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Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE (born 25 June 1932 in Dartford, Kent) is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". He lives in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom. During the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists.Blake was included in group expositions at the Institute of Contemporary and had his first solo exposition in 1960. It was the 'Young Contemporaries' exposition of 1961 where he was displayed next to David Hockney and R.b Kitaj that he was first identified with the young British Pop Art movement.Blake won the John Moores junior award (1961) for his work Self Portrait with Badges.
Sehwan Sharif () is a taluka in Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan. The taluka headquarter is Sehwan, the city famous for saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. Currently, Sindh government is planning to create Sehwan Sharif District with the combination of Sehwan taluka and Rani Kot Taluka (Planned), Rani Kot Taluka is under planning due to upgrade tourists facilities  History. The city is known for its Muslim patron saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar who lived here in 13th century CE. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's mausoleum attracts hundred of thousands of faithful Muslims every year. Sehwan Sharif is basically known by the Muslim Sufi saint, philosopher and poet Hazrat Syed Usman Shah Marwandi commonly known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar ( لال شھباز قلندر). Colonial Era. In British India, Sehwan Taluka was a part of Sehwan Division of Karachi District. Its headquarters were in the town of Sehwan and it was a tehsil (administrative subdivision) of the district.  The taluka was bordered to the north by the talukas of Dadu and Johi, to the east by the talukas of Kazi Ahmed and Moro, and to the south by the talukas of Manjhand and Kohistan Mahal (now Thana Bula Khan). Sehwan Taluka has a ancient history that goes back thousands of years. Siwistan or sewan was the traditional name for sehwan. The shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander, a Sufi saint who is thought to have lived in the 12th century, is located in the town of Sehwan. Muslim pilgrims from all over the world frequently visit the shrine. Sehwan was a part of the Talpur kingdom in the 18th century. Sindh was controlled by the Talpur family from 1783 to 1843. Following the British victory over the Talpurs in 1843, Sehwan was given the rank of taluka
Dokri () is a town in Larkana District, Sindh province of Pakistan and is the capital town of the Dokri Taluka. Moenjodaro is found 7 km away in East-South of the Dokri town. The town has been the point of several Communist movements in the past. Etymology. Dokri was once called "Lab-e-Darya" or a "lip of the Indus", the name is believed to have been taken from "Dhaatki", or "‘old woman’". Lab-e-Darya doesn't mean Lip of the Indus but it literally means "on the banks of the river".
Landi Kotal or Landikotal () in Pakistan is the highest point on the Khyber Pass, 1,072 metres above sea level. It is on a route across the mountains from the near-border city, Peshawar. Landi Kotal is often visited by tourists and can be reached by road only. Landi Kotal is the main shopping centre for both the Shinwari and Afridi tribes. History. In 1897, during British rule, the Afridis attacked Landi Kotal and other posts in the Khyber Pass. The British counter-attacked with a force of 34,500 men under Sir William Lockhart, defeating the Afridis.  In 1925 work began on a railway line linking Jamrud to Landi Kotal.
Liège (, , , , , , ) is the easternmost province of the Walloon Region, in Belgium. Its capital is the city of Liège. It is an area of French and German ethnic groups. Most of its inhabitants speak French and a minority of them speak German. History. The present province comes from a department created by the French government in the late eighteenth century, the Department of Ourte. In 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon, the eastern part (Eupen, Malmedy, Saint-Vith and four other German municipalities) was given to the Prussian empire. While maintaining the French administrative borders, King William I of the Netherlands gave back the more traditional names of the provinces instead of the names used by the French. He named the province as Liège, remembering the old principality of Liège, although the region did not correspond much to the old principality. In 1919, after the Prussian defeat, the cantons Eupen, Malmedy and Saint-Vith were again part of the province of Liège. Geography. The province of Liège is in southeastern Belgium and borders on (clockwise from the North) the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant (Wallonia), and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Flanders). The province has an area of and a population of about 1,111,000 in 2022. The province is divided into four arrondissements ("arrondissementen" in Dutch) with 84 municipalities, 75 French-speaking municipalities and 9 German-speaking municipalities. With , the Signal de Botrange is the highest point of the province and of Belgium. It is in Waimes, Verviers district. Rivers. The main river is the "Meuse" (Dutch: "Maas") river; its source is in France, in Champagne-Ardenne and then flows through Belgium by the provinces of Namur and Liège. After , it flows into the North Sea.  Other rivers in the province are: Administrative divisions. The province of Liège is divided into 4 "arrondissements" (Huy, Liège, Verviers and Waremme) and a total of 84 municipalities. Population by arrondissement. Population x 1,000 (on 1 January since 1980).
East Flanders (, , ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. Its capital, and also the largest city of the province, is Ghent (, ). Name. "East" in "East Flanders" means that it is in eastern part of Flanders, a region that forms part of the present Belgium. The word "Flanders" refers to the historic county of Flanders and appears for the first time in the year 358 under the name "pagus Flandrensis" ("pagus" is a Latin word meaning a very small town, with only few houses). The "pagus Flandrensis" region was a coastal area with large tidal channels and green marshes where sheep farmers lived. The modern province of East Flanders was the old Escaut department, created in 1795 during the First French Empire in the eastern part of the County of Flanders. In 1815, during the creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the department became the province of East Flanders. Geography. East Flanders borders (clockwise from the North) on the Netherlands and in Belgium on the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant (both in Flanders), of Hainaut (Wallonia) and of West Flanders (Flanders). The province has an area of with a population of about 1,544,000 in 2022. The capital and biggest city is Ghent, also the second largest city in the Flemish Region. Other smaller cities are Aalst, Sint-Niklaas and Dendermonde in the east of the province. Its highest point is Hotondberg, high, in the municipality of Kluisbergen, Oudenaarde district. The main river in the province is the Scheldt (Dutch: Schelde, ); it merges with the Leie in Ghent. The Dender flows into the Scheldt in the city of Dendermonde. Administrative divisions. The province of Hainaut is divided into six "arrondissements" (Aalst, Dendermonde, Eeklo, Ghent, Oudenaarde and Sint-Niklaas) and a total of 60 municipalities since 2019. Population by arrondissement. Population x 1,000 (on 1 January since 1980).
Flemish Brabant (, , ) is the youngest and smallest province of the Flemish Region, one of the three regions of Belgium. It covers the Dutch-speaking northern part of the former province of Brabant. Flemish Brabant also completely surrounds the Brussels-Capital Region, which forms an enclave within the territory of the province. Its capital, and also the largest city of the province, is the university city of Leuven (, often used in English). History. "Flemish" in "Flemish Brabant" means that it is in the Flemish part of the former province of Brabant of Belgium. "Brabant" was an old region, the Duchy of Brabant. The word "Brabant" appears for the first time in the seventh century when the abbey of Nivelles was founded in the "pagus Bracbatensis" ("pagus" is a Latin word meaning a very small town, with only few houses). Flemish Brabant was created in 1995 by the splitting of the former province of Brabant into three parts: two new provinces, Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant; and the Brussels-Capital Region, which no longer belongs to any province. The split was made to accommodate the eventual division of Belgium in three regions (Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region). Geography. The province borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders. The province has an area of ; it is about long (east-west direction) and about wide (north-south direction). It has a population of about 1,173,000 in 2022. The province is divided into two districts ("arrondissements" in French and "arrondissementen" in Dutch) with 65 municipalities. The main rivers of the province are the Dyle, the Demer and the Zenne. Administrative divisions. The province of Flemish Brabant is divided into two districts: Halle-Vilvoorde has Brussels in its middle and, therefore, is mainly a residential area, but it also has large industrial zones; the other district is Leuven, centered on the city of Leuven. Population by arrondissement. Population x 1,000 (on 1 January since 1980). The province of Flemish Brabant did not exist before 1995.
A Network interface card (also known as a NIC, network card, or network interface controller) is an electronic device that connects a computer to a computer network , usually a LAN. It is considered a piece of computer hardware. Most modern computers support an internal network interface controller embedded in the motherboard directly rather than provided as an external component. Network cards let a computer exchange data with a network. To achieve the connection, network cards use a suitable protocol, for example CSMA/CD. Network cards usually implement the first two layers of the OSI model, that is the physical layer, and the data link layer. There are older network protocols such as ARCNET, introduced in 1977, LocalTalk or Token Ring, but today, most network cards use Ethernet.Ethernet cards are available in several different standard packages called form factors that have evolved over the last several generations of PC hardware: Networking speed. Ethernet cards operate at different network speeds depending on the protocol standard they support. Old Ethernet cards were capable only of the 10 Mbps maximum speed originally offered by the Ethernet standard. Modern Ethernet adapters support the 100 Mbps fast Ethernet standard and an increasing number now also offer gigabit Ethernet support at 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps). The future of ethernet cards. Ethernet cards ruled when cables remained the primary form of network access. Although Ethernet offers more reliable connections than wireless networking and therefore remains popular as a built-in option for desktop PCs and other relatively immobile computers, mobile devices including laptops and tablets have shifted away from Ethernet and toward Wi-Fi. The expansion of Wi-Fi services in workplaces, coffee shops, libraries and other public places has reduced the need for Ethernet cards.
A genogram is a family tree with medical details, such as whether the person is male or female, and whether brothers and sisters are twins. Genograms help medics understand a person better. Family relationships. One of the advantages of a genogram is the ability to use colour-coded lines to define different types of relationships such as family relationships, emotional relationships and social relationships. Within family relationships, you can illustrate if a couple is married, divorced, common-law, engaged, etc.
An ancestor table (from German language "ahnentafel") is a family tree where people are shown in a numbered list instead of a tree. In the table, a person is listed as number 1, the father is 2, the mother is 3. Then, the grandparents can be added: This can continue even farther, including the great-grandparents:
A coupé or coupe (from the French coupé: past participle of the verb "couper", to cut) is type a car with a fixed roof and two doors.
Angus Ian MacPherson (born 11 October 1968) is a Scottish football former player and coach. Playing career. McPherson started his career as a youth player with Rangers, but was unable to break in to the first team, spending a period on loan to Exeter City. In 1991 he moved to Kilmarnock, where he went on to play over 350 games. He played with Dunfermline Athletic for two seasons before moving to St Mirren as player–assistant manager in 2003. MacPherson was then appointed as player-manager on 18 December 2003 after the resignation of John Coughlin. He retired from playing at the end of the 2003–04 season.
St. Johnstone Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Perth. Although it is officially recorded as being formed in 1884, research has shown that they did not play their first game until February 1885. The club plays its home games at McDiarmid Park. St. Johnstone will now compete in the Scottish Premiership after finishing first and being promoted in the 2008-09 season.
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture that is used to hold books. Bookcases can be different sizes, from a small single shelf to a large bookcase that can fill an entire wall. Libraries have many bookcases holding books on many different topics. History of the bookcase. In imperial China, there were revolving bookcases. They are described in 8th- and 9th-century Chinese writings. They were popular in Buddhist monasteries during the Song Dynasty. A revolving bookcase is shown in Li Jie's "Yingzao Fashi". Books used to be written by hand. Not many of them were made. At that time, they were kept in small boxes or chests. The boxes or chests were carried around with the owners. When people started having a lot of books and other manuscripts, they kept them on shelves or in cupboards. Later the cupboard doors were removed. The cupboards then looked like today's bookcases. The oldest bookcases in England are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Those were put there near the end of the 16th century.
A Spreadsheet is a computer program that imitates a paper worksheet. It shows a large sheet (like a sheet of paper) that has many cells in a grid of rows and columns. Users can put words or numbers into the cells, to make headings and store information (usually numbers). You can also move the grid lines around so that some cells are bigger than others, and change the color or size of text/font, the same way font/text is changed in a word processor. You can even put pictures in the worksheets, make multiple pages, and print out their results on real paper. The primary reason most people use spreadsheets is for automatic calculations. Spreadsheets can be designed to add up the items/amounts on a bill, calculate sales tax, and even calculate income tax. A user can add and subtract the numbers here, even if the numbers are not next to each other. This means the computer does all the math, and people only need to give the correct information. Another strength of spreadsheets, is that they can produce diagrams, like graphs and pie-charts, based on the data the user enters. Sometimes the numbers make more sense when the computer turns them into a picture. Basics. In 1969, a program called LANPAR was created. It was like a digital table that could do math on big computers shared by many people. They named it LANPAR because those words meant something special. Then, in 1979, a similar program called VisiCalc was made for smaller computers. This helped make the Apple II computer really popular. Before Windows became common, a program called Lotus 1-2-3 was the most popular for working with these digital tables. But now, Microsoft Excel is the most used one on Windows and Mac computers. These digital table programs are now found in programs that help people do work in offices. In 2006, Google made their own digital table program that you can use on the internet. It's called Google Sheets and is part of Google Drive. A spreadsheet is like a digital table made up of little boxes called cells. These cells are put in rows (like lines in a book) and columns (like vertical lines). Each cell has a special
Washington can have different meanings: Counties named Washington. There are 30 counties in the United States named for George Washington
Donald John Judson Aiken (January 1, 1932 – November 2, 2021) was an American ice hockey player. He played one game for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League between the 1957 and 1958 season. He was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. Aiken died on November 2, 2021 in Reading, Massachusetts at the age of 89.
Sebastien Centomo (born March 26, 1981 in Laval, Quebec) is a professional ice hockey player who played one game with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Alexander Andrijevski (born August 10, 1968 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian former professional ice hockey right winger who played one game for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL).
The 1931–32 NHL season was the fifteenth season of the National Hockey League. Eight teams played 48 games each. The Toronto Maple Leafs swept the New York Rangers in three games for the Stanley Cup. Regular season. Final standings. "Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PIM = Penalties in minutes" &lt;br&gt; "Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold" Leading scorers. "Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes" First games. The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1931–32 (listed with their first team, stars(*) mark start in playoffs): Last games. The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1931–32 (listed with their last team):
Bigpoint GmbH is a game developer based in Hamburg, Germany which produces browser based MMORPG games that are unique in that do not require any downloads to play. Founded by Heiko Hubertz in December of 2002, Bigpoint has experienced record growth (more than 4500% in 5 years) since its creation and won numerous business awards including the Red Herring Award in 2007 - placing it among the top 100 most innovative businesses - and the Ruban d'Honneur at the European Business Awards in 2009. In June of 2008 a 70% controlling share of Bigpoint GmbH was purchased by NBCU's and GE's joint venture Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners in a $110m (€70m) deal that gave each a 35% share of the company. This allowed the three initial venture capital investors - Aurelia Private Equity, European Founders Fund and United Internet Beteiligungen - to sell out while CEO Heiko Hubertz re-invested his share of the sale to retain a 30% stake in the company. Heiko Hubertz currently acts as the company's Managing Director. Bigpoint has a portfolio of more than 40 games translated into 20 languages, with the two largest being SeaFight with approximately 15.7 million registered users and Dark Orbit with approximately 14.2 million registered users. The company claims to receive more than 200,000 new user registrations each day. A complete list of Bigpoint's games can be found Here
Stromatolites are special rock-like structures. They usually form in shallow water. They are formed by bacteria such as cyanobacteria. There may also be other types of bacteria and single-celled algae. The mucus secreted by the bacteria collects grains of sediment, and they are stuck together with calcium carbonate, also from the bacteria. This builds up into the structures seen in certain sea-shore bays. Cyanobacteria use water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to create their food, and expel oxygen as a by-product. The real significance of stromatolites is that they are the earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth. The oldest known stromatolites have been dated between 3,710 million years and 3,695 million years old, and were discovered from an exposed outcrop of metacarbonate rocks in the Isua supracrustal belt (ISB) in Southwest Greenland.  The ISB stromatolites predate by over 215 million years the previous evidence for oldest life remains: stromatolites in the 3,480 million year old Dresser Formation of the Pilbara craton in Western Australia. At one time, the oldest known stromatolites were dated to 3,450 million years ago, during the Archaean eon. Recent discoveries of older stromatolites shows evidence in accord with genetic molecular clock studies. These have placed the origin of life in the Hadean eon. The ability of cyanobacteria to perform oxygenic photosynthesis is highly significant. Early cyanobacteria in stromatolites are thought to be responsible for increasing the amount of oxygen in the primeval Earth's atmosphere through their continuing photosynthesis. They were the first known organisms to photosynthesize and produce free oxygen. After about a billion years, the effect of this photosynthesis began to make a huge change in the atmosphere. The process, called the Great Oxygenation Event, actually took a long time. Eventually, it killed off most of the organisms which could not live in oxygen. It led to the kinds of environment we know today, where most organisms use and need oxygen.
Makemake (symbol ; officially known as 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet. It was discovered on March 31, 2005 by astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz. It was announced as a dwarf planet on June 11, 2008, and the discovery of a moon was announced on April 26, 2016. Makemake is a Trans-Neptunian object, because it orbits the Sun further out than Neptune.  Originally the object was given a codename 'Easterbunny' as it was discovered shortly after Easter. The International Astronomical Union gave it the name 136472 Makemake, the creator god of the ancient Easter Island people, to keep its connection with Easter. Makemake appears to be made mainly of ice and rock. However, at its very low temperature, ice is as hard as many types of rock. In 2016, it was discovered that Makemake has a small moon. Makemake's moon does not yet have a name. Instead, astronomers call it "S/2015 (136472) 1" and use a nickname of MK2. Its orbital period around Makemake is more than 12 days. The moon is about 87.5 kilometers across.
Encyclopædia Dramatica (ED) is a website that stored mostly articles that make fun of people or things. The pages satirize current events, and many events on the internet. Encyclopædia Dramatica has been described as a "snarky (sarcastic and nasty) Wikipedia anti-fansite". The site is a wiki that runs on MediaWiki software. The site often shows its content in a disrespectful way and often abusive style. Many articles are written in a satirical way to upset those who take the content seriously. Content. This wiki has been described as "an online compendium of troll humor and lore". Its articles relate to news, current events, gossip and other "drama" topics from across the Internet, controversial article content, forums, fansites, Internet subculture, users of web services, and online catchphrases are satirized in a manner described variously as coarse, offensive and frequently obscene. Articles at Encyclopædia Dramatica are notably critical of MySpace and administrators of Wikipedia. Closed. It was closed on April 16, 2011, and relaunched as "Oh Internet". Not all of the users of Encyclopedia Dramatica liked the decision. Many non-users didn't like the decision either, and hacked and attacked the Facebook fan page with "hate messages and pornography". But now, ED is back open.