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Peter Bondra (born 7 February 1968) is a Slovak retired professional ice hockey player that played a total of 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Bondra was drafted 156th overall in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals. Bondra played 14 seasons with the Capitals. Because of a disappointing year, the Capitals traded some of their veteran players. Bondra was traded to the Ottawa Senators for Brooks Laich and a second round draft pick. Bondra was noticeably sad and was choked up during the press conference that announced the trade. Bondra played 1 season with the Senators before signing with HK Tatravagónka ŠKP Poprad of the Slovak Extraliga because of the 2004-05 NHL lockout. After the lockout ended, he signed with the Atlanta Thrashers. He played 1 season with the Thrashers. On December 10, He signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. While he was a member of the Blackhawks, he scored his 500th NHL career goal. This made him the 37th player in league history to reach the 500–goal mark and the fourth player to record his 500th goal while a member of the Blackhawks. He retired from professional ice hockey on October 29, 2007.
Toby [ toh-bee ] is a male name. Toby is a well-liked name for male individuals with a rich history and significance. Its origin can be traced back to England and is a derivative of the name Tobias, which means "God is good" or "God is my goodness." The name has been widely used since the Middle Ages and has remained a popular choice for boys in English-speaking countries. Apart from Toby, the name has also been spelled in different variations such as Tobie, Tobey, and Tobias. The name has also been referenced in literature and popular culture, with characters such as Toby Belch in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Toby Ziegler in the television show "The West Wing" bearing the name. It is used in English speaking places. Toby Keith, a Country music singer, is one famous Toby. This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Jared Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor. He is best known for his role on the television series "Gilmore Girls". Padalecki is also known for playing Sam Winchester on the CW television series "Supernatural". Padalecki married Himani Price on February 27, 2010 in Sun Valley, Idaho. He and his wife are living in Austin, Texas. Their son, Thomas Padalecki, was born on March 19, 2012.
Sněžka (, ) is the highest mountain in the Czech Republic. Its top is above sea level. The mountain is in the Giant Mountains ("Krkonoše"), in the nordeastern part of Bohemia. It is about 150 kilometres from Prague, the country's capital. Buses from Prague go to the town of Pec pod Sněžkou, from there the tourists can walk or use the cable-way. The mountain. There is the Czech-Polish border on the top of Sněžka. Both Czechs and Poles have their buildings on the top. The wooden chappel of St Lawrence and a new post office are in Bohemia; a big modern hotel is in Silesia (Poland). The whole area is a protected natural area. There are no trees on Sněžka because it is too high for them. Instead, there are rocks that can be dangerous to the walkers. They are recommended to wear good shoes and avoid the mountain in winter or if it is raining.
New England towns have a basic local government in each of the six New England states. New England towns are similar to civil townships. New England towns are often governed by town meetings. There is little to no county government, and Connecticut and Rhode Island counties have no government authority. Massachusetts has removed eight of fourteen county governments so far.
Pinaceae (the pine family) are trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces.  The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales. Pinaceae are monophyletic. They are the largest living conifer family in species diversity, with between 220-250 species in 11 genera, and the second-largest (after Cupressaceae) in geographical range. They are found in most of the Northern Hemisphere with most species in temperate climates. The family often forms the dominant component of boreal, coastal and montane forests. One species just crosses the equator in southeast Asia. Major centres of diversity are found in the mountains of southwest China, Mexico, central Japan and California.
The center of population is part of a study of demographics. It can be useful to understand the population for a state or region. The Mean center of U.S. population has been counted for each U.S. Census since 1790.  The center of population for Bangladesh is close to Dhaka. Ohio's center of population is 30 miles from Columbus. The center of US population is located in southern Missouri. This shows that Representatives from the western states travel far to their jobs at the Capitol.
The Connecticut Colony was an English colony in British America. The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, was formed in what would become the US state of Connecticut. It was first called the River Colony and was organized on March 3, 1636. It was a place for Puritan noblemen. The English took control of the colony from the Dutch by the late 1630s. The colony became a war zone between the English and American Indians, known as the Pequot War. This war helped established the self-government in the New World. There were two other English colonies in the state of Connecticut. The Saybrook Colony in 1644 and the New Haven Colony in 1662, merged with the Connecticut Colony. Thomas Hooker was a Puritan minister. Hooker and Governor John Haynes of Massachusetts Bay Colony led a group of 100 people to present-day Hartford in 1636. They are sometimes referred to as the founders of the Connecticut Colony.
Old Saybrook is a town in Connecticut. It is in Middlesex County. There were 10,481 people living in Old Saybrook in 2020. The incorporated borough of Fenwick is in Old Saybrook. The census-designated places of Old Saybrook Center and Saybrook Manor are also part of the town. Saybrook, Illinois is named after Old Saybrook.
Ivan Droppa (born February 1, 1972) is a Slovak retired professional ice hockey player that played 2 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks. Droppa was drafted 37th overall in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. Droppa mainly played in Europe during his career. He has played for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers, Kassel Huskies, and Duesseldorf EG/DEG Metro Stars of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The Slavia Praha HC and Litvinov CHP HC of the Czech Extraliga. The MsHK Žilina and HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga. Droppa retired from professional ice hockey in 2010.
Nyangatjatjara College is an independent high school based in the Northern Territory of Australia. It has campuses in Yulara, Kaltukatjara, Muṯitjulu and Imanpa. It teaches students who speak Pitjantjatjara as their first language. The school was first opened on 21 July 1997. The campus at Yulara is the school's original and main campus. It has boarding facilities to allow students to from the other, smaller, campuses to live at the college while studying. Kaltukatjara, Muṯitjulu and Imanpa are small communities in remote areas. The campuses there were opened between 1998 and 2002. The students are taught at their home campuses for part of the year, and then study at the Yulara campus for the other part. The school teaches both boys and girls, but their classes are separated. Nyangatjatjara College is owned by the Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation. It is a member of the Association of Independent Schools of the Northern Territory (AISNT).
The Lexington Barbecue Festival is a one-day food festival held each October in Lexington, North Carolina, a city that calls itself the "Barbecue Capital of the World." Each year up to 160,000 people go to the festival Up to 20 different companies compete to see who has the best barbecue. There are many people who sell other items, too. The festival is a celebration of slow cooked pork barbecue. History. The first Lexington Barbecue Festival was in 1984. It was the idea of Joe Sink, Jr., who worked for Lexington's newspaper, "The Dispatch". The city of Lexington was already famous for barbecue and the city decided it was a good idea to have a festival every year. The first year, 30,000 people came to eat barbecue at the festival. The festival is one of the largest in the United States now. By 1994, more than 100,000 people came each year, and they had to cook 11,000 pounds of meat. In 2012, more than 160,000 people came to try the Lexington barbecue. The city closes many city blocks on Main Street for the event. In addition to barbecue, there are over 400 other people selling arts and crafts, homemade fudge and other things. There are also many carnival rides, several stages for live music (bands), and other competitions and events. Over the years, many large companies have helped pay for the festival, such as Childress Vineyards, Pepsi, BB&amp;T, Walmart, and other corporations. Official status. In 2007, The North Carolina government pass a law called "NC House Bill 433" and now the festival is officially the"Official Food Festival of the Piedmont Triad Region of the State of North Carolina". Images of the festival. These are images of some of the activities at the festival.
The Lorentz transformations is a set of equations that describe a linear transformation between a stationary reference frame and a reference frame in constant velocity. The equations are given by: formula_1 , formula_2 , formula_3 , formula_4 where formula_5represents the new x co-ordinate, formula_6 represents the velocity of the other reference frame, formula_7 representing time, and formula_8 the speed of light. On a Cartesian coordinate system, with the vertical axis being time (t), the horizontal axis being position in space along one axis (x), the gradients represent velocity (shallower gradient resulting in a greater velocity). If the speed of light is set as a 45° or 1:1 gradient, Lorentz transformations can rotate and squeeze other gradients while keeping certain gradients, like a 1:1 gradient constant. Points undergoing a Lorentz transformations on such a plane will be transformed along lines corresponding to formula_9 where n is some number
In mathematics, a transformation is a rule that describes relations between two different coordinate systems and points in them. Some examples are translation, dilation, rotation, reflection, shear mapping, point reflection, and circle inversion. Any combination of transformations is also a transformation.
Kenneth Page (January 20, 1954 – September 30, 2024) was an American actor, voice actor and singer. He was best known for voicing Oogie Boogie in "The Nightmare Before Christmas".  Page was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was openly gay. Page died on September 30, 2024 at his home in St. Louis at the age of 70.
A child-headed family or child-headed household is a family in which a minor (child or adolescent) has become the head of the household. They are most common in developing countries and areas of war, where the children's parents have been killed by conflict or disease. In some cases, relatives of the children adopt them after the parents die. Situations where a child, usually the eldest, has to provide for the family happen when there are no adult relatives to take the children or the relatives can not afford to support more children. Whether and how much the government helps the orphaned family depends on the country. Most help comes from charity and aid organisations like UNICEF. Child-headed families are most common in Africa. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has led to many situations where both parents have died and left behind a family of orphans. The children may begin taking over their parent's responsibilities before the last surviving parent has died, when the parent is sick or too weak to work. The eldest children often have to stop going to school and get a job instead in order to gain income for the family. A study by Cornell University in 2005 showed that, in Namibia, the average age of the children acting as parents in their families was 17; some were as young as 9 years old. The number of children heading households in sub-Saharan Africa is reported to be growing. A survey in South Africa in 2006 showed that 122,000 (0.67%) of the country's children were living in child-headed households. In Rwanda, it is estimated that the 1994 genocide left at least 60,000 households to be run by children. Many of the girls who were raped during the conflict are left to raise both their siblings and their own children.
The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American combined live action and animated movie. It was produced by Walt Disney. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941. The movie gives a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. The movie stars radio comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash and Walt Disney, all as themselves. The first third of the movie is in black-and-white. The last two-thirds are in Technicolor. Most of the movie is live-action. There are four short animated parts. There is a black-and-white part with Casey Junior from "Dumbo" in his first appearance. There are three Technicolor cartoons: "Baby Weems", Goofy's "How to Ride a Horse", and "The Reluctant Dragon". The Reluctant Dragon is based on Kenneth Grahame's book of the same name.  Notably, The Reluctant Dragon was Disney's first attempt at focusing on live action characters, being Disney's first live action movie. As such, it was the first Disney movie to not be in part of the Disney Canon. Other than Casey Junior, the Disney characters introduced are Bambi as a painted cel and Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, John Darling, Michael Darling, Aunt Sarah and Si and Am as statues. The characters would later appear in their respective future Disney animated movies.
Victory Through Air Power is a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated movie. It is based on the 1942 book "Victory Through Air Power" by Alexander P. de Seversky. De Seversky is in the movie. This was different from the Disney animated movies of the time. The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. On December 8, 1941, The Walt Disney Company became a propaganda machine for the United States government. While most World War II movies were made for training, movies such as "Victory Through Air Power" were made to build public morale among the U.S. and Allied powers. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt were influenced by the movie.
So Dear to My Heart is a 1948 movie produced by Walt Disney. It was released nationwide on January 19, 1949. The movie combines animation and live action. It is based on the Sterling North book "Midnight and Jeremiah". Awards. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Burl Ives's version of the 17th-century English folk song "Lavender Blue". It lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from "Neptune's Daughter".
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It was produced by Walt Disney. It was based on the story of destiny Mary Poppins and the "Mary Poppins" book series by P. L. Travers. It was shot at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Julie Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mary Poppins. The movie also won Oscars for Best Movie Editing, Original Music Score, Best Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and Best Visual Effects. The movie received a total of 13 nominations. Plot. The movie is about a family named Banks that live in London of 1910. The family members are George Banks - a serious man that works in the bank, Winifred Banks - a Women's rights activist, and their children Jane and Michael. George Banks is busy in his bank work while Winifred is busy in her Women's rights activities and both of them almost never dedicate time for their children but instead keep them with different nannies. When one of the nannies named Katie quits the job, Mr. Banks begins to search for a different nanny. At night, the children write their father a letter that describes the kind of nanny they want, but he then rips the letter and throws it into the fire and writes for himself the kind of nanny that he wants, someone that is serious and arranged. Many nannies come to the house in order to be chosen as the nanny but the strong wind blows them all away. At the same time the children who are looking from the window see a woman flying into their house, named Mary Poppins and she is the kind of nanny the children really wanted. With her magic and love she takes care of the children and takes them to special adventures. In the beginning Mr. Banks does not like the way she takes care of the children but later in the movie she manages (is able to do something, especially something difficult) to connect between him and the children and makes the Banks family all happy again. Awards. "Mary Poppins" is the most Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated Disney movie in history.
Todd Joseph "T. J." Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He first began acting in television. He is best known for his supporting role as Erlich Bachman in the television sitcom "Silicon Valley" until he left the show in 2018"." His first role in a movie was "Cloverfield", in which he played the character who videotaped most of the scenes. Controversy. On December 9, 2016, he was arrested for allegedly assaulting an Uber driver in Los Angeles. In 2017, a woman claimed that Miller had sexually assaulted her at George Washington University in 2001. Miller denied the claims and called the accused a "vindictive former member of a comedy troupe". Dreamworks dropped Miller from "" and recast his character Tuffnut Thorston. On April 9, 2018, Miller was arrested for LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York after he called in a fake bomb threat onboard an Amtrak train on March 18. Authorities said Miller was very intoxicated and verbally fighting a woman. His charges were dropped and then dismissed.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical movie produced by Walt Disney Productions. It combines live action and animation. It was released in North America on December 13, 1971. It is based on the books "The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks" by English children's author Mary Norton. The movie is often compared to "Mary Poppins". It is also partly set in the streets of London. It shares some of the cast from Mary Poppins, a similar crew, the same songwriters and director. The movie was made at Walt Disney Studios. The castle scenes were shot on location at Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, UK. Cast. The Children: The voices of:
William "Billy" Gardell (born August 20, 1969) is an American actor. He currently acts in the television series "Mike &amp; Molly". He also made an appearance in several episodes of "My Name Is Earl". He voiced Santa in "".
Karen Beth Disher (born August 7, 1972) is an American storyboard artist and movie director. She has also done many voice over roles in cartoons, television, movies and video games. She has worked for MTV, where she designed the main characters for the cartoon series "Daria". She then joined Blue Sky Studios, where she worked as storyboard artist on many animated movies, such as "Robots", ', "Horton Hears a Who!", ', "", and "Epic". Personal life. In 2001, Disher married Robert Todd Partington, then a supervisor of computer graphics and animation technologies for MTV Networks.
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman ibn Ali al-Jullabi, commonly known by the nisba al-Hujwiri and reverentially as Data Ganj Bakhsh, was an 11th-century Islamic scholar and writer. He made a significant contribution both to the spreading of Islam in South Asia. Life. Ali ibn Uthman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Hasan ibn Zayd ibn Hasan ibn Ali is said to be his genealogy. He was born around 990 CE near Ghazni, Afghanistan during the era of the Ghaznavid Kingdom and moved to Lahore in present-day Pakistan in 1077 CE. Work. His most famous written work is the "Kashf al-Mahjub", written in the Persian language. This is one of the earliest and most respected treatises of Sufism in Persian, and it debates Sufi doctrines of the past. Legacy. Al-Hujwiri was interred in a famous mausoleum in Lahore, which is surrounded by a large marble courtyard, a mosque and other buildings. It is the most frequented of all the shrines in that old city, and indeed one of the most famous in Pakistan and the entire region. He is venerated as the Patron Saint of Lahore, where his name is a household word, and his mausoleum the object of pilgrimage from distant places, by people of all religious beliefs. Along with Khwaja Moin-ud-Din Chishti, Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and Jalal-ud-Din Surkh Bukhari, he is deemed in popular Punjabi literature and culture, as one of the "Panj Peer" (Five Sages/Holy Ones) who exert mystic control and authority over all of the South Asia.
Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action/animated musical movie from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action movie but its title character, a dragon named Elliott, is animated. The story is about a young orphan named Pete who goes to the town of Passamaquoddy, a small fishing community in Northeastern Maine. His only friend is a dragon named Elliott. Elliott is also his protector and can make himself invisible. Awards and honors. "Pete's Dragon" was nominated for two Academy Awards: The movie was nominated for four Saturn Awards: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated "Pete's Dragon" for one Golden Globe Award:
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American weatherman and an actor. He is known for being a presenter on the television program "Today". In September 2020, Roker was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Hazrat Sheikh Farīd-ud-dīn Mas'ūd Ganj Shakar (4 April 1179 – 7 May 1266), commonly known as Baba Farid "Ganjshakar" (Punjabi, lit: 'Treasury of Sugar/Sweetness'), was a renowned Sufi preacher, mystic poet and saint of the Chishti Order of South-central Asia. Fariduddin Ganjshakar is generally recognized as the first major poet of the Punjabi language, and is considered one of the pivotal saints of the Punjab and indeed, one of the "Panj Peers", or five main/great saints of South Asia. Revered equally by Muslims and Hindus, he is also considered one of the fifteen Sikh "bhagats". Selections from his work are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scripture. His world-famous shrine is located in Pakpattan, in present-day Punjab (Pakistan). It was built in 1267. Each year during the Islamic month of "Muharram", special festivities are held there and pilgrims from many countries come to visit.
Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in "Futurama" as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in "The Real Ghostbusters", Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in "Captain Planet and the Planeteers", Big Bob Pataki in "Hey Arnold!", Dizzy Devil in "Tiny Toon Adventures", The Brain in "Animaniacs" and "Pinky and The Brain", "The Powerpuff Girls", and his portrayal of Mr. Freeze in "". Early life. LaMarche was born on March 30, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but his family moved to Timmins, Ontario, very soon after he was born. LaMarche's childhood was filled with his "own little world of cartoons and sixties television".