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Synthesizer

A musical synthesizer is an instrument that uses electricity to make musical sounds. They are the main instrument for making electronic music. Many synthesizers have a keyboard like that of a piano. When playing a piano keyboard, sounds are made by hitting soft hammers against strings pulled very tight. When playing a synthesizer keyboard, sounds are made by turning electrical oscillators on and off. Since "synthesizer" is such a big word, the word is usually shortened to "synth".
How synthesizers work
An oscillator is something that "vibrates", or repeats the same pattern. The pendulum of a clock, for example, is a very slow oscillator. A piano string "oscillates" when struck by a hammer.
Electric oscillators might be made using transistors. They turn electricity into electrical patterns, or signals, that repeat over and over. When different keys are pressed, different notes are heard. This is done by making the signal from the oscillator repeat at different rates.
The signal can be boosted in strength and sent straight to a loudspeaker. But the sound of a simple signal can be boring after a while. Sounds can be made more interesting in many ways.
For example
Signals are often shaped by changing how fast they get loud and then soft again. This method, called "ADSR", helps synthesizers to sound more like older instruments -- pianos, trumpets, flutes, and so on.
The signals from several different oscillators may be combined. This helps to make a richer sound.
The signal can then be sent to one or more filters. Filters are used to take away parts of the signal. For example, they might make the signal sound "brighter" or "duller", "soft" or "harsh".
Many synthesizers use special oscillators called "LFOs". For example, an LFO might control how loud and soft the signal is, or control the pitch of the signal. An LFO might even control the actions of the filters.
By combining many of these methods, synths can now sound very much like older instruments. For one example, special synths called "drum synths" are used just to make the sounds a drummer might make. Synths can also make many new sounds never heard before.
In the early 2000s, computers got fast enough so "software synths" could be made. These are computer programs designed to look and work like a synth. They tend to be less expensive, so more can be used. Most of these programs can be downloaded for free, however this may be illegal.
There are special tools available to play synths. For example, a thing called a "wind controller" lets players of wind instruments use their special skills. But there is still a need for more ways to control synths to make them more expressive.
Josh Groban

Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. He has won many Tony and Grammy awards throughout his career, including one for Natasha, Pierre and the great Comet of 1812. He is playing Sweeney Todd now.
Early life and education
Groban was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jack Groban, a businessman, and Lindy Groban (nee Johnston), a school teacher. His father is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine, but converted from Judaism to Christianity upon marrying his mother. His mother's ancestry includes English, German, and Norwegian; one of her own grandfathers had also been Jewish. His parents are Episcopalians.
Groban first sang in public when he was in the seventh grade. His music teacher chose him to sing a solo of "S'wonderful" at the school's cabaret night, where he sang alone on stage for the first time. At this time, he was more focused on acting, playing Tevye in his high school's production of Fiddler on the Roof. In the summers of 1997 and 1998, he also attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp in Michigan, majoring in musical theater, and began taking vocal lessons. He went on to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major and graduated in 1999. He was admitted to and briefly attended Carnegie Mellon University, intent on studying musical theater. Four months into his first semester, Groban was offered a recording contract and left college to pursue a singing career.
Paul G. Kirk

Paul Grattan Kirk, Jr. (born January 18, 1938) is an American lawyer and politician. He served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010, having been appointed to fill the seat created by the death of Ted Kennedy.
From 1985 to 1989, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). On January 14, 2016, Kirk announced his endorsement in Hanover, New Hampshire in support of the presidential campaign for Bernie Sanders.
Peacock dance

The Peacock dance or peafowl dance is a traditional Asian folk dance. There are several peacock dance traditions developed in Asia. For example, there are peacock dances of Myanmar, Bangladesh, and in China's Dai group of people.
Jack Mendelsohn

Jack Mendelsohn (November 8, 1926 - January 25, 2017) was an American writer-artist. He worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. He was an Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor. He had many credits as a TV scripter, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Among his work for feature movies, he was a co-screenwriter of Yellow Submarine (1968). In 2004, the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mendelsohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Mendelsohn died of lung cancer on the evening of January 25, 2017, aged 90.
Continental climate

Continental climate is a climate that is characterized by winter temperatures cold enough to support a fixed period of snow cover each year, and is not arid or semi-arid. Summers are hot or warm.
In the Koppen climate classification, this climate is split into Dfa (hot summer, no dry season), Dfb (warm summer, no dry season), Dwa (hot summer, dry winter), Dwb (warm summer, dry winter), Dsa (hot dry summer) and Dsb (warm dry summer).
Dfa cities include Chicago, Volgograd or Toronto.
Dfb cities include Warsaw, Moscow or Montreal.
Dsa cities include Salt Lake City or Bishkek.
Dsb cities include Helsinki or Spokane.
Dwa cities include Beijing or Seoul.
Dwb cities include Vladivostok or Calgary.
Stadsparksvallen

Stadsparksvallen is a sports ground in the town of Jonkoping in Sweden. Opened in 1902, it is the home ground for the Jonkopings Sodra IF soccer club.
1819

Events
Simon Bolivar finds Gran Colombia.
The United States buys Florida from Spain.
The U.S. State of Alabama got its statehood.
Singapore was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles.
Edoardo Vesentini

Edoardo Vesentini (31 May 1928 - 28 March 2020) was an Italian mathematician and politician. He helped introduce the Andreotti-Vesentini theorem. He was awarded the Caccioppoli Prize in 1962. He was the director of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa from 1978 to 1987. He also served as a Senator between 1987 and 1992. He was born in Rome.
Vasentini died in Pisa on 28 March 2020. He was 91.
Quorthon

Tomas "Ace" Borje Forsberg (often called Quorthon;born on 17 February 1966 in Sweden) was a Swedish musician. He was the founder and songwriter for the extreme metal band Bathory. Bathory was known for laying out the groundwork for black metal and later viking metal. Quorthon was a multi-instrumentalist. He wrote all the music and lyrics for Bathory, and on some albums he played all the instruments (guitar, bass, drums, etc.). He also made solo albums. Quorthon died around 3 June 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden. He died of heart failure.
The Australian

The Australian is a newspaper made in Australia. It is made by an Australian company called News Limited, is published every day, and started in 1964.
ChatZilla

ChatZilla is an IRC client made by Mozilla that is free of charge. It is programmed in JavaScript and XUL. Its first public release date was in 2001. The latest stable version (0.9.86) was made in 2009. It is licensed under MPL, GPL, and LGPL.
Maya Wiley

Maya D. Wiley (born January 2, 1964) is an American lawyer, professor, civil rights activist, and politician. She was the counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She chaired the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) from 2016 to 2017. She has worked for MSNBC as a legal analyst since August 2018.
In October 2020, Wiley announced her candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election. On July 6, 2021, Associated Press announced that Eric Adams won the Democratic primary.
Mohammad Maleki

Mohammad Maleki (; 11 July 1933 - 1 December 2020) was an Iranian academic and pro-democracy nationalist-religious activist. He was president of the University of Tehran for a short time in 1979.
Maleki died of cancer and diabetes in Tehran on 1 December 2020 at the age of 87.
Zeko Burgess

Zeko Burgess is a cricketer from Bermuda. In August 2019, Burgess started to play on Bermuda's team for the Regional Finals of the 2018-19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament. In November 2019, he played on Bermuda's team for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament. This happened in Oman. Burgess went into List A for Bermuda on 6 December 2019. He played against Uganda.
California Suite

California Suite is a 1978 American comedy movie directed by Herbert Ross and was based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon. It stars Maggie Smith, Alan Alda, Walter Matthau, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, Dana Plato, Bill Cosby and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was nominated for 3 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1979.
Donna Douglas

Donna Douglas (born Doris Ione Smith; September 26, 1932 - January 1, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Elly May Clampett in the CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies from 1962 to 1971. She also appeared in the series The Twilight Zone and the movie Frankie and Johnny (1966), alongside Elvis Presley.
Douglas was born in Pride, Louisiana. She had a son, Danny P. Bourgeois (born September 14, 1954). She was married twice, both ending in divorce.
Douglas died from pancreatic cancer on January 1, 2015 in Zachary, Louisiana, aged 82.
Book of Nehemiah

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, thought to be a continuation of the Book of Ezra, and is sometimes called the second book of Ezra. It is thought to be written by Nehemiah. It is about the return from exile and the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The Book talks about the struggles the Israelites face, such as when they rebuild the walls of the city, non-Israelite people are angry. Another problem is the fact that people are not obeying Jewish law.
Panditrao Agashe

Jagdish "Panditrao" Agashe (1936 - 1983) was an Indian businessman. He was the elder brother of the late business magnate Dnyaneshwar Agashe, eldest son of industrialist Chandrashekhar Agashe. He served as the managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. after his father. Today, the Panditrao Agashe School, a private, co-educational day school located at Law College Road in Pune, India, is named after him.
Bloomfield, Vermont

Bloomfield is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States.
Laines-aux-Bois

Laines-aux-Bois is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.
Butters' Bottom Bitch

"Butters' Bottom Bitch" is the ninth episode of the thirteenth season of South Park. It first started on the Comedy Central in the United States on October 16, 2009.
In this episode, Butters pays a girl $5 to kiss him on the playground. He decides to start a business, a "kissing company." This is a parody of prostitution with Butters as a pimp. Police officers hear about Butters' company and think it is a real prostitution ring. Sergeant Yates disguises himself as a female prostitute to find out.
Milford, New Hampshire

Milford is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
Pembina County, North Dakota

Pembina County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 6,844 people lived there. The county seat is Cavalier.
Landmarks

4 famous landmarks from World Famous paint the night parade
Originally, a landmark literally meant a prominent, easily identified geographic point, (like a mountain, a cliff, or a river) used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.
In modern use, it includes anything that can be recognized easily, such as a monument, building, or other structure. In American English it is the main word used to call places that are tourist attractions because they are beautiful, or big, or they have historical importance. Some, such as National Landmarks, are on official lists of landmarks. Landmarks in the British English are normally used for casual navigation, such as giving directions to someone to get somewhere. This is done in American English as well.
List of important landmarks
Landmarks also can be of two different categories: natural (e.g., physical features such as waterfalls and mountains), and structures constructed by humans. Many of them are World Heritage Sites.
Pouilley-Français

Pouilley-Francais is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Doubs department in east France. This village is close to the Jura and Haute-Saone departments.
Geography
The commune is southwest of Besancon.
Jack Nance

Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 - December 30, 1996) was an American actor. He worked with moviemaker David Lynch many times. He was in Lynch's first movie Eraserhead (1977). He was also in Twin Peaks (1990-1991) as Pete Martell.
Nance died at his apartment in South Pasadena, California on December 30, 1996, one week after his 53rd birthday. The cause of death was a subdural hematoma from an injury he got in a street fight the morning before.
Rollo

Rollo (-), also called Rolf (Hrolf) was a Viking leader. In 911 he was given lands around Rouen by the Frankish king Charles the Simple. He passed on his ever growing fief to his descendants, known as the counts and later dukes of Normandy. He was the first of the dynasty known as the House of Normandy.
Early career
Rollo might have been a son of Rognvald, earl of More (in present day Norway) and was a Viking raider in France. He probably also raided Scotland and Ireland. Rollo played a part in the Siege of Paris (885-86) and then captured Bayeux according to Dudo of Saint-Quentin. While Rollo was given lands around Rouen in 911 by the French king, Flodoard of Reims says that there were many bands of Northmen raiding in western France at the time. In his writing he paid more attention to another group of Vikings under a Ragenold. Flodoard had no way of knowing then that of all the Viking bands those under Rollo would grow to become the great duchy of Normandy.
Beginnings of Normandy
In 918 King Charles and Rollo met on the border of the Vexin and Roumois. The Roumois was the name then for the province of which Rouen was the capital. In a charter the king confirmed to Rollo the city of Rouen. He also gave him all the territory west to the border of Brittany. By 924 Normandy was growing into a principality. It was at this time he acquired Bayeux and also Maine. Rollo appears in annals only here and there. He was fighting over the castle of Eu against King Raoul. He also came to the aid of King Charles the Simple against Herbert II of Vermandois. Rollo died about 928. He was succeeded by his son William Longsword.
Family
Rollo's first wife was Poppa. Together they had:
William I, Longsword. He succeeded his father as princeps of Normandy.
Gerloc, wife of William III, Duke of Aquitaine.
Rollo's second wife was Gisela, daughter of Charles III the Simple, King of France. They had no children.
Bourg-Saint-Christophe

Bourg-Saint-Christophe is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Waterloo, Belgium

Waterloo () (in Walloon: Waterlo) is a Walloon municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Waterloo had a total population of 29,315. The total area is 21.03 km2.
Battle of Waterloo
In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815[5] near Waterloo, Belgium) the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte defeated by the Prussian army and the Anglo-Allied army. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as the French emperor. After the Battle
Napoleon surrendered to the British, and was exiled to Saint Helena, where he died in 1821.
The battlefield is in present-day Belgium, about eight miles (12 km) SSE of Brussels, and about a mile (1.6 km) from the town of Waterloo.
Further reading
Barbero, Alessandro (2005). The Battle: A New History of Waterloo. Atlantic Books.
Dmitry Stepushkin

Dmitry Fyodorovich Stepushkin (; September 3, 1975 - June 30, 2022) was a Russian bobsledder. He won three medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with two silvers (2005, 2008) and a bronze (2003). Stepushkin also competed in three Winter Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Stepushkin was born in Chkalovsk, Russia.
Stepushkin died on June 30, 2022 in Moscow, Russia at the age of 46.
Voiced palatal affricate

The voiced palatal affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but it is in Albanian.
Lion's Club

Lions Clubs International (LCI) is an international non-political service organization founded originally in 1917 in Chicago, Illinois by Melvin Jones. It is now headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. , it had over 48,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members in over 200 countries around the world.
Pechora

Pechora (; Komi: Pechora, Pecora) is a town in the Komi Republic in Russia. It is on the Pechora River and nearby the Ural Mountains.
History
Pechora was founded in 1940 and given town status in 1949. It was used as a gulag in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1953.
Transportation
The town has the Pechora Airport and the Pechora Railway for transportation.
Military
Pechora has a military air base and a radar station nearby.
Climate
Pechora has a subarctic climate (Koppen climate classification Dfc). Winters are very cold while summers are mild.
Lieu-Saint-Amand

Lieu-Saint-Amand is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 1,426 people lived there.
Qanat

A qanat is a series of well-like holes and tunnels dug to reach a natural underground source of water, usually run-off from a mountain. They were (and are) used to provide water in the desert regions of the Middle East. The oldest qanats, found in the region once known as Persia (now known as Iran), are believed to be a couple of thousand years old.
Pāvilosta

Pavilosta is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1991.
1933 Western Australian secession referendum

A secession referendum was held on 8 April 1933 in the Australian state of Western Australia. It said that the state withdraw from the Australian Federation. The proposal won a majority of the votes. However, the British Parliament did not allow it..
Heptagon

A heptagon/septagon/7-gon is a shape with 7 sides and 7 corners.
Regular heptagon
All sides of a regular heptagon are the same length. Each corner is 147.27deg. All corners added together equal 6840deg.
Türkân Akyol

Turkan Akyol (September 12, 1928 - September 7, 2017) was a Turkish politician, physician and academic. She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She served as Minister of State from 1992 through 1995.
Akyol died on 7 September 2017 in Ankara, Turkey of a lung infection at the age of 88.
Gerardo Vera

Gerardo Vera Perales (10 March 194720 September 2020) was a Spanish costume and set designer, opera director, actor, and movie and theatre director. He was born in Madrid. Vera was known for his works in La Celestina (1994) and in Second Skin (2000). He won a Goya Award in 1986.
Vera died on 20 September 2020 in Madrid from COVID-19, aged 73.
Kikuyu

Kikuyu is the largest tribe in Kenya. They are 22% of Kenya's population and are of Bantu ethnicity.
History
There are two theories explaining where the Kikuyu came from. First, it is believed the Kikuyus came from Central Africa, where all the Bantus once lived. They then moved south towards present day Tanzania where the migrating group separated again and the Kikuyus moved towards Mount Kenya, where they settled. The second theory is that they came from a mythical place called Shungwaya, which is present day Somalia.
According to Kikuyu creation stories, Ngai (their God) made a man, called Gikuyu, and his wife, Mumbi, and settled them on Mount Kenya. Gikuyu and Mumbi had nine daughters who form the major groups of the Kikuyu people. Due to the fertile soil on Mount Kenya and the hard work of the Kikuyu people, they grew more than they needed and started trading with their neighbours, the Maasai (a Nilotic tribe). The Kikuyus swapped their farm produce and crops for the animal products from the Maasai, who kept livestock. It is also believed that the Maasai are the ones who married the nine daughters of Gikuyu and Mumbi.
Kikuyu language
Members of the Kikuyu tribe speak the Kikuyu language. The Kikuyu greeting is "Wi mwega?" which means "Are you fine?". There are a few Kikuyu dialects depending on region. Kikuyus from Nyeri, for instance, have other forms of greeting including: "Wakia Maitu" greeting an elderly female, "Wakia Awa" greeting an elderly male, and "Wanyua" for agemates.
The Kikuyu language is also similar to other languages like Meru, Mbeere, and Embu which are believed to have been once part of the Kikuyu tribe but moved away and formed their own tribes. Even though English and Kiswahili are the main languages spoken in Kenya across tribes, the Kikuyu language is still spoken a lot today as a sense of cultural pride.
Hijrah

Hijra (hijra@), or withdrawal, is the word that is used for the movement of Muhammad and most of his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622. The Hijra marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. Alternate spellings of this Arabic word in the Latin alphabet are Hijrah, or Hegira in Latin.
Chronology of the Hijra
Day 1: Thursday 26 Safar AH 1, 9 September 622
Left home in Mecca. Stayed three days in the Cave of Thawr near Mecca.
Day 5: Monday 1 Rabi' I AH 1, 13 September 622
Left the environs of Mecca. Traveled to the region of Yathrib.
Day 12: Monday 8 Rabi' I AH 1, 20 September 622
Arrived at Quba' near Medina.
Day 16: Friday 12 Rabi' I AH 1, 24 September 622
First visit to Medina for Friday prayers.
Day 26: Monday 22 Rabi' I AH 1, 4 October 622
Moved from Quba' to Medina.
The Muslim dates are in the Islamic calendar extended back in time. The Western dates are in the Julian calendar. The Hijra is celebrated annually on 8 Rabi' I, about 66 days after 1 Muharram, the first day of the Muslim year. Many writers confuse the first day of the year of the Hijra with the Hijra itself, erroneously stating that the Hijra occurred on 1 Muharram AH 1 or 16 July 622.
Celestial Navigations

Celestial Navigations is a musical story-telling group. It was started by actor Geoffrey Lewis and musician Geoff Levin. Their performances are Lewis telling a story while electronic music is played to enhance the story. Lewis received a Drama-Logue Award for his performances.
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, was signed by Vyacheslav Molotov (Stalin's Soviet foreign minister) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (Hitler's German foreign minister) on 23 August 1939. The agreement promised that neither the Soviet Union nor Nazi Germany would attack each other.
A secret part established spheres of interest in Eastern Europe, and a border between both countries existed after they had invaded and divided Poland.
Only nine days later, on 1 September 1939, the German invasion of Poland began. On 17 September, the Soviet invasion of Poland began.
About 250,000 to 454,700 Polish soldiers and policemen were captured and interned by the Soviet authorities. About 125,000 were imprisoned in camps run by the NKVD, and 43,000 soldiers born in western Poland, which was under German control, were transferred to the Germans. In turn, the Soviets received 13,575 Polish prisoners from the Germans, which showed how close the co-operation was between the Germans and the Soviets.
On 3 September, France and the United Kingdom declared war soon because both had promised to defend Poland if it was attacked. Since neither of them was ready for war, they did nothing to help Poland for some time, but the Second World War clearly had started on that day.
Hitler later broke the pact in June 1941 by invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. The war would end by the Soviet victory in 1945.
Pierre Rosenberg

Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936 in Paris) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musee du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Academie francaise. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge in 1987.
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was born on November 3, 1718 and died on April 30, 1792 in Great Britain. He is known for the person the sandwich is named after.
New York's 13th congressional district

New York's 13th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. The representative is Democratic congressman Adriano Espaillat. The district is the smallest congressional district in the U.S. Upper Manhattan and parts of the West Bronx are the places the district is in.
Graglia

Graglia is a comune in the Province of Biella in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Midway, Alabama

Midway is a town in the U.S. state of Alabama.
James O. Mason

James Ostermann Mason (June 19, 1930 - October 9, 2019) was an American physician and public health administrator.
Mason was the United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) from 1989 to 1993 and the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to 1990. As the ASH he was also a former four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Mason was also a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Mason served in the church as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative. In 1974, while serving as Church Commissioner for Health Services, Mason wrote a pamphlet for the church titled, "Attitudes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Toward Certain Medical Problems", which expresses the church's views on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality.
Mason died on October 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City at the age of 89.
UCLA Bruins men's basketball

The UCLA Bruins men's basketball team is an American college basketball team. The team plays for the University of California, Los Angeles. The team plays in Division I of the NCAA. The team is in the Pac-12 Conference. The team was made in 1919. As of 2023, it has won 11 NCAA Championships. The Bruins won 10 NCAA Championships from 1964 to 1975. During this time, the team was coached by John Wooden. UCLA will join the Big Ten Conference in 2024.
Dave Strack

Dave Strack (c. 1923 - January 25, 2014) was an American basketball coach and player. He was the former university athletic director for the University of Arizona and head basketball coach of the University of Michigan. He is an inductee of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Strack died on January 25, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan from natural causes, aged 90.
Ramón José Velásquez

Ramon Jose Velasquez Mujica (28 November 1916 - 24 June 2014) was an Venezuelan politician. He served as Acting president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. He was known as a historian, journalist, lawyer, politician and entertainer of companies for his knowledge of the "national life".
In 1993, when president Carlos Andres Perez was impeached, Congress made Velasquez acting president. He served from June 5, 1993 through February 2, 1994.
Velasquez was born on November 28, 1916 in San Juan de Colon, Tachira, Venezuela. He studied at Central University of Venezuela. He married Ligia Betancourt Marino. He moved to Caracas, Venezuela in 1993.
Velasquez died at the age of 97.
101 Dalmatians: The Series

101 Dalmatians is an animated Disney television series. Is based on the 101 Dalmatians movie. The series was originally shown from September 1, 1997 to March 4, 1998 in first run syndication and on ABC's One Saturday Morning lineup. It had a total of 65 episodes.
Main Characters
The main characters in the series are Lucky, Cadpig, Rolly, and Spot. Lucky is the most adventurous of the 99 puppies and is unique in having his only spots in the shape of a horseshoe on his back. Cadpig is another runt of the litter and the smallest of the 99 puppies but quite possibly the most intelligent, if not deluded. She is unique in having long floppy ears, a big head, a kind personality, and she's also quite strong for her size. Rolly is the very hungry one. Almost all his decisions are based on food and this, at times, gets him and the pups into trouble. He is, however, a loyal and helpful sibling, especially when it comes to his incredible sense of smell. Spot is a chicken who wants to become a Dalmatian. She is a voice of reason for the foursome but, more often than not, is ignored. She is easily frightened and is prone to literally bouncing off the walls. She is, however, a good dancer (which has to count for something, according to her) and appears to be good at math. She is also able to fly. Patch appears in the series in his look from the Dodie Smith novel; he appears to be more laid-back unlike his movie counterpart. Dipstick retains a bit of his movie look; he is portrayed as dimwitted but loyal. Wizzer changed quite a bit from his movie look, being smaller and with white ears and a red collar. He follows Mooch's orders without question and is still prone to having accidents as in the live-action movie. Two-Tone changed quite a bit from her movie appearance, now having two black ears, a gold hoop earring in her right ear, a chubby body, a blue collar instead of pink, and a lower black body with white spots. She was Mooch's girlfriend and second in command of his gang until she dated Lucky in "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em." Since then, Two-Tone has gone off on her own.
The main villains in the series are Cruella de Vil and her henchmen, Horace and Jasper. Cruella is now a corporate criminal and most of her plans revolve around getting richer, tormenting the Dalmatians, and plotting to steal the Dearly Farm. Horace and Jasper are usually hired to perform her plans, usually failing.
Other characters include Roger Dearly, Anita Dearly, Nanny, Pongo, Perdita, Mooch, Scorch, the Colonel, Sergeant Tibbs, Captain, Lt. Pug, Thunderbolt, Lucy, Swamp Rat, Steven the alligator, Cydne the snake, and the entire de Vil family.
Paulino Alcántara

Paulino Alcantara Riestra (7 October 1896 - 13 February 1964) was a Spanish Filipino football player and manager who played as a forward. He spent most of his playing career at FC Barcelona and represented Catalonia, the Philippines and Spain internationally.
International goals
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first.
Scores and results list Philippines's goal tally first.
Cento Pittori via Margutta

Associazione Cento Pittori via Margutta, (Rome 22 June 1970), is a cultural and historical association of painters that exhibits as a Cento Pittori via Margutta mainly in Rome, in via Margutta, whose exhibition origins date back to October 1953.
Volumes
Exhibition Catalog, Via Margutta a Testaccio 1987-1988, Associazione Cento Pittori Via Margutta.
Exhibition Catalog, Insieme per la solidarieta, Ospedale S. Giovanni Calibita-Isola Tiberina, Chiostro della Fontana, 14 novembre 2001.
Exhibition Catalog, Omaggio al Pontificio Consiglio Justitia et Pax, 2004.
Exhibition Catalog, I Cento pittori di via Margutta ad H2Roma energy & mobility show, 2010.
Exhibition Catalog, Molte mani un solo cuore per dar vita ad un sogno, Cento Pittori via Margutta; Unione italiana dei Ciechi e degli ipovedenti, 2010.
Dieter Jung

Dieter Jung is a retired fencer from Germany. Jung competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born on 10 October 1940.
Alburnoides prespensis

Alburnoides prespensis is a type of freshwater fish that lives in Greece, North Macedonia and Albania.
Uma Shankar Mishra

Uma Shankar Mishra (1923 - 3 July 2016) was an Indian politician. He was an Indian Independence Movement Activist. He served as President-District Congress Committee Raebareli until his death in 2016. His political party is Indian National Congress. He was born in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.
Mishra died in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on 3 July 2016, aged 93.
Riad Ismat

Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat () (11 July 1947 - 13 May 2020) was a Syrian writer, critic and theatre director. He was Minister of Culture from 3 October 2010 to 23 June 2012 during the Bashar al-Assad presidency. He later moved to Chicago where he taught at Columbia College. He was born in Damascus.
Ismat died on 13 May 2020 in Chicago from COVID-19, aged 72.
Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 - January 15, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter.
Nilsson was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. His paternal grandparents were Swedish.
"Without her" is one of his early hits. This number is nowadays considered one of his standards as Blood, Sweat & Tears did later an jazzy cover on their album. His biggest hits were during the late 1960s and the 1970s. His songs include "Me And My Arrow", "Coconut", "Cuddly Toy", "Spaceman", and "One". "One" was also a hit for the band Three Dog Night. Nilsson's two most famous songs were "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin'". These songs were written by other people. "Without You" has been re-recorded many times by other singers. It was written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. "Everybody's Talkin'" was used in the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy. The song was written by Fred Neil.
Nilsson recorded a tribute to The Beatles on his first album. He used lines from fifteen of their songs in one cover version of "You Can't Do That". Derek Taylor, who worked for the Beatles, sent them copies of the album, and Nilsson became a friend of the band. He later shared a house with John Lennon and Ringo Starr. They worked together on each other's music.
Nilsson also wrote a cartoon movie named The Point!. It was broadcast on ABC. It was about tolerance and diversity. The Point! was later turned into a musical. One production of the musical starred former Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones. The Monkees had recorded two of Nilsson's songs, "Cuddly Toy" and "Daddy's Song", after they met him through producer Chip Douglas.
Nilsson died of heart failure in Agoura Hills, California.
The movie You've Got Mail uses several of Nilsson's songs in its soundtrack.
Loran de Munck

Loran de Munck (born 9 May 1999) is a Dutch artistic gymnast from Haarlem.
He competed at the 2021 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. A year later De Munck won the silver medal at the 2022 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the pommel horse event. It was named as a "historic medal" because never before had a Dutchman won a medal in this event.
Garth Brooks (album)

Garth Brooks is the eponymous debut studio album of American country music artist Garth Brooks, released on April 12, 1989 through Capitol Nashville. It was both a critical and chart success, peaking at #13 on the Billboard 200. On the Top Country Albums chart the album peaked at #2 for eight weeks behind Clint Black's Killin' Time. In 2006 Garth Brooks was certified Diamond by the RIAA for shipments of 10 million copies in the US.
This album contains Brooks' earliest hits, for instance his first ever single, "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)", which peaked at #8 on the Country Billboard Charts in 1989. It put the name of an independent cowboy singer, Chris LeDoux, into the mainstream due to the lyric "The worn out tape of Chris LeDoux" Two other strong starts include his first #1, "If Tomorrow Never Comes" and the Academy of Country Music's 1990 Song of the Year and Video of the Year, "The Dance" (another #1).
Background
Brooks commented on the album, saying:
Track listing
Original Release
"Not Counting You" (Garth Brooks) - 2:30
"I've Got a Good Thing Going" (Larry Bastian, Sandy Mahl, Brooks) - 2:50
"If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Kent Blazy, Brooks) - 3:37
"Everytime That It Rains" (Charley Stefl, Ty England, Brooks) - 4:07
"Alabama Clay" (Larry Cordle, Ronny Scaife) - 3:35
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Brooks) - 2:53
"Cowboy Bill" (Bastian, Ed Berghoff) - 4:28
"Nobody Gets Off in This Town" (Bastian, DeWayne Blackwell) - 2:17
"I Know One" (Jack Clement) - 2:49
"The Dance" (Tony Arata) - 3:37
Limited Series Release
"Not Counting You"
"I've Got a Good Thing Going"
"Uptown Down Home Good Ol' Boy"
"If Tomorrow Never Comes"
"Everytime That It Rains"
"Alabama Clay"
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)"
"Cowboy Bill"
"Nobody Gets Off in This Town"
"I Know One"
"The Dance"
Chart performance
Garth Brooks peaked at #13 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and peaked at #2 on the Top Country Albums.
Charts
Sales and Certifications
Singles
Personnel
Bruce Bouton - steel guitar
Garth Brooks - lead and backing vocals
Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
Mike Chapman - bass
Kathy Chiavola - backing vocals
Rob Hajacos - fiddle
Wendy Johnson - backing vocals
Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar
Jennifer O'Brien - backing vocals
Wayland Patton - backing vocals
Milton Sledge - drums
Hurshel Wiginton - backing vocals
Bobby Wood - keyboards, synthesizer
Trisha Yearwood - backing vocals
Nashville String Machine
Notable covers
Punk rock cover artists Me First and the Gimme Gimmes released a version of 'Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)' as the first track on their October 2006 album Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country.
Torque converter

A torque converter, or torque multiplier, is a device for multiplying torque. It is widely used in transmission systems for road and rail vehicles with internal combustion engines.
Operation
The diagram shows a hydraulic torque converter. It contains two turbines and a stator.
Green = pump turbine, turned by the engine
Blue = stator
Yellow = driven turbine, connected to the wheels of the vehicle
Red = direction of flow of the hydraulic fluid
The driven turbine can deliver high torque at low speed. As the vehicle accelerates, the speed goes up and the torque goes down. This happens automatically, so there is no need for the driver to change gear.
Václav Klaus

Vaclav Klaus (; born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician. He was the 2nd President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. He also served as the second and last Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
His presidency was very controversial because he did not believe in global warming and because of an amnesty he declared on the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Czech Republic. In the amnesty, Klaus forgave many punishments for investigated crimes and stopped the investigation of others.
Early life
Klaus was born in Prague during the Nazi occupation and grew up in the Vinohrady neighborhood. Klaus studied "economics of foreign trade" and graduated from University of Economics in Prague in 1963. He also spent some time at universities in Italy (1966) and at Cornell University. He also studied in the United States in 1969.
He soon obtained a position in the Czechoslovak State Bank. In 1987, Klaus joined the Institute for Prognostics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1995, as Prime Minister, Klaus was awarded the title of Professor of Finance, so he is sometimes addressed as "Mr. Professor". Since that time Klaus occasionally teaches seminars in economics at the University of Economics.
Political career
At a congress 1997, Klaus was confirmed as chairman of the ODS. Klaus was elected President of the Czech Republic on 28 February 2003. He won with a majority of 142 votes out of 281.
Palin

Palin may refer to:
Michael Palin (born 1943), British entertainer, world traveller and television presenter
Sarah Palin (born 1964), American politician
Palin, Arunachal Pradesh, Indian town
You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack is a series of party video games, developed by Jackbox Games (previously known as Jellyvision Games, Inc.) and Berkeley Systems and also published by Sierra On-Line, as well as the first original video game of the same name. Oh did you know, You Don't Know Jack was adapted into a game show too, "where high culture and pop culture collide", combines between trivia and comedy.
Georges Sarre

Georges Sarre (26 November 1935 - 31 January 2019) was a French politician. He was born in Chenerailles, Creuse. He was the leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement. He was elected MEP in the 1979 European elections and was elected to the French National Assembly for Paris in 1981.
Sarre died on 31 January 2019 in Paris from coronary artery disease, aged 83.
Avant-garde

Avant-garde (pronounced ) in French means "front guard", "advance guard", or "vanguard". The term is commonly used in French, English, and German for people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly in the areas of art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde represents a going against what is accepted as the norm, especially in culture.
Fort William, Ontario

Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario. It was on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Ever since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern Ontario.
Färila

Farila is a locality in Ljusdal Municipality in Gavleborg County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,293 people lived there. Farila is in a valley next to the river of Ljusnan.
Get on the Bus

"Get on the Bus" was the third single from girl group Destiny's Child. The song featured rapper/producer Timbaland and is lifted from the original motion picture soundtrack of Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998). It was the second single to be lifted from the soundtrack following Melanie B's debut single, "I Want You Back". Produced by Timbaland, it peaked at number twelve on the UK and Netherlands charts, and at number sixty on the German chart. The single was not commercially released in the U.S. and other major markets, It did receive some minor US Urban radio airplay, peaking at #58 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. The music video was directed by Earle Sebastian.
Track listing
"Get on the Bus" (radio version) (featuring Timbaland)
"Get on the Bus" (radio edit without rap)
"Illusions" (Destiny Club Mix)
Credits and personnel
Lead vocals: Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland
Vocal production - Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Timbaland
Charts
Hoary bat

The hoary bat (Aeorestes cinereus) is a type of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found throughout most of North America and much of South America. It is also found in the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii.
Description
The hoary bat is 13 to 14.5 cm (5.1 to 5.7 in) long. It has a wingspan of 40 cm (15.5 in). It weighs 26 g (0.92 oz). Its fur is dense and dark brown, with white tips to the hairs. The body is covered in fur except for the undersides of the wings. Males and females are sexually dimorphic in body mass.
Behaviour
It normally roosts alone on trees. But sometimes, it has been seen in caves with other bats. It prefers woodland, mainly coniferous forests, but hunts over open areas or lakes. It hunts alone and it mainly eats moths. The bats can travel 39 km (24 mi) while foraging. In the winter, they live in Central America and the southwestern United States. In the spring and summer, they live in the United States and Canada.
Reproduction
The reproductive cycle of the hoary bat is not yet fully understood. But, it is thought that they mate in August. It is also thought that they give birth in June of the following year. It is thought that the gestation period is only 40 days. It gives birth to one pup, or sometimes twins. The young ones stay with the mother for a month before leaving.
Man-in-the-middle attack

A Man-in-the-middle attack is a form of attack on cryptography or communication systems where two parties who want to talk to each other pass their messages through a third. In the attack, the third party can read the messages, change their contents, withhold or insert new messages.
In the attack, the messages received by either end seem to be legitimate and from the correct source.
In cryptography, this is often a problem with key distribution, and gave rise to public key cryptography.
Jovençan

Jovencan is a comune in the Aosta Valley region in Italy.
Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model (series 9)

Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model, Cycle 9 is the ninth season of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model. This cycle includes 14 contestants.
Nystagmus

Nystagmus, often called "dancing eyes", is an eye condition which causes uncontrolled, rapid, jerky, movement of the eyes, usually from side to side, but sometimes up and down or in a circular motion. Most people with nystagmus have poor vision. It causes problems in education, employment and many social situations. Nystagmus cannot be fixed by spectacles or contact lenses, although many people with nystagmus wear glasses or contact lenses to correct other eye problems.
Causes of Nystagmus
There are two types of Nystagmus. The first is Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome (INS) which some people have at birth. The second type is known as acquired nystagmus which has a number of causes including:
Alcohol
Drugs, especially sedatives
Head injury
Inner ear problems like labyrinthitis or Meniere's disease
Thiamine deficiency
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Diseases that can affect the brain's control of the eyes such as a tumor, or multiple sclerosis.
Features of nystagmus
People with nystagmus do not normally see the world as moving, but they do occasionally.
They have poor distance vision, but most have good close vision.
Nystagmus is not painful.
Between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 2000 people have nystagmus.
Nystagmus can be hereditary, but it can also be a result of something else.
Most people with nystagmus can see well enough to drive an automobile
Nystagmus does not get worse with age.
Treatments and research
There are currently no cures for nystagmus, but UK Nystagmus Network supports and encourages medical and other research into this complex condition. Research is ongoing with a number of universities leading the way.
Blouse

A blouse is a dress shirt for women that fits loosely. In the past, men, women, and children wore blouses. These loose shirts often had a belt or tie at the waist.
Kenny Albert

Kenny Albert (born February 2, 1968) is a sportscaster employed by MSG and Fox Sports. Kenny is the son of Marv Albert, a veteran basketball announcer.
Early work
In the 1990s, he was the voice of the Baltimore Skipjacks in the American Hockey League and the Washington Capitals in the NHL. He also called college basketball games for ESPN Plus and part-time games for the Washington Bullets. Albert was also the lead voice for NHL Radio. He also worked on Westwood One with Marv Albert, his dad, as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football.
FOX Sports
He does NFL games for Fox and also called NHL games for Fox. He also called BCS games on Fox, mainly the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl and the 2011 Cotton Bowl Classic. Albert also works on occasional Major League Baseball games on Fox and does the same role when MLB television was picked up by Fox Sports 1.
Turner Sports
Starting in 2012, Albert began calling select NBA games for TNT.
MSG Network
Albert is also employed by MSG. He is the radio voice of the New York Rangers and calls select games for the New York Knicks. He also called high school basketball, college basketball, and games for New York Liberty.
Other work
Albert calls Washington Redskins preseason with Joe Theismann. He also filled in for TV coverage for the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles. He called Ice Hockey at the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics and called NHL games for OLN, Versus, NBC, and NBC Sports Network.
Chassé, Sarthe

Chasse is a former commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France. Since 2015, it became a part of the new commune of Villeneuve-en-Perseigne.