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Grand Rapids is an American city in Michigan. Located in western Michigan, nearly 200,000 people were living here in 2020. Former American president Gerald Ford grew up in Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is also the birthplace of Amway and the Meijer store chain. Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County. It is the second largest city in the state, after Detroit. The third largest is Warren. The city has many attractions, including the Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park and John Ball Zoo. Grand Valley State University has a campus in downtown Grand Rapids. Many Reformed Christians from Dutch ancestry live in Grand Rapids.
Juan Evo Morales Aima (born October 26, 1959) was the President of Bolivia from 2006 through 2019. He is an Aymara Native American, and is politically a leftist. He is the founder and leader of the Movement toward Socialism (or MAS) political party. "Movimiento al Socialismo" is its Spanish name.  Presidency. On January 22, 2006, he became President of Bolivia. His party has declared that he is the first indigenous person to be president of Bolivia. Not everyone believes this to be true because of his mestizo heritage and similar backgrounds of several past Bolivian presidents. Nonetheless, he is likely the first "culturally" indigenous president of Bolivia. Policies. Born in Oruro, Morales was a leader in a union of coca growers. Morales has said he does not like United States policy toward Latin America, criticizing the country's past failures to stand up for democracy, trade agreements which he feels have not helped Bolivia, and especially for the US's anti-drug policies. Coca is a component in cocaine, but is also an important part of Bolivian culture. Morales became well known for this, and he was elected to Congress. Even though he was forced out of Congress in 2002, he became a very popular person in Bolivia, and won the country's presidential election in 2005. As president, he focused on economic changes that moved the country toward a more socialist economy, instead of a capitalist one. He also worked with other leaders in South America like Rafael Correa and Nestor Kirchner. Morales has been a popular president, and has been reelected in 2009 and 2014. During this time he has criticized both George W. Bush and Barack Obama and has had arguments with the United States. In 2016, Morales wanted to pass a Constitutional amendment that would allow him to run for another term in 2019. Many people in Bolivia saw this as a power grab, and the amendment lost the election. 2019 political crisis. On 20 October 2019 Morales won 47.1% of the vote in the first round of the 2019 Bol
Lake Titicaca (, "Titiqaqa Lake") is a large, deep lake in the Andes mountains. The eastern part is in Bolivia and the western part of it is in Peru. It is the largest lake in South America. Lake Titicaca is at above sea level. It is often called the "highest navigable lake" in the world. It means that it is the highest lake that boats use for trade. There are many other lakes in the world that are higher. The lake has 41 islands. Some of the islands are home to many people.  Ecology. Lake Titicaca is home to more than 530 species of water animals. Several threatened species such as the huge Titicaca water frog and the Titicaca grebe, a bird which cannot fly, only live in or near the lake. Since 2000, the water level of Lake Titicaca has gone down. This is because of shorter rainy seasons and the melting of glaciers. The Global Nature Fund (GNF) says that the natural life in and around Lake Titicaca is under threat from water pollution and the introduction of new species by humans. Islands. Uros. The "Floating Islands" are small islands made by the Uros (or Uru) people. They use layers of cut totora, a thick reed that grows in Lake Titicaca. The Uros make the islands by continuously bending over the reeds that grow in the lake. Legend says that the Uru people came from the Amazon river area, and moved to Lake Titicaca. The local people did not allow them to have their own land. They then built the reed islands, which could be moved into deep water or to different parts of the lake for safety. The islands are a golden colour. Many are about big. The largest are about half the size of a football field. Each island has a few houses. The people living together on an island are usually all related. Some of the islands have watchtowers and other buildings, also made out of reeds. , about 1,200 Uros lived on 60 islands. They are mostly in the west corner of the lake near P
Howland Island is a small island in the north Pacific Ocean, just north of the Equator. It is owned by the United States. Weather. Howland island is a very hot and sunny island with wind blowing almost all the time. It only rains every once in a while. Location. Howland Island is located at 0 48 N, 176 38 W.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the time from June 1 to November 30, 2005 when hurricanes officially formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Storms sometimes form before and after these dates but most storms form during the season. Tropical Storm Zeta formed on December 30 and dissipated on January 6, which is after the November 30 end of the season. It was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history. 2005 broke many records set. There were 28 storms that were tropical storms, which was broken by the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. There were 15 storms that became hurricanes. For the first time ever storms were named by the Greek alphabet as the normal name list had been used up. The storm which caused the most damage was Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans, USA, and killed over 1000 people. The strongest storm of the season was not Katrina, it was Hurricane Wilma. Wilma was the strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching a record low pressure of 882 mbar. Storms. Tropical Storm Arlene. Arlene, the first storm of the season, formed near Honduras on June 8 and moved north. It came close to western Cuba on June 10 before entering the Gulf of Mexico. Arlene strengthened just below hurricane strength before making landfall on western Florida. The storm quickly weakened while moving inland, and later became an extratropical remnant on June 13. Tropical Storm Bret. Tropical Storm Bret was a weak tropical storm that formed as Tropical Depression Two in the western Gulf of Mexico, then quickly became Tropical Storm Bret. The storm made landfall in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico the next morning. It dissipated on June 30. The storm cause 2 deaths and $9 million in damage. Hurricane Cindy. Hurricane Cindy was a tropical cyclone that reached minimal hurricane strength for a very short time in the Gulf of Mexico during July and made landfall in Louisiana. It was the third named storm and first hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Cindy left 3 deaths and $320 million in damage. Hurricane Dennis. Hurricane Dennis was very powerful hurricane that reached a peak
A Christian calendar can be any calendar used by various Christian Churches for the Church year, called "liturgical year". For example, it can be used to find out what day Easter will be on, even though it is not the same in every Church. The church year is divided into seasons like Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Advent and Christmas, with other weeks being seen as ordinary time. The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, is now a civil calendar that is used in many countries around the world. Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Christians also celebrate Saint's days - here is a Catholic list
How the body controls puberty. Puberty is started and carried on by different hormones. Hormones are chemicals that tell parts of the body to do things. Hormones are made by glands in the body. Glands are organs (special parts) of the body that make hormones. This is what happens during puberty: Male puberty changes. Puberty below follow up changes puberty generally begins at around 12 and ends around 17.  Enlargement of the Testicles and Scrotum is the first sign of puberty in boys. Penis enlargement. Pubic hair appears. Wet dreams. Hair under the arms and acne. Growth Spurt. Voice deepens. Facial hair development. Completion puberty is finished. Female puberty changes. Puberty below follow up changes puberty generally begins at around 12 and ends around 17.  Ovaries and Vulva gets larger is the first sign of puberty in girls.  Shortly after the Breast begin to enlarge second development of puberty.  Pubic hair appears.  Hair under the arms and acne.  Growth spurt.  Voice deepening.  Menstrual periods. Completion puberty is finished.  When puberty starts and ends. On average, girls begin puberty at age around 12 and ends at around 17 while boys the average age is also around 12 and ends around 17.  It said that for girls, puberty begins around. 12 -13 years of age and ends around age 17. It said that boys usually start puberty around 12-13 years of age and it lasts until around age 17." Girls usually complete puberty by ages 17, while boys usually complete puberty by ages 17. The major landmark of puberty for females is menarche, the onset of menstruation, which occurs on average between ages 13–14; for males, it is the first ejaculation, which occurs on average at age 13-14. If puberty starts much later than average, the person is sometimes called a late bloomer.  For most boys, puberty takes about a few years, Teenagers are usually about 10 to 30 centimetres (cm) (4 to 12 inches (in)) taller,
The Bali tiger ("Panthera tigris balica"), or Balinese tiger (Balinese: ᬩᬗᬸᬦᬘᬦ᭄, "Macán Bali"; also know as Sang mong) is one of the three extinct subspecies of the tiger. They became extinct in 1937. They lived on Bali. This was the first subspecies of tiger to become extinct. The Bali was also the smallest tiger subspecies. There is no record of a Balinese tiger ever being held in a zoo collection. The Balinese tiger's close subspecies were the Javan tiger and the Caspian tiger, which are now also extinct. The Balinese and Javan tigers were once the same, but during the Ice Age, Bali became isolated from Java by the Bali Strait. This split the tigers into two groups which then developed separately.  The killing of the very last wild Balinese tiger is usually thought to have been at Sumbar Kima, West Bali on 27 September 1937. It was an adult female. So the government of Bali made a strict law on killing tigers, but by then it was too late, because the Bali tiger had already become extinct.
1202 (MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. Castile l died in 1202.
Sitting Bull (about 1831 – December 15, 1890), real name Tatanka Yotanka, was the chief of a Native American tribe called Hunkpapa-Lakota-Sioux. At the age of about 14, Slow participated in a war party against the Crow (warriors). At the age of 10, however, he killed his first buffalo. He was a very important chief and fought for the freedom of Native Americans. He fought with Crazy Horse and Big Foot at the Little Bighorn River against General George A. Custer and won. They are the most deadly tribe. He was killed by Red Tomahawk, a police sergeant, during an attempt to arrest him.
Michelle Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired American figure skater and diplomat. She has won five world championships and nine U.S. championships. She was the United States Ambassador to Belize from 2022 to 2025. Birth and childhood. Michelle Kwan was born on July 7, 1980, in Torrance, California. Kwan showed interest in figure stating when she followed Ron and Karen, her brother and sister, onto the ice, saying that all she could remember was "every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice". She attended public school until eighth grade, when she began being homeschooled in 1994. Junior world champion. Kwan won the world junior championship in 1994. The same year, at the age of 13, she came in the top 10 in the world senior championship. She became world champion in 1996, when she was 15. Diplomatic career. On December 15, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that he planned to nominate Kwan to be United States Ambassador to Belize.
Frank Jack Fletcher (29 April 1885 - 25 April 1973) was an Admiral in the United States Navy. He was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, of the same family line as Captain Frank "Pat" Fletcher and of Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, noted men in the Navy. He attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and had jobs on many warships. In 1914 he got the Medal of Honor at Vera Cruz. Then he was in control of a destroyer in World War I received the Navy Cross. Later he took Naval and Army War College training, became chief of staff Asiatic Fleet, aide to Secretary of the Navy Swanson, and Commanding Officer of battleship "New Mexico." He became Rear Admiral in control of Cruiser Division 3 in 1939. He was Commander of Cruisers, Pacific Fleet at the time of Pearl Harbor. In the very bad, first six months of the war, he was Task Force Commander at the Battle of Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Eastern Solomons. Vice Admiral Fletcher then became Commander North Pacific Forces where he took the surrender of the Imperial Northern Fleet. After the war he became Chairman of the Navy General Board till he retired. Admiral Fletcher rests at Arlington National Cemetery. "Frank Jack Fletcher, was the best fighting commander in the U.S. Navy in the twentieth century. He came out best in all three aircraft carrier battles in which he fought -- there were only five such fights in of all history. Admiral Fletcher was outnumbered at all times and when the other side was at its highest point in the early years of the Pacific War. He did not let the other side take Australia, Midway, and Guadalcanal. He put down six of the ten Japanese carriers with four of the six great carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor. His acts were completely his own, because there was no such thing as carrier fighting experience before him to learn to fight ships from the air. He kept the Pacific safe which let much support to go to Europe and started the Allied victory in World War II."
Irina Slutskaya (ru: Ирина Слуцкая) (born February 9, 1979 in Moscow), is a Russian figure skater. She has won two world championships and six European championships. Irina began skating when she was four years old. She has had the same coach, Zhanna Gromova, since she was six years old. By 1996, she was European champion and came third in the world championships (at age 17). She went to school at the Moscow Academy of Physical Culture, graduating in the year 2000.
Lu Chen (Simplified Chinese: 陈露, Traditional Chinese: 陳露, Chen Lu in Chinese) (born November 24, 1976, in Changchun) is a Chinese figure skater. She was world champion in 1995. Chen's mother played table tennis and her father coached ice hockey. She started skating at the age of five in Jilin, and also took ballet dancing. She won the bronze medal at the world junior championship in 1992, and came third at the world senior championships the same year, at the age of 16. Her nickname is "Lulu," and she is also known as "Butterfly on Ice." She is admired for her artistic ability. Chen skated for the professional show "Stars on Ice" for two years. Now she runs an ice skating club in Shenzhen. This club is named after her.
Oksana Baiul (born November 16, 1977 in Dnipro) is a Ukrainian figure skater. She came first at the 1993 world championships and at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Baiul's grandfather gave her first skates to her when she was three years old. When her mother died, she became an orphan. But she kept skating, and won the World Championships when she was only 15 years old. She became famous for her artistic ability when she skated as "The Swan" to win the Olympics when she was 16.  She has skated for many professional shows such as "Champions on Ice" and "Stars on Ice". A television movie was made about her - "A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story". She moved to New Jersey. She still skates professionally, and also makes figure skating clothes.
Hobo is a word for a homeless person who travels to different cities and towns to look for work. Hobos usually travel by train "hopping" (riding in empty train freight railcars without paying for a ticket), or sometimes "riding the rods" (lying dangerously near the train wheels, underneath the cars). Hobos stay in very cheap hotels in cities, or camp in simple shelters ("shanties") in shanty towns near the rail yards. There were many hobos during the Great Depression in the United States because many people lost their jobs and homes. Many people blamed President Herbert Hoover for the Depression, so hobo camps were sometimes called "Hoovervilles".
Wicca is a neo-pagan (meaning "new pagan") religion.  Wicca was created by a British man named Gerald Gardner in the mid-to-late 1940s. Gardner popularized the new religion through his three books: "High Magic's Aid" (1949), "Witchcraft Today" (1954), and "The Meaning of Witchcraft" (1959).  Name. Before the name "Wicca" was adopted, the religion was sometimes called simply "the craft". In his books, Gardner called Wicca the "witch cult" and "witchcraft". He called its followers the "Wica" (or "Wicca"). In his 1959 book he also called them the "Wicca" (with two 'c's). The word "wicca" means "witch" in Old English. People who follow Wicca are called "Wiccans".  Wicca is now used as an umbrella term for many different paths that have branched off from Gardner's original practices. Origin. Sometime between 1945 to 1949, Gerald Gardner changed and added to the rituals of an earlier group, the New Forest Coven. In so doing, Gardner created Wicca.  Many elements from the grimoire (old hand-written book) called the "Key of Solomon" are present in Wicca. Those are also in Gardner's 1949 book, "High Magic's Aid", and were most likely added by Gardner himself, rather than by the New Forest Coven that came before him. The New Forest Coven was created in the city of Christchurch, England (on the southern coast of England), some time in the 1930s. It was created by a group of low-ranking members of the Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians in the Crotona Fellowship. Members of that group read the books about witches by Margaret Murray and Charles Leland, which gave them the idea to create a witch coven. Some time after Gerald Gardner joined the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship in Christchurch, he was drawn to the group of low-ranking Rosicruc
The Indochinese tiger ("Panthera tigris corbetti") is one of the six living tiger subspecies, and is found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southwestern China. The Indochinese tiger is also known as the "Corbett's tiger", named after Jim Corbett. It has been listed as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In Myanmar it is the National animal of the country. Description. Males are around 8–9 ft (2.4-2.7 meters) long, and weigh around 330 to 430 pounds. Females are around 7–8 ft (2.1-2.4 meters) long, and weigh around 221 to 287 pounds. Indochinese tigers are darker in colour than the Bengal tiger, and have narrow stripes which usually break up into a row of spots. Their belly, chin and cheeks are white in colour. Where they live. The Indochinese tiger is found throughout Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. It also lived in China, but no Indochinese tiger has been seen in China since 2007. It is found mostly in lowland and highland tropical deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests. The Indochinese tiger is also found in hilly and mountainous areas.  Feeding. Indochinese tigers feed mainly on medium-sized and large-sized wild ungulates. Sambar deer, wild pig, serow, and large bovids such as banteng and young gaur make up most of the Indochinese tiger's diet. But have been observed to prey on domesticated cattle and goats. Some of its prey, like the kouprey and Schomburgk's deer, are extinct, but some, like the Eld's deer, hog deer and wild water buffalo, are still living but rare. Indochinese tigers also feed on muntjac deer, porcupines, macaques and hog badgers.  They have been known to supplement their diet with birds, fish, monkeys and reptiles. Reproduction. Female Indochinese tigers are pregnant
An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done. It may also be a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it. For example, the office of treasurer. In modern use an office usually means the location where white-collar workers are employed. An office is a design phenomenon. It can be a small office such as a bench in the corner of a very small business where the administration work is small. It can also be anything up to and including a large building full of office workers doing large amount of office work. As a work place. Men have done administrative work for many centuries. But it is not clear when the room where paperwork was created began to be thought of an office. In the earliest European history it may have been a counting room in a palace, where some kind of accounting was done for the king. Earlier forms of keeping records were known but were not confined to a room or rooms. For example, in ancient China string was knotted to keep count of things as a record. But the record-keeper's "office" was not a room but wherever he needed to be to count something. In the early Middle Ages many monasteries had a scriptorium. This was a place where texts of all kinds were written and copied. All of the work was done by hand. This may actually be one of the first uses of a room as an office. The High Middle Ages (1000–1300) saw the rise of the medieval chancery. This was usually the place where most government letters were written and where laws were copied in the administration of a kingdom. Dedicated office space. With the growth of large, complex organizations in the 18th century, actual office spaces were constructed. As the Industrial Revolution grew in the 18th and 19th centuries, the industries of banking, rail, insurance, retail, petroleum, and telegraphy grew dramatically. A large number of clerks were needed. As a result, more office space was needed for these activities. The time and motion study, pioneered in manufacturing by F. W. Taylor led to the “Modern Efficiency Desk” with a flat top and drawers below. This was designed to allow managers
A phenomenon (Greek: ", pl. ") is an observable event or, quite literally, something that can be seen. It comes from the noun ("phainomenon, df. appearance") and is also related to the verb ("phainein, df. to show"). Its plural is phenomena. Its antonym is "lathomenon", meaning "something lying beneath the surface".  Phenomenon can also mean a "surprising development" or "unusually successful person". Use in science &amp; technology. In science, "phenomenon" stands for any event which we can sense or detect or record. In science, the word "observe" means more than just "visible to the naked eye". It means "sensible", available to our senses. The senses we are born with are extended by a whole range of instruments which record things we cannot see, and make them visible to us. So, while some events are easy to observe, others need technology to make observation possible.