He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and learned to play drums and piano with his father. His career began in 1962 and he moved to New York City where he went to music schools and played with famous jazz musisicans such as Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis. In 1972 he started his own jazz band called Return to Forever, where he played electric piano. In the 1980s he formed one band called the Acoustic Band and one called the Electric Band. He also had small trios and bigger bands. One of his recents bands was called "Spanish Heart Band" and had 8 members.
All together he made around 80 records and won 23 Grammy Awards. Some of his best known jazz compositions were called "Spain", "500 Miles High", "Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows".
Corea died from cancer at his home in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida on February 9, 2021, at age 79.
Monthey (district)
Monthey is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Raron (district)
Raron was a district in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Street children
Children that are homeless, and that have to look for themselves are called street children. They may have run away,or they may have no relatives who look after them.
Looking at it more closely, there are two different concepts:
According to the European Federation for Street Children, they are an extremely vulnerable group living in very difficult conditions. The human rights of many of these children are often violated: They are exposed to violence or sexual exploitation and abuse. They may be addicted to drugs.
Article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) says that the state recognises the right of every child to a standard of living that is adequate for the development of the child.
“State parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social
development.” Homelessness denies each one of those rights. According to an Inter-NGO Program on street children and youth, a street child is “any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc.) has become his or her habitual abode and/or source of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, directed, and supervised by responsible adults.”
Children who have no home but the streets, and no family support. They move from place to place, living in shelters and abandoned buildings.
In institutionalized care: children in this situation come from a situation of homelessness and are at risk of returning to a life on the street or facing at the child labour or child prostitution.
Saint-Maurice (district)
Saint-Maurice is a district in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Sierre (district)
Sierre is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Sion (district)
Sion is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Visp (district)
Visp is a district in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland. It contains the following municipalities:
Steckborn (district)
Steckborn is a former district of the canton of Thurgau. The capital city was Steckborn.
It contains the following municipalities:
Frauenfeld (district)
Frauenfeld is a district of the canton of Thurgau. The capital city, and the capital of Thurgau, is the city of Frauenfeld.
These municipalities are in the district:
American badger
The American badger ("Taxidea taxus") is a animal usually found in the Great Plains area of North America.
It looks similar to the European badger, but it is not closely related to them. It is found in the western, central, and eastern United States, northern Mexico, and south-central Canada.
The American badger's habitat lives in open grasslands eating prey (such as mice, squirrels, and groundhogs). The badger likes areas such as prairies with sandy loam soils where it can dig easily for its prey. They are found in many places from high alpine meadows to sea level.
American badgers are excellent diggers, and can tunnel rapidly through the soil using their powerful forelimbs.
Badgers are carnivorous. Unlike many carnivores that stalk their prey in open country, badgers catch most of their food by digging. They can tunnel after ground-dwelling rodents with amazing speed.
Kreuzlingen (district)
Kreuzlingen is a district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city is Kreuzlingen.
It contains the following municipalities:
Weinfelden (district)
Weinfelden is one of the eight districts of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city is Weinfelden.
It contains the following municipalities:
Bischofszell (district)
Bischofszell is a former district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city was Bischofszell.
It contains the following municipalities:
Diessenhofen (district)
Diessenhofen is a former district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city was Diessenhofen.
It contains the following municipalities:
Münchwilen (district)
Münchwilen is one of the eight districts of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city is Münchwilen.
It contains the following municipalities:
Arbon (district)
Arbon is a district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The capital city is Arbon.
It contains the following municipalities:
Steckborn
Steckborn is a municipality and the capital city of the district of Steckborn in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Steckborn is near Lake Constance. In 2005, 3,398 people lived there.
People lived in the area around Steckborn already in the 100s. There are also Roman ruins of walls and other buildings. Probably in the 800s, the village became part of the territory of the monastery of Reichenau. This is the period when it is first written about.
Frauenfeld
Frauenfeld is the capital city of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is also the capital city of the district of Frauenfeld.
The city is first written about in 1246. It grew up around the Frauenfeld castle on the land of the Reichenau convent.
In 1264, it became the property of the Habsburgs. In 1374, the Habsburgs bestowed the right of judgment for all of Thurgau (which then included St. Gallen) on the Duke of Frauenfeld.
Twice in the 1700s, Frauenfeld was partly destroyed by fire, in 1771 and in 1788.
The fall of the old Old Swiss Confederacy in 1798 as a result of the French invasion brought an end to the gatherings in Frauenfeld.
In 1919, the municipalities of Langdorf, Kurzdorf, Huben, Herten, and Horgenbach became part of Frauenfeld. In 1998, Gerlikon, Schönenhof, and Zelgli joined Frauenfeld.
Benito Jeronimo Feijoo
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (8 October 1676 - 26 September 1764) was a Galician neoclassical monk and scholar noted for encouraging scientific thought in Galicia and Spain.
He was born in Casdemiro, and joined the Benedictines at the age of 12, and had taken classes in Galicia, León, and Salamanca. He later taught theology and philosophy at the university of Oviedo, and died at Oviedo. Padre Feijoo studied in Salamanca, Spain, at the University of Oviedo, earning a professorship in theology. Feijoo was a prominent essayist for the Spanish, and his critiques, letters, and plays helped change the steadfast beliefs of many during the 18th century.
His two famous multi-volume collection of essays, "Teatro critico universal" (1726-1739) and "Cartas eruditas y curiosas" cover a range of subjects, from education, law, and medicine, to superstitions and popular beliefs.