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Spanish moss ("Tillandsia usneoides") is a flowering plant that grows on trees in many tropical and subtropical areas in the Americas. It is known in the United States. It is often found on the southern live oak ("Quercus virginiana") and bald cypress ("Taxodium distichum"). It lives in the lowlands, swamps, and marshes of the mid-Atlantic and southeastern states, from the coast of southeastern Virginia to Florida and west to southern Arkansas and Texas. Spanish moss is not parasitic: it is an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients and water through its own leaves from the air and rain falling upon it. Spanish moss has been used for many purposes, including building insulation, mulch, packing material, mattress stuffing, and fiber. In the early 1900s it was used commercially in the padding of car seats.
Texan English or Texas English are the two main varieties of English native to Texas. A Southern American variety and a Spanish influenced one. Texas English. In the eastern part of the state, there's what some call a "Southern accent with a twist". This "twist" refers to the other southern accents which came to Texas throughout the history of English being spoken there.  Features include: Tejano English. The second major Texas English variety is Tejano English - the Hispanic variety common in the southwest part of the state.  Features include:
Adjustable focus glasses are eyeglasses whose lens powers can be adjusted for focal distance and prescription. These glasses are viable options for certain people who need bifocals or trifocals. They can also be donated to people in the developing world where eye doctors and opticians are hard to come by and afford. There's two methods for achieving adjustable lenses.  One design uses a crystal liquid in a flexible layer. The wearer then uses a dial to control the amount of liquid in the lenses, which in turn makes the lenses more convex, concave or flat. The other design has double layers of lenses that slide over one another.
Basutoland was a British colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho. Basutoland was completely surrounded by the Cape Colony from 1884–1910, the Union of South Africa from 1910–1961 and the Republic of South Africa from 1961–1966. On 4 October 1966, Basutoland became independent as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Madaklashti (مدگلاشتی) is a variety of Persian spoken in the Madaklasht valley of Chitral, Pakistan. It is spoken by the Tajik people and is almost identical to Tajik and Dari varities spoken in neighboring Badakhshan.
Bank of Maharashtra is a nationalised bank under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The bank had 35 million customers across the country with 2500 branches as of March 2024. It has the largest network of branches of any nationalised bank in the state of Maharashtra. The total business of the bank crossed ₹ 3,15,620 lakh crore as on 31 December 2021. History. The bank was founded by V.G.Kale and D. K. Sathe in Pune, India. The bank was registered on 16 September 1935 with an authorized capital of and became operational on 8 February 1936. It provided financial assistance to small business and gave birth to many industrial houses. The bank was nationalised in 1969. A. S Rajeev assumed charge as Managing Director &amp; CEO of the bank on 2 December 2018. A.B. Vijayakumar joined as Executive Director on 10 March 2021. Asheesh Pandey joined as Executive Director on 31 December 2021.
Amar Dedić (born 18 August 2002) is a Bosnian professional footballer. He plays as defender for Austrian Bundesliga club FC Red Bull Salzburg and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Club career. Red Bull Salzburg. Dedić started playing football at a local club. Then he went to Sturm Graz youth in 2012. In 2015 he moved to Red Bull Salzburg's youth academy. There he played in all ranks. In August 2019 he signed his first contract with Red Bull Salzburg. He made his professional debut playing for Liefering against Amstetten on 26 July at the age of 16. On 19 June 2020, he scored his first professional goal in a triumph over Dornbirn. He made his debut for Red Bull Salzburg in the cup match against Bregenz on 9 September. In June 2021, he went on loan to Wolfsberger AC. In June 2022 he came back to Salzburg. In the 2022–23 season he became number 1 as right back. In the UEFA Champions League he played in all six group stage matches. International career. Dedić represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at all youth levels. He was captain of the under-17 team. In March 2022 he was called into the senior team for friendly games against Georgia and Luxembourg. He debuted against Luxembourg on 29 March. "Scores and results list Bosnia and Herzegovina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dedić goal." Honours. Red Bull Salzburg
The Laws of Moses were the laws that God is said to have given to Moses. The first set of Moses' laws were the Ten Commandments which covered morality. The second was the set of social laws (on property, inheritance, and marriage). The third were the laws on food (what's considered kosher or not, cooking and storage of food, etc).
The Estates of the realm were the broad orders of social rank and hierarchy in Europe from the 6th century to the 17th century (up until the 18th century in the case of France under the Ancien Regime) that divided the population into a series of estates, although how many depended on the country and era. Often people who did not own any land were not included at all. Medieval parliaments were generally divided to match. In pre-revolutionary France, Scotland, Catalonia and Portugal the three estates were  In Sweden and Russia, burghers (the urban merchant class) and rural commoners were split into separate estates, so there were four estates. In Rhodesia a similar system was set up in 1961 with voter rolls A and B for people who owned property or had educational qualifications. This was mostly the 230,000 white people. Most of the 4 million black didn't qualify. Some people refer to journalism as the Fourth Estate.
The Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime" or "Old Order") was the social and political system of absolute monarchy in France from 1500 to the French Revolution in 1792. The Ancien Régime was marked by the ideology of absolutism and the preservation of aristocratic privileges.
Bodø (;) is a city in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten.
Julee Ann Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American pop singer-songwriter, actress and musician. She was known for her works with composer Angelo Badalamenti and director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She was known for her song "Falling", the theme song for the television series "Twin Peaks". She was born in Creston, Iowa. Cruise was diagnosed with lupus in March 2018. She died by suicide on June 9, 2022 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at the age of 65.
Donald Anthony Perkins (March 4, 1938 – June 9, 2022) was an American football fullback in the National Football League. He played for the Dallas Cowboys from 1961 until 1968. He played college football at the University of New Mexico. Perkins died on June 9, 2022 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 84.
Ranan R. Lurie (; May 26, 1932 – June 8, 2022) was an Egyptian-born Israeli-American political cartoonist and journalist. He was a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) from 1990 until his death. He was a member of the United Nations Correspondents Association. He was founder and Editor-in-Chief of "Cartoonews". Lurie was born in Cairo, Egypt but raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. Lurie died on June 8, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 90.
Bruce Kent (22 June 1929 – 8 June 2022) was a British political activist and former Roman Catholic priest. He was known for his role and activism with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). He was the organisation's general secretary from 1980 to 1985 and its chair from 1987 to 1990. In 1960 he joined the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.  In 1992, Kent was a candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon, where he came third. Kent died on 8 June 2022 at the age of 92.
Oddleif Olavsen (9 October 1945 – 5 June 2022) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Conservative Party. He was mayor of Bodø from 1995 to 1999. He then was on the Nordland County Council from 2003 to 2007. Before entering politics, he was a footballer and played for FK Bodø/Glimt. Olavsen died on 5 June 2022 at the age of 76.
Giuseppe Azzaro (15 October 1925 – 5 June 2022) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Christian Democracy party. He was in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1992. He was also Mayor of Catania from 1987 to 1988 and again in 1991. Azzaro died in Rome, Italy on 5 June 2022 at the age of 96.
Valentin Oehen (26 June 1931 – 2 June 2022) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of Swiss Democrats. He was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was a member of the Swiss National Council from 1971 until 1987. Oehen died in Nottwil, Switzerland on 2 June 2022 at the age of 91.
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford (née Swanson, born June 25, 1985) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is known for her work on television as Betty DiMello on the Showtime period drama "Masters of Sex". She played Paula Jones in the FX drama ' (2021). She played Elizabeth Cote in four episodes of the mini-series ' in 2018.
Lucianne Steinberger Goldberg (born Lucianne Steinberger; April 29, 1935– October 26, 2022), also known as Lucianne Cummings, was an American literary agent and author. She had an important role in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton. She advised Monica Lewinsky’s friend Linda Tripp to tape Monica’s phone calls about their affair. The 20-hour recording was used in the Starr investigation. She died on October 26, 2022, at her home in Weehawken, New Jersey.
Betty Grace Currie (née Williams; born November 10, 1939) is an American government official. She was the personal secretary for Bill Clinton when he was President of the United States. She became an important person in the Lewinsky scandal because she was accused of handling the gifts given to Monica Lewinsky by President Clinton. Currie was born in Edwards, Mississippi and moved to Waukegan, Illinois.
The jaguar snouted tree frog ("Scinax onca") is a frog. It lives in Brazil. Scientists used to think this was the same frog as "Scinax iquitorum", but it is not. The adult male frog is 31.3 to 34.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 35.5 to 40.4 mm long. The skin on this frog's back is brown with darker brown spots. The frog's middle is white with black spots. The insides of the back legs are black in color. The belly is yellow with dark brown spots. The iris of the eye is orange in color. The tadpoles look like ovals from the top and like triangles from the side. They are gray-brown in color with one dark brown stripe from each eye to the nose. There are brown spots on the fins. The scientists found the tadpoles in a pond with no streams going into it or out of it.
Nephila is a genus of araneomorph spiders.  They are also known as the golden silk orb-weavers, golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders, or banana spiders. Males are smaller than females. Females often get a choice to mate and share gifts with their mates. "Nephila" spiders have large sexual dimorphism in size, with females being much larger than males. "Nephila" species are often parasitized by "Argyrodes", a genus of very small black-and-silver spiders. These small spiders are kleptoparasitic: they live by stealing food from their hostess.
Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola was born on May 25, 1957 in Ilesa, Osun state. Aregbesola is a Muslim born of Muslim and Christian parents. He was the former civilian governor of Osun State from 26th of November 2010 to 26th of November 2018 and the 8th Governor of the state. Education. Aregbesola had both his primary and secondary education in Ondo State, he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the Polytechnic Ibadan in 1980. Political appointment. He was appointed Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Lagos State by Senator Bola Tinubu who was the Governor of Lagos state. Aregbesola served as Commissioner from 1999 to 2007. In August 2019 he was appointed as Minister of Interior of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by President Muhammed Buhari.
Fumiko Ezaki (江崎 史子; born 27 September 1971) is a Japanese judoka. She won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where judo was for women a demonstration sport, in the extra-light event.  At the World Judo Championships she won the silver medal in 1986, 1987 and 1989. At the 1990 Asian Games she became champion in the -48 kg category.
is a Japanese singer and actress. She is a 6th generation member of the Japanese idol girl group Angerme.
Noriko Kitada (北田 典子; born 10 August 1966, former surname is Mochida) is a Japanese judoka. She won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where judo was for women a demonstration sport, in the half-middleweight event.  She won the bronze medal at the 1987 World Judo Championships, in the -61 kg event. In 1987 and 1988 she was All Japan Judo Champion.
is a Japanese singer. She is a 8th generation member of the Japanese idol girl group Angerme.
is a Japanese singer. She is a 9th generation member of the Japanese idol girl group Angerme.  In 2014, she starred in the movie Lingering Memories.
Kerrye Daniels-Katz (born 26 March 1961) is an Australian judoka. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where judo was for women a demonstration sport, in the Middleweight event.  She won the bronze medal at the 1977 Oceania Judo Championships in the -57 kg category; she was Oceanian Champion in 1985 in the -66 kg category. She was Australian champion eleven times. She was a judo coach. Katz is the mother of judoka Joshua Katz and Nathan Katz who both competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Julie Frances Reardon (born 6 June 1958) is an Australian judoka. She won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where judo was for women a demonstration sport, in the extra-lightweight event.  She won the bronze medal, at the 1984 World Judo Championships, in the -48 kg category. She won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
The German Historical Museum (German: Deutsches Historisches Museum, DHM) is a German history museum in Berlin. The museum is in a building named Zeughaus (armory) on Unter den Lindern. It is one of the most visited museums in Berlin. The museum holds a collection of about 1 million objects.  Founding and History. The Federal Republic of Germany and the state of Berlin founded the museum in 1987. The date was also the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin. Key historians such as Hartmut Boockmann, Eberhard Jäckel, Hagen Schulze and Michael Stürmer were involved in the project. Chancellor Helmut Kohl supported the museum project. In a speech to the Bundestag in 1985, Kohl emphasized the importance of having the museum. Together, 16 historians, art historians, and museum directors worked on the commission. They wanted the museum to present German history internationally and globally.  The Berlin state and the federal government signed to create A Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) in July of 1987. Members of the board include representatives of the federal government, parliament (Bundestag), and German states.  After the reunification of German, the German government took over the of Museum for German History (Museum für Deutsche Geschichte), former East Germany. The government moved the contents of this former museum to the DHM in the Zeughaus.  Chancellor Angela Merkel started the permanent exhibition: "German History in Images and Artefacts" in 2006"."  The museum has also become the Public Law Foundation of the Federal Government (Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts des Bundes) and the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation ("Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung)." Facilities. The facilities include exhibition halls, a library, and a cinema. The exhibitions are closed until 2025 due to renovations. The museum is also virtual through a website called LeMO (Lebendiges virtuelles Museum Online, or Living virtual Museum Online) Collections. Everyday Life Culture I: Technical and medical products and instruments, Household objects, product advertising:
Minimax is a traditional machine learning algorithm that is used by computers to play strategic games. This simple logical algorithm is extremely powerful and since it uses the power of the recursive function of the computer, this algorithm is absolutely unbeatable. It is primarily used in games like chess, tic-tac-toe, Go, etc. However, in comparison to modern Neural Networks, and Deep Neural Networks, Minimax shows poor performance in big games like chess. However, in small games like tic-tac-toe, Minimax eventually outperforms the best AI. Origin. The word "Minimax" comes from the abbreviated form of Minimizer-Maximizer. It is because, the algorithm uses 2 agents- Minimizer and Maximizer- to predict a game move. Working. The working of Minimax is divided into 2 parts- Minimizer and the Maximizer.  In abstract, this algorithm calculates all possible combination of moves a player can play in a certain state of the game, and chooses the best possible move by simply calculating the winning potential of the each move which is based on no. of moves, no. of wins and no. of loses. The algorithm has a recursive approach, which means it creates a tree of combination of moves based on the rules of the game. Now, to calculate the best move in a given game state, the algorithm puts 2 agents- Minimizer and Maximizer to play against each other. Both these agents play based on calculating the best possible move. The Minimizer tries to make Maximizer lose and vice versa. In this way, the Minimizer and Maximizer simulates an entire game, which is then repeated for all sets of possible moves in the given game state. After the algorithm does all the simulation, it then chooses the move which created highest probability of win with lowest no. of moves. Hence it returns the next best move. And then the computer plays the move. Advantages. This algorithm is completely unbeatable because it calculates all possible combinations of moves in a game. As a result, when playing against a minimax algorithm, the Computer either wins or draws.
The Natural History Museum (German: "Museum für Naturkunde") is a museum in Berlin. It holds specimens from different periods in natural history. Formerly part of the Humboldt University, the museum is now part of Leibniz Association and includes scientific research and labs.  The museum has over 30 million samples of minerals, rocks, and living organisms, and there are ten thousand types of specimens. Only a tiny fraction of specimens are displayed, and the museum holds 65% of the Earth's minerals. Other objects displayed are meteorites and fossils. Notable exhibits are the "Giraffatitan" and "Archaeopteryx""."  The museum is one of the major natural history museums in Germany. The others are the "Naturmuseum Senckenberg" in Frankfurt and the "Museum Koenig" in Bonn.  Exhibitions. The "Archaeopteryx" on display is perhaps the oldest bird, depending on how that is defined. The bird shows a connection between reptiles and birds. The body has wings, claws, a head with teeth, a tail like a lizard, and feathers. The bird was recovered from German Solnhofen limestone in 1871, just a few decades after Darwin wrote "The Origin of Species".  The "Giraffatitan" was recovered by Werner Janensch betwen 1901 and 1913. The skeleton is about 12 to 13 m long and would have weighed 55 tons. "Giraffatitan" was for many decades called "the largest dinosaur" but there are recent discoveries of even larger dinosaurs. Giant titanosaurians appear to have passed "Giraffatitan" in sheer mass. Also, the sauropod dinosaur "Sauroposeidon" is estimated to be taller and possibly heavier than "Giraffatitan". The museum displays "Tyrannosaurus" skeletons ("Tristan") in different countries around the world.  The museum has approximtely 250,000 minerals and 4,500 are on display. There are over 1,000 different types of minerals.  The hall also
The Wayne County Airport runway collision involved the collision of two Northwest Airlines aircraft at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on December 3, 1990. It occurred when Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, was mistakenly taxed on an active runway in heavy fog and struck by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport. Of the surviving passengers, the NTSB stated that 10 received serious injuries and 23 received minor or no injuries. The three surviving crew members received minor or no injuries Aircraft. The Douglas DC-9 operating Flight 1482 was registered N3313L; It was built in 1966 and had a total of 62,253 hours of operation. The DC-9 was delivered new to Delta before being sold to predecessor Northwest Southern Airways in 1973. It was 24 years old at the time of the accident. The Boeing 727 that operated Flight 299 was registered as N278US and had been purchased by Northwest in 1975. It had 37,310 hours of operation. The aircraft was repaired and flew with Northwest until 1995. Aircraft N278US was later sold to Kitty Hawk Aircargo and scrapped in 2011 after 36 years of service.
The Madrid Runway Disaster occurred on Wednesday, December 7, 1983 (9:50 a.m.) at Madrid-Barajas airport when Iberia Flight 350, a Boeing 727 (registration EC-CFJ) bound for Madrid-Barajas airport Rome-Fiumicino, piloted by Commander Carlos López Barranco, with 93 passengers, collided with Aviaco Flight 134, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (registration EC-CGS) bound for Santander Airport, piloted by Commander Augusto Almoguera Pérez (13,442 flight hours), with 42 people on board. As the Boeing 727 taxied down runway 01, the DC-9 crew accidentally made a wrong turn in the fog and took their plane onto the runway, into the path of the 727. The 727 crew saw the DC-9 and tried to avoid it. the collision turning their planes to take off; however, the 727 had not reached flying speed and its rear fuselage struck the DC-9. Both aircraft caught fire and were destroyed.  Victims. All 42 people aboard the DC-9 perished (37 passengers and 5 crew members), and 51 of the 93 aboard the Boeing 727 perished (50 passengers and 1 crew member). Rescue. The rescue continued throughout the day and part of the next. The judge on duty, José Ruiz Ramo, was examining the bodies and certifying the deaths. As many relatives approached the airport and a flood of people collapsed hospitals to donate blood.