is . There are much more menus and options there than normal McDonald's restaurants. A McDonald's in Kaohsiung, Taiwan is thought to be taller. Menu. There is the normal McDonald's menu. There are also more than 50 items, including brick oven pizza, Belgian waffles, customized pasta dishes, omelets, other items on the "Gourmet Bistro" menu and other items on an expanded dessert menu, including ice cream. Restaurant. The World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's, is three stories tall and has a 22-foot-tall PlayPlace, more than 100 arcade games and a waving 30-foot-tall image of Ronald McDonald at the entrance. The restaurant was opened in 1976 and was closed for renovation in 2015 and opened again. It was built again and opened in 2016. The restaurant has a "Create Your Own" menu and never closes.
Planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is an idea in economics and product design. Planned obsolescence is when someone makes a product so that it will wear out after only a short time. It will either stop working, work much worse than before, or be unfashionable. This way, the person who bought the product must buy a new one sooner than if the old product had lasted a long time. This is often called ""shortening the replacement cycle."" Planned obsolescence works when company selling the product has few or no other companies making the same product, because the consumer has few choices. Before choosing this strategy, the producer has to make sure that the consumer will likely buy from them again and not from someone else. Usually, there is information asymmetry: the producer knows how long the product was designed to last, and the consumer does not. However, when many companies make the same product, they compete. Then product lifespans often increase. In the 1960s and 1970s, the first Japanese cars were sold in America. Because they had longer lifespans than the American car models, American car manufacturers were forced to build cars that lasted longer. History. In 1924, the American market for cars became saturated. That meant that almost everyone who could buy a car had already bought one. In order to still sell about the same number of cars, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. who worked at General Motors suggested that new cars should look different every year. This way, at least some car owners would buy a new car every year. This idea was not new. It had already been tried with bicycles, but people say it was Sloan's idea. Sloan often used the words "dynamic obsolescence", but people who did not like the idea called it "planned obsolescence". This plan changed many things in the automobile industry, product design field and eventually the whole American economy. Smaller companies could not afford to re-style their car models every year. Henry Ford did not like the idea either. Ford was an engineer, and he liked simplicity, economies of scale, and strong design. In 1931
The 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 20th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The champions were Sweden. Qualification. Qualification for the final tournament of the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship consisted of two rounds: a group stage and a play-off round. The group stage draw took place on 31 January 2013 in Nyon, Switzerland, and distributed 52 national teams into ten groups of five or six teams. Each group was contested in a double round-robin system, where teams played each other twice, at home and away. The ten group winners and the four best second-placed teams advanced to the play-off round, where they were paired by draw into seven two-legged ties. The play-off winners joined the Czech Republic in the final tournament. Qualified teams. The following teams qualified for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament:  1 Bold indicates champion for that year. "Italic" indicates host for that year.  2 As West Germany  3 As Yugoslavia  4 As Serbia and Montenegro  5 As Czechoslovakia Venues and stadiums. The competition was played at four venues in three host cities: Eden Arena and Generali Arena (in Prague), Andrův stadion (in Olomouc), and Stadion Miroslava Valenty (in Uherské Hradiště). Match officials. The match officials of the tournament: Seeding. The draw for the final tournament took place at 18:00 CET on 6 November 2014, at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague. England, the highest-ranked team according to the competition coefficient rankings, and the host team, Czech Republic, were seeded and automatically assigned to separate groups. The second and third-ranked teams in the coefficient rankings, Italy and Germany, were also seeded and drawn into separate groups, while the four unseeded teams were drawn into the remaining positions of the two groups. Squads. Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in
The Truth Is is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Alexandra Burke. It was released on 16 March 2018 through Decca Records. Recording for the album started in 2013 and finished in early 2018. The first single from the album, "Shadow", was released on 9 February to BBC Radio 2, and to digital download and streaming on 23 February. The album entered and peaked at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart, spending only one week in the top 100. It is Burke's first album since 2012's "Heartbreak on Hold" and her first album since leaving Syco. Track listing. Notes
Heartbreak on Hold is the second studio album by British recording artist Alexandra Burke. It was released digitally on 1 June 2012 through Syco and RCA Records, and a physical version was issued three days later. The album marks her final record with both record labels, parting between 2012 and the following year. Burke started working on the album in late 2010, and worked with Cutfather, Erick Morillo, Autumn Rowe, and Ben Adams, as well as other producers and writers. Burke had also worked with RedOne, who previously produced a most of her debut album "Overcome" (2009), but none of their music that they made together were included on the album. Critical reception. "Heartbreak on Hold" received mixed reviews from music critics. Track listing. Notes
The 2021 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, the 66th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 29th season since it was renamed from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto, Portugal on 29 May 2021, between English clubs Manchester City, in their first European Cup final, and 2012 winners Chelsea. This was the third all-English final in the competition, after the 2008 and 2019 finals.  The final was originally scheduled to be played at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final to Lisbon as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the final hosts were moved back a year, with the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey instead planning to host the 2021 final. On 7 May 2021, UEFA confirmed they would consider removing Istanbul as the host of the final due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Two weeks before the final, UEFA announced that it would be relocated to Porto to allow a limited number of fans to attend the match. A capacity limit of 33% was agreed for the 50,000-seater Estádio do Dragão, resulting in an attendance of 14,110. Chelsea won the final 1–0 for their second UEFA Champions League title, with Kai Havertz scoring the only goal of the game late in the first half. As winners, they earned the right to play against the winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, Villarreal, in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup, and also qualified for the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup, both of which they won. Teams. "In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era." Venue. The match was the fourth European Cup/Champions League final to take place in Portugal, and the first to take place outside Lisbon,
Laufen or Laufen an der Salzach (Bavarian: "Laffa an da Soizach") is a town in Berchtesgadener Land, a district "(Landkreis)" in Upper Bavaria. Sister towns and cities. Laufen, Germany is twinned with:
A megadrought is an extended drought. It lasts two decades or more. Megadroughts in the past were linked with La Niña conditions lasting for many years. The term "megadrought" generally refers to the length of a drought, not its intensity. Multiyear droughts lasting one decade or less, like the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, are not a megadrought though they lasted a long time. Megadroughts have caused people to move away from the drought-affected areas. One example is Ancestral Puebloans in the Southwestern United States.
Dendropsophus reichlei is a frog that lives in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. The adult male frog is 17.7–19.0 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female was 21.5 mm long. This frog has smooth skin on its back with only a few small bumps. Its skin is light brown to red-brown to purple-brown in color. It has many small spots and marks. The area around its ear is dark in color. There are one or two small white spots under the eye. The skin where the back legs meet the body can be yellow or orange. The throat and belly are yellow. This frog has some webbed skin on its front feet and more on its back feet. This frog lives in trees. It lives high in the branches in swamps, flooded places, or forests that do not flood. Many leafy plants, ferns, and palms grow where this frog likes to live.
The Sopron District (; ) is a district in the western part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. "Sopron" is also the name of the district seat in the Sopron District. The Sopron District is located in Western Transdanubia. Municipalities. The district has 1 urban county, 2 towns, 1 large village and 35 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipalities are cities, "italics" municipality is large village.
Bethany Hall-Long (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician who was the 75th Governor of Delaware from January 7 2025 until January 21, 2025. She was the 26th lieutenant governor of Delaware under Governor John Carney from 2017 to 2025. Hall-Long also served in the Delaware Senate from 2008 to 2016 and the Delaware House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In September 2023, Hall-Long announced her candidacy for Governor of Delaware for the 2024 election. She lost the Democratic nomination to Matt Meyer. Hall-Long became governor on January 7, 2025 when John Carney resigned to become mayor of Wilmington. She will complete the last two weeks of Carney's term. Early life. Hall-Long was born on November 12, 1963, in Sussex County. She was raised on a farm with her two older brothers. Hall earned a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University, an MSN from the Medical University of South Carolina, and a PhD in health policy and nursing administration from George Mason University. Hall-Long began a teaching career at George Mason University before moving to the University of Delaware, where she is a professor of nursing.
The Districts of Hungary (Hungarian: "járások") are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. In total, there are 174 districts in Hungary and in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest. Biggest districts by area Lowest districts by area Biggest districts by population (2015) Lowest districts by population (2015) Biggest districts by population density (2015) Lowest districts by population density (2015) Biggest districts by number of municipalities Lowest districts by number of municipalities
The Tét District () is a district in the southern part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. "Tét" is also the name of the district seat in the Tét District. The Tét District is located in Western Transdanubia. Municipalities. The district has 1 town and 13 villages. The bolded municipality is the city.
The Győr District () is a district in the eastern part of Győr-Moson-Sopron County. "Győr" is also the name of the district seat in the Győr District. The Győr District is located in Western Transdanubia. Municipalities. The district has 1 urban county and 34 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012) The bolded municipality is the city.
Marcos Marcello Trad (born August 28, 1964), is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, Currently a candidate for the government of Mato Grosso do Sul in the state elections in 2022 in Brazil, he was mayor of Campo Grande from 2017 to 2022. He is the son of ex-congressman Nelson Trad and Therezinha Mandetta, brother of ex-mayor of Campo Grande, Nelson Trad Filho, and ex-congressman Fábio Trad; graduated in Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As a lawyer, he joined the section in Mato Grosso do Sul of the Brazilian Bar Association as a counselor, then chaired the Ethics and Discipline Commission. Member and presided over the State Sports Court (TJD-MS).
Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012), better known as the "Cocaine Godmother", "Black Widow" and "La Madrina", was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel. She was also involved in the Miami-based cocaine trafficking and organized crime between the 1980s and 2000s. It has been said that Blanco was responsible for almost 2,000 murders as she was transporting cocaine from Colombia to New York City, Southern California and Miami. On September 3, 2012, she was shot dead at age of sixty-nine. Background. Blanco was the first-ever billionaire female criminal. She was in charge of her multi-billion dollar drug trafficking business. Blanco first started the drug trade business in the mid-1970s. She was indicted in April 1975 on federal drug conspiracy charges. She left the United States and went to Colombia before she could be arrested. However, in the late 1970s, she came back to the United States. This time, Blanco settled in Miami. Arrest. On February 18, 1985, Blanco was arrested by cops. In 2004, after Blanco was released from prison, she was deported to Columbia. Retirement and death. Blanco reportedly retired from a life of crime. On September 3, 2012, a gunman in a motorcycle shot her to death as she left a butcher shop in Medellín. She was 69 years old.
A drug lord, also called a drug kingpin is a criminal boss who controls a sizable network of the people involved in the illegal drug trade. Such people are often hard to bring to justice, for they are not usually in possession of something illegal. Examples of drug lords are Pablo Escobar, Griselda Blanco, Frank Lucas, Joaquín Guzmán and Manuel Noriega. Drug lords have started breaking the larger drug cartels into much smaller groups. With newer technology, drug lords are able to manage their business better from behind the scenes. They usually keep themselves off the FBI and DEA lists. The smaller drug cartels are proving to be safer and make more money for those involved.