The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass (also called the "Beatle bass" or "Cavern bass") is an electric bass guitar made by Höfner since 1955. It became very popular in the 1960s when Paul McCartney of The Beatles started using it.
In 1955, Walter Höfner made a semi-acoustic electric bass, that was made to be light. It was also made to sound like a double bass. It was first shown at the Frankfurt Music Fair in 1956. Paul McCartney bought a Höfner 500/1 in 1961 while in Hamburg. It would become his main bass for the rest of his career. McCartney using the bass made it very popular and Höfner still make the bass because of this.
Isokyrö
Isokyrö is a municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland.
It has a population of 4,576 (31 January 2019). A majority of people speak Finnish there.
Adon, Loiret
Adon is a French commune. It is in the Loiret department.
Wihr-au-Val
Wihr-au-Val is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wildenstein
Wildenstein is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Willer
Willer is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Willer-sur-Thur
Willer-sur-Thur is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wittersdorf
Wittersdorf is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wolfersdorf, Haut-Rhin
Wolfersdorf is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wolfgantzen
Wolfgantzen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wolschwiller
Wolschwiller is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Wuenheim
Wuenheim (; ) is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France. In 2017, 799 people lived there.
Zaessingue
Zaessingue is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Zellenberg
Zellenberg is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Marcos Mundstock
Marcos Mundstock (25 May 1942 – 22 April 2020) was an Argentine musician, writer and comedian. He is best known as a founding member of comedy musical group Les Luthiers. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He became a Spanish citizen in 2012.
Mundstock died of brain cancer on 22 April 2020 in Buenos Aires. He was 77.
Zillisheim
Zillisheim is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in eastern France.
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (; born 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman and actor. In 2018, he became the first person to have won the Arnold Strongman Classic, Europe's Strongest Man and World's Strongest Man. He also played Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" for five seasons.
Hafþór was born in Reykjavík. In March 2017, he was diagnosed with Bell's palsy. He is married to Canadian Kelsey Henson. The couple have one child.
Aillant-sur-Milleron
Aillant-sur-Milleron is a French commune. It is in the Loiret department.
Montargis
Montargis is a French commune. It is in the Loiret department.
Bray-Saint Aignan
Bray-Saint Aignan is a French commune. It is in the department of Loiret. The municipality was created on 1 January 2017 and consists of the former communes of Bray-en-Val (the seat) and Saint-Aignan-des-Gués.
Bray-en-Val
Bray-en-Val is a former French commune. It is in the Loiret department. On 1 January 2017, it became a part of the new commune of Bray-Saint Aignan.
Saint-Aignan-des-Gués
Saint-Aignan-des-Gués is a former French commune. It is in the Loiret department. On 1 January 2017, it became a part of the new commune of Bray-Saint Aignan.
Coudray, Loiret
Coudray is a former French commune. It is in the Loiret department. On 1 January 2016, it became a part of the new commune of Le Malesherbois.
Catherine Paysan
Annie Hausen (4 August 1926 – 22 April 2020), known by her pen name Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for her lifetime’s writing. Paysan wrote novels, poems, screenplays and plays. Paysan was born in Aulaines, France.
She published several novels, five autobiographical works, two collections of poetry and two plays. She also adapted several of her works for movies. In 1977, she received the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for the whole of her work.
Paysan was named an Officier in the French Legion of Honour in 2011.
Paysan died on 22 April 2020 in Le Mans, France at the age of 93.
Le Malesherbois
Le Malesherbois is a French commune. It is in the Loiret department. The municipality was created on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Malesherbes (the seat), Coudray, Labrosse, Mainvilliers, Manchecourt, Nangeville and Orveau-Bellesauve.
Malesherbes, Loiret
Malesherbes is a former French commune. It is in the Loiret department. On 1 January 2016, it became a part of the new commune of Le Malesherbois.
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships of Poland. The capitals are Bydgoszcz and Toruń.
The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is divided into 23 counties (powiats): 4 city counties and 19 land counties. These are further divided into 144 gminas.
Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships of Poland. It can be found in the southeast Poland and in west Lesser Poland. The capital city is also named Lublin.
It was created on January 1, 1999. Polesie National Park and Roztocze National Park are both in the voivodeship.
Łódź Voivodeship
Łódź Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships of Poland. The capital city is also named Łódź.
Protected areas in Łódź Voivodeship include seven Landscape Parks, as listed below.
Joule per mole
The joule per mole (symbol: J·mole or J/mol) is an SI derived unit of energy per amount of material. Energy is measured in joules, and the amount of material is measured in moles. In other words, joule per mole is a unit for how much energy is in a certain amount of matter.
Avogadro's law
Avogadro's law is a gas law in chemistry that states "equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules". This means that if two gases have the same volume and pressure, and temperature, they will have the same number of molecules.
Goessel, Kansas
Goessel is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 539. It is located about 11 miles north of North Newton.
North Newton, Kansas
North Newton is a city in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,759. The city of Newton is located south.
Conwy
Conwy, traditionally known in English as Conway, is a walled coastal market town in Conwy County Borough, North Wales. It faces the smaller town of Deganwy across the River Conwy. Historically, it was located in Gwynedd and before that, Caernarfonshire.
The town's name originates from the old Welsh words ""cyn"" (chief) and ""gwy"" (water). The river of the same name was also originally called the Cynwy.
The community, which also includes the smaller towns of Llandudno Junction and Deganwy, has a population of 14,723. The town itself has a population of 4,065.
The town is a popular tourist destination and is famous for its castle, built between 1283 and 1289, beach and town walls.
Van Tuong Nguyen
Van Tuong Nguyen (; 17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005) was an Australian man convicted of drug trafficking. In 2002, he was arrested in Singapore during an international flight stopover from Phnom Penh to Melbourne. He admitted to bringing 396.2 grams of heroin into the country. He was sentenced to death in 2004. Singapore rejected pleas for clemency from the Australian government, Amnesty International, the Holy See and others.
On 2 December 2005, Nguyen was executed by hanging at Changi Prison in Changi, Singapore. He was 25.
Nguyen was born at a refugee camp in Songkhla, Thailand. His parents were Vietnamese. He had a twin brother, Khoa Nguyen.