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A radio program (usually radio programme in the United Kingdom) or radio show is a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series. A single program in a series is called an episode. Well known radio programs are "Democracy Now!" and the chart show "Ö3 Austria Top 40".
EMV is a standard protocol for credit cards and debit cards. These cards used to use a magnetic stripe to store information. This approach has two main problems: first, the amount of data that can be stored is relatively small. Such a card can store about 1024 Bits, or 128 bytes. The second problem is bigger: the data stored is not encrypted. Using a card with EMV technology, also called a "chip card" for the shiny, metallic "chip" on the front, can solve both problems: it can store much more data, and the data can be encrypted. Payment cards that use chips have been in use since the early 1990s. Beforehand, each card issuer had their own protocol. With EMV, the protocol has been standardised. The first version of EMV was published in 1995, and there have been different versions since then. It was adopted in Europe before the United States, which required all new cards from 2015 on to have EMV chips. How do EMV cards work? Payments using EMV technology is often called "chip and PIN". This is because to use such a card to make a payment at a cash register or point-of-sale terminal, the card first needs to be inserted into a small machine called a "payment terminal" or "PIN pad", with the side where the chip is on facing up and towards the machine. Once the card is inserted, it is left there so that the terminal can read the data stored in the chip. The terminal will often ask the user to confirm the amount of the purchase or refund, choose the account in the case of a debit card, and will then require the user to enter a personal identification number (PIN). This number makes sure nobody other than the owner of the card can use it - if the wrong PIN is entered a certain number of times, the card is locked and cannot be used. Once the correct PIN is entered, the terminal will contact the bank to authorize the transaction. The bank will either "approve" (accept) the transaction, or "decline" (reject) it. Once this happens, the person removes his or her card from the terminal.
The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system. The river connects Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. It forms part of the border between Canada and the United States. It is long. It divides the cities of Detroit and Windsor. It is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The name comes from the French "Rivière du Détroit", which means "River of the Strait".
Mill Ends Park (sometimes called Mill's End Park) is a small urban park. It is located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway, approaching esplanade along the Willamentte Rivera near SW Taylor Street in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The park is a small circle across. It has a total area of . It is the smallest park in the world. This fact was included in the "Guinness Book of Records" in 1971. History. The park was dedicated on St. Patrick's Day 1948, as "the only leprechaun colony west of Ireland". It was created by Dick Fagan. In 1948 the site that would become Mill Ends Park was supposed to be the site for a light pole. The pole did not work and weeds began to grow. Fagan, writer for the "Oregon Journal", planted flowers in the hole. He named it "Mill Ends", after his column. Fagan died of cancer in 1968. It was named the official city park in 1976. The small circle has featured many unusual items since its creation. These include, a swimming pool for butterflies (complete with a diving board), a horseshoe, a piece of the "Oregon Journal" building, and a small Ferris wheel. On St. Patrick's Day, 2001, the park was decorated with leprechauns. The park continues to be the site of St. Patrick's Day festivities. The events held there include concerts by Clan Macleay Pipe Band, picnics, and rose plantings by the Junior Rose Festival Court. In March 2013, the park's tree was stolen. Law enforcement planted a replacement tree. The next day, a passerby found the original tree lying next to the new one.
Richard Benjamin Gray (July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2013) was an American baseball player. Gray was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Gray is best known as the player who hit the first home run in Los Angeles Dodgers history and the first to homer in their opening game at LA Memorial Coliseum. Gray was born on July 11, 1931 in Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He retired in 1993. Gray died on July 8, 2013 in Anaheim, California from heart failure, aged 81.
Concepción García Campoy (28 October 1958 – 10 July 2013), also known as Concha García Campoy; was a Spanish radio and television journalist and personality. Campoy was born on 28 October 1958 in Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain. She was raised in Ibiza, Spain. Campoy was divorced two times. Her first marriage was with Jaime Roig. She was also married to Lorenzo Díaz. Campoy had an affair with movie producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. She had two children. Campoy died on 10 July 2013 in Valencia, Spain from liver failure caused by leukemia, aged 54. She was cremated and her ashes was scattered off the coast of Ibiza.
Pic Carlit (; ) is a mountain of the French Pyrenees and has an elevation of above sea level. It is the highest point of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales and of the region Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Geography. Pic Carlit is in the nortwestern part of the Regional Natural Park of the Catalan Pyrenees (; , often shortened as "Parc del Pirineu Català"). There are many small lakes in the region around the mountain. One of them is the man-made lake of Bouillouses, which is one of the point to begin hiking to get to the top of Pic Carlit. The source of Têt (the largest river of the department Pyrénées-Orientales) is on the northeastern side of the mountain. History. The first ascent of this peak was made by Henry Russell in 1864.
The Kazakh Wikipedia is the Kazakh-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition started in June 2002. It is the 33rd largest edition. As of July 2013, it had over 202,000 articles.
There are two Norwegian-language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk. The Bokmål and Riksmål edition started in November 2001, while the Nynorsk edition started in July 2004. As of 14 2025, the Bokmål and Riksmål edition has around articles, and the Nynorsk edition has around articles. As of June 2024, the Bokmål edition is 24th and the Nynorsk is 59th largest by article count. History. Until 2005, there was one Norwegian-language edition of Wikipedia, that was called "Wikipedia på norsk" ("Wikipedia in Norwegian").
Lois Wilson (28 June 1894 – 3 March 1988) was an American actress. She appeared in silent movies. She played Molly Wingate in "The Covered Wagon" in 1923 and as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" in 1926. In the 1930s, she became dissatisfied with the roles she was given. She retired from acting in movies in 1941. Wilson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She died from pneumonia in Reno, Nevada at 93.
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical. The libretto was written by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The lyrics and music were written by Cole Porter. It is based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". It opened on Broadway in 1948. It starred Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949. The musical opened in the West End in 1951. The story of the musical is about the backstage conflicts, tensions, and troubles between the four stars of a musical version of "Shrew".  A movie version of the musical was released in 1953. A television version was produced for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1958 starring Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison. Another television version was made for BBC Two in 1964 with Howard Keel and Morison, and a third television production was made in 1968 with Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. In 2003, a "Great Performances" television production starred Brent Barrett and Rachel York.
A volcanic plug is a landform created when volcanic magma hardens inside a vent on an active volcano. They are sometimes called volcanic necks or "puys". The plug is revealed when the surrounding land is eroded. As it forms, a plug may cause an extreme build-up of pressure if gas-charged magma is trapped beneath it. This sometimes leads to an explosive eruption. But if the explosion does not occur, then the volcano becomes a solid block made of hard material. The plug is usually harder than the surrounding rock. Glacial erosion can lead to exposure of the plug on one side, while a long slope of material remains on the lee side. Such landforms are called . If a plug is preserved, erosion may remove the surrounding rock while the erosion-resistant plug remains. This is what produces the distinctive upstanding landform.
Political parties are sometimes described as being either left-wing, right-wing, or center. Left-wing politics are usually progressive, meaning that left-wing people are in favor of social change. They believe in direct intervention and the regulation of markets.  Right-wing people believe that the government should not be behind social change, instead delegating the authority to certain individuals or groups. Definitions of "right-wing" vary; however conservatives occasionally support moves back to the way certain things were in the past (or the way people think it was in the past).  Ideologies representative of the authoritarian wing of the far left include Marxism–Leninism, while the libertarian wing can be represented by ideologies such as anarcho-communism or libertarian socialism. The authoritarian wing of the far right is represented by fascism and/or neo-Nazism, while the libertarian wing can be represented by anarcho-capitalism. Multiple sources conclude that more than 70 million people have died due to mass killings under communist regimes. Name. The left and right groups get their names from the French Revolution. People in the National Assembly who wanted large changes in the French government sat on the left side of the room and people who wanted to keep the king and more tradition sat on the right side of the room and moderates sat in the middle. French newspapers started saying "left" and "right" to tell readers which member of the National Assembly thought what.
Cartoon Network (commonly abbreviated as CN) is a British pay television channel aimed at children which airs animated programming targeting children and young aged 6 to 12. It is run by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA for localisation strategy for international markets (such as the UK) and in conjunction with Warner Bros. Television Studios UK for the production of content and global leadership of the Cartoon Network brand.The channel primarily airs animated programming. The channel initially launched on 17 September 1993 as a larger pan-European feed, serving the UK market along with Western and Northern Europe. In August 1999, the pan-European aspect of Cartoon Network Europe was spun-off as a new feed with an identical schedule to Cartoon Network UK (the former pan-European feed). Cartoon Network UK completely ceased being a pan-European feed on 15 October 1999 which was when it was scrambled with Videocrypt and the launch of the UK only version of TNT. The pan-European feed continued to shadow Cartoon Network UK's schedule until 2001. The pan-European feed excluded shows such as "Dragon Ball Z" and "Angela Anaconda" and were substituted, as Cartoon Network did not have the pan-European broadcasting rights to these shows, only the rights for the UK and the Netherlands.
"This is a list of compositions by Frédéric Chopin by genre. There is a separate list by opus number." Most of Frédéric Chopin's compositions were for solo piano. He also composed piano concertos (his concertos No. 1 and No. 2 are two of the romantic piano concerto repertoire's most often-performed pieces) as well as some other music for ensembles. This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are listed by number from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown (B), Krystyna Kobylańska (KK), and Józef Michał Chomiński (A, C, D, E, P, S). Piano solo. Études. Fanciful nicknames have been given to most of Chopin's Études from time to time, although Chopin himself never used nicknames for these pieces, and none are authentic. Only about three such nicknames are widely used: Op. 10, No. 5 "Black Keys"; Op. 10, No. 12 "Revolutionary"; and Op. 25, No. 11 "Winter Wind". A number of occasionally suggested nicknames are shown below.
Avan Tudor Jogia (born February 9, 1992 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and singer. He is best known for his role as "Beck Oliver" in "Victorious". Early life. Avan Tudor Jogia was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also grew up there. He is of Indian and European descent. His father was born in London and comes from India. His mother has Irish, Welsh and French ancestry. In his youth, Jogia lived in Canada, Germany and England. He went to different schools in Vancouver like the "Killarney Secondary School" and the "King George Secondary School". He got also private education. In the 10th class, he left the school to concentrate on his acting career. Career. He began his career in 2006 as "Danny Araujo" in the film '. In 2007 he had small roles in the series "Aliens in America". He played in the film ' in 2008 and on the Nickelodeon television movie "Spectacular!" in 2009. From 2010-2013 he played on the Nickelodeon television series "Victorious" as "Beck Oliver". In October 2012 he got the main role on the ABC Family series "Twisted". It started in March 2013 Personal life. 2012-2017 Jogia and Zoey Deutch were a pair. He was also previously in a relationship with Cleopatra Coleman. In 2023, he is currently dating American singer Halsey.
A boutique is a small shopping outlet, especially one that specializes in elite and fashionable items such as clothing and jewellery. The word is French for "shop". "Boutique" was an everyday English word in the late 1960s when, for a brief period, Swinging London was the centre of the fashion trade. Carnaby Street and the Kings Road were the focus of much media attention as the most fashionable boutiques of the era were there. Today, boutique may refer to a specialised firm, such as a boutique investment bank or boutique law firm. The word is often used to describe small private hotels, to distinguish them from larger chains (such as Hilton Hotels). In such cases the term suggest their operation is elite and highly specialised. In the strictest sense of the word, boutiques would be one-of-a-kind but some chains are referred to as boutiques if they specialize in particular styles. Recently, the term "boutique" has started being applied to normally-mass-market items that are either niche or produced in intentionally small numbers at very high prices. This may be referred to as boutique manufacturing. For example, a "Time Magazine" article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.
Kristin Lisa Herrera (born 21 February 1989) is an American actress. She performs mostly on television. She played Lourdes Del Torro in "General Hospital". She played Dana Cruz in "Zoey 101". Herrera took a break from acting starting in 2008. Herrera was born in Los Angeles.
Lauren Bennett (born 23 June 1989) is an English singer, singer and model. She has worked with various music groups. She worked with the Paradiso Girls in the late 2000s. She began working with the Pussycat Dolls in the 2010s. She also worked with the rap group LMFAO. Bennett was born in Kent in the United Kingdom.
Charlotte Arnold (b. 27 July 1989) is a Canadian actress who appears mostly on television. She starred as Sadie Hawthorne in the TV series "Naturally, Sadie". She played Holly in "Degrassi: The Next Generation". Arnold was born in Toronto.
Elizabeth Egan Gillies (born July 26, 1993 in Haworth, New Jersey) is an American actress, singer, dancer and voice actress. Life. Elizabeth Gillies went to Haworth Public School in her home town. After that she went to Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest in Demarest. She has a younger brother named George. Career. Gillies made her Broadway debut at age 15 in the musical "13", playing the character of Lucy. She made her first television appearance in "The Black Donnellys" (2007), later starring as Jade West in the Nickelodeon series "Victorious" (2010-2013). From 2011-2014, she provided the voice of Daphne in Nickelodeon's "Winx Club", and she had a main role in the FX comedy series "Sex &amp; Drugs &amp; Rock &amp; Roll" (2015-2016). Since 2017, Gillies has starred as billionaire heiress and energy executive Fallon Carrington in The CW's series "Dynasty", a reboot of the 1980s series of the same name. She has also appeared in various feature and television films, including the horror film Animal (2014), the television film "Killing Daddy" (2014), the comedy film "Vacation" (2015), and the black comedy thriller film "Arizona" (2018).
Shenae Grimes (24 October 1989) is a Canadian actress who stars in both movies and television. She played Annie Wilson in "90210" and Darcy Edwards in "Degrassi: The Next Generation". She was also a recurring guest star in "Naturally, Sadie". Grimes was born in Toronto, Ontario.
Rebecca Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989) was an American actress. She began modeling before beginning an acting career. She starred as Patricia "Patty" Russell in the sitcom "My Sister Sam" in the late 1980s. The sitcom aired for two seasons. She played Stephanie in "The End of Innocence". Life. Schaeffer was born in Eugene, Oregon. Killing. On July 18, 1989, Schaeffer was shot to death in Los Angeles, California, by an obsessed fan who had stalked her for almost three years.
Cassandra Lynn Scerbo (or Cassie Scerbo; March 30, 1990) is an American singer and actress. Scerbo was born in Long Island, New York. She grew up in Parkland, Florida. She has performed in several movies. She acted as Lauren in "Make It or Break It". She played Ursela in "Not Another Teen Movie".
Aileen Pringle (July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989) was an American actress who acted in silent movies and on stage. She played The Queen in "Three Weeks" and Mrs. Eva Boutelle in the movie "True as Steel", both released in 1924. Pringle was born in San Francisco, California. She died at ninety-four in New York City.
Eliahu ben Shaoul Cohen (, 16 December 1924 – 18 May 1965) was a famous Israeli spy. He worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. He was caught and executed in Damascus, Syria. His burial place is unknown and his body was never returned to Israel despite repeated requests by his widow and his family to bring him to be buried in Israel. A memorial tomb was built for him in the Garden of the Missing Soldiers in the national military and police cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. His story of his life and his work for the Israeli secret services are documented in the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.. Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt and died at the age of 40.
John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767) was called "The Father of Children's Literature". He lived and worked in England. He was the first book publisher to print lots of books for children such as "A Little Pretty Pocket Book" and "The History Of Little Goody Two-Shoes". The Newbery Medal is named after him. He also published books for grown-ups. Some of the writers for grown-ups whose books he printed were Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, and Samuel Johnson. His early life. John Newbery was born in 1713. His father was Robert Newbery, a farmer who lived in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England. John Newbery did not go to school. He taught himself. When he was sixteen years old, John Newbery went to live with a printer named William Ayers. He was William Ayers's apprentice. William Ayers taught John Newbery how to be a printer. After some time, William Ayers sold his printing shop to William Carnan. William Carnan also taught John Newbery how to be a printer. In 1737 William Carnan died. When he died, he gave the printing shop to his brother Charles Carnan and also to John Newbery. They shared the shop and worked together. Two years after William Carnan died, John Newbery married a woman named Jordan Mary. Jordan Mary was William Carnan's wife before William died. Jordan Mary and William Carnan had three children before William Carnan died. Their names were John, Thomas, and Anna-Maria. When John Newbery married Jordan Mary, he adopted her three children to be his own children. John Newbery and Jordan Mary had three new children. Their names were Mary, John, and Francis. Mary was born in 1740. John was born in 1741. He died when he was 11 years old. Francis was born in 1743. His work as a printer. In 1740, John Newbery worked as a printer in Reading, England. One of the first books he printed was called "The Whole Duty of Man". It was written by Richard Allestree. In
The Story of Mankind is a nonfiction book that was first published in 1921. It was the first book that ever won the Newbery Medal. It won the Newbery Medal in 1922. "The Story of Mankind" was written by Hendrik Willem van Loon. He was an American writer and teacher. He wrote "The Story of Mankind" for his grandchildren. He thought that all children need to know about history. "The Story of Mankind" tells how people have lived and what things people have done that made a big change in the world. It starts with cave men. It tells about many different people. The last people it tells about are the people that lived when Hendrik Willem van Loon was writing the book. That was just after World War I. At that time, lots of people wanted to make it so that there would never be another war. Hendrik Willem van Loon thought that if he taught children about history, they would not want to fight wars when they grew up. Movie. In 1957 the Marx Brothers made a movie of "The Story of Mankind". It starred Ronald Colman. Lots of other movie stars were also in the movie. The movie is also called "The Story of Mankind".
Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a historian and children's writer. He was born Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1902. Life.  He was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His father was also named Hendrik Willem van Loon. His mother was named Elisabeth Johanna Hankin. In 1902, he went to the United States to study at Cornell University. He graduated from Cornell in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch. Her father was a teacher at Harvard. They had two sons, Henry Bowditch van Loon and Gerard Willem van Loon. After they got married, Hendrik and Eliza moved to Munich, Germany. Hendrik studied at the University of Munich. In 1911 he got his Ph.D. He had to write a long paper to show that he was a good enough student to get the Ph.D. The paper he wrote was called "The Fall of the Dutch Republic". In 1913 he published it as a book. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 and again at the start of World War I he worked for the Associated Press. He went to the places where soldiers were fighting each other and wrote about what the battles were like. From 1915 to 1917 he taught at Cornell University. In 1919 he was made a citizen of the United States. In 1920 he married Eliza Helen (Jimmie) Criswell. In 1927 he married Frances Goodrich Ames, a woman who wrote plays. Later he stopped being married to Frances Ames. He went back to Eliza Criswell. No one knows if they got married again. When he died in 1944, he gave his things to Eliza Criswell. Writing. Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote lots of books. His most well-known book is "The Story of Mankind". He wrote it and also drew many pictures and maps for it. It is a history of the world written for children. "The Story of M