The first French Antarctic research station was at Port Martin, east of D'Urville. It was destroyed by fire on January 23, 1952. In 1952, a small base called Base Marret, was built on Île des Pétrels to study a rookery of emperor penguins. When the Port Martin station was destroyed, Base Marret was used in the winter of 1952/1953. A new main base, Dumont D'Urville station, was built on the same island and opened on January 12, 1956. This became the centre for French scientific research during the Antarctic International Geophysical Year 1957/1958. It has remained in active use ever since.
The station allows 30-40 people to come ashore at one time. Ice and strong katabatic winds often prevent landings, either by boat or by helicopter. The station can accommodate about 30 people in winter and 120 during the summer. The icebreaker ship "L'Astrolabe" carries supplies and people to the station from the port of Hobart, Tasmania. It does five trips between November and March.
The Academy Award-winning documentary movie "La Marche de l'empereur", in English "March of the Penguins", was filmed in the region around this base.
Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician. He was also the founder of Stanford University along with his wife, Jane Stanford. He came to California with his brothers in 1852 and they were successful in selling tools and mining equipment.
Leland joined with three other Sacramento merchants to form a group who called themselves “The Associates.” It was these men—, , , and, as President, himself. They bonded together as a team to build the first Transcontinental Railway. His role with them drove his politics, and his success in politics for what he was trying to do for Sacramento and California was very much driven by his position as the head of .
Stanford was a white supremacist. In 1859, he wrote:I am in favor of free white American citizens. I prefer free white citizens to any other race. I prefer the white man to the negro as an inhabitant to our country.He spent one two-year term as Governor of California after his election in 1861. He later spent eight years as a United States Senator.
Aker (deity)
Aker ("also known as Akeru") is the ancient Egyptian god of Earth and the horizon. He guarded the eastern and western borders of the netherworld. He protected Ra, the sun god, when he entered the netherworld at sunset and when he returned to the world of the the living at sunrise and bore the sun on his back through the underworld.
He welcomed the deceased pharaoh Apep ("Apophis) and" was rumored to have the ability to neutralize a snake bite.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
The Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch facility of Kennedy Space Center of Florida, United States. The site was originally made for the Apollo program. Later, it was modified for the Space Shuttle program. , only Pad 39A is in use to launch SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Pad 39B is modifying for NASA's Space Launch System. The Pad 39C was added in 2015 for small rocket launches, although it is not in use.
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell
Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (born 15 May 1931)
is the former Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
He was the second Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the founder of the New Democratic Party (NDP).
He also was Premier of the then colony of Saint Vincent from 1972 to 1974, and as Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 1984 to 2000.
Tang Fei
Tang Fei (; born 15 March 1932) is a retired ROC Air Force general and politician. He was the Premier of the Republic of China between May 20 and October 6, 2000 under the Chen Shui-bian government. He worked for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), even though he was a member of the Kuomintang (KMT).
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Jeffrey Adam Rosen (born April 2, 1958) is an American lawyer. Rosen was the Acting United States Attorney General from December 23, 2020 to January 20, 2021. He was the 38th United States Deputy Attorney General from May 22, 2019 until he became acting Attorney General. He was the 21st United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation from May 18, 2017 to May 21, 2019. He was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis.
On February 19, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his plans to nominate Rosen for United States Deputy Attorney General replacing Rod Rosenstein. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 16.
On December 14, 2020, it was announced that Rosen would become acting Attorney General on December 23, when William Barr's resignation takes effect.
List of dialling codes in Italy
Country Code: +39
International Call Prefix: 00
Trunk Prefix: None. Leading 0 is dialed both within and from outside Italy, just because it is now part of the actual number and no longer the trunk prefix.
Area codes in Italy are administered by Telecom Italia:
List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by human population density, and measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes but does not rank unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the following table are based on areas including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Data are estimates for July 2005, taken from the United Nations World Prospects Report (2004 revision), unless stated differently.
The names of dependent territories are shown in italics. Area figures provided here have been obtained from the main articles of the respective countries and territories.
This list consists of the top 100 most populous countries (see also List of countries and dependencies by population).
Eduard Punset
Eduard Punset i Casals (9 November 1936 – 22 May 2019) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and science popularise. He was a member of Adolfo Suárez's Union of the Democratic Centre. He served as a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1982 to 1983. He was later a member of the European Parliament between 1987 and 1994. He also wrote for the BBC and "The Economist". He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.
Punset was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2007 but recovered. He died on 22 May 2019 of lung cancer in Barcelona. He was 82.
Ali Mohammad Mahar
Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar (‎; 12 January 1967 – 21 May 2019) was a Pakistani politician. He served as the 25th Chief Minister of Sindh from 2002 to 2004. He was also a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 2002 to 2007. Until his death in 2019, he was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 2008, and was Federal Minister for Narcotics Control since 2018.
Mahar died on 21 May 2019 of heart failure, at the age of 52.
Referential transparency
Referential transparency is a feature of parts of computer programs. A part of a program is called "referentially transparent" if it can be replaced with the value it gives back without changing the program's behavior. A referentially transparent function must be pure—it must always give the same output if it takes the same input, and it must not have any side effects—parts of the program that perform an action other than giving a value back. The opposite of referential transparency is referential opacity.
In mathematics, all functions are referentially transparent, because a mathematical function can only take values in and spit a value out. In programming, this is not always true—a function might also find out what day of the year it is, or print a message to the screen. Because of this difference, some people use other names for functions in programming, like procedures.