The Milpitas Unified School District is a school district in Milpitas, California. It consists of nine elementary schools (K-6), two middle schools (7-8), one comprehensive high school (9-12), one continuation high school (9-12), one community day school, and one adult school. The superintendent is Cheryl Jordan who began in 2016. Past superintendents include Cary Matsuoka, Karl Black, Marlin Foxworth, Charles Perotti, Mary Frances Callan, and John Mackey. The district serves nearly 10,000 students.
All of the elementary and middle schools are named after the early settlers who cultivated the land in what is now Milpitas.
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Dive Coaster
The Dive Coaster (also known as "Vertical Drop Coaster"), first built in 1997. It is a steel roller coaster type made by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). The first drop coaster was made in 1998 at Alton Towers and is known as Oblivion, the latest Dive Coaster (at the time of writing this) is Emperor at SeaWorld San Diego in 2020.
Development on the coaster began in "1994/95". When theme park designer John Wardley designs the idea of a Dive Coaster as to be a successor to his 1994 coaster Nemesis. He realised that the coaster was too ambitious for its time. So Wardley waited until the "1997/98" to test out his new machine. The first design of the ride was Oblivion at Alton Towers, opened in 14 March 1998.
The coaster was only two years old when the next order for a dive coaster was made in the form of Diving Machine G5 in Janfusun Fancyworld in Taiwan. Which was just a mirror image of Oblivion.
In 2005, saw the release of not only the third Dive Coaster to be built, but the first to be built in America, first to be built over 200 ft and the first ever custom-layout Dive Coaster. Sheikra was opened on May 21, 2005 at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.
In 2007, Busch Gardens Williamsburg announced Griffon on August 23, 2006. But officially opened on May 18, 2007. It was the first dive coaster to have floorless trains. Although, the same year. Busch Gardens reopened with floorless trains on June 16, 2007.
In 2011, Heide Park (a German theme park in Soltau, Germany) released Krake, a dive coaster opening on April 16, 2011. This was the first dive coaster to feature 6 seated trains, which coined the phrase "Mini-Dive Coaster"
In 2019, Yukon Striker was released on May 3, 2019. It was the first dive coaster to include a Vertical Loop. It opened at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario.
Bolliger & Mabillard has built fourteen Dive Coasters with one to be opened in 2020. The roller coasters are listed in order of opening dates.
Bedford, New Hampshire
Bedford is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 21,203.
Smyrna, Georgia
Smyrna is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 51,271.
Francie Brolly
Francis Brolly (died 6 February 2020) was an Irish republican politician, musician and teacher. He was born in Dungiven, Northern Ireland. He was a member of Sinn Féin until 2018. From 2003 to 2010, he served as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Londonderry.
Brolly died on 6 February 2020. He was in his early 80s.
Brod-Posavina County
Brod-Posavina County () is a county in southern Slavonia, Croatia. Its center is the city of Slavonski Brod. It is on the left bank of the Sava. Because of this, it is called "Posavina".
The Brod-Posavina County borders on the Sisak-Moslavina County in the west, Požega-Slavonia County in the north, Osijek-Baranja County in the northeast, and Vukovar-Srijem County in the east.
Brod-Posavina County is divided into:
As of the 2011 census, the county had 158,575 residents. The population density is 78 people per km.
Ethnic Croats are the majority with 95.0% of the population. Serbs are 2.6%.
J. B. Sumarlin
Johannes Baptista Sumarlin (7 December 1932 – 6 February 2020) was an Indonesian economist and politician. He served as Minister of Finance under president Suharto between 1988 and 1993.
Sumarlin was born in Nglegok, Blitar, East Java. He died in Jakarta at the age of 87.
Marie Muhammad
Marie Muhammad (3 April 1939 – 11 December 2016) was an Indonesian politician and philanthropist. He served as the Minister of Finance under president Suharto between 1993 and 1998. He also served as chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross Society from 1998 to 2009.
Muhammmad died of brain cancer on 11 December 2016 in Cawang, Jakarta. He was 77.
CBT (disambiguation)
CBT may refer to:
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, a type of therapy
Cock and ball torture, a sexual activity
Olympic National Park
Olympic National Park is a national park in the U.S. state of Washington. It was established on June 29, 1938. The park covers nearly 1 million acres of the Olympic Peninsula.
Subsidy
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Ratcliff, London
Ratcliff is an area of East London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located on the north side of the River Thames. It was once a hamlet in the historic county of Middlesex.
Ratcliff is the site of one of London biggest fires in 1794. It began at Clovers Barge Yard. The flames quickly spread to a nearby barge loaded with saltpetre. This was a substance used to make gunpowder and matches. This exploded. Causing the fire to spread and destroying Ratcliff.
Ratcliff name is from a sandstone cliff. This used to be above the surrounding marshes. This had a red appearance. Hence Red-cliffe.
Ratcliffe was known for shipbuilding. It was a important sea departure area. In the sixteenth century. Such as Willoughby and Frobisher. Ratcliffe at this time also had the largest population in Stepney. Having 3500 residents.
Around 1669. Almost 200 Presbyterians were worshipping inside a warehouse in Ratcliffe. There was a purpose built Quaker meeting house in Schoolhouse Lane that had been built near the same time.
Ratcliffe was divided between the parishes of Limehouse and Stepney until 1866. It was constituted a separate civil parish. It was then administered by Limehouse District Board of Works. In 1900 it joined the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
As the warehouses fell into decline. They were not allowed to stand and were cleared for redevelopment.
Eden Alene
Eden Alene (born 7 May 2000), professionally known as Eden, is an Israeli singer who will represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Abdullah Alnefisi
Abdullah bin Fahd al-Nafisi (born 1945 in Kuwait ) is a Kuwaiti politician and academic.
In 1985, he was a member of National Assembly of Kuwait.
He was born in 1945 in Kuwait. He studied in elementary, middle and secondary schools from 1951 to 1961 at Victoria College in Cairo, and he received a General Certificate of Education.
He worked as a professor and president at the College of Political Science at Kuwait University.
He gets a licentiate from the American University of Beirut in 1967.
He has earned a Ph.D. in political science from Churchill College at Cambridge University in Britain in 1972.
Regular army
Most countries have armed forces, which are usually called regular army. Very often, the constitution of a country talks about this army. This is different from rebel groups or militia, who may also train forces. The regular army is a official army of a official country. They are temporary army's. Still, the person in charge of the army is the president or King or the head of the government. Very often, a regular army has two parts:
Inconvertible currency
Some countries limit the exchange of their currency: In some cases, only a limited amount of money can be exchanged. In other cases, the money cannot be exchanged legally at all. Such a currency is called inconvertible currency. In such cases, there often is a black market.
Great Turkish War