.44 Magnum is a large revolver caliber. It is also used in some carbines and rifles. It is common in action movies such as "Dirty Harry".
Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 in Mannheim, Germany – 1 September 1981 in London, England) was a leading German architect in the Third Reich. Speer was born in Mannheim, Baden. Adolf Hitler's chief architect before he became the minister for munitions and armaments in 1942. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet. After World War II he was convicted of slavery and spent 20 years in prison.
Speer died of a stroke. His son, Albert Speer Jr. was also an architect.
20000 Varuna
20000 Varuna is a big Kuiper belt object (KBO). It could be a dwarf planet. Before it was named Varuna, it had the provisional designation .
Varuna is named after the Hindu deity Varuṇa.
Varuna completes one rotation in about 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked). Given the fast rotation, which is not common for objects so big, Varuna is thought to be a stretched spheroid, with a density around 1g/cm³ (close to the density of water).
The surface of Varuna is somewhat red and small amounts of water ice have been found on its surface.
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January 1893 in Tallinn – 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg) was a German political philosopher from Baltic German origin.
He was an intellectual member of the NSDAP, and also a member of the Cabinet Hitler. He was one of the major developers of the racist theories of the Nazis. His most important work was "Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts" (English: "The Myth of the Twentieth Century", published in 1930), which became a standard for Nazi Germany.
During the war he was minister for Eastern Europe affairs.
Rosenberg was one of the 24 accused of the Nuremberg Trials and because of war crimes sentenced to death. In October 1946 he was hanged. At the Nuremberg Trials it appeared that none of the accused had read his above mentioned book.
Hanns Kerrl
Hanns Kerrl (11 December 1887 in Wolfsburg - 12 December 1941 in Berlin) was a German politician. He was a minister of church affairs. He was also a member of the Cabinet Hitler.
Hermann Muhs
Hermann Muhs (16 May 1894 in Jühnde - 13 April 1962 in Göttingen) was a Secretary of State and minister for church questions. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet.
Otto Meißner
Otto Meißner (13 March 1880 in Bischwiller – 27 May 1953 in Munich) was a German politician. He is well known for his work as head of the office of the presidents of Germany during the Weimar Republic, under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet.
Meißner was tried at the Ministries Trial. He was acquitted in April 1949, but in May 1949 was accused, and found to be a Mitläufer
Hans Lammers
Hans Heinrich Lammers (27 May 1879 in Lubliniec – 4 January 1962 in Düsseldorf) was a German politician. He was a member of Hitler's Cabinet. He was also a SS-Obergruppenführer.
After the war he got a sentence of 20 years imprisonment because of war crimes.
In World War I, he got the Iron Cross.
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 in Halberstadt – 2 May 1945 in Berlin) was a German politician and member of the Nazi Party. He was the private secretary of Adolf Hitler. He was also a member of Hitler's Cabinet.
In 1923, he took part in the Munich putsch. At this time, he became one of Hitler's closet advisors. Because he took part in a murder, he was convicted to one year in prison in 1924 by the German "Staatsgerichtshof". In May 1941, he became a Reichsminister. This was because Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland. In 1943, he became Hitler's private secretary. At the Nuremberg Trials, Bormann was convicted to death in 1946. This happened while he was not there.
Karl Hermann Frank
Karl Hermann Frank (24 January 1898 in Karlovy Vary – 22 May 1946 in Prague) was a German politician and leader of the SS. He was also a member of the Cabinet Hitler.
Maximum Ride
Maximum Ride is a science fiction/fantasy series written by the award-winning American author, James Patterson, starting from April 19, 2005 and continuing to the present. Right now, there are six titles in the series:
Each of the novels in the series has reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The series focuses on six kids who are 98% human and 2% avian, Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel (also known as the Flock) who must escape from evil mad scientists from "The School". They are being hunted down by Erasers who are a human-wolf mix. The Flock works towards protecting the world from ruling by strange figures, who have also shown an interest in their capture.
In January 2007 it was announced that a movie would be made based on the "Maximum Ride" series. The producer will be Avi Arad, one of the producers of Spider-Man, X-Men and other Marvel movies. In an interview with James Patterson, it was told Arad has already planned out the first two movies. On August 7, 2008, it was announced that Columbia Pictures bought the screen rights to the franchise, and that Don Payne would write the screenplay. The release date of the movie is 2010.
Crab-eating Macaque
The crab-eating macaque ("Macaca fascicularis") is a monkey. It is mostly native to Southeast Asia. It is also called the cynomolgus monkey, Philippine monkey, and the long-tailed macaque.
In 2018, scientists in China cloned the crab-eating macaque. They named the two baby monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Juan Carlos I (born 5 January 1938) reigned as King of Spain from 1975 to 2014.
His name came from his father (Juan de Borbón), his grandfather (Alfonso XIII) and his mother's father's name (Prince Carlo of the Two Sicilies).
On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos became king. Franco had picked him and prepared him for the job. In 1969 it had been thirty years since the last king. King Juan Carlos helped change Spain from a dictatorship into a parliamentary democracy. In 2008 he was voted the most popular leader in all Ibero-America.
Juan Carlos' wife Queen Sofía of Spain is his third cousin. She is the sister of ex-King Constantine II of Greece.
On 2 June 2014, Juan Carlos announced that he would abdicate in favour of his son, Felipe VI. The abdication and handover to Felipe occurred on 19 June 2014. He and his wife kept their titles.
On 24 August 2019 he had heart surgery.
On 3 August 2020, he went into voluntary exile following a financial scandal over some illegal deals he did with Saudi Arabia. He now lives in the United Arab Emirates.
Donkey Kong (disambiguation)
Donkey Kong may mean to:
German National People's Party
The German National People's Party (German: "Deutschnationale Volkspartei" and short: "DNVP") was national-conservative party of the time of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This party was founded in 1918, after World War I. In June 1933, the DNVP merged with the NSDAP.
Howler monkey
Howler monkeys, genus "Alouatta", are one of the largest New World monkeys. There are 15 species. They are native to South and Central American forests.
These monkeys are famous for their loud howls, which can travel three miles (4.8 km) through dense forest. They are the loudest monkey and may be the loudest land animal. Group males call at dawn and dusk, and at times during the day. The function of howling may relate to intergroup spacing and territory protection.
These social primates live high in the trees (the canopy) of the rain forests of Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Brazil, northern Argentina, and Bolivia. Howlers have a life span of about 20 years. They are in decline due to a loss of habitat.
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