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Angelo Fausto Coppi (15 September 1919 – 2 January 1960) was an Italian racing cyclist. He was born in Castellania. He was one of the most successful and most popular cyclists of all time. He won the Tour de France twice, in 1949 and 1952. He won the Giro d'Italia five times, in 1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953. He also held the World Hour record (the farthest cycled in one hour) from 1942 to 1956. He fought in the Second World War. He was a prisoner of war of the British. It is possible that Coppi could have won many more races in the five years that were lost because of the war. Coppi died of malaria in Tortoni in 1960 at the age of 40. Giro d'Italia:  Winner overall classification Winner stage 11 Giro di Toscana Giro dell'Emilia Giro del Veneto Tre Valli Varesine Hour record - 45.798 km (Milan, Velodromo Vigorelli)  Italian National Road Race Championship Milan-Sanremo Giro di Lombardia Grand Prix des Nations Giro della Romagna Giro d'Italia: Winner stages 4, 13 and 14 Giro d'Italia:  Winner overall classification Winner stages 4, 8 and 16 Giro di Lombardia Grand Prix des Nations  Italian National Road Race Championship Giro della Romagna Giro del Veneto Giro dell'Emilia Milan-Sanremo Giro di Lombardia Giro d'Italia:  Winner mountains classification Winner stages 16 and 17 Giro dell'Emilia Tre Valli Varesine Tour de France:  Winner overall classification  Winner mountains classification Winner stages 7, 17 and 20 Giro d'Italia:  Winner overall classification  Winner mountains classification Winner stages 4, 11 and 17 Milan-Sanremo Giro di Lombardia  Italian National Road Race Championship Giro della Romagna Giro del Veneto
Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya (born July 16, 1964) is a Spanish retired road racing cyclist. He was a professional cyclist from 1985 to 1996. He was the first person to win the Tour de France five times in a row from 1991 to 1995. He also won the Giro d'Italia two times, in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he cycled 53.040 kilometres in one hour, which was a new hour record. He also won the Olympic Gold medal for the time trial in 1996. Indurain was very good at time trials. In the five Tours de France that he won, he only won two stages that were not time trials. He finished time trials much quicker than other cyclists, so he did not need to attack in mountain stages. In the 1996 Tour de France, he had a bad cold and he could not win. He retired later in 1997.  1985: Withdrew, 4th stage  1986: Withdrew, 8th stage  1987: 97th  1988: 47th  1989: 17th  1990: 10th  1991: 1st  1992: 1st  1993: 1st  1994: 1st  1995: 1st  1996: 11th  1992: 1st  1993: 1st  1994: 3rd  1985: 84th  1986: 92nd  1987: Withdrew  1988: Withdrew  1989: Withdrew  1990: 7th  1991: 2nd  1996: Withdrew, 12th stage  World Time-Trial Championship (1995)  Summer Olympics Men's Individual Time Trial (1996)  Dauphiné Libéré (1995, 1996)  Paris
Shimon Peres (; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel. He also served as Interim Prime Minister twice. Peres has been a member of 12 cabinets. His political career spanned over 66 years. He was one of three leaders who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. The others were Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. All three got the prizes for trying to make peace in the Middle East. On September 13, 2016, Peres, aged 93, suffered a severe stroke and was hospitalized in Ramat Gan, Israel. He had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. Two days later, he was reported as being in a serious but stable condition. However, on September 26, an examination found damage to his brainstem. He died on September 28 of complications from the stroke. His cousin was the American Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall. Their fathers were brothers. Other websites.
Ehud Olmert, Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט , (born 30 September 1945 in Binyamina) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician. He was Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert was a Member of Knesset from 1974 to 2009, with an interruption from 1999 to 2003. He was also mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2006 he switched from Likud to newly formed Kadima. He was the head of Kadima until September 2008. He was the 12th Prime Minister of Israel between 14 April 2006 and 31 March 2009, succeeding Ariel Sharon and succeeded by Benjamin Netanyahu. From February 2016 till July 2017, Olmert was spending time in prison because of a felony conviction of breach of trust and bribery.
Kadima, Hebrew: קדימה - "Forward", is an Israeli political party.  Its ideology is centrist liberal, and Zionist.  Kadima believed in both Israel's security and continuing the peace process, and supported negotiating an agreement for peace with the Palestinians, but is de facto defunct. Kadima was founded on November 24, 2005 by Ariel Sharon, as a splitting from Likud. Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: / (-2).
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Cyrillic: ; born 27 June 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 4. She won the US Open singles title in 2004 and was the runner-up in singles at the French Open in 2006 and the US Open in 2007, losing both finals to Justine Henin in straight sets.
Jacques Anquetil (8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987), was a French road racing cyclist. He was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. Anquetil was very good at riding time trials, and this helped him to win grand tours. He also won the Giro d'Italia in 1960 and 1964, and the Vuelta a España in 1963. This made him the first cyclist to win all three grand tours. In 1956 he rode 46.159 kilometres in one hour, making a new hour record. Anquetil was born in Mont-Saint-Aigan. He died of stomach cancer in Rouen.   1957 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 16 days in "maillot jaune"  1959 - 3rd overall  1961 - 1st overall; 2 stage wins; 21 days in "maillot jaune"  1962 - 1st overall; 2 stage wins; 3 days in "maillot jaune"  1963 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 5 days in "maillot jaune"  1964 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 5 days in "maillot jaune"  1959 - 2nd overall; Stage 2 ITT win; Stage 19 ITT win; 7 days in "maglia rosa"  1960 - 1st overall; Stage 9b ITT win; Stage 14 ITT win; 11 days in "maglia rosa"  1961 - 2nd overall; Stage 9 ITT win; 4 days in "maglia rosa"  1964 - 1st overall; Stage 5 ITT win; 17 days in "maglia rosa"  1963 - 1st overall; 1 stage win; 16 days in "jersey de oro"  Super Prestige Pern
The hour record for bicycles is the record for the longest length rode in one hour on a bicycle. The first recorded hour record was in 1876 when F. L. Dodds rode 26.508 kilometres on a penny-farthing bicycle. Many people since then have tried to be the fastest. People trying to break the record have helped to change bicycle designs. In 1972, the Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx set a record of 49.431 kilometres. It was the record for twelve years. Since that time technology has allowed much more aerodynamic bicycle designs. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has made his design standard for their competitions. There is now another record, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHVA) hour record, for other designs. The hour record for regular bicycles is called the UCI record.  Ondřej Sosenka holds the UCI hour record at 49.700 kilometres. Sam Whittingham holds the IHVA hour record at 86.752 kilometres.
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko (, born 8 August 1986) is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open in 2008. The younger sister of Alyona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She plays right-handed and turned pro in 2000.
Melinda Czink (born October 22, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian professional female tennis player. On March 1, 2004, Czink reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 64.
Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982 in Madrid) is a Spanish road racing cyclist for the Astana Team. He won the 2007 Tour de France riding for the Discovery Channel team. He also won the 2008 Giro d'Italia riding for Astana. Contador is very good at climbing mountains. Contador became a professional in 2003. In 2004 he started to have headaches. A few days later, while he was racing, he crashed and went to hospital. There, doctors found a problem with a blood vessel in his brain. He needed some dangerous surgery, and needed many months to recover (get better). In 2005 he was healthy, and rode in his first Tour de France. He finished in 31st place.  In 2006 his team had some trouble. A doctor in Spain had given drugs to athletes to help them to win. Some cyclists on Contador's team had worked with the doctor. The police wanted to check to see if Contador had taken drugs. As a result, Contador could not enter the 2006 Tour de France. Later the police decided that Contador had not taken drugs from the doctor. The case about the doctor was called the Operación Puerto doping case, and caused many problems in cycling. 2007 season. Contador had to find a new team. In January 2007, he joined the Discovery Channel team, and won the famous Paris-Nice race in March. In the Tour de France, he won the 14th stage, and was second in the race to Michael Rasmussen. Rasmussen had to leave the race because he had not been honest about where he was training before the race. Because of this, Contador wore the yellow jersey, meaning he was in first place in the race, from stage 18. In stage 19, a time trial, he did not lose too much time, and started the last stage with a 23 seconds lead over Cadel Evans in second place. Evans and Contador finished with the same time, so Contador won the 2007 Tour de France. 2008 season. The Discovery Channel
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina (), born April 27, 1986) is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar ethnicity. She was born in Moscow, Russia. She is the younger sister of former world number one men's player, Marat Safin. She was coached by Glen Schaap, former trainer of Nadia Petrova. Her new coach is Željko Krajan. Her mother, Rauza Islanova used to be her trainer when she was younger and still gives advice to Dinara. Dinara Safina's father is director of the Spartak tennis club in Moscow. She has won one Grand Slam title, the women's double title at the 2007 U.S. Open with her partner Nathalie Dechy. She also reached the final of the French Open in 2008, losing to current World No. 1 Ana Ivanović.
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born April 25, 1980) is a Spanish road racing cyclist. He rides for the Caisse d'Epargne team. Valverde won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège race in 2006 and 2008. He was second in the 2006 Vuelta a España and sixth in the 2007 Tour de France. He won the 2008 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, an important race before the 2008 Tour de France. This means that many people think he will do well in the Tour.  Valverde is a strong climber, sprinter and time trialist.  U23 Road Race Champion  2nd overall, World Cycling Championship Road Race  3rd overall, Vuelta a España  1st, Stages 9 and 15  1st, Combined Classification  2nd, Points Classification  1st, GP Primavera  1st, GP Villafranca de Ordizia  2 stage wins, Troféu Joaquim Agostinho  Stage win, Vuelta al País Vasco  Stage win, Vuelta a Aragón  4th overall and 1 stage win, Vuelta a España  1st overall and 3 stage wins, Vuelta a Burgos  1st overall and 2 stage wins, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana  1st overall, Vuelta a Murcia  1st, Trofeo Cala Millor - Cala Ratjada  3 stage wins Vuelta a Castilla y León  Stage win, Vuelta al País Vasco  1st, GP Primavera  1st, Stage 10, Tour de France  1st, Stage 8, Paris-Nice  1st, Trofeo Manacor  1st, Trofeo Soller  1st, Stages 3 and 4, Vuelta al País Vasco  2nd overall
In many racing sports an athlete will compete (take part) in a time trial. This is when the athlete races over a course as fast as he can. In cross country skiing and biathlon competitions, a skier will start every 30 to 60 seconds. These are called interval starts. In cycling a time trial (TT) can be a single track race, or an individual time trial on the road. Time trials are often a part of a stage race, for example the Tour de France. In a team time trial in cycling, a team of riders will race together. A group can ride faster than just one rider because riders following the leader are sheltered from the wind.  In rowing, time trial races, where the boats start every 10 to 20 seconds, are usually called "head races".
The markhor ("Capra falconeri") is a large goat. It is found in woodland in Central Asia, Karakoram and the Western Himalayas, this is the National Animal of Pakistan.  Markhor are 65 to 115 centimetres tall at the shoulder. They usually weigh from 40 to 110 kilograms. Females are a tan colour with a white underbelly and a pattern of black and white on the legs. Males are a lighter tan colour with the same white underbelly and pattern on the legs. Males also have a black face and lots of long white fur on their neck and chest which can grow down to their knees. Both males and females have corkscrew-shaped horns which can grow up to 160 cm / 64 inches long in males, and up to 25 cm / 10 inches in females. Markhor live in places 500 to 3500 metres (1,500 to 11,000 feet) high, where they eat grass, leaves. Markhor often stand on their back legs to reach the top leaves of trees. Markhor are active (move around more) in the early morning and late afternoon. Females gather in herds (groups) of up to nine animals. Males usually live alone. The markhor is the National animal of Pakistan. The word "Markhor" is Persian for "Snake Eater". They live in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Indian Kashmir Valley. In Pakistan, they live in the Chitral, Ghizar and Hunza regions. There are fewer markhor left because human beings take livestock to eat grass in the places where the markhor lives. Other people have killed the markhor for its horns. As of 2012, the IUCN said there were probably 2,500 markhor left in the wild.
She's So Unusual was the first solo album by the American pop singer, songwriter and actress Cyndi Lauper. It was released in 1983. It included the popular single, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". The album contained four Top 5 singles. The most ever from a single album.
Betta is a genus of fish. "Betta splendens" is a common species of this genus. Other species of betta are rarer.  "Betta" are very brightly coloured and can often be purchased in pet stores. Other species of betta are more rare. Males often show their aggression towards both male and female bettas by flaring at one another.  Betta are surface breathers and are found in small bodies of water which are full of fallen leaf litter and peat. This gives the betta many places to hide. Mating. Male bettas breathe air from the surface to make a bubble nest to attract a female for mating. To get a female betta to lay her eggs in the nest, a male betta shows his fins and dances around her.  After that, the male betta continues to annoy and bully the female betta. This shows that the male is stronger than the female, and makes the female betta fish tired.  A healthy and strong female betta lays eggs several days after a male starts to pursue her. At that time, the male helps the female by pressing on her belly to squeeze out the eggs. It takes several days to lay all of the eggs. Once the female Betta lays her eggs in the nest, the male Betta will fertilize them by releasing his sperm over the eggs. Types of betta fish. There are long-fin and short-fin betta fish. Many types of betta fish have not yet been found, and many people breed bettas to create entirely new breeds. Some are colorful, but others have just one or two colors. Diet. In the wild, betta fish eat brine shrimp, mosquito larvae, small fly larvae, and common water fleas (Dapnia). As pets, bettas can be fed worms, brine shrimp, or fruit flies. They enjoy some human foods, including chicken, fresh raw seafood, and fruits like mangos, bananas, and melons.  Conditions in captivity. Pet betta fish need 20-cubed tanks for a living. If male bettas are put in the same tank, they will fight until one of them dies. Female bettas can live in the same tank.
Lichtenstein is a small town in Saxony. It is between Zwickau and Chemnitz. Lichtenstein has the second name "Stadt im grünen" (engl. "town in green"). Lichtenstein has several sights. There are 7 museums, 2 theaters, 1 castle and 7 nature parcs. The most famous museum of Lichtenstein is the "Miniwelt". There are many world sights in small, for example the statue of Liberty. As of December 2011, 12,613 people live there. Lichtenstein consists of 3 parts the main town, Lichtenstein and the two small villages "Heinrichsort" and "Rödlitz". Neighbour towns are Bernsdorf, Glauchau, St. Egidien, Mülsen, Hohndorf and Oelsnitz. History. Lichtenstein was founded in 1212. The church of St. Laurentius, one of two churches, was build in 1261. In the 12th century was built the castle of Lichtenstein. The "Schönburgs" live there until 1945. Politics. The council consists of 22 councillors and the mayor. Wolgang Sedner is the mayor of Lichtenstein, since 1990. He won the last vote in June 2008 in the second ballot.
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician. He was elected to be the governor of Massachusetts in 2006. He is the first African-American to be elected governor of that state. He is only the third African-American to be elected a governor of any state in the United States. Patrick ran as a Democrat. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on 31 July 1956, is a lawyer, and holds two degrees from Harvard University. On November 11, 2019, "The New York Times" reported that Patrick was thinking of a 2020 presidential candidacy. He announced his candidacy three days later on November 14. He ended his campaign on February 12, 2020 a day after the New Hampshire primary.
The structure of the Earth is divided into layers. These layers are both physically and chemically different. The Earth has an outer solid layer called the crust, a highly viscous layer called the mantle, a liquid layer that is the outer part of the core, called the outer core, and a solid center called the inner core. The shape of the earth is an oblate spheroid, because it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator. The boundaries between these layers were discovered by seismographs which showed the way vibrations bounced off the layers during earthquakes. Between the Earth's crust and the mantle is a boundary called the moho. It was the first discovery of a major change in the Earth's structure as one goes deeper. A full explanation of these effects is not yet clear. It seems that the high temperature and pressure cause changes in the crystallization of minerals, so that the composition might be a kind of changing mixture of liquid and crystals. The moho. The moho, properly called the Mohorovičić discontinuity, is the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle. It was discovered by Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić in 1909. He discovered that seismograms of earthquakes showed two kinds of seismic waves. There is a shallow slower wave which arrives first, and a deep faster wave which arrives second. He reasoned that the deeper wave changed speed as it got just below the mantle. The reason it went faster was that the material of the mantle was different from that of the crust. The discontinuity lies 3040 km below the surface of continents, and less deep below the ocean floors. Drilling holes. Geologists have been trying to get at the Moho for decades. During the late 1950s and early 1960s "Project Mohole" did not get enough support, and was cancelled by the United States Congress in 1967. Efforts were also made by the Soviet Union. They reached a depth of over 15 years, the world's deepest hole, before abandoning the attempt in 1989. Reaching the discontinuity is still an important scientific target. One proposal considers a
A traffic sign or a road sign is a sign put at the side of roads to give information to drivers. It can direct people driving where to go or what to do. A road sign is something that gives information by means of a symbol, or in only 1 or 2 words. It helps people in their vehicles on the road. Some signs include: give way, stop, keep left, no U-turn, no parking, zebra crossing ahead, and much more. Traffic signs are very useful. Without signs and traffic lights there would be many accidents and arguments on the road.
Harold Rubin (13 May 1932 – 1 April 2020) was a South African-born Israeli visual artist and free jazz clarinettist. He was born in Johannesburg. He became a founding member of the 1980s Zaviot jazz quartet, which recorded albums with the label Jazzis Records and performed at festivals and clubs in Israel and Europe until its break-up in 1989. Rubin died on 1 April 2020, aged 87.
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world number one ranking is a 52-week system based on the total points won by a female professional tennis player, during a WTA season. The WTA started ranking players on 3 November 1975, and 21 women have achieved the number one status in singles and 32 players in doubles. Please needs updates. We are in 2019
Barbour County, Alabama is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of James Barbour, who was Governor of Virginia. As of 2020 the population was 25,223. Its county seat is Clayton. History. Barbour County was created on December 18, 1832 from former Creek Indian territory and a portion of Pike County. Its borders were altered in 1866 and 1868. The Election Riot of 1874 occurred near Comer.
Monpazier is a city in France. It is in the Dordogne departement, in Aquitaine. In 1999, 516 people lived there. It has been named one of the most beautiful villages in France by the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France. It was built as a bastide. For some time, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard III lived there.  The city was founded by Edward I of England in 1284. It is of rectangular design, built around a main square.  The city is about half-way between Bergerac and Sarlat-la-Canéda. Each city is about 45 km away. The River Dropt runs through the city.
Sarlat-la-Canéda (), or simply Sarlat, is a town and commune in southwestern France, in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is a subprefecture of the Dordogne department. History. The city developed around a Carolingian Benedictine abbey in the 13th century. The abbey already existed in the 9th century. it was part of the six great abbeys of the old province of Périgord. The others were Paunat, Belvès, Saint Front de Périgueux, Brantôme and Terrasson. The Carolingian abbey was the only one to be spared by the Vikings because it does not lie on the Dordogne river or its tributaries. In 1317, Sarlat became the seat of a bishop. The city was badly damaged in the Hundred Years' War. After several conflicts it was rebuilt in Renaissance style between 1450 and 1500. In the middle of the 17th century, the city lost political influence and became poorer. On 1 March 1965, the "communes" of Sarlat and of La Canéda were combined in one "commune" with the name of Sarlat-la-Canéda. Sports. Sports clubs: Geography. The "commune" of Sarlat-la-Canéda has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is . Sarlat-la-Canéda is surrounded by the "communes" Tamniès, Marquay. Marcillac-Saint-Quentin, Proissans, Sainte-Nathalène, Saint-Vincent-le-Paluel, Carsac-Aillac, Vitrac, Vézac and Saint-André-d'Allas. Climate. Sarlat-la-Canéda has an oceanic climate with template summers (Köppen climate classification: Cfb). Population. The inhabitants of Sarlat-la-Canéda are known, in French, as "Sarladais" (women: "Sarladaises"). With a population of 9,127 (2014