The NYPD Street Crimes Unit started in 1971. During the late 1970s, the 1980s and early 1990s, New York City had a lot more crime than it does today. Undercover officers were asked to go into the subways in plain-clothes or dressed as a homeless person to hide the fact that they were police. Many of these officers were black and had a fear that as they looked like civilian homeless people that uniformed officers would think that they were criminals if they used their guns. Many of these officers would dress and pretend to be drunk homeless people or as victims in order to catch muggers who were attacking them due to being unable to help themselves. The color of the day system was made to make these officers fear this less and was used by all undercover police officers. At the beginning headbands were given out to each street crime unit member, that were in the color of the day: beginning the use of the color of the day system. Later this included wristbands and today's officers often dress in the color: i.e.: T-shirts, shoes, and hats.
The color of the day recognition system is written about by authors and people who study the police in schools but it is not often known about by most people in New York. Books that talk about it are Roger Abell's "The Black Shields" (a discussion of African American policing in New York), Greg Faliis' "Just the Facts Ma'am", and Leslie Glass' novel, "A Killing Gift".
Titanoboa
Titanoboa cerrejonensis is the largest known snake. Now extinct, the snake was a relative of the "anaconda" and the "boa constrictor". It was about 43 feet long (13 m), and weighed over a ton (about 1135 kg or 2,500 pounds). The snake lived in the Palaeocene epoch, about 58 million years ago. It ate crocodiles.
The fossil was found in an open-cast coal mine in Colombia, in 2009. Plant fossils at the site proved the climate at the time was a tropical rainforest. The site was in the Cerrejón Formation in La Guajira, Colombia. Other large reptile fossils have been found at this site.
Researchers found three skulls of the snake in 2002. A life-size replica is on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. It was sent on a world tour to be shown at various museums.
Titanoboa is very similar to our modern-day green anaconda, living in swamps in the murky water, hiding and waiting for an unsuspecting animal to take a drink from the swamp, or preying on other aquatic animals. Titanoboa would be very slow and would not achieve much on dry land, which was its enemy, much like the green anacondas prefer the water as well. It probably could hold its breath underwater for about forty-five minutes, which is helpful for an aquatic ambush hunter.
Titanoboa's diet consisted mainly of crocodiles, as researchers found out, because of the abundance of crocodiles in the Cerrejón Formation alongside the titanoboa and several large, hard-shelled turtles that the snake could not consume. After eating a crocodile, titanoboa could go for a year without eating, as many modern-day snakes can do similarly with their rodents and such.
Poker Face
"Poker Face" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It was first released in 2008 in her debut album, "The Fame". Later, it was released as the album's second single, after "Just Dance".
The song has been very successful worldwide, reaching #1 in over 20 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany. It finished as the best-performing single of 2009 in the United Kingdom and the second-best performing in the US and Canada. "Poker Face" has sold over 7.5 million copies in the United States as of February 2018.
The song has won Gaga several awards, including Best Dance Recording at the Grammy Awards in 2010. On November 30, 2015, the song was certified Diamond (10× Platinum) in the US for sales and streams equal to 10 million copies in that country alone.
In an interview with Barbara Walters, she said that this song is about dealing with bisexuality. The lyrics "Bluffin' with my muffin" are about her fantasizing about women when having sex with her boyfriend. In a Carpool Karaoke segment of "The Late Late Show with James Corden", where Corden and Gaga sang several of her songs as they played on the radio, Gaga revealed that she wrote "Poker Face" in only ten minutes.
Gaga has performed the song at all of her major concert tours, at her Super Bowl LI Halftime show, and at the Coachella Music Festival in April 2017.
Abitur
The Abitur (from Latin "abire" = go away) is a final exam in Germany, Lithuania and the Czech Republic at the end for the secondary education. The Abitur takes usually 12 or 13 years. The official term in Germany for this certificate is "Allgemeine Hochschulreife". The "Abiturzeugnis" get pupils when they passed the final exams. It formally enables the possibility to attend a university.
Bavarian army
The Bavarian army (German: "Bayerische Armee", Bavarian: "Boarische Armee") was the army of the Electorate of Bavaria. It was also the army of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1803 onwards. In 1919, the army came together with the army of the German Empire.
Fanjunkare
The Fanjunkare is a military rank in some countries. In the German air force and the German army it is the rank of Officer Candidates.
Republic of Taiwan (1895)
The Republic of Taiwan was a short-lived republic on the island of Taiwan. It is also called in ; which means "Democratic State of Taiwan". In English it was also called the: Formosan Republic, Taiwan Republic and the Republic of Formosa.
The Republic of Taiwan was formed in 1895. It did not last for very long. The Treaty of Shimonoseki which ended the war between the Qing Dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan, gave Taiwan to the Japanese. The republic began when the Chinese left in May, 1895, and ended when the Japanese soldiers arrived in October, 1896. Some historians say it was the first republic in Asia, but there was one earlier, the , which had been started in 1777.
The republic was started by a group of high officials and local people who still supported the Qing. They wanted to stop the Japanese take over of Taiwan. On May 24, 1895 the new republic sent a copy of its declaration of independence to all the embassies on Taiwan. The next day the new government held an independence ceremony. The Republic of Taiwan made their own stamps. They also printed their own paper money, which is now very hard to find.
They were always loyal to the Qing, and said that the Republic would be part of the Qing state. The first president of the Republic of Taiwan was the old governor, Tang Ching-sung, who served from May 25, 1895 to June 5, 1895. The second president was Liu Yung-fu, June 5, 1895 – October 21, 1896.
When the Japanese soldiers invaded Taiwan there was a lot of fighting. They quickly defeated the new republic. Most of the republic's official quickly left the island.
The modern Taiwan independence groups want to start a new Republic of Taiwan. They say that there is no connection between them and the 1895 Republic. The first Republic of Taiwan was to China, but the new Republic of Tawian would be started to be independent of China.
Bad Wiessee
Bad Wiessee is a spa town on Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria, Germany.
Bad Wiessee is known for the murder of Ernst Röhm on the "Night of the Long Knives".
Fox McCloud
In the English version of "Star Fox 64", he was voiced by Mike West. In both the Japanese version of "Star Fox 64" and "Super Smash Bros.", Fox's voices were done by Shinobu Satouchi. For English dialogue of "Super Smash Bros. Melee" and "Star Fox Adventures", Fox's voice was done by Steve Malpass. In "" and "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", his voice was done by Jim Walker in the English version and by Kenji Nojima in the Japanese version.
Martina Sáblíková
Martina Sáblíková (born 27 May 1987 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.