In the beginning the "conquistadores" were mainly interested to get as much gold and silver as possible. Because the Maya lands were poor in this respect, they were not very interesting for the Spanish at that stage. But when land workers became important for the colonies, the Spanish turned to the Maya region. That was around the 1520s.
Becquerel
The becquerel (symbol Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second.
A petabecquerel is 10 times a becquerel, formula_1 s, s for second, dimensionally is it second minus one, i.e. inverse seconds.
The unit is named in honor of Henri Becquerel.
Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh ("K'iche" for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; "Popol Wu'uj" in modern spelling) is a book written in the Classical Quiché language. It contains mythological stories and a genealogy of the rulers of the Post-Classic Quiché Maya kingdom of highland Guatemala.
The book contains a creation myth followed by mythological stories of two Hero Twins: Hunahpu (Modern K'iche': "Junajpu") and Xbalanque (Modern K'iche': "Xb‘alanke"). The second part of the book deals with details of the foundation and history of the Quiché kingdom.
The book is written in the Latin alphabet, but it is thought to have been based on an original Maya codex. The original manuscript which was written around 1550 has been lost, but a copy of another handwritten copy in the early 18th century exists today in Chicago.
The significance of the book is enormous since it is one of a small number of early Mesoamerican mythological texts — it is often considered the single most important piece of Mesoamerican literature.
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The book begins with the creation myth of the K'ichee' Maya, which credits the creation of humans to the three water-dwelling feathered serpents:
and to the three other deities, collectively called "Heart of heaven":
who together attempted to create human beings to keep him company.
Their first attempts proved unsuccessful. They attempted to make man of mud, but man could neither move nor speak. After destroying the mud men, they tried again by creating wooden creatures that could speak but had no soul or blood and quickly forgot him. Angered over the flaws in his creation, they destroyed them by tearing them apart. In their final attempt, the “True People” were constructed with maize. The following is an excerpt of this myth:
The Popol Vuh continues to be an important part in the belief system of many Quiché.
Here are the opening lines of the book, in modernized spelling and punctuation (from Sam Colop's edition):
Here is the opening of the creation story:
Popol Vuh (disambiguation)
Popol Vuh (Quiché for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; Popol Wuj in modern spelling) is the book of scripture of the Quiché, a kingdom of the post classic Maya civilization in highland Guatemala.
"Popol Vuh" may also refer to:
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North Berwick
North Berwick is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is known for its beaches, harbour and golf courses.
The town is close to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.
Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard is a "" character. Patrick Stewart played as Jean-Luc Picard. He was the captain of the USS Enterprise-D, and later of the USS Enterprise-E. He was born in la Barre, France, on Earth. He had a brother, named Robert Picard. Jean-Luc was proud of being French.
As a character, Picard is very similar to James T. Kirk, albeit slightly older. While Picard is understood to be French, Kirk is of Irish heritage.
Both require equal discipline of their crews, but are also fair toward them. Both are ready to sacrifice themselves for their crews when need be. Their encounter in the movie "Star Trek – Generations" gave the surviving Picard a great deal of newfound strength to carry on his demanding mission.
Picard was also known as Locutus of the Borg in the episodes "Best of Both Worlds" 1 and 2.
McCune-Reischauer
McCune-Reischauer romanization (Maek'yun-Raisyawŏ P'yogipŏp) is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. Another variant of McCune-Reischauer is used as the official system in North Korea.
Revised Romanization of Korean
The Revised Romanization of Korean is what South Korea uses to turn their writing system into the Roman alphabet. It's meant to replace the McCune-Reischauer system.
These are what the vowels of the Revised Romanization of Korean look like.
Lake Annecy
Lake Annecy ("Lac d'Annecy" in French) is a lake in the Haute-Savoie area of France. It is the second biggest lake in France.
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie is a département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France, bordering Switzerland and Italy.
Before 1860, the territory of the modern Haute-Savoie and Savoie departments had been part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, as a Duchy, since 1713. Annexation of the region by France was made in 1860. In that year, the Emperor Napoléon III divided the territory in two departments: "Savoie", to the south, with the city of Chambéry, and "Haute-Savoie", to the north, with the city of Annecy.
"Haute" ("High") in the name Haute-Savoie is not because of the altitude but because of its position, to the north, in the territory.
The department of Haute-Savoie was created in 1860 from the northern part of the Duchy of Sardinia with four "arrondissements": Annecy, Bonneville, Saint-Julien and Thonon. The capital was Annecy.
On 10 September 1926, the "arrondissement" of Saint-Julien was eliminated but became again an arrondissement in 1933.
During World War II, the department was occupied by the fascist Italy, from November 1942 to September 1943.
The Haute-Savoie is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has an area of .
The department borders with the Ain and Savoie departments, both in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and with Switzerland and Italy.
In the territory of the department is a part of the "Mont Blanc massif", on the border with Italy. The average altitude of the department is of about . The highest point in the department is "Mont Blanc" (; it is high, the highest point of France, Italy and of Western Europe.
The Haute-Savoie department is within the watershed of the Rhône river but with short rivers. There are two important lakes in the department: the Lake Geneva, shared with Switzerland, and the Lake Annecy.
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Annecy is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype Cfb.
Haute-Savoie is managed by the "Departmental Council of Haute-Savoie" in Annecy. The department is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
There are 4 "arrondissements" (districts), 17 "cantons" and 281 "communes" (municipalities) in Haute-Savoie.
The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Haute-Savoie department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
The inhabitants of Haute-Savoie are known, in French, as "Haut-Savoyards" (women: "Haut-Savoyardes").
Haute-Savoie had a population, in 2014, of 783,127, for a population density of inhabitants/km. The "arrondissement" of Annecy, with 276,382 inhabitants, is the "arrondissement" with more inhabitants.
Evolution of the population in Haute-Savoie
The "communes" in the department with more inhabitants are:
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral (, "Our Lady of Chartres") is a cathedral. It is in Chartres, about 80 km south of Paris. It is built in the Gothic style. Together with Amiens Cathedral and Reims Cathedral it is considered to be one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture (for churches) in France.