The Land of Stories is a series of children's books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer. The first book, "The Wishing Spell", was released on July 17, 2012. The sixth and final book was published in July 2017. Colfer said the books are a "modern day fairy tale". It is about the adventures of twins, Alex and Conner Bailey. They fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discover there is more to this world than meets the eye.
Final Fight Championship
Final Fight Championship (FFC) is a European based martial arts promotion company operating under and with the production support of the Fight Channel Group.
FFC started in 2003 as a promotion organization dedicated solely to kickboxing, the FFC in 2013 introduced MMA fights in its events.
Eastern quoll
The Eastern quoll is a species of quoll, a carnivorous (meat-eating) marsupial (pouched mammal) living in Tasmania.
It is thought they should be re-introduced to Australia.
Crested Quetzal
The Crested Quetzal is a species of Quetzal.
They are found in South America.
Ammon
Ammon is an ancient country in the Middle East. It was situated in northwestern Jordan and lay east of the Kingdom of Israel.
It is mentioned in the Bible and there often called the "Kingdom of Ammon".
Rabbath Ammon - present-day Amman - was its capital.
According to the Biblical Book of Genesis Ammon is a grandson of Lot, the nephew of Abraham (the other grandson is Moab; the Kingdom of Moab lay south of Ammon).
The Ammonites often fought with the Israelites.
C. J. McCollum
Christian James “C/J.” McCollum (born September 19, 1991) is a professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was drafted 10th in the 2013 NBA Draft. In his third year, he won the NBA Most Improved Player award. He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. In 2017, he scored 27 points in the first half against the #1 seeded Golden State Warriors. That year he also had the highest free-throw percentage in the league.
Neil Olshey
Neil Oshley is the General Manager for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.
Allen Crabbe
Allen Lester Crabbe III (born April 9, 1992) is an American professional basketball player. He plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.
Generative adversarial networks
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are artificial neural networks that work together to give better answers. One neural network is the tricky network, and the other one is the useful network. The tricky network will try to give an input to the useful network that will cause the useful network to give a bad answer. The useful network will then learn not to give a bad answer, and the tricky network will try to trick the useful network again. As this continues, the useful network will get better and not become tricked as often, and the useful network will be able to be used to make good predictions.
Bromley
Bromley is a large suburban borough in southeast London, England
Bromley is located south-east of Charing Cross. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley, and is considered to be a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Oberembrach
Oberembrach is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Oberengstringen
Oberengstringen is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Paignton Zoo
Paignton Zoo is a zoo located in Devon, England. It was opened in 1923.
The West Part of Paignton Zoo includes flamingos, ducks, cranes, blind cave fish, pittas, geckos, budgerigars, guinea pigs, spider monkeys, echidnas and lesser adjaunt storks.
The North of the Zoo consists mainly of a crocodile house, birds, kangaroos, tortoises, camels and zebras.
The East of Paignton Zoo holds elephants, giraffes, maned wolves, mandrill, cheetahs, rhinoceroses and coatis.
The South consists of lions, tigers, an off-show kiwi, parrots, and other aviaries.
Culen of Scotland
Culen ruled as king of Scotland following the death of Dubh in 967, he reigned from 967-971 although was recognized as early as 966 as king. He was born in the 10th century and died in 971. He was the son of Indulf and an unknown mother. He also possibly ruled as king of Strathclyde during his reign.
He died in 971 and was succeeded by Kenneth II and Amlaib. He is buried in an unknown location.
Jan Høiland
Jan Høiland (6 February 1939 – 7 June 2017) was a Norwegian singer. He was born in Stavanger, Norway. He was known for his version of the song "Tio tusen röda rosor" by Thore Skogman. It was the biggest hit for Høiland. Accompanied by Finn Våland on piano, he made his debut at Cafe Inger in Stavanger in 1957, followed by his record debut "Det vil komme av seg selv"/"Dormi-dormi-dormi" (1958), on Columbia. These were Norwegian 78 records.
Høiland died on 7 June 2017 in Harstad, Norway at the age of 78.
Dorian Invasion
The Dorian invasion is a theoretical migration of Dorian Greeks into Ancient Greece, which is believed to have contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad (4 April 1939 – 6 June 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She was born in Grue, Norway. She was Minister of Local Government and Regional Development (Norway) from 1997 through 1999.
Haarstad died on 6 June 2017 in Oslo, Norway at the age of 78.
Brenne (river)
The Brenne is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Armançon river and flows through the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
The Brenne has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Montbard in the Côte-d'Or department.
The Brenne starts in the "commune" of Sombernon, at an elevation of about , at about to the west of Dijon.
It flows to the northwest and joins the Armançon river between the "communes" Buffon and Montbard at an elevation of about above sea level.
The Brenne flows through 1 region (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and 1 department (Côte-d'Or). The river flows through the "communes":
There are only 2 important tributaries, and both join the Brenne on the right side: the "Oze" and the "Ozerain" rivers.
Jill Singer
Jill Singer (1957 – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, columnist and television presenter. She was born in Korumburra, Victoria.
Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She eventually became a senior reporter for "The 7.30 Report" on ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of "Today Tonight" on the Seven Network. She also presented for "The 7.30 Report", "The Arts Show", "2-shot" and "People Dimensions" (ABC TV).
Singer was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program" First Edition". She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's "Herald Sun" newspaper between 1997 and 2012, and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne. She made regular appearances on "The Conversation Hour" (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's "Melbourne Report".
Singer died of amyloidosis on 8 June 2017 in Melbourne at the age of 60.
Marcelo Guinle
Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle (September 28, 1947 – June 8, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He served as a Senator for Chubut Province from 2001 through 2015. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. From 2003 through 2006, he served as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate. Before serving in the senate, Guinle served as Mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia from 1995 through 1999.
Guinle died from cancer in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina on June 8, 2017 at the age of 69.
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