Nicolai Gedda (11 July 1925 – 8 January 2017) was a Swedish operatic tenor. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely recorded tenor in history. Gedda's singing was best known for his beauty of tone, vocal control, and musical perception.
Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a distant relative of Peter Ustinov.
Gedda died on 8 January 2017, at the age of 91. It was not announced until 9 February 2017.
Tobermory, Ontario
Tobermory is a small community in Ontario, Canada.It is on the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula. It is northwest of Toronto. It is north of the nearest city, Owen Sound. It is named after Tobermory, Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.
Tobermory is a port city on Lake Huron. There are several shipwrecks near the community, especially in the Fathom Five National Marine Park. Many people go scuba diving to explore the wrecks. The town is also near the Bruce Peninsula National Park.
Tehkummah
Tehkummah is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is on Manitoulin Island. At the 2011 census, 406 people lived there.
The township was incorporated in 1881. It has an area of . There are several communities in the township, including South Baymouth, Tehkummah, and Snowville.
Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies is a region of Canada. There are different ways of deciding what parts of Canada is included in this region. Usually, the Prairie provinces include Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, since these provinces include prairie areas.
The prairie grasslands only cover the southern parts of these provinces. The geography of the prairie provinces also include forests, the Canadian Shield, and the Canadian Interior Plains.
Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a geographic and administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario. It covers the part of Ontario north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River, Lake Nipissing, and the Mattawa River. It includes almost 87 percent of the province but only six percent of the province's population lives in the area. Most of Northern Ontario is on the Canadian Shield.
The region has a land area of 802,000 square kilometers (310,000 square miles). The total population in 2011 was 732,914.
Sometimes the region is divided into Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Ontario. Northwestern Ontario covers the three westernmost disctricts of the region: Rainy River, Kenora, and Thunder Bay. Northestern Ontario covers the other districts and has two-thirds of the regions population.
Wannabe (song)
"Wannabe" is a 1996 dance-pop song from the Spice Girls. This was the first song from the group. "Wannabe" mixes rap and dance-pop. The lyrics talk about female friendship.
The song varies between two minutes/fifty-two seconds to just over nine minutes in length. It was released in July 1996.
The song got mixed reviews. In the United States, it hit #1 for around four weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It sold more than seven million copies worldwide.
Instruments used are bass guitar, drums and vocals. In their home country of the UK, it spent 7 weeks at No.1 during the Summer of 1996.
Integrated Authority File
The Integrated Authority File () or GND is an international authority file. It is used by librarians for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives and museums. The GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
The Integrated Authority File became operational in April 2012 and integrates the content of the following authority files which have since been discontinued:
At the time of its introduction (“GND-Grundbestand” from 5 April 2012), the GND holds 9,493,860 files, including 2,650,000 personalized names.
2014 Citi Open
The 2014 Citi Open (named as a result of a sponsor) is a tennis tournament which takes place on outdoor Hardcourts. It started on 26 July and will end on 3 August. The tournament is in the 46th year of the Washington Open which is a tournament that takes place yearly.
The tournament is part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and 2014 WTA Tour. It is used to prepare players for the 2014 US Open.
A seed is a competitor who is given special placement in a tournament. This is so they do not meet the best players until the later rounds in the tournament. Usually they meet in the third round and may have received a pass into the second round.
Scott Ciencin
Malcolm Scott Ciencin (September 1, 1962 – August 5, 2014) was an American writer of adult and childrens' fiction. He wrote over ninety books in his career. He was a "New York Times" bestselling author. He co-authored many books with his wife Denise Ciencin. He also wrote comic books, screenplays and video games. He was connected with "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Dinotopia".
Ciencin died from a brain blood clot on August 5, 2014 in Sarasota, Florida. He was 52.
Johann Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer. He was a humanist and romantic in his approach.
He founded several schools in German and French-speaking regions of Switzerland, and wrote explaining his principles of education. His motto was "Learning by head, hand and heart".
In 1780 Pestalozzi published anonymously a series of aphorisms, entitled "The Evening Hours of a Hermit". They are his earliest works which outline ideas that would later be known as Pestalozzian.
He drew from these experiences and published four volumes of a story titled "Leonard and Gertrude". These four volumes are about the lives of four characters: Gertrude, Glüphi, an unnamed parish clergyman and Arner. Gertrude is a wife and mother who teaches her children how to live moral upstanding lives. Glüphi, a school teacher, sees the success Gertrude has with her children and tries to model his school around her teachings. A parish clergyman also adopts Gertrude's teachings. The work of Gertrude, Glüphi and the clergyman are helped by Arner, a politician, who gets help from the state. Through these four, harmony is achieved and a comprehensive education is offered to all people.
His next endeavor, "Enquiries into the course of nature in the development of the human race", was not so popular. His education was built on the idea that all understanding can be achieved through a psychologically ordered sequence of learning.
Pestalozzi's method was used by the cantonal school in Aarau that Albert Einstein attended. It has been credited with helping Einstein's process of visualizing problems and his use of thought experiments. Einstein said of his education at Aarau: "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."
Vicente Trueba
Vicente Trueba Pérez (October 16, 1905 in Sierrapando, Cantabria – November 10, 1986) was a Spanish professional cyclist. He is famous for being the first winner of the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France. This is a competition for the best climber in the race. It was first held in 1933.
EVA Air
EVA Airways Corporation (pronounced "E-V-A Air(ways)"; ) () is a major Taiwanese airline. It has services to over 40 international destinations in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.<ref>"Taiwan's EVA Air to launch charter flights to Saipan". "AFX News Limited". 2007-03-22. Retrieved 2008-09-07 <!-- TransAsia Airways
TransAsia Airways (TNA; ) is an airline based in the Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first private civil airline in Taiwan.
Andriy Bal
Andriy Mykhailovych Bal (, , "Andrey Mikhaylovich Bal"; 16 January 1958 – 9 August 2014) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.