Newington Butts is a former village, now an area of south London. It is most famous as the location of the Newington Butts Theatre in the late 1500s. Some of the first performances of plays such as Hamlet, Titus Andronicus and The Taming of a Shrew happened here. It probably gets its name from an archery butts, or practice field.
Regina Belle
Regina Belle (born on July 17, 1963) is an African American singer-songwriter and musician. She performed the award winning "A Whole New World". She also did "I Can't Imagine".
Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
Stacy Lattisaw
Stacy Lattisaw (born November 25, 1966) is an American R&B and gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has performed only gospel music.
Lattisaw's major singles include "Love on a Two-Way Street" and 1989's "Where Do We Go from Here".
Lattisaw was born in Washington, D.C..
Aegis
Aegis was the shield that Athena used. It had the face of the gorgon Medusa on it.
Curing (chemistry)
In chemistry, curing is the name of a process that strengthens the links between polymers. When it is used with rubber, this process is called vulcanization.
Robert Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , "Yisrael Aumann"; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician and economist. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He is specialized in mathematical economics and game theory. Aumann won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander (born Montgomery Bernard Alexander; June 6, 1944) is a jazz pianist, who also plays the melodica. His career began in 1958.
He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He was married to musician Emily Remler, but their marriage ended in divorce.
Satellite state
A satellite state is an officially independent country that is strongly influenced or controlled by another country. Examples of satellite states include Vichy France and Manchukuo. Both were satellite states during World War II. Sometimes the Warsaw Pact countries were called satellite states, but they had more freedom than most satellite states. Belarus is currently a satellite state of Russia.
Lossy compression
Lossy compression is a form of data compression where parts of the data are lost in the process. When a compressed data is returned to normal some data is lost. Lossy compression is used to greatly reduce the size of a computer file when it is stored, handled, or transmitted. As an example, JPEG is a lossy compression format. GIF and PNG are lossless compression systems. Other lossy compression systems are MP3 for sound files and WMV for video. If a file were to be compressed too much, it would cause the file to be noticeably lower in quality.
Fangbone
Fangbone is a Canadian animated television series. It is produced by the Canadian company Radical Sheep Productions Inc. It is distributed by Disney XD Canada. The series is based on the New York Times best-selling comic books by Michael Rex. The first episode aired in March 2016. The last episode was in January 2017.
The series' pilot first aired in Canada. It won numerous awards including Best One-Off Or Special from the 2015 Kidscreen Awards, Best Animated Writing from the 2015 Writer's Guild Of Canada Awards, and Best TV Show Ages 9-14 from the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards. It was also nominated for Best Animated Series at the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards.
Fangbone is a nine-year-old barbarian warrior from Skullbania. He has landed in Eastwood Elementary's third grade class to save his native land from the villain, Venomous Drool. With the help of his new friend Bill, a lovable, normal, goofy kid, Fangbone beats his enemies while discovering the modern world.
A pilot for the series premiered on Disney XD Canada in 2014. Soon after, production began on a first season. This first aired in March 2016 in North America.
Toba catastrophe
The Toba catastrophe was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years. It is called a catastrophe because its effects may have damaged the human species.
Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, is the site of a supervolcanic eruption that occurred 73,000 (±4000 years) years ago.
It was a climate-changing event. The eruption was two orders of magnitude (= x100) larger than the largest known historic eruption, that of Tambora, also in Indonesia.
This eruption was the last and largest of four eruptions of Toba during the Quaternary epoch. It had an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8 (described as "apocalyptic"). It made a sizable contribution to the 100x30 km caldera complex. The mass it threw out was 100 times greater than the largest volcanic eruption in recent history. That was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the 1816 "Year Without a Summer" in the northern hemisphere.
The eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decline in temperatures between 3-5 degrees C, and up to 15 degrees C in higher latitudes.
According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences. It killed most humans then alive. It created a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.
According to the theory, only 10,000 (perhaps only 1,000) pairs of humans survived the disaster. Perhaps it led to the other hominids becoming extinct, though the Neanderthals certainly survived in Europe and Eurasia.
There is no direct evidence that the theory is correct. And there is no evidence for any other animal decline or extinction, even in environmentally sensitive species. There is evidence that human habitation continued in India after the eruption. The theory in its strongest form seems to be incorrect.
Laurie Strode
Laurie Strode is a fictional character in the "Halloween" movies. The first movie she was in was the 1978 movie. She is an example of the "final girl" character, the last girl alive to fight the killer in a movie.
Jamie Lee Curtis was the first actress to play Laurie Strode.
Heather Thomas
Heather Thomas (born September 8, 1957) is an American actress and writer. She is also a political activist. She co-starred as Judy Banks on "The Fall Guy".
Thomas was born in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dick Ayers
Richard Bache "Dick" Ayers (April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist. He was best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the Silver Age of Comics period in the late-1950s and 1960s. He worked on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' "The Fantastic Four". He was born in Ossining, New York.
Ayers died on May 4, 2014 in White Plains, New York, aged 90.
County Armagh
County Armagh is one of six counties that together make up Northern Ireland. It is also one of the 32 counties of Ireland. County Armagh lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. The county is 1,326 km² big. About 174,792 people live there.
The county is named after the city Armagh. The name "Armagh" comes from the Irish word "Ard" meaning "high place" and "Macha". In stories, Macha is a goddess of Ireland. Armagh was the main town for the historic Ulaid kings of Ulster.
The landscape has hills in the south. Slieve Gullion is the highest mountain. It goes down from there and becomes flatter with small hills called drumlins in the middle and the west. It is fairly flat in the north, and is at sea level at Lough Neagh. There are a few small islands in the lake.
Ancient Armagh was the territory of the Ulaid people before the year 400. The Red Branch ruled the county. Their capital was a fort called Emain Macha near Armagh. The Red Branch play an important role in the stories in the Ulster Cycle. They are also part of the story the "Cattle Raid of Cooley".
Armagh was the Roman Catholic home of Saint Patrick.