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"Mississippi" John Smith Hurt (July 2, 1892, Teoc, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Life. Hurt was raised in Avalon. He tought himself playing guitar at the age of nine. While he was working as a sharecropper, he played at local dances and parties. He did his first recording in 1928 for Okeh Records but was not successful. So he worked on as a sharecropper and played on at the local parties. Two of Hurt's songs were included in the album "The Anthology of American Folk Music" and an Australian found a copy of "Avalon Blues". So the interest in finding John Hurt himself increased. In 1963 Tom Hoskins found him in Avalon and found out that his musical skill was still intact. He brought him to Washington, D. C. He started playing at greater festivals like the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. In his later years he often played in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He also recorded three albums for Vanguard Records and recorded most of his songs for the Library of Congress. Hurt influenced different music genres like blues, country, bluegrass, folk and contemporary rock and roll.  Death. Hurt died on November 2, 1966 from a heart attack in Grenada, Mississippi. Discography. Last Sessions - 1966 (Vanguard) Mississippi John Hurt 1928 Sessions (Yazoo 1065, Yazoo Records) Worried Blues (Piedmont PLP 13161, Piedmont Records) Mississippi John Hurt Today (VSD-79220, Vanguard Records) Mississippi John Hurt Last Sessions (VSD-79327, Vanguard Records) The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (VSD-19/20, Vanguard Records)  Recorded live at Oberlin College April 15, 1966 The Candy Man (QS 5042, Quicksilver Records)  Volume One of a Legacy (CLPS 1068, Piedmont Records)  Folk Songs and Blues (PLP 13757, Piedmont Records)
A biopsy is a test in medicine where doctors remove cells and look at them closely under a microscope or do chemical analysis to see whether there is an illness. Etymology. "Biopsy" is a Greek word, from the Greek words bio meaning "life" and opsia meaning see.
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated american actor. He has appeared in diverse roles since his first lead role in 1999's "October Sky", followed by the 2001 cult hit "Donnie Darko", in which he played a psychologically troubled teen and onscreen brother to his real-life sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" he portrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father. He then played against type as a frustrated Marine in "Jarhead" (2005). The same year, he won critical acclaim portraying a role that entered popular shorthand as a "gay cowboy" in the controversial but highly acclaimed film "Brokeback Mountain". Early life. His mother is screenwriter Naomi Foner. His father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent, and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family. Jake's last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. Jake's mother is Jewish; she was born in New York City, to a family from Russia and Poland. Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself Jewish. Gyllenhaal began acting at 11 years old.
Albstadt [] is a city in the district of Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Swabian Alb mountains, about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance. Albstadt is the largest city in the district. Albstadt was damaged by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in 1911, which was the second most powerful earthquake recorded in Germany (after the 1756 Düren earthquake), a 5.6 magnitude earthquake in 1943, and a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in 1978, which was the costliest in Germany at 275 million Deutsche Mark. During World War II, Albstadt was also damaged by an air raid by the Allies on July 11, 1944, which killed 65 people, and another one on February 20, 1945, which killed 19 people.
Alpirsbach is a town in the district of Freudenstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Black Forest on the Kinzig river, 13 km south of Freudenstadt. Alpirsbach is twinned with the French commune of Neuville-sur-Saône.
A ruby is a kind of precious stone. It is often associated with emerald, sapphire and topaz. It is usually red, but can sometimes be other colors. It is formed of aluminum and oxygen (Al2O3), and that means it's a kind of corundum. A small amount of chromium makes the color. They are the most popular red gemstone, and is aften linked with the birthmonth of July.
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a special type of ramjet jet engine where fuel combustion takes place while the air in the engine is moving faster than the speed of sound. In a ramjet, air is slowed to subsonic (slower than the speed of sound) speeds before fuel is burned. Unlike ramjets, scramjets do not use shock cones to compress incoming air; instead, shock waves from inside the engine compress the air by slowing it down very quickly. This means that scramjets can operate very efficiently at extremely high speeds. However, a scramjet relies on the aircraft moving much faster than the speed of sound in order to work; scramjets do not work at subsonic, or even low supersonic, speeds. As of November 2022, scramjets are still experimental. This means that they have not been used on commercial airliners or in active military scenarios. Successful scramjet tests have been conducted, however.
Good Eats was an American television series shown on the Food Network from 1999 until 2011. It aired on the Cooking Channel in 2011 and 2012. It was created and hosted by Alton Brown. "Good Eats" was like shows with science teachers Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye. Brown shows the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the good parts of different kinds of cooking equipment. The show focuses on familiar food that can easily be made at home. It talks about picking the right tools, and getting the most out of cheap tools that can be used for different things. Each episode of "Good Eats" has its own theme. Usually an ingredient or a cooking technique. It may also be a more general theme such as Thanksgiving. In the tenth anniversary episode, Alton Brown stated that the show was inspired by the idea of mixing Julia Child, Mr. Wizard, and Monty Python.  On May 11, 2011, Alton Brown confirmed that the series would come to an end, ceasing production at episode 249.
Fame is a song by David Bowie. It was written by David Bowie and John Lennon of The Beatles. The song combined funk and rock music. The song was released August 18, 1975. It was on Bowie's "Young Americans" album. The song reached the number 1 position on the US Billboard Top 100 in September 1975.  Cover versions. The song has been sung by many other famous singers and bands. These include:
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. The municipality calls itself "Chiyoda City" in English. History. During the Edo period, most of the people living in this area were samurai. Chiyoda developed around the Imperial Palace. The Imperial Palace area occupies about one sixth of the area of Chiyoda. There was previously another castle here during the Edo period, but it was destroyed. On March 15, 1947, the ward of Chiyoda was formed by combining the wards of Kanda and Kōjimachi. The Diet of Japan, the Supreme court of Japan and home of the Prime Minister of Japan are all in Chiyoda. Geography. Chiyoda is in the center of Tokyo. It borders Chūō and Minato on the south. Shinjuku is on the ward's western border. Bunkyō and Taitō is on the northern border. The ward has an area of . The Imperial Palace covers about 12 percent of this area. In Chiyoda is the hub of the Shinkansen high-speed train network, Tokyo Station.
The player piano is a piano with an automatic mechanism so that it can play by itself. The mechanism may be pneumatic, mechanical, or electrical. A more modern kind of player piano uses MIDI. In the pneumatic type of player piano, the air comes from a pump operated by the player's feet, and in some later models, an electric pump. Inside the piano are paper rolls which have holes punched in them. These holes release air which in turn triggers the keys to play. When the player piano plays itself the keys of the piano can be seen moving by themselves. The player piano became popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. Mass-produced pianos were popular in people's homes then, and more and more people bought sheet music. By the 1920s the player piano started to become less popular as the gramophone had been invented.  The "Pianola", a popular type of player piano, was patented in 1897 by Edwin Votey of the Aeolian Company. He chose the name as a combination of the words "piano" and "Aeolian", from the company he worked for. He first built a prototype in his Detroit home in 1895. This device was fitted with control levers so that the player ("player pianist" or "pianolist") could play in the way he wanted. The pianola made it possible for the player to sound as if he was playing very difficult music that he was not capable of playing. At the same time he could control the performance. The word "pianola" became used as a general word for all player pianos in the early 20th century, even though it was just one kind. Later, "player piano" became the most common term. A player piano is the same as any other piano except it is fitted with a pneumatic player action, which plays paper rolls. This mechanism consists of about one hundred bellows, large and small, the smaller ones being called pneumatics of which there are 88, one for each note on the piano. The largest are the foot operated ones, called the bellows. Other pneumatics of varying sizes operate the roll motor, tracking device, motor speed governor, and the sustain and soft pedals.
A sewing machine is used to stitch fabric together with thread. Sewing machines were an invention of the industrial revolution that made it possible to sew faster than people could sew by hand. Some sewing machines are also used for embroidery. Since the invention of the first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry. Home sewing machines are designed for one person to sew individual items while using a single stitch type. In a modern sewing machine the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine without the inconvenience of needles and thimbles and other such tools used in hand sewing, automating the process of stitching and saving time. Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and task. History. Invention. Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal, a German-born engineer working in England was awarded the first British patent for a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing, in 1755. His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. In 1790, the English inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine design, but he did not successfully advertise or market his invention. His machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material. It is likely that Saint had a working model but there is no evidence of one; he was a skilled cabinet maker and his device included many practically functional features: an overhanging arm, a feed mechanism (adequate for short lengths of leather), a vertical needle bar, and a looper. His sewing machine used the chain stitch method, in which the machine uses a single thread to make simple stitches in the fabric. A stitching awl would pierce the material and a forked point rod would carry the thread through the hole where it would be hooked underneath and moved to the next stitching place, where the cycle would be repeated, locking the stitch. Saint's machine was designed to aid the manufacture of various leather goods, including saddles
The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; 1337–1453) was a long conflict between the kingdoms of England and France. It started because of disagreements over the Duchy of Aquitaine and the claim to the French throne by Edward III of England. The war grew into a larger struggle involving many countries in Western Europe, with both sides becoming more focused on nationalism. Even though it is called the Hundred Years' War, it lasted for 116 years, but the conflict was interrupted by things like the Black Death and several years of truces. The Hundred Years’ War was a major conflict in the Middle Ages. During the war, five generations of kings from two rival families fought for the French throne, as France was the wealthiest and most populated kingdom in Western Europe. The war had a big impact on European history, leading to new military technologies and tactics, like standing armies and artillery, that changed warfare forever. Chivalry, which was important during the war, started to decline afterward. Stronger national identities began to grow in both France and England, which became more powerful and eventually global. The name “Hundred Years’ War” was used by historians later to describe the connected conflicts that lasted the longest in European history. The war is often divided into three parts, separated by truces: the Edwardian War (1337–1360), the Caroline War (1369–1389), and the Lancastrian War (1415–1453). Both sides had many allies. English forces were successful at first, but in the end, the French, led by the House of Valois, kept control of France. Afterward, the English and French monarchies stayed separate, although English monarchs still claimed the French throne until 1802. Start. When the war started, France was stronger than England as it was wealthier. French knights and heavy cavalry also enjoyed a great military reputation in all of Christendom. Also, France had about 17 million people, but England had only about 4 million people. However, France was a decentralised feudal monarchy in the middle ages and so it was less unified than England. France had an alliance with Scotland
The cockroach is an insect of the suborder Blattaria of the order Blattodea. There are 4,000 species. About 30 species invade human homes. This is less than 1% of all the cockroach species. Four species are pests.  Evolutionary history and relationships. The families of Mantodea, Isoptera, and Blattaria are usually combined by entomologists into a larger group called Dictyoptera. Current evidence strongly suggests that termites have evolved directly from true cockroaches, and many authors now consider termites to be in the family of cockroaches. Historically, the name Blattaria has been used largely interchangeably with the name Blattodea. Blattodea refers to a larger group that includes fossil groups related to roaches, but not true cockroaches themselves. These earliest cockroach-like fossils ("Blattopterans" or "roachids") are from the Carboniferous period between 354–295 million years ago. However, these fossils differ from modern cockroaches in having long ovipositors and are the ancestors of mantis as well as modern cockroaches. The first fossils of modern cockroaches with internal ovipositors appear in the Lower Cretaceous. A proposed phylogeny of the families is shown in the diagram. Cockroaches in the broader sense (Blattodea) have existed a very long time. The earliest cockroach fossils are 354–295 million years old. Science student, Cary Easterday, found a giant 300 million year old fossil cockroach long, in a coal mine in Ohio. Other. Most cockroaches are omnivores. They are tough, and hard to kill. A cockroach can live for two weeks without a head. Cockroaches become adults in 3-4 months and can live up to one year. A female German cockroach can produce 8 egg cases in her lifetime and each egg case may contain 30-40 eggs. Cockroaches are eaten as snacks and used for medicine in China. In popular culture. The 1996 MTV musical movie "Joe's Apartment" had 5
Anti-Armenianism is hostility toward or prejudice against Armenian people, Armenian culture and the Republic of Armenia, which can range in expression from individual hatred to institutionalized persecution. Several organizations have stated that difficulties currently experienced by the Armenian minority in Turkey are a result of an anti-Armenian attitude by the Turkish government as well as by ultra-nationalist groups such as the Grey Wolves. Modern anti-Armenianism often seems to lacks a racial and cultural basis and appears to be based more on geopolitics and history, in addition to diplomatic and strategic interests, involving the modern states of Turkey and Azerbaijan. The controversy and emotions surrounding the Armenian Genocide and Nagorno-Karabakh are two examples of intense anti-Armenianism in both countries. Modern Anti-Armenianism is usually associated with either extreme opposition to the actions or existence of the Armenian Republic, and belief in an Armenian conspiracy. Anti-Armenianism by individuals. For several months in 1994, Ahmet Coşar going by the alias of Serdar Argic posted thousands of messages, claiming that the Armenian Genocide did not happen or that Armenians massacred Turks, on Usenet newsgroup threads mentioning the word Turkey. Samuel Weems published the book "Armenia: The Secrets of a "Christian" Terrorist State" where he has made such claims as the "number one export of Armenia is terrorism" and that there was no Armenian Genocide. American historian Justin McCarthy is known for his controversial support of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide. Azeri cartoonist "Kerim Kerimov Mammadhan" has produced around 4500 Anti-Armenian cartoons, most of which depict crude caricatures of Armenians. His cartoons are often included with the phrase “Terrorism, narkomania, and armenism are the same disease”. His works also often mocks the Armenian Genocide and its recognition by foreign countries, especially countries in Europe. Murad Gumen is another individual who espouses anti-Armenian rhetoric in his website "Tall Armenian Tale". Barbaros Agri uses the social networking site Facebook to advocate anti-Armenianism by being the creator of "The Biggest Lie Ever Told: The Armenian Genocide". The cause has 5000 plus members.
The Istanbul Pogrom was a pogrom directed primarily against the Istanbul's Greek minority on September 6 and 7, 1955. Jews and Armenians living in the city and their businesses were also targeted in the pogrom, which was, according to some circles, orchestrated by the Turkish government. A Turkish mob, most of which was trucked into the city in advance, assaulted Istanbul’s Greek community for nine hours. Although the leaders of the pogrom did not explicitly call for Greeks to be killed, between 13 and 16 Greeks (including two Orthodox clerics) and at least one Armenian died during or after the pogrom as a result of beatings and arson. Thirty-two Greeks were severely wounded. In addition, dozens of Greek women were raped, and a number of men were forcibly circumcised by the mob. 4,348 Greek-owned businesses, 110 hotels, 27 pharmacies, 23 schools, 21 factories, 73 churches and over a thousand Greek-owned homes were badly damaged or destroyed. Estimates of the economic cost of the damage vary from Turkish government's estimate of 24.8 million US$, the British diplomat estimates of 100 million GBP (about 200 million US$), the World Council of Churches’ estimate of 150 million USD, and the Greek government's estimate of 500 million US$. The pogrom greatly accelerated emigration of ethnic Greeks from the Istanbul region, reducing the 200,000-strong Greek minority in 1924 to just 2,500 in 2006.
Gossip Girl is an American television teen drama based on the popular novel series of the same title written by Cecily von Ziegesar. "Gossip Girl" revolves around the lives of a group of rich teenagers grown up on New York's Upper East Side as they attend private school while dealing with typical teenage adolescent issues such as sex and drugs. The series begins with Serena van der Woodsen' returning from a half-year at boarding school in Cornwall. "Gossip Girl" is the name of an anonymous blogger, who knows everything in Upper East Side but nobody knows who she is. Gossip Girl is voiced by nourah
Backnang is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg (formerly the kingdom of Württemberg), northeast of Stuttgart. Its population has grown over the past century or so, from 7,650 (1900) to 35,761 (2005). Twin towns. Backnang's twin towns include:
Bad Buchau is a small town in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. About 4,000 people live there.  Location. It is near Lake Federsee, which is separated from the town by a wide reed belt.
Bad Friedrichshall is a small townin the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has about 18,000 inhabitants. Bad Friedrichshall is at the confluence of the Neckar and the Kocher, north of Heilbronn.  Bad Friedrichshall is famous for its salt-mine.
Postal codes in Germany, (PLZ) (plural Postleitzahlen), have five numbers. The first two show the wide area, the three other show the postal district. The present system was introduced on 1 July 1993. Before reunification, both the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (DDR) used four-digit codes. There was a temporary system after reunification. Between 1989 and 1993 postal codes in the west started with "W", eg "W-1000 Berlin 30" (postal districts in western cities were separate from the postal code) and those in the east with "O" (for "Ost"), e.g.: "O-1234 Berlin". Companies that posted a lot of letters, have their own postal codes, separate from those used for postal districts or PO Box number ranges. Postal regions do not always follow state borders. This is because sometimes it is easier to deliver mail to a place on the border from the other state. The postal regions and some postal codes are: Brandenburg. 04000-04999. The rest under 04931 are outside Brandenburg Hamburg. 21000-21999. Codes 21450-21499 are in Schleswig Holstein Lower Saxony. 05000-05999. The rest are in Saxony 37000-37999. Some codes in this range are in Thuringia. 39000-39969. The rest are in Saxony 49000-49999. This list is incomplete. Thuringia. 04000-04999. The rest are in Saxony 06000-06999. The rest are in Saxony 07000-07999. The rest of the 07s are in Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia. 53000-53999. The rest are in Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate. 57000-57999. The rest are in North Rhine-Westphalia 66000-66999. The rest are in Saarland Others beginning with 65 are in Hesse
9-9-9 or 999 (said nine-nine-nine) is the emergency telephone number for the emergency services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The police, fire &amp; rescue, ambulance/paramedics, mountain rescuing, coast guard and cave rescuing, and services for deactivating and getting rid of bombs can be reached by calling 9-9-9. 999 is also the emergency medical number in Poland. 1-1-2 can also be used to call these services. 1-1-2 is the European Union-wide emergency number, and the number used by all GSM mobile telephones throughout the world. Calling 911, North America's emergency number, will automatically redirect to 999.
Bad Herrenalb is a small town in the district of Calw, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.  Bad Herrenalb is in the northern Black Forest, east of Baden-Baden, and southwest of Pforzheim.
A plateau is an area of raised land that is flat on top.  The biggest and tallest plateau in the world is the Tibetan Plateau. A plateau with a lot of erosion is called a disconnected plateau. A plateau that is also formed by volcano is called a volcanic plateau. Some plateaus are under the ocean, like the Seychelles plateau or the Ontong Java Plateau. Plateaus are often by themselves with no other plateaus around, sometimes standing on top of mountains. Plateaus can be of three types: Tectonic Plateaus, Residual Plateaus and Volcanic Plateaus.  The plural of 'plateau' is "plateaux", or "plateaus".