HaTnu'a was founded in 2012 by Tzipi Livni (also political leader), as a splitting from Kadima.
Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 5 (down one from 19th Knesset).
HaTnu'a is cooperating with HaAvoda ("Labor") and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") as HaMahaneh HaTziyoni ("The Zionist Union"). Together they have 24 seats.
Minette
Minette is a french word for rocks with very little iron. In the 6 billion tons of minette on Earth, 2 billion are iron. Over time, France has decided to just import rocks with more iron in them.
Johanna Mikl-Leitner
Johanna Mikl-Leitner (born February 9, 1964 in Hollabrunn) is an Austrian politician of the ÖVP.
Mikl-Leitner has been governor of Lower Austria since April 19, 2017, succeeding fellow party member Erwin Pröll. She had already been active in Lower Austrian politics.
On a national level, she was a member of the National Council ("Nationalrat") from 1999 to 2003, and from 2011 to 2016 interior minister in the First and Second Faymann government.
Mikl-Leitner grew up in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. She obtained a masters at Vienna University of Economics and Business, worked as a teacher, at Austrian employers' organization ("Industriellenvereinigung") and at a publishing company before entering into politics.
She is married with two daughters, and lives in Klosterneuburg.
Nickel-iron battery
The nickel–iron battery (NiFe battery) are batteries made of iron, nickel, and hydroxide. They are very strong, and do not break easily. They can last for more than 20 years. They are slow to charge. They are often used on trains.
Nickel-iron batteries are very durable. They can be charged many times. They are often associated with Thomas Edison, although he did not invent this type of battery. Edison's company manufactured the batteries until the early 1970s. Today they are made by several Chinese companies. They are often used in applications where a very long service life is required, such as large off-grid solar power systems.
Oregrounds iron
Oregrounds iron was the best iron made in the 18th century. It was made in the Swedish city of Öregrund. Oregrounds iron is made by making pig iron in a blast furnace, then refining the pig iron in a finery forge.
Osmond process
The Osmond process is a way to make wrought iron. First, pig iron is refined in a modified finery forge. Then, the drops of melted iron fall down, and collect into a large ball of iron. This ball is called an Osmond.
Pelletization
Pelletization is the process of turning something, usually a metal ore or animal feed, into small pellets.
In ores, usually something is added to the pellets to make them more usable. After the ore is pelletized, it has to be cooled down to be used.
Rieke metals
Rieke metals are a group of metal powders made by Reuben D. Rieke. They have a large surface area and are very reactive.
Russia iron
Russia iron was a type of iron made in Russia. It was made in the 19th and 20th century. Russia iron was very resistant to rust, corrosion, and heat.
Stringer (slag)
A stringer is a thin strand of slag in wrought iron. If there is not much of it, it makes the iron stronger. But if there is too much, it makes the iron weaker.
District of Alto Adige
District of Alto Adige was a district in the "Department of Benaco" in the Napoleon's "Cisalpine Republic" (1797-1798).
Under the Cisalpine Republic a District of Alto Adige (called in Italian: "Distretto dell'Alto Adige") was created as a part of the short-lived "Department of Benaco". The District of Alto Adige included some municipalities of today's province of Verona.
The "Department of Benaco", which was created in 1797 and included some territories of actual Province of Trento and Province of Verona, was disbanded in 1798 and with it the District of Alto Adige after a structural reorganization of the Napoleon's first Italian republic.
The "Alto Adige" name was used again by the French in 1810, a few kilometres to the north of the disappeared District of Alto Adige on the upper course of the river Adige, when was created the Department of Alto Adige.
Borax
Borax is a chemical compound. It usually is in the form of a white powder. The powder has soft crystals. They are easy to dissolve in water. Its scientific name is "sodium borate". Miners find half of the borax in the world in the deserts of California. They discovered it in Death Valley in 1881.
Borax has many uses. It is an ingredient of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry. Factories use it as a fire retardant, and to kill fungi that can harm the human body. It is also used in fiberglass, as a flux in metallurgy, slime, and as an insecticide. When mixed with water, it helps the soap clean dishes or clothes better. It can take the smell and stain off bathroom and kitchen surfaces. It also takes the smell out of shoes.
Maria Telkes used borax in the first solar-powered home, invented in 1948. The special walls of the home took energy from the sun and stored it in liquid salt. She used borax to keep the energy storage system running well. The borax kept bacteria from changing the salt solution into something different.
Donley County, Texas
Donley County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,677 people lived there. The county seat is Clarendon.
Armstrong County, Texas
Armstrong County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,901 people lived there. The county seat is Claude.
Randall County, Texas
Randall County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 120,765 people lived there. The county seat is Canyon.
Castro County, Texas
Castro County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 8,062 people lived there. The county seat is Dimmitt.
Swisher County, Texas
Swisher County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 7,854 people lived there. The county seat is Tulia.
Briscoe County, Texas
Briscoe County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,637 people lived there. The county seat is Silverton.
Lyda Ann Thomas
Lyda Ann Thomas (1936/1937 – April 19, 2017) was an American politician. She served as the mayor of Galveston, Texas from 2004 to 2010. She was first elected in 2004 to replace Roger "Bo" Quiroga. Thomas was the third female mayor of Galveston. She serve three terms as mayor, and stepped down in 2010 after reaching her a city-imposed term-limit. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Thomas is known for being mayor of Galveston during Hurricane Ike on September 10, 2008 and ordered in a full evacuation.
Thomas was born in Galveston. She studied at the The Hockaday School in Dallas. Thomas died at her Galveston home on April 19, 2017 at the age of 80 from cancer.
Stella Turk
Stella Maris Turk, MBE (1925 – 3 April 2017) was a British zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist.
Turk was known for her activities in marine biology and conservation as it applies to marine molluscs and mammals. Turk became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, and was awarded the Stamford Raffles Award by the Zoological Society of London in 1979.
José Vicente Rangel
José Vicente Rangel Vale (10 July 1929 – 18 December 2020) was a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for President three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez.
Rangel served under Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2001, as Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2002, and as Vice President of Venezuela from 2002 to 2007.
Rangel died on 18 December 2020 in Caracas from cardiac arrest after having a long-illness at the age of 91.
Hollabrunn
Hollabrunn is an Austrian town in the Hollabrunn District in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. It had about 11,700 people in 2018.
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