James Howard Thome (born on August 27, 1970) is a former professional baseball player. Thome played 22 seasons from 1991 to 2012. In the past, he played for the Cleveland Indians, the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, and the LA Dodgers.
Red River of the South
The Red River is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It begins in Texas, and flows through the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It merges with the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The river's name comes from the red clay that is found along it. The Red is about long.
The biggest dam on the Red River is Denison Dam, which was created in 1943. It forms Lake Texoma. This lake covers 89,000 acres (360 square kilometers). There are also some other dams on the river's tributaries. At its end at the Mississippi River, it has a flow of 7,000 cubic feet (200 cubic meters) of water every second. In early 2009, the river experienced a series of catastrophic floods.
Iguaçu Falls
Iguaçu Falls are a series of massive waterfalls that lie on the border of Argentina 80% and Brazil 20%. It is fed by the Iguaçu River, which flows into the Paraná River. 275 individual waterfalls side by side, some as tall as , make up the falls, though most are around . The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguaçu. It is one of the largest and most famous waterfalls in the world, receiving thousands of visitors each year.
Jackie French
Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French (born 29 November 1953) is an award-winning Australian writer of children's books, and books on gardening.
Jackie French was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane. She moved to the bush in her early twenties. She likes gardening and has been on the television series "Burke's Backyard". She has written more than one hundred books. These books include story books (fiction), and books about true things (non-fiction). Jackie lives at Araluen, New South Wales.
She began writing when she was 30, to make money to pay for her car. At the time, she was living in a tin shed with a black snake named "Gladys", and a wombat named "Smudge". Jackie also appears regularly on radio and television.
"pictures drawn by Bruce Whatley"
"pictures drawn by Stephen Michael King"
"pictures drawn by Andrea F. Potter"
To the Moon and Back (Bryan Sullivan and Jackie French, illus. by Gus Gordon)
Diary of a Wombat (Bruce Whatley and Jackie French)
The Secret World of Wombats
They Came on Viking Ships
My Dad the Dragon
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy
Pete the Sheep (Jackie French and Bruce Whatley)
Hitler's Daughter
How to Guzzle Your Garden
Flesh and Blood
Valley of Gold
Ride the Wild Wind
In the Blood
Blood Will Tell
CafÈ on Callisto
Lady Dance
Stamp, Stomp, Whomp
Missing You, Love Sara
Too Many Pears!
Daughter of the Regiment
Somewhere Around the Corner
Walking the Boundaries
Rain Stones
The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup
Yosemite Falls
Yosemite Falls is a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, in California. It is the tallest measured waterfall in the United States. It is about tall, with three drops of:
It is a popular visitor attraction in the park.
Yosemite Falls flows in the spring, but may stop flowing by summer and fall, depending on how much rain falls in the area. The Falls are located in an area of the park called Yosemite Valley, a huge valley that is famous for its beauty and its unusual box shape. The falls is the 7th tallest in the world. Though some books and websites list Colonial Creek Falls as being higher, this waterfall has not been accurately measured and it does not have a plunge like Yosemite Falls does. It is probably the second most famous waterfall in America, after Niagara Falls in New York.
Lena River
The Lena River is a river in Siberia, flowing into the Arctic Ocean. With a length of , it is the 10th longest river in the world. With a watershed size of 965,255 square miles (2,500,000 square kilometers), it has the 9th largest watershed.
The Lena begins in the Baikal Mountains, a mountain range in central Siberia, at a point west of Lake Baikal. The Lena flows northeast. Some of its major tributaries are the "Kirenga", "Vitim", "Oylokma", "Aldan", and "Vilyuy" rivers. It empties into the Laptev Sea, a branch of the Arctic Ocean.
The name "Lena" comes from a word, "Elyu-Ene", meaning "The Large River". The word comes from the "Evenks", a people of Northern Asia. The river lena is the11th longest river. The river lena is in Russia.The river lena is 4294 km long.
Teton Dam
Teton Dam was a dam on the Teton River in Idaho, in the USA. When it was built, it was long and tall, making it one of the largest dams in the United States. It is most known for collapsing during spring runoff on June 5, 1976 a few months after it was completed. The resulting flood destroyed 10,000 acres of land and five cities.
The dam was never rebuilt. Although the U.S. Government paid $100 million to build the dam, it had to pay $300 million more dollars to pay for flood damages.
Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood, otherwise known as the Great Flood of 1889, was a major flood that happened in a city called Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States. It was on a river called the "Little Conemaugh River". It was caused by the collapse of a dam called the "South Fork Dam", upstream, after several days of heavy rain. The date it happened was May 31, 1889. 2,209 people were killed by the 20 million tons of water that flooded the town. The flood also resulted in $17 million in damages.
Stitch!
The show ran from 2008 to 2011 in Japan for three seasons. Another two TV specials set after the end of the third season were released in 2012 and 2015. An English dub first debuted in Australia in 2009, but it featured an entirely different American voice cast from the original movies and TV series. This dub would not air in the United States until October 2011 on Disney's cable TV network Disney XD, a few months after the Japanese original ended. Even then, it ran for less than a week in the "Lilo & Stitch" franchise's home country and was swiftly taken off the air after only five episodes.
Opening Song
Ending Song
Blois
Blois is a city in France on the Loire river, the prefecture of the Loir-et-Cher department.
It is very famous for its Renaissance chateau which was for many years a royal residence.
These are the twin towns of Blois:
Predestination (Calvinism)
Predestination is a central belief in Calvinism. Calvinists believe that God picked those who he will save and bring with him to heaven before the world was created. They also believe that people who are not saved by God will go to hell. John Calvin thought people who were saved could never lose their salvation and the "elected" (those God saved) would know they were saved because of their actions.
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton (born 5 March 1938) is a composer, well known for writing music for Australian movies and television. He has written music for movies, short films, television, documentaries and advertisements.
He was born in Brighton, Victoria and currently lives in Binalong, New South Wales.
He has written music for movies including "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Seven Little Australians", "The Cars That Ate Paris" and "The Devil's Playground."
His music has been published by Southern Cross Records and 1M1 Records labels.
Boohbah
Boohbah is a show that is created by Ragdoll Productions and premiered in 2003. It is designed to the 3-6 age group.
There are two of main character on Boohbah:
The Boohbah who 2 colorful atom of energy and live in a glowing white ball of light called the Boohball
One of the common future in Boohbah the Boohball The Boohball a glowing white ball the place the Boohbah live It travel from country to country when it called by children the Boohball a recharging bud where the Boohbah recharge energy The energy created by the laughter of the children when playing with the Boohbah the Boohball the Storypeople...
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