The county bordered the Bristol Channel to the south, the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the east, Powys to the north-west, Mid Glamorgan to the west and South Glamorgan to the south-west.
The county's county town was Cwmbran, which was the location of its Government HQ. Other settlements in the county included Newport, Abergavenny and Caerphilly.
Beate Grimsrud
Beate Grimsrud (28 April 1963 – 1 July 2020) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright. She was born in Bærum. Her best known books are "Continental Heaven" from 1993, "Å smyge forbi en øks" from 1998, and "Søvnens lekkasje " from 2007.
Her novel "En dåre fri" from 2010 was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. She wrote the script for the movie "Ballen i øyet" from 2000. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2011.
Grimsrud died of breast cancer on 1 July 2020, aged 57.
Jennifer Hinze
Jennifer Hinze (born 20 May 1988) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2009 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and 2011 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship.
She played for University of British Columbia's women's volleyball team.
Le Cordon Bleu
Le Cordon Bleu (French for "The Blue Ribbon") is an international chain of hospitality and culinary schools teaching French cuisine. It focuses on hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The institution is made of 35 institutes in 20 countries and has over 20,000 students of many different nationalities.
AmphibiaWeb
AmphibiaWeb is an American non-profit website that shows information about amphibians, for example frogs and salamanders. It is run by a group of universities working with the California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida at Gainesville, and University of Texas at Austin.
AmphibiaWeb's goal is to provide an information page for every species of amphibian in the world so research scientists, citizen scientists and people who want to help the environment can work together. It added its 7000th animal in 2012, a glass frog from Peru. As of 2020, it hosted more than 8,000 species from all over the world.
Scientist David Wake founded AmphibiaWeb in 2000. He founded it at the Digital Library Project at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. It was a class project.
AmphibiaWeb gives information to the IUCN, CalPhotos, Encyclopedia of Life and iNaturalist.
Professional scientists use AmphibiaWeb in their papers. It has been cited in many journals, for example "PLOS One", "The European Journal of Taxonomy", "Amino Acids" and "The Journal of Ethnopharmacology".
Many libraries recommend AmphibiaWeb to readers, including UNLV University Libraries, Stony Brook University Libraries, the College of Wooster Libraries and James Cook University Libraries.
Nadine Alphonse
Nadine Alphonse (born 22 July 1983) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2009 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2009 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, and 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
Tonya Mokelki
Tonya Mokelki (born 10 May 1985) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2009 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2009 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, 2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and 2011 Pan American Games.
She played for Colorado State University's women's volleyball team and SV Sinsheim.
Tammy Mahon
Tammy Louise Mahon (born 4 November 1980) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2004 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2005 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2006 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2007 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2009 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2010 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2011 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, and 2011 Pan American Games.
She played for the University of Manitoba's women's volleyball team and Panathinaikos.
Mario Balotelli
Mario Balotelli Barwuah ( [ˈmaːrjo baloˈtɛlli]; born Mario Barwuah; 12 August 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Brescia and the Italy national team.
Burmese amber fossils
Burmese amber, or Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. It is important for its fossils from the earliest part of the Upper Cretaceous, in the Cenomanian age, 99 million years ago. The amber has been commercially exploited since the first century AD. Research on the deposit may fund internal conflict in Myanmar.
The amber has flora and fauna especially arthropods such as insects and arachnids. There are also also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragments of dinosaur remains.
The fossils arachnids in the amber include:
15 families of myriapods are in the amber
8 families of Entognatha are known
29 orders of insects are known, including:
And 16 more smaller families.
Other groups of invertebrates include:
There are some vertebrates:
Peron's tree frog
Peron's tree frog or emerald-spotted tree frog ("Litoria peronii") is a frog from Australia. It lives in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, but people have also seen it in a few other places.
The adult frog is 6.0 cm long. It lives in forests, grasslands and swamps. It has sometimes been seen in northwestern Australia, far from its natural range. Citizen scientists from Frogwatch SA think this is because people keep Peron's tree frogs as pets and then they either escape or are set free. This frog is usually gray-green during the day. It turns red-brown with green spots at night. It has black and yellow colouring on its legs. It looks very similar to Tyler's tree frog. Scientists tell them apart because their voices sound different.
This frog lays eggs in temporary bodies of water. The tadpoles are yellow with stripes.
Reassortment
Reassortment is mixing of the genetic material of a species into new combinations in different individuals.
There are several ways this happens. The term is used when two similar viruses infecting the same cell exchange genetic material. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses. Their genomes have eight segments of RNA. These segments act like mini-chromosomes: each time a flu virus is assembled, it needs one copy of each segment.
A single host (a human, a chicken, or other animal) may be infected by two different strains of the influenza virus. Then it is possible that new assembled viral particles will be made from segments whose origin is mixed, some coming from one strain and some coming from another. The new reassorted strain will share properties from both parental lineages.
Reassortment is responsible for some of the major changes in the history of the influenza virus. The 1957 and 1968 pandemic flu strains were caused by reassortment between an avian virus and a human virus. The H1N1 virus responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic has an unusual mix of swine, avian and human influenza genetic sequences.
There are other examples, but this is enough to indicate why reassortment causes such dangerous illness.