The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network. The UNDP is an executive board within the United Nations General Assembly. The UNDP Administrator is the third highest ranking member of the United Nations after the United Nations Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General.
The mission of UNDP is to help global sustainable development against poverty and to promote democratic society. UNDP also publishes Human Development Index every year and have directed United Nations Development Fund for Women until 2010.
Tower Center International
Tower Center International is a class A office building in Bucharest. It has 25 floors and a surface of 25.000 sqm. It is located near Victoria Square, or 1 Mai zone. At a height of 106.3 meters, it is also the tallest building in Bucharest, as well as in Romania, but not the tallest structure.
Jordanes
Jordanes, Jordanis, or Iornandes), was a 6th-century Roman clerk who became a historian later in life.
Eutropius
Eutropius was a polytheist historian for Julian the Apostate in the late 4th century.
Eutropius wrote a ten-book summary of Roman history called "Historiae romanae breviarium" between the years of 350 and 370. This is his only known writing.
Constantine VII
Constantine VII "Porphyrogennetos" or "Porphyrogenitus", "the Purple-born" (), (September 2, 905 – November 9, 959) was the son of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife Zoe Karbonopsina. He was also the nephew of the Emperor Alexander. He wrote two descriptive books, "De Administrando Imperio" and "De Ceremoniis".
Silent Alarm
Silent Alarm is an album by Bloc Party. It was released on 14 February 2005 in the UK. In the USA, it was released on 22 March.
The albums tracks were written by lead singer Kele Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack. The album was produced by Paul Epworth who also produced "A Certain Trigger" by Maximo Park and "Made Of Bricks" by Kate Nash.
Timişoara
Timişoara is a city in the Banat area. It is found in the western part of Romania. It is the capital of Timiş County. About 332,000 people live in Timişoara.
The following are the sister cities of Timişoara:
CBeebies
CBeebies is a British free children's television channel. It is aimed at children under seven. It started on 11 February 2002 and is owned by the BBC. The channel broadcast from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm. It shares time with BBC Four, which is on between 7:00 pm and 4:00 am. The sister channel is CBBC for older children.
"Get Set Go" is the first block of the day. It starts at 6:00 am and ends at 9:00 am. It is presented by Andy Day. Sidney Sloane used to co-present with Day on weekends, until he left in 2013.
"Get Set Go" is followed by "Discover & Do". It is broadcast from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm. The same three-hour loop of programmes are shown between 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
"Discover & Do" is followed by "Big Fun Time". It begins at 3:00 pm and finishes at 6:00 pm. Recently changed in 2019 to start at 5:45 pm with Moon & Me.
"Bedtime Hour" is broadcast from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. In, 2019, it started earlier at 5:45 pm. It includes calm-natured programmes such as: In the Night Garden..., The Adventures of Abney and Teal, Clangers, Charlie & Lola and Moon & Me in order to enable children to wind down for the day.
This section of CBeebies starts with the song called "Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon". At the end of the section, a lullaby called "The Time Has Come to Say Goodnight", written by Chris Jarvis and originally performed by him, along with Pui Fan Lee is played. After the song, the station closes down for the night.
In the UK, currently presenting CBeebies are:
The following people used to present CBeebies:
Ploieşti
Ploieşti is the county seat. of Prahova County. It can be found in the historical region of Wallachia in Romania. About 232,500 people were living in Ploieşti as of the year 2002.
These are the sister cities of Ploieşti:
Brăila
Brăila is a city of Muntenia, in the eastern part of Romania. It is the capital of Brăila County. As of the year 2002, about 216,300 people were living in Brăila. It is Romania's tenth largest city and has a port on the Danube river.
Earth-crosser asteroid
An Earth-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses Earth's orbit.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. An estimated 50,000 prisoners died there, as well as 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). Up to 35,000 of them died of typhus just before and after the camp was liberated (freed).
The camp was liberated on 15 April 1945 by British soldiers. Inside the camp, the British soldiers found 60,000 people, and 13,000 dead bodies lying on the ground, unburied. The scenes were horrific. They were described by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who was with the British soldiers:
Bumblebee bat
The bumblebee bat ("Craseonycteris thonglongyai"), also known as Kitti's hog-nosed bat, is an endangered species of bat. It is the only member of the family Craseonycteridae. It occurs in western Thailand and southeast Burma. It usually lives in limestone caves along rivers.
This is the smallest species of bat and one of the world's smallest mammals. It has a reddish-brown or grey coat, with a distinctive pig-like snout. Colonies vary in size, with an average of 100 individuals per cave. The bat feeds during short activity periods in the evening and dawn, foraging around nearby forest areas for insects. Female bat have only one offspring each year.
The bumblebee bat is about 29–33 millimetres (1.14–1.30 in) in length and 2 grams (0.07 oz) in mass). This is the reason for its common name "bumblebee bat". It is the smallest species of bat. The Etruscan shrew is lighter (1.2–2.7 g) (0.042-0.095 oz).
The bat has a distinctive swollen, pig-like snout with thin, vertical nostrils. Its ears are relatively large, while its eyes are small and mostly concealed by fur. Its teeth are typical of an insectivorous bat.
The wings are relatively large and darker in colour, with long tips that allow the bat to hover. Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat has no visible tail. There is a large web of skin between the hind legs which may help in flying and catching insects, although there are no tail bones to help control it in flight.
In Thailand, the bat is in a small region of Kanchanaburi Province, in the drainage basin of the Khwae Noi River.
Since the 2001 discovery of a single individual in Burma, at least nine separate sites have been identified. The Thai and Burmese populations are morphologically identical, but their echolocation calls are distinct. It is not known whether the two populations are reproductively isolated.
The bumblebee bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, along rivers, within dry evergreen or deciduous forests. While many caves contain only 10 to 15 individuals, the average group size is 100, with a maximum of about 500. Individuals roost high on walls or roof domes, far apart from each other. Bats also undertake seasonal migration between caves.
The bat has a brief activity period, leaving its roost for only 30 minutes in the evening and 20 minutes at dawn. These short flights are easily interrupted by heavy rain or cold temperatures. During this period, the bat forages within fields of cassava and kapok or around the tops of bamboo clumps and teak trees, within one kilometre of the roosting site. The wings seem to be shaped for hovering flight, and the gut contents of specimens do include spiders and insects that are presumably gleaned off foliage. Nevertheless, most prey is probably caught in flight. Main staples of the bat's diet include small flies.
Late in the dry season (around April) of each year, females give birth to a single offspring. During feeding periods, the young either stays in the roost or remains attached to the mother at one of her two vestigial pubic nipples.