Plouvien () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Plouvorn
Plouvorn () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Eureka (word)
Eureka is a Greek word meaning "I have found it". It is often used excitedly when there is a sudden discovery. It is the state motto of California.
Plouyé
Plouyé () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Anna and the King of Siam (movie)
Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 American drama movie directed by John Cromwell and is an adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same name by Margaret Landon. It stars Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won for two Oscars in 1947.
Plouzané
Plouzané () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
National Assembly (Nigeria)
The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature. It is made up of a Senate with 109 members and a 360-memberHouse of Representatives.
The body, modeled after the federal Congress of the United States, is supposed to make sure it has equal representation with 3 Senators to each 36 states.
The National Assembly, like many other parts of the Nigerian federal government, is based in Abuja, in the FCT, Abuja.
Senate of Nigeria
The Senate is the upper chamber of Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria. The National Assembly (popularly referred to as NASS) is the nation's highest legislature, whose power is to make laws. It is made up of 109 senators.
The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Senate, whose chief function is to guide and regulate the proceedings in the Senate. The Senate President is third in the Nigerian presidential line of succession.
House of Representatives (Nigeria)
The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber.
The House of Representatives has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house.
V.S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, also called V.S. Ramachandran (born 1951) is an Indian scientist and educator. He has written more than 180 scientific research papers. He co-discovered the mirror neuron, a nerve cell that helps human beings understand other human beings' actions. Richard Dawkins called him "the Marco Polo of Neuroscience." "Time" magazine called him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, distinguished professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of biology at the Salk Institute. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Ramachandran was born in Tamil Nadu, in India. His father was a diplomat. His grandfather, Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, helped write India's constitution. When Ramachandran was a child, he collected shells and fossils. He sent his fossils to the American Museum of Natural History. When he was an adult, the dinosaur "Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani" was named after him.
At first, Ramachandran learned to be a medical doctor (MBBS) at Stanley medical Collage in Madras in India. He became a research scientist later. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College.
Ramachandran helped discover the mirror neuron, a type of brain cell that does not work the same way in autistic people. He also figured out how to help people with phantom pain. A person who is missing part of their body, for example a hand, may feel as if the hand is still there. They may feel hot or cold or as if their hand is closed too tight. This is called a phantom limb. They may feel pain in their hand, even though it is not there. Really, it is the brain's sensory cortex making this pain. Ramachandran figured out how to use mirrors to trick the person's brain into thinking that the limb was there and healthy, so it would stop hurting.
V.S. Ramachandran wrote many books. The BBC made one book, "Phantoms in the Brain", into a mini-series.
Ramachandran also studies evolution, dinosaurs, plate tectonics, Indian art, and medicine in the 1800s.
The government of India named Ramachandran Padma Bhushan in the 2000s. This is India's third-highest honor.
Ramachandran married Diane Rogers-Ramachandran in 1987. She is an experimental psychologist, and she and Ramachandran have performed experiments together. They have two sons, Chandramani and Jaya.
Alex Fraser Bridge
The Alex Fraser Bridge is a cable stayed bridge that used to have six lanes until a counterflow lane was added to help reduce traffic, during the morning and afternoon rush hour. It crosses the Fraser River that connects Richmond, British Columbia and New Westminster, British Columbia.
Traditional pop
Traditional pop, also called standard music, is a genre (or type) of Western popular music that was popular before the beginning of rock and roll in the middle of 1950s. The most popular and ever-lasting songs during this period of music are also known as pop standards or American standards.
The works of these songwriters are usually considered part of the great pieces known as the "Great American Songbook". In general, the word "standard" means any popular song that has become very widely known within our basic culture.
"Traditional pop" is now also currently used for standard music, as one category of popular music in Grammy Awards. AllMusic defines traditional pop as "post-big band and pre-rock & roll pop music."
On the Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show in the 1930s and 1940s, a number of popular songs were written by many songwriters - such as: Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter.
Good improvements were added then. These are string sections or orchestral parts and put more importance on the vocal presentation before the listenners. In this way, rich sounds of strings can be heard in much of the popular music throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Songs made by these writers became popular among people in America. Some of these are now forgotten, but others called standards by people at present time.
In 1960s, rock and roll appeared in music scene and became more popular than such standard music. But some singers like Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Tony Bennett and others still remained popular on television and radio.
Harry Nilsson recorded an album "A Little Touch of Schmilsson In the Night" in 1973 with orchestra by Gordon Jenkins. In 1980s, Linda Ronstadt, a popular female singer sang and recorded albums of standard songs. She performed with Nelson Riddle orchestra. Recordings by Rod Stewart's It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook, Willie Nelson's Stardust and Carly Simon's Torch were made public. These were great successes on the music scene.
Mars 2020
Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the "Perseverance" rover and the "Ingenuity" helicopter drone.
It was launched on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and landed in the Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.
It will investigate to see if living organisms have lived or is living on Mars and if people can live there.
Mark V. Meierhenry