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The Second Dynasty ruled ancient Egypt from c. 2890 to c. 2686 BC It is the second dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. During this time the seat of government was centred at Thinis. Very little is known about this period in ancient Egyptian history. There is very little archaeological evidence of the time. But to compare the differences between the First and Third Dynasties shows that there must have important institutional and economic developments during the Second Dynasty. Rulers. The names of the rulers of the Second Dynasty is not known exactly. Most sources agree on the names of the first pharaohs. These are: The names of the next two or three rulers is unclear. We may have both the Horus-name or "Nebty" (meaning "two ladies") name "and" their birth names for these rulers, however they may be entirely different individuals; or they may be legendary names. On the left are the rulers most Egyptologists place here; on the right are the names from Manetho's "Aegyptica": With the last ruler, we return to an agreement: Manetho wrote that the capital was at Thinis, the same as during the First Dynasty. However, at least the first three kings were buried at Saqqara. This could mean the center of power had moved to Memphis. Beyond this, little can be said about the events during this period. The annual records on the Palermo Stone only survive for the end of the reign of Nebra and for parts of Nynetjer's. One important event possibly happened during the reign of Khasekhemwy: many Egyptologists read his name ("the Two Powers arise") as commemorating the union of the Upper and Lower Egypts.
Water for Your Soul is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone. It was released on 31 July 2015 by her own label, Stone'd Records. Critical reception. "Water for Your Soul" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics.
Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson. It was released on February 4, 1986, by A&amp;M Records. It was her first album after she had fired her father, Joseph Jackson as her manager. Since the album's release it has been certified platinum. It is one of her most known albums. It has sold over 14 million copies worldwide. Reviews. "Control" received positive reviews from music critics.
Hereditary haemochromatosis is a disease caused by a genetic disorder in which a person accumulates a dangerous level of iron in a body. Humans, cannot quickly expel extra iron. Therefore extra iron accumulates in tissues and organs and harms the bodies normal function. The hereditary form of the disease is most common among those of Northern European ancestry, in particular those of Celtic descent. The disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means both copies of the gene in each cell have mutations. Most often, the parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the mutated gene, but do not show signs and symptoms of the condition.
The Soul Sessions is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone. It was released on 16 September 2003 by S-Curve Records and EMI/Virgin Records. Background. When "The Soul Sessions" was released on 16 September 2003. At the time Stone was just 16 years old. The album took four days to record. The songs on the album are cover versions of classic soul songs. Reviews. "The Soul Sessions" received positive reviews from music critics.
Vyasa (, , literally “Compiler”) is an important figure in most Hindu traditions. He is sometimes called Veda Vyāsa (वेदव्यास, "veda-vyāsa", "the one who classified the Vedas") or Krishna Dvaipāyana (referring to his complexion and birthplace). He is the author of the "Mahabharata". He is also a character in it. He is considered to be the scribe of both the Vedas and Puranas. According to Hindu beliefs, Vyasa is an avatar of the god Vishnu. Vyasa is also considered to be one of the seven Chiranjivins (long lived, or immortals), who are still in existence according to Hindu belief. Vyasa lived around the 3rd millennium BCE. The festival of "Guru Purnima" is dedicated to him. It is also known as "Vyasa Purnima", for it is the day believed to be both his birthday and the day he divided the Vedas. In the Mahabharata. Vyasa appears for the first time as the compiler of, and an important character in, the "Mahabharata". It is said that he was the expansion of the god Vishnu who came in Dwaparayuga to make all the Vedic knowledge available in writing which was available in only in spoken form at that time. He was the son of Satyavati, daughter of the fisherman Dusharaj, and the wandering sage Parashara. He is credited with being the author of the first Purana, Vishnu Purana. There are two different views regarding the place of his birth. Some consider that he was born on an island in the Yamuna river. While many other facts suggests that he was born in an island nearby the confluence of Seti (white) and Madi (Black) river which is situated in present day Tanahun of Nepal. Vyasa had a dark complexion and may be called by the name "Krishna" (black), and also the name "Dwaipayana", meaning 'island-born'.
The Best of Joss Stone 2003–2009 is the first greatest hits album by English recording artist Joss Stone, released on 23 September 2011 by Virgin and EMI. The album was going to be called "Super Duper Hits: The Best of Joss Stone", Background. "The Best of Joss Stone 2003-2009" is filled with songs from all of Stone's albums that she released with Virgin and EMI, the album was released without Stone's permission, to which she commented to in an interview about how she didn't like the original title that the album would have been called.
The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone, released on 20 July 2012 by S-Curve Records and her own label, Stone'd Records. Background. Like her debut album "The Soul Sessions" (2003) where the songs were covers of classic soul songs, "The Soul Sessions Vol. 2"s songs are covers of soul and R&amp;B songs that were originally made during the 1970s. Reviews. "The Soul Sessions Vol. 2" received positive reviews from music critics.
José Eduardo Dutra (11 April 1957 – 4 October 2015) was a Brazilian businessman and politician. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He joined Petrobras in 1983, and served as CEO from 2003 to 2005. He returned to the company in 2012, after a two year stint as the president of the Workers' Party. He was elected to the Federal Senate in 1994 and served until his death in 2015. Dutra died of cancer in Belo Horizonte, aged 58.
William Harrison Hays, Sr. (November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918 to 1921. He was United States Postmaster General from 1921 to 1922. He is best known for the Hays Code for censorship of American movies. He was born in Sullivan, Indiana. He was the manager of Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the United States in 1920. He was then named Postmaster General. While serving in the Harding Administration, he became somewhat involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. This was because of some illegal donations. Career change. Hays gave up his cabinet position on January 14, 1922. He become President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), when it first began. This group now handles the well-known voluntary film rating system. He began his new job, at a $35,360 () annual salary, on March 6 of that year. There was talk that he would be paid between $100,000 and $150,000 a year. Scandal and outcry. The goal of the group was to rescue the image of the movie industry because of a scandal at that time. An actress, Virginia Rappe, had been raped and murdered. A well-known movie star, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused. Religious groups were angry and demanded federal censorship of the movies. Hiring Hays to "clean up the moving pictures" was a public relations tactic. Much was said about his conservative ways. These included his being a Presbyterian deacon and the past chairman of the Republican Party. In his new role in Hollywood, Hays' main task was to stop American state censor boards from banning movies that were too dirty to be shown. He also had to keep costs down for the movie studios for changes made to give a movie an acceptable rating. At that time, the movie studios were required by state laws to pay the censor boards for each foot of movie that was cut out. Studios also had the expense of making different versions of each censored movie for each state's different ruling. Hays tried to reduce
Kevin Yanick Steen (born May 7, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He currently wrestles for the WWE, where he works on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kevin Owens. In WWE, he won the NXT and the Universal Championship once each, the Intercontinental Championship twice, the United States Championship three times, and the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships) once with Sami Zayn. Owens is the 23rd overall Grand Slam Champion. Steen was also known for competing on the independent circuit under his real name. He has worked for Ring of Honor (ROH), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He was a one-time ROH World Champion and a ROH World Tag Team Champion with El Generico in ROH, a three-time PWG World Champion and a three-time PWG World Tag Team Champion with El Generico (twice) and Super Dragon (once), and a one-time CZW Iron Man Champion.
Bathory is the first studio album by the Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released in October 1984, through Tyfon Grammofon. Many people say that this album is the very first black metal album. Background. The band Bathory was formed one year earlier. Quorthon was working part-time at the small record label Tyfon. In late 1983 and early 1984, the label was putting together a lot of songs by Scandinavian metal bands. At the last minute, one of the bands backed out. Tyfon agreed to let Bathory appear on the record as a replacement, and the band recorded two songs for the compilation—"Sacrifice" and "The Return of the Darkness and Evil"—in January. The album, "Scandinavian Metal Attack", was released in March 1984 and was Bathory's first appearance on record. Much of the fan-mail was directed towards Bathory, and Tyfon asked them to record a full-album. On 22 May 1984, Bathory had their first and only rehearsal together before recording the album. On 14 June the band entered Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm—a garage—to record the album. The recording and mixing were done in somewhere between 32 and 56 hours.
A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body that is between the core and the crust of a planetary body. Mantles are made of rock or ices. They are generally the largest layer of the planetary body. All terrestrial planets, all ice giants, a number of asteroids, and some moons have mantles. Earth's mantle. The Earth's mantle is a layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core. Its mass is 4.01 × 1024 kg. It makes up 67% the mass of the Earth. It has a thickness of 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi). It makes up about 84% of Earth's volume. The Earth's mantle behaves as a viscous fluid. Other planetary mantles. Mercury has a silicate mantle that is approximately 490 km thick. Mercury's mantle makes up 28% of its mass. Venus's silicate mantle is approximately 2800 km thick. Venus's mantle makes up around 70% of its mass. Mars's silicate mantle is approximately 1600 km thick. Mar's mantle makes up 74–88% of its mass. Uranus and Neptune's icy mantles are approximately 30,000 km thick. Their mantles make up 80% of both masses. Moons with mantles. Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede have silicate mantles. Io's mantle is 1100 km thick. Ganymede's mantle is 1315 km thick. Europa's mantle is 1165 km thick. The silicate mantle of the Moon is approximately 1300–1400 km thick. Titan and Triton each have a mantle made of ice or other solid volatile substances. Asteroids with mantles. Some of the largest asteroids have mantles. For example, Vesta has a silicate mantle similar in composition to diogenite meteorites.
Hellingly is a small village in East Sussex, England. Hellingly School has about 209 students. There is a very small park in Hellingly.  Hellingly has a church called St Peter and St Paul. Children from Hellingly use the church for harvest festivals and Christmas carol services.
Coleridge George Emerson Goode (29 November 1914 – 2 October 2015) was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist. He was best known for his long works with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott.  On 18 May 2011 Goode was honoured with the Services to Jazz Award at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, held at the House of Commons. He died on 2 October 2015, the year after he turned 100.
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian movie director, artist, and professor at the City College of New York. Her best-known movies were "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975). Akerman was born to Jewish parents in Brussels. She was a lesbian. She died on 5 October 2015 in Paris. "Le Monde" reported that she died by suicide after suffering from depression. She was 65.
John Roy "Johnny" Van Zant (born February 27, 1959) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.  Van Zant was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, and of the .38 Special founder, Donnie Van Zant.
Barrow County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. It has a lot of woodlands. Most people that live here are originally from the deep south. The Latino and Hispanic population in the area is growing rapidly. The black population is also growing quickly. There are eight elementary schools, four middle schools and two high schools. The main cities are Bethlehem and Winder (which is also the county seat). The county has a museum, the Barrow County Museum.
Wilford Horace Smith (April 1863 - June 9, 1926) was an American lawyer who specialized in constitutional law. He was the first African-American lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Biography. Smith was born in April of 1863 in Mississippi. His father was from Virginia and his mother from Kentucky. He attended Boston University School of Law and graduated in 1883. He married in 1895, and around the same year moved to Galveston, Texas to practice law. He moved to Manhattan, New York City by 1910. He died on June 9, 1926, in Manhattan, New York City.
Planetary geology (or astrogeology or exogeology) focuses on the geology of any astronomical object like a planet, moon, asteroid, comet or meteorite.  Planetary geologists study many topics. Some of these include the inner structure of the terrestrial planets, volcanism on planets, craters, fluvial and aeolian processes. The planets will not solve all our problems. For example, we are running out of oil. That's vital for us today, and we may have to make it artificially, because we are running out of it. Oil is made by living things which (as far as we know) have no parallel elsewhere in the Solar System. However, there is a possibility of hydrocarbons on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn.
Anthony Conrad Nesty (born November 25, 1967) was a competition swimmer from Suriname. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre butterfly event in 1988. Nesty won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is currently an associate head coach at the University of Florida.
Scout Taylor-Compton (born February 21, 1989) is an American actress. She has done many horror movies, dramas and small television roles, thereby earning the reputation of a scream queen. She played Lita Ford in "The Runaways" (2010). She also played Laurie Strode in "Halloween" (2007) and "Halloween II" (2009). Taylor-Compton was born in Long Beach, California.
Elimination Chamber (2015) (also known as No Escape (2015) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It took place on May 31, 2015 at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was the sixth Elimination Chamber event held by WWE. 20,000 fans bought tickets for the event. The main event saw Dean Ambrose defeat WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins by disqualification. This was also the first event to have a tag team Elimination Chamber match. In the match, The New Day kept their WWE Tag Team Championship.
Raúl Manuel Grijalva (; February 19, 1948 – March 13, 2025) was an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2025. He was a member of the Democratic Party. In April 2024, Grijalva announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He died in Tucson, Arizona from the disease on March 13, 2025, at the age of 77.
Dominique Dropsy (9 December 1951 – 7 October 2015) was a French footballer. He played as a goalkeeper. He earned seventeen international caps for the French national team during the late 1970s, early 1980s. He was a player of RC Strasbourg (1973–1984), he was a member of the French team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. He played in a total of 596 Ligue 1 matches between 1972-1989, a record at that time. Dropsy died in Leuze, France from leukemia, aged 63.
María Elena Lucena Arcuri (25 September 1914 – 7 October 2015) was an Argentine movie actress. She was born in Buenos Aires. She was known for her roles in "Ven, mi corazón te llama" (1942); "Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tiendas" (1942) directed by Manuel Romero with Paulina Singerman; "Cinco Besos" (1945) in which she worked with Mirtha Legrand; "La Rubia Mireya" (1948) by Manuel Romero with Mecha Ortiz for which she won Best Comic Actress from the Argentine Film Critics Association; "Una noche cualquiera" (1951); "El calavera" (1954) by Carlos Borcosque; and "La murga" (1963) by René Mugica. Lucena died on October 7, 2015 in Buenos Aires at the age of 101.
Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer. Royal died in his sleep on October 6, 2015 in Morehead City, North Carolina, aged 73.
Henry DeWitt Hamilton (February 26, 1863 - August 18, 1942) was the Adjutant General of the New York State Militia starting in 1912. Biography. He was born on February 26, 1863 in White Hall, Illinois to Edwin Benjamin Brown Hamilton (1821-1894) and Mary Ann Hildred Chandler. He attended Shurtleff College and Columbia University and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1884. On June 30, 1893 in Newark, New Jersey he married Ada Estelle Brown. He was the Adjutant General of the New York State Militia starting in 1912. In 1923 he was appointed as the secretary of the Rhode Island Democratic Committee. He died on August 18, 1942 in Barrington, Rhode Island. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Hotepsekhemwy was an early Egyptian king, the first ruler of the Second Dynasty. It is not known how long he ruled. The Turin King List has him ruling for 95 years. The Ancient Egyptian historian Manetho reports that the reign of "Boëthôs" lasted for 38 years. Egyptologists now believe Hotepsekhemwy ruled for either 25 or 29 years. Name sources. Hotepsekhemwy's name has been found at Saqqara, Giza, Badari and Abydos, on clay seal impressions, stone vessels and bone cylinders. Several stone vessel inscriptions mention Hotepsekhemwy along with the name of his successor Raneb. The Horus name of Hotepsekhemwy may give clues to the politics of the time. The Egyptian word "Hotep" means "peaceful", "to be pleased", and also "conciliation" or "to be reconciled". So Hotepsekhemwy's full name may be read as "the two powers are reconciled" or "pleasing in powers". This suggests a significant political meaning. "The two powers" could be Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt as well as to the major deities Horus and Seth. From the reign of Hotepsekhemwy onward it became a tradition to write the Horus name and the nebty name in the same way. The Horus name has a clearly defined, symbolic meaning in its translation. Horus- and nebty names being the same might also show, that the Horus name was used when becoming king. Family. The name of Hotepsekhemwy's wife is unknown. There could be a son, Perneb, who had the titles “son of the king” and “priest of Sopdu”. The clay seals with Perneb's name and titles were found in a gallery tomb which belonged to two kings equally, Hotepsekhemwy and his successor, Raneb. It is not possible to know which was his father. Identity. Hotepsekhemwy is known from lists made at the time of Ramesses II. The name "Bedjau" is found on the
The love of Captain Brando () is a 1974 Spanish movie. It was directed by Jaime de Armiñán. Plot. Fernando, an old Republican exiled, returns to the imaginary town of Trescabañas after 35 years of absence. Aurora, the attractive young school teacher of the small town, is rejected by the bigoted neighbors, who see a "dangerous" source of corruption of their students in her methods. Juan, her 13 years old pupil, takes refuge in the imaginary world of his adolescent fantasies to escape from the reality. The film tells the impossible love between Fernando, Aurora and Juan. Reception. The movie was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. It was praised by both the jury and the spectators. Armiñán won the Golden Bear as Best Film.
Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci (born 28January 1938) is a Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Lindahl was professor of medical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg 1978-82. He moved to England and joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) as a researcher in 1981. From 1986 he was the first Director of Cancer Research UK's Clare Hall research institute in Hertfordshire. Since 2015 this has been part of the Francis Crick Institute. When the Royal Society elected him as a Fellow, his achievements were extraordinary (though rather technical): "Dr. Tomas Lindahl is noted for his contributions to the comprehension of DNA repair at the molecular level in bacterial and mammalian cells. He was the first to isolate a mammalian DNA ligase and to describe a totally unanticipated novel group of DNA glycosylases as mediators of DNA excision repair. He has also discovered a unique class of enzymes in mammalian cells, namely the methyltransferases, which mediate the adaptive response to alkylation of DNA and has shown that the expression of these enzymes is regulated by the ada gene... Apart from providing profound insights into the nature of the DNA repair process his very important contributions promise to facilitate the design of more selective chemotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of cancer. Lindahl has also made a number of significant contributions to understanding at the DNA level the mechanism of transformation of B-lymphocytes by the Epstein-Barr virus. The most notable of these was the first description of the occurrence in lymphoid cells of closed circular duplex viral DNA". He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.