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Warszawa Centralna (official Polish name since 2019 Dworzec Centralny im. Stanisława Moniuszki), in English known as Warsaw Central Station, is the main railway station in Warsaw, Poland. Completed in 1975, the station is on the Warsaw Cross-City Line and has four underground island platforms with eight tracks. It is served by the long-distance domestic and international trains of PKP Intercity and Polregio as well as some of the regional trains operated by Koleje Mazowieckie. Nextto the north side of the building is a bus station that serves as the central hub for night bus lines, and Złote Tarasy shopping center. History. Warsaw Central was constructed as a flagship project of the Polish People's Republic during the 1970s economic boom, and was intended to replace the inadequate and obsolete Warszawa Główna railway station.
The University of Silesia in Katowice () is an autonomous state-run university in Katowice, Silesia Province, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergraduate, masters, and PhD degree programs, as well as postgraduate, postdoctoral research, habilitation, and continuous education and training programs.
Warszawa Zachodnia station, in English Warsaw West, is a railway and long-distance bus station in Warsaw, Poland on the border of Ochota and Wola districts. The railway station is the westernmost terminus of the Warsaw Cross-City Line. It serves trains from PKP Intercity, Polregio, Koleje Mazowieckie, Szybka Kolej Miejska and Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa as well as international trains passing through Warsaw. It is one of the busiest railway stations in Poland, with over 800 daily trains. Despite being one of the chief railway stations on the line towards Warszawa Centralna, there has been limited development of the station since its construction in 1936. However, the station is undergoing an extensive modernization between 2020 and 2023. History. The station was built as part of the development of the Warsaw Railway Junction that was begun in 1919. Warszawa Zachodnia was opened in 1936 as the most westerly station on the Warsaw Cross-City Line. It was not until the 1970s that an underpass was built to connect the platforms and a station building was built on the northern side. In 1975, a platform for Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa trains was added. In 1980, the south side of the station was developed, with a road underpass being built to connect Wola and Ochota and the long-distance bus station added. The Warszawa Wola railway station, built in the 1980s just away from Warszawa Zachodnia, on 20 May 2012 was joined to Warszawa Zachodnia station as Platform 8,for trains to Nasielsk, Ciechanów and Działdowo. In 2015 a new station building was opened at the southern side of the station along with several commercial office buildings, which among others host companies of the Polish State Railways, built along Warsaw's Jerozolimskie Avenue on grounds belonging to the station complex.
Go_A () is a Ukrainian folktronica band formed in 2012. The group is made of four members: Kateryna Pavlenko, Taras Shevchenko, Ihor Didenchuk and Ivan Hryhoriak. The band represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, performing "", and placed fifth in the final. Didenchuk is also a member of the Kalush Orchestra, that won first place in Eurovision 2022. They only sing in the Ukrainian language, as a sign of independence from Russia. Name. The group's name, Go_A, combines the English word "Go" as in "movement" and the first letter of the Greek alphabet "" (Alpha) as in "the start". This means that the band wants to return to their cultural roots. History. Early years (2012–2019). The group started in 2012, when the sound producer Taras Shevchenko (not to be confused with the poet of the same name) met the ethnic singer Kateryna Pavlenko. The two musicians liked the mix between folk music and electronic music and they decided to form the group. They made their first song, " («»), in December 2012. The band became more famous in 2015, with the single " («»), that won the Ukrainian national competition "The Best Track in Ukraine 2015". In November 2016, Go_A made their first studio album, "" («», "Follow the Tune"), under . Eurovision Song Contest (2020–2021). On 22 February 2020, Go_A won "Vidbir 2020" with the song "" («», "Nightingale"). The winner song of that competition becomes the representative Ukrainian song for Eurovision Song Contest 2020. Go_A's song won with 12 points, the highest number of points in "Vidbir". It was the first time in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest that Ukraine had a song fully in the Ukrainian language. However, the COVID-19 pandemic stopped Eurovision before it started. The next year, the group took part
Darnytsia () is the largest Ukrainian Railways station (and the main freight station) of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, located in the city's Left-bank Darnytsia area. Built in the nineteenth century, the Darnytsia railway hub has grown into a gigantic railway center, expanding for more than 10 km along the main east–west route. Started in 2004, construction is under way at the new Darnytsia railway terminal complex. When finished, the station will serve long-distance passenger trains, house own station of the Kyiv metropolitan, a two-storey car parking, a tunnel for automobile and tram traffic. The complex is meant to become Kyiv's second long-distance terminal, easing the traffic tension in the main Kyiv Passenger railway station.
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS is a Swiss football club from Neuchâtel which plays in the Swiss Challenge League.
Superwoman is a name used by several characters in the DC Comics universe as female versions of Superman. The Superwoman concept was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appearing in "Action Comics" #60 (1943). Primarily this alias is used by an evil counterpart to Wonder Woman in the Crime Syndicate, evil versions of Justice League from another universe. The first one was Lois from Earth-Three. Her Post-Flashpoint counterpart from Earth 3 is also an evil version of Lois Lane and uses the Lasso of Submission as her main weapon. She is the lover of Owlman and the stepmother of Luthor-El; Ultraman's son. During the Infinite Frontier, she was replaced in the syndicate by the amazon Donna Troy. The name Superwoman has also been used by female counterparts to Superman; with the main ones being his longtime allies Lucy Lane, Lois Lane and Lana Lang.
Lucy Lane is a fictional supporting character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by Otto Binder and Curt Swan, first appearing in "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" #36. (1959) Fictional character biography. She is the younger sister of Lois Lane, the daughter of Ella Lane and General Sam Lane. Formerly an airline stewardess, she has been romantically involved with Jimmy Olsen and later joined the military. During "Superman: New Krypton" she joined her father as a member of Project 7734 and used an experimental procedure to duplicate Kryptonian-like powers, becoming the ruthlessly evil Superwoman. In other media. She was played by Maureen Teefy in the 1984 movie "Supergirl" and Peyton List in the series "Smallville". Jenna Dewan played two alternate versions of Lucy in the Arrowverse series "Supergirl" (2015–2016) and "Superman &amp; Lois" (2022–2023).
Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi ("Kyiv-Passenger", ) is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. The station is a railway hub with several railroad station buildings, along with its own repair facilities the Kyiv Electric Railcar Repair Shop, a railway depot with railyard, and the railway sports complex. The station is part of the so-called Kyiv Southern Railway loop. There were more than 170,000 passengers per day in 2005). The Central and Southern (Pivdennyi) Station buildings are located on both sides of the tracks used by long-distance trains, connected with an overpass. They serve international trains, most Ukrzaliznytsia passenger trains, some suburban trains, and the Kyiv Boryspil Express to the Boryspil International Airport. Nrext to the Central building is the Suburban (Prymiskyi) station building which serves short-distance service for suburbs (including dacha areas), minor city stations, and nearby regions as well as the Kyivpastrans' urban rail passing through the Northern (Pivnichna) railway stop. The Kyiv Metro station "Vokzalna" of the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line is the station's main intersection with city transport. The Kyiv tram station Starovokzalna (the terminal of Kyiv's Right-Bank high-speed tram line) is also adjacent via a passageway.
Jonathan Dale Crenshaw (1972 – May 12, 2023) was an American artist with no arms from Florida. He showed his art on the street. He was shown in a pizza review. Arrest. In 2018, he was stopped by police for attacking a tourist with scissors and claims he was trying to protect himself and he was let go.  Death. Crenshaw died on May 12, 2023. His death wasn't reported for almost a year.
Dot’s Pretzels is an American snack food. They are part of The Hershey Company. History. Dorthy Henke, who found the company made pretzels due to harsh weather and used seasoning inspired by her family’s cooking. She sold her pretzels to events in Arizona. There are 400 production places. CEO of Hershey, Michele Buck bought the company for $1.2 billion. In 2023, the factory in Velva, North Dakota was closed. They offered to help the employees who lost their jobs.
Lviv-Holovnyi railway station is the main railway terminal in Lviv, Ukraine. It is one of the most notable pieces of Art Nouveau architecture in former Galicia. The station was opened to the public in 1904, and celebrated its centenary on 26 March 2004. It handles over 1.2 million passengers and moves 16 thousand tons of freight a month. History. Construction of an extensive network of railways within the Austro-Hungarian Empire allowed the city of Lemberg (its German name at the time) to keep its position at the crossing of several notable trade routes. As the capital of Galicia, the city needed a new, representative and large railway station that would suit the city needs and replace the old neo-Gothic railway station built between 1861 and 1862 with the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis.
The Qassam rocket is a missile created by the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The rockets cannot be fired near civilian areas and especially not in huge population centers. Since 2001 when the first Qassam rocket was made, there have been 3 different models of the Qassam rocket. Rockets for other militant groups in Palestine are also called Qassams by the Israeli media.
The Gare de l'Est (; English: "Station of the East" or "East station"), officially Paris Est, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It is in the 10th arrondissement, not far southeast from the Gare du Nord. Opened in 1849, it is currently the fifth-busiest of the six main railway stations in Paris before the Gare d'Austerlitz. The Gare de l'Est is the western terminus of the Paris–Strasbourg railway and Paris–Mulhouse railway which goes to Basel, Switzerland. History. The Gare de l'Est was opened in 1849 by the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Paris à Strasbourg (Paris–Strasbourg Railway Company) under the name "Strasbourg platform" ("Embarcadère de Strasbourg"); an official inauguration with President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte took place the next year. The platform corresponds today with the hall for main-line trains. Designed by architect François Duquesnay, it was renamed the "Gare de l'Est" in 1854, after the expansion of service to Mulhouse.
The National Space Society (NSS) is a 501(c)(3) space advocacy organization. It is a member of the Independent Charities of America and takes part in the Combined Federal Campaign every year. Its vision is "People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity." It has four main goals:
In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that says how steep a line is. It is calculated by dividing the vertical change, which is called the rise, by the horizontal change, which is called the run, between two different points on the line.
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and the RER D accounting for around 110 million and the RER A accounting for 38 million, making it the second-busiest station of France after the Gare du Nord and one of the busiest in Europe. The station is located in the 12th arrondissement, on the right bank of the river Seine, in the east of Paris. Opened in 1849, it is the northern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the South of France. The station is served by high-speed TGV trains to Southern and Eastern France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain. The station also hosts regional trains and the RER and also the Gare de Lyon Métro station. Main line trains depart from 32 platforms in two distinct halls: Hall 1, which is the older train shed, contains tracks labelled with letters from A to N, while the modern addition of Hall 2 contains tracks which are numbered from 5 to 23. There are four platforms for the RER underneath the main lines.
The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final section through Lyon was opened. The opening of the LGV Sud-Est high speed line from Paris to Lyon in 1981, the LGV Rhône-Alpes in 1992 and the LGV Méditerranée in 2001 has reduced its importance for passenger traffic. Route. The Paris–Marseille railway leaves the Gare de Lyon in Paris in southeastern direction. It crosses the river Marne at Charenton-le-Pont, and follows the right Seine bank upstream until Crosne, where it follows a course east of the Forest of Sénart. It crosses the Seine near Melun and follows the left Seine bank upstream, along the Forest of Fontainebleau. Beyond Montereau-Fault-Yonne, the railway follows the left Yonne bank upstream. At Migennes the Yonne is crossed, and the small rivers Armançon, Brenne and Oze are followed upstream. Beyond Blaisy-Bas the railway enters the watershed of the Mediterranean Sea, descending the Ouche river valley to central Dijon. At Dijon the railway turns south, running along the east side of the Côte d'Or escarpment with its famous vineyards. At Chalon-sur-Saône the railway reaches the river Saône, and follows its right bank downstream until the city centre of Lyon. Before and after the Lyon-Perrache station it crosses the Saône and the Rhône respectively, and continues downstream along the left Rhône bank. Between Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or (north of Lyon) and La Guillotière (a southern quarter of Lyon) there is a parallel line to its east, on which the other main station of Lyon, Part-Dieu, is situated. There is also a long parallel line on the right bank of the Rhône between Lyon and Nîmes, which is mainly used for freight
Marseille-Saint-Charles (French: "Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles") is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille, France. It is the southern end of the Paris–Marseille railway and western end of the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway. It opened on 8 January 1848. It was built for the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée on the land where the Saint Charles Cemetery used to be. The station is on top of a small hill and is linked to the city centre by a set of stairs. Since 2001, the TGV has dramatically reduced the travel time between Marseille and Northern France. Traffic has increased from 7.1 million annual passengers in 2000 to 16.5 million in 2017. This makes the station the eleventh busiest in France. New underground parking lots and a tunnel have allowed the station to be renewed. A new hall, the "Halle Honnorat", was created for shops and services. A new pedestrian square was created, between the station and the Aix-Marseille University site of Saint-Charles. New pedestrian spaces with cafe terraces have also been created on top of the grand stairs. In December 2007, a €230 million modernisation was completed.
Aix-Marseille University is a public research university in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, asked the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of Provence. It is the fourth-oldest university in France. It came into its current form by a merger of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University in January 2012. It is the largest university in the Francophone world, with about 80,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the French-speaking world at €750 million. It is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is ranked within the top 4 universities in France according to CWTS and USNWR. There are five main campuses in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. AMU also owns and operates facilities in Arles, Aubagne, Avignon, Digne-les-Bains, Gap, La Ciotat, Lambesc and Salon-de-Provence. The university headquarters are in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille. It has produced many notable alumni in the fields of law, politics, business, science, academia, and the arts. Four of its alumni and faculty have won Nobel Prizes. One won the Pulitzer Prize twice. Four won César Awards. Alumni have also been heads of state or government, parliamentary speakers, government ministers, ambassadors and members of the constituent academies of the . It has hundreds of research and teaching partnerships, including close collaboration with the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. AMU is a member of numerous academic organisations including the European University Association and the Mediterranean Universities Union.
Rail transport in the Netherlands has a dense railway network which connects nearly all the major towns and cities. There are as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands. The network has on of track. Three-quarters of the lines have been electrified. The Dutch rail network is mostly for passenger transport. Rail travel is the majority of the distance travelled on Dutch public transport. The national rail infrastructure is managed and maintained by the government agency ProRail, and a number of operators have concessions to operate their trains. The entire network is standard gauge. The Netherlands is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), and its country code is 84. Most Dutch trains have Wi-Fi. They don't have food, except on some international trains, due to the short distances involved.
Fosterøyane is an archipelago in Svalbard. There are 3 islands in the group. It is between Nordaustlandet and Spitsbergen.
A rijksmonument (, ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. At the end of February 2015, the Netherlands had 61,822 listed national heritage sites. About 1,500 of them are archaeological sites. History and criteria. Until 2012, a place had to be over 50 years old to be eligible. The law governing the monuments is the "Monumentenwet van 1988" ("Monument Law of 1988"). The organization responsible for caring for the monuments, which used to be called "Monumentenzorg", is now called Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. In June 2009, the Court of The Hague decided that individual purchasers of buildings that were listed as rijksmonuments would be exempt from paying transfer tax, effective from 1 May 2009. Previously this exemption had only applied to legal entities. Some examples. Many Dutch tourist attractions are rijksmonuments, such as castles or windmills. Some notable windmills are De Schoolmeester, Westzaan, a smock mill in North Holland, the only wind powered paper mill in the world, listed as rijksmonument number 40013; De Wieker Meule, De Wijk, in Drenthe province, built in 1829 and restored to working order, listed as rijksmonument number 39657; and Mellemolen, a hollow post mill in Friesland, also restored to working order, listed as rijksmonument number 35937. Among the rijksmonuments are also many churches. Most rijksmonuments are residential buildings, such as houses and villas.
Jaish e-Mohammed (Urdu: جَيْشِ مُحَمَّدٍؐ) is a militant group active in Kashmir. The group's goal is to put Indian controlled Kashmir into the control of Pakistan. The group has also been allegedly supported by the Pakistani government in its efforts to take control of Indian controlled Kashmir.
Utrecht Centraal, officially Station Utrecht Centraal (), is the transit hub with three bicycle parks, two bus stations, two tram stops and the central railway station for Utrecht, Netherlands. It is the biggest train station in the Netherlands. Both the railway station and the bus station are the largest and busiest in the Netherlands. The bicycle parking station on the east side is the largest in the world. The railway station has sixteen platform tracks (of which twelve are through tracks) and 207,360 passengers per day, excluding transfers. Because of its central location in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal is the most important railway hub of the country with more than 1,000 departures per day. History. The first railway station at the site was opened on December 18, 1843, when the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij opened the first station on Utrecht territory. In 1938, the station became the central station as the "Maliebaanstation", on the other side of the city, was closed and the line from Hilversum was diverted into the central station. The station building of 1865 remained in place, though a fundamental renovation was done in 1936. Two years later, a fire burned down most of the building, which was later rebuilt. The station building was demolished in the 1970s to make way for Hoog Catharijne, then Europe's largest enclosed shopping mall, which opened on 17 December 1973. From that moment onwards, the station no longer had a real entrance; the passageways of the shopping mall just continued into the station. In 1989 the station hall was enlarged (tripling the original size) to increase capacity. In 1995, the station hall was again enlarged, with a new platform. Between 2011 and 2016, the station underwent a major reconstruction as one of the NSP projects of the Dutch government and as part of a general reconstruction of the Utrecht station area. The station hall was replaced by a new, much larger hall, housing all modes of public transport. The new structure with its curved roof
Several companies provide rail transport in Portugal. Portugal is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Portugal is 94. There are rail links with Spain, which uses the same Iberian broad gauge. Network. Infraestruturas de Portugal is the rail network administrating company, taking over control from REFER on 1 June 2015. The length of Portugal's railway system is as follows:
The International Union of Railways (French: "Union internationale des chemins de fer", UIC) is an international rail transport industry body. Members. When founded in 1922 the UIC had 51 members from 29 countries, including Japan and China. They were joined by members from the Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa. As of February 2024, the UIC has 218 members across five continents. Of these there are: