Vasopressin (ADH, AVP) is the hormone which controls the production of urine in the bladder. It is secreted by the pituitary gland based on the salt concentration of the blood. It is negative feedback: the more concentrated the salt in the blood is, the more vasopressin is secreted, which in turn makes the kidney tubules more permeable, allowing more water to be reabsorbed into the blood and creating less, but more concentrated, urine. It also triggers feelings of thirst.
Daniel Merriweather
Daniel Paul Merriweather (born February 17, 1982 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian R&B singer/songwriter. After several successful collaborations with artists such as Mark Ronson, he released his debut album, "Love and War", in June 2009. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number two.
Jason Schwartzman
Jason Francesco Schwartzman (born June 26, 1980) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his starring roles in "Funny People", "Shopgirl", "Spun", "Rushmore", "I ♥ Huckabees", "Marie Antoinette", and "The Darjeeling Limited". Schwartzman is in the band Coconut Records. He was a member of the rock band Phantom Planet.
Jason Schwartzman's band Phantom Plantet had the track "California". This song became the theme song for the Fox television series, "The O.C." Phantom Planet played with the popular New York band Dopo Yume. Both bands had songs used by "The O.C."
Jason was named one of "Top 10 Most Stylish Men in America" by "GQ" magazine.
Epicenter
The epicenter or epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus. It is the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates.
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (*11 May, 1941 in Newcastle, UK) is an English rock singer. He is known for his very loud screaming and performing.
He began his career in the early 1960s with the R&B/blues-based punk rock band The Animals. They had hits such as "House of the Rising Sun", "See See Rider", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Inside Looking Out", "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Don't Bring Me Down" and "It's My Life".
He later formed "Eric Burdon & The Animals" in 1967. He continued to have chart success with songs like "San Franciscan Nights", "When I Was Young", "Good Times", "Sky Pilot", "Monterey" and "Ring of Fire".
In late 1969, he formed the radical funk/soul/jazz band "Eric Burdon & War". They had hits with "Spill the Wine", "Tobacco Road", "Paint it Black" and "They Can't Take Away Our Music". He left them during their European tour in early 1971 to start a solo career, which has seen him in the genres of heavy metal, glam rock, new age, pop rock, reggae, hip hop and many more.
After some successful world tours and acting roles in movies, he went on to record with Brian Auger as a psychedelic fusion rock band in the 1990s.
After forming several groups such as "Eric Burdon Band" or "The New Animals", he released his first solo album in many years, "My Secret Life" (2004), which had many musical directions, like hard rock, jazz, progressive and folk.
In the following year he released "Athens Traffic Live" and "Soul of a Man".
Hanif Mohammad
Hanif Mohammad (, born 21 December 1934 in Junagadh State - 11 August 2016) was a former Pakistan cricketer. He died on August 11, 2016 in Karachi.
Caucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate (Имарат Кавказ "Imarat Kavkaz") is not a country and is not recognised by other countries. It is a self-proclaimed virtual state entity. It claims to be the successor to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. It was announced on October 31, 2007 by former President of Ichkeria, Dokka Umarov. Its military branch is the Caucasian Front. It has an area of and 18,848,917 (2011 est).
On October 31, 2007, the Islamic nationalists news agency Chechen-press reported that the President of Ichkeria Doka Umarov had proclaimed an Emirate in the Caucasus and declared himself its Emir, thereby abolishing the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and its presidency.
However, according to Umarov, the bases of the rebel fighters loyal to him "spread from Azerbaijan to Abkhazia".
Moosehead Lake
Moosehead Lake is a large lake in Maine. It looks like a moose head. There are over 80 islands in the lake, the largest being Sugar Island.
Rochdale A.F.C.
Rochdale A.F.C. is an English football club who play in League One of the English Football League. The club was founded in 1907, and has played at the Spotland Stadium throughout its history. They reached the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time in 1989 and again in 2002 which is as far as they have ever gone in a major competition.
Razakars (Pakistan)
Razakars was the name given to a paramilitary force organized by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The word, originating from Persian, literally means "volunteer". It was composed of mostly pro-Pakistani Bengalis and Urdu-speaking migrants of the former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Initially, the force was under the command of local pro-Pakistani committees. But through the East Pakistan Razakar Ordinance (promulgated by General Tikka Khan on 1 June, 1971) and a Ministry of Defence, Pakistan, ordinance (promulaged 7 September,1971), Razakars were recognized as members of the Pakistan Army.
Qasim Razvi
Qasim Razvi was the leader of a local militia in India, the Razakars of Hyderabad State, who blocked accession into the Republic of India after the Partition of British Indian empire against the wishes of the local majority Hindu-population, and fought against the Indian forces during occupation.
Razvi held views that Hyderabad should eventually join Pakistan in a major war against Bharat, as clearly evidenced by some of his speeches and publications in Hyderabadi newspapers. Razvi was politically powerful and a close advisor of the Nizam, whom he encouraged to defy the infidel government, and blocked the invasion of Hyderabad into Republic of India. At the height of the crisis, Razvi had placed his allies in influential posts, and was virtually dictating the Nizam's policy on the issue. Razvi even traveled to Delhi and had a stormy meeting with Indian leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He is quoted to have said "Death with the sword in hand, is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen. "prompting the Indian government to call him the "Nizam's Frankenstein monster."
After Indian military intervention, Razvi was placed under house arrest and tried under Indian laws on seditious activities and inciting communal violence. He was released in the 1950s, and he later fled to Pakistan.
Razakars (Hyderabad)
Razakars were private militia organized by Qasim Razvi which supporter the rule of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII and resist the integration of Hyderabad State into India.
Eventually, the Indian army routed the Razakars and the group was disbanded after India annexed the state.
Qasim Razvi, the military chief of Hyderabad State, fled to Pakistan where he was granted asylum. Majlis, a contemporary political party in the present Hyderabad owes its foundations to Qasim Razvi.
Razakar literally means "volunteer". There were types of Razakars: muslim Razakar,Hindu razakar, Reddy razakar and congress Razakars.
Quoting an article of K F Rustomjee, the former DGP of Maharashtra and BSF, "Captain Panduranga Reddy" said that the policemen from Akola district in then Central Province were sent in to Hyderabad state in the garb of Razakars to create turmoil and blame the Nizam government. Rustomjee was SP of Akola at the time. Captain Reddy called the Communists as traitors, who encouraged violence to spread their agenda.
Al-Shams (East Pakistan)
Al-Shams () was a militia force formed in East Pakistan in early 1971 by the Pakistan Army.
Al-Shams is an Arabic word meaning 'The Sun'. Al Shams was Pakistani armed groups formed by the Pakistan Army to fight out and resist Mukti Bahini and support the army in its campaigns in the former East Pakistan provincial region.