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The Allstate Corporation is an American insurance company, headquartered in Northfield Township, Illinois. Allstate is a large corporation, it ranked 79th in the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total income. History. The idea for Allstate Insurance Company came during a bridge game in 1930. Insurance broker Carl L. Odell proposed to Wood, his neighbor, the idea of selling auto insurance by direct mail. "Allstate Insurance Company", named after Sears’ tire brand, went into business on April 17, 1931, offering auto insurance by direct mail and through the Sears catalog. In 1934, Allstate opened its first sales office in a Chicago Sears store. Allstate added products throughout the 1950s, including fire insurance in 1954 and homeowners and life insurance in 1957.  Allstate began selling insurance to Canadians in 1953. Allstate Insurance Company of Canada was registered in 1964. In 1991, the company went public before becoming completely independent in 1995. In 1996, their website www.allstate.com was launched. In 2012 "Allstate Solutions Private Limited" (also called Allstate India) was opened in Bangalore which is a technology and operations centre to provides software development and business process outsourcing services to its US parent. In 2018 — 2019, Allstate collaborated with Red Cross helped in liquidation of consequences of natural disasters in Hawaii and California. In July 2020, Allstate announced bought of company National General Insurance for $4 billion.
André Benoît François Hyacinthe Le Berthon was a French politician. He was born on January 7, 1713 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died April 17, 1800 in Paris. He was the first president of the Parliament of Bordeaux on the death of his father in August 1766. Simon-Antoine Delphin de Lamothe, admitted to the Parliament of Bordeaux at the age of 18. The pleasure of munching on his colleagues from the Palace arouses strong protests to bring the first President André-Benoît-François-Hyacinthe Le Berthon to intervene. He was received at the Bordeaux Masonic Lodge La Française in 1773 and was its perpetual venerable from 1779. In August 1787, the Parliament of Bordeaux, having taken up the defense of the tax-burdened people, was again exiled to Libourne. King Louis XVI again fearing riots agreed to return to Parliament in August 1788. He was a member of the nobility at the Estates General of 1789, showing himself open to reforms.
The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. History. Heinz was founded by and is named for Henry J. Heinz, who was born in the United States to German immigrants. Henry J. Heinz began packing food at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869. There he founded Heinz Noble &amp; Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began marketing horseradish. The company went bankrupt in 1875. The following year Heinz founded another company, F &amp; J Heinz, with his brother John Heinz and a cousin, Frederick Heinz. One of this company's first products was Heinz Tomato Ketchup.  In 1888, Heinz bought out his two partners and reorganized the company as the H. J. Heinz Company.  In 1905, H. J. Heinz was registered, and Heinz became its first president, holding that position for the rest of his life. Under his leadership, the company pioneered processes for sanitary food preparation. In 1930, Howard Heinz, son of Henry Heinz, helped to fight the downturn of the Great Depression by selling ready-to-serve soups and baby food. They became top sellers.  During World War II, Heinz helped the UK with food shortages. In the postwar years, factories of the company were built in other countries.  In 2001, Heinz bought the pasta sauce, dry bouillon and soup business of Borden Foods.  On February 14, 2013, it was announced that Heinz will be bought by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital for $23 billion. Berkshire Hathaway and 3G would each own half of Heinz, with 3G manage the company. The acquisition was completed in June of that year. On October 25, 2013, fast-food chain McDonald's announced it would end its 40-year relationship with Heinz, after the former Burger King chief Hees became its CEO. On March 25, 2015, Kraft Foods Group Inc. announced that it would merge with the H. J. Heinz Company, owned by 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to form the world's fifth-largest food and beverage company. The companies completed the merger on July 2, 2015.  Products. The company produces beans, dressings, pastas, sauces, soups.
Alain Chastagnol, born February 15, 1945 in Paris, died January 15, 2010 in the same city, is a media manager and a French politician, deputy mayor of Souillac. he was in charge of mission in Seychelles for the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs then chief of staff at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. In 1977, at the age of 32, he took the previously communist town hall of Souillac, and remained so until 2008. As such, he supported the development of the Souillac jazz festival, he participated in access to the A20 motorway ( France) with Jacques Chirac, and the creation of the Souillac exit, the Brive-Souillac Airport project. He sometimes stays in Paris, sometimes in his house in Calès. Elected deputy of Lot (RPR) from March 1986 to May 1988, he was also general councilor of the Lot from 1985 to 2004 and regional councilor of Midi-Pyrénées from 1992 to 1998. Among his friendly relations he counted Philippine de Rothschild. He organized the twinning of the town of Souillac with the village of Souillac in Mauritius. In 2005, Alain Chastagnol, mayor of the city, receives from the hands of Jean-Louis Debré, the Marianne d'Or 2005. The national competition of “Marianne d'Or” rewards each year action, creativity, rigor, dedication and passion for local democracy in villages and towns in France. In 2007, he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor. It will take 6 years to see a UMP mayor win the municipal elections of Souillac in the person of Jean-Michel Sanfourche. An absolute majority obtained in the first round against three other candidates that only Alain Chastagnol had managed to obtain with a similar score in 1977, during his first election In 2015, the municipality of Jean-Michel Sanfourche, honors the one who was mayor of the city Alain-Chastagnol, with an esplanade.
The Mysore curse is a legend about the kings of the Mysore Kingdom, a princely state that ruled what is now Karnataka, which is today in India. The Mysore state was ruled by the Wodeyars or Wadiyars. The queen of the Vijayanagara dynasty, Alamelamma, wife of King Tirumalaraja, put the curse on them. When the Mysore state took over the Vijayanagara empire in 1612, Queen Alamelamma of the Vijayanagara Empire tried to run away with some treasure that belonged to her but was stolen by the Mysore army during the invasion. When she escaped, The Mysore king ordered the soldiers to catch her. She jumped into a river and before committing suicide, shouted the curse: ""May" "the land at Talakadu would be barren, May the river at Malangi turn into a whirlpool and may the Mysore kings never beget children"." Since then, Talakadu has been buried underneath sand dunes, with only some areas successfully excavated. The Kaveri river at Malangi always turns into a whirlpool and the Mysore kings had male children only once every two generations. Many Mysore kings and queens have adopted children, for example nephews or cousins. An attempt was made to ward off the curse by installing an idol of Alamelamma in the Mysore Palace premises.  In 2017, The current ruler, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar and his queen wife, Trishikha Kumari, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The heir, Aadyaveer Narasimharaja Wadiyar, was greatly anticipated by the public as it was believed that Aadyaveer will end the 400-year old curse.
A post box, also known as pillar box, also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English) is a box where people can put mail for sending. The mail is collected by the agents of the postal service.  The term post box can also refer to a private letter box for incoming mail.
A mobile game is a video game designed to be played on mobile phones or tablets. The first game ever played on a mobile phone was a version of "Tetris", which was available on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device in 1994. In 1997, Nokia introduced a game called "Snake". It was already installed on many Nokia mobile devices and has become one of the most popular games. The Nokia 6110 had a version of "Snake" that allowed two players to play using the infrared port, making it the first of many two-player games for mobile phones. Nowadays, mobile games are typically downloaded from an app store. However, there are also instances where games come pre-installed on handheld devices by the manufacturer or mobile operator. This can be done through an infrared connection, Bluetooth, memory card, or by directly transferring the game to the device using a cable.
The fauna of Australia is different from that of Asia. Some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are "endemic to Australia".  The fauna is quite different from that of New Zealand, but is similar to that of New Guinea. That comes about because New Zealand is a volcanic oceanic island with no historical connection with Australia. Its animals have not come from Australia. On the other hand, New Guinea is an island on the same continental plate as Australia, and on the same side of the Wallace line. This was discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, and explained in a famous series of books. These two huge islands were both part of the ancient continent of Gondwana, and were not (until modern times) inhabited by animals from Asia. As Gondwana broke up, its two main pieces had marsupial mammals. Eutherian mammals had not arrived from Eurasia.  This high level of endemism is explained by the continent's long geographic isolation and its tectonic stability (few earthquakes, volcanoes and recent mountain formations). Australia has few placental mammals. Marsupials occupy many of the ecological niches which placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Marsupials are a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods, possums and dasyuromorphs.  Australia is home to two of the five known species of monotremes and has numerous venomous species, which include the platypus, spiders, scorpions, octopus, jellyfish, molluscs, stonefish, and stingrays. Uniquely, Australia has more venomous than non-venomous species of snakes. The settlement of Australia by Indigenous Australians was between 48,000 and 70,000 years ago. Research in 2011 using DNA suggested an arrival around 50,000 years ago. Europeans came from 1788, and significantly affected the fauna. Hunting, the introduction of non-native species, and land-management practices involving the modification or destruction of habitats have led to many extinctions. Some historical examples include the paradise parrot, pig-footed bandicoot and the broad-faced potoroo. Unsustainable land use still threatens the survival of many species. To protect the survival of its fauna, Australia has passed wide-ranging federal and state legislation and established protected areas.
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565 – 11 January 1612) was the fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golkonda and founded the city of Hyderabad, in South-central India and built its architectural centerpiece, the Charminar and Mecca Masjid. He was an able administrator and his reign is considered one of the high points of the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ascended to the throne in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for 31 years. Mausoleum of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah in Hyderabad. Birth, early life and personal life. Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah was the third son of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali and Bhagirathi. He was an accomplished poet and wrote his poetry in Persian, Telugu and Urdu. As the first author in the Urdu language, he composed his verses in the Persian "diwan" style, and his poems consisted of verses relating to a single topic, "gazal-i musalsal". Muhammad Quli's "Kulliyat" comprised 1800 pages, over half were "gazals", "qasidas" on one hundred pages, while the rest contained over 300 pages of "matnawi" and "marsiyas." Charminar in Hyderabad was built by Quli Qutub Shah City of Hyderabad. Muhammad Quli built the city of Hyderabad on the southern bank of the Musi River in 1591. He called architects from all around the world to lay out the city, which was built on a grid plan. The city was named in the remembrance of 4th Caliph of Islam or 1st Imam of Shia Muslim Ali Ibne Abi Talib. He constructed Char Minar and Makkah Masjid. He was the one who laid foundation stone of Makkah Masjid after checking that there was no one in the crowd who never skipped a single prayer except him. Patronage of literature. Quli Qutb Shah was a scholar of Arabic, Persian and Telugu languages. He wrote poetry in Urdu, Persian, and Telugu. His poetry has been compiled into a volume entitled "Kulliyat-e-Quli Qutub Shah." He had the distinction of being the first "Saheb-e-dewan" Urdu poet and is credited with introducing a new sensibility into prevailing genres of Persian/Urdu poetry.
Greensleeves is a song from the 1500s. People say King Henry VIII wrote it about Anne Boleyn, but that is probably not true. Greensleeves is in minor key. Its verses have a (CESH) pattern, and it has a major key chorus. Ending traditionally Tierce de Picardie. The Christmas song "What Child Is This?" is sung to the same music as "Greensleeves" but the words are different.
Iryna Madziy (; 12 March 1970 – 11 April 2021) was a Ukrainian journalist and editor. She was a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (2007). Madziy died in Borshchiv on 11 April 2021, aged 51.
Geleen is a city in the Dutch province of Limburg. In 2020, 31,670 people lived there. Since 2001, it is part of the new municipality of Sittard-Geleen.
Michel Mongeau (February 9, 1965 – May 22, 2010) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Mongeau was born in Nuns' Island, Quebec. Biography. As a youth, Mongeau played in the 1977 and 1978 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Verdun, Quebec. He played 54 games in the National Hockey League: 50 with the St. Louis Blues and four with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He died May 22, 2010 from cancer.
Fernand Dupuy is a French politician. He was born March 2, 1917 in Jumilhac-le-Grand in Dordogne and died June 15, 1999 in Limoges. He was a member of the French Communist Party. He was general councilor of the Seine, mayor of Choisy-le-Roi and deputy for the Seine and then for Val-de-Marne. In 1948, he moved to Choisy-le-Roi to provide the secretariat for Maurice Thorez, a task he carried out until 1951, and from 1947 to 1964, he was part of the Central Committee of the PCF. General councilor of the Seine from 1953 to 1967, mayor of Choisy-le-Roi from 1959 to 1979, he sat in the National Assembly as deputy for the Seine, then for Val-de-Marne, from 1962 to 1978.
Edmond Charles Octave Michelet was a French politician, born October 8, 1899 in Paris 19th, and died October 9, 1970 in Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze). On June 17, 1940, he distributed leaflets in mailboxes in Brive denouncing the spirit of surrender and thus calling for the Resistance through a work by Charles Péguy, L'Argent, suite. He takes up a leaflet with a text by Péguy: "He who does not surrender is right against those who surrender". People come into contact with Edmond Michelet, ensuring the distribution of the underground press, in particular Combat and the communist newspapers Germain Auboiroux, Robert Delord, Henry and his brother Édouard Valéry. Leader of the Resistance Combat movement in Limousin (region R5) under the name of Duval, he was arrested on February 25, 1943 in Brive-la-Gaillarde by the Gestapo. Transferred to Fresnes where he was held in solitary confinement, he was deported in September 1943 to Dachau. Elected deputy for Corrèze under the MRP label in 1945, Edmond Michelet became Minister of the Armies under General de Gaulle on November 21, 1945, a position he held until December 16, 1946. Reelected deputy in 1946 (Second National Constituent Assembly and National Assembly), he sat at the Palais-Bourbon but was defeated in 1951. He was a senator for the Seine between 1952 and 1959 (vice-president of the Council of the Republic in 1958). In 1963, at the request of General de Gaulle, he founded the France-Algeria Association. Edmond Michelet became Minister of State, in charge of the Civil Service, from April 6, 1967 to May 31, 1968 (Georges Pompidou IV government), then succeeded André Malraux as Minister of Cultural Affairs, from June 20, 1969 to his death
Francis Wathier (born December 7, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Wathier was originally drafted by the Dallas Stars and played for their farm team the Texas Stars. He has had three stints with the Dallas Stars, playing in two games in October 2009, three games in February 2010, and one game in the 2011–12 season. In 2011, he was named an AHL All-Star and scored two goals for the Western Conference in an 11–8 loss to the Eastern Conference. On March 9, 2014, Wathier was traded to the Milwaukee Admirals. On October 21, 2014, Wathier was signed to a professional try-out by the Portland Pirates.
HD 100546 or KR Muscae is a star. It is a pre-main-sequence star. It is 361.4 light-years away from the Earth. In the night sky, it is in the constellation of Musca. It has one planet. The planet is 6.5 AU away from HD 100546. The star has disks of dust and rocks around it. One of these disks is 0.2 to 4 AU from the star and another is 13 AU out to a few hundred AU. Scientists think there might be a protoplanet between these two circumstellar disks, around 47 AU from the star. Scientists believe this star is 10 million years old. Planetary system. The planetary system contains at least 3 members: "HD 100546 b" and a protoplanet forming in denser regions of the circumstellar disks (c). HD 100546 b. "HD 100546 b" or "KR Muscae b" is a large gas giant exoplanet or a sub-brown dwarf star orbiting HD 100546 6.5 AU away from its host star. HD 100546 b might be the largest exoplanet discovered because it is exactly 7.0560720927 times the diameter of Jupiter which is 986,580 km. Protoplanet. The Hubble Space Telescope observed a complex spiral pattern in the circumstellar disks. The young protoplanet designated "HD 100546" c or "KR Muscae C", is a possible exoplanet forming 47 AU away from the host star. It has the temperature of 227 K (or -46.15°C).
Olivier Léo Patrick Alexandre Michaud (born September 14, 1983) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender. He played one game for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 2001–02 season.
Normand Cournoyer (born March 17, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During the 1973–74 season, Cournoyer played 13 games with the Cleveland Crusaders, and during the 1976–77 season he played 19 games with the San Diego Mariners, both of the World Hockey Association.
B, Tsi, Ti or Si is a musical note and is the first note of the B major scale. C. C is the same pitch as B but is not usually seen as the same. It is used in an instance where B♭ comes before a B natural and a C♭ is used in place of the B to avoid confusion.
Alytus is a city in Lithuania. It is the capital of Alytus County. History. Alytus was first mentioned in 1337 by in his written chronicles.
The Saterland (Saterland Frisian: , ) is a municipality in Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is between the cities of Leer, Cloppenburg, and Oldenburg. It is home to Saterland Frisians, who speak Frisian and German. The municipality of Saterland was formed in 1974, when the smaller municipalities Strücklingen ("Strukelje" in Saterland Frisian), Ramsloh ("Roomelse"), Sedelsberg ("Seeidelsbierich") and Scharrel ("Schäddel") were combined.
The triangle tree frog ("Dendropsophus triangulum") is a frog that lives in Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Scientists have seen it between 34 and 387 meters above sea level. This frog is brown in color with yellow or white stripes. At least a few frogs have a spot on their necks in the shape of a triangle. The adult male frog is 28.6 to 34.4 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 37.5 to 41.9 mm long. The female frog lays eggs on leaves so that the tadpoles fall into the water. Humam beings have seen this frog in swamps, secondary forest, and near ponds.
Ludmila Guzun (26 June 1961 – 16 April 2021) was a Moldovan politician, who served as a Deputy of the Moldovan Parliament for the Ungheni District. Deputy in Parliament. Guzun was elected to the Moldovan Parliament on 24 February 2019 representing the Democratic Party of Moldova. Death. On 7 April 2021, Guzun tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalised in intensive care. Guzun died from complications relating to COVID-19 at 03:00 on 16 April 2021.
DISPLAYTITLE Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words, It is a word that is mostly a joke in the fact that it is a long word itself. The word for this phobia is one of the longest words in the English Language, behind some other scientific words like chemical or disease names, such as Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which simply is a disease caused by breathing silica dust. Likely causes would be related to a traumatic time learning spelling. The American Psychiatric Association does not officially recognise this phobia. Instead, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is considered a social phobia. However, there is not much evidence people actually have it.
Anisodontea is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Malveae of the mallow family Malvaceae. Species. "Anisodontea alexandrii" "Anisodontea anomala" "Anisodontea biflora" "Anisodontea bryoniifolia" "Anisodontea capensis" "Anisodontea dissecta" "Anisodontea dregeana" "Anisodontea elegans" "Anisodontea fruticosa" "Anisodontea gracilis" "Anisodontea hypomandarum" "Anisodontea julii" "Anisodontea malvastroides" "Anisodontea procumbens" "Anisodontea pseudocapensis" "Anisodontea racemosa" "Anisodontea reflexa" "Anisodontea scabrosa" "Anisodontea setosa" "Anisodontea theronii" "Anisodontea triloba"
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Regarding Henry is a 1991 American drama movie directed by Mike Nichols and starring Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Rebecca Miller, Bruce Altman, Elizabeth Wilson, Donald Moffat, John Leguizamo. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot. The movie is about an ambitious, ruthless, immoral, narcissistic, wealthy and successful lawyer from Manhattan who lives for his career and neglects his wife and daughter. When he is shot while stumbling upon a robbery, he loses his memory, how to talk and walk, and needs to learn how to talk, walk and regain his memory, including remembering his family.
The Russian Embassy School in London (), previously the Soviet Embassy School in London, is a Russian international school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London that started in 1954. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs runs it. It had 150 students in 2015. Students from Russian diplomat families can attend if the Russian Ambassador chooses to allow them to.
The Marqueyssac gardens are located in the town of Vézac, in the French department of Dordogne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. They are on the list of remarkable gardens in France. Nineteen hectares form a site classified for its "picturesque and historical interest" since the ministerial decree of December 16, 1969. Laid out on a rocky outcrop 130 meters above the river, the park offers a view of the valley, castles and neighboring villages, including Beynac-et-Cazenac, Fayrac, Castelnaud, La Roque-Gageac and Domme.