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Joy Division was an English post-punk band. They formed in 1976 in Salford. Ian Curtis was the lead singer. Peter Hook played bass guitar. Stephen Morris played the drums. Bernard sumner played guitar and sometimes the synthesizer. Ian Curtis died by suicide in 1980. So, the other members formed a new band called New Order. History. During the Anarchy in the UK tour, the Sex Pistols played in Manchester on June 4. In the audience that night were three young men living around Manchester: school mates Peter Hook and Bernard Albrecht, and Ian Curtis. A few days later, Hook and Albrecht decided to start up a band, with Hook on bass and Albrecht on guitar. They got Terry Mason as a drummer, but still needed a singer. They placed an ad in the Virgin record shop in Manchester. Curtis answered it and became the singer of the band, called at the time the Stiff Kittens. He would also write the lyrics. They practiced a lot during a few months, and wrote their first songs. In May of 1977, they changed the band's name to Warsaw. Tony Tabac replaced Terry Mason as the drummer. Just a month later, Tabac left and Steve Brotherdale was hired as new drummer. It was at the same time that Paul Morley of the NME and DJ Rob Gretton found out about the band and saw its potential. Warsaw made a demo tape with five songs in the Pennine Sound Studios in July, but Brotherdale quit the group a few days later. Finally, Stephen Morris joined the band. In October, they played at the Electric Circus, which was due to close down, along with The Fall and The Buzzcocks. In December, they recorded four songs, which were to appear later as "An Ideal For Living". In January of 1978 the band changed its name to Joy Division to avoid any confusion with another group. They practiced a lot and wrote new songs. On April 14 1978, they played along with 16 bands in a contest. Tony Wilson, who worked for Granada TV, and Rob Gretton liked their performance very much. In
Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956) is a singer with the bands Joy Division and New Order. He is also known as Bernard Albrecht. He plays guitar and keyboard. Sumner was born in Broughton, England.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, which is currently the largest MMA promotion in the world. The UFC's President is Dana White, who has been the President of the company since it was purchased by his friends the Fertitta brothers for $2 million in 2001. It was eventually sold by the Fertitta brothers for over $4 billion dollars in 2016, to its current owners Zuffa, LLC. The UFC is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a southern district of Manchester, England. It is usually called just Chorlton. The river Mersey runs past its southern end, in a part called Chorlton Ees. "Ees" (plural) is a Saxon word for water meadow. Neighbouring districts of Manchester are Whalley Range and West Didsbury, and to the west and north are Stretford and Old Trafford which are parts of Trafford. Hough End Hall is a manor house built in 1596. There are two churches belonging to the Church of England, St Clement's and St Werburgh's, and also St John's Church which is Roman Catholic, a Methodist church and a United Reformed church. Cosgrove Hall was an animation studio in Chorlton. Its most famous cartoon is "Dangermouse". Some notable current and past residents of Chorlton are: George Best, the Bee Gees, The Stone Roses, and Blessed Ambrose Barlow.  There are six primary schools in the Chorlton area.
The word acropolis (Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις, "akropolis"; from "akros" (άκρος) or "akron" (άκρον), "highest, topmost, outermost", and "polis" (πόλις), "city"; plural in English: "acropoles", "acropoleis" or "acropolises") means the edge of a town, or more often a high city. Being easily defended against attackers, an acropolis often has a citadel. The most famous is the Acropolis of Athens. "Acropolis" is also used for a central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many Mayan cities, including Tikal and Copán.
The California wildfires of October 2007 were more than 20 wildfires until November 9, 2007 burning in Southern California, making over 1,000,000 people to leave their homes, breaking at least 1,500 homes and buildings and moving in on at least 56,000 more. At least of land were burned between Santa Barbara County and the Mexican border. Officials said that they feared the fire could become even more deadly than the 2003 Cedar Fire. The number and strength of the fires have tired the firefighters, with one department saying the "lack of resources [is] hindering suppression efforts." The fires killed six people and have hurt at least 16 firefighters and 25 others. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in seven California counties where fires burned. President Bush has declared an emergency in the State of California and ordered Federal aid to help State and local efforts. An event that helped the fires is the drought in Southern California. The fires have been strengthened by the strangely strong Santa Ana winds. The winds are believed to have broken power lines, creating some of the fires. One fire was because of arson; one was started by an flipped-over semi-truck. Why the other fires are happening it not yet known. Winds were not expected to get better until October 25 2007. Fires. San Diego County. San Diego County is where the two biggest fires were, the Witch Fire near the northeastern edge of the city of San Diego, and the Harris fire southeast of San Diego. The Witch fire forced Interstate 15 to be closed, and the Harris fire was near the border with Mexico. As of the night of October 22, 2007, at least 5,000 homes were in danger. About 500,000 people had to leave, the largest evacuation in the area's history. Evacuees were meeting at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, Qualcomm Stadium and other places in the county. Officials think that 10,000 were meeting at Qualcomm. As well as food, blankets and water, volunteers gave toys to children, massages, and a live rock and roll band show. Many schools and business were closed. The only
Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of what is now North America, about 76.5–73 million years ago. Its name means "near crested lizard". It was given this name because when it was first discovered scientists thought it was related to Saurolophus. It was a herbivore that walked both as biped and a quadruped. It probably lived in herds.  Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur. They had a large head crest, which was a long curved tube. It went upwards and back from the skull. The crest has been much discussed by scientists. They think its main functions were visual recognition of species and sex, acoustic resonance (making a loud sound), and thermoregulation. Parasaurolophus is one of the rarer hadrosaurs: there are only a few good specimens.
Thai boxing (or Muay Thai) is a combat sport (martial art) that has been developed in Thailand. It is known also as "the art of eight limbs", because both hands, elbows, knees, and legs can be used to attack an opponent. In the competition, the high kicks in the head can seem to make a stronger effect. In spite of this, the persons with special skills and knowledge of this sport declare that the low kicks, the elbows, and the knees are more effective or forceful for the persons who fight.  A person, who takes part in the competition, does the long ceremony and the act established by custom before the fight. They exist for religious reasons, and they serve as stretching the muscles and as preparation.The long history of Muay Thai began with its use in warfare in the past. This is different from Muay Thai nowadays which is used as a sport. By using gloves to prevent danger from occurring. Muay Thai is still known as The eight arts of attack, which include two hands, two feet, two elbows, and two knees (in some texts it might be Nawawat, which includes the use of the head to attack, or Tosaweapon, which includes the use of the buttocks to attack) Muay Thai is inherited from ancient boxing. Which is divided into each line according to that locality, with the main important lines such as Tha Sao boxing (Northern region), Korat boxing (Northeastern region), Chaiya boxing (Southern region), Lopburi boxing, and Phra Nakhon boxing (Central region). There is a saying that "Hard punch in Korat, smart Lopburi, Tha Dee Chaiya, faster than Tha Sao" Sometimes there are legends of kings or nobles who are experts in fighting disguised themselves to compete to test their skills, including King Suea (Khun Luang Sorasak), King Taksin the Great. Phraya Phichai Dap Hak, Kru Dok, Mueang Wiset Chai Chan Subdistrict Until when Thailand lost its capital to Burma. The name of Mr. Khanom Tom appeared. Ayutthaya boxing
Carrefour (IPA: /karfur/) is a French international hypermarket chain. It has many shops around the world. It is the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and sales figures after Wal-Mart. Carrefour operates mainly in the European Union, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. It also has shops in Africa, and Asia. Carrefour means cross-road (the place where two roads meet) in French.
Never S-A-Y Never is the second album by American R&amp;B singer Brandy, released by Atlantic Records on June 8 1998 in Europe and on June 9, 1998 in North America. Chiefly produced by Rodney Jerkins, helped to make Jerkins' Timbaland-inspired production sound popular, which he later used for recordings by Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, and others. "Never Say Never" earned Brandy five Grammy Award nominations and became her biggest-selling album to date.
The Soviet Occupation Zone (German: Sowjetische Besatzungszone (SBZ) or Ostzone , Sovetskaya zona Germanii, "Soviet Zone of Germany") was the area of eastern Germany occupied by the Soviet Union from 1945 on, at the end of World War II. It became East Germany. American forces first occupied some of the area. The Americans withdrew in July 1945 to the agreed occupation zone boundaries. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany (German initials: SMAD) allowed four political parties to form, but they all had to work in the "All-Party Committee" (the "Nationale Front"). The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany were merged into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (which became the governing party of East Germany). Finally, the SED created other parties, to weaken the Christian Democratic Union and Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. Originally, Stalin wanted to Sovietize all of Germany, but when the West resisted this idea, he tried to work for a united Germany which would be neutral, but when the West again said no he decided to build a new country out of the Soviet occupation zone. This became East Germany The Soviet occupation zone included the central parts of Prussia. After Prussia was dissolved by the allied powers in 1947, the area was divided between the German states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt und Thuringia. On October 8, 1949, the part of the Soviet zone west of the Oder-Neisse line became the German Democratic Republic, usually known simply as East Germany. In 1952, the states were dissolved, and changed to 14 districts, plus East Berlin. East Berlin was treated as part of the new East Germany, but technically was part of the Allied-controlled city of Berlin.
Iron Man could mean: Sports. The term "Iron Man" is used in multiple sports for players with long streaks of consecutive games. For example, the term "Iron Man of Baseball" refers to either Lou Gehrig or Cal Ripken, Jr.. As of March 31, 2007, the current regular season ironmen in the four major North American sports are: The term "iron man" can also be used to describe a game that is played by oneself whereas additional players would normally be required. It is also used in the Arena Football League for any player that plays both offensive and defensive positions. The term could also mean:
Iron Man is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It was first released on 18 September 1970 as the fourth track on the band's second album "Paranoid". It was later released as the second and final single from the album in October 1971. The song is one of the band's biggest hits. Background and composition. "Iron Man" is about a man who travels to the future and sees the apocalypse. On his way back, he is caught in Earth's magnetic field, and turned to steel. When he comes back, he tries to warn the people about the apocalypse, but they do not believe him, and shun him, so he takes his revenge by killing them all, thus bringing about the apocalypse he saw. It would appear that he died and came back to life, for "vengeance from the grave kills the people he once saved" is a line from the song.  The title of the song was conceived by Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer Butler took to writing the lyrics around the title. The song was called "Iron Bloke" originally. Upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, Osbourne said it sounded "like a big iron bloke walking about". The title was later changed to "Iron Man". Reception and legacy. The song peaked at number 52 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1972, and its riff is one of the most easily recognizable in all of music. The live rendition of the song from Black Sabbath's 1998 live album "Reunion" won them the 2000 Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance. It ranked in 317th place on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, and in 7th place on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" list in March of 2023. "Iron Man" was used in the end credits of "Iron Man" (2008), its video game adaptation and the trailer for the 2010 sequel, "Iron Man 2".  The professional wrestling tag team The Road Warriors used "Iron Man" as their entrance theme in the mid-1980s in the American Wrestling Association and other promotions.
"For the novella by Thomas Mann see "Der Tod in Venedig" Death in Venice is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It is based on the story "Death in Venice" ("Der Tod in Venedig") by the German writer Thomas Mann. The libretto (words) for the opera was written by Myfanwy Piper. It was the last opera that Britten wrote. It was first performed at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh, England on June 16, 1973. Britten was too ill to conduct it himself. The main part of Aschenbach was sung by Sir Peter Pears. The story of the opera. The story is supposed to take place in the year 1911. It starts in Munich, and then moves to Venice. The opera is divided into two acts. Act I. Aschenbach is a famous German writer. He is getting old and starting to find it difficult to think of new ideas for stories. As he is walking in Munich he stops in front of a cemetery. He sees a traveller who is obviously from another country. This makes him think he ought to travel somewhere to get new ideas for his books. He takes a boat to Venice. On the boat he watches a group of young people. Their leader is showing off. Aschenbach realizes that, although their leader looks young, he is in fact old. He has dressed in clothes and used make-up to make him look young. Aschenbach does not like him. In Venice he is takes a gondola, but the boatman does not take him where he wants to go. Aschenbach argues at first, but the boatman does not take any notice.  Aschenbach arrives at the hotel. In the hotel he watches the people coming down to dinner. Suddenly he sees Tadzio. Tadzio is a young Polish boy who is unbelievably beautiful. Aschenbach realizes it is stupid for him to feel love for the boy, but he cannot get the boy out of his mind. Aschenbach watches Tadzio playing on the sandy beach. When he notices that the boy (like many Polish people) hates the Russian guests,
The Territory of the Saar Basin (, "Saarterritorium;" ) was usually called the Saar or the . It was a territory governed by the League of Nations under the Treaty of Versailles for 15 years from 1920. Its population in 1933 was 812,000, and its capital was Saarbrücken. It was made up of parts of the Prussian Rhine Province and the Bavarian Palatinate of the Rhine. It was slightly smaller than the modern German state of Saarland. Commission of Government. According to Treaty of Versailles the highly industrialized Saarland was to be governed by the League of Nations for a period of 15 years, and its coalfields given to France. The "Commission of Government", which represented the League of Nations, had five members. At least one member had to be French and one a native of the Saar. At the end of the 15 year period, in 1935, the people of the Saar voted on how they wanted their country. They voted to become a part of Nazi Germany. It had a currency, the Saar franc, and its own postage stamps during this period. Chairmen of the Commission. The League of Nations' control to the region was represented by the following Chairmen of the Commission of Government: Plebiscite. In 1933, many anti-Nazi Germans fled to the Saar, as it was the only part of Germany left outside the Third Reich's control. As a result, anti-Nazi groups wanted the Saarland to remain under control of League of Nations as long as Adolf Hitler ruled Germany. However, France had a lot of power in the Saar, including control of the coal mines. Not many "Saarlanders" liked France, and in the plebiscite on 13 January 1935, 90% of the voters wished to join Germany, and 8.86% wanted to stay with the League of Nations. Only 0.40% (that is, four voters in every thousand) wanted to join France. Nazi rule. On 17 January 1935, the territory's re-union with Germany
Sir William Walton OM, (born Oldham, 29 March 1902; died Ischia, Italy, 8 March 1983) was a British composer and conductor. He was one of the most important British composers of the mid-20th century, a period that included Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. His music has very lively rhythms which are often jazzy. Early years. Walton’s family were musical but they had very little money. Both his parents sang, and Walton sang in the local church choir. His father would hit him if he made a mistake. This may be why in later life he was so careful about every note he wrote. At the age of ten he joined the choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. He learned the piano and violin. He was only 16 years when he went to Oxford University where he was at Christ Church, Oxford. Most of what he knew about composing he taught himself. He studied the scores of works by Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and others. He had some lessons from Hugh Allen, the cathedral organist. At Oxford Walton became friends with two poets: Sacheverell Sitwell and Siegfried Sassoon. Most of the music he wrote when he was very young has been lost, but the choral anthem "A Litany", written when he was just fifteen, shows his musical talent with its modern harmonies.  Walton left Oxford in 1920 without a degree, having failed his exams three times. He went to live with the Sitwell family, who introduced him to many important people, including the composer Constant Lambert and song writer Noel Coward. He also travelled with the Sitwells to Italy. In 1923, he set one of Edith Sitwell’s poems to music. The piece was called "Façade". The music was very jazzy and almost jokey, and it sounded very modern to many people at that time. During the 1920s, Walton earned some money playing the piano at jazz clubs, but he spent most of his time composing in the Sitwells' attic. The orchestral overture "Portsmouth Point" (
The Free City of Danzig (; ) was a self-governing port on the Baltic Sea port and a city-state. It was set up on January 10, 1920, by Part III Section XI of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, and put under League of Nations protection, with special rights reserved to Poland, because it was the only port in the Polish Corridor. The Free City ceased to exist after 1939 when it was occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany. After Germany's defeat in 1945 Danzig was occupied and annexed by Poland under the Polish name Gdańsk. Establishment. Territory. The Free City of Danzig included the major city of Danzig (Gdańsk) as well as Zoppot (Sopot), Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański), Neuteich (Nowy Staw) and some 252 villages and 63 hamlets. Its area was . Polish rights. The Free City was represented abroad by Poland's ambassadors. The railway line that connected the Free City with Poland was administered by Poland. Similarly, the separated military post within the city's harbour, the Westerplatte (formerly a city beach), was also given to Poland. There were also two post-offices, one for the Danzig Postal Service, the other was Polish-run. League of Nations High Commissioners. League of Nations mandated territories, were run by member countries on behalf of the League. But Danzig and the Saargebiet were run by the League of Nations itself, with representatives of various countries taking on the role of High Commissioner: Population. The Free City's population was 357,000 in (1919). 98% were German-speakers, with the rest mainly speaking either Kashubian or Polish. The Treaty of Versailles, split Danzig from Germany. The treaty made the people living in the city citizens of the Free City. German inhabitants lost their German nationality, if they wanted to stay German they had to go and live outside the Free City's territory. Politics. Heads of State of the Free City of Danzig In May 1933, the Nazi Party won the local elections in
Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated movie made by Sony Pictures Animation. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, Mario Cantone, James Woods, Rebecca Honig, Diedrich Bader, Rob Machado, Kelly Slater and Sal Masekela. The movie is a cartoon of surfing documentaries, like "The Endless Summer" and "Riding Giants". Composed by Randy Newman. This movie has a direct-to-video sequel called "", was released in 2016. Plot. The story centers on rockhopper penguin teenager Cody Maverick, a surfer, as he enters his first professional competition. Followed by a film crew to document his experiences, Cody says goodbye to his family and his home in Frio de Janeiro in Antarctica in order to travel to Pen Gu Island for the International Surfing Competition in memory of Big Z. Along the way, Cody meets a surfer, Pepe the Chicken, journalists Rob Machado and Kelly Slater, scout Mike Abromowitz, and beautiful lifeguard Lani Aliikai, who recognizes Cody's passion for surfing, though he's occasionally misguided. Cody believes that winning will give him the admiration and respect he desires so much, but when he unexpectedly goes toe-to-toe with an old penguin wise shaman of Pen Gu Island named Geek he trains him to surf and teach him what is important about life such as the past, present and future, Cody begins to find his own way as the winners and discovers that a real winner isn't always the one who arrives first.
"Baby Boy" is a Middle Eastern-influenced R&amp;B and dancehall song written by Beyoncé Knowles, Scott Storch, Sean Paul, Robert Waller, and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter for Knowles' first solo album, "Dangerously in Love" (2003). It was produced by Knowles and Storch and was released to positive reception as the album's second single in July 2003. The song (which features dancehall singer Sean Paul) reached number one in the U.S., becoming Beyoncé's second solo number-one single and Sean Paul's second; it also reached number two in the UK. It was also recognized at the ASCAP awards by the label companies receiving the Publisher of the Year from EMI and Most Performed Songs award in 2003. It was certified Platinum in the US for sales and shipments of over one million copies there. "Baby Boy" finished at number 12 on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 of 2003.