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Prades ( or, simply, "Prada") is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It was the capital of the historic Catalan comarque of Conflent. It is a subprefecture in the department and the capital of the Prades "arrondissement". Name of the city. In Catalan, the name of the "commune" is "Prada", a word that comes from the Latin word "prata" ("prairie"). Geography. Prades is the main ciy of the Conflent, a natural region of the Pyrénées-Orientales; it is at the foothill of the Canigou mountain, to the west of Perpignan. The Têt river flows through the city. It has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is . The "commune" is at from Perpignan. It is surrounded by the "communes" Catllar, Eus, Los Masos, Clara, Taurinya, Codalet, Ria-Sirach. Climate. The climate in Prades in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers. Population. The inhabitants of Prades city are known, in French, as "Pradéens" (women: "Pradéennes"); "Pradencs" and "Pradenques in Catalan". With a population in 2014 of 5,927, Prades has a population density of inhabitants/km2. Evolution of the population in Prades Administration. Prades is a subprefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department since 1790. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Prades and the administrative centre () of the canton Les Pyrénées catalanes with 62 "communes" and 26,765 inhabitants in 2014. It is part of the intercommunality "Conflent Canigó" (). Twinned and partner towns. Prades is twinned with: Sites of interest. Some places of interest in or around Prades
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 and was the British legislature from 1707 until 1801. Members of parliament from all of Great Britain met in the House of Commons. Lords Temporal from Great Britain met in the House of Lords. During the 18th century, bishops from the Church of England (the state religion of England and Wales) also met in the House of Lords. (There are no bishops in the Church of Scotland.) The parliament came into existence because the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland ratified the Treaty of Union. Both parliaments made legislation (the Acts of Union 1707) to make a new unitary state with anew legislature. These acts of parliament created a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and dissolved (or ended) the separate English and Scottish parliaments. The British parliament met in the old home of the Parliament of England, in the old Palace of Westminster, in the City of Westminster near the City of London. This parliament lasted nearly a century, until the Act of Union 1800 merged the separate Parliament of Great Britain and the Irish Parliament into a single Parliament of the United Kingdom. It became effective 1 January 1801, the same date the kingdom of Ireland joined with Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Right Reverend Gerald Nicholas McAllister (February 16, 1923 — June 10, 2014) was third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma (1977-1989). He married Helen Earle Black. He was ordained to the diaconate on September 30, 1953. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 24, 1954. He was known for performing the wedding of Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter, Lyndia Bird Johnson at the White House. He was born in San Antonio, Texas. McAllister died in San Antonio, Texas, aged 91.
Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York. As of the 2020 census, the town population is 21,389. The town was once nominated to be the headquarters for the United Nations, but lost to New York City.  The town was founded in 1651 and became part of the British Colony of New York in 1764. It became a town in 1852.
Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 – January 30, 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first female journalist to be sent out of Nazi Germany in 1934. She was one of few women presenters on the radio in the 1930s. She worked for women's suffrage in the United States. After that, she worked for Berlin division of the "New York Post". Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York. She died, aged 67, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Jane Bryan (June 11, 1918 – April 8, 2009) was an American actress. Her career began in 1936. Bryan was known for She retired in 1940 because she married a drugstore manager. She was known for her role in "Brother Rat" and in "Brother Rat and a Baby". Bryan and her husband helped make Ronald Reagan run for President of the United States in 1980.
Mipham Chokyi Lodro (27 October 1952 - 11 June 2014), also known as Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, was the 14th Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. While giving teachings, the 14th Shamarpa died in Renchen, Germany on 11 June 2014 due to a sudden heart attack, aged 61.
Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter and a guitarist. Her career began in the early 1990s. She began by self-releasing audio cassettes using the nickname of Girly Sound. Her 1993 debut studio album "Exile in Guyville" was released with critical acclaim. She has sold nearly three million records worldwide. Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut. She was adopted and grew up in Chicago suburb Winnetka, Illinois.
Columbus is a city in Lowndes County Mississippi. It is also the county seat of Lowndes County. The population was 24,084 at the 2020 census. The explorer Hernando de Soto. spent the winter of 1540–41 with the Chickasaw tribe camped near what is now the city of Columbus.
Sherri Shepherd (born April 22, 1967) is an American comedian and actress. She co-hosts "The View" on ABC Network. On the show "Suddenly Susan", she played Miranda Charles and Roni. She also played Angie Jordan on the sitcom "30 Rock".  Shepherd was born in Chicago.
Interlanguage fossilization is when people learning a second language take rules from their native language and incorrectly apply them to the second language they are learning. This results in a language system that is different from both the person's native language and second language. In 1972, Selinker showed the concept of "interlanguage fossilization". Causes. There are two reasons why the interlanguage fossilization happens:
Alice Lake (September 12, 1895 – November 15, 1967) was an American movie actress. She was particularly popular in the silent era. She played A Fair Customer in the movie "The Waiters' Ball" in 1916. She also played Jean Oliver in "The Hole in the Wall". Lake was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died of a heart attack in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California at age 71.
Wayne Morris (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959), born Bert DeWayne Morris was an American actor. He was known for his roles in "Paths of Glory", "The Bushwackers", "Kid Galahad", "Brother Rat", and its sequel "Brother Rat and a Baby". Morris died from a massive heart attack in Oakland, California, aged 45.
Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia. He served from 2001 to 2014. He was the House Majority Leader from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the Republican Party. Primary loss and resignation. On June 10, 2014, in his bid for re-election, Cantor lost the Republican primary to economics professor Dave Brat. Following his primary defeat, Cantor announced his resignation as House Majority Leader effective July 31. In an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch on July 31, 2014, Cantor revealed that he will resign from Congress effective August 18. He also said that he has asked Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to call for a special election on November 4, 2014 that would coincide with the general election.
It's a Great Feeling is a 1949 American musical-comedy movie directed by David Butler. It was released on August 1, 1949. It was distributed by Warner Bros.. The movie was originally titled "Two Guys and a Gal". Plot. The movie is a spoof about how real movies are made in Hollywood and directors show how they make them, like behind the scenes. They are in a movie studio where many other famous actors appear. Cast. Cameos. Many of the studio's most popular stars and directors make cameo appearances throughout the movie. Among them are: Reception. The movie received many positive reviews because of its variety of actors. Awards and nominations. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
Edge and Christian (E&amp;C) was a professional wrestling tag team. The team was made up of legit (real life) best friends Edge and Christian. Edge and Christian are best known for competing in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWE). During their time as a tag team, they were able to win the WWF Tag Team Championship on seven different occasions. They were first portrayed as on-screen brothers during the mid-2000s but that was later fazed out and they were announced as childhood friends in 2010. The team split up in 2001 and reunited for a short while in 2011 but it ended after Edge had to announce to his retirement due to a neck injury on the April 11 episode of "Monday Night Raw". They were also known for competing in TLC matches (TLC matches) where they competed in the very first one at SummerSlam and defeated The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) and The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von).
Rafael Argelio Lecuona (June 2, 1928 – June 7, 2014) was a Cuban-American gymnast and later political science professor. He was a competive gymnast from 1948 until 1956. Lecuona represented Cuba three times at the Summer Olympics: 1948 in London, England, 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, and 1956 in Melbourne, Australia. He was also in the Pan American Games twice: in Buenos Aires Argentina (1951) and Mexico City, Mexico (1955). He was a member of the Florida State University men's gymnastics team from 1953 to 1956. Later, he was a science professor at Texas A&amp;M International University in Laredo, Texas from 1970 to 2002. Lecuona was born in Havana, the nephew of Ernesto Lecuona, the Cuban composer and musician. He left Cuba for the United States after Fidel Castro rose to power. He was anti-communist and never returned to Cuba again. He was married twice in the U.S. and had two children with his first wife. Lecuona died on June 7, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas, aged 86.
Susanville (formerly, Rooptown) is the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States. Susanville is located on the Susan River in the southern part of the county. In 2020, the population was 16,728 people. Nearly half of the adult population works at one of the nearby three prisons, Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong, California Correctional Center, and the High Desert State Prison.
Veronica Lazăr (16 October 1938 - 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-Italian actress. She was known for her roles in "Last Tango in Paris" (1973), "La Luna" (1979), "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), and "Besieged" (1998). She married Italian actor Adolfo Celi in 1966. They had two children, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi. Her last role was in "Me and You" (2012).
"Speed of Sound" is the first single off British alternative rock band Coldplay's third studio album "X&amp;Y". The song was released on 23 May 2005. The song is build around a piano riff which later builds a synthesiser-heavy chorus. It was named Song of the Year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).  The song was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals at the 2006 Grammy Awards.
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 6, 1895 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist of worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional skill. As a child prodigy, he composed his first song at the age of 11. Lecuona graduated from the National Conservatory of Havana with a Gold Medal for interpretation when he was sixteen. He performed in New York in 1916. Composer. He was a prolific composer of songs and music for stage and film. His works in Afro-Cuban and Cuban rhythms are still very famous. They include "Siboney" ("Canto Siboney"), "Comparsa", "Malagueña" and "The Breeze And I" ("Andalucía"). In 1942, his great hit, "Always in my heart" ("Siempre en mi Corazon") was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song. Lecuona wrote music for stage and screen. His own musical stage show, "María la O", premiered in Havana on March 1, 1930. Lecuona gave concerts all through his adult life, in Europe and the Americas. They often featured his own compositions. He first travelled to Spain in 1924, and his successful piano recitals in 1928 at Paris coincided with a rise in interest in Cuban music. Lecuona gave help and the use of his name to the popular touring group, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, but he did not play as a member of the band. He did sometimes play piano solos as the first item on the bill. The Lecuona Cuban Boys were highly successful in the 1930s, and toured Europe every year. They lasted until the Cuban revolution of 1959. Lecuona himself left Cuba and spent his last few years in the United States.
The Brothers of Destruction were a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E). The team was made up of The Undertaker and Kane. During their time as a tag team, they were able to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship on two different occasions. The team was managed by Paul Bearer.
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (born July 30, 1977) is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist. As of August 2012 she is the most successful female beach volleyball player. She has 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition.  Career. Misty May-Treanor was the college player of the year twice. In 1998 she was the NCAA championship co-Most Valuable Player. In the 2004 Summer Olympics Misty May-Treanor and Keri Walsh (her volleyball partner) were the first Americans to get a gold medal in beach volleyball. In 2007 Walsh and May-Treanor were the first to win three straight world titles since the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) began sponsoring the event in 1997. Misty May-Treanor plays as an attacker and a defender in Volleyball. Her partner Kerri Walsh is a "master blocker". She had earned 1.6 million dollars by having 89 victories by the end of 2007. In 2004 Misty May married Matt Treanor the catcher for the Florida Marlins. She has two kids. She attended California State University Long Beach, California.
Portmeirion is a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. The village is in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth. Its is next to the River Dwyryd. It was created and built by Clough Williams-Ellis. He created and built it between the years 1925 and 1975. He wanted it to look like an Italian village. A charity owns it. Many movies and television shows were filmed there, including "The Prisoner". History. Portmeirion looks a lot like the Italian city of Portofino. But, Clough Williams-Ellis, who created Portmeirion, always said that it was "not" based on the city of Portofino. He said he did want it to look like it was a place near the Mediterranean, though. He designed and built the village between the years of 1925 and 1975. The mix of architecture in the village is believed to have influenced postmodernism architecture in the late 1900s. An old estate used to be located on the property before Portmeirion was built. It was called "Aber Iâ" (). The hotel and three cottages, which are named "White Horses", "Mermaid", and "The Salutation", are part of the original estate. It was built in the 1850s. Before the estate, there was a foundry and a boatyard on site. There is also an old site which has a small group of remains from a mediaeval castle nearby. In 1931, Williams-Ellis bought a Victorian mansion from his uncle Sir Osmund Williams, Bt. It was called Castell Deudraeth. Williams-Ellis planned on having the mansion be a part of the hotel. Lots of problems and the war did not allow that to happen. Williams-Ellis loved the building a lot and did anything he could to make it a part of the hotel. He received money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, and Wales Tourist Board. This money allowed him to finally open Castell Deudraeth as a hotel with 11 bedrooms and
Sirius Passet is a special fossil site, a Cambrian lagerstätte in Greenland. It is from six places on the eastern shore of a fjord in the far north of Greenland. It was discovered in 1984. About 10,000 fossil specimens have been collected so far. The fauna is just before that of the Burgess Shale, probably ten to fifteen million years older – 518 vs. 505 mya. There were no vertebrates at that time: all the animals were invertebrates. The fauna includes some arthropods and sponges, and rare representatives of other groups. A polychaete annelid from the Sirius Passet was described in 2008. Polychaete annelids are a significant part of the Burgess Shale fauna, but are otherwise unknown from the other early Cambrian lagerstätten. This single species from a single place improves our knowledge of this group.
Nicktoons Basketball is a video game for the PC, released in 2004. It is based on a bunch Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. shows. It is the third Nicktoon game to be released by ImaginEngine, and also the first by Digital Eclipse. Plot and gameplay. The player plays basketball with SpongeBob SquarePants, Timmy Turner, , Danny Phantom, Tommy Pickles, Dora the Explorer,and more. The player can choose how they would like to control the game as well.
The Menai Suspension Bridge () is a suspension bridge in Wales. It runs from the island of Anglesey to Holyhead. It was designed by Thomas Telford. They started building it in 1819 and it was finished in 1826. Building of the bridge. Before the bridge was built, the only way people could get to Anglesey island was by a ferry from Holyhead. The water of the Menai Strait is very rough and dangerous, so it was hard for people to use their own boats or swim to the island. The people who lived on Anglesey sold cattle that they raised. The cattle were forced to swim through the dangerous water, with many of them often dying. If the cows survived the trip, they were sent to London and other places to be sold.  An engineer named Thomas Telford was working near Holyhead when he thought it would be a good idea to build a suspension bridge to Anglesey. A suspension bridge was big enough that tall ships could go underneath them. He asked the British Parliament if he could build the bridge and they said yes. Telford designed the bridge. They started building it in 1819. The first thing to be built were the towers that are on both sides at Holyhead and Anglesey. The towers were made out of limestone from Penmon. They were hollow inside. After the towers were built, 16 chains were installed. They were made out of 935 bars of iron. They were long enough to support the long bridge. Iron can rust. So, the people who made the chains soaked them in linseed oil and the painted. The chains were long and weighed 121 tons. The bridge opened on January 30, 1826. Bridge improvements. The road that went over the bridge was not very safe because of the strong winds. Workers made the bridge stronger in 1840. The bridge road was made of wood, and in 1893 it was replaced with steel. The bridge only allowed cars and trucks that weighted up to 4.5 tons to go over the bridge. This made it hard for big trucks to bring goods to the island. In 1938 they installed wrought iron chains to make the
Virginia Field (4 November 1917 – 2 January 1992) was a British actress. She played Ianthe in the movie "The Primrose Path". She played Helena in the movie "Ladies in Love" (1936). Field was born in London, England. She died in California of cancer of unknown primary origin.
The D programming language is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language. D language originated as a re-engineering of C++, and D's design goals try combining the performance of compiled languages with the safety and expressive power of modern dynamic languages. Native D code is commonly as fast as equivalent C++ code, while being shorter and memory-safe. Examples. Example 1. This example program prints its command line arguments. The codice_1 function is the entry point of a D program, and codice_2 is an array of strings representing the command line arguments. A codice_3 in D is an array of characters, represented by codice_4 in D1, or codice_5 in D2. import std.stdio: writefln; void main(string[] args)  foreach (i, arg; args)  writefln("args[%d] = '%s'", i, arg); The codice_6 statement can iterate over any collection. In this case, it is producing a sequence of indexes (codice_7) and values (codice_8) from the array codice_2. The index codice_7 and the value codice_8 have their types inferred from the type of the array codice_2. Example 2. The following shows several D capabilities and D design trade-offs in a very short program. It iterates the lines of a text file named codice_13 that contains a different word on each line, and prints all the words that are anagrams of other words. import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.range, std.string; void main()  dstring[][dstring] signs2words;  foreach(dchar[] w; lines(File("words.txt")))  w = w.chomp().toLower();  immutable key = w.dup.sort().release().idup;  signs2words[key] ~= w.idup;  foreach(words; signs2words)  if(words.length &gt; 1)  writefln(words.join(" "));
Amy Vandy Fuller was a singer from Australia. She lived during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her sisters were Florence Fuller and Christie Fuller. She died suddenly on August 18, 1944.  Singing career. Fuller performed in Perth, Western Australia during the 1900s. She sang with a group called the Belle Crome Company. In 1905, she sang a leading role in the oratorio "Messiah" in His Majesty's Theatre in Perth. She used to sing in concert with her sister, Christie. They sang together once in Sydney in 1898 and in Perth in 1910. Fuller started making art in the 1920s. She had her work on exhibit in Perth. Deborah Vernon Hackett attended the exhibit. She made art out of timber with flower designs.
Christie Fuller (died 15 August 1933) was a contralto singer from Australia. She was alive during the Victorian era.  Life. Christie Fuller was born Louisa Christie Fuller. She was the middle daughter of three girls. Her father's name was John Hobson Fuller. Her sisters were Amy Fuller and Florence Fuller. She moved to England to go to school in 1886. She returned to Australia in 1887. She moved to Melbourne. In August, 1890, she married a man named Charles Carty Lance. They were married in Melbourne. After they married they moved to Sydney. They had one child, a daughter named Silvia. She married and changed her name to Sylvia Lance Harper. She became a famous tennis player. Fuller died in the town of Strathfield in August 1933. Singing career. After moving to Melbourne in 1887, Fuller started singing for a living. Sometimes she performed by herself. Sometimes she performed with other people, including her sister Amy Fuller. They sang together in Sydney in 1898 and in Perth in 1910. Fuller traveled the world singing. She went to London and South Africa. She also toured across Australia.