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Stone Forest ("Shilin") is a remarkable region of limestone columns. It is in Yunnan Province, China. Two parts of the site, the Naigu Stone Forest and Suogeyi Village are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. They are part of the South China Karst. The site is classified as a AAAAA-class tourist site. This is the highest rating in the Chinese tourist system. Formation. The stone forests formed some 270 million years ago in what was a shallow sea. They are mostly limestone, with some sandstone. Horizontal strata were laid down in the basin, and later was pushed up into the air. The limestone in the rocks was then eroded by wind and water to create these spectacular stone pillars. There is a very similar "forest" in Melarky, Madagascar, known as the Tsingy.
Aaron Brown (November 10, 1948 – December 29, 2024) was an American broadcast journalist. He anchored "Newsnight with Aaron Brown", CNN's main newscast. He was known for his reporting of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Before, he worked at ABC News as a weekend news anchor. He was a local television reporter in Seattle before this. Brown was a professor of journalism at Arizona State University. Brown was born in Hopkins, Minnesota. Brown died on December 29, 2024 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 76.
Johan Jüngling, born 1977, is a Swedish former squash player. He represented Växjö SK and lived in the town of Jönköping. He represented Sweden at several European championships and world championships. He played for the Swedish national team for 10 years and was ranked number-one in Sweden. He won the Swedish national championship eight times as a junior. As a senior he bcame Swedish national champion four times. He also won the Andalucian team championship in 2005.
The Chocolate Hills are a geological formation in Bohol Province, Philippines. There are at least 1,260 hills (and maybe more) spread over an area of more than . They are covered in green grass that turns brown (like chocolate) during the dry season, hence the name. The Chocolate Hills a famous tourist attraction of the state Bohol. They are on the provincial flag and seal as natural attractions of the province. They are in the Philippine Tourism Authority's list of tourist destinations in the Philippines. They have been declared the country's third National Geological Monument and proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Chocolate Hills are conical karst hills similar to those seen in the limestone regions of Slovenia, Croatia, northern Puerto Rico, Enugu and Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. They probably started as corals growing in a warm, shallow sea about two million years ago. The hills consist of sandy to rubbly marine limestones. These limestones contain abundant fossils of foraminifera, coral, molluscs, and algae. These conical hills were created by limestone dissolving in rainfall and groundwater. There was erosion by rivers and streams after they were lifted above sea level. The hills are separated by flat plains and have numerous caves and springs. The Chocolate Hills are a remarkable example of conical karst topography.
William Kristol (born December 23, 1952) is an American political analyst and commentator. He was the editor and publisher of the political magazine "The Weekly Standard" until it closed. Kristol was a Fox News political analyst until friction with Fox News Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes caused him to switch to the news division of ABC, where he is a political analyst. Personal life. Since 1975, he has been married to Susan Scheinberg. They met while they were both graduate students at Harvard. Scheinberg is a Ph.D. in classics. They have three children. Their daughter Anne is married to writer Matthew Continetti. Continetti is editor-in-chief of The Washington Free Beacon. Their son Joseph served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan and worked for the management consulting company McKinsey &amp; Company. He started working as legislative director for Senator Tom Cotton in 2018. Kristol lives in Northern Virginia. His father was neoconservative icon Irving Kristol and his mother was political historian Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 – February 12, 2015, born Richard Dean Tyree) was an American jazz drummer. He began his career as a professional musician on the New York scene in the early 1970s. He was born in Olathe, Kansas. Pratt died in Leavenworth, Kansas, aged 71.
Uri Shraga Orbach, Hebrew: אורי שרגא אורבך , (28 March 1960 – 16 February 2015) was an Israeli Religious Zionist writer, journalist and politician. He served as a Member of Knesset for The Jewish Home party and as Pensioner Affairs Minister. Orbach was born in Petah Tikva and died of blood disease in Jerusalem, aged 54.
Haron Amin (Dari: هارون امین‎; June 19, 1969 – February 15, 2015) was the Afghan ambassador to Japan and non-resident ambassador to Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore from 2004 to 2009. Amin was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amin died of cancer at a U.S. hospital, aged 47.
John Davies (25 April 1938 – 16 February 2015) was a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster. He worked for the BBC during his entire career. Davies died at the age of 76.
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins; September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) was an American artist. She mainly painted women, children, and animals in oil or mixed media.  Keane's works are recognizable by the big, doll-like eyes of the people she painted. In the 1960s, her artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane, who claimed credit for it. They went to court and Margaret won the case. Keane died on June 26, 2022 in Napa, California from heart failure, aged 94.
Wayne Anthony Allwine (February 7, 1947 – May 18, 2009) was an American voice actor, sound effects editor and foley artist for The Walt Disney Company. He was best known for his role as the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1977 to 2009. He was married to voice actress Russi Taylor, who was the voice of Minnie Mouse. He died on May 18, 2009 of complications of diabetes. He received an Emmy Award for sound editing in 1986.
A pyramidion (plural pyramidia) is the very top piece of an Egyptian pyramid. They were called "benbenet" in the Ancient Egyptian language. In Egypt's Old Kingdom, pyramidia were made of diorite, granite, or limestone. These were then covered in gold or electrum. The gold would reflect the rays of the sun. In later times they were made from granite which had royal titles and religious symbols cut into them. Very few pyramidia still exist. Most of those that have are made of polished black granite, with the name of the pyramid's owner cut into them. There are four pyramidia on show in the main hall of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. They include the pyramidia from the Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Dahshur and the Pyramid of Khendjer at Saqqara. A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion is thought to have been made for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur. It has been rebuilt and put on show at the side of the pyramid. However it does not match, as its angles are steeper than that of the sides of the pyramid. Private brick pyramids with pyramidia. During the New Kingdom, some private underground tombs had a small brick pyramid built on top of them. These pyramids were topped with a pyramidia. The four sides included texts and scenes about the cult of the Sun god Ra. The scenes usually show the course of the sun. It is shown rising on one side, and setting on the opposite side, and traveling, through the night, through the underworld, ruled by Osiris. Scribe Moses pyramidion. The pyramidion of the scribe Moses was made about 1250 BC from limestone. It is 53 cm tall and shows him making an offering, with his name, on two opposite sides. The other two sides show a baboon which represents the god Thoth. Ptahemwia pyramidion. The pyramidion of Ptahemwia was made about 1200 BC, from limestone. It is 28 cm wide and 42 cm tall, and shows sun-related scenes. The Sun god, Ra, and the god of the Underworld, Osiris, are shown on one side. On another side is Ptahemwia, standing in an offering pose, facing three columns of hieroglyphs.
The University of the Humanities is a public university in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Mongolian name is Хүмүүнлэгийн ухааны их сургууль. It has undergraduate and graduate programs. Fields of study include foreign languages, translation, education, journalism, computer science, economics and business. The school is in downtown Ulaanbaatar at Grand Chinggis Khaan Square. The university is accredited by the Mongolian National Council for Education Accreditation.
Maria "Movita" Castaneda (April 12, 1916 – February 12, 2015), was an American actress. She was known for being the second wife of actor Marlon Brando. She was known for her roles in "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) and "Mutiny on the Bounty". Castaneda died in Los Angeles, California from complications of a neck injury, aged 98.
Saqqara (), or Sakkara, is a vast ancient burial ground in Egypt, in area. It was the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. Saqqara has numerous pyramids, including the world famous Pyramid of Djoser. This is sometimes referred to as the Step Tomb due to its rectangular base, and its 'steps' (mastabas: the Arabic word for 'bench'). It is about south of Cairo. Djoser's pyramid is the oldest complete stone building complex known. It was built in the Third Dynasty. Another 16 Egyptian kings built pyramids at Saqqara: these pyramids are now in various states of preservation. High officials added private funeral monuments to this necropolis during the whole pharaonic period. It was an important complex for non-royal burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3,000 years, well into Ptolemaic and Roman times. In 2018, an undisturbed tomb was discovered. It is believed to be the tomb of the royal priest Wahtye. The intact interior includes figures with colors on sculptures and wall carvings. The area from Giza to Dahshur was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The official name is "Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur".  Some scholars think the name 'Saqqara' is not taken from the ancient Egyptian funerary god Sokar, but from a supposed local Berber Tribe called Beni Saqqar. Photo gallery. &lt;br&gt;
The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat ("Melomys rubicola"), is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. While it was similar to the Cape York melomys it had some protein differences and a coarser tail. It was genetically different to species from Australia and New Guinea. It lived in burrows it had dug among plants, or under branches and leaves on the ground. It was a nocturnal animal, and scientists believe it was an herbivore. The Bramble Cay melomys was known only from a small population in Bramble Cay, a vegetated coral cay of . The cay is in the eastern part of Torres Strait, off the northern tip of Australia. It is only 50 km from New Guinea. The melomys were probably trapped on the island by rising sea levels after the last ice age. It is also possible to have come from the Fly River, perhaps floating on branches. Scientists do not know much about the animals that live in the Fly River area. In the 1800s, there were lots of melomys on the island. A search in 1998 found 42 animals. Another search in 2002 found 10 animals. In 2004 a search found 12, but the melomys have not been seen since. During this time, the sea level has risen, making the island smaller, and turtles and sea birds have eaten most of the plants. Scientists believe the Bramble Cay melomys is extinct. It is possible that the species may be found on nearby islands as many of these have never been searched. However, in June 2016, researchers from Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, and the University of Queensland reported that the species had indeed become extinct.
Stephen Furst (May 8, 1954 – June 16, 2017) was an American actor. He played Kent in "National Lampoon's Animal House". He also acted in other movies and other television shows. On June 16, 2017, Furst died from complications related to diabetes at his home in Moorpark, California, at age 63.
Linda Ellerbee (born August 15, 1944) is an American journalist. She worked for "Nick News with Linda Ellerbee". She also worked on NBC News. At NBC, she worked on "The Today Show". She was born in Bryan, Texas.
The Perro de Presa Canario is a large Mastiff-type dog breed from the Canary Islands. It was bred for working livestock. Also to run off or kill other dogs. They are often on the list of outlawed dogs in places that ban dangerous breeds. They are a working breed that can weigh . If trained and socialized early they can make a good family pet. They make excellent guard dogs. The name of the breed is Spanish and means "Canarian catch dog". The name is often shortened to "Presa Canario" or simply "Presa". The breed is sometimes also called Dogo Canario or Canary Dog.
Lasse Braun (born Alberto Ferro; 11 January 1936 – 16 February 2015) was an Italian pornographer, movie director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher. He was known for creating hardcore pornography movies and selling them to peep shows in the United States. Braun died from complications of diabetes on February 16, 2015 in Rome, Italy at the age of 78.
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich or PB&amp;J is a sandwich, popular in North America. It has a layer of peanut butter and either jelly or jam usually on 2 slices of bread. Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches have around 375 calories. Popularity. Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches are popular in schools and popular amongst children On April 2, 2016, it is revealed most people may eat almost 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their lifetime.
Scholz's Star is a nearby star which flew through the Solar System's Oort cloud about 70,000 years ago. It is also called WISE 0720-0846 (more fully: WISE J072003.20-084651.2. This binary star system is now about from the Sun. It is in the southern constellation Monoceros near the Galactic plane. The primary is a red dwarf with times the mass of Jupiter. The secondary is probably a T5 brown dwarf. The system has 0.15 solar masses. The system has an apparent magnitude of 18.3, and is about 3–10 billion years old. Stars probably pass through the Oort cloud every 100,000 years or so. Comets disturbed by the Oort cloud will take about two million years to get to the inner Solar System.
Ross 248 (HH Andromedae) is a small star about from Earth. It is in the direction of the northern constellation of Andromeda. Despite its proximity to the Earth, this star is too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Ross 248 was first catalogued by Frank Elmore Ross in 1926 with his second list of proper motion stars. The star is a UV Ceti-type variable star and a red dwarf
Koç Holding, the largest Turkish industrial conglomerate and Turkey's largest group of companies. Koç Holding was founded in 1926 by Vehbi Koç. Its headquarters in Nakkaştepe, Istanbul. Koç Holding is the only Turkish company to be listed in Fortune Global 500 list. Currently, Koç Holding’s Chairman is Ömer Koç.
Marianne Berglund, born 23 June 1963 in Skellefteå, Sweden is a Swedish former road racing cyclist. She won the women's road race during the UCI Road World Championships in Altenrhein, Switzerland on 3 September. She has also won the Tour of Texas. She won the first edition of Tjejtrampet in the year of 1990.
Innuendo is the first single from the 1991 album "Innuendo", by the English rock band Queen. This single is one of the longest released by Queen. The video is contains animation and clips from other Queen songs, like "The Miracle", "Breakthru", "The Invisible Man", "Scandal" and "I Want It All". The single "Innuendo" reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1991. Music video. A very elaborate music video was created to accompany the single and released on 10 December 1990, combining stop motion animation with rotoscoping and featuring creepy dolls in a detailed miniature cinema set. The band members only appear as illustrations and images, mainly taken from earlier Queen music videos (such as "The Miracle", "Scandal", "Breakthru", "The Invisible Man", "I Want It All", and clips from "Live at Wembley Stadium 1986"), on a cinema screen in the same manner as in the film "Nineteen Eighty-Four", with Mercury drawn in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, May in the style of Victorian etchings, Taylor in the style of Jackson Pollock, and Deacon in the style of Pablo Picasso. It also featured a montage of historical stock footages. The interlude of Flamenco music showed some claymation figures of jesters, tumbling, clapping and juggling, which were animated by Klaybow Films. The video won production company DoRo (who also produced the videos to all other singles from the "Innuendo" album) a Monitor Award for Best Achievement in Music Video.
Catharina "Cathy" Ubels-Veen (28 October 1928 – 17 February 2015) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the Second Chamber of the Netherlands for the Evangelical People's Party between 1982 and 1986. Ubels-Veen died in Amsterdam, aged 86.
Ernest Joachim Sternglass (September 24, 1923 – February 12, 2015) was an German-American physicist and writer. He was the emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. Sternglass was best known for his controversial research on the health risks of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from nuclear power plants. Sternglass died in Ithaca, New York from heart failure, aged 91.
Kvinnliga IK Sport is a sports club in Gothenburg in Sweden. Just as the name says the club only runs women's activity. Since the late 1970s men are however allowed to be board members. The club nowadays only runs handball activity. The handball team won 14 Swedish national indoor championship titles between 1951 and 1972 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1971 and 1972). Earlier the club even ran cycling, gymnastics, track and field athletics, speedskating and orienteering.
Bengt Ohlson, born 10 March 1943, is a Swedish former ice hockey player and manager. He acted as the head coach for the Swedish national team during the 1980-1981 season. During that season Sweden won the silver medal during the 1981 IIHF World Championship. Otherwise that season had been less successful for the Swedes. He resigned after being threatened to death. When Sweden won the silver medal he became popular known as "Silverfisken" by the Swedes. He had been called "Torsken" after the Swedish fiasco during the 1980 Izvestia Tournament.
Kabe sommarland or just Kabeland was a summertime-based amusement park in the town of Jönköping in Sweden. What once was a summer park is now deserted and ruined. It was located at Haga near the Jönköping paintball park. The facility was built by KABE Husvagnar AB back in the early 1980s. The park was opened in 1984 by Gösta Gunnarsson. He was back then Jönköping County governor. The first years were successful. By the early 1990s economic recession stroke hard against the economy. A pyrmaniac was roaming the neighbourhoods some years later. In September 1995 a fire destroyed the restaurant. Following the 1995 season the park was closed down, deserted and devastated.
A summer park is a form of theme park with a summertime theme. A summer park is only opened during the summertime season. Playgrounds and swimming pool make up most attractions instead of carousels. Several summer parks have been built in Denmark. The phenomenon was booming in Sweden by the late and mid 1980s. It expanded during the economic boom before a decrease began in the early 1990s during the economc recession. The phenomenon was also decreasing because of the introduction of a wider entertainment market.
Katherine "Kate" Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician. She was raised in Minnesota. She became the 38th Governor of Oregon on February 18, 2015 after the resignation of John Kitzhaber.  Brown is the state's second female governor, after Barbara Roberts. She is the first openly bisexual governor in United States history.
William Martin "Clu" Gulager (November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022) was an American actor and director. He was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He was known for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBC television series "The Tall Man" and for his role as Emmett Ryker in another NBC western series, "The Virginian". He also played Burt Wilson in "The Return of the Living Dead" and Ken Walsh in "". He also played a book store owner in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Gulager died on August 5, 2022 at his son's home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 93.
Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 – April 25, 1960) was an American actress. She acted in television and movies and on the stage. She played Evelyn Harper in "Caged" (1950). She also played a mail order bride in "Westward the Women" (1952). Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. She died from liver disease at age 62.
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996) was an American singer. He sang blues, soul and funk music. He had hit songs in the 1970s with "Ain't That a Bitch" and "Superman Lover". He had many other hits.  Watson was born in Houston, Texas. He died from a heart attack in Japan.
Sex assignment or gender assignment is the process of determining the sex of a baby, whether it is a boy or a girl. Usually, the doctor, parents or midwife look at the sex organs of a newborn baby to do this. The assigned sex is written on the birth certificate, passport and other identification papers. Even though it is called "assignment," these adults are not literally assigning (choosing) whether the child is male or female. In most people, the sex assigned at birth matches the person's own gender identity. If the assigned sex does not match a person's gender identity, the person is transgender. In a very small number of newborn babies, it is not possible to tell whether the child's body is male or female by looking at the sex organs. These people are intersex.
The Official Museums of Amsterdam (OAM) is an organization of museums in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1994. All member museums belong to the Dutch museum association. Members. The current list of the 44 members:
Ciudad del Este (Spanish for "City of the East") is the second largest city in Paraguay and capital of the Alto Paraná Department, on the Paraná River. History. Founded in 1957, it was first called "Puerto Flor de Lis", then "Puerto Presidente Stroessner", after Alfredo Stroessner. In 1989, its name was changed to Ciudad del Este. Geography. Ciudad del Este is in southeastern Paraguay, in the "Oriental" region. The district area is and an estimated population in 2015 of 290,912 for a population density of inhabitants/km2. Ciudad del Este is in front of the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu (state of Paraná), separated from it by Paraná River and linked by the "Friendship Bridge". The Argentine border is between the neighbouring town of Presidente Franco and Puerto Iguazú (Misiones Province). Ciudad del Este, along with the towns and districts of Hernandarias, Minga Guazú and Presidente Franco, forms an area named "Gran Ciudad del Este" ("Greater Ciudad del Este").
Rickard Fagerlund, born 25 January 1937 in Södertälje, Sweden, dead 31 December 2009, was a Swedish ice hockey player and manager. He played as a defenseman for Södertälje SK. He won the Swedish national championship in 1956. He also played for GAIS, IFK Norrköping and IK Oskarshamn. He later coached HC Vita Hästen. He was the chairman of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association between 17 September 1983 and 15 June 2002.