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Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise is a song by rock band Green Day. It first appeared on their second album Kerplunk in 1992. A new version appeared on the album Dookie in 1994.
Song meaning
The song is about young people moving out of their parents' home.
The song was written by Billie Joe Armstrong.
Music video
The music video shows Billie Joe (Green Day's singer) playing a West Oakland citizen who watches a dangerous notoriety caused by a group of thugs then he goes home to watch the citizens and what they do each day.
Differences between Kerplunk and Dookie version
The Kerplunk version has a slower sound and the Dookie version is more fast-paced and also both versions have slightly different lyrics. The original version of the song from Kerplunk was not a single but the Dookie version was.
The album cover for Dookie in fact, shows a comedic depiction of chaos happening in West Oakland.
In the booklet for the Dookie album a cartoonish drawing in West Oakland is shown.
La Londe-les-Maures

La Londe-les-Maures is a commune in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Superbook

Superbook is a Christian children's animated series, by the Christian Broadcasting Network, based on two time-travelling kids, Chris and Joy, and their robot friend, Gizmo. In each episode, they are always carried away by a mysterious device to visit stories, people and places in the Bible. The series currently has 5 seasons of 68 episodes.
Shillong

Shillong (Khasi: Shillong, Hindi: shilaaNg) is a city in India. Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya. The East Khasi Hills district is in Shillong. In 2001, the city had a population of 260,520. Shillong is a major place in north-east India for education, because it has many schools and universities.
Demographics
As of the 2001 India census, Shillong had a population of 232,946. Males and females are both 50% of the population. About 80% of people in Shillong can read, which is higher than the national average of 59.5%. 83% of males can read, and 78% of women can read. In Shillong, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Khasis make up most of the population. However, the percentage of Khasi people is decreasing because many other people are moving there. People of all the other northeast Indian tribes live in Shillong. Many Bengali, Nepali, Assamese, Biharis and Marwaris also live there.
Christianity is the main religion in the city. Protestants make up 75% of the Christian population of Shillong and Catholics make up the remaining 25%. A lot of people in Shillong follow the original Khasi religion. There are also many other religions in the city.
Mayor

A mayor is a person who is in charge of the administration of a city. Some mayors are elected by the people who live in that city. For other cities, a central government body may choose the mayor. Some large cities have a Lord Mayor.
In federal countries like Germany the mayor can also be head of the government of a city state. The Mayor of Hamburg runs the government just like the Minister President of Bavaria runs the Bavarian government. In some big cities such as Tokyo the Mayor is a Governor.
In many countries, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the mayor is not in charge of the daily functions of a city or town. That job is done by a Town Clerk or Chief Executive, who is appointed to a full-time paid job. The mayor works part-time, usually without payment, and represents the city at events and civic functions.
Center, Nebraska

Center is a village in Nebraska in the United States. It is the county seat of Knox County.
Saadi Yacef

Saadi Yacef (20 January 1928 - 10 September 2021) was an Algerian activist. He was the leader of Algeria's National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence. He was a Senator in Algeria's Council of the Nation until his death. He was born in Algiers, Algeria. An actor, he appeared in The Battle of Algiers.
Yacef died on 10 September 2021 in Algiers at the age of 93.
Salvador Rueda

Salvador Rueda Santos (3 December 1857 in Benaque - 1 April 1933 in Malaga) was a Spanish journalist and poet.
He wrote for the Madrid Gazette and Gaspar Nunez de Arce. In 1910, he toured the Philippines, South America, and Central America. He was a modernist poet.
His house in Benaque is a museum.
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 - January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.
Rich the Kid

Dimitri Leslie Roger (born July 13, 1992), professionally known as Rich the Kid is an American rapper. Signed to Rostrum Records, he released his first studio album, The World Is Yours, on March 30, 2018. His second studio album, The World Is Yours 2, was released on March 22, 2019, and his third studio album, Boss Man, on March 13, 2020.
Rogers was born in Queens, New York and is of Haitian descent.
Discography
This discography consists of 3 studio albums, 7 mixtapes, 15 collaborative mixtapes, 3 extended plays and 1 compilation album.
Chiasmocleis bassleri

Bassler's humming frog (Chiasmocleis bassleri) is a frog that lives in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
The adult male frog is 16.8 to 20.3 mm long from nose to rear end, and the adult female frog is 19.5 to 21.6 mm long. This frog lives in primary and secondary forest no higher than 300 meters above sea level. It lives in the same places as other frogs with the same ancestor frog: Chiasmocleis tridactyla, Chiasmocleis antenori, Chiasmocleis carvalhoi, Chiasmocleis anatipes, Ctenophryne geayi, and others.
This frog is a uniform brown-gray color on its back with black marks near its middle. It has pink spots on its sides.
It looks for food at night. It can dig in the ground to make burrows. Human beings have seen it on the ground and as high as 20 cm up in the plants.
Microsecond

A microsecond (sometimes shortened to ms) is one millionth of a second. This page lists times between 10-6 seconds (1 microsecond) and 10-5 seconds (10 microseconds).
One microsecond contains 1000 nanoseconds. There are 1000 microseconds in one millisecond.
Philip Owen

Philip Walter Owen (born March 11, 1933 - September 30, 2021) is a Canadian politician. He was the 36th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1993 to 2002. He was one of Vancouver's longest serving mayors. His father was Walter S. Owen, who was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973 to 1978. He completed his education at Prince of Wales Secondary School and later New York University. In his late 20s, Owen started a textile business that later expanded to both Toronto and New York City. He became a director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, president of the Downtown Vancouver Association, chair of St. George's School and was involved with many other local organizations.
Owen died of complications related to Parkinson's disease on September 30, 2021. He was 88 years old.
Engden

Engden is a community in Bentheim in Lower Saxony.
Geography
Place
Engden is between Nordhorn and Schuttorf. It belongs to the Joint Community (Samtgemeinde) of Schuttorf, whose administrative seat is in the like-named town.
Tanit Phoenix

Tanit Phoenix (born 24 September 1980) is a South African super model, actress and makeup artist. She is known for her swimwear and lingerie photo shoots after appearing in a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2003 and in GQ magazine and FHM in the same year. She was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
In 2016, she married actor Sharlto Copley. They have one child.
Torashi Shimazu

Torashi Shimazu (born 20 August 1978) is a Japanese football player. He plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba.
Michael Cassidy

Michael Cassidy (1837 - March 18, 1908) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War. He received the U.S. military's highest decoration called the Medal of Honor. He got the medal for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Biography
Cassidy was born in 1837 in Ireland. He immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Lackawanna engaged the at close range. Cassidy distinguished himself as the sponger on a gun crew. For this action, he was presented the Medal of Honor four months later on December 31, 1864.
Cassidy's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Served on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Displaying great coolness and exemplary behavior as first sponger of a gun, Cassidy, by his coolness under fire, received the applause of his officers and the guncrew throughout the action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee and in the destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
Cassidy died on March 18, 1908, at age 70 or 71. He was buried at Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia.
Henk Faanhof

Henk Faanhof (29 August 1922 - 27 January 2015) was a Dutch professional road bicycle racer from Amsterdam. Faanhof won one stage in the 1954 Tour de France. In 1947, Faanhof was disqualified in the Dutch National Road Race Championship, after changing bicycles with a team mate.
He also competed in three events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Faanhof died in Amsterdam on January 27, 2015, aged 92.
Mambru Went to War

Mambru Went to War (Mambru se fue a la guerra in Spanish) is a 1986 Spanish dramatic-black comedy movie. Fernando Fernan Gomez both directed and starred in the movie.
Plot
The news of the death of Francisco Franco has special meaning to the family of Florentina. The family includes her daughter Encarna, her son Hilario, and her grandchildren Juanita and Manolin. At the same time, Florentina tells the rest of the family that her husband Emiliano is still alive. He was thought to have died in the Spanish Civil War. He actually spent the time hidden at their family home.
The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal is a book. Frederick Forsyth wrote it in 1971. It became a bestseller. It is about a plot to kill French head of state Charles De Galle in the summer of 1963.
Story
As a result of the French Goverment decision to grant Independence to Algeria, a group of former French officers decide to take over the government. They decide to kill Charles De Galle.
They hire an international assassin called "the Jackal" to kill de Galle. By accident, the French Secret Service learns of the plot. The French Secret Service searches for the criminal with help from British MI6. They try to stop the killer and the killer tries not to be caught.
The Jackal almost kills Charles de Galle.
Characters
The Jackal is in his early 30s and has blond hair and cold gray eyes. He speaks the French language very well. He hides his identity using fake passports. He learned to kill people as a mercenary in the Congo. He only takes very expensive "jobs."
Adaptation
In 1977 a British-French movie was made. It was close to the book.
Jack Buck

John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 - June 18, 2002) was a sportscaster. He was the father of Joe Buck and the brother of another late sportscaster Bob Buck. Buck was best known for working with the St. Louis Cardinals. His other play-by-play jobs include these:
Ohio State Buckeyes football play-by-play
Ohio State Buckeyes basketball play-by-play
Rochester Red Wings play-by-play
Columbus Red Birds play-by-play
MLB on ABC play-by-play
AFL on ABC play-by-play
NFL on CBS play-by-play
College Football on CBS play-by-play such as the 1965 Cotton Bowl Classic
MLB on CBS Radio lead play-by-play
NFL on CBS Radio lead play-by-play with Hank Stram
NFL on NBC play-by-play
MLB on NBC back-up play-by-play
St. Louis Blues play-by-play
St. Louis Hawks play-by-play
Rochester Royals play-by-play
Boxing on CBS play-by-play
Boxing on NBC play-by-play
Bowling on CBS play-by-play
Bowling on NBC play-by-play
Wrestling on CBS play-by-play
Wrestling on NBC play-by-play
MLB on CBS lead play-by-play
Bowling broadcasters
Professional Wrestling broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
Boxing broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College football broadcasters
1924 births
2002 deaths
Salon-de-Provence

Salon-de-Provence is a commune of 40,100 people (2005). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhone department in the south of France.
Molly's Game

Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical crime drama movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. It is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp.
It began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2017, by STX Entertainment. Molly's Game received positive reviews.
Carina Curto

Carina Curto is an American mathematician. She studies neuroscience and math. She explores how neurons in the human brain understand the world. She is a professor and co-Associate Head for Graduate Studies at the Department of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Curto the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011, an award that is given annually to the best scholars across the US and Canada.
Early life and education
Curto was raised in Iowa City, IA. Her father was a mathematician. As a child, Curto though studying math was too ordinary.
Her parents are from Argentina. She spoke Spanish at home.
She graduated from Iowa City West High School. She loved to learn. Curto took many classes at University of Iowa while she was in high school. She was on the debate team. Curto was also a high-ranked tennis player for the state of Iowa.
Curto received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 2000. In high school she planned to study physics. She studied math and physics. Curto went to Duke University for graduate school. She planed to study string theory. Instead, she got interested in neuroscience. She earned her Ph.D in 2005.
Career
Curto studied mathematics in graduate school. She started studying the math for physics. Curto learned about neurology in her fourth year of graduate school. She became interested in neuroscience and switched her research.
After earning her Ph.D., Curto spent three years as Rutgers University doing more research at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. She was an instructor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Studies. She then joined the Math Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2014, Curto joined the Pennsylvania State University math faculty. She got tenure in 2019.
She uses math to improve neuroscience. She builds mathematical models for understanding how neurons work. Curto also finds new ways to use math to understand biology. As a part of her research, Curto created network songs based on firing rates of neurons, which showed the rhythmic activity of neurons.
Curto's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for the past 13 years. She is a 2021 Simons Fellow in Mathematics. She won the Faculty Scholar Medal from Penn State in 2020. In 2012 she earned a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. She also earned a 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Argus (Australia)

The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne which started in 1846 and closed in 1957. It was a conservative newspaper for most of its history, but in 1949 became more left in its stories.
History
The newspaper was started by William Kerr, a journalist who had worked with the Sydney Gazette before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's Port Phillip Patriot. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846.
The paper was known for its abuse and sarcasm and by 1853 Kerr lost ownership after a series of court actions. It was then published under the name of Edward Wilson. The paper was also linked to the weekly The Australasian which was to become The Australasian Post in 1946.
During the Great Depression in 1933 it launched the Melbourne Evening Star in competition with The Herald newspaper, but was closed in 1936.
In 1949 the paper was bought by the London based Daily Mirror newspaper group. On 28 July 1952 the Melbourne Argus became the first newspaper in the world to publish colour photographs in a daily paper. The paper had interests in radio and in 1956, the new medium of television broadcasting. It was part of the group General Telecasters Victoria (GTV), and the GTV-9 television station. In 1957 the paper was sold to the Herald and Weekly Times group, which had been under the management of Chief Executive Keith Murdoch (Rupert's father) until his death in 1952. The Herald and Weekly Times group used the printing presses, but closed the Argus and sold off the broadcasting interests. The last edition was on 19 January 1957.
The Argus Building
The Argus building, built in 1926 on the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth streets, is classified by the National Trust and is on the Victorian Heritage Register of Heritage Victoria. In 1991, an innovative office building was built next door and named The Argus Centre, an award winning building by Nonda Katsalidis. In 2004 La Trobe University bought the site of the old Argus building with the intention to redevelop and house legal and business schools in the building, as well as a ground floor shopping precinct.
Jingu-kyo

Jingukyo was a Shinto organization that was established during the Meiji era in Japan. While it was not included as one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, it possessed characteristics of sect Shinto until the mid-Meiji period. It was organized by Urata Nagatami and others, with Tanaka Yoritsune as its first Superintendent.
In 1872, Urata Nagatami asked for permission to start a Shinto church called Jingu Kyokai, shortly after the Ministry of Religion was created. He opened teaching centers and religious groups to organize his disciples, then combined them under the name Divine Wind Religious Association in 1873. Popular pilgrimage groups that were already established were also included. The Jingukyo Institute started spreading its teachings throughout the country after the dissolution of the Daikyoin in 1875.
In 1882, the Kyodo Shoku was abolished, which led to the Jingukyo Institute declaring itself independent from the official Grand Shrine Administration Office and renaming itself Jingukyo. Tanaka Yoritsune became the first superintendent after Urata resigned. Membership increased until the late 1880s, but there was little growth afterward. In 1898, Japan's Civil Law was passed, and there was a movement to make the Jingukyo a service organization for the Grand Shrines of Ise. As a result, the Jingukyo was reorganized into the Jingu Hosaikai in September 1899.
It was reorganized as such in part because it had a major burden of distrubiting Jingu Taima and this was criticized as that was used all across Japan.
The Jingu Hosaikai still follows the same basic ideals as Jingukyo, focusing on the Grand Shrines of Ise, Emperor worship, studying kokugaku. Even today, the legacy of Jingukyo can be seen in Japanese society and culture.
With the help of the National Association of Shinto Priests, the Office of Japanese Classics Research it founded the Association of Shinto Shrines.
Haynesville, Louisiana

Haynesville is a small town in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Rowan County

Rowan County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Rowan County, Kentucky
Rowan County, North Carolina
Hosingen

Hosingen () is a small village and a former commune in northern Luxembourg. It was part of the canton of Clervaux
On 1 January 2012, the commune was merged with Consthum and Hoscheid to form the new commune of Parc Hosingen.
April 25 SC

April 25 Sports Club (, Sa i o ch'eyuktan), or 4.25 SC is a multi-sports club based in Pyongyang, North Korea. They are commonly known as a football team. They also have a basketball team, an ice hockey team, and a volleyball team.
Literal translation

Literal translation is the translation of text from one language to another "word-for-word", rather than giving the sense of the original. For this reason, literal translations usually mis-translate idioms.
For example, a literal English translation of the German word "Kindergarten" would be "garden of children", but in American English the expression refers to the school year between pre-school and first grade. The history of the word may also help. It was coined in 1840 by Friedrich Frobel in the metaphorical sense of "place where children can grow in a natural way", not in the literal sense of "garden".
Defunctland

Defunctland is a documentary series about defunct theme park rides. There are currently 3 seasons, with seasons 1 and 2 currently finished.
Season 3 currently has 2 episodes. Sixty-six episodes are planned, with 46 past episodes and 20 planned episodes.
There is also a spin-off called DefunctTV with a few episodes. They also have a Jim Henson miniseries.
Berrien County, Michigan

Berrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 154,316. The county seat is St. Joseph.
El Greco

El Greco ("The Greek", 1 October 1541 - 7 April 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Domenicos Theotokopoulos ().
El Greco was born in Crete, which was the center of Post-Byzantine art at that time. He trained and became a master of that kind of art before travelling at 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570, he moved to Rome and opened a workshop and made a series of works. While he was in Italy, El Greco added elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance to his style. In 1577, at the age of 36, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death in 1614. In Toledo, El Greco painted his best-known paintings.
El Greco's dramatic and expressionist style puzzled other painters at the time, but came to be appreciated in the 20th century. El Greco is considered to have influenced both the Expressionist and Cubist styles. His personality and works inspired poets and writers like Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. Many modern scholars think that El Greco belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for long figures and often fantastic or dramatic coloring, combining Byzantine traditions with Western painting traditions. His paintings generally have very bright parts contrasting with very dark parts.
Grace Potter

Grace Evelyn Potter (born June 20, 1983 in Waitsfield, Vermont) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002. Potter released her first solo album Original Soul on 2004. Her band ended in 2015. This was just before the release of her solo album, Midnight. Her third album, Daylight, was released in 2019. In 2011, she helped found Grand Point North music festival in Burlington, Vermont. The festival celebrates local acts and promotes area businesses. Many national performing artists have performed at the festival. These include Kenny Chesney, Jackson Browne, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Flaming Lips, Trampled By Turtles and Gov't Mule.
Tennis elbow

Tennis elbow or archer's elbow is a condition where the outer part of the elbow becomes sore and tender. It is often associated with playing tennis, golf or other kinds of sport that use a racquet.
The following can cause the condition:
Only using part of the elbow; this can happen with mouse/keyboard users (called Repetitive strain injury), or with certain forms of mountain climbing.
Zwillikon

Zwillikon (Swiss German: Zwilike) is a village in the municipality of Affoltern am Albis in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Scaptia beyonceae

Scaptia beyonceae is a species of horse fly found in north-east Queensland, Australia. It was first recorded in 1981 but not scientifically described until 2011. The fly is named after American recording artist and actress Beyonce.
Scaptia beyonceae has a golden tip to its abdomen, formed by a dense patch of golden hairs. Hence its name.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County , (Pennsylvania German: Lengeschder Kaundi) sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984. Its county seat is Lancaster.
FN FAL

The FAL (French: Fusil Automatique Leger, English: Light Automatic Rifle) is a Belgian battle rifle designed by Dieudonne Saive. FN Herstal manufactures it. The FAL was designed from 1947 to 1953, and mass production began since 1953.
In the United Kingdom, the FAL was adopted in 1954 as the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle and is used by commonwealth countries.
In Austria, this weapon is known as "Sturmgewehr 58", often shortened to "StG 58".
Tel Megiddo

Megiddo () is a hill in Israel. It is near the modern settlement of Megiddo, and is known for theological, historical and geographical reasons.
In ancient times, Megiddo was an important city-state. It is also known alternatively as Tel Megiddo (Hebrew) and Tell al-Mutesellim (Arabic). According to some interpretations of the Christian Bible, this will be the place for Armageddon (that derives from the name's place in Hebrew) or the final battle between the forces of light led by Jesus Christ and the forces of darkness led by Satan or the Anti-Christ after the "End of Days".
Megiddo is a tel (hill or mound) made of 26 layers of the ruins of ancient cities in a strategic location at the head of a pass through the Carmel Ridge, which overlooks the Valley of Jezreel from the west.
Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was a war between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire. It started in 1904 and ended in 1905. The Japanese won the war, and the Russians lost.
The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire disagreed over who should get parts of Manchuria and Korea. It was fought mostly on the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The politics of the two countries in the war were very complicated, but both wanted to gain land and economic benefits.
The Chinese Empire of the Qing Dynasty was large but weak, and it was Qing land and possessions they fought over. For example Korea was under Qing rule, but was seized by Japan. The Russians wanted a 'warm-water port' on the Pacific Ocean for their navy and trade. The harbour at Vladivostok freezes over in the winter, but Port Arthur (now part of Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula in China) can be used all the time. Russia had already rented the port from the Qing and had got their permission to build a Trans-Siberian railway from St Petersburg to Port Arthur.
Causes of the Russo-Japanese War
Russia wanted a warm-water Pacific Ocean port for trade and its navy. Japan wanted to expand her empire into Korea and China. Japan thought that when Russia completed its railway in 1906, it would be able to beat Japan in a war by being able to supply large numbers of troops there.
To avoid war, Japan wanted to compromise with Russia even if it got the better deal. Japan wanted more of Korea and China than it thought Russia would offer. Japan decided to attack before the railway was ready to help Russia fight a war.
The war started with a Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur and continued with Japanese victories in Manchuria and elsewhere. The last major battle was at Tsushima Strait and destroyed the Russian Navy.
Peace treaty and aftermath
United States President Theodore Roosevelt helped Russia and Japan make peace after the war. He won a Nobel Prize for this. Russia had to give up all influence in the Far East. The Russian people were very angry at the government and at czar Nicholas II for not continuing the war because everyone was sure that Russia could have won. This is true because Japan was completely broke and she would have suffered an economic crisis after just a few more months of fighting. Russia's army was also much stronger than Japan's and had very large reserves to replace the soldiers she lost. Japan had no more men with military training to replace her losses and no money to give new men training.
The Japanese got Port Arthur and the Russian railway in Manchuria. Five years later, in 1910, Japan took over Korea. Japan would continue to grow its empire in Asia until World War II. The Russian defeat was one of the reasons for the Russian Army's great improvement after 1904, which helped start the European arms race that was a cause of World War I. The war also contributed to the Russian Revolution and to the Russian Civil War in 1917. Vladimir Lenin, who helped start the revolution, wanted Russia to lose the war since that showed that the tsar was losing power.
Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection is the ninth movie set in the Star Trek universe. It was made in 1998 by Paramount Pictures. Captain Picard fights a Starfleet admiral who wants to move a race from their planet to use its natural resources.
Spoy, Côte-d'Or

Spoy is a commune in the Cote-d'Or department.
One Chase Manhattan Plaza

One Chase Manhattan Plaza is a skyscraper in New York City, United States. It is 248 meters (813 feet) tall and has 60 floors. It was built in 1961 and is one of the tallest buildings in the world
Attiswil

Attiswil is a municipality of the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
The Doon School

The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a boys-only private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The school was founded by Satish Ranjan Das, a Calcutta lawyer. Doon's first headmaster was Arthur E. Foot, a former science master at Eton College. The present headmaster is Peter McLaughlin, who has occupied the post since 2009 and is the ninth headmaster of the school.
The school houses roughly 500 pupils aged 13 to 18. Every year in January and April, the school admits pupils aged 13 in Grade 7 (known as D-form) and aged 14 in Grade 8 (C-form) respectively. Doon pupils take the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education in tenth grade and are thereafter offered two strands for the final two years: International Baccalaureate (IB) or Indian School Certificate (ISC). The school began offering the IB curriculum only in 2006, before which all pupils had to sit the ISC examinations in twelfth grade.
Doon has consistently been ranked among the best residential schools of India by media such as The Times of India and Outlook. Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders, including President Pratibha Patil, to become coeducational. Former students of the school are commonly known as Doscos. Although the total number of Doscos is relatively small (estimated at 5,000 since the school's founding), they include some of India's most prominent politicians, government officials and business leaders. The best known alumnus is former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Ensign, Kansas

Ensign is a city in Gray County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, 187 people lived there.
History
Ensign was first called Lone Lake, and planned out about 1886. It was renamed Ensign in 1888 in honor of its founder, G. L. Ensign.
Geography
Ensign is at (37.652608, -100.232657).
According to the United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
People
2010 census
As of the 2010 census says that there were 187 people, 76 households, and 52 families living in the city.
Economy
The Gray County Wind Farm near Ensign is the largest wind farm in Kansas.
Education
Ensign is a part of USD 102 Cimarron-Ensign. Ensign had its own high school until 1984. The Ensign High School mascot was Ensign Wildcats.
Notable people
John Crutcher, former Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.
Johnny Orr

John M. "Johnny" Orr (June 10, 1927 - December 31, 2013) was an American basketball player and coach. He was best known for as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University. He remains the coach with most wins in Iowa State history, with 218 wins and 200 losses.
Orr died from congestive heart failure at the age of 86.
Tanuja

Tanuja Mukherjee, popularly known as Tanuja, (born 23 Spetember 1943) is an Indian movie actress. She is the mother of Kajol and Tanisha. She is known for her roles in Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966), Jewel Thief, Haathi Mere Saathi (1971), and Anubhav (1971).
Tanuja was born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
Lane Technical College Prep High School

Lane Technical College Preparatory High School (also known as Lane Tech) is a public 4-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood in North Center, Chicago, United States. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Lane is one of the oldest schools in the city and has an enrollment of over four thousand students, making it the largest high school in Chicago.
Steamboat Rock, Iowa

Steamboat Rock is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan

, also known as a or , is a defined class or category of Japanese cities. It is a local administrative division created by the national government. These cities all have a population over 500,000 people.
History
The designated cites or ordinance cities were created because of the Local Autonomy Law of Japan. Each city does many of the things normally done by prefectures.
List
Cities designated by government ordinance recognized starting in 1956. There are 20+ of these cities, including
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Colville, Washington

Colville (Ktunaxa: xapq|=inik) is a city in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,673 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stevens County.
Mickey in Arabia

Mickey in Arabia is a 1932 American animated short movie from Walt Disney Productions. Columbia Pictures released the movie. This was the last cartoon in the Mickey Mouse series released by Columbia Pictures. Walt Disney plays Mickey Mouse and Marcellite Garner plays Minnie. It was the 43rd Mickey Mouse film, the seventh in 1932.
Eight Crazy Nights

Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 American animated holiday comedy movie that was produced by Jack Giarraputo and was directed by Seth Kearsley. It stars Adam Sandler and is set in New Hampshire.
Cast
Adam Sandler as Davey Stone, Whitey Duvall, Elenore Duvall and reindeer
Rob Schneider as Narrator
Ratings
Eight Crazy Nights gained mainly negative reviews.
The Clark Family Experience

The Clark Family Experience is an American country music group formed in 2000.
Hochstadt am Main

Hochstadt am Main is a municipality in Lichtenfels in Bavaria in Germany. It is on the river Main.
Blanding, Utah

Blanding is a city in San Juan County, Utah, United States.
Terakado Seiken

Terakado Seiken (1796 April 16, 1868) was a Confucian scholar. He lived in Japan during the Edo period. He is popular for his writings on Tokyo. He is also known as Yagozaemon.
Early life
Terakado was born in Mito Domain in 1796. His father was a minor government official. When Terakado was 13 years old, his father died. After his father's death he lived an unpleasant lifestyle. In his late twenties, he turned to Confucianism and opened a school. Like his father, he held a minor position as a samurai. He studied Chinese poetry under Ryokuin Yamamoto.
Career
In 1831 he wrote a series of essays titled . The essays were compiled as a book and published in 1838. His essays got fame as well as scrutiny from Edo officials. The essays were banned by Edo officials in 1835. After publication the woodblocks were confiscated in 1842. At the same time Terakado was also banned from being an official. After losing his position as a samurai, Terakado wandered Japan. He worked as a schoolteacher and writer. He died on 16 April 1868.
Edo Hanjoki was a very critical social satire of the Tokugawa government. He wrote most of the essays in literary kanbun. Kanbun was mostly used in government documents. This brought an additional seriousness to his writings. Whenever he wrote about wealthier districts like Honjo, he usually focused on unpleasant places such as brothels. He compared the upper and lower classes to expose economic inequalities within the Tokugawa government. The Edo Hanjoki influenced upcoming generations of social critics and writers. His other works include "Niigata Hanjoki" and "Essay of Seiken".
Terakado's work was mostly written by the scholar Andrew L. Markus.
Marshfield, Maine

Marshfield is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States.
Alex Rider

Alex Rider is a series of spy books. It is written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The series is about a teenage spy named Alex Rider. The series is aimed at young adults. There are ten books in the series, but short stories and other books have been published too. The novels are published by Walker Books in the United Kingdom. The first novel, Stormbreaker, was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2000 and was adapted into a movie in 2006. Over 10 million books in the Alex Rider series have been sold worldwide.
Smilisca manisorum

For another species commonly known as the masked tree frog, see Smilisca phaeota.
The masked tree frog (Smilisca manisorum) is a frog that lives in Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua. It lives in forests near the ocean. Scientists have seen it as high as 540 meters above sea level.
2023 New South Wales state election

The 2023 New South Wales state election was held on 26 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. It was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).
The incumbent minority Liberal/National Coalition government, led by Premier Dominic Perrottet, tried to win a fourth four-year term in government, but lost to the Labor Party, led by Chris Minns.
This election ended 12 years of Coalition government in New South Wales, the longest period of conservative government in the state's history. It was also the second time in history that the Labor Party has controlled the federal government and all mainland state/territory governments (leaving Tasmania as the last state with a Liberal government); this was first achieved in 2007 when Labor controlled the federal government and all state and territory governments until 2008.
Although the Coalition lost, Labor did not win a majority government, falling two seats short. Three independents (Alex Greenwich, Joe McGirr and Greg Piper) agreed to give confidence and supply to the Labor Party, allowing them to form government, just like before when they gave confidence and supply to the Coalition when it went into a minority government in 2022. Piper made a deal to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, a role he prepared for by being Deputy Speaker.
In the Legislative Assembly, Labor Party won 45 seats (two short of the 47 needed for a majority), the Coalition won 36 (with the Liberals winning 25 and the Nationals winning 11), the Greens won three and independents won nine. In the Legislative Council, Labor won eight seats, the Coalition won seven, the Greens and One Nation won two each and the Legalise Cannabis party, the Liberal Democrats and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party all won a seat each. This brings the Legislative Council totals to 15 seats each for Labor and the Coalition, four seats for the Greens, three seats for One Nation, two seats for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and a seat each for the Legalise Cannabis party, the Liberal Democrats and the Animal Justice Party.
Breakfast (New Zealand TV programme)

Breakfast (also referred to as 1 News Breakfast) is a New Zealand morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on TVNZ 1, produced by 1 News. The first episode came out on 11 August 1997. It was the first of its genre in New Zealand. It has a mixture of breaking news, news, sport, weather and feature items. Originally a two-hour programme, it was expanded to three hours in 2012.
NGC 3109

NGC 3109 is a small barred Magellanic type spiral galaxy or irregular galaxy around 4.34 million ly away in the direction of the constellation of Hydra. NGC 3109 is believed to be tidally interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy Antlia Dwarf. It was discovered by John Herschel on March 24, 1835 while he was in what is now South Africa.
Size and morphology
NGC 3109 is classified as a Magellanic type irregular galaxy, but it may in fact be a small spiral galaxy. If it is a spiral galaxy, it would be the smallest in the Local Group. NGC 3109 has a mass of about 2.3x109 times the mass of the Sun, of which 20% of the mass is in the form of neutral hydrogen. It is oriented edge-on from our point of view, and may contain a disk and a halo. The disk appears to be composed of stars of all ages, whereas the halo contains only very old and metal-poor stars. NGC 3109 does not appear to possess a galactic nucleus.
From measurements of the neutral atomic hydrogen in the galaxy, it has been found that the disk of NGC 3109 is twisted. The distortion has the same radial velocity as gas in the Antlia Dwarf galaxy, showing that the two galaxies had a close meeting about 1 billion years ago.
Antoni Opolski

Antoni Opolski (11 June 1913 - 17 March 2014) was a Polish physicist. His field was astronomy and astrophysics. After World War II, he worked at the astronomical observatory of the University of Wroclaw. He retired in 1983. He was born in Rozwadow (now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).
Opolski died from natural causes on 17 March 2014 in Wroclaw, Poland. He was 100 years old. His funeral was held on 22 March.
Jefferson Moore

Jefferson Moore is an actor. He was a writer, producer, director and editor from Louisville, Kentucky, United States. He is the founder and owner of Kelly's Filmworks.
Psephology

Psephology (from Greek psephos psephos, 'pebble', as the Greeks used pebbles as ballots) is a branch of political science which deals with the study and scientific analysis of elections.
F(x) (band)

f(x) is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2009. The group debuted as 5 with the song, La Cha Ta, which reached #3 on the GAON Charts. In 2014, member Sulli announced she would take a hiatus from the group to focus on acting, and left the group the following year. f(x) has been inactive since 2016 for reasons unknown.
Discography
Albums
Pinnochio (2011)
Pink Tape (2013)
Red Light (2014)
4 Walls (2015)
Mini-Albums
NU ABO (2010)
Electric Shock (2012)
Non-Album Singles
La Cha Ta (2009)
Chocolate Love (2009)
Chu (2009)
All Mine (2016)
Musical groups established in 2009
Musical quartets
Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is an English pop music singer. She is a former member of pop group the Spice Girls. She made $30 million during her last two years in the group.
She left the Spice Girls in May 1998 and continued singing as a solo artist. In 2007, she reunited with the Spice Girls to do a world tour.
Nude photos of Halliwell were in a number of magazines in 1992 and 1995 including Playboy and Penthouse.
In 2012, Halliwell was a guest judge at The X Factor auditions in Liverpool. On 26 June she reunited with Spice Girls to promote the brand new musical Viva Forever based on their songs and career. 12 August 2012, she performed with the girls from the group in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.
Personal and media life
Halliwell's father was half-Swedish, half-English; her mother is Spanish. On 14 May 2006, Halliwell gave birth to her daughter, Bluebell Madonna Halliwell. Sacha Gervasi is said to be the child's father, but this has not been said by Halliwell. Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton are Bluebell's godmothers. There are rumors that Halliwell is dating Russell Brand. but in May 2015 she married racing driver Christian Horner.
Arrondissement of Castres

The arrondissement of Castres is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Tarn departement. Its capital is the city of Castres.
History
When the arrondissements were created on 17 February 1800, Castres was one of them in the Tarn department.
Geography
It is the southernmost arrondissement of the department, with an area of . It is also the arrondissement with more people living there, with 194,373 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Albi, to the northeast by the Aveyron (Occitanie) department, to the east by the Herault (Occitanie) department, to the south by the Aude (Occitanie) department and to the west by the Haute-Garonne (Occitanie) department.
Beaumont, Belgium

Beaumont is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
In 2007, 6696 people lived there.
It is at 50deg 14 North, 04deg 14 East.
I'm Real (Jennifer Lopez song)

"I'm Real" is a song by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez from her second album J.Lo. It is an electropop and R&B song. It samples the 1978 song "Firecracker" by Yellow Magic Orchestra. Fellow singer Mariah Carey was going to use this sample for her single "Loverboy", but "I'm Real" was released first.
The song was later released as a remix featuring rapper Ja Rule, called "I'm Real (Murder Remix)". It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten in the UK and Canada.
Andreas Starke

Andreas Starke (SPD) (born 17 September 1956 in Hamburg) became the Lord Mayor of Bamberg in Bavaria, Germany in 2006. He won the election against Peter Neller (CSU), Ursula Sowa (Bundnis 90/Die Grunen) and Norbert Tscherner (BBB).
Benetice (Světlá nad Sázavou)

Benetice is a small village near the town Svetla nad Sazavou (in Czech Republic).
Key features
Historical features
There was a glass factory in Benetice. It does not exist any more, but some local names of places are derived from the parts of the glass factory as name Na susirnach or Sklarensky rybnik (the name of a pond). There is recreation camp in Benetice. It was used as pioneer camp (pioneers were people organized in one group in Czech republic) and it was used for young people from Hungary, Poland and Germany.
Natural features
A linden-tree grows on village green of Benetice. It was planted in 1945.
Structural features
The castle Lipnice can be seen from Benetice.
The Word for World Is Forest

The Word for World Is Forest is a science fiction book that was written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1976. It is part of the Hainish Cycle.
Samuel Schmid

Samuel Schmid (born 8 January 1947) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2000 to 2008. He was the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports.
Flax (color)

Flax or flaxen is a yellowish-gray color.
1996 Summer Paralympics

The 1996 Summer Paralympics took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. 3,259 athletes from 104 countries were at the Games. People with these types of disabilities competed at the games: spinal injury, amputee, blindness, cerebral palsy, Les Autres, and intellectually disability.
La Gata

La Gata, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Gata, produced in 1968 and Mexican telenovela Rosa Salvaje produced in 1987.
Maite Perroni and Daniel Arenas stars as the protagonists, with Erika Buenfil as the adult protagonist. Jorge Poza, Monika Sanchez and first actress Laura Zapata stars as the antagonists.
Cast
Mexico broadcast
La Gata premiered on May 5, 2014, and earned 17.7 points of rating in its 4 p.m. time slot. It was the third highest rated telenovela of the evening on Canal de las Estrellas.