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State College is a borough in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania. In the 2020 census, the borough population was 40,501. About 95,000 people live in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the "Centre Region."  Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a "State College, PA" address although are not part of the borough of State College. State College is a college town, dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State).
Bassetki is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Several important archaeological finds were made there. Archaeological finds. In 1975 a fragment of a figure of Naram-Sin of Akkad was found near Bassetki. The statue is now called the Bassetki Statue.  In August–October 2016,  the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies from the University of Tübingen and Hasan Qasim from the Directorate of Antiquities in Dohuk did archaeological work near Bassetki. They found the remains of a large Bronze Age city.  The city was started around 3000 B.C. It lasted for more than 1,200 years. From around 2700 B.C., the city had a wall protecting the upper part of the city from invaders. The city had a large road network, many residential districts and a palace. A contemporary cemetery was located outside the city. The city was connected to other regions of Mesopotamia and Anatolia by a roadway dating from around 1800 B.C. The archeologists also discovered settlement layers dating from the Akkadian Empire.  The finds were announced by the University of Tübingen on 3 November 2016. In the summer of 2017, archaeologists from the University of Tübingen in Germany uncovered a collection of Assyrian cuneiform tablets hidden inside a collection of ceramic jugs. These tablets are 3,200 years old. They indicate that the ancient lost royal city of Mardaman was where Bassetki is today.
Brahmagupta () (born , died ) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the "Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta" (BSS, "correctly established doctrine of Brahma", dated 628). Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with "zero". The texts composed by Brahmagupta were composed in elliptical verse in Sanskrit, as was common practice in Indian mathematics. As no proofs are given, it is not known how Brahmagupta's results were derived.
An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System. It shows the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. It is usually a heliocentric model. The Greeks had working planetaria. The first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704. One was presented to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery – hence the name. They are usually driven by a clockwork mechanism. The globe in the centre represents the Sun, and a planet is at the end of each arm. The first known orrery was the Antikythera mechanism, variously dated from 60 to 150 BC.
Clockwork means the inner workings of mechanical machines clocks (where it is also called a "movement". Also other similar mechanisms with a complex series of gears. A clockwork mechanism usually has a clockwork motor. This has a mainspring, a spiral of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring by "winding it up", turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork gears, until the stored energy is used up. The adjectives "wind-up" and "spring-powered" refer to mainspring-powered clockwork devices. These include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.
Analogue computers are mechanical or electronic devices which solve problems. some are used to control machines. They were once the only way a machine could be controlled, and are still used in cases where digital computers are not the best choice. The abacus, a digital device also sometimes called a computer, was used by Babylonians in c. 2500 BC. The earliest known analogue computer in metal was the Antikythera device. However, this was certainly not the first in other forms. Some people think that mental inventions count as analogue computers, such as the invention of the zero (Ancient Egypt 1700 BC). But in that case almost every invention by mankind would count as an analogue computer, and that is not really how the term is used. Certainly the invention of the slide rule was important for calculations. They were developed in the 17th century by William Oughtred, after John Napier's work on logarithms. Slide rules are definitely mechanical calculating machines. They were the most commonly used tools in science and engineering before the 1960s/1970s. For the industrial revolution the invention of James Watt's governor was critical, because it was a negative feedback control for large pumps and engines. In fact most analogue computers work with continuous data rather that discrete or digital data. They are like abstract models of the real world. An analogue engine models the critical aspects of the real-world engine. Since the middle 20th century some wristwatches have had a circular slide rule built in. They were mostly used in aviation. Such a calculator is considered too technical a device for most other watch wearers. The circular slide rule has not been emulated digitally in any notable applications.
The Tiger keelback ("Rhabdophis tigrinus") is a species of venomous colubrid snake that lives throughout East and Southeast Asia. Forms of defense. The tiger keelback is shy, so it would be rare to be attacked by one, but they sometimes do, and they do need to survive. And in order to survive, a snake must have a good form of defense. And the tiger keelback has a very interesting form of defense. In addition to having ordinary venomous snake fangs, they have another trick up their sleeve. Like the poison dart frog and sea slug, the tiger keelback doesn't bother to produce its own venom - rather, it gets its deadly venom from the toads it eats as part of its normal diet. When the tiger keelback feels even the tiniest bit threatened, it'll angle the two little glands on the back of its neck and use it against the predator, the one who seems a threat to the snake. The liquid, or rather, "fluid," that exits the snake's nuchal glands contains something called bufadienolides, that irritate airways and affect heart muscle.  The snake eats poisonous toads, which fuels the snake's venom. The tiger keelback also eats a few other small vertebrates.
Michael Kent Braun (born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician who has been the 52nd Governor of Indiana since 2025. Braun was the United States Senator of Indiana from 2019 to 2025. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was born in Jasper, Indiana. Braun studied at Wabash College and at Harvard Business School. He served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017, representing the 63rd District. In August 2017, Braun announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. In November 2018, Braun defeated incumbent Senator Joe Donnelly. After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump did not accept his defeat, Braun defended Trump's efforts to overturn the election results and his claims of election fraud. In September 2022, it was reported that Braun would not run for re-election to the Senate and instead run for Governor of Indiana in the 2024 election. In November 2022, he officially announced his candidacy for Indiana governor. He won the election in November 2024.
The flying snake, or "Chrysopelea", is a mildly venomous snake found throughout India to the Indonesian archipelago. It can glide, in an arboreal habitat, going from tree to tree, most likely, much like the draco lizard. They're better at "flying" than another species of animal similar to this - the flying squirrel.  Defense. The flying snake has venom, but much like garter snakes, the snake is so small that the amount of toxins in their saliva is only enough to kill their prey, which will be covered later on in the section about the flying snake's diet. If challenged by an animal far bigger than their venom can bring down, they might bite anyway just to give the predator a great deal of pain, or may choose "flight" rather than "fight" and "fly" away. Diet. The flying snake's usual diet consists mainly of lizards, birds, frogs, bats, small mice and other rodents, which they catch during the day since they're a diurnal creature.  Species of flying snake. There are five known species of flying snake, which are the following:
Adichanalloor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Demographics.  India census, Adichanalloor had a population of 27767 people, with 12980 males and 14787 females.
Alayamon is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Demographics.  India census, Alayamon had a population of 12869 with 6226 males and 6643 females.
Malaise is the general feeling of being sick. It is described as a general discomfort or mild pain throughout the body. Malaise is caused by different illnesses, which can be as mild as a common cold. They can also be worse, such as cancer.
Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. His parents were Giovanni and Annetta and his family grew up with art. His father was a Post-Impressionist painter.  When he was ten, he began drawing with pencil and crayon and sending his drawings to his godfather, Amiet. Then he started to use oils and he painted his first photo of a face at the age of 12. He used his siblings as models.  In 1915, he went to the Evangelical School in the town of Schiers. He left school in 1919. He continued to develop his art skills in Geneva where he enrolled at the École des Arts Industriels. He travelled to Venice, Padua, Florence and Rome. Here, he was influenced by the collections of Egyptian art he studied. African and Oceanic art also inspired him. He also focused on the surrealism of art. Example of this are "Suspended Ball" and "The Palace at 4 a.m". From 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris. He regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and to work on his art. In 1940, Giacometti and his brother, Diego, went to the south of France to escape Nazi invasion. He returned to Paris in 1941. He died on 11 January 1966. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.
Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. It is an urban area located just outside the southern part of the Greater Bay Area and east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 163,542 as of 2020. Salinas is known for its vibrant and large agriculture industry and being "The Salad Bowl of the World" as the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner John Steinbeck, who based several of his novels there.
Spes was the personification of hope in Ancient Rome, especially the hope to have children, and the hope for a good harvest. Spes also has a counterpart in Greek Mythology, called Elpis. Usually, Spes was portrayed as a girl, on her toes. It was depicted as wearing clothes similar to Venus. Spes was venerated in Rome, at least from the 5th century BC.
The Egyptian Premier League is league competition of Egyptian football. It consists of eighteen teams. The teams compete in a home and away league system. The league is known as the Presentation Egyptian Premier League. The highest attendance in the history of the league is 120,000 (in a match betwwen Al Ahly and Zamalek). The Egyptian League was established for the first time in 1948. Al-Ahly Club leads the most winning teams in the championship with 41 titles, followed by Zamalek Club with 12 titles, while the Ismaili Club occupies third place with 3 championships. The five most popular Egyptian clubs are Al-Ahly, Zamalek SC, Ismaili, Al-Ittihad Al-Sakndary and Al-Masry. Also there is a historically established club named Tersana. List of seasons. This is a summary of seasons:
Donald Moffat (26 December 1930 - 20 December 2018) was an English-American actor. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Moffat trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His best known roles as Lyndon B. Johnson in "The Right Stuff" (1983), the corrupt U.S. President in "Clear and Present Danger", as well as Garry, the station commander in "The Thing". Moffat died on 20 December 2018 in Sleepy Hollow, New York from complications of a stroke, six days before his 88th birthday.
The House of Candia was a noble family from Savoy. It held a castle at Chambéry-Le-Vieux under the name "Château de Candie". Members. François de Candie was Viscount of Geneva (Latin:"Vice Dominus Genevarum") and Captain of the castle on the island of the Rhône in 1377.
El-Mansoura () is a city in Egypt. 960,423 people live in it. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate. Name. "Mansoura" in Arabic means "victorious". The city's name came from the Egyptian victory at the El Mansoura Battle over Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade. Geography. Location. Mansoura is on the east bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile. It is about 120 km northeast of Cairo. The town of Talkha is on the other bank of the Nile Climate. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).
Alimukku"'" is a village in Kollam district. The head office of Piravanthoor Panchayat is here. Geography. Nearby locations of interest include the Achenkovil Sastha temple (37 km away on the Alimukku-kottakkayam-mullumala-achenkovil route), Ayiravalli Shiva temple (one of the rarest shiva temples in Alimukkue, having nadaraja vigraha in kerala), State Farming Corporation of Kerala (SFCK) Ltd, and a government cooperative college founded in 2011. The Alimukku-Karavoor road is a bypass road for "sabarimala" travelers
Alumpeedika is a small village/hamlet of Oachira in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. It comes under Clappana Panchayath and belongs to South Kerala division. It is located 31 km North of the district headquarters, Kollam, 1 km from Oachira, and 101 km from the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. Nearby towns include Kayamkulam, Oachira, and Karunagappally. Alumpeedika is near the border of the Kollam and Alappuzha districts. It is near the Arabian Sea. Transportation. Ochira and Kayamkulam Junction train stations are nearby; however, Quilon Junction railway station is 32 km from Alumpeedika.
Anchalumoodu is a town and neighbourhood of the city of Kollam, India.  Speciality of Anchalumoodu is that, 75% of it is surrounded by Ashtamudi lake, which is famous for its scenic beauty and attracts hundreds of tourists around the globe to Kollam. Transport. Rail. The nearest railway station to Anchalummodu is Perinad railway station which is about 2.5 km from the town. All passenger trains stop at this railway station. Kollam Junction Railway Station, one of the biggest junction and busiest railway stations in Kerala is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu. Kundara railway station is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu town. Roads. Anchalumoodu is connected well with roads. The town is 8 km away from Kollam city centre Chinnakada and 8 km from Kundara town. Regular city services and transport buses are there to Kollam city from Anchalumoodu. Bus services are available to important places in Kerala which include Trivandrum, Ernakulam, etc. Education. Anchalummodu has its fair share of privately owned and state owned educational institutions. Institutions of education are affiliated to either the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), or the Kerala State Education Board. Most private schools use English as the medium of instruction whereas government run schools offer both English and Malayalam as a medium of instruction. The Government Higher Secondary School at Anchalumoodu is one of the biggest and reputed government schools in Kollam district. The main higher education centre near to Anchalumoodu is the College of Engineering, Perumon. Places of worship. Anchalumoodu has a mix of different religious community. Main temples in and around Anchalumoodu town include Kadavoor Siva temple, Ashtamudi Virabhadra Swamy temple, Panayam Durga Temple, Sastholi Temple, Kuppana Velayudha Mangalam Temple, kolleril Siva Temple,Karuva Temple, Perumon devi temple Mosques include Kureepuzha Mosque, Karuva Mosque and Chiraiyil Mosque. Important churches are St.Thomas Orthodox Church, Inchavila and the Church at Kureepuzha.
"Not to be confused with the tiger keelback snake" The tiger snake ("Notechis scutatus") is a venomous species of snake inhabiting Australia and its coastal islands, Tasmania included.  Habitat. Tiger snakes generally situate themselves near a source of water, such as a creek or wetland. They live from Western Australia to South Australia, and also in its coastal islands, such as Tasmania. Diet. It eats mainly frogs and tadpoles, but also small rodents, bats, insects, lizards, fish, birds, and they might also eat each other.  Venom and danger levels. Tiger snake venom has myotixons, coagulants, haemolysins, and neurotoxins, all of which are dangerous to people.
Jasmine Ying Thompson (born 8 November 2000 in London) is an English pop singer. Biography. At the age of ten, Thompson started a YouTube-channel. After only one year, she met Robin Schultz, he saw that Jasmine Thompson can become a good singer and asked Thompson to sing with him. So in 2013, when she was 13 years old, her first song was published. She didn't become internationally popular until her song "Ain't Nobody," with that song she got on place one in the German singlecharts. In England she got place 4. She became popular although she is still 17 years old. She lives near London. Family. Thompson is the daughter of a Chinese mother and an English father.
Eduard Nikolayevich Mudrik (; July 18, 1939 in Starobilsk – March 27, 2017 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian footballer. He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team.
The Northern water snake, or "Nerodia sipedon", is a species of non-venomous snake found throughout North America.  Habitat. The Northern water snake is true to its name and is often found swimming in bodies of water including bogs, marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams. They are also sometimes found basking, since like all snakes they're cold-blooded, and they're sometimes found under logs or rocks near a water source.  Diet. The Northern water snake eats mostly small fishes, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals and insects.  Defense. The Northern water snake, if threatened, will bite even though its bite isn't venomous, and musk on you. Their form of defense is very similar to that of Garter snakes.
The battle of Blair Mountain lasted four days. It was a bloody battle, and it was very deadly to fight or be in. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-armed uprisings since the American Civil War.  Dates: Aug 25, 1921 – Sep 2, 1921 Location: Logan County, West Virginia, U.S. Result: Victory for law enforcement and military The Battle of Blair Mountain was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia. Since the late 1800s, the coalfields of the state's Mingo, Logan and McDowell Counties had operated under a repressive company town system.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is a thing some U.S. states and the District of Columbia have said together they will all do together. The NPVIC changes how the Electoral College chooses the president of the United States. The states agree to give all their votes in the Electoral College to the person with the most votes from regular people in the whole country. The agreement makes sure the person with the most votes from regular people will become president. When the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact can really make that happen, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will start working. Now, 17 states and the District of Columbia are in the agreement. Together, they have 209 votes in the Electoral College, which are called "electoral votes". When the agreement has 270 electoral votes, it will start working. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is also pending in 5 states. That means 5 states are thinking about passing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Those 5 states have 50 electoral votes. How the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact works. The NPVIC is an deal between the states. It will start working when its members control most of the Electoral College. Before that happens, the members will give their electoral votes the way they do now. After that, they will give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes from Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (That person wins the "popular vote".) This way, that person will become president. The U.S. Constitution lets state legislatures decide how to give their votes in the Electoral College. It says this in . The Constitution does not say how the states must do this. (However, the 14th Amendment says that states cannot treat some groups of people differently.) In the past, states used different ways. Today, nearly all states give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes in that state, even if they do not have a more than half of the votes in that state. Maine and Nebraska separate their electoral votes between areas called "districts". The NPVIC changes how its members give out their electoral votes. Reasons for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. In the past, some people
is a puzzle video game released by the Taito Corporation in 1990. Gameplay. Palamedes is a puzzle game requiring the player to match the dice they are holding to the dice at the top of the screen. Using the "B" button, the player can change the number on his/her dice, then throw the dice using the "A" button when it matches the dice at the top of the screen, which wipes the target dice off the screen. The player can play in "solitaire" mode against the computer or another player, or "tournament" mode against AI opponents. There are six sides and numbers on the dice, making an attempt to match all the numbers on the screen and eliminating them as a challenge. Ports. Ports of the game were published for the NES, MSX, FM-Towns and Game Boy by HOT-B. The Japan-only sequel, "Palamedes 2: Star Twinkles", was released in 1991 for the NES by HOT-B. It featured most of the same basic gameplay elements as the original but with the play field scrolling in the opposite direction. Reception. On release, "Famitsu" magazine scored the Game Boy version of the game a 22 out of 40.
Women had many roles in the American Revolution. Some were "Camp followers" equivalent to Military service Units (food, nursing, repairing clothing, etc). Many helped organize boycotts of British goods. Others took a more active role:
Hugo Romeo Guerra Cabrera (25 February 1966 – 11 May 2018) was a Uruguayan football player. He was born in Canelones, Uruguay. Guerra played for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Huracán, Boca Juniors and Ferro Carril Oeste in the Primera División de Argentina. Guerra died from cardiac arrest on 11 May 2018 at the age of 52.
A gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18, 2018. The attack left ten people dead (eight students and two teachers). At least 13 people from the shooting were treated at Texas hospitals, including eight students. Six of the eight students have already been discharged. Police identified the alleged shooter as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who was taken into custody. A second person, an unidentified 18-year-old, was also taken into custody. President Donald Trump expressed his thoughts in a press conference shortly following the shootings, and promised action from his administration. References.