The Metonic cycle is a period of about 19 years used in astronomy and calendar studies. In particular, it is often used in the structure of lunisolar calendars, because 19 solar years is almost exactly the same length of time as 235 lunar months.
The Metonic cycle is named for the astronomer Meton of Athens, who used the cycle in the calendar of Attica in the 5th century BCE. But it was used in the calendar of many ancient cultures, including Babylonia and China, before then.
Nineteen years of 12 lunar months each would last a total of lunar months. But from astronomy we know that 19 solar years are the same length as lunar months. So over 19 years, extra lunar months need to be added to make the years line up correctly. Adding a thirteenth month in a year is called "intercalation." There are different ways to do it:
A Metonic cycle is close to the length of 20 eclipse years. For that reason, some eclipses repeat for a time at 19-year intervals.
Shahidul Alam
Shahidul Alam is a photographer and blogger from Bangladesh. Alam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1955.
Alam received a PhD in chemistry from London University, then he decided to study photography. He started the Drik Agency, the Bangladesh Photographic Institute, and Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography; which National Geographic calls "one of the finest schools of photography in the world".
Alam's work has been in many galleries, including MoMA in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Royal Albert Hall in London and The Museum of Contemporary Arts in Tehran. Special shows include:
Alam received many awards for photography, including the Mother Jones and the Andrea Frank Awards.
Nazimuddin Samad
Nazimuddin Samad (Bengali:নাজিমুদ্দিন সামাদ)(c. 1988 - April 6, 2016) was a law student, activist, and blogger from Sylhet in Bangladesh. He was a student at Jagannath University in Dhaka. On April 6, three or four young men killed him with machetes and shot him in the head.
Samad was a member of the ‘Sylhet Bangabanghu National Youth Parishad’. He was also an activist in Ganajagaran Mancha, for bloggers. He spoke against religious fundamentalism.
Samad received many threats. His name was on an Islamist list of 84 bloggers in Bangladesh in 2013. A local al-Qaeda group said they killed him.
Ahmed Rajib Haider
Ahmed Rajib Haider (Bengali: আহমেদ রাজীব হায়দার)(? - Feb. 15, 2013) was an architect and blogger from Bangladesh. Haider was killed on February 15, 2013. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Haider organized protests against war criminals from the 1971 war. He also spoke against the fundamentalist Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami.
The protests started on February 5, and continued for 12 days. A group of bloggers stated the protests. They protested against a verdict by the special war tribunal that sent Abdul Quader Mollah, a Jamaat leader, to prison. Mollah was convicted of murder, rape and torture. The protesters wanted the death sentence.
In December 2015, two students were sentenced to death for killing Haider. Police said the students got their ideas from Jashim Uddin Rahmani, the leader of a mosque in Dhaka, who said it was legal to kill bloggers.
Creuse (river)
The Creuse () is a river in western France that flows through the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Centre-Val de Loire regions.
It rises in the Massif Central and flows into the Vienne river, as a right tributary.
The Creuse river 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 Leugny, Vienne.
Average monthly discharge (m/s) at Leugny
The Creuse river starts in the Plateau de Millevaches, a north-western extension of the Massif Central, in the "commune" of Le Mas-d'Artige, Creuse department, at an elevation of about . From here, it generally flows to the northwest.
Finally, the river flows into the Vienne river, on the right side, in the place known as "Bec des Deux Eaux" in the "communes" Port-de-Piles (Vienne), Ports and Nouâtre (Indre-et-Loire).
The Creuse flows through 5 departments and 80 "communes", in 2 regions; some of the "communes" are:
The main tributaries of the Creuse river are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (born June 26, 1968) is an independent politician and the President of Iceland. He became president on August 1 2016. Guðni holds a PhD in history from Queen Mary University of London.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון הכדורגל הפועל באר שבע‎‎, "Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Be'er Sheva") is a professional association football club that is from Beersheba, Israel. The club currently plays in the Israeli Premier League, and has been one of the best Israeli clubs since the 1970's. Hapoel Be'er Sheva was founded in 1949.
The team's colours are red and white. They play their home games at the Turner Stadium (which can hold around 16,000 people). The clubs first game was against a team made up of mostly South American players and was from southern Israel. They won that game 5-4.
2016–17 UEFA Champions League
The 2016-17 UEFA Champions League is the 62st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. It is the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The 2017 UEFA Champions League Final was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Real Madrid are the defending champions.
The losing teams in both the champions and league route go on to the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round.
Champions route:
The champions route is only for teams that won their country's league.
League route:
The league route is only for teams who did not win their country's league.
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2016. The first legs will be played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs will be played on 23 and 24 August 2016.
Champions route
The champions route is only for teams that won their country's league.
League route
The league route is only for teams who did not win their country's league.
The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
These teams already qualified for the group stage (the clubs are listed by their UEFA ranking):
These teams qualified from the play-off round:
The best two teams from each of the groups in the group stage will move on to the knockout stages. The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 12 December 2016.
FK Vardar
FK Vardar (Macedonian: ФК Вардар; usually just called Vardar) is a professional association football club from Skopje, North Macedonia. The club was founded in 1947and have played in every Macedonian First Football League saeson since it's creation. The club was named after the Vardar river (which runs right through the middle of Macedonia and ends at the Thermaic Gulf in Greece). FK Vardar is the most successful Macedonian team, winning 9 national championships and 5 national cups.
Yugoslav Second League:
Yugoslav Cup:
Mitropa Cup:
Balkans Cup:
Vuko Karov Tournament:
Lincoln Red Imps F.C.
The Lincoln Red Imps Football Club is a semi-professional association football club from Gibraltar. They currently play in the Gibraltar Premier Division and share the Victoria Stadium with all other clubs in the territory. They have won 22 league titles and 17 cup titles. The football club was first formed in 1976 by Charles Polson and Charles Head.
Falmouth, Virginia
Falmouth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stafford County, Virginia, United States. It is situated on the north bank of the Rappahannock River at the falls. The community is north of and opposite the city of Fredericksburg. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP), Falmouth's population was 4,274 as of the 2010 census.