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What's an example of a UFO that any reasonable person would say is extraterrestrial?

UFO sightings in outer space are sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by astronauts while in space that they could not explain at the time. The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by extraterrestrial intelligence or non-human aliens, or non-occupied alien probes from other planets visiting Earth. ==Etymology== Origins of the term extraterrestrial hypothesis are unknown, but use in printed material on UFOs seems to date to at least the latter half of the 1960s. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for alien visits by ufologists. An extraterrestrial or alien is any extraterrestrial lifeform; a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. *David Icke *James E. McDonald *Fermi paradox *Giorgio A. Tsoukalos *Interdimensional hypothesis *Murry Hope *Psychosocial hypothesis *Robert K. G. Temple *Zecharia Sitchin ==References== ==External links== Category:Pseudoscience Category:Extraterrestrial life Category:Ufology Category:20th-century neologisms *[ETH]: extraterrestrial hypothesis This goes counter to the predictions of supporters of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, even causing a crisis of confidence among some within the informal UFO research community. ===Involvement of scientists=== The scientific community has shown very little support for the ETH, and has largely accepted the explanation that reports of UFOs are the result of people misinterpreting common objects or phenomena, or are the work of hoaxers. :"Over the past 20 years a vast amount of evidence has been accumulating that bears on the existence of UFOs. Ufology ( ) is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). The sentiment in the scientific community about the extraterrestrial hypothesis in relation to UFO reports and data shifted substantially after serious news reports about the topic by large media outlets within the U.S. and Canada and a public debate including former and present public servants in anticipation of a report by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. An example of an extraterrestrial explanation at the time was a 1909 letter to a New Zealand newspaper suggesting "atomic powered spaceships from Mars."Jerome Clark, The UFO Book, 1998, 199-200 From the 1920s, the idea of alien visitation in space ships was commonplace in popular comic strips and radio and movie serials, such as Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. The word extraterrestrial means "outside Earth". It's in this sense that ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) stands as the 'least implausible' explanation of 'real UFOs'."David Saunders, UFOs? "A Skeptical Perspective on UFO Abductions". This is a list of alleged extraterrestrial beings that have been reported in close encounters, claimed or speculated to be associated with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) (not to be confused with the meaning of the term "alien species" in the biological science of ecology). ==List== Flatwoods monster Tall humanoid with a spade-shaped head. Each of these extremes is a serious impediment to the study of UFOs."Sagan Carl, Page Thornton (1972), "UFOs: A Scientific Debate". In 1969 physicist Edward Condon defined the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" or "ETH" as the "idea that some UFOs may be spacecraft sent to Earth from another civilization or space other than Earth, or on a planet associated with a more distant star," while presenting the findings of the much debated Condon Report. #UFOs are isolated in time and space: like the Cheshire Cat, they seem to appear and disappear at will, leaving only vague, ambiguous and mocking evidence of their presence #Reported UFOs are often far too small to support a crew traveling through space, and their reported flight behavior is often not representative of a craft under intelligent control (erratic flight patterns, sudden course changes). While there are instances of government, private, and fringe science investigations of UFOs, ufology is generally regarded by skeptics and science educators as a canonical example of pseudoscience. ==Etymology== Ufology is a neologism derived from UFO (a term apparently coined by Edward J. Ruppelt), and is derived from appending the acronym UFO with the suffix -logy (from the Ancient Greek -λογία (-logia)). David Morrison.Morrison David, Senior Scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute (June 2006), Ask an Astrobiologist , (October 2006) :"As far as I know, no claims of UFOs as being alien craft have any validity -- the claims are without substance, and certainly not proved". *Jean-Jacques Velasco, the head of the official French UFO investigation SEPRA, wrote a book in 2005, saying, that 14% of the 5800 cases studied by SEPRA were 'utterly inexplicable and extraterrestrial' in origin.Velasco quoted in La Dépêche du Midi, Toulouse, France, April 18, 2004 However, the CNES own report says 28% of sightings remain unidentifed.CNES report, March 26, 2007 Yves Sillard, the head of the new official French UFO investigation GEIPAN and former head of French space agency CNES, echoes Velasco's comments and adds, that the United States 'is guilty of covering up this information.' Along with such "pro-UFO" groups are skeptic organizations that emphasize the pseudoscientific nature of ufology. The results were: 23% An unfamiliar natural phenomenon 22% A familiar phenomenon or device 21% An unfamiliar terrestrial device 12% Hoax 9% An unknown natural phenomenon 7% Some specifiable other cause 3% An alien device 3% Some unspecified other cause The primary scientific arguments against ETH were summarized by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek during a presentation at the 1983 MUFON Symposium, where he outlined seven key reasons why he could not accept the ETH.Hynek, J. Allen (1983), "The case against ET", in Walter H. Andrus, Jr., and Dennis W. Stacy (eds), MUFON UFO Symposium # Failure of sophisticated surveillance systems to detect incoming or outgoing UFOs # Gravitational and atmospheric considerations # Statistical considerations # Elusive, evasive and absurd behavior of UFOs and their occupants # Isolation of the UFO phenomenon in time and space: the Cheshire Cat effect # The space unworthiness of UFOs # The problem of astronomical distances Hynek argued that: #Despite worldwide radar systems and Earth-orbiting satellites, UFOs are alleged to flit in and out of the atmosphere, leaving little to no evidence.

The Mantell UFO is extraterrestrial in origin

Any reasonable person would say that many UFOs are extraterrestrial

Any reasonable person would say the Mantell UFO is extraterrestrial

The O'Hare Airport UFO is extraterrestrial in origin

No UFO has been demonstrated scientifically demonstrated to be extraterrestrial in origin

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What UFO report was later proved to involve aliens?

“Hardcore” cases—well-documented events which defied any conceivable conventional explanation—made up only 1.5% of the reports. === Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 === Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 was compiled between 1951 and 1954, and included 3201 reported UFO sightings. * List of alleged extraterrestrial beings – A list of entities reported in conjunction with UFOs and believed by witnesses to be alien in origin, unrelated to astrobiology or xenobiology. In early U.S. Air Force attempts to explain UFO sightings, unexplained sightings routinely numbered over one in five reports. This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States. This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) arranged by date. * List of UFO religions * List of investigations of UFOs by governments * List of UFO organizations – Private organizations that investigate UFO sightings. According to Eghigian, "fears of Zeppelins, rockets and drones have replaced the “celestial wonders” of ancient times", and "affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads".How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times | Smithsonian Magazine According to sociologist David L. Miller, experts such as Neil Smelser and Orrin Klapp attribute many UFO sightings to social contagion or mass hysteria, and as an overall cause of the UFO phenomenon. == References == * Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings, 1979, Doubleday & Co., * Philip Plait, Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax", 2002 John Wiley & Sons, . This list is not an endorsement of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, the psychosocial hypothesis, the interdimensional hypothesis, the field of ufology in general, or UFO religions. Nevertheless, most officially investigated UFO sightings, such as from the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, have been identified as being due to honest misidentifications of natural phenomena, aircraft, or other prosaic explanations. Kecksburg UFO incident The Kecksburg UFO incident of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, occurred on December 9, 1965. This is a list of government-sponsored investigations or reports related to UFOs. == Brazil == * Operação Prato == Canada == * Project Magnet == France == * GEPAN / SEPRA / GEIPAN == Soviet Union == * Institute 22 == United Kingdom == * Flying Saucer Working Party * Project Condign == United States == * Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program * Roswell UFO incident * Brookings Report * Condon Committee * Estimate of the Situation * Project Blue Book * Project Grudge * Project Serpo * Project Sign * Project Silver Bug * Robertson Panel * All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) ==External links== * Cia CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 — Central Intelligence Agency * Canada Canada's UFOs: The search for the unknown * University of Colorado UCB Libraries | Government Publications Library | UFOs * UK National Archives The National Archives - Homepage Category:UFO-related lists UFOs that can be explained are sometimes termed "IFOs" or Identified Flying Objects. == UFO studies == The following are some major studies undertaken during the past 70+ years that reported on identification of UFOs: * Project Sign Project Sign lists that "in order to investigate the credibility of their existence the following factors must be considered in any technical analysis":https://archive.org/details/ProjectSIGN Method of support (lift) 1\. * Extraterrestrial hypothesis – The proposal that UFO sightings are observations of physical craft piloted by biological aliens from another planet. Of these, 22% were classified as unidentified (“true UFOs”). What would later be called UFOs were reported before the 1947 flying saucer craze. *The Pentagon UFO Report, (or colloquially known as the Pentagon UFO Report) is a United States federally mandated assessment summarizing information regarding unidentified flying objects (UFOs), also known as unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAPs). The CIA released a report indicating that many UFO reports in the 1950s were classified aircraft like the SR-71 and U-2. Roswell UFO incident The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in early July 1947 which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. ==See also== * List of hoaxes * Photograph of Petit-Rechain ==Footnotes== ==References== * * Jacobs, David Michael; The UFO Controversy In America; Indiana University Press, 1975 Hoaxes UFO Many of the objects were reported as meteorology or espionage balloons. == By location == The lists below contain UFO reports mentioned above along with less notable UFO reports from the specific areas. == See also == * Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze – A sortable table of the hundreds of 1947 flying disc sightings. Their story, commonly called the Hill Abduction and occasionally the Zeta Reticuli Incident, was the first widely publicized UFO abduction report. The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings, published by The National Archives in 2009, is an official history of British UFO reports.Take me to your gizmos: MoD in bid for alien tech, Sunday Times review, September 2009 The author, David Clarke, is a senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University.

No UFO report has been proven to involve aliens

The Kecksburg UFO has been proven to involve aliens

Roswell UFO

The Roswell UFO has been proven to involve aliens

The Mantell UFO has been proven to involve aliens

A

What do even scientists grudgingly acknowledge about crystals and energy?

Practitioners of crystal healing believe they can boost low energy, prevent bad energy, release blocked energy, and transform a body's aura. Energy, as a scientific term, is a very well- defined concept that is readily measurable and bears little resemblance to the esoteric concept of energy used by proponents of crystal healing. "There is no scientific evidence that crystal healing has any effect. Paradoxically, practitioners also "hold the view that crystals have no intrinsic qualities but that, instead, their quality changes according to both" participants. Prometheus Books. ==External links== *Crystal Healing: Stone-cold Facts About Gemstone Treatments – LiveScience * Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? at The New Republic *James Randi debunks Crystal Power Category:Energy therapies Category:Pseudoscience Category:Crystals Category:Supernatural healing Category:Gemstones in culture Crystal healing effects could also be attributed to confirmation bias (which occurs when the believers want the practice to be true and see only things that back up that desire). Practitioners of crystal healing purport that certain physical properties such as shape, color, and markings, determine the ailments that a stone can heal; lists of such links are published in commonly distributed texts. In 2001 Christopher French, head of the anomalistic psychology research unit at the University of London and colleagues from Goldsmiths College outlined their study of crystal healing at the British Psychological Society Centenary Annual Conference, concluding: "There is no evidence that crystal healing works over and above a placebo effect." In 1999, researchers French and Williams conducted a study to investigate the power of crystals compared with a placebo. Scientific investigations have found no evidence that such "energy grids" actually exist, and there is no evidence that crystal healing has any greater effect upon the body than any other placebo. Crystal healing proponents and 5G conspiracy theorists have falsely alleged the pseudoscientific and misinformational belief that shungite may absorb 5G radiation. ==See also== *Color healing *Energy medicine *Magnet therapy *List of topics characterized as pseudoscience ==References== ==Further reading== *Lawrence E. Jerome. (1989). Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Where the practice is popular, it fosters commercial demand for crystals, which can result in environmental damage and exploitative child labor to mine the crystals. ==History== ===Origins=== In Plato's account of Atlantis, crystal healing is also mentioned. The Ancient Greeks assigned a multitude of properties to crystals. Pleasant feelings or the apparent successes of crystal healing can be attributed to the placebo effect or cognitive bias—a believer wanting it to be true." Crystals or gemstones were also used in practice, for their metaphysical properties. In contrast with other forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), participants in crystal healing view the practice as "individuated", that is dependent on extreme personalization and creative expression. Energies is a biweekly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal. In one method, the practitioner places crystals on different parts of the body, often corresponding to chakras; or else the practitioner places crystals around the body in an attempt to construct an energy grid, which is purported to surround the client with healing energy. The Seligman Crystal is an award of the International Glaciological Society. Many of the participants reported feeling typical "crystal effects"; however, this was irrespective of whether the crystals were real or placebo. Alleged successes of crystal healing can be attributed to the placebo effect.

Scientists acknowledge that crystals can boost energy

Scientists do not acknowledge that crystals have healing powers

Scientists acknowledge that crystals have healing powers

Scientists acknowledge that crystals create an energy grid

Scientists acknowledge that crystals prevent bad energy

B

If the stock market has gone up in value over the last twenty years, what do we know will happen in the next twenty years?

The 2022 stock market decline was an economic event involving a decline in stock markets globally. In the United States, the stock market decline was associated with a bear market which is considered to have begun on January 3, 2022, and to have ended on October 22, 2022; within months, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite, and the S&P; 500 entered the bull market in November 2022, May 2023, and June 2023 respectively. The price of cryptocurrencies like the aforementioned Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged in June 2022 (the former of which suffered another decline) as investors moved their money out of risky assets. == References == Category:2022 in economics Category:Stock market crashes Accordingly, changes in the stock price reflect release of new information, changes in the market generally, or random movements around the value that reflects the existing information set. They seek to determine possibilities of future stock price movement largely based on trends of the past price (a form of time series analysis). There are some basic assumptions used in this analysis, first being that everything significant about a company is already priced into the stock, other being that the price moves in trends and lastly that history (of prices) tends to repeat itself which is mainly because of the market psychology. ===Machine learning=== With the advent of the digital computer, stock market prediction has since moved into the technological realm. The 2015–2016 stock market selloff was the period of decline in the value of stock prices globally that occurred between June 2015 to June 2016. Stock market prediction is the act of trying to determine the future value of a company stock or other financial instrument traded on an exchange. The successful prediction of a stock's future price could yield significant profit. The 2020s commodities boom refers to the rise of many commodity prices in the early 2020s following the COVID-19 pandemic. Like all dynamic systems, financial markets operate in an ever-changing equilibrium, which translates into price volatility. During the same period, ETFs that provide exposure to emerging markets such as VWO, IEMG, and EEM are all down more than 15% since the start of 2022. === Effects on cryptocurrency === As part of the global decline in most risky assets, the price of Bitcoin fell 59% during the same time period, and it declined 72% from its November 8th all-time high. As of January 3, 2023, the S&P; 500 index fell 20% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 35% from their all time highs. A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when market participants drive stock prices above their value in relation to some system of stock valuation. As the United States gross domestic product shrank in the first quarter of 2022, fears of an economic recession contributed to the decline in equity prices. On June 13, 2022, the MSCI ACWI index, which tracks stock prices from both emerging and developed markets, officially slipped into a bear market, falling 21% from a mid-November peak. == Effects == === Effects on the United States === The S&P; 500 index peaked at 4,796 on its January 3 close and had since been on a downward trend for several months. The stock market decline has had a serious negative impact on economies throughout the world. In June 2022, the Alibaba Group's (NYSE: BABA) share price declined from a peak of over US$300 in mid-2020 to below US$100. === Effects on emerging markets === Emerging markets were hit by the worst sell-off in decades. The Nasdaq Composite fell 70 points, the FTSE 100 fell 65 points and the Nikkei 225 fell 362 points. ===Stock market performance in late September 2015=== World stock markets continued to fall in late September, with the DJIA down to 16,004 by September 29, 2015. The Associated Press called the sudden worldwide stock market decline a stock market crash. This, coupled with other stocks (FTSE100, Hang Seng Index, Nikkei) falling the same or more, set the stage for billions to be lost. ===Stock market performance on January 20, 2016=== On January 20, 2016, due to crude oil falling below $27 a barrel, the DJIA closed down 249 points after falling 565 points intraday. What fundamental analysis in the stock market is trying to achieve, is finding out the true value of a stock, which then can be compared with the value it is being traded with on stock markets and therefore finding out whether the stock on the market is undervalued or not.

The stock market will go down

The stock market keeps going up

The stock market could either rise or fall in value

The stock market values will stay the same

We know prices will rise

C

If bitcoin has gone up in value over the last twenty years, what do we know will happen in the next twenty years?

In early 2021, Bitcoin's price witnessed another boom, rising over 700% since March 2020, and reaching above $40,000 for the first time on 7 January. After an unprecedented boom in 2017, the price of Bitcoin fell by about 65% from 6 January to 6 February 2018. By the end of 2021, Bitcoin had fallen nearly 30% from its peak down to $47,686.81 and Ethereum had fallen about 23% to $3,769.70. Bitcoin reached a low of around $3,100 in December 2018. ==== Timeline of the crash ==== *17 December 2017: Bitcoin's price briefly reaches a new all-time high of $19,783.06. *22 December 2017: Bitcoin falls below $11,000, a fall of 45% from its peak. *12 January 2018: Amidst rumors that South Korea could be preparing to ban trading in cryptocurrency, the price of Bitcoin depreciates by 12 percent. *26 January 2018: Coincheck, Japan's largest cryptocurrency OTC market, is hacked. In November 2018, the total market capitalization for Bitcoin fell below $100 billion for the first time since October 2017, and the price of Bitcoin fell below $4,000, representing an 80 percent decline from its peak the previous January. In June 2011, bitcoin's price again rose, to . The price of cryptocurrencies like the aforementioned Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged in June 2022 (the former of which suffered another decline) as investors moved their money out of risky assets. == References == Category:2022 in economics Category:Stock market crashes In November 2020, Bitcoin again surpassed its previous all-time high of over $19,000. By 19 May, Bitcoin had dropped in value by 30% to $31,000, Ethereum by 40%, and Dogecoin by 45%. The price then fell to that November. === 2013 boom and 2014–15 crash === In November 2013, Bitcoin's price rose to . By October 2020, Bitcoin was worth approximately $13,200. On Wednesday, 20 October 2021, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $66,974. She promised to help "fight scams and shit coins". === 2020–2022 cryptocurrency bubble === ==== 2020–2021 bubbles ==== From 8 to 12 March 2020, the price of Bitcoin fell by 30 percent from $8,901 to $6,206. After another surge on 3 January 2021 with $34,792.47, Bitcoin crashed by 17 percent the next day. A wave of layoffs from other crypto agencies accompanies this, including from Crypto.com and Coinbase. 13 June Tron's algorithmic stablecoin, USDD, loses its peg to the US dollar. 17 June * Bitcoin dips below $20,000 for the first time since December 2020 and Ethereum falls below $1,000 for the first time since January 2021. By 26 November, Bitcoin also fell by 80% from its peak, having lost almost one-third of its value in the previous week. Since bottoming out after the covid crash in 2020, Bitcoin had grown over 1,200% in value while Ethereum had grown over 4,000% in value while the NASDAQ had only grown around 134%. During the same period, ETFs that provide exposure to emerging markets such as VWO, IEMG, and EEM are all down more than 15% since the start of 2022. === Effects on cryptocurrency === As part of the global decline in most risky assets, the price of Bitcoin fell 59% during the same time period, and it declined 72% from its November 8th all-time high. Bitcoin falls 15% the following day to nearly $22,500 and Ethereum falls to $1,200. The prices have peaked and are falling in 2022. thumb|center|Diesel #2 Heating oil price ==Electricity== Electricity prices rose in the United States through 2021 and 2022 mostly from the increase in natural gas prices which makes up the 35% of electricity generated in the United States ==Lithium== thumb|300px|Lithium prices The price of lithium carbonate started to rise in 2021 after slumping in 2020 and peaked in early 2022 close to $80,000 per ton. Adherents of this view include Berkshire Hathaway board member Warren Buffett and several laureates of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, central bankers, and investors. == History == === 2011 booms and crashes === In February 2011, the price of bitcoin rose to , then fell to that April. It then gradually declined, bottoming out at in January 2015. === 2017 boom and 2018 crash === The 2018 cryptocurrency crash (also known as the Bitcoin crash and the Great crypto crash) was the sell-off of most cryptocurrencies starting in January 2018.

We know prices will rise

bitcoin keeps going up

Bitcoin could either rise or fall in value

The price will not change at all

Nothing

C

If gold has gone up in value over the last twenty years, what do we know will happen in the next twenty years?

This affected the supply of Rhodium causing the price to increase. ==Gold== thumb|300px|Price of gold 1915-2022 Gold started to increase in price at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as stocks sunk initially; gold is commonly seen as a safe haven from inflation and stock volatility. New Gold produced 95,000 ounces of gold from the mine each year until it was sold in 2018. The Gold Age was launched in 1999 and closed down by regulators in 2006. ==Background== Gold Age was used to buy and sell and trade the following digital gold currencies: e-gold, e-Bullion, and 1mdc. The 2020s commodities boom refers to the rise of many commodity prices in the early 2020s following the COVID-19 pandemic. While it was a locally unpopular project due to impacts on water resources and heritage sites, New Gold continued its operations, having produced between 100,000 and 140,000 ounces of gold annually until it began winding down operations in 2016 and closing completely in 2017. The prices have peaked and are falling in 2022. thumb|center|Diesel #2 Heating oil price ==Electricity== Electricity prices rose in the United States through 2021 and 2022 mostly from the increase in natural gas prices which makes up the 35% of electricity generated in the United States ==Lithium== thumb|300px|Lithium prices The price of lithium carbonate started to rise in 2021 after slumping in 2020 and peaked in early 2022 close to $80,000 per ton. Gold crossed the $2,000 mark for the first time in August 2020 and again in March 2022. ==Iron ore== 450px|Iron Ore price 2010-2022 275px|Iron ore prices 1992-2022 China is the number one consumer of iron ore, importing 80% of all internationally traded iron ore. Gold points was a term which referred to the rates of foreign exchange likely to cause movements of gold between countries adhering to the gold standard. ==Application== In accordance with the law of supply and demand, the concept determined that the fluctuating limits of currency fixed the cost of money between the place where the bill was drawn and that in where it was payable. Between 2013 and 2019 the mine produced between 69,000 and 105,000 ounces of gold each year. Gold Age's fees for exchanging fiat currency into digital gold currency ranged from 4 percent to 1.75 percent, depending on the amount exchanged and if the client was an Inner Circle Member. The Gold Age was a digital currency exchange and one of the first independent e-gold exchanges. thumb|upright=2|Biogeochemical cycle of gold showing major reservoirs and fluxes of gold in the environment. Despite the low-grade of the mineral deposit, the mine produced between 107,000 and 170,000 ounces of gold each year. ==Carbon footprint== New Gold reported Total CO2e emissions (Direct + Indirect) for 31 December 2020 at 164 Kt. Gold is a noble transition metal that is highly mobile in the environment and subject to biogeochemical cycling, driven largely by microorganisms. The price of cryptocurrencies like the aforementioned Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged in June 2022 (the former of which suffered another decline) as investors moved their money out of risky assets. == References == Category:2022 in economics Category:Stock market crashes In that same timeframe, New Gold also produced between 1.1 and 2.1 million ounces of silver each year from the Cerro San Pedro mine and between 8 and 15 million pounds of copper annually from the Peak Mine. During that same timeframe, New Gold also produced between 1.3 and 1.9 million ounces of silver each year mostly from the Cerro San Pedro mine and between 42 and 102 million pounds of copper annually from the New Afton and Peak mines. The gold cycle is the biogeochemical cycling of gold through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The COVID-19 recession initially made commodity prices drop, but lockdowns, supply chain bottlenecks, and dovish monetary policy limited supply and created excess demand causing a commodity super cycle rise. Today, gold exists primarily as electrum, in hard rock deposits like tellurides, and as particles in placers in Earth's crust. Gold undergoes processes of solubilization, stabilization, bioreduction, biomineralization, aggregation, and ligand utilization throughout its cycle. It quickly became their best producing mine with 227,000 ounces of gold produced in 2018 and 253,000 ounces in 2019. ==Corporate history== New Gold Inc was the result of a merger in July 2008 of three companies (New Gold, Peak Gold, Metallica Resources) in various stages of developing and operating gold mines in North and South America and in Australia.

Gold could either rise or fall in value

We know prices will rise

If gold has gone up in value over the last twenty years, it will rise in the next twenty years

Gold values will stay the same

Gold will go down

A

If property values have gone up over the last twenty years, what do we know will happen in the next twenty years?

Initially there is much speculation about how price growth will continue, but later in the Boom the media turns its attention to the reduced affordability of property * There is a lot of discussion about how this Boom will never end i.e. "it is different this time" and expectations that there will be no subsequent Slump phase ===Slump=== The Slump phase typically commences a lengthy period of time (often years) before most people realise the property market is in the Slump phase, as there is a delay between the shifting trends of the "Key Drivers" and the impacts that are evidenced in the property market. Since then, several comparable countries have experienced property crashes. ==Rising house prices== All capital cities have seen strong increases in property prices since about 1998. The following is an overview only of some of the elements evident in each of the property cycles phases. ===Boom=== When the Boom phase commences most people fail to believe the Boom will last and think it is just a short term anomaly because they do not have the context of understanding the property cycle. What is observed during the Boom phase includes: * Rents rise to levels which place significant financial pressure on tenants * The time it takes for a property to sell after being listed for sale reduces markedly * Property prices rise * Yields fall as prices rise proportionally more than rents rise * There are few mortgagee/forced sales * Property finance is easy to obtain and there are a number of new lending products making borrowing easier * People borrow against their increased house values and spend this money on consumer items (TVs, boats, holidays, cars, etc.) In contrast to popular opinion property values do not necessarily fall during a Slump, values may simply stall for a lengthy period. thumb|Property Cycle Clock A property cycle is a sequence of recurrent events reflected in demographic, economic and emotional factors that affect supply and demand for property subsequently influencing the property market. A real estate trend is any consistent pattern or change in the general direction of the real estate industry which, over the course of time, causes a statistically noticeable change. What is observed during the Recovery phase includes: * Increased rents and cash flows * The length of time to sell a property reduces * Property prices begin to increase * Much confusion in the media reigns about whether recent property value growth is sustainable * Many potential property purchasers delay buying because they evidenced value falls or a slow market in the preceding slump. ==See also== *Real Estate Economics *Law of rent *Housing bubbleKieran Trass, The Housing Bubble (Penguin Books, 2008, ) ==References== * Category:Real estate industry What is observed during the Slump phase includes: * Increased vacancies of rental properties * Reduced cash flow for investors * Property price growth stagnates and/or property values fall * The length of time to sell a property increases markedly * Increased number of mortgagee/forced sales * Property finance is more difficult to obtain * There is much "doom and gloom" about property values being too high in the media * Many property investors experience lower cash flow and sell down their property portfolios to some degree, or completely. ===Recovery=== The recovery phase is always much shorter than the slump or boom phases. It is widely recognised that property (along with other forms of investment) follows a predictable cycle. The property cycle has three recognised recurring phases of boom, slump, and recovery. If housing wealth stops rising ... the effect on the world's economy could be depressing indeed". Ever since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, property markets have greatly developed through the years. Since 2012 prices have once again risen strongly relative to incomes and rents. A decade later, the Asian economy has been stabilized, and has allowed the property market to advance. Prices of real estate then adjusted downwards in late 2006, causing a loss of market liquidity and subprime defaults. As mentioned in Econned, by Yves Smith Also in 2005, economist Fred Harrison commented: "The next property market tipping point is due at end of 2007 or early 2008... The slump is usually the longest phase in the property cycle. * October - Macquarie Bank, a major Australian investment bank forecasted an end to property prices with "quarter-on-quarter house prices to fall from the March 2016 quarter before beginning to recover from June 2017, with a 7.5 per cent fall from peak to trough". Eventually it will take the stock market and corporate > profit. The RBA believe that most of the recent rise in property prices since the 1980s, when interest rates have decreased from medium term record highs to record lows, as a transmission mechanism to generate the wealth effect and stimulate the economy. Source ABS The Australian property bubble is the economic theory that the Australian property market has become or is becoming significantly overpriced and due for a significant downturn (also called a correction or collapse).

Property keeps going up

Nothing

Property could either rise or fall in value

Property values will stay the same

Property will go down

C

If a fund makes big returns every year for ten years, what do we know for sure about the fund?

In other words, the investors are saying more or less that the fund returns may not be what their actual account returns are, based upon the actual investment account transaction history. Performance is usually quantified by a fund's total return. The return over the five-year period for such an investor would be ($19.90 + $5.78) / $14.21 − 1 = 80.72%, and the arithmetic average rate of return would be 80.72%/5 = 16.14% per year. ==See also== * Annual percentage yield * Average for a discussion of annualization of returns * Capital budgeting * Compound annual growth rate * Compound interest * Dollar cost averaging * Economic value added * Effective annual rate * Effective interest rate * Expected return * Holding period return * Internal rate of return * Modified Dietz method * Net present value * Rate of profit * Return of capital * Return on assets * Return on capital * Returns (economics) * Simple Dietz method * Time value of money * Time-weighted return * Value investing * Yield ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== * A. A. Groppelli and Ehsan Nikbakht. Annualizing a return over a period of less than one year might be interpreted as suggesting that the rest of the year is most likely to have the same rate of return, effectively projecting that rate of return over the whole year. In the 1990s, many different fund companies were advertising various total returns—some cumulative, some averaged, some with or without deduction of sales loads or commissions, etc. This is because an annualized rate of return over a period of less than one year is statistically unlikely to be indicative of the annualized rate of return over the long run, where there is risk involved. Investors and other parties are interested to know how the investment has performed over various periods of time. As another example, a two-year return of 10% converts to an annualized rate of return of 4.88% = ((1+0.1)(12/24) − 1), assuming reinvestment at the end of the first year. This means if reinvested, earning 1% return every month, the return over 12 months would compound to give a return of 12.7%. Reinvestment rates or factors are based on total distributions (dividends plus capital gains) during each period. ====Average annual total return (geometric)==== US mutual funds are to compute average annual total return as prescribed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in instructions to form N-1A (the fund prospectus) as the average annual compounded rates of return for 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods (or inception of the fund if shorter) as the "average annual total return" for each fund. The following formula is used: \mathrm {P \left( 1 + T \right) ^ n = ERV} Where: P = a hypothetical initial payment of $1,000 T = average annual total return n = number of years ERV = ending redeemable value of a hypothetical $1,000 payment made at the beginning of the 1-, 5-, or 10-year periods at the end of the 1-, 5-, or 10-year periods (or fractional portion) Solving for T gives \mathrm {T = \left( \frac {ERV} {P} \right) ^ {1 / n} - 1} ===Mutual fund capital gain distributions=== Mutual funds include capital gains as well as dividends in their return calculations. Instead, these actions and decisions will be done by one or more fund managers managing the investment fund. ==Generic information—disadvantages== ===Costs=== The fund manager managing the investment decisions on behalf of the investors will of course expect remuneration. Typically there is: * A fund manager or investment manager who manages the investment decisions. Factors that investors may use to determine the rate of return at which they are willing to invest money include: * their risk-free interest rate * estimates of future inflation rates * assessment of the risk of the investment, i.e. the uncertainty of returns (including how likely it is that investors will receive interest/dividend payments they expect and the return of their full capital, with or without any possible additional capital gain) * currency risk * whether or not the investors want the money available (“liquid”) for other uses. The return over the five-year period is $19.90 × 91.314 / $1,000 − 1 = 81.71% * Geometric average annual total return with reinvestment = ($19.90 × 91.314 / $1,000) ^ (1 / 5) − 1 = 12.69% * An investor who did not reinvest would have received total distributions (cash payments) of $5.78 per share. Assuming returns are reinvested however, due to the effect of compounding, the relationship between a rate of return r, and a return R over a length of time t is: :1 + R = (1 + r)^t which can be used to convert the return R to a compound rate of return r: :r = (1 + R)^\frac {1}{t} - 1 = \sqrt[t]{1 + R} - 1 For example, a 33.1% return over 3 months is equivalent to a rate of: :\sqrt[3]{1.331} - 1 = 10\% per month with reinvestment. The higher the figure the greater the variability of the fund's performance. This shows the fund's performance relative to the benchmark and can demonstrate the value added by the fund manager. In other words, the geometric average return per year is 4.88%. They have to have in mind that all investments have a certain degree of risk. If the return in 2015 was 10% in Singapore dollars, and the Singapore dollar rose by 5% against the US dollar over 2015, then so long as there were no flows in 2015, the return over 2015 in US dollars is: :1.1 x 1.05 − 1 = 15.5% The return between the beginning of 2015 and the end of January 2016 in US dollars is: :1.155 x 1.07 − 1 = 23.585% ==Returns when capital is at risk== ===Risk and volatility=== Investments carry varying amounts of risk that the investor will lose some or all of the invested capital. Cash flow example on $1,000 investment Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Dollar return $100 $55 $60 $50 ROI 10% 5.5% 6% 5% ==Uses== * Rates of return are useful for making investment decisions.

If a fund makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, you should invest in it

If a fund makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, the fund managers might be skilled or lucky

If a fund makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, then it must be a fraud

If a fund makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, we should invest money with it

If a fund makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, it will keep making 15% in the future

B

If a US investor makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, what can we definitely conclude about them?

The return over the five-year period for such an investor would be ($19.90 + $5.78) / $14.21 − 1 = 80.72%, and the arithmetic average rate of return would be 80.72%/5 = 16.14% per year. ==See also== * Annual percentage yield * Average for a discussion of annualization of returns * Capital budgeting * Compound annual growth rate * Compound interest * Dollar cost averaging * Economic value added * Effective annual rate * Effective interest rate * Expected return * Holding period return * Internal rate of return * Modified Dietz method * Net present value * Rate of profit * Return of capital * Return on assets * Return on capital * Returns (economics) * Simple Dietz method * Time value of money * Time-weighted return * Value investing * Yield ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== * A. A. Groppelli and Ehsan Nikbakht. If the return in 2015 was 10% in Singapore dollars, and the Singapore dollar rose by 5% against the US dollar over 2015, then so long as there were no flows in 2015, the return over 2015 in US dollars is: :1.1 x 1.05 − 1 = 15.5% The return between the beginning of 2015 and the end of January 2016 in US dollars is: :1.155 x 1.07 − 1 = 23.585% ==Returns when capital is at risk== ===Risk and volatility=== Investments carry varying amounts of risk that the investor will lose some or all of the invested capital. In other words, the investors are saying more or less that the fund returns may not be what their actual account returns are, based upon the actual investment account transaction history. Factors that investors may use to determine the rate of return at which they are willing to invest money include: * their risk-free interest rate * estimates of future inflation rates * assessment of the risk of the investment, i.e. the uncertainty of returns (including how likely it is that investors will receive interest/dividend payments they expect and the return of their full capital, with or without any possible additional capital gain) * currency risk * whether or not the investors want the money available (“liquid”) for other uses. In cases of leveraged investments, even more extreme results are possible: A return of +200%, followed by −200%, has an average return of 0% but an overall return of −300%. This is because an annualized rate of return over a period of less than one year is statistically unlikely to be indicative of the annualized rate of return over the long run, where there is risk involved. A logarithmic return of +10%, followed by −10%, gives an overall return of 10% − 10% = 0% and an average rate of return of zero also. ====Average returns and overall returns==== Investment returns are often published as "average returns". The warnings and risk mitigating attitude led by prominent sources in the venture capital industry such as Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz have led to more strictly measured investment strategies. ===United States=== The United States has the largest startup economy in the world with over 400,000 new companies created each year which makes it the most susceptible and the driver of the startup bubble. 14% of Americans in the labor force work for small or startup businesses. The return over the five-year period is $19.90 × 91.314 / $1,000 − 1 = 81.71% * Geometric average annual total return with reinvestment = ($19.90 × 91.314 / $1,000) ^ (1 / 5) − 1 = 12.69% * An investor who did not reinvest would have received total distributions (cash payments) of $5.78 per share. * A return of 5% taxed at 15% gives an after-tax return of 4.25% :: 0.05 x 0.15 = 0.0075 :: 0.05 − 0.0075 = 0.0425 = 4.25% * A return of 10% taxed at 25% gives an after-tax return of 7.5% :: 0.10 x 0.25 = 0.025 :: 0.10 − 0.025 = 0.075 = 7.5% :Investors usually seek a higher rate of return on taxable investment returns than on non-taxable investment returns, and the proper way to compare returns taxed at different rates of tax is after tax, from the end-investor's perspective. Annualizing a return over a period of less than one year might be interpreted as suggesting that the rest of the year is most likely to have the same rate of return, effectively projecting that rate of return over the whole year. In finance, return is a profit on an investment. The return on investment (ROI) is return per dollar invested. thumb|Venture capital funding values per year from 2012 - 2016 in USD A unicorn bubble is a theoretical economic bubble that would occur when unicorn startup companies are overvalued by venture capitalists or investors. In other words, the geometric average return per year is 4.88%. This means if reinvested, earning 1% return every month, the return over 12 months would compound to give a return of 12.7%. For example, a Harvard survey of venture capitalists found 91% of venture capitalists think that unicorns are overvalued. The rate of return is 4,000 / 100,000 = 4% per year. Cash flow example on $1,000 investment Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Dollar return $100 $55 $60 $50 ROI 10% 5.5% 6% 5% ==Uses== * Rates of return are useful for making investment decisions. For example, if the logarithmic return of a security per trading day is 0.14%, assuming 250 trading days in a year, then the annualized logarithmic rate of return is 0.14%/(1/250) = 0.14% x 250 = 35% ===Returns over multiple periods=== When the return is calculated over a series of sub- periods of time, the return in each sub-period is based on the investment value at the beginning of the sub-period. As another example, a two-year return of 10% converts to an annualized rate of return of 4.88% = ((1+0.1)(12/24) − 1), assuming reinvestment at the end of the first year. In the example given above, a US dollar cash deposit which returns 2% over a year, measured in US dollars, returns 12.2% measured in Japanese yen, over the same period, if the US dollar increases in value by 10% against the Japanese yen over the same period.

If a US investor makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, then we should invest money with them

If a US investor makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, then they will keep making 15% in the future

If a US investor makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, then they are rich

If a US investor makes more than 15% returns every year for ten years, then they must be great investor

We get some evidence that the investor is skilled, but it's also possible that they were lucky

E

What has happened to the affordability of food in Canada since 1970?

In previous publications of the Food Price Report, predictions of overall increases have been accurate in ten of the eleven years. ==References== Category:Publications established in 2010 Category:2010 establishments in Canada Category:Dalhousie University Category:University of Guelph Category:Food and drink in Canada Category:Economic forecasting Category:Economy of Canada Factors that contributed to increases in the price of food in Canada included the "pandemic, wildfires and changing consumer habits". In 2021, there were a number of factors that contributed to an increase in the cost of food including problems with the food supply chain, including reduced capacity in maritime transport, high costs of transportation, COVID-19 pandemic ongoing disruptions and related lockdowns, wildfires and drought, and a high rate of general inflation that rose to levels of the early 2000s. Ironically, the country achieved food self-sufficiency in 2002, but food prices increased drastically due to the reliance of agriculture on oil and fossil fuels. Published by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph since 2010, every December, Canada's Food Price Report provides a forecast of Canadian food prices and trends for the coming year in Canada. Food trends are widespread changes in food preferences. It meant that an average family in Canada would pay $695 more for food in 2021 than in 2020. == 2022 == The 12th edition of Canada's Food Price Report 2022 included research by four universities, Dalhousie University, the University of Guelph, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia. By early 2010, food prices had risen again to surpass the record highs of 2008. Canadian historians until the 1960s tended to focus on the history of Canada's economy because of the far fewer political, economic, religious and military conflicts present in Canadian history than in other societies. World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter of 2008, creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. The 2010s in food in the United States describes food trends that are characteristic of the 2010s decade. Between Soaring Food Prices and Food Aid Shortage . Between Soaring Food Prices and Food Aid Shortage . After peaking in the second quarter of 2008, prices fell dramatically during the late-2000s recession but increased during late 2009 and 2010, reaching new heights in 2011 and 2012 (see 2010–2012 world food price crisis) at a level slightly higher than the level reached in 2008. But there was a temporary drop in food production growth: for example, wheat production during 2006 and 2007 was 4% lower than that in 2004 and 2005. Food trends last a long time and are often good." The world food price crisis refers to a period of time when the cost of food increased significantly and had a profound impact on the availability and affordability of food for people around the world. The major IFPRI Report launched in February 2011 stated that the causes of the 2008 global food crisis were similar to that of the 1972–1974 food crisis, in that the 1970s energy crisis was the major driver, as well as the shock to cereal demand (from biofuels this time), low interest rates, devaluation of the dollar, declining stocks, and some adverse weather conditions. The biggest increase would be in vegetablesbetween 4% and 6%. ==2020== ICI Radio Canada cited the report saying that the projected increase in the price of food for 2020 represented a greater increase than the rate of inflation. ==2021== Articles by CTV News and CBC were published on the day the report for 2021 was released, 8 December 2020. This reduced price elasticity and caused a sharp rise in food prices during some shortages. There is a debate about which measure is more valid.Poverty in Canada: 2006 Update , Fraser Institute, November 2006, URL accessed 3 December 2007 == GDP history == Despite similarities in history, law and culture, Australia and Canada followed quite different macroeconomic histories. Economic History Review 51.2 (1998): 294–318. online * Green, Alan G. "Twentieth-Century Canadian Economic History" in Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E Gallman, eds. Cambridge Economic History of the United States volume 3 (2000) pp 191–248.

Food is more expensive than in 1970

The affordability of food in Canada has decreased since 1970

Food has become more affordable in Canada since 1970

Food has become less affordable in Canada since 1970

Food is less affordable today than in 1970

C

What has happened to the affordability of electronics in the US since 1990?

Electronics is a discontinued American trade journal that covers the radio industry and subsequent industries from 1930 to 1995. Global annual consumer electronic sales are expected to reach by 2020. == Effects on the environment == Electrical waste contains hazardous, valuable, and scarce materials, and up to 60 elements can be found in complex electronics. The electronics industry is the economic sector that produces electronic devices. The 1990s economic boom in the United States was an economic expansion that began after the end of the early 1990s recession in March 1991, and ended in March 2001 with the start of the early 2000s recession during the Dot-com bubble crash (2000–2002). The prosperity of the 1990s was not evenly distributed over the entire decade. The Post-PC era was a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a decline in the sales of personal computers (PCs) in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as wearable and ubiquitous ones. The early 2000s recession was a decline in economic activity which mainly occurred in developed countries. Historically, Circuit City and CompUSA were major competitors in the computer space, but they collapsed during the late-2000s recession, leaving Microcenter and Newegg as Fry's main competitors. The Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) were released by the European Commission in 2002. == Manufacturing == == Largest electronics industry sectors == Industry sector Annual revenue Year B2B e-commerce (business-to-business) $25,516,000,000,000 2017 Tech industry (high tech) 2018 Mobile technology $3,900,000,000,000 2018 B2C e-commerce (business-to-consumer) $3,851,000,000,000 2017 Consumer electronics $1,712,900,000,000 2016 Semiconductor industry $481,000,000,000 2018 Television broadcasting services $407,700,000,000 2017 Power electronics 2011 TFT liquid-crystal displays (TFT LCD) $141,000,000,000 2017 Video games $137,900,000,000 2018 Home video film industry $55,700,000,000 2018 Music streaming and music downloads $11,200,000,000 2018 == See also == * Consumer electronics * Electronic engineering * Electronics * Microelectronics * MOSFET * Integrated circuit * Nanoelectronics * Power electronics * Semiconductor * Silicon * Technology == Notes == == References == ==External links== * Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) * Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition * Global Electronics Industry: Poster Child of 21st Century Sweatshops and Despoiler of the Environment?, Garrett Brown Category:20th- century introductions Category:Industries (economics) Year GDP growth Jobs created (mil) Deficit/surplus GDP (trillions) 1990 1.86% 0.311 -$221.2 Billion $5.5 1991 -0.26% -0.858 -$269.3 Billion $5.9 1992 3.4% 1.154 -$290.4 Billion $6.3 1993 2.87% 2.788 -$255.1 Billion $6.6 1994 4.11% 3.851 -$203.2 Billion $7.1 1995 2.55% 2.153 -$164 Billion $7.4 1996 3.79% 2.794 -$107.5 Billion $7.8 1997 4.51% 3.355 -$22 Billion $8.3 1998 4.4% 3.002 $69.2 Billion $8.7 1999 4.87% 3.174 $125.6 Billion $9.3 2000 4.17% 1.948 $236.4 Billion $9.8 == Legacy == According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the 1990s was the longest economic expansion in the history of the United States until the 2009-2020 expansion, lasting exactly ten years from March 1991 to March 2001. The UNEP estimate that the amount of e-waste being produced – including mobile phones and computers – could rise by as much as 500 percent over the next decade in some developing countries, such as India. The economy was in recession from July 1990 - March 1991, having suffered the S&L; Crisis in 1989, a spike in gas prices as the result of the Gulf War, and the general run of the business cycle since 1983. The industry's size, the use of toxic materials, and the difficulty of recycling have led to a series of problems with electronic waste. The electronics industry consists of various sectors. *Increased productivity created from newly invented information technologies (computers; internet) * A healthy dependency ratio when Baby Boomers were still working. None of these rationales for the 1990s economic boom should be seen as mutually exclusive. == End of the boom == Despite the concerns, it was during this time that talk of a "New Economy" emerged, where inflation and unemployment were low and strong growth coincided. The most difficult years were 2000–2001, precipitating the worst years of the American recession. Some economists in the United States object to characterizing it as a recession since there were no two consecutive quarters of negative growth. ==United States== thumb|upright=1.5|US unemployment rate, 1988–2011 After the relatively mild 1990 recession ended in early 1991, the country hit a belated unemployment rate peak of 7.8% in mid-1992. However, the PC market did experience some periods of growth in the 2010s as well, leading many to claim the exact opposite. Growth faltered, job creation slowed, the stock markets plunged, and the groundwork for the 2001 recession was being laid, thus ending the economic boom of the 1990s. This led to the emergence of the home entertainment consumer electronics industry starting in the 1950s, largely due to the efforts of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (now Sony) in successfully commercializing transistor technology for a mass market, with affordable transistor radios and then transistorized television sets. Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain.

None of the above

Electronics have become more affordable in the US since 1990

Electronics are harder to afford than in 1990

Electronics are more expensive now than in 1990

Electronics have become less affordable in the US since 1990

B

Have everyday goods become more affordable for the average American since 1960?

In the US: * educational attainment has risen more slowly; * companies pay relatively lower wages to the middle class and poor, with top executives making relatively more; * government redistributes less from rich to poor. Since late 2021, the prices for many essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household incomes, resulting in a fall in real incomes. Household income, whether from wages or benefits, have not generally kept pace with rising prices. An estimated 11.8% of Americans lived in poverty in 2018, versus 16% in 2012 and 26% in 1967. In retail economics and geography, comparison goods are products which are usually higher value"How and why is retail changing?", BBC Bitesize. While rising prices have affected all social classes, the poor have been impacted the most. These comparisons indicate Americans shift from reliance on market income to reliance on income transfers later in life, although less fully than in other developed countries. Transport costs have been especially affected, but also many others, including costs for food, furniture, household items, electricity and clothing. They attributed Inequality growth during the 1970s to the 1990s to wage growth among top earners, and that the widening gap had been due to investment income. === Events === The Great Recession lasted from 2008 to 2009, multiplying unemployment and crashing the stock market. They argue that wealthy Americans are receiving higher pay, but they spend less per dollar earned than middle class consumers, whose incomes have largely stagnated. Income inequality has fluctuated considerably in the United States since measurements began around 1915, moving in an arc between peaks in the 1920s and 2000s, with a 30-year period of relatively lower inequality between 1950 and 1980. Incomes in the middle and at the bottom of the distribution have fared better since 2000 than incomes at the very top. thumb|upright=1.5|US unemployment rate, 1952–1972 The recession of 1960–1961 was a recession in the United States. As of that year only the wealthy had seen pay increases since the Great Recession, while average American workers had not. == Policy responses == Debate continues over whether a public policy response is appropriate to income inequality. Others claim that the increase is not significant, that America's economic growth and/or equality of opportunity should be the primary focus, that rising inequaity is a global phenomenon that would be foolish to try to change through US domestic policy, that it "has many economic benefits and is the result of ... a well-functioning economy", and has or may become an excuse for "class-warfare rhetoric". In 2014 Saez and Gabriel Zucman reported that more than half of those in the top 1 percent had not experienced relative gains in wealth between 1960 and 2012. As a result of these programs, the spendable incomes of poor and middle-class families have been better insulated against recession-driven losses than the incomes of Americans in the top 1%. Other studies have not found consumption inequality less dramatic than household income inequality. A 2007 study found the top population in the United States "very stable" and that income mobility had not "mitigated the dramatic increase in annual earnings concentration since the 1970s." Leonhardt and Quealy in 2014 described three key reasons for other industrialized countries improving real median income relative to the US over the 2000-2010 period. As of 2023, 2.75% of the U.S. population earn less than $10 per day. 0.25% of the U.S. population lived below the international poverty line of $2.15 per day in 2020. Since the wealthy tend to save nearly 50% of their marginal income while the remainder of the population saves roughly 10%, other things equal this would reduce annual consumption (the largest component of GDP) by as much as 5%, but would increase investment, at least some of which would likely take place in the US.

Yes, everyday goods have become more affordable for the average American since 1960

No, everyday goods have not become more affordable for the average American since 1960

None of the above

No, clothes and food have become less affordable for the average American

All of the above

A

What are some EU countries with big reserves of oil?

thumb|Map of countries with proven oil reserves - according to U.S. EIA (start of 2017) thumb|Trends in proven oil reserves in top five countries, 1980–2013 (data from US Energy Information Administration) thumb|right|A map of world oil reserves according to OPEC, January 2014 Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions. Saudi Arabia and Russia also top the list of oil exporting countries. thumb|Trends in the five countries with largest proven reserves of natural gas, according to the US Energy Information Administration thumb|Countries by natural gas and oil proven reserves (2015) |alt=oil and gas Industry Reserves by Nation thumb|World natural gas proven reserves 1960–2012 (OPEC) This list is based on CIA The World Factbook (when no citation is given).Rank Order - Natural gas - proved reserves. There have been widely varying estimates of proven oil reserves in Russia. Comparison of proven oil reserves from some widely used sources (billions of barrels, as of 31 Dec 2014) Source Canada Iran Iraq Russia Saudi Arabia United States Venezuela BPBP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2015 172.9 157.8 143 103.2 267.0 48.5 298.3 OPECOPEC Statistical Bulletin, 2015. 4.2 157.5 147.2 80.0 266.6 36.5 300.0 US CIAWorld Factbook, US Central Intelligence Agency, 2015. 171.0 157.8 147 103.2 268.3 36.5 298.4 US EIA 172.5 157.8 145 80.0 268.3 39.9 298.4 == Countries == Reserves amounts are listed in millions of barrels. Retrieved 3 July 2016. 2,535 42,426 59,619 10,393 10,441 6,960 == See also == * List of countries by natural gas production * List of countries by proven oil reserves * List of natural gas fields == References == Category:Energy-related lists by country List Category:Lists of countries *[km³]: 1km³=1 billion m³ thumb|350px|right|Top 5 oil producing countries 1980-2020 thumb|350px|World oil production This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2022, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Sources that consider that Russia has by far the largest proven reserves include the US CIA (47600 cubic kilometers),Natural gas - proved reserves. There is some disagreement on which country has the largest proven gas reserves. In October 2018, Russia's crude oil output grew to , a new post-Soviet record. ==Reserve estimates== The Russia reserve estimates in the table below were posted in 2006, except that from the US EIA Estimates of Russian oil reserves, posted 2006 Source 109 bbl 109 m3 Reserve class Oil & Gas Journal SPE proven John Grace* SPE proven World Oil SPE proven British Petroleum SPE proven US Energy Information Administration 10 largest Russian Oil Companies ABC1 E Khartukov (Russian Oil Expert) ABC1 United States Geological Survey SPE proven Ray Leonard (MOL) ABC1 Wood Mackenzie SPE proven IHS Energy ABC1 Mikhail Khodorkovsky Brunswick UBS (consultants) SPE proven, probable, possible DeGolyer and MacNaughton (audit) unknown, possibly SPE proven The ABC1 classification is based on the Russian system, and is that system's closest equivalent to the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) proven reserves. thumb|400px|Crude oil export revenue by country (annually) thumb|400px|A world map of countries by oil exportation, 2020. thumb|400px|Trends in the top five crude oil-exporting countries, 1980–2012 thumb|right|400px|OPEC oil exports and production This is a list of oil-producing countries by oil exports based on The World Factbook Ranking – The World Factbook and other Sources. Most estimates included only Western Siberian reserves, which have been exploited since the 1970s and supply two-thirds of Russian oil. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, and the majority of oil produced in the USA is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the USA will finish all its oil at current production in 11 years, because the production is mostly from shale but the reserves cited omit all shale reserves.] Based on data from EIA, at the start of 2021, proved gas reserves were dominated by three countries: Iran, Russia, and Qatar. On 29 September 2014, President of the Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia Gennady Shmal told a press conference that Russia's discovered oil reserves (ABC1) stand at 17.8 billion tons (17.8 * 1012 m3). Since 2000, some countries, notably the US and Canada, have seen large increases in proved gas reserves due to development of shale gas, but shale gas deposits in most countries are yet to be added to reserve calculations. == Data == * indicates "Natural gas in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links. According to Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergey Donskoy, as of 1 January 2012, recoverable reserves of oil in Russia under category ABC1 (equivalent to proven reserves) were 17.8 billion tons and category C2 reserves (equivalent to probable and possible) were 10.9 billion tons. ==History== Farman Salmanov was an Azerbaijani geologist famous for discovering great oil fields in Western Siberia in Tyumen Oblast in 1961. ==Production== Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's petroleum output fell sharply, and has rebounded only in the last several years. Retrieved 23 October 2015. and OPEC (48810 km3).OPEC, Table 3.2 Natural gas proven reserves by country . The PRIX index forecasts the effect of political developments on exports from major petroleum-producing countries. ==See also== *List of countries by oil production *List of countries by exports *List of countries by net oil exports *List of countries by proven oil reserves ==References== Category:Energy-related lists by country *Exports Category:Trade by commodity List of countries by oil exports Category:Lists of countries Category:Lists of countries by product exports Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop. Many countries also import oil, and some import more oil than they export. == Countries by rank == Country Oil exports (bbl/day) Date of information (OPEC) 2020 est. 2021 est. (OPEC) 2020 est. 2020 (OPEC) 2020 (OPEC) 2020 (OPEC) 1,850,000 2022 dec. (OPEC) 2020 2020 2019 est (OPEC) 2020 2020 2020 est. 850,000 2020 2016 est. 2018 est. 2020 est. 2020 est. 2020 (OPEC) 2020 (OPEC) 2020 est. 2020 est. (OPEC) 2020 est. 2020 est. (OPEC) 2019 est. 2020 est. 2010 est. (OPEC) 2020 est. 2021 est. (OPEC) 2020 est. 2020 est. 2016 est. 2016 est. 2016 est. 2019 est. 2020 est. 2016 est. 2020 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2020 est. 2012 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2012 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2013 est. 2013 est. 2011 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2013 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2021 est. 2012 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2011 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2012 est. 2010 est. 2010 est. 2013 est. ==Oil export revenues== Academic contributions have written about differences in petroleum revenue management in various countries. The Russian designation ABC1 corresponds to proved reserves (proved developed producing, proved developed nonproducing, and proved undeveloped), while C2 corresponds to probable and possible reserves. ==Tight oil== Significant reserves of unconventional tight oil such as contained in the Bazhenov Formation are believed to exist in western Siberia.

No EU countries have big reserves of oil

Russian has big reserves of oil

The UK has big reserves of oil

There are EU countries with big reserves of oil

Germany has big reserves of oil

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What's an EU country where most people are Muslim?

The term Muslim Europe is used for the predominantly Muslim countries of Europe, including Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kazakhstan; it is also used for the Muslim community in Europe. The term "Muslim Europe" is used to refer to the Muslim-majority countries in the Balkans (Albania and Kosovo) and parts of countries in Europe with sizable Muslim minorities (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and some republics of Russia) that constitute large populations of native European Muslims, although the majority are secular. *Islam in Kosovo, 95.6% (2011 census) *Islam in Albania, 58.79% (2011 census) *Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 50.7% (2013 census) The number of Muslims in European countries is estimated at 44 million, or 5% of the total population.The Global Religious Landscape: Muslims, Pew Research Center, 18 December 2012 ==See also== *European Islam *List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population ==References== ==Sources== * * * Category:Islam in Europe Migrants came to Britain from its majority-Muslim former colonies Pakistan and Bangladesh. ==Current demographics== thumb|right|Muslim-majority areas in Europe The exact number of Muslims in Europe is unknown but according to estimates by the Pew Forum, the total number of Muslims in Europe (excluding Turkey) in 2010 was about 44 million (6% of the total population), including 19 million (3.8% of the population) in the European Union. By 2010, an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), including an estimated 19 million in the EU (3.8%). According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2016 the total number of Muslims in Europe is roughly 4.9%. Non-denominational Muslims constitute the majority of the Muslim population in eight countries, and a plurality in three others: Albania (65%), Kyrgyzstan (64%), Kosovo (58%), Indonesia (56%), Mali (55%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (54%), Uzbekistan (54%), Azerbaijan (45%), Russia (45%), and Nigeria (42%). A 2010 Pew Research Center study reported that 2.7% of the world's Muslim population live in Europe. Today, the Muslim- majority regions of Europe are the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and European Turkey), some Russian republics in the North Caucasus and the Idel-Ural region, and the European part of Kazakhstan. The transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan are also majority Muslim. ===Western Europe and the Mediterranean Region=== Arab Muslim forays into Europe began shortly after the foundation of Islam in the 7th century CE. Country Estimated % of Muslims among total population in 2016 Cyprus 25.4 Bulgaria 11.1 France 8.8 Sweden 8.1 Belgium 7.6 Netherlands 7.1 Austria 6.9 United Kingdom 6.3 Germany 6.1 Switzerland 6.1 Norway 5.7 Greece 5.7 Denmark 5.4 Italy 4.8 Slovenia 3.8 Luxembourg 3.2 Finland 2.7 Spain 2.6 Croatia 1.6 Ireland 1.4 ===Projections=== A Pew Research Center study, published in January 2011, forecast an increase of Muslims in European population from 6% in 2010 to 8% in 2030. City Member state % Muslim () Amsterdam 12.1% Antwerp 16.9% Almeria (province) 12% Augsburg 8.8% Barcelona 5.6% Berlin 11% Mulhouse 25.7% Brussels 25% Cologne 12% Strasbourg 16.3% Constanța 5.1% Copenhagen 10% Dobrich 7.2% Dublin 2.11% Saint-Etienne 22% Espoo 6.7%Persons who speak a majority Muslim language. The table below lists large cities of the European Union with significant Muslim populations, some estimating the percentage of Muslims by using the percentage of Asians in those cities. Several EU nations do not have a Christian majority and for example in Estonia and the Czech Republic the majority have no religious affiliation. Frankfurt 12.6% Hamburg 8.4%< Haskovo 18.2% Helsinki 5.5% Nice 19.6% Kardzhali 52.8% Komotini 54.77% (metro area) Malmö 25.4% Marseille 20%, 25% Medgidia 16.7% Nimes 24.8% Melilla 51.98% Offenbach 14% Oslo 9.53% Paris 10% (15% in metro area) Plovdiv 5.0% Montpellier 26.6% Razgrad 29.3% Rotterdam 13.7% Ruse 5.9% Shumen 14.5% (around 33.8%-35.5% in Shumen Province) Toulouse 16% Stuttgart 10% The Hague 14.7% Turku 5.7% Utrecht 9.9% Vantaa 7.6% Lille 15.9%022}} Vienna 10%-15% Lyon 13.6% Xanthi 42.19% (metro area) ==See also== *Islam in Europe *Islam in Austria *Islam in Belgium *Islam in Denmark *Islam in France *Islam in Germany *Islam in Ireland *Islam in Italy *Islam in the Netherlands *Islam in Spain *Islam in Sweden *Islam in Finland ==References== ==External links== *The numbers of French Muslims and Muslims in France are exaggerated *On exagère délibérément le nombre de musulmans en France on Le Nouvel Observateur Cities Muslim population European Union by Muslim population Category:Religious demographics Category:Demographics of Europe Category:Geography of the European Union Category:European Union society Category:European Union-related lists Category:Islam-related lists The total number of Muslims in the European Union in 2010 was about 19 million (3.8%). Historically significant Muslim populations in Europe include the Gorani, Torbeshi, Pomaks, Bosniaks, Muslim Albanians, Cham Albanians, Greek Muslims, Vallahades, Muslim Romani people, Balkan Turks, Turkish Cypriots, Cretan Turks, Yörüks, Volga Tatars, Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, Gajals, and Megleno-Romanians. As of 1 January 2022, the population of the EU is just below 447 million people. == Population by country == The most populous member state is Germany, with an estimated 82.8 million people, and the least populous member state is Malta with 0.52 million. Estimates of the percentage of Muslims in Russia (the biggest group of Muslims in Europe) vary from 5by example only 6% of the Russian population is Islamic to 11.7%, depending on sources. (64% agreed, 12% disagreed), "Muslims living in Western European countries generally do not acquire customs and values that are characteristic for the majority of the population of that country." Islam is the second-largest religion in Europe after Christianity.Global religious futures Europe Although the majority of Muslim communities in Western Europe formed recently, there are centuries-old Muslim societies in the Balkans, Caucasus, Crimea, and Volga region. Andorra is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion.

France is an EU country where most people are Muslim

There's no EU country where most people are Muslim

Malta is an EU country where most people are Muslim

Kosovo is an EU country where most people are Muslim

Albania is an EU country where most people are Muslim

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In France they all speak French. In England they all speak English. In Scotland they all speak what?

thumb|Dialects of the French language in the world Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. France has one official language, the French language. Besides French, there exist many other vernacular minority languages of France, both in European France, in Overseas France, and in French overseas territories. While the overwhelming majority of Americans of French ancestry grew up speaking only English, some enroll their children in French heritage language classes. ==Dialects and varieties== There are three major groups of French dialects that emerged in what is now the United States: Louisiana French, Missouri French, and New England French (essentially a variant of Canadian French). Canadian French spoken by French Canadian immigrants is also spoken by Canadian Americans and French Canadian Americans in the United States across Little Canadas and in many cities of New England. In Canada, French is an official language along with English; the two main dialects of French in Canada are Quebec French and Acadian French. Most Canadian native speakers of French live in Quebec, the only province where French is the majority language and the only province in which it is the sole official language.OLF Of Quebec's people, 71.2 percent are native francophones and 95 percent speak French as their first or second language. European French () is the variety of French spoken in Europe in French speaking countries or areas. == Geographic distribution == Among varieties of European French: *French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra *Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium *Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland *Luxembourg French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg *Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. The differences between Swiss French and Parisian French are minor and mostly lexical. ==See also== *French language *Geographical distribution of French speakers *Langues d'oïl *Occitan *Dialect *French-based creole languages *Languages of France *La Francophonie *Law French *Standard French ==References== ==External links== *Learn to type with different French keyboard layouts Francais de Belgique, Francais de Suisse, Francais du Canada, Francais BEPO. *linguasphere on Romance languages * L'Aménagement Linguistique dans le Monde - Vallée d'Aoste, Linguistic situation in Aosta Valley * Sondage sur la pratique des langues en Vda *French in India: A privileged status French varieties While French, with no specification as to dialect or variety, has the status of one of Canada's two official languages at the federal government level, English is the native language of most Canadians. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language. ==Only official language== ===Countries=== List of countries where French is the only official language: * Benin * Burkina Faso * Congo * Democratic Republic of Congo * Ivory Coast * France (Metropolitan France and Overseas France) * Gabon * Guinea * Mali * Monaco * Niger * Senegal * Togo ===Non-sovereign entities=== * Geneva, Switzerland * Jura, Switzerland * Neuchâtel, Switzerland * Quebec, Canada * Vaud, Switzerland ==Co-official use== ===Sovereign states=== In many countries, French is used as a co-official language alongside one or more other languages. In Europe outside France there are Belgian French, Swiss French, and in Italy Aostan French. The further north the more French is spoken and the closer the dialect and culture is to Quebec French. Various dialects of French spoken in France are also spoken in the United States by recent immigrants from France, by people of French ancestry and descendants of immigrants from France. == Native speaker populations == ===French ancestry=== A total of 10,804,304 people claimed French ancestry in the 2010 census although other sources have recorded as many as 13 million people claiming this ancestry. The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. List of countries where French is a co-official language: thumb|upright=1.5|Countries in the world with French as an official language. All of these dialects mix, to varying degrees, elements from regional languages and folk dialects spoken in France at the time of colonization. Franco-Newfoundlanders speaking Newfoundland French, Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Manitobans, Fransaskois, Franco- Albertans, Franco-Columbians, Franco-Ténois, Franco-Yukonnais, Franco-Nunavois are part of the French Canadian American population and speak their own form of French. Today, French is the second most spoken language (after English) in the states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French (spoken in Paris and considered standard) although some also use regional dialects or varieties such as Meridional French. Note that the discussion here refers to varieties of the French language, not to the Romance sister languages (sometimes considered dialects) of French spoken in France (e.g. Picard, Limousin, Gascon, etc.; for these languages see: Langues d'oïl, Francoprovençal, Occitan and languages of France). About 95 percent of Quebecers speak French.

Gaelic

In Scotland they all speak Scottish

In Scotland they all speak Scots

In Scotland people all speak Gaelic

In Scotland, almost everyone can speak English

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In France they all speak French. In England they all speak English. In Ireland they all speak what?

English is by far the most spoken, and the "de facto" official, language in Northern Ireland,; it occurs in various forms, including Ulster English and Hiberno-English. The dialect generally spoken in Northern Ireland, Ulster Irish or Donegal Irish, is the one closest to Scottish Gaelic (which developed into a separate language from Irish Gaelic in the 10th century). thumb|Dialects of the French language in the world Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. According to the 2011 UK Census, in Northern Ireland 184,898 (10.65%) report to have some knowledge of Irish, of whom 104,943 (6.05%) can speak the language. Some 4,130 people (0.2%) use Irish as their main home language. (see Irish language in Northern Ireland). Some 4,130 people (0.2%) in Northern Ireland use Irish as their main home language, with (according to the 2011 UK Census) 184,898 having a little knowledge of the language. The Irish language originated in Ireland and has historically been the dominant language of the Irish people. The Irish Language in the United States: a historical, sociolinguistic and applied linguistic survey. Of these, 66.3% said that they speak Irish, down from 68.5% in 2011; and only 21.4% or 20,586 people said they spoke Irish daily outside the education system. Irish is a main domestic, work or community language for approximately 2% of the population of Ireland. European French () is the variety of French spoken in Europe in French speaking countries or areas. == Geographic distribution == Among varieties of European French: *French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra *Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium *Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland *Luxembourg French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg *Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. In April 2016 1,761,420 people in the Republic said that they could speak Irish, representing 39.8 percent of respondents out of a population of 4,921,500 (2019 estimate). The language also attracted some wider public attention.Transcript of Lingua Franca of 26 September 1998, Why Learn Irish?. Even in areas where the language is strongest, only 60% of young people use Irish as the main language of communication with family and neighbours. In Northern Ireland 104,943 said that they were able to speak Irish out of a population of 1,882,000 (2018 estimate). Such speakers are predominantly urban dwellers. ==Self-reported number of Irish speakers== ===In Ireland=== In the Irish census of 2016, 1,761,420 people said that they were able to speak the Irish language (the basic census question does not specify extent of usage, or ability level), with more females than males so identifying (968,777 female speakers (55%) compared with 792,643 males (45%)). In anecdotal input, Bank of Ireland has noted that fewer than 1% of their customers use the Irish language option on their banking machines. ===Outside Ireland=== The number of Irish speakers outside Ireland cannot be readily verified. Estimates of fully native Irish language speakers in Ireland range from 40,000 to 80,000. The differences between Swiss French and Parisian French are minor and mostly lexical. ==See also== *French language *Geographical distribution of French speakers *Langues d'oïl *Occitan *Dialect *French-based creole languages *Languages of France *La Francophonie *Law French *Standard French ==References== ==External links== *Learn to type with different French keyboard layouts Francais de Belgique, Francais de Suisse, Francais du Canada, Francais BEPO. *linguasphere on Romance languages * L'Aménagement Linguistique dans le Monde - Vallée d'Aoste, Linguistic situation in Aosta Valley * Sondage sur la pratique des langues en Vda *French in India: A privileged status French varieties In Europe outside France there are Belgian French, Swiss French, and in Italy Aostan French. Traditional Irish speakers in the areas known as the Gaeltacht have usually been considered as the core speakers of the language. In addition, the Laotian élite and the elderly population speak French, which is the diplomatic language of Laos. ===Vietnamese=== Vietnamese French is spoken in Vietnam, which has the largest Francophone population in Asia.

Irish

People in Ireland all speak Irish

In Ireland they all speak Irish

In Ireland, almost everyone speaks English

The Irish speak Irish

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In France they speak French. In England they speak English. In Wales they speak Welsh. In Austria they speak what?

Some of these languages are also spoken in neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy or Spain. ==Status== The official language of the French Republic is French (art. 2 of the French Constitution) and the French government is, by law, compelled to communicate primarily in French. Large numbers of people of French ancestry outside Europe speak other first languages, particularly English, throughout most of North America (with Quebec and Acadians in the Canadian Maritimes being notable, not the only, exceptions), Spanish or Portuguese in southern South America, and Afrikaans in South Africa. thumb|Dialects of the French language in the world Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. European French () is the variety of French spoken in Europe in French speaking countries or areas. == Geographic distribution == Among varieties of European French: *French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra *Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium *Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland *Luxembourg French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg *Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. France has one official language, the French language. French itself is also a cross-border language, being spoken in neighbouring Andorra, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Switzerland. ==List of languages== According to the 2007 Adult Education survey, part of a project by the European Union and carried in France by the Insee and based on a sample of 15,350 people, French was the mother tongue of 87.2% of the total population, or roughly 55.81 million people, followed by Arabic (3.6%, 2.3 million), Portuguese (1.5%, 960,000), Spanish (1.2%, 770,000) and Italian (1.0%, 640,000). In Europe outside France there are Belgian French, Swiss French, and in Italy Aostan French. France has long been a patchwork of local customs and regional differences, and while most French people still speak the French language as their mother tongue, languages like Picard, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Franco-Provencal, Occitan, Catalan, Auvergnat, Corsican, Basque, French Flemish, Lorraine Franconian, Alsatian, Norman, and Breton remain spoken in their respective regions. Besides French, there exist many other vernacular minority languages of France, both in European France, in Overseas France, and in French overseas territories. Many British people have French ancestry, and French remains the foreign language most learned by British people. Regarding other languages, English, Spanish, Italian and German are the most commonly studied foreign languages in French schools. The differences between Swiss French and Parisian French are minor and mostly lexical. ==See also== *French language *Geographical distribution of French speakers *Langues d'oïl *Occitan *Dialect *French-based creole languages *Languages of France *La Francophonie *Law French *Standard French ==References== ==External links== *Learn to type with different French keyboard layouts Francais de Belgique, Francais de Suisse, Francais du Canada, Francais BEPO. *linguasphere on Romance languages * L'Aménagement Linguistique dans le Monde - Vallée d'Aoste, Linguistic situation in Aosta Valley * Sondage sur la pratique des langues en Vda *French in India: A privileged status French varieties Austrian language may refer to: * Austrian German, the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria * One of the other Languages of Austria Note that the discussion here refers to varieties of the French language, not to the Romance sister languages (sometimes considered dialects) of French spoken in France (e.g. Picard, Limousin, Gascon, etc.; for these languages see: Langues d'oïl, Francoprovençal, Occitan and languages of France). However, though almost extinct, such regional languages are preserved in France and one can learn them at school as a second language (enseignement de langue regionale). (Figures as of 2000) ====Main immigrant languages==== * Arabic, especially the Maghrebi Arabic dialects, is the second-most common language in French homes, with several million speakers.Emmanuelle Talon, "L’arabe, une « langue de France » sacrifiée", Le Monde Diplomatique, Oct. 2012, http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/10/TALON/48275, access date: 12/05/2015 *Berber languages from North Africans are one of the most spoken languages in France, about 2,200,000 speakers. French, a Gallo-Romance language, is spoken by nearly the entire population of France. This is because there are many people who were born and raised in families in which parents spoke to them only (or predominantly) French, but in which some regional or immigration languages were also occasionally used. For example, French speakers in Switzerland are not "French citizens". The main communities of French ancestry in the New World are found in the United States, Canada and Argentina while sizeable groups are also found in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Australia. ===Canada=== There are nearly seven million French speakers out of nine to ten million people of French and partial French ancestry in Canada. Their language is still spoken as a kind of Dutch (French Flemish) in northern France (French Flanders). * Polish: spoken by about 130,000 people * Turkish: spoken by about 221,000 people * Vietnamese: the most spoken Asian language in France, spoken by about 324,000 people * German and German dialects: spoken by about 300,000 people.

In Austria, they speak German

In Austria, they speak Austrian

None of the above

Austrian

The main language of Austria is Austrian

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In France they speak French. In England they speak English. In Wales they speak Welsh. In Australia they speak what?

thumb|Dialects of the French language in the world Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. Canadian French spoken by French Canadian immigrants is also spoken by Canadian Americans and French Canadian Americans in the United States across Little Canadas and in many cities of New England. While the overwhelming majority of Americans of French ancestry grew up speaking only English, some enroll their children in French heritage language classes. ==Dialects and varieties== There are three major groups of French dialects that emerged in what is now the United States: Louisiana French, Missouri French, and New England French (essentially a variant of Canadian French). Besides French, there exist many other vernacular minority languages of France, both in European France, in Overseas France, and in French overseas territories. In Europe outside France there are Belgian French, Swiss French, and in Italy Aostan French. France has one official language, the French language. Several varieties of French evolved in what is now the United States: *Louisiana French, spoken in Louisiana by descendants of colonists in French Louisiana *New England French, spoken in New England by descendants of 19th and 20th-century Canadian migrants *Missouri French, spoken in Missouri by descendants of French settlers in the Illinois Country *Muskrat French, spoken in Michigan by descendants of habitants, voyageurs and coureurs des bois in the Pays d'en Haut *Métis French, spoken in North Dakota by Métis people More recently, French has also been carried to various parts of the nation via immigration from Francophone countries and regions. The differences between Swiss French and Parisian French are minor and mostly lexical. ==See also== *French language *Geographical distribution of French speakers *Langues d'oïl *Occitan *Dialect *French-based creole languages *Languages of France *La Francophonie *Law French *Standard French ==References== ==External links== *Learn to type with different French keyboard layouts Francais de Belgique, Francais de Suisse, Francais du Canada, Francais BEPO. *linguasphere on Romance languages * L'Aménagement Linguistique dans le Monde - Vallée d'Aoste, Linguistic situation in Aosta Valley * Sondage sur la pratique des langues en Vda *French in India: A privileged status French varieties List of countries where French is a co-official language: thumb|upright=1.5|Countries in the world with French as an official language. The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language. ==Only official language== ===Countries=== List of countries where French is the only official language: * Benin * Burkina Faso * Congo * Democratic Republic of Congo * Ivory Coast * France (Metropolitan France and Overseas France) * Gabon * Guinea * Mali * Monaco * Niger * Senegal * Togo ===Non-sovereign entities=== * Geneva, Switzerland * Jura, Switzerland * Neuchâtel, Switzerland * Quebec, Canada * Vaud, Switzerland ==Co-official use== ===Sovereign states=== In many countries, French is used as a co-official language alongside one or more other languages. European French () is the variety of French spoken in Europe in French speaking countries or areas. == Geographic distribution == Among varieties of European French: *French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra *Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium *Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland *Luxembourg French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg *Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. Many dialects of French found in the continent of Africa are highly influenced by the native languages that are spoken in each respective country. The further north the more French is spoken and the closer the dialect and culture is to Quebec French. New England French, essentially a local variety of Canadian French, is spoken in parts of the New England states. In Canada, French is an official language along with English; the two main dialects of French in Canada are Quebec French and Acadian French. Today, French is the second most spoken language (after English) in the states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French (spoken in Paris and considered standard) although some also use regional dialects or varieties such as Meridional French. French is the third most spoken language (after English and Spanish) in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. In addition, the Laotian élite and the elderly population speak French, which is the diplomatic language of Laos. ===Vietnamese=== Vietnamese French is spoken in Vietnam, which has the largest Francophone population in Asia. The national languages of Seychelles are Seychellois Creole, English and French. Various dialects of French spoken in France are also spoken in the United States by recent immigrants from France, by people of French ancestry and descendants of immigrants from France. == Native speaker populations == ===French ancestry=== A total of 10,804,304 people claimed French ancestry in the 2010 census although other sources have recorded as many as 13 million people claiming this ancestry.

Australians speak Australian

None of the above

Australian

In Australia they speak Australian

In Australia they speak English

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Which language do all people in Europe speak?

Euro English or European English, less commonly known as EU English and EU Speak, is a pidgin dialect of English based on the technical jargon of the European Union and the native languages of its non-native English speaking population. ==English as lingua franca== English is the most commonly spoken foreign language in 19 out of 25 European Union countries (excluding the UK and Ireland)Europeans and their Languages. The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An estimated 210 million Europeans are native speakers of Germanic languages, the largest groups being German ( 95 million), English ( 70 million), Dutch ( 24 million), Swedish ( 10 million), Danish ( 6 million), Norwegian ( 5 million) and Limburgish (c. 1.3 million). Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, French, Italian, German, and English. Euro English, Euro-English or European English, less commonly known as EU English, Continental English and EU Speak, is an alleged group of pidgin dialects of the English language as used in Europe, based on common mistranslations and the technical jargon of the European Union (EU) and the native languages of its non-native, English-speaking population. According to a survey published in 2006, 13% of EU citizens then spoke English as their native language. Europeans and their Languages. On average in 2012, 38% of citizens of the European Union (excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland) stated that they have sufficient knowledge of English to have a conversation in this language.Europeans and their Languages. Europe has had no lingua franca ranging over its entire territory spoken by all or most of its populations during any historical period. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. Another 38% of EU citizens then stated that they had sufficient English skills to hold a conversation, so the total reach of English in the EU in 2006 was 51%.Europeans and their Languages (2006) European English is known by a number of colloquial portmanteau words, including: Eurolish (first recorded in 1979), Eurish (1993) and Eurlish (2006).Lambert, James. 2018. An estimated 250 million Europeans are native speakers of Slavic languages, the largest groups being Russian ( 110 million in European Russia and adjacent parts of Eastern Europe, Russian forming the largest linguistic community in Europe), Polish ( 45 million), Ukrainian ( 40 million), Serbo-Croatian ( 21 million), Czech ( 11 million), Bulgarian ( 9 million), Slovak ( 5 million) Belarusian and Slovene ( 3 million each) and Macedonian ( 2 million). Of the approximately 45 million Europeans speaking non-Indo-European languages, most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families. This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. == List == Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian 106,000,000L1: 119 million in the Russian Federation (of which c. 83 million in European Russia), 14.3 million in Ukraine, 6.67 million in Belarus, 0.67 million in Latvia, 0.38 million in Estonia, 0.38 million in Moldova. The various regional and minority languages in Europe encompass four categories: * The language of a community in one single country, where the language community is not the linguistic majority, e.g. Sorbian in Germany, or Welsh in the United Kingdom * The language of a community in two or more countries, in neither of which they are the linguistic majority, e.g. Basque in Spain and France, Sámi in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden * The language of a community who are a linguistic minority in one country, even though they are the majority in a different country, e.g. Danish in Germany, Finnish in Sweden, or Swedish in Finland * Languages without any fixed territory, that are traditionally spoken in one or more countries, but which cannot be assorted to one specific region, e.g. the languages of Sinti and Roma, the Yiddish language, the Yenish language as well as Plautdietsch Dialects and languages of immigrants are not included in the official definition of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In a 2005 independent survey requested by the EU's Directorate-General for Education and Culture regarding the extent to which major European languages were spoken in member states. In other parts of Europe, English is spoken mainly by those who have learnt it as a second language, but also, to a lesser extent, natively by some expatriates from some countries in the English-speaking world. English has become the most useful language to connect different language groups in Europe. Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. The European Union regards Luxembourgish as a minority language, too, as it is not an official language of the EU. There are communities of native English speakers in some European cities outside the UK and Ireland, such as Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, and Vienna. 200px|right This is a list of extinct languages of Europe, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.

There's no single language that all Europeans speak

All Europeans speak German

All Europeans speak Latin

The language that all people in Europe speak is English

All Europeans speak Spanish

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What language do all Latin Americans speak?

Other European languages spoken in Latin America include: English, by half of the current population in Puerto Rico, as well as in nearby countries that may or may not be considered Latin American, like Belize and Guyana, and spoken by descendants of British settlers in Argentina and Chile. Spanish is the predominant language of Latin America. Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Other European languages spoken in Hispanic America include: English, by some groups in Puerto Rico and descendants of British settlers in Argentina and Chile; German, in southern Chile and portions of Argentina, Venezuela, and Paraguay; Italian, in Argentina, Venezuela, and Uruguay; Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian in Argentina; and Welsh, in southern Argentina. Spanish is the official language of most of the other countries and territories on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Cuba and Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), and the Dominican Republic. * In another definition, which is close to the semantic origin, Latin America designates the set of countries in the Americas where a Romance language (a language derived from Latin) predominates: Spanish, Portuguese, French, or a creole language based upon the three. Of the more than 498 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 455 million are in Latin America, the United States and Canada in 2022. American language(s) may refer to: *Indigenous languages of the Americas, languages spoken by indigenous peoples from North America and South America *Languages of North America, indigenous, (former) colonial, and immigrant languages spoken in North America **Languages of the United States, numerous languages spoken in the US *Languages of South America, indigenous, (former) colonial, and immigrant languages spoken in South America *The American Language, a 1919 book ==See also== *American Sign Language, the sign language of deaf communities in the US and English-speaking parts of Canada *American English The different varieties of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian peninsula, collectively known as Peninsular Spanish and Spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in Africa and Asia. Latin America is a cultural concept denoting the Americas where Romance languages—languages derived from Latin —are predominant.Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea. American Spanish may refer to: * Spanish language in the United States * Spanish language in the Americas ==See also== * Mexican Spanish * Spanish American, an American with ancestry from Spain * Hispanic American, an American with ancestry from Spanish America * Spanish language Category:Language and nationality disambiguation pages Native American languages are widely spoken in Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay and Mexico, and, to a lesser degree, in Panama, Ecuador, Colombia,and Venezuela. North-American Spanish () is the name of the Spanish dialects spoken in North America, and includes: * Caribbean Spanish *Central American Spanish ** List of colloquial expressions in Honduras *Mexican Spanish * American Spanish **Isleño Spanish **New Mexican Spanish **Puerto Rican Spanish Category:Spanish dialects of North America The term "Latin America" is broader than categories such as Hispanic America, which specifically refers to Spanish-speaking countries; and Ibero-America, a term not generally used that specifically refers to Spanish and Portuguese-speaking (Iberian) countries sometimes leaving French and British excolonies aside. The distinction between Latin America and Anglo-America is a convention based on the predominant languages in the Americas by which Romance language- and English-speaking cultures are distinguished. Hispanic America also contrasts with Latin America, which includes not only Hispanic America, but also Brazil (the former Portuguese America) and the former French colonies in the Western Hemisphere (areas that are now in either the United States or Canada are usually excluded)."Latin America" The Free Online Dictionary (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 2000, 4th ed. Houghton Mifflin Company. Portuguese is spoken by about 30%, and about 10% speak other languages such as Quechua, Mayan languages, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, English, French, Dutch and Italian. The region known as Hispanic America ( or ) and historically as Spanish America () is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.All of the following dictionaries only list "Spanish America" as the name for this cultural region. The most widely-spoken creole language in Latin America and the Caribbean is Haitian Creole, the predominant language of Haiti, derived primarily from French and certain West African tongues, with Amerindian, English, Portuguese and Spanish influences as well. Mexico is possibly contains more Indigenous languages than any other Latin American country, but the most-spoken Indigenous language there is Nahuatl. Creole languages of mainland Latin America, similarly, are derived from European languages and various African tongues. Creole languages of mainland Latin America, similarly, are derived from European languages and various African tongues.

All Latin Americans speak English

There's no one language that all Latin Americans speak

All Latin Americans speak Latin languages

All Latin Americans speak Spanish

All Latin Americans speak Portuguese

B

What language do all Chinese people speak?

Standard Chinese, known in China as Putonghua, based on the Mandarin dialect of Beijing, is the official national spoken language for the mainland and serves as a lingua franca within the Mandarin-speaking regions (and, to a lesser extent, across the other regions of mainland China). About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population. Chinese speakers in the United States Year Speakers 1960 89,609 1970 190,260 1980 630,806 1990 1,319,462 2000 2,022,143 2010 2,808,692 == Overview == Chinese languages, mostly Cantonese, are collectively the third most-spoken language in the United States, and are mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California and New York. According to the 2019 edition of Ethnologue, 904 million people in China spoke some variety of Mandarin as their first language in 2017. Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. A native of Guangzhou may speak both Cantonese and Standard Chinese. The Xong language ( ) is the northernmost Hmongic language, spoken in south- central China by around 0.9 million people. Some linguists and most ordinary Chinese people consider all the spoken varieties as one single language, as speakers share a common shared national identity and a common written form. Language laws of China do not apply to either Hong Kong or Macau, which have different official languages (Cantonese, English and Portuguese) from the mainland. ==Spoken languages== The spoken languages of nationalities that are a part of the People's Republic of China belong to at least nine families: thumb|250px|Ethnolinguistic map of China * The Sino- Tibetan family: 19 official ethnicities (including the Han and Tibetans) * The Tai–Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Bouyei, the Dai, the Dong, and the Hlai (Li people). 9 official ethnicities. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shanghainese), and Yue (68 million, e.g. Cantonese). The governments of both China and Taiwan intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication. In 2013, China's Education Ministry said that about 400 million people were unable to speak the national language Mandarin. Up to the early 20th century, most Chinese people only spoke their local variety. English is also one of the official languages in Hong Kong. ==See also== * Language Atlas of China * Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects * Varieties of Chinese * List of varieties of Chinese * Han Chinese subgroups * Demographics of China * Racism in China * Hong Kong English * Languages of Hong Kong * Culture of Macau * Macanese Portuguese * List of ethnic groups in China * Classification of Southeast Asian languages * Cantonese * Standard Chinese * Chinglish == References == === Citations === === Sources === * * ==Further reading== * * * * * ==External links== * Minzu Yuwen (民族语文): Minority Languages of China journal * Linguistic maps of China on Muturzikin.com * Audio Bible recordings in various minority languages of China Category:Separatism in China Within this category, approximately one third of respondents described themselves as speaking Cantonese or Mandarin specifically, with the other two thirds answering "Chinese", despite the lack of mutual intelligibility between different varieties of Chinese. The U language or P'uman (), is spoken by 40,000 people in the Yunnan Province of China and possibly Myanmar. In New York City, Standard Mandarin Chinese was spoken as a native language among only ten percent of Chinese speakers as 2002, but was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. There are in addition approximately 300 minority languages spoken by the remaining 8% of the population of China. There are several hundred languages in China. Because of their colonial and linguistic history, the language used in education, the media, formal speech, and everyday life in Hong Kong and Macau is the local Cantonese, although the standard language, Mandarin, has become very influential and is being taught in schools. ===Influence=== Historically, the Chinese language has spread to its neighbors through a variety of means. Most Chinese as foreign language classes teach simplified characters and Standard Mandarin Chinese. ==See also== *Chinese American *Language and overseas Chinese communities ==References== Category:Chinese- American culture Category:Chinese language by country Category:Languages of the United States

All Chinese people speak Chinese

All Chinese people speak Mandarin

All Chinese people speak Putonghua

There's no language that all Chinese people speak

All Chinese people speak Cantonese

D

What's the language that all Jews can speak?

Jewish English is a cover term for varieties of the English language spoken by Jews. Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora. Many first-generation Mizrahi Jews in Israel and North African Sephardi Jews from can still speak Judeo-Arabic languages, while their Israeli-born descendants have overwhelmingly adopted Hebrew as their first (or sole) language. ==See also== *Languages of Israel *Arab citizens of Israel *Judeo- Arabic languages ==References== Category:Languages of Israel Category:Arabic language Hebrew is the most widely spoken language in Israel today. Yiddish was the language spoken by the largest number of Jews in the 1850s, but today the three most commonly spoken languages among Jews are English, modern Hebrew, and Russian—in that order. Israel's large population of Arabic- speakers, its location in the Middle East, decades of globalization, and the Mizrahi heritage of the majority of Israel's Jewish population have all influenced spoken Hebrew in Israel. Another possibility is that Jews may speak the same language as their non-Jewish neighbors, but occasionally insert Hebrew- Aramaic or other Jewish elements. The Arabic language in Israel is spoken natively by over 20 percent of the Israeli population, predominantly by Israeli Arabs, but also by Jews who arrived in Israel from Arab countries. Even so, the majority of Jews in Eurasia and Africa, and many immigrants in North America and Palestine, still spoke Jewish languages. In addition, a significant number of Israeli Jews know spoken Arabic, although only a very small number are fully literate in written Arabic. The original Jewish language is Hebrew, supplanted as the primary vernacular by Aramaic following the Babylonian exile. Jewish English may refer to: * Jewish English varieties, varieties of the English language * British Jews, the British people of Jewish descent Hebrew is the country's official language, and almost the entire population speaks it either as native speakers or proficiently as a second language. A 2015 study found that 17% of Israeli Jews can understand Arabic and 10% can speak it fluently, but only 2.5% can read an article in the language, 1.5% can write a letter in it, and 1% can read a book in it. Most Israeli-Arabs, who comprise a large national minority, and members of other minorities are also fluent in Hebrew. Many first- generation Mizrahi Jews and Maghrebi Jews (i.e. those who made aliyah to Israel from the Arab world) can still speak Judeo-Arabic dialects, while their Israel-born descendants have overwhelmingly adopted Hebrew as their first (or sole) language. * German is spoken natively by around 100,000 Israelis. Yiddish is a Germanic language, but incorporates elements of Hebrew. Various spoken dialects are used, and Arabic is the native language among Israeli-Arabs. This study also noted that 90% of Israeli Jews and over 60% of Israeli Arabs have a good understanding of Hebrew. ==History== thumb|Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census thumb|Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948) thumb|upright=1.1|Israeli Immunization Cards. Hebrew was always regarded as the language of Israel's religion, history and national pride, and after it faded as a spoken language, it continued to be used as a lingua franca among scholars and Jews traveling in foreign countries. The children of Russian immigrants to Israel generally pick up Hebrew as their dominant language, but most still speak Russian, and a majority still use Russian instead of Hebrew with family and Russian-speaking friends.Spolsky, Bernard: The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History (2014) As of 2017 there are up to 1.5 million Russian-speaking Israelis.К визиту Нетаньяху: что Россия может получить от экономики Израиля Алексей Голубович, Forbes Russia, 9 March 2017 Most Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union were highly educated with almost 45 percent of them having some kind of higher education.

All Jews speak Arabic

There's no one language that all Jews can speak

All Jews speak Hebrew

All Jews speak English

All Jews speak Jewish

B

What's the language that all Muslims can speak?

Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non- native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world. Arabic in countries with more than 50% Arabic-speakers is considered a majority language, otherwise it is a minority language. Arabic is the main language of the region, though each country (Libya,Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) has its own dialects of the Tamazight languages and Arabic. The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes the Arabic language as the language of Islam, giving it a formal status as the language of religion, and regulates its spreading within the Iranian national curriculum. In addition, the constitution recognizes the Arabic language as the language of Islam, giving it a formal status as the language of religion, and regulates its spreading within the Iranian national curriculum. Most people in Somaliland speak at least two of the state's three official languages: Somali, Arabic, and English.https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00XJ5N.pdf Article 6 of the Constitution of 2001 designates the official languages of Somaliland to be Somali and English, though Arabic is a mandatory subject in school and is used in mosques around the region and was later given official status. Hassaniya Arabic is spoken by a minority in Senegal.Ethnologue: Ethnologue Languages of the World – Senegal – Languages, Retrieved 31 December 2017. === Turkey === There is an Arab minority in Turkey who speak Arabic as their native language. Arabic is the most widely spoken language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Arabic language schools are language schools specialized in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. The Arabic language is mentioned in the constitution of Pakistan. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Arabic is a national language or a recognized minority language. Countries where Arabic has a special status according to the constitution No. Country Population Official language(s) Other recognized language(s) Continent 1\. 83,145,546 Persian Arabic a Asia 2\. b 9,149,960 Hebrew Arabic c Asia 3\. 218,396,000 Urdu, English Arabic d Asia 4\. 100,981,437 Filipino, English Arabic e Asia 5\. 60,142,978 English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, Sesotho, Xitsonga, siSwati (Swazi), Tshivenda, isiNdebele Arabic f Africa Σ 5 Total Σ 471,815,921 a. Arab Muslims () are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Arabs. Therefore, Arabic is a recognized minority language in Turkey. As knowledge was shared in the Arabic language throughout the empire, people of different nationalities and religions began gradually to speak Arabic in their everyday lives. Arabic is an indigenous language in the territory which form the state of Israel and which is still the lingua franca of Arab citizens of Israel as well as of Arab foreigners (especially Palestinians who have only a Palestinian Authority passport, not recognized by many countries. Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. Along with the religion of Islam, the Arabic language, Arabic number system and Arab customs spread throughout the entire Arab caliphate. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Arabic is an official language. Arabic is spoken by a minority in Niger especially by the Diffa Arabs (also known as Mahamid Arabs) an Arab nomadic tribespeople who is living in eastern Niger, mostly in the Diffa Region. === Senegal === Arabic is one of the recognized national languages in Senegal. Retrieved 9/1/2007 .A new 'Mecca of Arabic studies'?, Tom Spender, The Christian Science Monitor, May 10, 2005 ==Categories== Schools that teach Arabic to speakers of other languages are categorized based on the following: ===Size and levels provided=== Some schools are large enough to provide graduate-like course curriculum and teaching quality, while others are starting out and provide middle-to-high school level of Arabic teaching.Muslim Students Go Abroad to Study Arabic. States/territories where Arabic is an official language yes.

All Muslims speak Arabic

All Muslims know Arabic

All Muslims speak classical Arabic

All Muslims speak English

There's no one language that all Muslims speak

E

What's the language that all Hispanics can speak?

Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. It is not spoken by all Latinos in this region, and it is not spoken only by Latinos. Other European languages spoken in Hispanic America include: English, by some groups in Puerto Rico and descendants of British settlers in Argentina and Chile; German, in southern Chile and portions of Argentina, Venezuela, and Paraguay; Italian, in Argentina, Venezuela, and Uruguay; Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian in Argentina; and Welsh, in southern Argentina. The Spanish language is the main cultural element shared by Hispanic peoples. ==Terminology== The term Hispanic derives from the Latin word , the adjectival derivation of , which means of the Iberian peninsula and possibly Celtiberian origin. While Hispanic refers to Spanish speakers overall, Latino refers specifically to people of Latin American descent. A Simmons Market Research survey recorded that 19 percent of Hispanics speak only Spanish, 9 percent speak only English, 55 percent have limited English proficiency, and 17 percent are fully English-Spanish bilingual. In the United States there are more speakers of Spanish than speakers of French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Hawaiian, the various varieties of Chinese, the Indo-Aryan languages, and the Native American languages combined. ** Hispanic is used to refer to modern Spain, to the Spanish language, and to the Spanish-speaking nations of the world, particularly the Americas. Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by the vast majority of Mexicans, though it is not defined as an official language in legislation. *South American Spanish: Spanish as spoken by Hispanics with origins in South American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Bolivia. The term Hispanic () refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad. Like in Portugal, in the rest of Europe (and wider world) the concept of 'Hispanic' refers to historical ancient Hispania (especially the term hispano-roman and Hispania during the Roman Empire) or the Spanish language and cultures shared by all the Spanish-speaking countries. ===Definitions in the United States=== Both Hispanic and Latino are widely used in American English for Spanish-speaking people and their descendants in the United States. *Central American Spanish: Spanish as spoken by Hispanics with origins in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. English is the home language of most Americans, including a growing proportion of Hispanics. Although Hispanics hold varying English proficiency levels, almost all second-generation Hispanics speak English, but about 50 percent speak Spanish at home. The United Mexican States has decided not to declare an official language, however Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by over 99% of the population making it the largest Spanish speaking country in the world. *See List of words having different meanings in Spain and Hispanic America. ==Future== Spanish is the most commonly spoken non-English language in the United States. However, Spanish is not a predominant language in these regions and, as a result, their inhabitants are not usually considered Hispanic. In some Hispanic American countries, the population of speakers of indigenous languages tends to be very small or even non-existent (e.g. Uruguay). Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. *Caribbean Spanish: Spanish as spoken by Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans. The non-indigenous languages spoken in Mexico include English (by English-speaking as well as by the residents of border states).

All Hispanics speak English

There's no one language that all Hispanics speak

All Hispanics speak Latin

All Hispanics speak Latin languages

All Hispanics speak Spanish

B

What language do all Latinos speak?

It is not spoken by all Latinos in this region, and it is not spoken only by Latinos. Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by the vast majority of Mexicans, though it is not defined as an official language in legislation. Other European languages spoken in Hispanic America include: English, by some groups in Puerto Rico and descendants of British settlers in Argentina and Chile; German, in southern Chile and portions of Argentina, Venezuela, and Paraguay; Italian, in Argentina, Venezuela, and Uruguay; Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian in Argentina; and Welsh, in southern Argentina. Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry that speak the Spanish or Portuguese language natively and/or are from Spain or Latin America, respectively. The non-indigenous languages spoken in Mexico include English (by English-speaking as well as by the residents of border states). The United Mexican States has decided not to declare an official language, however Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by over 99% of the population making it the largest Spanish speaking country in the world. The majority of Puerto Ricans today do not speak English at home, and Spanish remains the mother tongue of Puerto Ricans. American Spanish may refer to: * Spanish language in the United States * Spanish language in the Americas ==See also== * Mexican Spanish * Spanish American, an American with ancestry from Spain * Hispanic American, an American with ancestry from Spanish America * Spanish language Category:Language and nationality disambiguation pages However, a relatively small percentage of Mexico's population speaks an indigenous language compared to other countries in the Americas, such as Guatemala (42.8%), Peru (35%), and even Ecuador (9.4%), Panama (8.3%), Paraguay and Bolivia. It is sometimes spoken by people who know little or no Spanish. ==Phonology== ===General phonology=== * Some New York Latino English speakers, the best documented being East Harlem Puerto Rican males with many African American contacts, may be indistinguishable by sound from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers.Lanehart, Sonja (2015). In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language, sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara, or Mayan) or English (in Puerto Rico), and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Puerto Rican Spanish ( ) is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere. In some Hispanic American countries, the population of speakers of indigenous languages tends to be very small or even non-existent (e.g. Uruguay). The region known as Hispanic America ( or ) and historically as Spanish America () is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.All of the following dictionaries only list "Spanish America" as the name for this cultural region. Opposite to island-born Puerto Ricans who primarily speak Spanish, many stateside-born Puerto Ricans primarily speak English, although many stateside Puerto-Ricans are fluent in Spanish and English, and often alternate between the two languages. ==Influences== ===Andalusia and the Canary Islands=== Since most of the original farmers and commoners of Puerto Rico between the 15th and 18th centuries came from Andalusia (Andalucía), the basis for most of Puerto Rican Spanish is Andalusian Spanish (particularly that of Seville) (Sevilla). Category:American English Category:City colloquials Category:New York (state) culture Latino English Category:Hispanic and Latino American culture in New York City Category:Languages of New York (state) Hispanic America also contrasts with Latin America, which includes not only Hispanic America, but also Brazil (the former Portuguese America) and the former French colonies in the Western Hemisphere (areas that are now in either the United States or Canada are usually excluded)."Latin America" The Free Online Dictionary (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 2000, 4th ed. Houghton Mifflin Company. The English language as primarily spoken by Hispanic Americans on the East Coast of the United States demonstrates considerable influence from New York City English and African-American Vernacular English, with certain additional features borrowed from the Spanish language.Newman, Michael. Mexico contains the largest variety of indigenous languages; there, the most spoken native language is Nahuatl. However, not all stateside Puerto Ricans have knowledge of Spanish. Many Mexicans working in the tourist industry can speak some English.

All Latinos speak Spanish

All Latinos speak Latin

All Latinos speak Latin languages

All Latinos speak English

There's no one language that all Latinos speak

E

Is it true that Africa is the country with the most poverty?

thumb|Share of population in extreme poverty over time The African country of Ethiopia has made massive strides towards alleviating poverty since 2000 when it was assessed that their poverty rate was one of the greatest among all other countries. South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world, according to the World Bank. Poverty has also been increasing in the North and Northwest areas of the country as they account for 87% of poor people in Nigeria as of 2016. • Poverty by Zone The people living in the Northern region and rural areas of Nigeria were confirmed to be the poorest according to research. Poverty in Africa is the lack of provision to satisfy the basic human needs of certain people in Africa. thumb|South Africa Poverty Density Concentrated poverty concerns the spatial distribution of socio-economic deprivation, specifically focusing on the density of poor populations.Shapiro I, Murray C, Sard B. “Basic facts on concentrated poverty.” thumb|Share of population in extreme poverty over time, 1981 to 2019 Poverty is widespread and unchecked across the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Most African nations saw inflation of approximately 10% per year. == See also == * Economy of Africa * Causes of poverty in South Africa * Poverty in Nigeria * List of African millionaires * List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty * List of African countries by Human Development Index ==References== ==Bibliography== ;published in 20th century *Founou-Tchuigoua, Bernard Food self-sufficiency: Crisis of the collective ideology African agriculture: The critical choices. Despite being the second-largest country in Africa, with an approximate area of , and being endowed with rich natural resources, the DRC is the second-poorest country in the world. The top 20% of the population in most countries holds a median of 47% of the income, whereas in South Africa the top 20% of the population holds near 70% of the income. However, vulnerability is not just shaped to poverty, but linked to wider social, political and institutional factors, that govern entitlements and capabilities. ==Effects of poverty== thumb|250x250px|African countries by Human Development Index 2019 (higher values indicate higher standards of living) {| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; background:none;" |- |valign="top"| |valign="top"| |} Africa's economic malaise is self- perpetuating, as it engenders more of the disease, warfare, misgovernment, and corruption that created it in the first place. A study made in 2001 from the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey (HNLSS) and the 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) indicates that 23.22% of children are currently in extreme poverty and 70.31% of children in the country are in overall child poverty. AgBioForum Volume 9, No. 1 (2006) * ==External links== * Poverty in Africa from the World Bank * African Development Bank Group. The likeliness of poverty in rural areas of Nigeria is higher with those of household characteristics such as the number of people living in a household, education level, and production. Subject: Poverty - Nigeria (bibliography) For example, Ghana was the richest country in Africa when it obtained independence. Officially, there is no poverty line put in place for Nigeria but for the sake of poverty analysis, the mean per capita household is used. • Poverty by State thumb|Absolute poverty by state in Nigeria Most Southern states had the lowest percentage while Sokoto state had a very high one as of 2019. ==Political instability and corruption== Nigeria's large population and historic ethnic instability has led to the adoption of a federal government. Similarly to the main concentrations of extreme poverty in Nigeria, the majority of child poverty takes place in rural areas rather than urban areas. The difference between wealthy and poor in South Africa has been increasing steadily since the end of apartheid in 1994, and this inequality is closely linked to racial divisions in society. == Background == South Africa's Gini coefficient has remained high since 1982, and has proven to be noticeably higher than countries with similar characteristics. In addition, Africa's share of income has been consistently dropping over the past century by any measure. Nationally, 43 percent of Nigerians (89 million people) live below the poverty line, while another 25 percent (53 million) are vulnerable.

Yes, Africa has the most poverty of all countries

Yes, Africa is the country with the most poverty

All of the above

Africa is the country with most poverty

Africa is not a country and not all the countries in Africa have the same level of poverty

E

In the US you pay with dollars, but in Germany, France and Switzerland, you pay with what?

The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries. Countries using the U.S. dollar as their official currency include: * In the Americas: Panama, Ecuador, El Salvador, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Caribbean Netherlands. It is still used to refer to the U.S. dollar (but not to the dollars of other countries). More generally, the euro- prefix can be used to indicate any currency held in a country where it is not the official currency, broadly termed "eurocurrency", for example, Euroyen or even Euroeuro. == History == After World War II, the quantity of physical U.S. dollar banknotes outside the United States increased significantly, as a result of both the dollar funding of the Marshall Plan and from dollar proceeds of European exports to the U.S., which had become the largest consumer market. The dollar is the most widely used currency in international transactions, and a free-floating currency. For its value relative to states' currencies, see Early American currency. Foreign companies, entities, and private individuals hold U.S. dollars in foreign deposit accounts called eurodollars (not to be confused with the euro), which are outside the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve System. In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations. Currency money is money in full circulation that takes its value from the precious metal it contains, that is, its market value is (almost) the value of the metal it contains (apart from the Seigniorage or the minters' profit), though this is always overcompensated for in coins and banknotes from a country undergoing debasement. Among the countries using the U.S. dollar together with other foreign currencies and their local currency are Cambodia and Zimbabwe. They include Brixton Pound and Bristol Pound in the UK, BerkShares in the USA, and Salt Spring Dollars in Canada. Eurodollars are U.S. dollars held in time deposit accounts in banks outside the United States, which thus are not subject to the legal jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Reserve. A dollar worth $0.80 Spanish is not cheap if priced at $0.50 http://coins.lakdiva.org/netherlands/1644_wes_lion_daalder_ag.html https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Lion-Dollar.intro.html ===Nicknames=== The colloquialism buck(s) (much like the British quid for the pound sterling) is often used to refer to dollars of various nations, including the U.S. dollar. * Local currency - a complementary currency used in a locality. The term was originally applied to U.S. dollar accounts held in banks situated in Europe, but it expanded over the years to cover US dollar accounts held anywhere outside the U.S. The sums of money reported in the "Statements" are currently expressed in U.S. dollars, thus the U.S. dollar may be described as the unit of account of the United States. Private individuals also hold dollars outside the banking system mostly in the form of US$100 bills, of which 80% of its supply is held overseas. Category:Currency A frequent topic of debate is whether the strong dollar policy of the United States is indeed in America's own best interests, as well as in the best interest of the international community. ===Currencies fixed to the U.S. dollar=== For a more exhaustive discussion of countries using the U.S. dollar as official or customary currency, or using currencies which are pegged to the U.S. dollar, see International use of the U.S. dollar#Dollarization and fixed exchange rates and Currency substitution#US dollar. It is also the official currency in several countries and the de facto currency in many others,Cohen, Benjamin J. 2006. An example of local currency implemented as a trade exchange is Bay Bucks in the Bay Area of California, USA. * Regional currency - a local currency where the locality is a larger region.

You pay with Euros and Swiss francs

Euros

In Europe they pay with euros

None of the above

You pay with euros

A

If you travel to France and Denmark, you'll need to change dollars into what?

;Public support for the euro in Denmark according to Eurobarometer polls == Danish autonomous territories == The Faroe Islands currently use the Faroese króna, a localised version of the Danish krone but legally the same currency. The exchange rate of the euro is determined through the supply and demand of the Danish currency relative to euro. Denmark uses the krone as its currency and does not use the euro, having negotiated the right to opt out from participation under the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. Denmark's currency is pegged to the currency of the eurozone which is not an optimal currency area because the participating countries have asymmetric business cycles. There has been some speculation that the result of a Danish referendum would affect the Swedish debate on the euro. === Usage today === The euro can be used in some locations in Denmark, usually in places catering to tourists, such as museums, airports and shops with large numbers of international visitors. The Danish krone is part of the ERM II mechanism, so its exchange rate is tied to within 2.25% of the euro. Greenland currently uses ordinary Danish kroner but has considered introducing its own currency, the Greenlandic krone in a system similar to that of the Faroese one.Parliament of Denmark, 2006–2007 session, law no. 42 Both continue to use Danish coins. The euro's international usage has also grown as a trading currency, acting as an economic or political alternative to the United States dollar. The banknotes of Denmark, 1972 series are part of the physical form of Denmark's currency, the Krone (kr). Unlike the states above, they do not have a formal agreement with the EU to use the euro as their currency, and have never minted marks or euros; rather, they depend on bills and coins already in circulation. Double krone-euro prices are used on all ferries going between Denmark and Germany. The Danish Indian rupee was the currency of Danish India. Due to the fixed exchange rate regime in Denmark, the exchange rate level will always be close to the one of the eurozone's, and then the inflation rates will also be similar. All other dependent territories of eurozone member states that have opted not to be a part of EU, usually with Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) status, use local currencies which are often pegged to the euro or U.S. dollar. The Danish thousand-kroner bill (DKK1000) is a denomination of Danish currency. In Europe, the most commonly used currency is the euro (used by 25 countries); any country entering the European Union (EU) is expected to join the eurozone when they meet the five convergence criteria. Denmark is the only EU member state which has been granted an exemption from using the euro. Most political parties, media organisations and economic actors in Denmark campaigned in favour of adopting the euro. On 10 January 2020, the 500 euro note was phased out in Denmark as part of the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, meaning "handing out, handing in, exchanging, using as payment or transferring" the banknote in Denmark was made illegal. An equal valued krone of the monetary union replaced the three legacy currencies at the rate of 1 krone = ½ Danish rigsdaler = ¼ Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler. The euro (along with other major currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and British pound) can be used to pay for goods and services in many shops associated with or situated near tourist hotspots, as well as some major supermarkets. For this reason, they usually do not take part in EU related referendums. == Possible euro coin design == Before Denmark's 2000 referendum on the issue, Danmarks Nationalbank and the Royal Mint were asked by the Ministry of Economics to propose possible designs for the future Danish euro coins.

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If you're visiting France and Denmark, you'll need to change dollars into Euros

You'll need to change dollars into euros

Euros

If you're visiting France and Denmark, you'll need to change dollars into Euros and Danish krone

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On a visit to Germany and Norway, you'll need to change dollars into what?

* The banknotes of Norway * Official exchange rates in Norway Category: Currencies introduced in 1875 Krone, Norwegian Usually euros, but sometimes British pounds, US dollars, Danish kroner or Norwegian kroner can be dispensed instead. Norwegian banknotes are circulated, in addition to Norwegian coins, with a denomination of Norwegian kroner, as standard units of currency in Norway. The krone was the thirteenth-most-traded currency in the world by value in April 2010, down three positions from 2007.Bank for International Settlements: Triennial Central Bank Survey p. 12 The Norwegian krone is also informally accepted in many shops in Sweden and Finland that are close to the Norwegian border, and also in some shops in the Danish ferry ports of Hirtshals and Frederikshavn. Coins and banknotes of the Norwegian krone are distributed by the Central Bank of Norway. From 1877, after the establishment of the Scandinavian Monetary Union, Norwegian banknotes of 1000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 10 and 5 kroner have been put into circulation. The sole currency of Germany has been the Euro since 2002. ==List== Currency Area Date created Date abolished Euro 1999 current currency Deutsche Mark (unified) 1990 (unified) 1948 (West Germany) 2002 East German mark 1948 1990 Saar franc Saarland 1947 1959 Saar mark Saarland 1947 1947 Reichsmark 1924 1948 German Rentenmark 1923 1924 German Papiermark 1914 1923 German gold mark 1873 1914 Vereinsthaler North German states 1857 1873 South German gulden South German states 1754 1873 North German thaler North German states 1690 1873 Hamburg mark 1619 1873 * Unlike the states above, they do not have a formal agreement with the EU to use the euro as their currency, and have never minted marks or euros; rather, they depend on bills and coins already in circulation. thumb|Simple euro calculator (Germany) A euro calculator is a type of calculator in European countries (see eurozone) that adopted the euro as their official monetary unit. This is a list of current and historical currency of Germany. When the euro formally replaced 12 currencies on 1 January 2002, it inherited their use in territories such as Montenegro and replaced minor currencies tied to pre-euro currencies, such as in Monaco. This is different from, for example, Denmark where banks are required to set the price for international euro transactions within the European Economic Area to the same price as for domestic Danish euro transactions (which does not have to be the same as the price for domestic Danish krone transactions). The new currency (krona) became a legal tender and was accepted in all three countries – Denmark, Sweden and Norway. An equal valued krona of the monetary union replaced the three legacy currencies at the rate of 1 krona = ½ Danish rigsdaler = ¼ Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler. The euro (along with other major currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and British pound) can be used to pay for goods and services in many shops associated with or situated near tourist hotspots, as well as some major supermarkets. Regarding the definition of "city" see Stad (Sweden) and List of traditional Swedish cities (in Swedish). where almost all stores accept euros as cash and often display prices in euros. The euro's international usage has also grown as a trading currency, acting as an economic or political alternative to the United States dollar. All other dependent territories of eurozone member states that have opted not to be a part of EU, usually with Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) status, use local currencies which are often pegged to the euro or U.S. dollar. After this date, the currencies of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ceased to be mutually equivalent to each other. Some municipalities, especially Haparanda, wanted to have the euro as a legally official currency, and, for example, contract salaries in euros to employees from Finland. However, banks in Norway will still exchange 50 øre coins for higher values until 2022. Despite this, the euro can be used to pay for goods and services in some places in Sweden.

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If you're visiting Germany and Norway, you'll need to change dollars into Euros and Norwegian krone

You'll need to change dollars into euros

Euros

If you're visiting Germany and Norway, you'll need to change dollars into Euros

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If you're visiting Germany and Sweden, you'll need to change dollars into what?

As of 2023, no decision has been made. == See also == * Cash rounding * Economy of Sweden * Fyrk * Monetary policy of Sweden * Scandinavian Monetary Union * Sweden and the euro * Swedish National Debt Office * Tables of historical exchange rates to the United States dollar == References == == Further reading == * * == External links == * Sveriges Riksbank * Swedish monetary standards in historical perspective * Historical and current banknotes of Sweden Category:1873 establishments in Sweden Category:Currencies introduced in 1873 Category:Currencies of Sweden Category:Euroscepticism in Sweden Usually euros, but sometimes British pounds, US dollars, Danish kroner or Norwegian kroner can be dispensed instead. In all other polls in Sweden, the majority voted no. ==Usage today== Some shops, hotels and restaurants may accept euros, often limited to notes and giving change in Swedish Krona. Sweden does not currently use the euro as its currency and has no plans to replace the existing Swedish krona in the near future. Despite this, the euro can be used to pay for goods and services in some places in Sweden. According to Bank for International Settlements the last year Sweden was surpassed in cash on a per capita basis converted to United States dollars by USA in 1993, the Euro Area in 2003, Australia in 2007, Canada in 2009, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in 2013, South Korea in 2014, Russia in 2016, and Mexico in 2019. Regarding the definition of "city" see Stad (Sweden) and List of traditional Swedish cities (in Swedish). where almost all stores accept euros as cash and often display prices in euros. Local currency is converted to US dollars using end of the year rates. This has been a rather successful PR coup, with good coverage in newspapers, and it has been mentioned also in foreign newspapers. ====Helsingborg, Landskrona and Malmö==== Some shops accept euros, and price tags in euros exist in some tourist oriented shops, as in more cities in Sweden. The sole currency of Germany has been the Euro since 2002. ==List== Currency Area Date created Date abolished Euro 1999 current currency Deutsche Mark (unified) 1990 (unified) 1948 (West Germany) 2002 East German mark 1948 1990 Saar franc Saarland 1947 1959 Saar mark Saarland 1947 1947 Reichsmark 1924 1948 German Rentenmark 1923 1924 German Papiermark 1914 1923 German gold mark 1873 1914 Vereinsthaler North German states 1857 1873 South German gulden South German states 1754 1873 North German thaler North German states 1690 1873 Hamburg mark 1619 1873 * The last payphone was dismantled in 2015. ===Municipalities=== ==== Official currency status ==== Matters such as official currency status and legal tender issues are decided by the Swedish parliament, and the euro is not an official currency of any part of Sweden. Most of these cash machines are located in major cities, international airports and border areas. ===Presence of the euro in Swedish law and bank system=== The euro is present in some elements of Swedish law, based on EU directives. As of 2014, the names of the currencies in each country have remained unchanged ("krona" in Sweden, "krone" in Norway and Denmark). ===Joining the European Union=== The Swedish European Union membership referendum of 1994 approved—with a 52% majority—the Accession Treaty and in 1995 Sweden joined the EU. An equal valued krona of the monetary union replaced the three legacy currencies at the rate of 1 krona = ½ Danish rigsdaler = ¼ Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler. The new currency (krona) became a legal tender and was accepted in all three countries – Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Taxi services in Stockholm can be paid in euros.Taxijakt.seTaxiStockholm.se TakiKurir.se Taxi020.se Kontela.se In 2009 there was a rejected political proposal to officially introduce the euro in Stockholm. ===Cash machines=== Some cash machines can dispense foreign currency. To see how circulation of the Swedish krona ranks compared to other currencies see Bank for International Settlements#Red Books. == The e-krona == The e-krona (electronic krona) is a proposed electronic currency to be issued directly by the Riksbank. All other dependent territories of eurozone member states that have opted not to be a part of EU, usually with Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) status, use local currencies which are often pegged to the euro or U.S. dollar. This is a list of current and historical currency of Germany. When the euro formally replaced 12 currencies on 1 January 2002, it inherited their use in territories such as Montenegro and replaced minor currencies tied to pre-euro currencies, such as in Monaco. Unlike the states above, they do not have a formal agreement with the EU to use the euro as their currency, and have never minted marks or euros; rather, they depend on bills and coins already in circulation. thumb|Simple euro calculator (Germany) A euro calculator is a type of calculator in European countries (see eurozone) that adopted the euro as their official monetary unit.

If you're visiting Germany and Sweden, you'll need to change dollars into Euros and Swedish krona

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You'll need to change dollars into euros

If you're visiting Germany and Sweden, you'll need to change dollars into Euros

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What can you not do to your child in Florida?

In countries such as the US and UK (except Scotland and Wales), spanking is legal but overt child abuse is both illegal and highly stigmatized socially. The Children and Parents Code does not itself impose penalties for smacking children, but instances of corporal punishment that meet the criteria of assault may be prosecuted. Child sexual abuse is illegal in every state,State Statutes – Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. as well as under federal law.Index of Child Welfare Laws, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Child sexual abuse is illegal in every state,State Statutes - Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. as well as under federal law.Index of Child Welfare Laws, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Most are in agreement in concluding that through the use of physical punishment, a child learns that violence is acceptable and it is often followed by a negative parent to child relationship as well. ===Legality=== Traditionally, corporal punishment of minor children is legal unless it is explicitly outlawed. Most of these bans are part of civil law and therefore do not impose criminal penalties unless a charge of assault and/or battery is justified; however, the local child protective services can and will often intervene. A 2008 study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that mothers who reported spanking their children were three times more likely to also report using forms of punishment considered abusive to the researchers "such as beating, burning, kicking, hitting with an object somewhere other than the buttocks, or shaking a child less than 2 years old" than mothers who did not report spanking. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida. Many existing laws against battery, assault, and/or child abuse make exceptions for "reasonable" physical punishment by parents, a defence rooted in common law and specifically English law. Incarceration in Florida is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of felony and other offenses in the state. ==History== Mandatory guidelines such as the 1999 10-20-Life and the 1995 Three-strikes law established minimum sentencing for those convicted of crimes. Evidence shows that spanking and other physical punishments, while nominally for the purpose of child discipline, are inconsistently applied, often being used when parents are angry or under stress. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has stated "parents, other caregivers, and adults interacting with children and adolescents should not use corporal punishment (including hitting and spanking)". Spanking and other forms of physical punishment. However, parents' right to use corporal punishment of their children was not eliminated; until 1966, parents might use mild forms of physical discipline that would not constitute assault under the Penal Code. The AAP believes that spanking as a form of discipline can easily lead to abuse, noting also that spanking children younger than 18 months of age increases the chance of physical injury. There is thus no empirical reason for parents to continue to use physical punishment", and advocated for the banning of physical punishment "in all forms and all settings". == Statements by professional associations == The pediatric division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has urged that physical punishment of children be outlawed in Australia, stating that is a violation of children's human rights to exempt them from protection against physical assault. In the context of causing pain in order to punish, it is distinct from physically restraining a child to protect the child or another person from harm. Overlapping definitions of physical abuse and physical punishment of children highlight a subtle or non-existent distinction between abuse and punishment. Severe forms of corporal punishment, including kicking, biting, scalding and burning, can also constitute child abuse. In response, Gershoff points out that corporal punishment in the United States often includes forms, such as hitting with objects, that Baumrind terms "overly severe", and that the line between corporal punishment and abuse is necessarily arbitrary; according to Gershoff "the same dimensions that characterize 'normative' corporal punishment can, when taken to extremes, make hitting a child look much more like abuse than punishment". It typically takes the form of spanking or slapping the child with an open hand or striking with an implement such as a belt, slipper, cane, hairbrush or paddle, whip, hanger, and can also include shaking, pinching, forced ingestion of substances, or forcing children to stay in uncomfortable positions. Physical or corporal punishment by a parent or other legal guardian is any act causing deliberate physical pain or discomfort to a minor child in response to some undesired behavior.

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You cannot spank your child in Florida

It is illegal to hit your child in Florida

Spanking

You cannot abuse your child in Florida

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What is not legal if you are driving in Texas?

thumb|Location of Texas in the United States Gun laws in Texas regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition in the U.S. state of Texas. Open carry of a handgun in public had long been illegal in Texas, except when the carrier was on their own property or had lawful control over, was legally hunting, or was participating in some gun-related public event such as a gun show. Texas recognizes an additional 11 states' concealed-carry permits unilaterally; those states do not recognize Texas' own permit as valid within their jurisdiction, usually due to some lesser requirement of the Texas permit compared to their own. Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. Only five Texas counties are completely "dry" counties, where no sales of alcoholic beverages are legal anywhere in the county: Many counties are completely "wet" counties, where all alcoholic beverage sales are legal everywhere in the county: All others are "moist" counties, which are a combination of wet and dry areas. ===Sales of alcohol=== Beer and wine can be sold from 7:00 AM until midnight Monday through Friday, from 7:00 AM until 1:00 AM on Saturday, and from 10am until midnight on Sunday. Since September 1, 2021, a permit is not required for a person both residents and non-residents 21 and over to carry a handgun either openly or concealed in most places in Texas, granted they do not have any prior felony convictions. Universities will be allowed to establish rules and regulations regarding safety but may not generally prohibit concealed carry on the campus. ===Restrictions on licensed carry=== While a resident of Texas (or a nonresident holding a recognized permit) is generally authorized to carry in most public places, there are State and Federal laws that still restrict a permit holder from carrying a weapon in certain situations. Texas ruling. Texas has state preemption of gun laws, so local governments can not further restrict or regulate the possession or use of firearms. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Texas have some protections in state law but may face legal and social challenges not faced by others. When under the age of 21, a driver in Texas must not test positive for any blood-alcohol content (BAC) and may be charged with DUI even if the amount tested is under 0.08 percent. == See also == * Law of Texas == References == == External links == * alcohollaws.org * tabc.state.tx.us Texas Category:Texas law However, lawful carry while in a vehicle requires these four critical qualifiers: (1) the weapon must not be in plain sight (in Texas law, "plain sight" and "concealed" are mutually exclusive opposing terms); (2) the carrier cannot be involved in criminal activities, other than Class C traffic misdemeanors; (3) the carrier cannot be prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a firearm; and (4) the carrier cannot be a member of a criminal gang. The law of Texas is derived from the Constitution of Texas and consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory law, as well as case law and local laws and regulations. ==Sources== The Constitution of Texas is the foremost source of state law. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. As of September 1, 2021, Texas law exempts from federal law suppressors manufactured within the state and that remain in the state, and prohibits the state from enforcing federal law against suppressors. Texas state law does not protect persons from housing or public accommodations discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Legislation is enacted by the Texas Legislature, published in the General and Special Laws, and codified in the Texas Statutes. Anti-discrimination laws in housing No (No state-wide protections) Anti- Discrimination laws in public accommodations No (No state-wide protections) Anti-Discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services No No state- wide protections LGBT people and materials free from censorship No Current "no promo homo laws" in Texas ban the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools Hate crime laws include sexual orientation Yes Rarely invoked. (See §Hate crime law) Hate crime laws include gender identity or expression No Same-sex marriages Yes (Since 2015) Stepchild adoption by same-sex couples Yes If legally married Joint adoption by same-sex couples Yes If legally married Access to IVF for lesbians Transgender females allowed to play in female sports No Banned since 2022 Right to change legal gender Non-binary options on legal documents No Gay panic defense abolished No Conversion therapy banned No Access to transition related healthcare for people with gender dysphoria Yes Available for adults; not for minors (H.B.1399 makes it illegal to provide gender-affirming care to minors) Gay and Lesbian sex criminal records expunged No MSMs allowed to donate blood Yes Since 2020; 3 month deferral period required under federal policy ==See also== * Equality Texas * LGBT rights in the United States * LGBT rights by country or territory * List of U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type * Law of Texas * LGBT culture in Dallas-Fort Worth * LGBT culture in Houston * No promo homo laws, also known as the Don't Say Gay law ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== * * "Understanding Transgender Marriage in Texas Law", ONTD Political, August 19, 2010 * "Does Texas Allow Transgender Marriages?", The Houston Family Law Blog, authored by Laura Fishman, May 7, 2010 * "Texas and the Hate Crimes Act", Daily Kos, October 28, 2009 * The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers: The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States - Texas, by George Painter ==External links== * Equality Texas ** * Transgender Education Network of Texas * Texas Wins Campaign * Stonewall Democrats - Texas Rights Texas Category:Politics of Texas Category:Texas law Texas has full reciprocity agreements with 30 states, not including Vermont (which is an "unrestricted" state and neither issues nor requires permits), most of these having some residency restrictions (the holder must either be a resident of Texas or a non-resident of the reciprocal state for the Texas license to be valid in that state). Texas has a hate crime statute that strengthens penalties for certain crimes motivated by a victim's sexual orientation, although crimes are rarely prosecuted under the statute. Most, but not all, Texas statutes have been codified in the following codes: # Agriculture Code # Alcoholic Beverage Code # Business and Commerce Code # Business Organizations Code # Civil Practice and Remedies Code # Code Of Criminal Procedure # Education Code # Election Code # Estates Code # Family Code # Finance Code # Government Code # Health and Safety Code # Human Resources Code # Insurance Code # Labor Code # Local Government Code # Natural Resources Code # Occupations Code # Parks and Wildlife Code # Penal Code # Property Code # Special District Local Laws Code # Tax Code # Transportation Code # Utilities Code # Water Code ===Regulations=== The body of regulations promulgated by state agencies is referred to as administrative law.

It is not legal to wear flip-flops when driving in Texas

It is illegal to drive barefoot in Texas

It is illegal to drink under the influence of alcohol

Driving barefoot

It is not legal to drive without shoes in Texas

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In Australia, you absolutely must hire a lawyer in what situations?

An application for divorce can be made in Australia if either spouse: * regards Australia as their home and intends to live indefinitely in Australia and is an Australian citizen or resident, or * is an Australian citizen by birth or descent or is a naturalised Australian citizen (in which case a citizenship certificate will be required), or * ordinarily lives in Australia and has done so for 12 months immediately before filing for divorce. The Court has jurisdiction over all marriage-related cases in all states and territories of Australia, except Western Australia which has its own family court. After the divorce is finalised, each party can apply to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (or the Family Court of Western Australia for residents of that state) for a proof of divorce certificate. ==De facto couples== Since 1 March 2009 (1 July 2010 in South Australia), in all states or territories except Western Australia, matters arising from separations of de facto relationships, such as child custody and property rights, are also covered by the Family Law Act under powers conferred to the Commonwealth by five of the states. If the application is made by one spouse (called a "sole application"), the divorce documents must be served on the other spouse, at least 28 days before the court hearing if the spouse is in Australia or 42 days if overseas. In Australia, Canada and New Zealand, a law broker is a professional that assists individuals who are searching for a lawyer. Most family law is practised in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and the Family Court of Western Australia. Australia recognises marriages entered into overseas as well as divorces obtained overseas if they were effected in accordance with the laws of that country. The Family Court of Australia was a superior Australian federal court of record which deals with family law matters, such as divorce applications, parenting disputes, and the division of property when a couple separate. Australian family law is principally found in the federal Family Law Act 1975 and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021 as well as in other laws and the common law and laws of equity, which affect the family and the relationship between those people, including when those relationships end. Claims for damages for breach of promise to marry were abolished by Section 111A of the Marriage Act 1961. ==See also== *Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia *Marriage in Australia *Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2011 ==References== ==External links== *Australian Family Law Act 1975 *Official website of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia *Federal Circuit and Family Court Rules 2021 (Cth) Category:Public policy in Australia Australian marriage and "matrimonial causes" are recognised by sections 51(xxi) and (xxii) of the Constitution of Australia, Australian Constitution and internationally by marriage law and conventions, such as the Hague Convention on Marriages (1978). Australia's laws on divorce and other legal family matters were overhauled in 1975 with the enactment of the Family Law Act 1975, which established no-fault divorce in Australia. Australian domestic law also enacts some of Australia's obligations under international law, such as the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which is dealt with in the Family Law Act 1975. In Australia, it is a mandatory requirement for registered healthcare practitioners to hold appropriate medical indemnity insurance coverage for healthcare practices in Australia. The Court however will strike out applications that do not demonstrate a significant change of circumstances justifying a further application. == See also == * Australian family law * Family Law Act * Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia * Child custody law and theory internationally: Child custody == References == * == External links == * Family Law Act 1975 * Federal Circuit and Family Court (Official Website) * Australian Institute of Family Studies Category:Australian family law Parenting law in Australia encompasses a number of areas of law including: * Parenting arrangements under the Family Law Act - previously referred to as "child custody" laws; * Child Protection laws, where State Governments have powers to protect children; * Parentage (who is the legal parent of a child). This is because there must be a nexus between the de facto couple and a state or territory, as the law can only be applied within a state or territory. (2003) 31(1) University of Western Australia Law Review 19., and . This is unlike marriage, which is legally recognised internationally outside of the country of marriage. ==Laws affecting children== See Parenting Law in Australia. Together with the Federal Circuit Court of Australia, it covered family law matters in all states and territories of Australia except for Western Australia, which has a separate Family Court. See the section on Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia for further explanation on jurisdiction on de facto relationships. The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia manages the majority of this work, but in some cases it is conducted by state courts (particularly in regional areas). The Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 was replaced by no-fault divorce system of the Family Law Act 1975. ===Divorce application === Either party to a marriage may apply to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia for a divorce, or both parties may apply jointly.

You are required to use a lawyer in Australia if you face trial

You are required to use a lawyer in Australia if you face criminal charges

For a divorce

I have no comment

You are required to use a lawyer in Australia if are sued

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What movies are still banned in the US?

It also includes films that were previously banned but were eventually unbanned. == List == Date Film Notes 1971–2011 A Clockwork Orange Banned for over 30 years, before an attempt at release was made in 2006. This is a list of films banned in Singapore. During the 1960s, many films were banned. This is a list of films that are or have been at one time or another banned in the United States; including films banned in some American cities or states. ==List== Film Release date Date(s) banned Reason The Birth of a Nation 1915 1915–1916 Banned in several American cities for its racist content and portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan, including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, and the states of Ohio, Kansas, and West Virginia, as well as "dozens" of other jurisdictions. All films are now unbanned. 1928–1941 (chronological) Dawn, Klondike Annie, Compulsory Hands, Applause, Cape Forlorn, All Quiet on the Western Front, Gang Bullets, and many more Various Creswell O'Reilly was hired as Chief Censor around this time, during which many films were banned. Still banned [38] ==See also== *List of banned films *Cinema of Australia *Film censorship *Bushranger ban ==External links== *refused- classification.com — site with a frequently updated and far more comprehensive list of films and other media refused classification ==References== Category:Censorship in Australia Banned films Australia * Australia Banned The ban was later lifted, with film was shown uncut with an R21 rating on 28 October 2011, as part of the Perspectives Film Festival. 1973 The Exorcist Banned upon initial release, and subsequently rated M18 with cuts made to "a scene of a disfigured statue of the Virgin Mary, and a scene of possessed Regan MacNeil stabbing herself in the crotch with a crucifix while uttering “Jesus f**k you!”...[for] “films that denigrate any religious group” and “language that denigrates religion or is religiously profane”". 1973 Last Tango in Paris Banned for its strong sexual content. 1974–2004 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Banned for 30 years. This list details banned movies that are not allowed to be shown in cinemas, TV stations, or on the Internet in China because they are accused by the government of the People's Republic of China of violating relevant laws and regulations, or because of other political factors. Still banned; however, the film has not been widely distributed worldwide. This is a non-exhaustive list of films that have been or are banned in Canada. ==List== Release Date Film Notes 1916 Damaged Goods Banned in Ontario.Censored! For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films have been banned by film censorship or review organizations for political or moral reasons or for controversial content, such as homosexuality. __NOTOC__ This is a list of films that have been or are banned in Australia. == Rationale for banning == thumb|Symbol used to indicate refusal of classification by the Australian Classification Board Films that are banned in Australia have been considered to be offensive against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by "reasonable adults" to the extent that they should not be classified. In some theaters an edited version was allowed. ==See also== * List of books banned by governments * List of banned video games * Streisand effect ==Notes== ==References== ==External links== * A complete list of Finland's banned films until 1997 * Complete List of movies banned in India * List of banned films * Category:History of film * This is the first Bollywood film to be banned in the UAE. 2014 Noah Banned for depicting the prophets. 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey Banned due to its sexual content. 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Banned due to it containing frames which feature a transgender flag on which the phrase "Protect Trans Kids" is displayed. ==United Kingdom== ==United States== ==Vatican City== Date Title Notes 2006 The Da Vinci Code Banned because it was deemed inaccurate and offensive to Christians. ==Venezuela== Date Title Notes 1972 Last Tango in Paris Banned for its strong sexual content during the first presidency of Rafael Caldera. 1981 Ledezma, el caso Mamera Banned for exposing state corruption, as well as accused of being an apology for crime, and the director imprisoned; courts overturned both decisions. 2016 El Inca Pulled from cinemas and banned after a family injunction over the representation in the biopic; reportedly the first time a Venezuelan film has been banned in its country in 25 years. Federal Election Commission. ==See also== * List of banned films * Cinema of the United States * Film censorship in the United States ==References== * Banned United States Banned List United States This list includes films banned for screening in the country due to issues of virtue, either by law or by the Board of Film Censors (BFC). Such films have not been censored or have skipped censorship, such as being entered into overseas film festivals without being submitted for review, or having illegal content or process. The film was not approved for general release until 2000. 1971–2000 A Clockwork Orange Banned due to its extreme depictions of violence and rape. As of 2016, the films are still banned in Quebec. ==See also== * List of banned films * Cinema of Canada * Film censorship ==References== * Banned Canada * List Canada That same month, the ICAA issued the rating certification and granted the Spanish nationality to the film. ==Sri Lanka== Date Title Notes 1975 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Banned due to graphic violence and nudity. 2006 Aksharaya (Letter of Fire) Banned for dealing with issues of incest, murder, and rape. 2006 The Da Vinci Code Banned for religiously sensitive themes. 2021 Carnal Monsters Banned graphic nudity and violence. 2021 Necro Lesbians (Nekrology) Banned for dealing with issues of necrophilia and rape. ==Sweden== Date Title Notes 1969 I Am Curious (Yellow) Banned because of pornography, but after a court case it was allowed. 1974–2001 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Banned due to high gore violence and cruelty. After three court cases, the ban was lifted when the anti-obscenity laws concerning films was overturned. A third attempt to appeal the film's ban status was made in 1977, but the government rejected the film once again, and the film remains banned to this day.

Very few films are still banned in the US

The Exorcist is still banned in the US

Faces of Death is still banned in the US

The film A Clockwork Orange is still banned in the US

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What's the only way to get a perfect SAT score?

The SAT ( ) is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. The tested mathematics content on the SAT was expanded to include concepts of slope of a line, probability, elementary statistics including median and mode, and problems involving counting. === 1995 recentering (raising mean score back to 500) === By the early 1990s, average combined SAT scores were around 900 (typically, 425 on the verbal and 475 on the math). The SAT is a standardized test commonly used for the purpose of admission to colleges and universities in the United States. Two section scores result from taking the SAT: Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and Math. Like other standardized tests such as the ACT or the GRE, the SAT is a traditional method for assessing the academic aptitude of students who have had vastly different educational experiences and as such is focused on the common materials that the students could reasonably be expected to have encountered throughout the course of study. In June, 1926, the first SAT, then known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, was administered to about 8,000 students, many of whom were applying to Yale University and Smith College. Later it was called the Scholastic Assessment Test, then the SAT I: Reasoning Test, then the SAT Reasoning Test, then simply the SAT. They state that the SAT assesses how well the test-takers analyze and solve problems—skills they learned in school that they will need in college. The SAT Subject Test in United States History was the name of a one-hour multiple choice test given on United States History by The College Board. Each SAT Reading Test always includes: one passage from U.S. or world literature; one passage from either a U.S. founding document or a related text; one passage about economics, psychology, sociology, or another social science; and, two science passages. Scores on the SAT range from 400 to 1600, combining test results from two 200-to-800-point sections: the Mathematics section and the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section. ACT Composite Score SAT Total Score Range SAT Total Score 36 15701600 1590 35 15301560 1540 34 14901520 1500 33 14501480 1460 32 14201440 1430 31 13901410 1400 30 13601380 1370 29 13301350 1340 28 13001320 1310 27 12601290 1280 26 12301250 1240 25 12001220 1210 24 11601190 1180 23 11301150 1140 22 11001120 1110 21 10601090 1080 20 10301050 1040 19 9901020 1010 18 960980 970 17 920950 930 16 880910 890 15 830870 850 14 780820 800 13 730770 760 12 690720 710 11 650680 670 10 620640 630 9 590610 590 == Elucidation == === Preparation === Pioneered by Stanley Kaplan in 1946 with a 64-hour course, SAT preparation has become a highly lucrative field. A total score for the SAT is calculated by adding the two section scores, resulting in total scores that range from 400 to 1600. The College Board states that the SAT is intended to measure literacy, numeracy and writing skills that are needed for academic success in college. Unlike the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that the College Board offers, which are intended to measure general aptitude for academic studies, the Achievement Tests are intended to measure the level of knowledge and understanding in a variety of specific subjects. Like IQ scores, which are a strong correlate, SAT scores tend to be stable over time, meaning SAT preparation courses offer only a limited advantage. However, as the frequency of reading for pleasure and the level of reading comprehension among American high-school students continue to decline, students who take the SAT might struggle to do well, even if reforms have been introduced to shorten the duration of the test and to reduce the number of questions associated with a given passage in the verbal portion of the test. === Use in non-collegiate contexts === ==== By high-IQ societies ==== Certain high IQ societies, like Mensa, Intertel, the Prometheus Society and the Triple Nine Society, use scores from certain years as one of their admission tests. SAT Program Handbook. SAT Subject Tests were a set of multiple-choice standardized tests given by The College Board on individual topics, typically taken to improve a student's credentials for college admissions in the United States. Several scores are provided to the test taker for the math test. As more and more students from all over the U.S. tried to enter college, the SAT became more of a high-stakes exam; colleges needed something they could trust to fairly assess a prospective student's scholastic aptitude. The SAT Subject Test in Literature was a one-hour multiple choice test given on English literature by The College Board.

The only way to get a perfect SAT score is to study all the time

The only way to get a perfect SAT score is to take it twice

The only way to get a perfect SAT score is to get all the questions right

The only way to get a perfect SAT score is to remember all the answers

The only way to get a perfect SAT score is go to test prep

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Named for an English county, this state in the North East of America is known for its tax rate, landscapes and unique personalities. It's called "New" - what?

The majority of New Hampshire's counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic locations and features. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of New Hampshire: New Hampshire - U.S. state in the New England region of the United States of America, named after the southern English county of Hampshire. New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The colony was named New Hampshire by Mason after the English county of Hampshire, one of the first Saxon shires. This partial list of city nicknames in New Hampshire compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities and towns in New Hampshire are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. New York, often called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States. The Province of New Hampshire was established in 1629, named after the English county of Hampshire. It was one of the original thirteen states that founded the U.S. == General reference == * Names ** Common name: New Hampshire ** Official name: State of New Hampshire ** Abbreviations and name codes *** Postal symbol: NH *** ISO 3166-2 code: US-NH *** Internet second-level domain: .nh.us ** Nicknames ***Granite State ***White Mountain State * Adjectival: New Hampshire * Demonym: New Hampshirite == Geography of New Hampshire == Geography of New Hampshire * New Hampshire is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America * Location: ** Northern hemisphere ** Western hemisphere *** Americas **** North America ***** Anglo America ***** Northern America ****** United States of America ******* Contiguous United States ******** Canada–US border ******** Eastern United States ********* East Coast of the United States ********** Northeastern United States *********** New England * Population of New Hampshire: 1,316,470 (2010 U.S. Census) * Area of New Hampshire: * Atlas of New Hampshire === Places in New Hampshire === * Historic places in New Hampshire ** National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire ** National Register of Historic Places listings in New Hampshire *** Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire * National Natural Landmarks in New Hampshire * National parks in New Hampshire * State parks in New Hampshire === Environment of New Hampshire === * Climate of New Hampshire * Protected areas in New Hampshire ** State forests of New Hampshire * Superfund sites in New Hampshire ==== Natural geographic features of New Hampshire ==== * Islands of New Hampshire * Lakes of New Hampshire * Mountains of New Hampshire * Rivers of New Hampshire === Regions of New Hampshire === * Central New Hampshire (Lakes Region) * Northern New Hampshire ** Great North Woods Region ** White Mountains Region * Southern New Hampshire ** Merrimack Valley Region *** Golden Triangle (New Hampshire) ** Southeastern New Hampshire (Seacoast Region) ** Southwestern New Hampshire (Monadnock Region) * Western New Hampshire (Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region) ** Upper Valley ==== Administrative divisions of New Hampshire ==== * The 10 counties of the state of New Hampshire ** Municipalities in New Hampshire *** Cities in New Hampshire **** State capital of New Hampshire: Concord **** City nicknames in New Hampshire *** Towns in New Hampshire === Demography of New Hampshire === Demographics of New Hampshire == Government and politics of New Hampshire == Politics of New Hampshire * Form of government: U.S. state government * United States congressional delegations from New Hampshire * New Hampshire State Capitol * Elections in New Hampshire * Political party strength in New Hampshire === Branches of the government of New Hampshire === Government of New Hampshire ==== Executive branch of the government of New Hampshire ==== * Governor of New Hampshire ** Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire ** Secretary of State of New Hampshire * State departments ** New Hampshire Department of Transportation ==== Legislative branch of the government of New Hampshire ==== * New Hampshire General Court (bicameral) ** Upper house: New Hampshire Senate ** Lower house: New Hampshire House of Representatives ==== Judicial branch of the government of New Hampshire ==== Courts of New Hampshire * Supreme Court of New Hampshire === Law and order in New Hampshire === Law of New Hampshire * Cannabis in New Hampshire * Capital punishment in New Hampshire ** Individuals executed in New Hampshire * Constitution of New Hampshire * Crime in New Hampshire * Gun laws in New Hampshire * Law enforcement in New Hampshire ** Law enforcement agencies in New Hampshire *** New Hampshire State Police * Same-sex marriage in New Hampshire === Military in New Hampshire === * New Hampshire Air National Guard * New Hampshire Army National Guard === Local government in New Hampshire === Local government in New Hampshire == History of New Hampshire == History of New Hampshire === History of New Hampshire, by period === * Prehistory of New Hampshire *Indigenous peoples *English Pannaway Plantation, 1623 *English Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1628–1686 *English Province of New-Hampshire, 1680–1686 *English Dominion of New-England in America, 1686–1689 *English Province of New-Hampshire, 1689–1707 *British Province of New-Hampshire, 1707–1776 *King George's War, 1740–1748 **Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748 *French and Indian War, 1754–1763 **Treaty of Paris of 1763 *British Indian Reserve, 1763–1783 **Royal Proclamation of 1763 *American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 **Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783 *State of New Hampshire, since 1776 ***Adopts constitution for an independent State of New Hampshire, January 5, 1776 **United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ***Seventh state to ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, signed July 9, 1778 **Ninth State to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America on June 21, 1788 **War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815 ***Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814 **Republic of Indian Stream, 1832–1835 **Mexican–American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 **Franklin Pierce becomes 14th President of the United States on March 4, 1853 **American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 ***New Hampshire in the American Civil War === History of New Hampshire, by region === * By city ** History of Concord, New Hampshire ** History of Goffstown, New Hampshire ** History of Hanover, New Hampshire ** History of Portsmouth, New Hampshire === History of New Hampshire, by subject === * Cannabis in New Hampshire * History of capital punishment in New Hampshire * History of education in New Hampshire ** History of the University of New Hampshire == Culture of New Hampshire == Culture of New Hampshire * Cuisine of New Hampshire * Museums in New Hampshire * Religion in New Hampshire ** Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester * Scouting in New Hampshire * State symbols of New Hampshire ** Flag of the state of New Hampshire ** Great Seal of the State of New Hampshire 18px === The arts in New Hampshire === * Music of New Hampshire === Sports in New Hampshire === Sports in New Hampshire == Economy and infrastructure of New Hampshire == Economy of New Hampshire * Communications in New Hampshire ** Newspapers in New Hampshire ** Radio stations in New Hampshire ** Television stations in New Hampshire * Energy in New Hampshire ** List of power stations in New Hampshire ** Solar power in New Hampshire ** Wind power in New Hampshire * Health care in New Hampshire ** Hospitals in New Hampshire * Transportation in New Hampshire ** Airports in New Hampshire ** Roads in New Hampshire *** State highways in New Hampshire == Education in New Hampshire == Education in New Hampshire * Schools in New Hampshire ** School districts in New Hampshire *** High schools in New Hampshire ** Colleges and universities in New Hampshire *** University of New Hampshire ==See also== *Topic overview: **New Hampshire **Index of New Hampshire-related articles * * * * == References == == External links == New Hampshire New Hampshire There are ten counties in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. All but two of these unincorporated areas are in Coos County. ===Politics=== New Hampshire is socially liberal like the rest of New England, and is the least religious state in the Union as of a 2016 Gallup poll. New Hampshire municipalities are classified as towns or cities, which differ primarily by the form of government. Five of the counties were created in 1769, when New Hampshire was still an English colony and not a state, during the first subdivision of the state into counties. New Hampshire has a small number of unincorporated areas that are titled as grants, locations, purchases, or townships. Of the 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the fifth smallest by area and the tenth least populous, with a population of 1,377,529 residents as of the 2020 census. The counties tend to be smaller in land area towards the southern end of the state, where New Hampshire population is concentrated, and larger in land area in the less populous north. ==See also== * List of city nicknames in the United States ==References== New Hampshire cities and towns Category:Populated places in New Hampshire City nicknames New Hampshire is a "Dillon Rule" state, meaning the state retains all powers not specifically granted to municipalities. The Hill Country of Northern New England: Its Social and Economic History, 1790–1930 (1936) * New Hampshire The other state courts are the Probate Court, District Court, and the Family Division. ===Local government=== New Hampshire has 10 counties and 234 cities and towns. (For details, see the article on Government of New Hampshire.) "NEW ENGLAND; New Hampshire Is Cautious on New Expenses and Taxes".

It's called New York

Hampshire

York

All of the above

None of the above

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America has much less obese people than which countries?

This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 According to 2007 statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), Australia has the third- highest prevalence of overweight adults in the English-speaking world. A woman who has a low level of schooling or no education in urban areas is significantly more likely to be obese. A 2005 WHO study found that just over 20% of Australian adults are obese, that number increased to about 29 to 30% being obese in 2017. The Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, and Iran, and North Africa, are no exception to the worldwide increase in obesity. thumb|Share of adults that are obese in different countries in the Middle East and North Africa, 1975 to 2016 Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa is a notable health issue. The Medical Journal of Australia found that obesity in Australia more than doubled in the two decades preceding 2003, and the unprecedented rise in obesity has been compared to the same health crisis in America. Individuals living in urban areas are more likely to be overweight or obese because of the availability of public transportation and the sedentary lifestyle. In 2006, it was found that children of low socio-economic standing were 2.22 times more likely to be obese compared to their high socio-economic standing counterparts. Other common factors, besides a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy food choices, across the Arab world include urbanization, technology, and a cultural appreciation of female plumpness and the practice of leblouh ("fattening"). == By percentage == Overweight and Obesity Statistics in the Middle East and North Africa % of Overweight Men % of Overweight Women % of Obese Men % of Obese Women Source Link to Article Turkey 2001–2002 41.5% 28.6% 16.5% 29.4% Obesity in Turkey Israel 2011 45.8% 33.1% 15.4% 15.9% OECD Health at a Glance 2013OECD, http://www.oecd.org/ Obesity in Israel Palestinian territories 2003 ---- 23.9% 42.8% Obesity in the Palestinian territories Jordan 2002 --- 27.6% --- 26.3% Obesity in Jordan Lebanon 1998–2002 --- ---- 36.3% 38.3% Obesity in Lebanon Bahrain 1998–1999 36.7% 28.3% 23.3% 34.1% Obesity in Bahrain Kuwait 1998–2002 36.3% 32.8% 27.5% 29.9% Obesity in Kuwait Oman 2000 32.1% 27.3% 16.7% 23.8% Obesity in Oman Qatar 2003 34.3% 33% 34.6% 45.3% Obesity in Qatar Saudi Arabia 1995–2002 42.4% 31.8% 26.4% 44.0% Obesity in Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates 2000 36.7% 28.4% 17.1% 31.4% Obesity in United Arab Emirates Iran 2005 27.9% 29.3% 9.1% 19.2% Obesity in Iran Algeria 2003 27.4% 32.2% 8.8% 21.4% Obesity in Algeria Egypt 2005, 2021 --- 33.2% 29.51% 49.49% Obesity in Egypt, The Burden of Obesity in Egypt Morocco 2000 25.5% 29.8% 8.2% 21.7% Obesity in Morocco Tunisia 1997 23.3% 28.2% 6.7% 22.7% Obesity in Tunisia === Turkey === In 2001–2002, 36.8% of the population was overweight and 23.5% obese. Obesity rates were twice as high in urban areas than in rural areas. In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) found that 67.4% of Australian adults are overweight, ranking 21st in the world, and third out of the major countries in the English-speaking world, behind the United States (ranked 9th) and New Zealand (ranked 17th). thumb|225px|Young Nauruans in 1914 thumb|Share of adults that are obese in different countries in Oceania, 1975 to 2016 Pacific island nations and associated states make up the top seven on a 2007 list of heaviest countries, and eight of the top ten. (Rezaho et al. 2014) First- generation immigrants to Australia are more obese and have higher rates of obesity-related behaviours than white Australians or Australians of foreign ancestry whose families have been in the country at least two generations. In fact, the obese have shorter lifespans because they get cardiovascular disease at an early age and have to live a longer proportion of their life with it. The rise in caloric and fat intake in a region where exercise is not a defining part of the culture has added to the overall increased percentages of overweight and obese populations. In the 2005 National Health Survey, 53.6% of Australians reported being overweight with 18% falling into the "obese" category. In all these cases, more than 70% of citizens aged 15 and over are obese. The rise in obesity has been attributed to poor eating habits in the country closely related to the availability of fast food since the 1970s, sedentary lifestyles and a decrease in the labour workforce. ==Classification of obesity== Weight is measured by using the Body Mass Index scale (BMI). A cross sectional study (Valery, Moloney, Cotterill, Harris, Sinha & Green, 2009) found that 46% of the total population, of participants, were overweight or obese. Obesity is linked to a greater availability of food, particularly from the West, and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle in urban areas. According to The Obesity Society Australia, if obesity rates continue to grow in Australia at this current rate over the next few decades, it is conceivable that the health and economic cost due to obesity will also grow to overwhelming portions. == See also == * Australian paradox * Cardiovascular disease in Australia * Diabetes in Australia General: * Health in Australia * Epidemiology of obesity ==References==

America has much less obese people than Ireland

America has much less obese people than Samoa and Tonga

America has much less obese people than Canada

American has much less obese people than Australia

America has much less obese people than the UK

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What rich countries have less obesity than Ireland?

This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. Ireland has one of Europe's highest rates of obesity; 60% of adults, and over 20% of children and young people, in the country are overweight or obese. Obesity in the Republic of Ireland is a major health concern. In 2011, the WHO found that 32.6% of Thais were overweight, ranking the country second heaviest in South East Asia, with higher obesity levels than more affluent nations including the Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore.Cheong, W. S. 2014. Obesity in China is a major health concern according to the WHO, with overall rates of obesity between 5% and 6% for the country, but greater than 20% in some cities where fast food is popular. ==Issues== thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Since 1954, rapid economic growth has transformed China from a destitute nation to one of largest economies in the world. In 2011, 23.4% of the country's population was obese. With reference to 2016 data from the World Health Organization (WHO), Thailand has one of the highest incidence of overweight citizens in the South East Asian region, second to only Malaysia. Obesity in Thailand. Metab. 92: 1430-1433 * James A. Levine (2008) Obesity in China: Causes and solutions Chinese Medical Journal, 2008, Vol. 121 No. 11 : 1043-1050 * Sky Patterson (2011) "Obesity in China: Waistlines Expanding Twice as Fast as GDP", US-China Today. ==External links== * China International Slimness and Fitness Association * Chinese Weight Loss network Category:Health in China China thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Obesity in Thailand has been flagged as a major source of health concern, with 32% of the population identifying as overweight and 9% obese. thumb|225px|Young Nauruans in 1914 thumb|Share of adults that are obese in different countries in Oceania, 1975 to 2016 Pacific island nations and associated states make up the top seven on a 2007 list of heaviest countries, and eight of the top ten. A PubMed study found obesity among children specifically in Ireland fell from 25% in 2005 to 16% by 2019; however, the study cautions that obesity remains a serious problem in Ireland. ==References== Ireland Category:Health in the Republic of Ireland It was also found that obesity had a larger impact on women than men, with combined obesity and overweight rates at 46.1% and 35.5%, respectively. "Overweight and Obesity in Asia." Obesity Research 2002: 10: 277-83.Motorized transportation, social status, and adiposity: the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Redefining obesity and its treatment. An obese person has a BMI of ≥25. thumb|300x300px|Obese male with a BMI of 52.8 Obesity levels have been on the rise in Thailand. == Prevalence of obesity in the Thai population == According to WHO, overweight and obesity levels in Thailand have been steadily increasing over the years. As a major contributor to the spread of obesity, these high-fat diets are creating a major public health problem across the country. The Thai National Health Examination Surveys (NHES) found that obesity in Thailand more than doubled during the period 1991-2014. Between 1985 and 2014, obesity in rural Chinese boys grew from 0.03% to 17.2%, and the obesity rate for girls went from 0.12% to 9.1%. Available: https://www.adb.org/publications/obesity-thailand-and-its-economic-cost- estimation __TOC__ == Classification of obesity == The internationally recognised method of measuring obesity is through the Body Mass Index (BMI). Palau 78.4 ==Obese populations== Rank Country % of obese persons 1 Nauru 61.00 2 Cook Islands 55.90 3 Palau 55.30 4 Marshall Islands 52.90 5 Tuvalu 51.60 6 Niue 50.00 7 Tonga 48.20 8 Federated States of Micronesia 47.30 9 Kiribati 46.00 10 Samoa 47.30 == Nations == === Nauru === Obesity is seen as a sign of wealth in Nauru. 31% of Nauruans are diabetic.

Japan and China have less obesity than Ireland

Australia has less obesity than Ireland

The United States and Canada have less obesity than Ireland

Mexico has less obesity than Ireland

The United States

A

Switzerland has more obese people than which other rich countries?

This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. Obesity in Switzerland has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent years, even though the country had the lowest rate of obesity in Europe in 2015. Swiss women in particular are considered slimmer than other Europeans and have an average BMI close to that of China. In 2011, the WHO found that 32.6% of Thais were overweight, ranking the country second heaviest in South East Asia, with higher obesity levels than more affluent nations including the Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore.Cheong, W. S. 2014. In 2017, thirty-three per cent of Swiss women and fifty-one per cent of Swiss men were considered to be overweight (BMI ≥ 25). ==Causes and effects== The obesity level in men in the canton of Zurich is considered a main contributing factor to the fact that only 54.1% of men there are deemed fit enough for military duty. With reference to 2016 data from the World Health Organization (WHO), Thailand has one of the highest incidence of overweight citizens in the South East Asian region, second to only Malaysia. thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Obesity in Thailand has been flagged as a major source of health concern, with 32% of the population identifying as overweight and 9% obese. An obese person has a BMI of ≥25. thumb|300x300px|Obese male with a BMI of 52.8 Obesity levels have been on the rise in Thailand. == Prevalence of obesity in the Thai population == According to WHO, overweight and obesity levels in Thailand have been steadily increasing over the years. In addition, physical symptoms like back pain, obesity and asthma are frequently reported. ==See also== *Health in Switzerland ==References== Switzerland Category:Health in Switzerland However, while the WHO standard has been used internationally, studies have shown that it may not be accurate for the classification of obesity in the Asian context due to different body fat percentages and body compositions. It was also found that obesity had a larger impact on women than men, with combined obesity and overweight rates at 46.1% and 35.5%, respectively. thumb|225px|Young Nauruans in 1914 thumb|Share of adults that are obese in different countries in Oceania, 1975 to 2016 Pacific island nations and associated states make up the top seven on a 2007 list of heaviest countries, and eight of the top ten. Obesity in Thailand. Among people with heart disease, those with class I obesity do not have greater rates of further heart problems than people of normal weight. Obesity in China is a major health concern according to the WHO, with overall rates of obesity between 5% and 6% for the country, but greater than 20% in some cities where fast food is popular. ==Issues== thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Since 1954, rapid economic growth has transformed China from a destitute nation to one of largest economies in the world. In fact, the obese have shorter lifespans because they get cardiovascular disease at an early age and have to live a longer proportion of their life with it. The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. "Overweight and Obesity in Asia." In all these cases, more than 70% of citizens aged 15 and over are obese. The Thai National Health Examination Surveys (NHES) found that obesity in Thailand more than doubled during the period 1991-2014. Obesity was more commonly found to occur in urban settings as compared to suburban areas. Obesity Research 2002: 10: 277-83.Motorized transportation, social status, and adiposity: the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

Switzerland has more obese people than South Korea and Japan

Switzerland has more obese people than the United Kingdom

Switzerland has more obese people than Canada

The United States

Switzerland has more obese people than the United States

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China has more obesity than which other country?

Metab. 92: 1430-1433 * James A. Levine (2008) Obesity in China: Causes and solutions Chinese Medical Journal, 2008, Vol. 121 No. 11 : 1043-1050 * Sky Patterson (2011) "Obesity in China: Waistlines Expanding Twice as Fast as GDP", US-China Today. ==External links== * China International Slimness and Fitness Association * Chinese Weight Loss network Category:Health in China China Obesity in China is a major health concern according to the WHO, with overall rates of obesity between 5% and 6% for the country, but greater than 20% in some cities where fast food is popular. ==Issues== thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Since 1954, rapid economic growth has transformed China from a destitute nation to one of largest economies in the world. These figures were expected to double within a decade, with doctors warning that obesity could become China's biggest health threat for future generations.Wu, Yangfeng, Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, #167, Beilishilu, Xicheng, Beijing 100037, People's Republic of China ==Action and policy== Due to the current cultural views on obesity there is a significant need for anti- obesity education. Obesity Research 2002: 10: 277-83.Motorized transportation, social status, and adiposity: the China Health and Nutrition Survey. This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. De- emphasis on sports also plays an important part in the rise of obesity in China. The rapid growing market of fast food chains is a huge contributor to the increase in obesity rates in China. Between 1985 and 2014, obesity in rural Chinese boys grew from 0.03% to 17.2%, and the obesity rate for girls went from 0.12% to 9.1%. The road to obesity or the path to prevention: motorized transportation and obesity in China. Through price policy, China can focus on controlling the external influence of international products on traditional Chinese dietary patterns and help manage the obesity trends and patterns due to the increase of Westernized foods and fast food chains. ==See also== * Little Emperor Syndrome * Epidemiology of obesity ==References== ==Further reading== * Gao, Y., Griffiths, S., Chan, E. Y. Y. (2008). In 2011, the WHO found that 32.6% of Thais were overweight, ranking the country second heaviest in South East Asia, with higher obesity levels than more affluent nations including the Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore.Cheong, W. S. 2014. A leading child-health researcher, Ji Chengye, has stated that, "China has entered the era of obesity. However, while the WHO standard has been used internationally, studies have shown that it may not be accurate for the classification of obesity in the Asian context due to different body fat percentages and body compositions. Additionally, the Chinese government is currently mandating programs in schools to deal with the growing problem of obesity in the younger generations. The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Redefining obesity and its treatment. It was also found that obesity had a larger impact on women than men, with combined obesity and overweight rates at 46.1% and 35.5%, respectively. "Overweight and Obesity in Asia." Community-based interventions to reduce overweight and obesity in China: a systematic review of the Chinese and English literature. With reference to 2016 data from the World Health Organization (WHO), Thailand has one of the highest incidence of overweight citizens in the South East Asian region, second to only Malaysia. China Daily. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-12/11/content_9161633.htm ===Comparison to other populations=== Smoking rates among Chinese male physicians are comparable to the country's general population, although overall physician rates are lower. China also remains one of the three leading countries (along with India and the United States) in total number of female smokers, although these three countries accounted for only 27.3% of the world's female smokers, indicating that the tobacco epidemic is less geographically concentrated for women than for men. == Smoking culture in China == Other than a nicotine product, cigarettes in China include different meanings. Obesity in Thailand.

All of the above

China has more obesity than France

China has more obesity than Japan

China has more obesity than Canada

China has more obesity than the United States

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Does Mexico have a bigger problem with obesity than Ireland?

As a consequence, Mexico has seen the same kind of health issues that have affected other countries with overweight populations. Ireland has one of Europe's highest rates of obesity; 60% of adults, and over 20% of children and young people, in the country are overweight or obese. Mexico ranks the most obese country in the world in adult obesity (as of 2013), and first for childhood obesity with about 4.5 million children diagnosed as such. Economically, the rising obesity rate in Mexico is also taking a toll on its health care system. Obesity in the Republic of Ireland is a major health concern. It has seen dietary energy intake and rates of overweight and obese people rise with seven out of ten at least overweight and a third clinically obese. ==History== ===Undernutrition vs. overnutrition=== thumb|Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016 Until the late 20th century, dietary issues in Mexico were solely a question of undernutrition or malnutrition, generally because of poverty and distribution issues. *Report Of Mexican Obesity Rates - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included". Second, the negative association among middle-income women in consideration of the above-mentioned expensiveness of most healthy products raises the question of whether the easier access to unhealthy, energy-dense and less expensive food is the crucial point to explain the high prevalence of obesity in Mexico (Dinsa et al.). *"Mexico Confronts Sudden Surge in Obesity". Mexico passed the United States as the most obese country in the world. Obesity in Mexico is a relatively recent phenomenon, having been widespread since the 1980s with the introduction of processed food into much of the Mexican food market. A 1999 survey found 24% of Mexican women were obese and an additional 35% were overweight; 55% men were either obese or overweight. Obesity in Switzerland has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent years, even though the country had the lowest rate of obesity in Europe in 2015. *"US lifestyles blamed for obesity epidemic sweeping Mexico". The effectiveness of the tax on junk food was subject to debate. ==See also== * List of countries by Body Mass Index (BMI) * Food labeling in Mexico ==References== ==Further reading== *World's Fattest Countries *"High Prevalence of Obesity Among the Poor in Mexico". A PubMed study found obesity among children specifically in Ireland fell from 25% in 2005 to 16% by 2019; however, the study cautions that obesity remains a serious problem in Ireland. ==References== Ireland Category:Health in the Republic of Ireland Obesity in Argentina is a growing health concern with health officials stating that it is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in Argentina. Recent efforts have been made by the Mexican government to address the issue of obesity as a reduction of 1% in mean BMI would reduce the cost by $43 million in 2030 and $85 million in 2050 respectively. As of 2012, diabetes - associated with obesity - was the largest single killer of Mexicans. By 2010, seven out of ten Mexicans were overweight with a third obese. Among people with heart disease, those with class I obesity do not have greater rates of further heart problems than people of normal weight. About 40% of Mexicans do not exercise. === Socioeconomic factors of obesity === Since the 1980s, many studies have been carried out intending to identify the one nutrient, food, or beverage that leads to weight gain and obesity.

No, it's a bigger problem in Ireland

Yes, the obesity rate is higher in Mexico than Ireland

No

No, obesity is a bigger problem in Ireland than Mexico

No, the obesity rate is higher in Ireland

B

Do we spend only a small part of the US Federal budget on foreign aid to poor countries?

In actuality, less than 1 percent of the US federal budget goes towards foreign aid. Quantitatively, the United States spends the most on foreign aid of any country; however, as a percent of GDP, American foreign aid spending ranks near the bottom compared to other developed countries. The average amount proposed by the public was 10 percent of the federal government's budget be used on foreign aid. As of 2019, in the United States, approximately 55% of government spending is spent by the federal government, while the remaining 45% of government spending is spent by state and local government. # Emphasize that only 1 percent of the federal budget goes towards foreign aid, as the Clinton administration did in the 1990s. For most governments around the world, the majority of government spending takes place at the federal/national level. A poll conducted by World Public Opinion in 2010 found that the average estimate for how much of the government's budget is spent on foreign aid was 25 percent. This is attributed, by Alice C. Hu, to a gross misconception of how much of the federal budget is actually spent on foreign aid. === Opinions change === A study by The Washington Post from 2017 shows that Americans can change their opinions on U.S. foreign aid, depending on how it is presented to them. Published by CNN, the response was that 81% felt that reducing aid to foreign countries was a good way to reduce the federal budget deficit, while 18% thought aid was more important than reducing deficit. Less than 19 percent of respondents thought that the percent of the budget that goes towards foreign aid was less than 5 percent. Figures published by the International Monetary Fund for 2018 shows general government spending at 35% of GDP. == Components of federal government spending == thumb|CBO: U.S. Federal spending and revenue components for fiscal year 2022. # Americans feel that the United States does more than its fair share on the world stage, so differentiate between foreign aid and military spending. The U.S. military budget dwarfed spending by all other countries in the top 10, with 8 out of [8 out of how many? fix this!] countries spending less than $100 billion in 2016. The United States federal budget consists of mandatory expenditures (which includes Medicare and Social Security), discretionary spending for defense, Cabinet departments (e.g., Justice Department) and agencies (e.g., Securities & Exchange Commission), and interest payments on debt. During FY2018, the federal government spent $4.11 trillion, up $127 billion or 3.2% vs. FY2017 spending of $3.99 trillion. Baker attributes this to a paternalistic view Americans have of themselves over those of African descent. === Amount spent and destination === Due to the size of the U.S. federal budget, the 0.7 percent put towards foreign aid comprises a significant proportion of all foreign aid flows including other donors. Mandatory spending accounted for 53% of total federal outlays in FY2008, with net interest payments accounting for an additional 8.5%.U.S. Congressional Budget Office, An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2010, June 2009. Mandatory spending received $2.4 trillion of the total $3.9 trillion of federal spending in 2016. ==Entitlement programs== thumb|Mandatory Spending for FY 2016 The bulk of mandatory spending is for entitlement programs, which are social welfare programs with specific requirements. Though the rate of increase has since slowed, mandatory spending composed about 60 percent of the federal budget since FY 2012. ===Social Security=== Social Security spending has grown relative to the economy. Federal government spending in the United States can be broken down into three general categories: mandatory/entitlement spending, discretionary spending, and interest on government debt. === Mandatory/entitlement spending === thumb|Mandatory spending of the US Federal Government in 2022. thumb|Figure A – Fiscal Year 2019 Mandatory Government Spending Breakdown as a percentage of total expected expenditures. thumb|220x220px thumb|A breakdown of 2020 Total US Government Spending using data from the Office of Management and Budget Government spending in the United States is the spending of the federal government of the United States, and the spending of its state and local governments. ==Total government spending== The US government's Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2019 estimates $7.3 trillion in total government expenditure and $21.4 trillion total GDP which is 34%.Tables 3.1 and 1.1.5, This government total excludes spending by "government enterprises" which sell goods and services "to households and businesses in a market transaction." Note: these numbers do not include U.S. state and local government spending which when included bring the per capita spending to $16,755 The figures below of 42% of GDP spending and a GDP per capita of $54,629 for the U.S. indicate a total per person spending including national, state, and local governments was $22,726 in the U.S. == As a percentage of GDP == thumb|Public spending / GDP in Europe: |450x450px thumb|400 px|Government spending as percentage of GDP in different countries, 1890 to 2011 This is a list of countries by government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries, according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.

No, it's not a small part of the US Federal budget that is spent on foreign aid to poor countries

No, a significant part of the US Federal budget is spent on foreign aid to poor countries

Yes, less than 1% of the US Federal budget is spent on foreign aid to poor countries

No

No, a large part

C

A former mayor and famous billionaire businessman who worked in technology and has three kids. First name: Bill. What's his last name?

He was the father of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. ==Early life== Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, in 1925, and was the son of Lillian Elizabeth Rice (1891–1966) and William Henry Gates Jr. (1891–1969), who was himself the son of William Henry Gates, a furniture store owner and gold prospector during the Dawson Gold Rush of 1898 (not to be confused with Bill Gates (frontiersman)). William Henry Gates may refer to: *Bill Gates Sr. (1925–2020), American attorney and father of Bill Gates III *Bill Gates III (born 1955), American business magnate, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation Gatesian is an eponymous adjective and may refer to: *Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation *Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born 1950), American critic and scholar Richard or Rick Gates may refer to: *Richard Gates (sailor) (born 1943) *Rick Gates (Internet pioneer) (born 1956) *Rick Gates (political consultant) (born 1972) *Ricky Gates, train engineer William Henry Gates II (November 30, 1925September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He served for 15 years on the Board of Regents for the University of Washington, and until his death was a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which his son Bill and his daughter-in-law Melinda founded. * Michael A. Bills (born 1958) American retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. Bill is a surname, and may refer to: *Alfred H. Bill (1879-1964), American writer *Charles Bill (1843–1915), British politician *Edward Lyman Bill (1862-1916), founder and editor of the magazine Talking Machine World *Ian Bill (born 1944), Scottish footballer *Max Bill (1908–1994), Swiss architect, artist and designer *Per Bill (1958–) Swedish politician *William Bill (c. 1505–1561), English churchman and academic Bills is a surname, and may refer to: * Kizziah J. Bills (1860–1924), Black American suffragist, a correspondent and columnist for Black press in Chicago, and a civil rights activist. They had three children: Kristianne, Bill, and Libby. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L; Gates), and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. * President of Seattle–King County Bar Association, 1969–1970 * President of Washington State Bar Association, 1986-1987 * Recipient of University of Washington School of Law Distinguished Alumnus, 1991 * Recipient of American Judicature Society's Herbert Harley Award, 1992 * Served on Board for Judicial Administration, Washington State Supreme Court, 1993–1995 * Served on Board of Regents, University of Washington, 1997–2012 * Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003 * William H. Gates Hall at UW's School of Law was named for him in 2003 * Awarded Washington Medal of Merit, 2009 * Recipient of the ABA Medal (2009), the highest honor in the American legal community * Recipient of Chi Psi Fraternity's Albert S. Bard Award, 2010, for contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the community * Recipient of UW Alumni Association's Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus (ASLD) Award, 2013 Bill Gerberding, who was UW president from 1979 to 1995, described Gates as "a good man with a big heart [and] generous public spirit", while former Seattle mayor Norman Rice characterized Gates' core values as "social justice and economic opportunity". == References == == External links == * Showing Up for Life Category:1925 births Category:2020 deaths Category:20th- century American lawyers Category:20th-century American philanthropists Category:21st-century philanthropists Category:American law firm executives Category:American philanthropists Category:American nonprofit businesspeople Category:American people of English descent Category:American people of German descent Category:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people Category:Businesspeople from Seattle Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Category:Neurological disease deaths in Washington (state) Category:Gates family Category:Lawyers from Seattle Category:Military personnel from Washington (state) Category:People from Bremerton, Washington Category:People from Dearborn, Michigan Category:Philanthropists from Washington (state) Category:Regents of the University of Washington Category:United States Army personnel of World War II Category:United States Army soldiers Category:University of Washington School of Law alumni In 1996, Gates married his second wife Mimi Gardner Gates (b. 1943), who was director of the Seattle Art Museum. In 1998, Gates retired from Preston Gates & Ellis. Bill Siekierski (born c. 1942) is a retired Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was also the author of the book Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. ==Personal life== In 1951, Gates married Mary Maxwell Gates (née Maxwell) (1929–1994), whom he met at the University of Washington (UW), and they remained married until her death in 1994. Gates served on the boards of numerous organizations in the Pacific Northwest, including the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, King County United Way and Planned Parenthood. Gates co-authored the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes with Chuck Collins. Gates' legal practice focused on corporate, technology and disputes. In 2018, it was revealed that Gates was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. During his career he served as president of both the Seattle/King County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association. He practiced with the firm until 1998, when it was merged into the firm now known as K&L; Gates. While at UW, he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. ==Career== Gates co-founded the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates in 1964, which later became a part of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP (PGE).

All of the above

Bill Gates

Haslam

Gates

His name is Bill Gates

C

Known for jets and batteries, this brilliant inventor and businessman never graduated college but founded a major company. His name is "Bill" what?

He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business jets. William Edward Boeing Jr. (November 22, 1922 – January 8, 2015) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist who was the son of aviation pioneer William E. Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. William Edward Boeing (; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer who founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which a year later was renamed to The Boeing Company, now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world. Gates Ventures is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Although the Lear Jet was quite successful and remains in production, Bill Lear was eventually forced to sell Lear Jet Corporation to the Gates Rubber Company in 1967 due to other financial losses.AAHS "Folded Wings" obit, 3rd Quarter 1978. William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. William or Bill Goddard may refer to: * William Henry Goddard (1795–1872), English merchant in Gambia * William Goddard (engineer) (1913–1997), American engineer for IBM and inventor * William Andrew Goddard III (born 1937), American professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology * William Goddard (printer) (1740–1817), American patriot and printer * Bill Goddard (footballer) (1880–1939), Australian rules footballer Boeing decided to go into the aircraft business, using an old boat works on the Duwamish River near Seattle for his factory. ===Founding of Boeing Aircraft=== In 1916, Boeing went into business with George Conrad Westervelt as "B & W" and founded Pacific Aero Products Co. He did not understand his father's importance until his classmates nicknamed him after one of the Boeing airplanes. In October 1963, Lear Jet started test flights on the Learjet 23, the first mass-produced business jet. William Boeing divested himself of ownership as his holding company, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, broke into three separate entities: * United Aircraft Corporation, holding the former eastern US manufacturing (later United Technologies Corporation) * Boeing Airplane Company, with western US manufacturing, which later became The Boeing Company * United Air Lines for flight operations He began investing most of his time in his horses in 1937. Bill Jr. became a private pilot and industrial real estate developer. William Boeing's first design was the Boeing Model 1 (or B & W Seaplane), which first flew in June 1916, a month before the company was founded. Lear founded Lear Developments, a company specializing in aerospace instruments and electronics.Zhito, Lee. Bill Lear was a Creator". The couple had a son of their own, William E. Boeing Jr. (1922–2015). "William Edward Boeing." Lear partnered with Howard Gates of Zenith; Lear designed the circuit and layout, Gates did the metal work, and Lear completed the assembly. William Redington Hewlett ( ; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). ==Early life and education== Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan Medical School. Boeing Airplane Company, though a major manufacturer in a fragmented industry, did not become successful until the beginning of World War II. ==Later life== thumb|180px|left|Portrait of Boeing Between 1935 and 1944, William Boeing and his wife Bertha set aside a large tract of land north of the Seattle city limits for subdivision, including the future communities of Richmond Beach, Richmond Heights, Innis Arden, Blue Ridge, and Shoreview. Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick, Bill Lear. ===Radio engineer=== Lear was self-taught: "He had read widely on wireless, including the works of Nikola Tesla, the scientist/inventor.

His name is Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Lear

Boeing

William Boeing

C

Which birds can add up numbers just as well as humans?

Songbirds and parrots are the two groups of birds able to learn and mimic human speech. Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. \- \- In the 2017 bird count, almost two million birds were counted. The cognitive ecology of individual recognition has been studied in many species, especially in primates or other mammalian species that exhibit complex social behaviours, but comparatively little research has been done on colonial birds. A breeding bird survey monitors the status and trends of bird populations. Even so, these surveys have proved to be of great value in studying bird population trends. Birds respond more to vocalisations that are familiar to their own, and they ostracize individuals that vocalise in a different way. Bird measurement or bird biometrics are approaches to quantify the size of birds in scientific studies. The measurements of the lengths of specific parts and the weights of birds varies between species, populations within species, between the sexes and depending on age and condition. Scientists in France and the Czech Republic have also had some success in teaching grey parrots to label items referentially using human language, albeit using a different teaching methodology to that of Pepperberg—which was found to be ineffective in the case of the particular birds within the study. ==Famous talking birds== Alex, a grey parrot, had a vocabulary of about 100 words, substantially fewer than world record holders, but he is perhaps the best known talking bird due to the publicity surrounding his potential cognitive abilities. It has been suggested that birds with complex social organisation may develop an auditory map of their territory, as well as visual, and that mimicking facilitates this process. ==Cognition controversy== There is controversy about whether parrots are capable of using language, or merely mimic what they hear. The Aussie Bird Count is a project of BirdLife Australia. For famous fictional birds, see list of fictional birds. * Águia Vitória, a bald eagle who serves as the mascot for Portuguese football club S.L. Benfica * Alex, a grey parrot who, in studies by Dr. Irene Pepperberg, demonstrated an ability to count; differentiate categories involving objects, colors, shapes, and materials; and understand the concept of same and different * All Alone, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross * Andy, a goose born without feet who used sneakers to help him stand and walk. Pet birds can be taught to speak by their owners by mimicking their voice. This is a list of well-known real birds. For colonial birds, being able to identify and recognize individuals can be a crucial skill. == Sociality and brain size == Individual recognition is one of the most basic forms of social cognition. Further research looking at bird cognitive ecology demonstrated that social complexity is a more reliable proxy for brain size, as it relies not only on the number of individuals but also on the degree of social interactions and more. === Role of recognition === In the wild, recognition can have many advantages. This includes human speech. ====Lyrebirds==== In Australia, lyrebirds are great mimics of many sounds, including the human voice. It has been suggested that mimicry amongst birds is almost ubiquitous and it is likely that eventually, all species will be shown to be able to have some ability to mimic extra-specific sounds (but not necessarily human speech). Measurements can be useful to study growth, variation between geographically separated forms, identify differences between the sexes, age or otherwise characterize individuals birds. Several of the theories will apply to only some species due to social structure, habitat and behavioural ecology. ===Mistaken copying=== It has been suggested that (general) mimicry of non-bird related sounds is simply a mistaken attempt to copy species-specific calls. ===Flock recognition=== In the wild, flocks of parrots develop distinct local dialects. Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: some, like the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words.

Parrots

Parrots can add up numbers just as well as humans

Crows

Pigeons can add up numbers just as well as humans

No birds can add up numbers just as well as humans

E

Which animals can add up numbers just as well as humans?

Animals are believed to have an approximate number system, the same system for number representation demonstrated by humans, which is more precise for smaller quantities and less so for larger values. Other studies suggest that pigeons can also represent numbers up to 6 after an extensive training. === Dogs === A sense of number has also been found in dogs. Some numerical operations, such as addition, have been demonstrated in many species, including rats and great apes. Number sense in animals includes the recognition and comparison of number quantities. In fact, many experiments have supported that primates capacity for numbers is comparable to human children. It is however argued that wolves perform better on quantity discrimination tasks than dogs and that this could be a result of a less demanding natural selection for number sense in dogs. === Ants === Ants were shown to be able to count up to 20 and add and subtract numbers within 5. An exact representation of numbers higher than three has not been attested in wild animals, but can be demonstrated after a period of training in captive animals. This is compatible with the approximate number system and magnitude and distance effects. === Birds === Birds were one of the first animal species tested on their number sense. In non-human animals, number sense is not the ability to count, but the ability to perceive changes in the number of things in a collection. Later experiments supported the claim of existence of a number sense in birds, with Alex, a grey parrot, able to label and comprehend labels for sets with up to six elements. In order to distinguish number sense in animals from the symbolic and verbal number system in humans, researchers use the term numerosity, rather than number, to refer to the concept that supports approximate estimation but does not support an exact representation of number quality. Representing fractions and fraction addition has been observed in chimpanzees. Number sense in animals is the ability of creatures to represent and discriminate quantities of relative sizes by number sense. There were, however, other early and more reliable studies on number sense in animals. If the animal prefers a bigger number of pieces also in this condition, the alternative explanation is rejected, and the claim of numerical ability supported. == Approximate number and parallel individuation systems == Numerosity is believed to be represented by two separate systems in animals, similarly to humans. Like humans, chicks have a left-to-right mental number line (they associate the left space with smaller numbers and the right space with larger numbers). ==Early studies== thumb|Wilhelm von Osten and Clever Hans At the beginning of the 20th century, Wilhelm von Osten famously, but prematurely, claimed human-like counting abilities in animals on the example of his horse named Hans. On the other hand, other experiments only report knowledge of numbers up to 4, supporting the existence of the parallel individuation system and not the approximate number system. == Number sense in primates == Studies have shown that primates share similar cognitive algorithms for not only comparing numerical values, but also encoding those values as analogs. In addition, humans can represent numbers through symbolic systems, such as language. In psychology, number sense is the term used for the hypothesis that some animals, particularly humans, have a biologically determined ability that allows them to represent and manipulate large numerical quantities. This social numerical superiority concept exists across many primate species and displays the understanding of power in numbers, at least in a comparative way. Primates have displayed ordinality both with arrays of items, as well as with Arabic numerals. This result supports the use of the ANS because the monkeys aren't defining numbers individually, but are rather matching sets of items of the same number using comparison of quantities.

Birds

Parrots can add up numbers just as well as humans

No animals can add up numbers just as well as humans

Dogs

Monkeys can add up numbers just as well as humans

C

Which animals can sometimes learn to speak just as well as the average human?

Human language differs greatly from animal communication in the sense that everything in context-dependent. Pet birds can be taught to speak by their owners by mimicking their voice. Songbirds and parrots are the two groups of birds able to learn and mimic human speech. Crows identify and respond differently to different human faces and can be trained to understand and reply to verbal commands. While parrots have the distinction of being able to mimic human speech, studies with the grey parrot have shown that some are able to associate words with their meanings and form simple sentences (see Alex). Most primate researchers tend to show a bias toward a shared pre-linguistic ability between humans and chimpanzees, dating back to a common ancestor, while dolphin and parrot researchers stress the general cognitive principles underlying these abilities. * Excellent compendium of links to the websites of all of the major animal language studies * Listen to Nature includes article "The Language of Birds" * Jarvis Lab homepage Evolution of Brain Structure for Vocal Learning * :de:Linguogenetik Category:Animal communication Category:Human–animal communication The best talking crows may be the ones found in captivity at zoos and wildlife centers. ====Starlings==== European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are exceptional mimics, including human speech. Human owners communicate with these felines through pet talk, yet there is little to no evidence that felines can understand humans or are capable of consistent training, most cases are individual and replication can be very difficult. ==Other animal training== Humans teach animals specific responses for specific conditions or stimuli. Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: some, like the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words. Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. Mimicking human speech is not limited to captive birds. Wild Australian magpies, lyrebirds and bowerbirds that interact with humans but remain free can still mimic human speech. In a 2016 study, a team of biologists from several universities concluded that macaques possess vocal tracts physically capable of speech, "but lack a speech-ready brain to control it". ==Non-primates: studied examples== Among the most studied examples of animal languages are: ===Birds=== * Bird songs: Songbirds can be very articulate. Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language. There has been a recent emergence in animal language research which has contested the idea that animal communication is less sophisticated than human communication. In experimental tests, animal communication may also be evidenced through the use of lexigrams by chimpanzees and bonobos. Human–animal communication is the communication observed between humans and other animals, ranging from non-verbal cues and vocalizations to the use of language. Wild cockatoos in Australia have been reported to have learned human speech by cultural transmission from ex-captive birds that have integrated into the flock.Price, Hannah (September 15, 2011). There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have some cognitive understanding of the language. Claims that animals have language skills akin to humans however, are extremely controversial. Research with apes, like that of Francine Patterson with Koko (gorilla) or Allen and Beatrix Gardner with Washoe (chimpanzee), suggested that apes are capable of using language that meets some of these requirements, including arbitrariness, discreteness, and productivity.

Birds can sometimes speak just as well as humans

Dogs

Chimpanzees can sometimes speak just as well as humans

Parrots can sometimes speak just as well as humans

No animals can sometimes learn to speak just as well as the average human

E

If you raise a chimpanzee like a human child, what does it learn to do?

The details of this research can be found in Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees edited by Allen and Beatrix Gardner. ==See also== * Great ape language * List of individual apes == References == == External links == * Homepage of the Friends of Washoe Category:Individual chimpanzees Category:Individual apes involved in language studies Category:Animal intelligence Category:Primatology Category:1978 animal births Category:Sign language The chimpanzees regularly use the hand signals to communicate with each other and humans. Another goal was for the chimpanzee and bonobo to be able to comprehend spoken and symbolic language. However, further experiments in which chimpanzees were instructed in the use of American sign language indicated that Viki's achievements had been significantly hampered by physiological limitations—chimpanzees are not able to produce the sounds that make up human speech. "Higher mental functions of a home-raised chimpanzee". The researchers assumed this was because chimpanzees did not have the capacity to be able to learn a language. DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5598.1569 Category:Individual apes involved in language studies Category:Individual chimpanzees Category:Talking animals "Imitation in a home-raised chimpanzee". This research on bonobos has made her known for “one of the world’s leading ape language researchers.” == History of bonobos and chimpanzees == A part of this study was to see if there was a difference between bonobos and chimpanzees since they are very similar species. Attribution of Knowledge (and Perception) Hare et al. (2001) demonstrates that chimpanzees are aware of what other individuals know. Loulis (born May 10, 1978) is a chimpanzee who has learned to communicate in American Sign Language. Primates are capable of high levels of cognition; some make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; some have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can recognise kin and conspecifics; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence. ==Studies in primate cognition== ===Theory of Mind=== Theory of mind (also known as mental state attribution, mentalizing, or mindreading) can be defined as the "ability to track the unobservable mental states, like desires and beliefs, that guide others' actions". By the time she became a grown chimpanzee, Panpanzee had learned one hundred and twenty-eight different lexigrams while being able to comprehend one hundred and fifty English words. thumb|Chimpanzee Panpanzee the chimpanzee (1985 – February 9, 2014 at the age of by diabetes complications), was born at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. A 2012 study identifying individual chimpanzees that consistently performed highly on cognitive tasks found clusters of abilities instead of a general factor of intelligence. A chimpanzee trained in the interrogative might inquire "Where is my food?" Chimpanzees and humans are closely related, sharing 95% of their DNA sequence and 99% of coding DNA sequences. The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid. Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology. In 2013, he moved from the CHCI to the chimpanzee sanctuary of the Fauna Foundation in Canada. == Language abilities == Washoe and three other chimpanzees (Tatu, Dar, and Moja) were raised as if they were deaf human children and acquired American Sign Language. Premack and Woodruff's 1978 article "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" Understanding language is a key component to being able to understand the directions for the false-belief test, and researchers have had to get creative to utilize this test in the research of non-human primates' theory of mind.

It will learn language like a human

It will master language

It will learn human language

It can learn some very basic aspects of sign language

It will talk like a human child

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If you bring up a monkey in a human household, what will it learn to do?

The many species of monkey have varied relationships with humans. The ability for non-human primates to understand call systems that belong to a different species of monkey happens but to a limited extent. After being socialized in a human home as infants, the monkeys undergo extensive training before being placed with disabled people. Around the house, the monkeys assist with daily tasks such as feeding, fetching, manipulating objects, and personal care. Note that the following discussion of "monkey; ape" terminology will cite three fundamental sources. Monkeys are prevalent in numerous books, television programs, and movies. A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet. After being socialized in a human home as infants, the monkeys undergo extensive training before being placed with a quadriplegic. Primates are capable of high levels of cognition; some make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; some have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can recognise kin and conspecifics; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence. ==Studies in primate cognition== ===Theory of Mind=== Theory of mind (also known as mental state attribution, mentalizing, or mindreading) can be defined as the "ability to track the unobservable mental states, like desires and beliefs, that guide others' actions". Informally, "monkey" may refer to apes, particularly chimpanzees, gibbons, and gorillas. It looks like an ape or a monkey and can speak simple words > like a parrot. Around the house, the monkeys help out by doing tasks such as microwaving food, washing the quadriplegic's face, and opening drink bottles. Colloquially, the terms "monkey" and "ape" are widely used interchangeably. Its name is the monkey-like. In at least one study, the monkey completed all tasks and punishment was used only in the learning stage. ==In popular culture== In popular culture both actual and fictionalized accounts of pet monkeys are utilized extensively. Primate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of non-human primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology. Despite these abilities, according to the published research literature, apes are not able to ask questions themselves, and in human-primate conversations, questions are asked by the humans only. Monkeys are popular in numerous books, television programs, and movies. Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Recently, most non-human theory of mind research has focused on monkeys and great apes, who are of most interest in the study of the evolution of human social cognition. English monkey, for instance, can mean a "mischievous child", "person with minimal intelligence and/or bad looks", or "menial employee who does a repetitive job"; and ape can mean "uncivilized person", "wild; crazy", or "imitate; mimic". Monkeys, particularly macaques and monkey-like gibbons, have played significant roles in Chinese culture for over two thousand years.

It will behave just like a human

It will learn human language

It will learn to interact with humans

It will talk like a human child

It will do everything children do

C

Is it true that no birds have ever become fluent in English?

However, it is believed that the loss of flight is an easier transition for birds than the loss and regain of flight, which has never been documented in avian history. Some non-native birds have established themselves and become naturalised after naturally migrating to the country and forming colonies, such as the collared dove. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have some cognitive understanding of the language. Many domesticated birds, such as the domestic chicken and domestic duck, have lost the ability to fly for extended periods, although their ancestral species, the red junglefowl and mallard, respectively, are capable of extended flight. Mimicking human speech is not limited to captive birds. Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: some, like the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words. Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. All of these birds show adaptations common to flightlessness, and evolved recently from fully flighted ancestors, but have not yet completely given up the ability to fly. Wild cockatoos in Australia have been reported to have learned human speech by cultural transmission from ex-captive birds that have integrated into the flock.Price, Hannah (September 15, 2011). It has been suggested that birds with complex social organisation may develop an auditory map of their territory, as well as visual, and that mimicking facilitates this process. ==Cognition controversy== There is controversy about whether parrots are capable of using language, or merely mimic what they hear. Abnormal behavior of birds in captivity has been found to occur among both domesticated and wild birds. Scientists in France and the Czech Republic have also had some success in teaching grey parrots to label items referentially using human language, albeit using a different teaching methodology to that of Pepperberg—which was found to be ineffective in the case of the particular birds within the study. ==Famous talking birds== Alex, a grey parrot, had a vocabulary of about 100 words, substantially fewer than world record holders, but he is perhaps the best known talking bird due to the publicity surrounding his potential cognitive abilities. The clarity of their speech has been compared to that of amazon parrots although they may not learn extensive vocabularies. Since the Victorian era many bird species have been introduced to Britain, whether for sport, ornament or general experimenting, and some have established themselves whilst others have not. In the United States, it is estimated that forty million birds are kept caged and improperly cared for.“There is no such thing as a cage bird”. Pet birds can be taught to speak by their owners by mimicking their voice. Flightless birds are birds that, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. Several of the theories will apply to only some species due to social structure, habitat and behavioural ecology. ===Mistaken copying=== It has been suggested that (general) mimicry of non-bird related sounds is simply a mistaken attempt to copy species-specific calls. ===Flock recognition=== In the wild, flocks of parrots develop distinct local dialects. They are, however, weak fliers and are incapable of traveling long distances by air. ===Continued presence of wings in flightless birds=== Although selection pressure for flight was largely absent, the wing structure has not been lost except in the New Zealand moas. The African ring-neck parakeet (Psittacula krameri krameri), another subspecies of the rose-ringed parakeet, can also talk, but some may never learn if not trained at an early age. A number of bird species appear to be in the process of losing their powers of flight to various extents. Songbirds and parrots are the two groups of birds able to learn and mimic human speech.

No, there are some cases of a bird being fluent in English

No, birds have become fluent in English

Yes, some birds can talk

Yes, some parrots have become fluent

Yes, no birds have ever become fluent in English

E

What is the winter weather like in Paris compared to Philadelphia?

Climate data for Paris Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average Ultraviolet index 1 2 3 4 6 7 7 6 4 3 1 1 3.8 Source: Weather Atlas ==References== ===Works cited=== * * Category:Climate by city Category:Climate of France Paris has an average annual precipitation of , and experiences light rainfall distributed evenly throughout the year. According to Troll-Paffen climate classification, Rome has a warm-temperate subtropical climate (Warmgemäßigt-subtropisches Zonenklima).Climatic map by Istituto Geografico De Agostini, according to Troll-Paffen climate classification According to Siegmund/Frankenberg climate classification, Rome has a subtropical climate.Die Klimatypen der Erde, Pädagogische Hochschule in Heidelberg. ==Daylight== Rome is more southerly than most cities in Europe, and the duration of daylight throughout the year is more similar to Chicago or New York City (all three at approximately 40°N) than Berlin (~52°N) or Paris (48°N). thumb|right|Autumn in Paris|300x300px Paris has a typical oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb) which is affected by the North Atlantic Current. This is a list of cities by average temperature (monthly and yearly). Miami has an average annual rainfall of , whereas nearby Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach receive and , respectively, which demonstrates the high local variability in rainfall rates. thumb|right|Köppen climate types in Pennsylvania, showing that the climate of the state is a primarily warm summer humid-continental in the north and primarily humid subtropical with patches of oceanic in the south. During El Niño events, Miami becomes cooler than normal during the dry season with above average precipitation. Thus, the actual daytime temperature in a given month will be higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is. ==Africa== ==Asia== ==Europe== ==North America== ==Oceania== ==South America== == See also == * List of cities by sunshine duration * List of cities by average precipitation * List of weather records ==References== Category:Weather-related lists Category:Lists of cities List of cities by average temperature The climate of Miami is classified as having a tropical monsoon climate with hot and humid summers; short, warm winters; and a marked drier season in the winter. Rome and its metropolitan area has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa), with mild winters and warm to hot summers. Average annual precipitation in Pennsylvania has increased 5 to 10 percent in the last century, and precipitation from extremely heavy storms has increased 70 percent in the Northeast since 1958. In winter, sunshine is scarce; days are cool, nights cold but generally above freezing with low temperatures around . The overall climate throughout the year is mild and moderately wet. Precipitation is likely to increase during winter and spring, but not change significantly during summer and fall. Values range from 1 (December) to 9 (July). ==Sea temperature== Average sea temperature (Civitavecchia, north of Rome centre):Monthly Civitavecchia water temperature chart, seatemperature.org. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average sea temperature (Tor San Lorenzo, south of Rome centre):Monthly Tor San Lorenzo water temperature chart, seatemperature.org. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year ==Climatic data== ===Recent data=== ===Old data=== ==See also== * Climate of Ancient Rome ==References== Rome Rome Category:Geography of Rome Category:Metropolitan City of Rome Capital Surprisingly warm or cool weather occurs frequently in both seasons. This gives the city cool winters, warm summers with precipitation fairly evenly distributed all year round. With January averaging , winter features warm temperatures; cool air usually settles after the passage of a cold front, which produces much of the little amount of rainfall. The temperatures listed are averages of the daily highs and lows. Miami has been identified as one of three cities in the United States most vulnerable to hurricanes, mainly due to its location and it being surrounded by ocean and low-lying coastal plains, the other two cities being New Orleans and Houston. ==See also== *Climate of Florida *Climate change in Florida ==Notes== ==References== Miami Category:Climate of Florida Miami reports more thunderstorms than most US cities, with about eighty days per year having thunder reported.

The winter in Paris is colder and has more snow

The winter in Philadelphia is colder and has more snow

Philadelphia is less cold than Paris in winter

The winter in Paris is cooler than Philadelphia

The weather in Philadelphia is milder in winter than Paris

B

How is the summer weather in New York City as compared to Rome?

According to Troll-Paffen climate classification, Rome has a warm-temperate subtropical climate (Warmgemäßigt-subtropisches Zonenklima).Climatic map by Istituto Geografico De Agostini, according to Troll-Paffen climate classification According to Siegmund/Frankenberg climate classification, Rome has a subtropical climate.Die Klimatypen der Erde, Pädagogische Hochschule in Heidelberg. ==Daylight== Rome is more southerly than most cities in Europe, and the duration of daylight throughout the year is more similar to Chicago or New York City (all three at approximately 40°N) than Berlin (~52°N) or Paris (48°N). Weather in New York is heavily influenced by two air masses: a warm, humid one from the southwest and a cold, dry one from the northwest. Rome and its metropolitan area has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa), with mild winters and warm to hot summers. The climate of New York (state) is generally humid continental, while the extreme southeastern portion of the state (New York City and Long Island area) lies in the warmer humid subtropical climate zone. Rome averages over of snowfall each winter, mostly due to its proximity to Lake Ontario and the lake-effect snow that it produces. Seasonally, summer-like conditions prevail from June to early September statewide, while areas in far southern New York and New York City have summer conditions from late May through early-mid October. Columella's weather calendar suggests that summer precipitation in southern Italy, particularly in Rome and Campania, occurred more often than now. However, it is far north enough for there to be a moderate change of possible daylight hours throughout the year. ===Wind=== The wind is seldom strong in New York City but can occasionally be noticeable. New York City is an urban heat island, with temperatures 5–7 degrees Fahrenheit (3–4 degrees Celsius) warmer overnight than surrounding areas. The New York City area and the Lower Hudson Valley in contrast feature more sultry and tropical summers with frequent bouts of high temperatures and high dew points. New York City sees frequent, heavy rainfall which averages annually. Unlike the vast majority of the state, New York City features a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa). The Adirondacks have warm to hot temperatures with some humidity during a heat wave but it is typically cooler than the rest of the state during a heat wave. ===Winter snowfall=== Snowfall in New York State also significantly varies by region. New York City, Hudson Valley, and Long Island are the warmest in New York State because of warmer ocean temperatures which keep these area between 37–42 °F (2 to 5 °C), warmer than locations upstate. Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. Values range from 1 (December) to 9 (July). ==Sea temperature== Average sea temperature (Civitavecchia, north of Rome centre):Monthly Civitavecchia water temperature chart, seatemperature.org. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average sea temperature (Tor San Lorenzo, south of Rome centre):Monthly Tor San Lorenzo water temperature chart, seatemperature.org. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year ==Climatic data== ===Recent data=== ===Old data=== ==See also== * Climate of Ancient Rome ==References== Rome Rome Category:Geography of Rome Category:Metropolitan City of Rome Capital The climate of ancient Rome varied throughout the existence of that civilization. The city is also expected to become more susceptible to storm surges and flooding, meaning events like Hurricane Sandy's impacts will become more likely in the future. ===Temperature=== The temperature in New York City has generally increased steadily of the last 150 years and this trend is expected to continue due to anthropogenic warming. The significant urbanization within New York city has led to an urban heat island, which causes temperatures to be warmer overnight in all seasons. The Atlantic serves as a moderator of the temperature meaning the city is milder than areas inland during the winter and cooler during the summer. In 2016, much of New York experienced a severe drought, including the Finger Lakes region, where the drought was preceded by a very mild winter with minimal snow pack. ==Climate data for select cities== ==See also== *Climate change in New York (state) *List of New York hurricanes ==References== ==Notes== New York Category:Environment of New York (state) The annual average temperature across the state ranges from around over the Adirondack Mountains to near across the Hudson Valley and Long Island, to around within New York City.

Rome has lower daily highs and more rain then New York City

Rome has slightly higher daily highs and less rain than New York City

Rome is colder than New York

New York City is much warmer than Rome

The summer weather is very different between Rome and New York City

B

How is February in Amsterdam compared to Philadelphia?

Bridgeport, Connecticut experienced it’s coldest February temperature, and 2nd coldest all time temperature, at . In addition, significant winter weather occurred throughout the season, including a major blizzard that struck the Northeastern United States at the end of January, another blizzard that affected much of the Northern United States days later in early February, and several significant snow events paired with very frigid temperatures for much of February. A multitude of cities east of the Mississippi experienced their coldest February in decades, including Chicago, Ill.; Cleveland, Oh.; In February 2015, nine states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont) had their second coldest February.Record and Near-Record February Statewide Temperatures | February 2015 National Climate Report, NOAA New York and Vermont had its coldest first quarter on record in 2015.March 2015 National Climate Report, NOAA === Western United States === Despite an intrusion of cold air near the end of the month, temperatures in the Western United States averaged above normal for December, with temperatures in much of the area averaging over 3 °F (1.6 °C) above normal. In Quebec, Montreal experienced its coldest February on record with an extended cold spell and an average temperature of . Much of February saw below-average cold in the eastern part of the country, it was markedly warm in the West. What was interesting about the weather pattern for this system, was the 24-hour weather difference, for example, at 2:00pm EDT on February 15, New York City reported snow with temperatures in the 30s, and a day later, reported temperatures in the mid-50s and thunderstorms on February 16. In spite of temperatures in New York on February 14, by February 16, the temperature reached . For Worcester, Mass, February was the coldest month out of any month on record with an average temperature of just , while also accumulating more than of snow this winter. As a result, February was record-breaking for many cities in the United States, yet in opposite extremes. Overall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that about 30.6 percent of the country was "very warm" – meaning February was in the warmest 10 percent of the historical record – while 31.5 percent of the country was "very cold," or in the coldest 10 percent historically. == Events == There were several winter weather events during the 2014–15 North American winter. Shortly thereafter, the coldest air of the season froze parts of the Northeast on February 14, with temperatures dipping to as low as , shattering many record low temperatures. As of February 15, Lake Erie had 94 percent ice cover while Lake Superior and Lake Huron were over 80 percent covered, and Lakes Michigan and Ontario were between 50 and 60 percent iced over. === Mid-February blizzard === From February 14–15, the Northeast experienced yet another winter storm, with Boston receiving over of snow. In February, the historic weather events continued, as another snowstorm kicked off the month with a swath of snow from Colorado to Michigan. It was the warmest winter month (December, January, February) on record in San Francisco; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Reno, Nev.; Las Vegas; and Salt Lake City, with the latter realizing an average temperature for February of , breaking the old record set in 1907. Despite Boston’s record snow in February, however, this was still the 40th driest February in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, just of snow fell in the entire month in Anchorage, Alaska, making it the fifth-least-snowy February on record. February was the warmest on record in Washington, California, Utah and Arizona, while February was among the top 10 warmest in four other states. The upper low gradually moved out of the region by April 19, alas at a very slow rate. == Records == This is a list of records broken in North America during the 2015–16 winter. === United States === * 2nd warmest winter in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City (behind 2001–02) * Wettest December ever recorded (Lower 48 states) * Highest snowfall from a single snowstorm in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Newark, New Jersey, New York City and Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaJanuary 2016 blizzard officially snowiest in city’s history: NOAA, ANNY, April 28, 2016 * Snowiest January on record at John F. Kennedy International AirportRole Reversal, Northeast Regional Climate Center * Second wettest winter on record in Atlanta, and La Crosse, Wisconsin. As the snow moved to the east, warm air began to run over the cold air in place over the Mid-Atlantic, and snow changed over to a mix of freezing rain and sleet by evening on March 1 in areas near Maryland and southern New Jersey. January averaged below normal, and February was the second-coldest on record, being below normal, while March continued the chilly trend, finishing below normal. * *In the eastern United States and Canada, the winter of 2013–2014 and the second half of February 2015 were abnormally cold. ===Historically significant=== *1310–1330, many severe winters and cold, wet summers in Europe – the first clear manifestation of the unpredictable weather of the Little Ice Age that lasted for several centuries (from about 1300 to 1900).

Philadelphia is colder and has more snow than Amsterdam in February

Philadelphia is milder and has more snow than Amsterdam in February

Amsterdam is cooler than Philadelphia in February

Philadelphia is milder and snowier than Amsterdam

Amsterdam is cooler and has less snow than Philadelphia

A

A great continental power annexed and took over this miniscule pleasant island nation, where English is spoken and most people are Christian. It's called the Republic of what?

Iceland ( ) is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle, atop the constructive boundary of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. () is Irish for "Ireland", the name of both an island in the North Atlantic and the sovereign state of the Republic of Ireland which governs 84% of the island's landmass. It became the Kingdom of Iceland. Iceland (, ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Its total size is and possesses an exclusive economic zone of . == Statistics == Iceland is an island country in Northern Europe, straddling the Eurasian and North American plates between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the British Isles. Historically, due to cultural, economic, and linguistic similarities, Iceland is a Nordic country, and it participates in intergovernmental cooperation through the Nordic Council. Great Ireland (Old Norse: Írland hit mikla or Írland it mikla), also known as White Men's Land (Hvítramannaland), and in Latin similarly as Hibernia Major and Albania, was a land said by various Norsemen to be located near Vinland.Barnes, 2001, p. Pleasant Island may refer to: * Pleasant Island, former name of Nauru, an island country in the Micronesian South Pacific * Pleasant Island (Alaska), an island in Alaska Icelanders () are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland and speak Icelandic. The country of Iceland contains 36 islands. The latter is distinct from Northern Ireland, which covers the remainder of the northeast of the island. Oecdbetterlifeindex.org. Retrieved 28 April 2012. ===Government=== Iceland is a representative democracy and a parliamentary republic. Most Icelanders are descendants of Norse and Gaelic settlers. Iceland gained full sovereignty and independence from Denmark in 1918 after World War I. Iceland came under the reign of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish kings but regained full sovereignty and independence from the Danish monarchy on 1 December 1918, when the Kingdom of Iceland was established. Later, the inhabitants of the land came to meet them, and the Norse thought they seemed to speak Irish. Correspondingly, Icelandic identity is gradually shifting towards a more multicultural form. == Culture == === Language and literature === thumb|left|240px|A poem from the Poetic Edda Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the official language of Iceland (de facto; the laws are silent about the issue). Perhaps unique to Iceland is the fast-growing Ásatrúarfélag, a legally recognized revival of the pre-Christian Nordic religion of the original settlers. In 1941, the Government of Iceland, friendly to Britain, invited the then-neutral United States to take over its defence so that Britain could use its troops elsewhere. ===1944–present: Republic of Iceland=== On 31 December 1943, the Danish–Icelandic Act of Union expired after 25 years. Surtsey, one of the youngest islands in the world, is part of Iceland. Despite the fact that Article 8 designated Irish as the "national" and "first official" language, Éire has to some extent passed out of everyday conversation and literature, and the state is referred to as Ireland or its equivalent in all other languages. * Iceland entry at Encyclopædia Britannica * * Iceland from BBC News * * * Incredible Iceland: Fire and Ice – slideshow by Life magazine * A Photographer's View of Iceland Documentary produced by Prairie Public Television * Arason Steingrimur Writings on Iceland at Dartmouth College Library Category:Countries in Europe Category:Former Danish colonies Category:Former Norwegian colonies Category:Island countries Category:Islands of Iceland Category:Members of the Nordic Council Category:Member states of the European Free Trade Association Category:Member states of NATO Category:Member states of the Council of Europe Category:Member states of the United Nations Category:Republics Category:States and territories established in 1944 Category:Christian states Category:Mid-Atlantic Ridge Category:OECD members

The Republic of Iceland

Ireland

Nauru

Iceland

The Republic of Ireland

C

Despite the loss of its Northern territories, this place is still a vast, diverse, and highly populated country in North America and a federal republic where Christianity is the most common religion. It's called the "United" what?

Religion in each of these countries is dominated by Christianity (77.4), making it the largest religious group in North America. ==By religion== ===Judaism=== *North America: 1.5% *United States: 1.7% to 2.9% *Canada: 1.2% *Mexico: 0.02% ===Christianity=== *North America: 75.2%calculated with country data-77.4% *Mexico: 87.7%Pew Research Center: Religion in Latin America Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region *United States: 73.7% *Canada: 67.3% ===Islam=== *Canada: 4.9%Canadians highlights *United States: 1.2%The Future of the Muslim Population - United States Pew Forum. Christianity is the predominant religion in all U.S. states and territories. *Mexico: 0.2% Pew Forum. === Buddhism === *Canada: 1.4% *Mexico: 0.1% *United States: 0.9% === Hinduism === *Canada: 2.3% *United States: 1.0% *Mexico: 0.09% === Sikhism === *Canada: 2.1% *United States: 0.2% === Bahá'í Faith === *United States: 0.2% *Canada: 0.1% *Mexico: <0.1% == Irreligion == *Canada: 29% *United States: 28% *Mexico: 4.6%Religious diversity is increasing in Mexico ==By country== ===Canada=== ===Mexico=== ===United States=== ==See also== * Catholic Church in North America * Eastern Orthodoxy in North America * Oriental Orthodoxy in North America * Religion in South America == References == == Sources == * thumb|right|250px|Religious Belief in North America, according to 2010-2012 data Religion in North America is dominated by various branches of Christianity and spans the period of Native American dwelling, European settlement, and the present day. Historically, the United States has always been marked by religious pluralism and diversity, beginning with various native beliefs of the pre-colonial time, though Protestantism has long been the predominant majority belief. Protestantism (which includes both non-evangelical and evangelical denominations) is one of the most common religious minorities in Mexico, although it makes up very small percentage of religion in Mexico when compared to the large Roman Catholic majority. The Catholic branch of Christianity is the dominant religion in Mexico, representing 78% of the total population as of 2020. Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States. R Category:Religion in North America Category:Religion in Central America Category:Religion in Mexico The fact that more and more Mexicans no longer describe or define themselves as Catholic is significant issue amongst the country's Catholic population, many of whom consider Mexico a sacred Catholic land. The U.S. has the world's largest Christian population and, more specifically, contains the largest Protestant population in the world. Going forward from its foundation, the United States has been called a Protestant nation by a variety of sources.Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise by Kevin M. Schultz, p. 9Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Princeton University Press, 2000 - 438, p. 156The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism by Martin E. Marty, chapter 1 When the categories of "irreligion" and "unaffiliated" are included as religious categories for statistical purposes, Protestantism is technically no longer the religious category of the majority; however, this is primarily the result of an increase in Americans, such as Americans of Protestant descent or background, professing no religious affiliation, rather than being the result of an increase in non-Protestant religious affiliations, and Protestantism remains by far the majority or dominant form of religion in the United States among American Christians and those Americans who declare a religion affiliation. Conversion to non-Catholic denominations has been considerably lower than in Central America, and central Mexico remains one of the most Catholic areas in the world. Most Americans consider themselves religious or spiritual in some way, while Christianity is the most widely professed religion in the United States, with Protestantism being the dominant form of Christianity in the country. Protestantism also has a large following in the Mexican states that border the U.S. state of Texas. Christianity is the largest religion in the United States at 63% of the population, with the various Protestant Churches having the most adherents.Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise by Kevin M. Schultz, p. 9Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Princeton University Press, 2000 - 438, p. 156The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism by Martin E. Marty, chapter 1 According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, religiously unaffiliated adults rose to 29%. With over 67 million registered residents professing the faith in 2008, the United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines, respectively. The United States has the world's largest Christian population. Historically Christian denominations, the UUA is no longer Christian and is the largest Unitarian Universalist denomination in the world. ==Statistics== The U.S. Census does not ask about religion. Mesoamerican religion is a group of indigenous religions of Mesoamerica that were prevalent in the pre-Columbian era. Other Christian denominations have grown in Mexico, dating from the twentieth century. Religion in the United States according to the American Values Atlas published by the PRRI (2020) Religious Affiliation National % South % West % Midwest % Northeast % Christian 74 65 72 67 Protestant 53 36 50 39 White Evangelical 18 10 18 9 White Mainline Protestant 17 14 21 15 Black Protestant 10 3 6 8 Hispanic Protestant 4 5 2 4 Other non-white Protestant 4 4 3 3 Catholic 19 24 21 26 White Catholic 9 9 15 16 Hispanic Catholic 8 13 4 8 Other non-white Catholic 2 2 2 2 Mormon 1 4 1 1 Jehovah's Witness 1 1 Orthodox Christian 1 Unaffiliated 21 27 22 24 Non- Christian 5 8 6 9 Jewish 1 1 1 3 Muslim 1 1 1 1 Buddhist 1 1 1 1 Hindu 1 1 Other non-Christian 2 4 3 3 Total 100 100 100 100 ===2014 Pew Research Center data=== upright=1.35|thumb|right|The map above shows plurality religious denomination by state as of 2014 according to the Pew Research Center.

It's called the United States of America

Mexican States

States of America

States

It's called the United States

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Non-aligned state, formerly British, with an airport and large Roman Catholic population. It's called the Commonwealth of what?

While the designation "Commonwealth" forms part of the state's official name, in modern times it has no practical implications and Massachusetts has the same position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts ( , ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the Northeast of the United States of America. Kentucky is the only state outside of the original Thirteen Colonies that uses commonwealth in its name. === Massachusetts === Massachusetts is officially named The Commonwealth of Massachusetts by its constitution. Commonwealth is a term used by two unincorporated territories of the United States in their full official names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English and Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in Spanish, translating to "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico." However, the "commonwealth" appellation has no legal or political significance, and it does not make "commonwealth" states any different from other U.S. states. == Definition == The term "commonwealth" does not describe or provide for any specific political status or legal relationship when used by a state. Commonwealth is a term used by four of the 50 states of the United States in their full official state names. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is governed by a set of political tenets laid down in its state constitution. The definition of commonwealth according to 2013 United States Department of State policy, as codified in the department's Foreign Affairs Manual, reads: "The term 'Commonwealth' does not describe or provide for any specific political status or relationship. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is often categorized politically as progressive and liberal. Besides the four aforementioned states, other states have also on occasion used the term commonwealth to refer to themselves: * The term commonwealth is used interchangeably with the term state in the Constitution of Vermont,The Constitution of the State of Vermont, Chapter II, §§ 1, 8, and 71. but the act of Congress admitting that state to the Union calls it "the State of Vermont." "Commonwealth" is a traditional English term used to describe a political community as having been founded for the common good. In Massachusetts, the term State is occasionally used in an official manner, usually in a compound structure rather than as a standalone noun. In 1776, Pennsylvania's first state constitution referred to it as both Commonwealth and State, a pattern of usage that was perpetuated in the constitutions of 1790, 1838, 1874, and 1968.PHMC: Pennsylvania History One of Pennsylvania's two intermediate appellate courts is called the Commonwealth Court. === Virginia === The name Commonwealth of Virginia dates back to its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Two U.S. territories are also designated as commonwealths: Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. This is evident in the names of the Massachusetts State Police, the Massachusetts State House, and the Bridgewater State Hospital. === Pennsylvania === The Seal of Pennsylvania does not use the term, but legal processes are in the name of the Commonwealth, and it is a traditional official designation used in referring to the state. Massachusetts, along with the five other New England states, features the local governmental structure known as the New England town. Despite the Spanish translation of the term "commonwealth", Puerto Rico's relationship with United States is not a Compact of Free Association (which is the case for the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands). Massachusetts has since gained a reputation as being a politically liberal state and is often used as an archetype of liberalism, hence the usage of the phrase "Massachusetts liberal". At the time, the word was used to mean 'republic', and there might have been some antimonarchical sentiment in using it, according to the Massachusetts secretary of state's website." ==Current commonwealths== ===Commonwealth of Puerto Rico=== Of the current U.S. insular areas, the term was first used by Puerto Rico in 1952 as its formal name in English ("Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"). Massachusetts is one of the most Democratic states in the country.

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Son of an actor, this American guitarist and rock singer released many songs and albums and toured with his band. His name is "Elvis" what?

Perkins was named after Elvis Presley, of whom his father was a fan. He subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough, Wyndham Boylan-Garnett and Nick Kinsey. Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often referred to mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Elvis Brooke Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is an American folk-rock musician. Elvis Thomas may refer to: *Elvis Thomas (soccer, born 1972), Canadian soccer player *Elvis Thomas (footballer, born 1994), Antiguan footballer ==See also== *Elvie Thomas, an American country blues singer and guitarist David Wayne Perkins (born 1951) is an American rock and R&B; guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician. During his long career, Perkins played session guitar with artists including the Alabama State Troupers, Ben Atkins, Michael Bolton, Angela Bofill, the Everly Brothers, the Oak Ridge Boys, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ray Reach and many others. During this time, he became friends with superstar guitarist Eric Clapton. === With the Rolling Stones === Clapton arranged for Perkins to audition with The Rolling Stones. Perkins may be best known for his work with The Rolling Stones, who almost brought him into the band. Elvis Williams (born April 12, 1981), better known as Blac Elvis, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. ==Career== He rose to fame in 2005 co-producing alongside Polow da Don, producing hits for Ludacris, Ciara, Kelly Rowland, Fergie, Rich Boy, Kelis, Nelly, Pussycat Dolls, and Mario. His band released its debut album Elvis Perkins in Dearland on March 10, 2009. American singer and actor Elvis Presley served in the United States Army from 1958 to 1960. The band formed in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004 when Perkins moved to the East Coast upon completing Ash Wednesday, although the members have been friends and collaborators for many years. ==Early life== Perkins is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), and photographer and actress Berry Berenson (1948–2001) who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The band released its self-titled debut, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, in 2009. Presley often played an instrument on his recordings and produced his own music. === Musicianship === Presley played guitar, bass, and piano; he received his first guitar when he was 11 years old. As a result, Perkins was one of several guitarists hired to play on the album Black and Blue. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. While Presley was not an innovative guitarist like Moore or contemporary African American rockers Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, cultural historian Gilbert B. Rodman argued that the album's cover image, "of Elvis having the time of his life on stage with a guitar in his hands played a crucial role in positioning the guitar ... as the instrument that best captured the style and spirit of this new music." The album Elvis is Back! features Presley playing a lot of acoustic guitar on songs such as "I Will Be Home Again" and "Like a Baby". === Musical styles and genres === Presley was a central figure in the development of rockabilly, according to music historians. The following is a list and timeline of the most prominent musicians that worked with Presley during his lifetime. While Katherine Charlton calls Presley "rockabilly's originator", Carl Perkins, another pioneer of rock'n'roll, said that "[Sam] Phillips, Elvis, and I didn't create rockabilly".

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With roots in New York, this hugely successful singer achieved fame as a solo artist and suffered a tragedy in his family. He's called "Elvis" what?

He has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award in merengue music. ==Early years== Crespo was born in New York City and was named "Elvis" after Elvis Presley. This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Elvis Crespo, a Puerto Rican Merengue singer. Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often referred to mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. In 2016 Elvis was featured on Deorro's number one hit song "Bailar" which was featured on a Target Corporation Commercial. ==Personal life== On March 16, 2009, Crespo married his manager, Maribel Vega, in Puerto Rico. In response, it has been claimed that while "Elvis' success as a singer and movie star dramatically increased his economic capital, his cultural capital never expanded enough for him to transcend the stigma of his background as a truck driver from the rural South... Elvis Crespo Díaz (born July 30, 1971) is a Puerto Rican singer of the Merengue genre. When asked by police at the airport about the accusation, Crespo reportedly said "I don’t recall doing that".Elvis Crespo Accused Of Mile-High Masturbation Billboard (March 26, 2009) On July 10, 2013, an intoxicated Crespo was allegedly expelled from a casino in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico for harassing a female employee, before he later became involved in a physical confrontation with local restaurant owner Alexander de Jesús after he attempted to steal a bottle of alcohol from his restaurant.Elvis Crespo Gets Beat Up And ‘Poops’ In His Pants Maria G. Valdez, Latin Times (July 10, 2013) De Jesús subsequently filed a complaint against Crespo, opening a police investigation.Business Owner Who Beat Up Elvis Crespo Filed A Complaint And Demands Apology From The Singer Maria G. Valdez, Latin Times (July 11, 2013) In a December 2013 interview with Al Rojo Vivo, Crespo addressed both incidents, saying that he was ashamed, and that his behavior stemmed from his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.Elvis Crespo Finally Admits He Masturbated On a Plane Ariel Nahi, Cosmopolitan (December 12, 2013)Elvis Crespo admitió sus serios problemas de alcoholismo People en Español (December 11, 2013) ==Discography== Studio albums * 1998: Suavemente * 1999: Píntame * 1999: The Remixes * 2000: Wow! Elvis Thomas may refer to: *Elvis Thomas (soccer, born 1972), Canadian soccer player *Elvis Thomas (footballer, born 1994), Antiguan footballer ==See also== *Elvie Thomas, an American country blues singer and guitarist Newsweek commented, "There are several unbelievable things about Elvis, but the most incredible is his staying power in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars." Urbano (Urban) is the fourth studio album by Elvis Crespo. ==Track listing== # "La Cerveza" # "A Medias" # "Bandida" # "Báilalo" # "Bésame En La Boca" # "Ojos Negros" # "Que Se Repita" # "Para Mí" # "Oh La La" # "Amarte Así" # "Poco A Poco" # "Como Fingir" (Unplugged) # "Te Lo Digo Yo" # "Señora Tambora" (A Dúo Con Sergio Vargas) ==Sales and certifications== ==See also== *List of number-one Billboard Tropical Albums from the 2000s == References == Category:Elvis Crespo albums Category:2002 albums Since the beginning of his career, American singer Elvis Presley has had an extensive cultural impact. According to George Plasketes, several songs by other performers came out after the singer's death which are a part of a "demystification process as they portray Elvis as a racist."George Plasketes (1997) Images of Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977–1997: The Mystery Terrain, Haworth Press, p. 53, . Elvis Crespo has released 10 studio albums, 19 singles, and many music videos in the record label Sony BMG. ==Albums== ===Studio albums=== Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications US US Latin US Trop. Suavemente * Released: April 14, 1998 * Label: Sony Music Latin 106 1 1 * WW: 2,000,000 * AMPROFON: Platinum * CAPIF: 2x Platinum * RIAA: Platinum Pintame * Released: May 4, 1999 * Label: Sony Discos 49 1 1 * WW: 300,000 * AMPROFON: Gold * CAPIF: Platinum * RIAA: Gold Wow! The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll describes Presley as "an American music giant of the 20th century who single-handedly changed the course of music and culture in the mid-1950s"."Elvis Presley": a page at pbs.org with a single paragraph, attributed to palmpictures.com. (In fact), Eminem is the new Elvis because, number one, he had the respect for black music that Elvis had." However much Elvis may have 'borrowed' from black blues performers (e.g., 'Big Boy' Crudup, 'Big Mama' Thornton), he borrowed no less from white country stars (e.g., Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe) and white pop singers," and most of his borrowings came from the church; its gospel music was his primary musical influence and foundation." Elvis: What Happened? Early on, a meticulous dissection of the body ... confirmed [that] Elvis was chronically ill with diabetes, glaucoma, and constipation. From the beginning of his national fame, Presley expressed respect for African-American performers and their music, and disregard for the norms of segregation and racial prejudice then prevalent in the South. The popularity of Elvis Presley was similarly founded on his transgressive position with respect to racial and sexual boundaries. ... Rolling Stone called Presley "supernatural, his own resurrection." Presley also heralded the vastly expanded reach of celebrity in the era of mass communication: at the age of 21, within a year of his first appearance on American network television, he was regarded as one of the most famous people in the world. thumb|A group of Elvis impersonators in 2005 Presley's name, image, and voice are recognized around the world.

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With roots in Texas, this former child-actor had her breakthrough in TV before becoming a sex symbol and movie star. Her name is "Jennifer" what?

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. She is also an advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns among children of celebrities. ==Early life== Jennifer Anne Garner was born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Charleston, West Virginia at age three. Nicole Aniston is an American pornographic film actress. Jennifer Love may refer to: *Jennifer Love (chemist), American chemist *Jennifer Love, Miss Nebraska 1994 *Jennifer Love Hewitt, American television and movie actress The A.V. Club wrote, "[her role] is a funny bit, and it highlights just how much Jennifer Aniston is built to be a TV star." Aniston is of mixed German and Greek heritage. == Filmography == Year Work Role Notes 2018 A Cam Life Herself Documentary 2020 Reboot Camp Nicole === Television === Year Show Role Notes 2012 29th AVN Awards Show Herself - Host Television award show premiere 2014 31st AVN Awards Show Herself Television award show premiere 2015 32nd AVN Awards Show Herself Television award show premiere 2017–2019 Holly Randall Unfiltered Herself Appeared in two episodes == See also == * List of pornographic performers by decade * List of pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films == References == == External links == *Official website * *Nicole Aniston at the Internet Adult Film Database *Nicole Aniston at the Complete Details * Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American female adult models Category:American people of German descent Category:American people of Greek descent Category:American pornographic film actresses Category:Penthouse Pets Category:Penthouse Pets of the Year Category:People from California Category:American cannabis activists Category:21st-century American women Jennifer Aniston Goes Viral, known also as Jen Aniston's Sex Tape, is a viral video advertisement by Glacéau, starring actress Jennifer Aniston, that promotes the smartwater bottled water brand. She has been married twice: first to actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was married for five years, and later to actor Justin Theroux, whom she married in 2015 and separated from in 2017. ==Early life== Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles to Greek-born actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. The Toronto International Film Festival called her performance "heartbreakingly good", Gregory Ellwood of HitFix stated, "It's really on most people's radar for being a rare dramatic turn for Jennifer Aniston, and she doesn't disappoint." Aniston starred alongside in a raunchy Cum Catcher scene that was released via Reality Kings in October 2010 and she also starred in the All Hunnies group sex scene with Rebeca Linares and Bill Bailey which was promoted via Reality Kings in November 2010. Herself Television special 2022 Upload Officer Jennifer Garner Episode: "Download" 2023 Party Down Evie Adler Main role 2023 The Last Thing He Told Me Hannah Hall Miniseries Also executive producer ==Theatre== Year Title Role Venue Notes 1995 A Month in the Country Verochka / Katya Criterion Center Stage Right Understudy 2007 Cyrano de Bergerac Roxane Richard Rodgers Theatre ==Video games== Year Title Role Notes 2004 Alias Sydney Bristow (voice) ==References== ==External links== * Garner, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer ==Reception== Tom McKendrick, writing for Fairfax Media's Life & Style feature, described the video as "a viral video to kill all viral videos", with the name 'Jennifer Aniston sex tape' "enough to ensure its success". Aniston made her return to television on November 1, 2019, producing and starring alongside Reese Witherspoon in the Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show. Aniston won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for the first season, and received a nomination for the second season. The special earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre- Recorded) for her producing credit. ==In the media== ===Wealth=== Aniston is one of the world's highest-paid actresses . From this time on Aniston started to appear in a wide range of popular porn productions. She attended Temecula Valley High School. == Career == Aniston's first credited adult film was released in 2009 with the adult studio Sticky Video. Aniston also starred in the acclaimed independent films The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006), and Cake (2014). She played Rachel until the show ended in 2004, when Aniston took a 15-year hiatus from television save for occasional guest roles. ===Relationships=== Aniston met Brad Pitt in 1998, and their relationship was highly publicized. Garner next starred in the romantic drama Catch and Release.

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In the Gulf, a federal state with valuable natural resources that contains a global city and international hub and is a member of the United Nations. It's called the United what?

United Arabia may refer to: *United Arab Emirates *United Arab Republic *Pan- Arabism The federal government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE federal government or UAE government) is the national government of the United Arab Emirates, a unitary federation of seven self-governing emirates. The United States Federation for Middle East Peace (USFMEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization which promotes the United Nations commitment to international peace and justice through educational programs, public relations and community outreach efforts. The United Arab Emirates has quite a close and friendly relationship with the US, being described as the United States' best counter-terrorism ally in the Gulf by Richard A. Clarke, the U.S. national security advisor and counter- terrorism expert. The United Arab Emirates also hosts the only United States border preclearance in the Middle East. ==Diplomatic relations== The United States is the third country to establish formal diplomatic relations with the UAE and has had an ambassador resident in the UAE since 1974. Americans in the United Arab Emirates are residents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who originate from the United States. According to Richard A. Clarke, then U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism and a contributor in the 9/11 Commission Report, the UAE is the United States' best counter-terrorism ally in the Gulf. The United States supports Kuwait's sovereignty, security and independence, as well as its multilateral diplomatic efforts to build greater cooperation among the GCC countries. Kuwait is a designated major non-NATO ally of the United States. There are also expatriate and business organizations, such as the American Women's Association in Dubai, the American Women's Network of Abu Dhabi an American Chamber of Commerce Abu Dhabi and an American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates. ==See also== * United Arab Emirates–United States relations * American diaspora * Emirati American ==References== ==External links== * Embassy of the United States, Abu Dhabi * Consulate General of the United States, Dubai United Arab Emirates Category: Ethnic groups in the United Arab Emirates The USFMEP works to provide Americans with information about the Middle East – its history, religions, cultures and current issues. In 2023, the UAE stopped participating in the US-led Combined Maritime Forces international naval partnership operating in the seas near UAE, which the US stated was due to concerns about the response to recent tanker seizures. ==United States border pre-clearance== The United Arab Emirates is one of the few countries and the only one in the Middle East which has a U.S. border pre-clearance that are staffed and operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, allowing travelers from Abu Dhabi International Airport to reach the United States as domestic U.S. travelers. * Dubai and Detroit, Michigan (2003)Sister Cities Agreement between Detroit and Dubai , 28 September 2003. ==See also== * Foreign relations of the United Arab Emirates * Foreign relations of the United States * Americans in the United Arab Emirates * Emirati Americans ==References== ==External links== *History of United Arab Emirates - U.S. relations *Embassy of U.A.E - Washington, DC *Embassy of U.S.A. - Abu Dhabi *Consulate General of U.S.A. - Dubai *U.A.E.-U.S. Relations United States Category:Bilateral relations of the United States Jurisdiction and scope of local governments vary widely between emirates, with the emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi maintaining independent energy, education, judicial, and religious affairs departments, while others, such as the Emirate of Ajman maintaining only municipal and economic policy affairs, with other aspects such as energy and water management, religious affairs, and health delegated to the federal government. == References == Category:Politics of the United Arab Emirates * Article 120 of the UAE Constitution grants the federal government its mandate, and outlines its jurisdictions and balance of power with local governments. == History == The UAE federal government was formed on 2 December 1971, when the rulers of five emirates, formerly part of the Trucial States established the United Arab Emirates. Moreover, it has been broadening its economic and political footprint across the Middle East, which has added some layers of tension to the UAE-US relations. The base, which is operated jointly, is one of the key US military bases in the region. ==Education== There are numerous American international schools in the UAE, serving expatriate students. In addition, there are also several American- accredited universities in the country, such as the American University in Dubai, Hult International Business School, International Horizons College, Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai, the New York University Abu Dhabi and the American University of Sharjah. ==Organisations== The United States has an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate-general in Dubai which provide services to American citizens. The quality of U.S.-UAE relations increased dramatically as a result of the U.S.-led coalition's campaign to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Since Kuwait's liberation, the United States has provided military and defense technical assistance to Kuwait from both foreign military sales (FMS) and commercial sources. The United States sanctioned a UAE-based firm along with multiple Asian firms for aiding the illegal trading of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil to East Asia. Membership of the Council consists of the rulers of each of the emirates, with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Emirate of Dubai holding exclusive veto rights. ==== Federal National Council ==== The Federal National Council is one of the five federal bodies of the UAE, and is the consultative parliamentary organ of the federal government.

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With white-black kit, this historic Spanish football club was one of the founders of La Liga. Its name is "Real" what?

Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid CF is owned and run by its members (all Spanish), called socios, since its founding. Real Madrid was one of the founding members of La Liga in 1929, and is one of three clubs, along with FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, to have never been relegated from the league. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain, that plays in La Liga. Real Madrid is a Puerto Rican soccer team, established in 2009. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a football club based in Madrid, Spain, that competes La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. thumb|right|300px|Madrid FC team in 1902, the year of its foundation Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. Similarly, in the 1950s, Real Madrid Aficionados (English: Real Madrid Amateurs) was formed as an amateur competitive team affiliated with Real Madrid. In 1929, the club became one of the founding members of La Liga, Spain's first national league. Real is the the most successful club in Spanish football, having won 68 domestic titles; a record 35 La Liga titles, 19 Spanish Cups, 12 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte, and 1 League Cup. In 1912, they moved to a ground called Campo de O'Donnell, after previously moving between some minor grounds.The Stadium Guide - The Story of Real Madrid In 1920, the club's name was changed to Real Madrid after King Alfonso XIII, a reputed football fan, granted the title of real ("royal" in English ) to the club. They proposed the name, Madrid Football Club, which was unanimously accepted. La Fábrica ("The Factory") is the name given to Real Madrid's farm system and academy. Real Madrid, with 29 continental and worldwide trophies, is the most successful team in international club football. It was under Bernabéu's guidance that Real Madrid established itself as a major force both in Spanish and European football. This batch of "homegrown" Real Madrid players included Emilio Butragueño, Chendo, Manolo Sanchís, Ricardo Gallego, Míchel, Sebastián Losada, Miguel Pardeza and Rafael Martín Vázquez. ==Organization== Real Madrid Castilla is a fully professional team; all other teams at La Fábrica are youth teams including everything from under-19-year-olds to under-8-year-olds. Since becoming the first Spanish club to enter the European Cup in 1955, Real has competed in every UEFA-organized competition, except the Intertoto Cup and Conference League. On 14 April 1931, the arrival of the Second Spanish Republic caused the club to lose the title Real and the royal crown on its emblem, going back to being named Madrid Football Club until the end of the Spanish Civil War. The first score is always Real Madrid's. ==Latin Cup== In 1949, the football federations of Spain, Italy, France and Portugal launched their own club competition. That club eventually became Real Madrid C, and served as Real's second reserve team – after RM Castilla – until the team was disbanded in 2015. Squad Head Coach League Real Madrid Castilla Raúl González Primera Federación (Gr. 1) Juvenil A Álvaro Arbeloa División de Honor (Gr. 5) Juvenil B Fran Beltrán Liga Nacional (Gr. 12) Juvenil C Álvaro Gómez-Rey Primera División Autonómica (Gr. 1) Cadete A Primera División Autonómica (Gr. 1) Cadete B Primera División Autonómica (Gr. 2) Infantil A División de Honor (Gr. 1) Infantil B División de Honor (Gr. 2) Alevín A Primera División Autonómica (Gr. 2) Alevín B Primera División Autonómica (Gr. 1) Benjamín A Preferente (Gr. 7) Benjamín B Preferente (Gr. 7) Prebenjamín Fútbol 7 (Gr. 30) ==References== ==External links== *Official Website Category:Buildings and structures in Barajas District, Madrid Category:Real Madrid CF Category:Football academies in Spain Moreover, in the 1980s Real Madrid won five consecutive La Liga titles, two consecutive UEFA Europa Leagues (then known as the UEFA Cup), and reached three consecutive Champions League (then known as the European Cup) semi- finals with a squad composed mostly of players formed at La Fábrica, also known as La Quinta del Buitre.

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Associated with Los, this is a key mathematical result that was proved by a brilliant polymath. It's called the Fundamental Theorem of what?

* "Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic" by Hector Zenil, Wolfram Demonstrations Project, 2007. In mathematics, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, also called the unique factorization theorem and prime factorization theorem, states that every integer greater than 1 can be represented uniquely as a product of prime numbers, up to the order of the factors. In number theory, the Lagarias arithmetic derivative or number derivative is a function defined for integers, based on prime factorization, by analogy with the product rule for the derivative of a function that is used in mathematical analysis. * * Dahl N., Olsson J., Loiko A., Investigation of the properties of the arithmetic derivative. In mathematics, auxiliary functions are an important construction in transcendental number theory. Investigations on the properties of the arithmetic derivative. * * These are in Gauss's Werke, Vol II, pp. 65–92 and 93–148; German translations are pp. 511–533 and 534–586 of the German edition of the Disquisitiones. * * * . * . * * == External links == * Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? The original statement of the conjecture from is: : "Every theorem published in the Annals of Mathematics whose statement involves only finitary mathematical objects (i.e., what logicians call an arithmetical statement) can be proved in EFA. For example, the multiplication theorem for the gamma function follows from the Chowla–Selberg formula, which follows from the theory of complex multiplication. In mathematics, the multiplication theorem is a certain type of identity obeyed by many special functions related to the gamma function. There are many versions of "arithmetic derivatives", including the one discussed in this article (the Lagarias arithmetic derivative), such as Ihara's arithmetic derivative and Buium's arithmetic derivatives. ==Early history== The arithmetic derivative was introduced by Spanish mathematician Josè Mingot Shelly in 1911. The arithmetic derivative also appeared in the 1950 Putnam Competition. ==Definition== For natural numbers , the arithmetic derivative In this article we use Oliver Heaviside's notation for the arithmetic derivative of . Dahl, Olsson and Loiko found the arithmetic derivative of natural numbers is bounded byDahl, N., Olsson, J., Loiko, A. (2011). * PlanetMath: Proof of fundamental theorem of arithmetic * Fermat's Last Theorem Blog: Unique Factorization, a blog that covers the history of Fermat's Last Theorem from Diophantus of Alexandria to the proof by Andrew Wiles. In proof theory, a branch of mathematical logic, elementary function arithmetic (EFA), also called elementary arithmetic and exponential function arithmetic,C. Smoryński, "Nonstandard Models and Related Developments" (p. 217). Cobham's theorem is a theorem in combinatorics on words that has important connections with number theory, notably transcendental numbers, and automata theory. The arithmetic derivative has also been extended to the ring of integers modulo n. ==Elementary properties== The Leibniz rule implies that (take ) and (take ). The theorem was proved by Alan Cobham in 1969 and has since given rise to many extensions and generalisations. == Definitions == Let n>0 be an integer. Their auxiliary functions were not explicit functions, then, but by knowing that a certain function with certain properties existed, they used its properties to simplify the transcendence proofs of the nineteenth century and give several new results.Siegel (1932). The power rule is also valid for the arithmetic derivative. * GCD and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic at cut-the-knot. Article 16 of Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae is an early modern statement and proof employing modular arithmetic. ==Applications== ===Canonical representation of a positive integer=== Every positive integer can be represented in exactly one way as a product of prime powers : n = p_1^{n_1}p_2^{n_2} \cdots p_k^{n_k} = \prod_{i=1}^{k} p_i^{n_i}, where are primes and the are positive integers.

It's called the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

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Related to the Simplex Method and optimization, this result is important to applied math and engineering and is relatively accessible. It's called the Fundamental Theorem of what?

In mathematical optimization, Dantzig's simplex algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. In mathematical optimization, the revised simplex method is a variant of George Dantzig's simplex method for linear programming. In mathematical optimization, the network simplex algorithm is a graph theoretic specialization of the simplex algorithm. In mathematical optimization, the fundamental theorem of linear programming states, in a weak formulation, that the maxima and minima of a linear function over a convex polygonal region occur at the region's corners. McGraw- Hill. * ==External links== *An Introduction to Linear Programming and the Simplex Algorithm by Spyros Reveliotis of the Georgia Institute of Technology. * Mathstools Simplex Calculator from www.mathstools.com *Example of Simplex Procedure for a Standard Linear Programming Problem by Thomas McFarland of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Commercial simplex solvers are based on the revised simplex algorithm. "Steepest-edge simplex algorithms for linear programming." This area of research, called smoothed analysis, was introduced specifically to study the simplex method. The simplex algorithm proceeds by performing successive pivot operations each of which give an improved basic feasible solution; the choice of pivot element at each step is largely determined by the requirement that this pivot improves the solution. ===Entering variable selection=== Since the entering variable will, in general, increase from 0 to a positive number, the value of the objective function will decrease if the derivative of the objective function with respect to this variable is negative. In applied mathematics, the devex algorithm is a pivot rule for the simplex method developed by Paula M. J. Harris.Harris, Paula MJ. The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested by T. S. Motzkin. Indeed, the running time of the simplex method on input with noise is polynomial in the number of variables and the magnitude of the perturbations. ==Other algorithms== Other algorithms for solving linear- programming problems are described in the linear-programming article. This implementation is referred to as the "standard simplex algorithm". So a new objective function, equal to the sum of the artificial variables, is introduced and the simplex algorithm is applied to find the minimum; the modified linear program is called the Phase I problem. The column geometry used in this thesis gave Dantzig insight that made him believe that the Simplex method would be very efficient. == Overview == thumb|240px|Polyhedron of simplex algorithm in 3D The simplex algorithm operates on linear programs in the canonical form :maximize \mathbf{c^T} \mathbf{x} :subject to A\mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{b} and \mathbf{x} \ge 0 with \mathbf{c} = (c_1,\, \dots,\, c_n) the coefficients of the objective function, (\cdot)^\mathrm{T} is the matrix transpose, and \mathbf{x} = (x_1,\, \dots,\, x_n) are the variables of the problem, A is a p×n matrix, and \mathbf{b} = (b_1,\, \dots,\, b_p). The fundamental theorem of calculus is a theorem that links the concept of differentiating a function (calculating its slopes, or rate of change at each time) with the concept of integrating a function (calculating the area under its graph, or the cumulative effect of small contributions). The historical relevance of the fundamental theorem of calculus is not the ability to calculate these operations, but the realization that the two seemingly distinct operations (calculation of geometric areas, and calculation of gradients) are actually closely related. The most familiar extensions of the fundamental theorem of calculus in higher dimensions are the divergence theorem and the gradient theorem. The simplex algorithm has polynomial-time average-case complexity under various probability distributions, with the precise average-case performance of the simplex algorithm depending on the choice of a probability distribution for the random matrices.Alexander Schrijver, Theory of Linear and Integer Programming. The simplex algorithm applies this insight by walking along edges of the polytope to extreme points with greater and greater objective values. The storage and computation overhead is such that the standard simplex method is a prohibitively expensive approach to solving large linear programming problems.

Calculus

It's called the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

It's called the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

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Important result about polynomials, with multiple well-known proofs (including by induction) and associated with a towering German genius. It's the Fundamental Theorem of what?

The first rigorous proof was published by Argand, an amateur mathematician, in 1806 (and revisited in 1813); it was also here that, for the first time, the fundamental theorem of algebra was stated for polynomials with complex coefficients, rather than just real coefficients. On the history of the fundamental theorem of algebra: theory of equations and integral calculus.) * (tr. Several theorems are named after Karl Weierstrass. (Sometimes, is included among the elementary symmetric polynomials, but excluding it allows generally simpler formulation of results and properties.) It was Weierstrass who raised for the first time, in the middle of the 19th century, the problem of finding a constructive proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. In mathematics before the 1970s, the term umbral calculus referred to the surprising similarity between seemingly unrelated polynomial equations and certain shadowy techniques used to "prove" them. In mathematics, a fundamental theorem is a theorem which is considered to be central and conceptually important for some topic. * * * * * * – English translation of Gauss's second proof. * ==External links== * Algebra, fundamental theorem of at Encyclopaedia of Mathematics * Fundamental Theorem of Algebra — a collection of proofs * From the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to Astrophysics: A "Harmonious" Path * * * Mizar system proof: http://mizar.org/version/current/html/polynom5.html#T74 Category:Articles containing proofs Category:Field (mathematics) Category:Theorems about polynomials Category:Theorems in complex analysis Among other problems, it assumed implicitly a theorem (now known as Puiseux's theorem), which would not be proved until more than a century later and using the fundamental theorem of algebra. The Mason–Stothers theorem, or simply Mason's theorem, is a mathematical theorem about polynomials, analogous to the abc conjecture for integers. Additionally, it is not fundamental for modern algebra; its name was given at a time when algebra was synonymous with theory of equations. ==History== Peter Roth, in his book Arithmetica Philosophica (published in 1608, at Nürnberg, by Johann Lantzenberger),Rare books wrote that a polynomial equation of degree n (with real coefficients) may have n solutions. The fact that this expression is unique, or equivalently that all the products (monomials) of elementary symmetric polynomials are linearly independent, is also easily proved. Assume now that the theorem has been proved for all polynomials for variables and all symmetric polynomials in variables with degree . That is, any symmetric polynomial is given by an expression involving only additions and multiplication of constants and elementary symmetric polynomials. The second fact, together with the quadratic formula, implies the theorem for real quadratic polynomials. However, Fred Richman proved a reformulated version of the theorem that does work.See Fred Richman; 1998; The fundamental theorem of algebra: a constructive development without choice; available from . ==Equivalent statements== There are several equivalent formulations of the theorem: * Every univariate polynomial of positive degree with real coefficients has at least one complex root. New proof of the theorem that every integral rational function of one variable can be represented as a product of linear functions of the same variable). ===Recent literature=== * * * * * * * (tr. In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that any symmetric polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial in elementary symmetric polynomials. For example, the fundamental theorem of calculus gives the relationship between differential calculus and integral calculus. The lemma shows that all these products have different leading monomials, and this suffices: if a nontrivial linear combination of the were zero, one focuses on the contribution in the linear combination with nonzero coefficient and with (as polynomial in the variables ) the largest leading monomial; the leading term of this contribution cannot be cancelled by any other contribution of the linear combination, which gives a contradiction. ==See also== *Symmetric polynomial *Complete homogeneous symmetric polynomial *Schur polynomial *Newton's identities *Newton's inequalities *Maclaurin's inequality *MacMahon Master theorem *Symmetric function *Representation theory ==References== * * Category:Homogeneous polynomials Category:Symmetric functions Category:Articles containing proofs Now one proves by induction on the leading monomial in lexicographic order, that any nonzero homogeneous symmetric polynomial of degree can be written as polynomial in the elementary symmetric polynomials. The first textbook containing a proof of the theorem was Cauchy's Cours d'analyse de l'École Royale Polytechnique (1821).

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It's called the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

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A welsh person might say: "our biggest and most diverse city, our cultural and media capital, with the most tourist attractions, foreigners, and rich people". What is the name of the city?

As the capital of Wales, media in Cardiff plays a large role in the city and nationwide. Iolo Morganwg called it "an obscure and inconsiderable place", and the 1801 census found the population to be only 1,870, making Cardiff only the twenty-fifth largest town in Wales, well behind Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea.The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Wales' history and culture also attract tourists. The Museum of Welsh Life, which focuses largely on the industrial past of Wales, is currently the most popular tourist attraction in Wales, attracting over 600,000 visitors annually. Tourism in Wales makes up a significant portion of the Welsh economy and attracting millions of visitors each year. This is a list of places in the City and County of Swansea, South Wales ==Administrative divisions== ===Communities=== ===Electoral wards=== ==Towns== *Gorseinon *Loughor *Morriston *Pontarddulais *Penllergaer ==Prehistoric sites== *Carreg Bica *Bulwark Hillfort, The *Burry Holms Chapel *Cefn Bryn *Sweynes Howes *Parc Cwm long cairn ==Geographical== ===Beaches=== There are over seventy named beaches in the Swansea area. The Welsh Place-Name Society was founded in 2011 with the aim of promoting an awareness and understanding of the study of place-names and their relationship to the languages, environment, history and culture of Wales. == History == On 20 November 2010 Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd held a conference on the subject of Welsh toponymy at Plas Tan y Bwlch. In that meeting it was agreed to form the Welsh Place-Name Society.BBC. 2010. The capital, Cardiff is the most popular area in Wales for tourists, with 14.6 million visitors in 2009,Abby Alford which provides 26,300 jobs in the sector. The most popular activities undertaken by tourists in Wales were walking, shopping, hiking in the mountains and visiting historic attractions, museums and galleries. 970,000 overseas tourists visited Wales in 2015 spending £410m. In addition to English and Welsh, the diversity of Cardiff's population (including foreign students) means that a large number of languages are spoken within the city. Cardiff Gay Bars ==Other entertainment== Cardiff Bay is the location for many of the city's entertainment venues. Cardiff has many cultural sites varying from the historical Cardiff Castle and out of town Castell Coch to the more modern Wales Millennium Centre and Cardiff Bay. Both have been heavily criticised by some sectors of the media, public and retailers. ==See also== * List of cultural venues in Cardiff ==References== Wales attracts visitors from overseas, particularly from the United States, Australia, Germany and the Republic of Ireland. == Visitors and economic contribution == Wales is an emerging tourist destination, with 9.39m visitors to Conwy alone in 2018 and 8,078,900 visitors to National Trust and Wales Tourist Board destinations in 2002. It has produced several leading acts itself and, as a capital city, has acted as a springboard for numerous Welsh bands to go and become famous both nationally and internationally. Cardiff was a finalist in the European Capital of Culture 2008. == Language == Cardiff has a chequered linguistic history with Welsh, English, Latin, Norse and Anglo-Norman preponderant at different times. The Encyclopedia of Wales notes that the decision to recognise the city as the capital of Wales "had more to do with the fact that it contained marginal Conservative constituencies than any reasoned view of what functions a Welsh capital should have". Cardiff Does experience large volumes of visitors due to the nature of its attractions, such as the Millennium Stadium, which potentially seats thousands and is often host to many international events. Magazines based in the capital include Jazz UK, Buzz magazine and Primary Times ==Television== All of Wales' national broadcasters are based in Cardiff. In 2004, tourists spent the most money in Gwynedd, followed by Conwy and Cardiff. The history of Cardiffa City and County Borough and the capital of Walesspans at least 6,000 years.

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Kiwis describe it as "our biggest and most diverse city, it's an economic hub with lots of tourists and very expensive rents". What is the name of the city?

It has solidified Kilbirnie's status as the most essential suburb in Wellington for sports and recreation, making Kilbirnie a likely destination for anybody wishing to play casual or competitively. ==Demographics== Kilbirnie, comprising the statistical areas of Kilbirnie Central and Kilbirnie East, covers . Kilbirnie (from ) is a suburb of Wellington in New Zealand, to the south-east of the city centre. Ki Ki is a small town in South Australia. thumb|right|Satellite photo of central Wellington (south at bottom left) Wellington City Council is a territorial authority in New Zealand, governing the city of Wellington, the country's capital city and third-largest city by population, behind Auckland and Christchurch. Kirra is a beach-side neighbourhood within the suburb of Coolangatta in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. == Geography == The small rocky headland Kirra Point separates Kirra Beach to the north and Coolangatta Beach to the south, and is noted as one of the world's premier surf breaks. Tamaki City was a short-lived city within the Auckland metropolitan area in New Zealand. The Pacifica is a residential skyscraper in Auckland, New Zealand. In June 2021, The Pacifica won "Best Residential High Rise Development New Zealand" and "Best Apartment / Condominium New Zealand" in the international property awards. == See also == * List of tallest buildings in Oceania * List of tallest buildings in Auckland * List of tallest structures in New Zealand ==References== Category:Skyscrapers in Auckland Category:2020 establishments in New Zealand Category:Auckland CBD Two streets in the area are named for him. == Activities == The suburb features a shopping area, the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre, the ASB Sports Centre, a recreation centre, a public library, and a sports field, Kilbirnie Park. * Wellington Zoo Trust The council has a similar interest in the Wellington Regional Stadium Trust. == Sister-city relationships == ;Sister cities * Sydney, Australia * Canberra, Australia * Beijing, People's Republic of China * Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China * Sakai, Osaka, Japan ;Historical sister cities * Harrogate, England, United Kingdom * Hania, Crete, Greece * Çanakkale, Turkey ;Friendly cities * Tianjin, People's Republic of China == History == The City of Wellington has subsumed independent boroughs including: * Melrose (established 1888) in 1903 * Onslow (Khandallah/Ngaio) (established 1890) in 1919 (Wadestown had joined the city in 1906) * Karori (established 1891) in 1920 * Miramar (established 1904) in 1921 * Johnsonville (a Town Board from 1908), in 1953 * Tawa (a Town district from 1951, then the Tawa Flat Borough Council from 1953) in 1989 == Buildings == The Wellington City Council owns and until May 2019 operated from a complex on Wakefield Street, with various extensions each representing a distinctive architectural period. It has a small post office, parking bay, town hall, engineering business "Ki Ki Engineering", and is surrounded by large pastoral properties. Individual statistical areas Name Area (km2) Population Density (per km2) Households Median age Median income Kilbirnie Central 0.97 2,688 2,771 1,065 37.0 years $32,000 Kilbirnie East 0.48 2,154 4,488 807 34.7 years $30,300 New Zealand 37.4 years $31,800 ==Education== ===Public schools=== The nearest primary schools are Kilbirnie School in Hataitai to the north and Lyall Bay School to the south. These are: *Tawa Community Board, having six elected members and two appointed members, representing the northern suburbs of Tawa, Grenada North and Takapū Valley; and *Mākara/Ōhāriu Community Board, having six elected members, representing the rural suburbs of Ohariu, Mākara and Mākara Beach. ==Coat of arms== ==Demographics== Wellington City had a population of 202,737 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 11,781 people (6.2%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 23,271 people (13.0%) since the 2006 census. It is one of nine territorial authorities in the Wellington Region. The building overlooks Auckland city and the surrounding harbour at and 57 floors in height. Today sand pumping across the Tweed River mouth has filled it in and changed its character. == History == The name of the neighbourhood comes from Kirra Hill () which is above sea level, which first appears on an 1883 survey plan by surveyor Mr Schneider. They are: * Courtenay Quarter, centred around Courtenay Place * Cuba Quarter, centred around Cuba Street * Lambton Quarter, centred around Lambton Quay * The Waterfront Quarter, centred around the waterfront === Paekawakawa Southern Ward === * official: Berhampore; Brooklyn; Island Bay; Kingston; Mornington; Newtown; Ōwhiro Bay; Southgate; Vogeltown * informal: Kowhai Park === Motukairangi Eastern Ward === * official: Breaker Bay; Hataitai; Houghton Bay; Karaka Bays; Kilbirnie; Lyall Bay; Maupuia; Melrose; Miramar; Moa Point; Rongotai; Roseneath; Seatoun; Strathmore Park *informal: Crawford; Seatoun Bays; Seatoun Heights; Miramar Heights; Strathmore Heights. == Council-owned companies and enterprises == The Wellington City Council owns or directly operates several companies. Completed in 2020, it is the tallest residential building in New Zealand, surpassing The Metropolis, but is set to be overtaken in 2024 by the Seascape. There is also a Hindu temple located in Kilbirnie, which serves as the headquarters for the Wellington Indian Association. The officially defined suburbs include: 300px|right|thumb|Official suburbs of Wellington: the darker tone indicate built-up areas, the lighter parkland, green belt or rural areas. === Takapū Northern Ward === * official: Churton Park; Glenside; Grenada North; Grenada Village; Horokiwi; Johnsonville; Newlands; Ohariu; Paparangi; Takapu Valley; Tawa; Woodridge *informal: Greenacres; Linden; Redwood === Wharangi Onslow-Western Ward === * official: Broadmeadows; Crofton Downs; Kaiwharawhara; Karori; Khandallah; Mākara; Mākara Beach; Ngaio; Ngauranga; Northland; Wadestown; Wilton. * informal: Cashmere; Chartwell; Highland Park; Rangoon Heights; Te Kainga === Pukehīnau Lambton Ward === * official: Aro Valley; Highbury; Kelburn; Mount Cook; Mount Victoria; Oriental Bay; Pipitea; Te Aro; Thorndon; Wellington Within Lambton Ward, the council's tourism agency has designated three inner-city "quarters", as marketing subdivisions to promote international and domestic tourism. It consists of the central historic town and certain additional areas within the Wellington metropolitan area, extending as far north as Linden and covering rural areas such as Mākara and Ohariu. Prior to 1840 Kirra is not known by its current name and is rarely visited by white settlers.

Auckland

Wellington

Toronto

Los Angeles

Sydney

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Ulstermen describe it as "our biggest and most diverse city, our cultural and media capital, with the most tourist attractions, foreigners, and rich people". What is the name of the city?

Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin, as the capital city of Ireland and the largest city in Ireland, has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. thumb|Belfast, Ireland's second largest city, as well as the largest city in Northern Ireland. There are eight cities in Ireland, and Belfast is next to > Dublin in point of importance; according to Thom's information, it is the > first town of manufacturing importance. The Dublin–Belfast corridor (population 3.3 million) is a term used to loosely describe a geographical area that encompasses Ireland's capital city, Dublin and Northern Ireland's capital city, Belfast. I: A–C, Vol. II: D–M, Vol. III: N–Z * * * Ireland Ireland Cities I do not know that there is much difference between a town and a city; > but some people prefer the title of city, and if there is any advantage in a > place being called a city, I think the people of Belfast are entitled to > have their choice. U.S. cities with large Irish American populations. The city is also referred to as and in Irish, particularly when spoken. Dublin is a centre for education, arts and culture, administration, and industry. , the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha minus", which places it as one of the top thirty cities in the world. ==Etymology== The name Dublin derives from the Irish word Duibhlinn, early Classical Irish /, from (, , ) meaning "black, dark", and () "pool", referring to a dark tidal pool. Medieval Dublin, the making of a metropolis. In July 2010, Dublin was named as a UNESCO City of Literature, joining Edinburgh, Melbourne and Iowa City with the permanent title.Irish Independent – Delight at City of Literature accolade for Dublin . In Ireland, the term city has somewhat differing meanings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. There are three major airports: Dublin Airport (32.9 million passengers; 2018), Belfast International Airport (6.2 million passengers; 2019) and Belfast City Airport (2 million passengers; 2019) which together deal with over 40 million passengers each year. Apart from being the focus of the country's literature and theatre, Dublin is also the focal point for much of Irish art and the Irish artistic scene. Thom's > Directory applies it to Dublin, Cork, Derry, Limerick ('City of the violated > treaty'), Kilkenny, and Waterford; also to Armagh and Cashel, but not to > Tuam or Galway (though the latter is often called 'the City of the Tribes'). > Belfast was, in 1888, created a 'city' by Royal Letters Patent. ===Cathair=== In most European languages, there is no distinction between "city" and "town", with the same word translating both English words; for example, ville in French, or Stadt in German. It also includes the smaller cities of Lisburn and Newry; major towns such as Drogheda and Dundalk; and the Dublin satellite suburb of Swords. Dublin joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2019. ==Demographics== thumb|Dublin (county) population pyramid in 2022 Main immigrant groups in Dublin City and suburbs, 2016 Nationality Population Poland 33,751 UK 19,196 Romania 16,808 Lithuania 9,869 Brazil 8,903 Italy 6,834 India 6,546 Spain 6,341 Latvia 5,771 Mainland China 5,748 France 5,576 United States 4,042 Nigeria 2,563 Pakistan 2,515 Philippines 2,204 The City of Dublin is the area administered by Dublin City Council. Dublin has been positioned as one of the main cities vying to host Financial Services companies hoping to retain access to the Eurozone after Brexit. It seems absurd > that Belfast should be shut out from any City Charter, while Armagh, with > 10,000 of a population, is a city; and when Cashell, with a population of > 4,000, enjoys the distinction also. Previous agreements have included those with Mexico City (2014−2018), Tbilisi in Georgia (2014−2017) and Wuhan in China (2016−2019). == Notable people == ==See also== *Dublin English *List of people from Dublin *List of subdivisions of County Dublin ==References== Sources * ==Further reading== * John Flynn and Jerry Kelleher, Dublin Journeys in America (High Table Publishing, 2003) * Pat Liddy, Dublin A Celebration: From the 1st to the 21st century (Dublin City Council, 2000) * Maurice Craig, The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880 (Batsford, Paperback edition 1989) * Frank McDonald, Saving the City: How to Halt the Destruction of Dublin (Tomar Publishing, 1989) * Edward McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760 (Yale University Press, 2001) ==External links== * Dublin City Council – Official website of the local authority for Dublin * Dublin Tourist Board – Official tourism site * Dublin UNESCO City of Literature official site * Dublin Historic Maps, Boundaries & an OSM Miscellany Category:841 establishments Category:Capitals in Europe Category:Cities in the Republic of Ireland Category:County towns in the Republic of Ireland Category:Leinster Category:Local government areas of the Republic of Ireland Category:Populated coastal places in the Republic of Ireland Category:Port cities and towns of the Irish Sea Category:Staple ports Category:Viking Age populated places Category:Populated places established in the 9th century Category:9th-century establishments in Ireland Category:Tourism regions of the island of Ireland Category:Former boroughs in the Republic of Ireland The 3Arena venue in the Dublin Docklands plays host to visiting global performers. ===Shopping=== Dublin city centre is a popular shopping destination for both locals and tourists.

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Paris

Dublin

Belfast

San Francisco

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Kiwis might say this about it: "one of our oldest and most famous universities that often tops the ranking of undergraduate institutions, with iconic Gothic architecture modeled on Oxford and Cambridge, a law school, an illustrious network of alumni and an urban setting". What is the name of the university?

University House may refer to: *University House (Auckland), New Zealand *University House, Australian National University *University House, Berkeley *University House, Newcastle, New South Wales *University House, University of Birmingham *University House, University of Sheffield *University House, University of East London *University House, University of Lancaster University Hall may refer to: *Original name of Clare College, Cambridge *Flinders University Hall *University Hall (Bristol) *University Hall (Brown University) *University Hall (Dublin) *University Hall (Harvard University) *University Hall (Leuven) *University Hall (Indiana State University) *University Hall (Northwestern University) *University Hall (Ohio State University) *University Hall (University of Canterbury) *University Hall (University of Hong Kong) *University Hall (University of Illinois Chicago) *University Hall (University of Montana) *University Hall (University of Oregon) *University Hall (University of St Andrews) *University Hall (University of Toledo) *University Hall (University of Virginia) *University Hall (Uppsala University) *University Hall, within University of Western Australia *University Hall, Gordon Square, London, home of Dr Williams's Library *University Hall, within Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Category:Architectural disambiguation pages The School of Law is part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. ==Rankings== Oxford Brookes University's School of Law is joint third placed University Law School in England and Wales (joint sixth placed out of all 115 Universities/ FE Colleges in the United Kingdom that offer Law degrees) in the 2016 National Student Survey, with 97% student satisfaction rates. Universidad Austral may refer to: *Austral University (Argentina) *Austral University of Chile Princeton University School of Architecture is the name of the school of architecture at Princeton University. University of Newcastle can refer to: * Newcastle University, a university in the United Kingdom * University of Newcastle (Australia), a university in New South Wales, Australia The School of Law is the law school of Oxford Brookes University based in Oxford, United Kingdom. The Law Society has over 500 active members from various subjects of study and seeks to ensure that all students who are interested in a career in law, strive to do their best and develop whilst at Oxford Brookes University. ==Notable people== ===Notable alumni=== * Graham Francis Defries - Lawyer and Cartoonist * Jonathan Djanogly - Lawyer, Conservative Member of Parliament, former Shadow Attorney-General, and Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, 2010–12 ===Notable academics=== * David Yardley, Head of the Department of Law, Politics and Economics at Oxford Polytechnic (1978–1980) ==See also== *Oxford Institute of Legal Practice *Oxford Brookes University ==References== ==External links== * Official website Category:Oxford Brookes University Category:Law schools in England Law courses provided by Oxford Brookes also are ranked in the top 150-200 bracket of the QS World University Subject Rankings.; http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject- rankings/2016/law-legal-studies#sorting=rank+; http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about- brookes/news/oxford-brookes-amongst-%E2%80%9Cworld-s- elite%E2%80%9D-in-12-subject-areas/ The Law School was also 16th placed Law School in the 2016 Guardian Good University guide, gaining legal media coverage for outranking several 'Russell Group' Law schools. Under his direction, the School of Architecture grew in size and in prestige, while also collaborating with other departments at Princeton University. The Law School was also in the top 30 of institutions for the study of undergraduate law in the 2015 Times/ Sunday Times Good University Guide, with Law courses placed at 28th out of 100 UK university law schools - again higher than several Russell Group law schools.Article title Moreover, The University has been successful historically in various national and international mooting competitions, in 2015 winning both the ESU Essex Court National Competition and the Inner Temple Inter-Varsity Mooting Competition, meaning the national Magna Carta moot - to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta - will be between two Oxford Brookes teams. ==Oxford Brookes Law Society== The school has a student-run society called The Oxford Brookes Law Society that organises a variety of events such as the Annual Christmas Ball, visits to the Old Bailey and the Royal Courts of Justice, trips to the European Parliament and the European Court of Human Rights, along with talks from leading lawyers and others. By the end of the twentieth century, the School of Architecture established itself as an internationally renowned school for the study of architecture and design. The following individuals have served as deans of the School of Architecture: *Robert Geddes, 1965–1982 *Robert Maxwell, 1982–1989 *Ralph Lerner, 1989–2002 *Stan Allen, 2002–2012 *Alejandro Zaera-Polo, 2012–2014 *Mario Gandelsonas, 2015 *Mónica Ponce de León, 2016–present ==Academics== ===Undergraduate=== The School of Architecture offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum in the study of architecture. The School offers an undergraduate concentration (equivalent of major) and advanced degrees at the master's and doctoral levels. ==History== In 1832, Joseph Henry, who later became the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, taught the first course in architecture at Princeton University. Additional courses and programs for architecture began in 1882 when Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology began courses on architecture and historical drawing in 1902. Together, with the resources housed throughout the Princeton University Libraries, the School of Architecture Library provides access to a comprehensive collection supporting the fields of architecture, architectural research and theory, urban planning and design. == Notable faculty == The following list contains both current and former faculty: *Diana Agrest *Stan Allen *Beatriz Colomina *Manuel DeLanda *Elizabeth Diller *Peter Eisenman *Kenneth Frampton *Mario Gandelsonas *Robert Geddes *Michael Graves *Andres Jaque *Louis I. Kahn *Sylvia Lavin *Paul Lewis *Michael Meredith *Guy Nordenson *Mónica Ponce de León *Mario Salvadori *Alejandro Zaera-Polo ==Notable alumni== *Kunle Adeyemi, founder, principal, NLÉ *Emilio Ambasz, architect and interior designer; former Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) *Lemuel Ayers, Tony Award winning designer and producer *Matthew Bannister, co-founder, dbox *Joel Barkley, architect and partner, Ike Kligerman Barkley *Keller Easterling, principal, Keller Easterling Architect; Professor, Yale School of Architecture *Hugh Hardy, founding partner, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture *Greg Lynn, principal, Greg Lynn Form *Jürgen Mayer, principal, J. Mayer H. *David Mohney, dean, Kean University and Wenzhou-Kean University, The Michael Graves College *Hilary Sample, partner, MOS Architects, Associate Professor, Columbia GSAPP *Robert Venturi, founder of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates *Sarah Whiting, dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design *Tod Williams, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects *Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak, co-founding partners of Abruzzo Bodziak Architects ==See also== * Architecture school in the United States * Princeton University * Princeton University Graduate School * Architecture * List of architecture schools ==References== ==External links== * * * Category:Architecture schools in New Jersey Category:Princeton University Category:Educational institutions established in 1919 Category:1919 establishments in New Jersey By 1915, the first academic committee convened to consider the establishment of a school of architecture. Founded in 1919, the School is a center for teaching and research in architectural design, history, and theory. The master's degree takes three years to complete and requires students to hold a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree. While the first two years of coursework are similar to the Ph.D. in History and Theory, the Ph.D. in Technology requires students to concentrate in a particular subfield of technology. ==Facilities and Research== ===School of Architecture Building=== The School of Architecture building was dedicated in 1963. Undergraduate students study a range of disciplines including architectural design, history of architecture, architectural analysis, computing, and others. The degree conferred to students is an A.B. degree.

Princeton

The University of Auckland

Yale

Princeton University

Berkeley

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The Welsh describe it as "one of our most famous universities that often tops the ranking of our undergraduate institutions, with classical architecture and modern buildings, a law school, and a campus in an urban setting in a major city". What is the name of the university?

Former colleges under the University of Wales included most of the now independent universities in Wales: Aberystwyth University (formerly University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Bangor University (formerly University of Wales, Bangor), St David's University College (later University of Wales, Lampeter, and now merged with University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Cardiff University (formerly University of Wales, Cardiff), Swansea University (formerly University of Wales, Swansea), Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) and University of Wales, Newport (which merged with Glamorgan University in April 2013 to form the University of South Wales). The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Welsh School may refer to: *Education in Wales *Welsh School (security studies), or emancipatory realism *Welsh School of Architectural Glass, of Swansea Metropolitan University *Welsh School of Architecture, of Cardiff University ==See also== * The School of Engineering at the University of South Wales is one of university's largest schools, and is part of the university's Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science. Published to mark the centenary of the University of Wales. ==External links== * * Category:Organisations based in Wales with royal patronage Category:Universities in Wales Category:Educational institutions established in 1893 Category:1893 establishments in Wales Category:Universities established in the 19th century Historically, the University of Wales was the only university in Wales until the establishment of the University of Glamorgan in 1992. University of Gloucester may refer to: *University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester, England *University of Gloucester, fictional university in England * The University of Wales: An Illustrated History Geraint H. Jenkins, University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 1993. More changes followed in September 2007 when the university changed from a federal structure to a confederation of independent institutions, allowing those individual institutions which had gained the status of universities in their own right to use the title of university – these institutions are Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Glyndŵr University (formerly the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI)), Swansea Metropolitan University and Swansea University. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first university established in Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom. This led to calls from the vice chancellors of the universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea for the University of Wales to be wound up. The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama became a full member of the University of Wales in 2004 having awarded degrees validated by the university since the 1970s, but left in 2007, when it merged with the University of Glamorgan, although retaining its separate identity. thumb|The quadrangle in the main college building The original building for the University College of North Wales is a Grade I listed University building in the Collegiate Tudor style with Arts and Crafts influences. The University of Glamorgan subsequently merged with the University of Wales, Newport, another former member of the University of Wales, in 2013 to form the University of South Wales ===Former validated institutions=== A number of institutions were not accredited by the university, but had some of their courses validated by it. Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, and Swansea University now all award their own degrees. *Price, D T W; A History of Saint David's University College, Lampeter; Cardiff: University of Wales Press. The Higher Education Statistics Agency recorded zero students registered with the University of Wales in the UK in 2018/19, but 3,345 students registered on transnational education courses outside the UK. ==History== === Origins === The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales (now Aberystwyth University), which had been founded in 1872; University College North Wales (now Bangor University); University College South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). The University of Wales Trinity Saint David () is a multi-campus university with three main campuses in South West Wales, in Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea, a fourth campus in London, England, and learning centres in Cardiff, Wales, and Birmingham, England.University of Wales Trinity Saint David (2010); Delivering a vision: The Creation of a New University; Trinity Saint David Trust, p. 3BBC News (2009): £14.3m funding for new university; accessed 15 June 2010 The university came into existence through the merger of the two oldest higher education institutions in Wales, the University of Wales, Lampeter (UWL) and Trinity University College (TUC) in 2010, under Lampeter's royal charter of 1828. In 1992 the university lost its position as the only university in Wales when the Polytechnic of Wales became the University of Glamorgan (now part of the new University of South Wales). === Re-organisation === The university was composed of colleges until 1996, when the university was reorganised with a two-tier structure of member institutions in order to absorb the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (which became the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), now known as Cardiff Metropolitan University) and the Gwent College of Higher Education (which became University of Wales College, Newport (UWCN)). The university also has a study and conference centre at Gregynog, near Newtown. ==Former colleges and member institutions== Former colleges and member institutions: Current name Former names Established Joined Left Location Aberystwyth University University College Wales; University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1872 1893 2007 Aberystwyth Bangor University University College of North Wales; University of Wales, Bangor 1884 1893 2007 Bangor Cardiff University University College South Wales and Monmouthshire; University College Cardiff 1883 1893 1988 (merger) Cardiff Cardiff University Welsh College of Advanced Technology; University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 1866 1968 1988 (merger) Cardiff Cardiff University University of Wales College of Cardiff; University of Wales, Cardiff 1988 (merger) 1988 (merger) 2004 (merger) Cardiff Cardiff University University of Wales College of Medicine 1931 1931 2004 (merger) Cardiff Cardiff Metropolitan University South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education; Cardiff Institute of Higher Education; University of Wales Institute Cardiff 1865 1996 2011 Cardiff University of South Wales Gwent College of Higher Education; University of Wales College, Newport; University of Wales, Newport 1841 1996 2013 Newport University of South Wales Cardiff College of Music; Welsh College of Music & Drama; Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama 1949 2004 2007 Cardiff University of South Wales (Also takes in the University of Glamorgan, which was never part of the University of Wales) (Also takes in the University of Glamorgan, which was never part of the University of Wales) (Also takes in the University of Glamorgan, which was never part of the University of Wales) (Also takes in the University of Glamorgan, which was never part of the University of Wales) (Also takes in the University of Glamorgan, which was never part of the University of Wales) Swansea University University College Swansea; University of Wales, Swansea 1920 1920 2007 Swansea University of Wales Trinity Saint David St David's College, Lampeter; University of Wales, Lampeter 1822 1971 2010 Lampeter University of Wales Trinity Saint David Trinity College, Carmarthen; Trinity University College 1848 2004 2010 Carmarthen University of Wales Trinity Saint David West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education; Swansea Institute of Higher Education; Swansea Metropolitan University 1853 2004 2008 Swansea Wrexham Glyndŵr University Wrexham School of Science and Art; North East Wales Institute; Glyndŵr University 1887 2004 2008 Wrexham In September 2007, three universities applied for a change to their royal charters to give them the power to award their own degrees, instead of University of Wales degrees. *Tower Hall: this too is a catered first-year block. ==== Swansea Campus ==== in 2018 with the closure of the Townhill and Mount Pleasant Campus the university opened a halls of residence in Llys Glas in the Swansea City Centre. ==== Townhill Campus ==== *Gwyr Hall *Dyfed Hall *Cenydd Hall == Academic dress == Until 2014, the university awarded University of Wales degrees and, as such, the academic dress was that of the University of Wales: bachelors wore a black gown with bell sleeves and a black simple shape hood, master's wore a black gown with glove sleeves and a black full shape hood, and doctors wore a crimson gown with a crimson full shape hood. A federal university similar to the University of London, the University of Wales was in charge of examining students, while its colleges were in charge of teaching.

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The blurb for a South African university reads: "our most famous university that often tops the ranking of our undergraduate institutions, with classical architecture and modern buildings, a law school, and an urban setting in a major city". What is the name of the university?

This is a list of universities in South Africa. These international university rankings indicate that South Africa's university system is the strongest on the continent: it is home to five of the six highest ranked African universities, including the two campuses consistently ranked as academically strongest in Africa, University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand. ==Highly cited international university rankings== In part because of the inherent difficulty of ranking complex educational institutions, there are an expanding number of competing international university ranking schemes, each with a different emphasis. Technikon Witwatersrand Johannesburg 1925 2005 University of Johannesburg ==See also== ==References== Universities in South Africa South Africa South Africa thumb|right|Location of South Africa Rankings of universities in South Africa are largely based on international university rankings, since there are no South African rankings as of yet. University House may refer to: *University House (Auckland), New Zealand *University House, Australian National University *University House, Berkeley *University House, Newcastle, New South Wales *University House, University of Birmingham *University House, University of Sheffield *University House, University of East London *University House, University of Lancaster The only ranked South African university is the University of the Witwatersrand. As at September 2022, only South African public degree-granting institutions may call themselves a "university", whereas other accredited private for-profit or not-for-profit degree-granting institutions tend to call themselves colleges, institutes or business schools. The 2017 South African rankings are as follows: SA Rank World Rank University 2 54 University of the Witwatersrand ===Tredence-Emerging Global Employability University Ranking=== This is a global ranking of universities by the perceived quality of their graduates by top employers around the world. University of South Asia may refer to the following: *University of South Asia (Bangladesh) *University of South Asia (Pakistan) The only African University that appears on the Global top 100 is the University of the Witwatersrand. Africa University is a "private, Pan-African and United Methodist-related institution." The 2013 ranking is as follows: SA Rank World Rank University 1 139 University of the Witwatersrand ===Bloomberg Billionaire Ranking=== This ranks universities according to their popularity among US based billionaires. The 2020-2021 edition of URAP ranked the top South African Universities as follows: SA Rank World Rank University 1 237 University of Cape Town 2 335 University of the Witwatersrand 3 362 University of KwaZulu-Natal 4 388 Stellenbosch University 5 458 University of Pretoria 6 603 University of Johannesburg 7 653 North-West University 8 883 University of the Western Cape 9 937 University of the Free State 10 1007 Rhodes University 11 1086 University of South Africa 12 1379 Tshwane University of Technology 13 1420 Durban University of Technology 14 1446 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 15 2131 University of Limpopo 16 2132 Cape Peninsula University of Technology 17 2362 University of Fort Hare 18 2397 University of Venda 19 2591 Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University 20 2764 University of Zululand 21 2911 Vaal University of Technology ==Business-oriented rankings== Several international rankings schemes focus on the placement of graduates in business settings. ===Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index=== This is another THE ranking which aims to measure the real world success of a university's alumni by ranking Universities according to the number of their graduates that are currently CEOs of Fortune Global 500 companies. Four of the most prominent are the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (most widely accepted), The Centre for World University rankings (CWUR),QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, sometimes referred to as the "Shanghai Rankings"). ===Times Higher Education World University rankings=== The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked the top South African universities as follows: 2023 2023 2021 2021 2020 2020 SA Rank World Rank SA Rank World Rank SA Rank World Rank University 1 160 1 155 1 136 University of Cape Town 2= 251-300 2 201-250 2 194 University of the Witwatersrand 2= 251-300 3 251–250 3 251–300 Stellenbosch University 4 401-500 4 351-400 4 401-500 University of KwaZulu-Natal 5 501-600 5 401–500 Durban University of Technology 6= 601-700 6 501–600 5 501–600 North-West University 6= 601-800 7= 601–800 6 601-800 University of Johannesburg 6= 601-800 7= 601-800 8 601-800 University of the Western Cape 9= 801-1000 7= 601–800 7 601–800 University of Pretoria 9= 801-1000 Rhodes University 9= 801-1000 University of the Free State 12 1001-1200 10= 1001+ 10 1000+ University of South Africa 13= 1201-1500 10= 1001+ 9 801-1000 Tshwane University of Technology 13= 1201-1500 University of Fort Hare 13= 1201-1500 University of Venda ===QS World University rankings=== The 2021-22 edition of the QS World University Rankings ranked the top South African universities as follows: SA rank World rank University 1 226 University of Cape Town 2 424 University of the Witwatersrand 3 434 University of Johannesburg 4 482 Stellenbosch University 5 601-650 University of Pretoria =6 801-1000 Rhodes University =6 801–1000 University of KwaZulu-Natal =8 1001–2000 North-West University =8 1001–2000 University of the Western Cape Previous years' world rankings are as follows (before 2010 the ranking was known as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings): SA rank University 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2015 1 University of Cape Town 257 200 176 146 161æ 141 2 University of the Witwatersrand 322 282 319 321 360 318 3 Stellenbosch University — — — — — 390 4 University of Pretoria 509 469 501–600 401–500 451–500 471-480 5 University of KwaZulu-Natal 484 487 401–500 501–600 501–550 501-550 ===ARWU/Shanghai=== The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked the top South African universities as follows: SA rank University 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 1 University of Cape Town 201-300 201-300 301-400 201-300 201-300 201–300 201–300 201–300 201–300 201–302 201–302 203–304 201–300 203–300 202–301 251–300 2 University of the Witwatersrand 201-300 301-400 201-300 201-300 201-300 201–300 301–400 301–400 301–400 303–401 303–401 305–402 301–400 301–400 302–403 451–500 3 Stellenbosch University 401-500 401-500 401-500 401-500 401-500 401–500 401–500 401–500 401–500 402–501 402–503 403–510 401–500 401–500 404–502 451–500 4 University of KwaZulu-Natal 401-500 — 401-500 401-500 401-500 401–500 — — — — — — — — — — 5 University of Pretoria 401-500 401-500 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 6 University of Johannesburg — — 401-500 — — — — — — — — — — — — — Note: These are the only ranked South African universities. ===Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)=== The CWUR ranked the top South African Universities as follows: 2018-19 SA Rank University 2018-19 2015 1 University of Cape Town 223 248 2 University of the Witwatersrand 230 149 3 University of KwaZulu-Natal 402 401 4 University of Pretoria 438 678 5 Stellenbosch University 448 500 6 University of Johannesburg 790 - 7 North-West University 964 - ==International Rankings for Additional Context== ===University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)=== URAP, which is a newer ranking scheme based solely on quantitative measures of academic productivity, includes data for a larger number of global universities, and thus gives an alternative view of the relative standing of more South African institutions. Note4: Split out from the University of Limpopo into which Medical University of South Africa had previously merged. ===Comprehensive universities=== File:University of Johannesburg.jpg|University of Johannesburg File:University of South Africa taken with cellphone camera.jpg|University of South Africa (Unisa) File:UniversityOfVenda.JPG|University of Venda Institution Nickname Founded Undergrad Postgrad Total Location(s) Medium University of Johannesburg UJ 1 January 20051 (1967 as RAU, Technikon Witwatersrand and the East Rand campus of Vista University) >50,000 Johannesburg, Soweto Eng Nelson Mandela University Madibaz / NMU 1 January 20052 (1964 as UPE) 19,768 2,884 22,652 Port Elizabeth, George Eng University of South Africa Unisa 1873 (UCGH) 300,000 Distance education, headquartered in Pretoria, campuses and regional offices nationwide Eng University of Venda Univen 1982 10,968 Thohoyandou Eng Walter Sisulu University WSU/ALL BLACKS 1977 (Unitra) 32,081 (2018) East London, Butterworth, Mthatha, Queenstown Eng University of Zululand UniZulu 1960 6,456 369 6,825 Empangeni Eng Note1: By merger of existing institutions Note2: By merger of existing institutions ===Universities of technology=== File:CPUT Cape Town Campus.jpg|Cape Peninsula University of Technology File:Tshwane University of Technology.jpg|Tshwane University of Technology Institution Nickname Founded University status Undergrad Postgrad Total (2011) Location(s) Medium Cape Peninsula University of Technology CPUT/Cats 20051 2005 32,000 Bellville, Cape Town Eng Central University of Technology CUT/Ixias 1981 9,933 Bloemfontein, Welkom Eng Durban University of Technology DUT 20021 2002 23,000 Durban, Pietermaritzburg Eng Mangosuthu University of Technology MUT 1979 2007 Umlazi Eng University of Mpumalanga UMP 2013 2013 Mbombela Eng Sol Plaatje University SPU 2013 2013 Kimberley, Northern Cape Eng Tshwane University of Technology TUT/Vikings 20031 2003 60,000 Pretoria, Mbombela, Polokwane, Ga-Rankuwa, Soshanguve, Witbank Eng Vaal University of Technology VUT 1966 2003 17,000 Vanderbijlpark, Secunda, Kempton Park, Klerksdorp, Upington Eng Note1: By merger of existing institutions ==Private degree-granting seminaries, institutes and colleges== === Theological seminaries === Institution Nickname Founded Enrollment Type Location(s) Medium Auckland Park Theological Seminary ATS 1997 (1956) Theological seminary Johannesburg Eng Open Christian University OCU 2021 Rolling Enrollment Theological Online, HQ in Bethal Eng Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa 1951 Theological seminary Johannesburg Eng George Whitefield College 1989 Theological seminary Cape Town Eng South African Theological Seminary SATS 1996 Theological seminary Online (HQ Bryanston) Eng St Augustine College of South Africa 1999 Private Tertiary Academic Institution Johannesburg Eng === Institutes === Institution Nickname Founded Enrollment Type Location(s) Medium Two Oceans Graduate Institute TOGI 2017 Registered private higher education institution Distance/Online (HQ Cape Town) Eng ==University rankings== League tables of South African universities are largely based on international university rankings, because there have not as yet been published any specifically South African rankings. ==University research collaboratives== *Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) *Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis (FOTIM) *Higher Education South Africa (HESA) *Southern Education and Research Alliance (SERA) ==Defunct institutions== Institution Location Founded Closed Notes Bond South Africa Sandton 2004The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (2004). They are tentatively classified in the universities of technology category, pending clarification of their programs. ==Public universities== Public universities in South Africa are divided into three types: traditional universities, which offer theoretically oriented university degrees; universities of technology ("technikons"), which offer vocational oriented diplomas and degrees; and comprehensive universities, which offer a combination of both types of qualification.HESA Structures ===Traditional universities=== File:UCT Upper Campus landscape view.jpg|University of Cape Town File:Fort hare, old building - rsa.jpg|University of Fort Hare File:Main_building_FSU_2.jpg|University of the Free State File:UKZNPclocktower.jpg|University of KwaZulu-Natal File:Building Potchefstroom University.jpg|North-West University File:Old Arts Faculty Building, University of Pretoria.jpg|University of Pretoria File:Rhodes oldcampus.jpg|Rhodes University File:Stellenbosch Ou Hoofgebou.jpg|Stellenbosch University File:University of the Western Cape - Central Campus entry.jpg|University of the Western Cape File:The Wits University Great Hall.jpg|University of the Witwatersrand Institution Nickname Founded University status Undergrad Postgrad Total Location(s) Medium University of Cape Town Ikeys / UCT 1 October 1829 Our history. The only African university in the top 150 is the University of the Witwatersrand. Africa University is the first private, fully accredited, degree-granting United Methodist-related institution of higher learning on the continent of Africa as established and approved by General Conference. The 2014 ranking is as follows: SA Rank World Rank University 1 8 University of the Witwatersrand ==Additional context on South African higher educational institutions== ===2010 Centre for Higher Education Transformation report=== A 2010 report by Centre for Higher Education Transformation identified 3 different university clusters in South Africa, grouped according to function. Probably distributed between the University of Venda and the University of Limpopo Vista University Multi-city campus university 1981 2004/2005 Now merged with the Nelson Mandela University, the University of the Free State, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and the Vaal University of Technology. The university is Pan-African in design and spirit. In 2004 South Africa started reforming its public higher education system, merging and incorporating small public universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions "university" (previously there had been several types of higher education institution).

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Ulstermen sometimes say this: "our oldest and most famous university that often tops of the ranking of our undergraduate institutions, with classical architecture in red bricks, a law school, a medical school, and a campus set in a major city". What is the name of the university?

The title of oldest public university in the United States is claimed by three universities: the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the College of William and Mary. It is one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland. The Ulster University School of Law is a School of Ulster University which is physically located at the Belfast and Magee campuses. It is the largest university in Northern Ireland and the second-largest university on the island of Ireland, after the federal National University of Ireland. In October 2020, the Ministry of Higher Education issued a directive that the college should be known as City University College in partnership with Ulster University. ==Organisation and governance== ===Governance=== ;Vice-Chancellors * Sir Derek Birley (1983–1991) * Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton (1991–1999) * Gerry McKenna DL MRIA (1999–2006) * Sir Richard Barnett (2006–2015) * Paddy Nixon (2015–2020) * Paul Bartholomew (2020–present) ;Chancellors * Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton (1984–1993) * Baroness Neuberger (1994–2000) * Sir Richard Nichols (2002–2010) * James Nesbitt (2010–2021) * Colin Davidson (2021 - ) ===Faculties=== The four faculties of Ulster University are: * Arts Humanities and Social Sciences * Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment * Life and Health Sciences * Ulster University Business School ==Academic profile== The university's course provision is the largest in Northern Ireland, covering arts, business, engineering, information technology, life and health sciences, management, and social sciences. The School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin is the oldest engineering school in Ireland and one of the oldest in the world. The university was subsequently selected by the European Commission to deliver the world's first Higher Educational Programme in Hydrogen Safety Engineering. ===Belfast=== The Ulster University at Belfast is in the city's Cathedral Quarter, its artistic and cultural centre. Trinity is Ireland's oldest university and retains a reputation as a research centre. University Hall may refer to: *Original name of Clare College, Cambridge *Flinders University Hall *University Hall (Bristol) *University Hall (Brown University) *University Hall (Dublin) *University Hall (Harvard University) *University Hall (Leuven) *University Hall (Indiana State University) *University Hall (Northwestern University) *University Hall (Ohio State University) *University Hall (University of Canterbury) *University Hall (University of Hong Kong) *University Hall (University of Illinois Chicago) *University Hall (University of Montana) *University Hall (University of Oregon) *University Hall (University of St Andrews) *University Hall (University of Toledo) *University Hall (University of Virginia) *University Hall (Uppsala University) *University Hall, within University of Western Australia *University Hall, Gordon Square, London, home of Dr Williams's Library *University Hall, within Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Category:Architectural disambiguation pages Under some metrics, it ranked the university top in Northern Ireland for research into biomedical sciences, law, business and management, architecture and built environment, art and design, social policy, sport, media studies and nursing. As no other college was ever established, the college is the university's sole constituent college, and so "Trinity College" and the "University of Dublin" are for most purposes synonymous. Ulster University (; Ulster Scots: or ), legally the University of Ulster,Article 1 of the Charter of the University of Ulster which reads "There shall be and there is hereby constituted and founded in Northern Ireland a university with the name and style of the "University of Ulster"", the Charter being contained in the University of Ulster Charter, Statutes and Ordinances 2015-2016 is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland. In one sense, the University of Dublin exists only as a degree-granting institution, with the college providing the education and research; Trinity College was the only college to ever be established within the university. ===Governance=== The body corporate of the college consists of the provost, fellows and scholars. Trinity College (), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university in Dublin, Ireland. It is now home to a digital media archive, updated media facilities, including radio and television studios, and a postgraduate research centre as well as office and administration accommodation. ===Jordanstown=== The Ulster University at Jordanstown, often informally referred to as UUJ, was formerly the site of the Ulster College of Physical Education, one of several Colleges which came together in the formation of the Ulster Polytechnic, and is the largest university campus. Trinity College, Dublin. "Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution, 1914–1921." Engineering at Trinity: Incorporating a Record of the School of Engineering. ==References== ==External links== * Official Website Category:1841 establishments in Ireland Category:Trinity College Dublin Category:Educational institutions established in 1841 Category:Engineering universities and colleges in Ireland * Bailey, Kenneth Claude A History of Trinity College Dublin, 1892-1945 (Trinity College Dublin, 1947) * Black, R. D. "Trinity College, Dublin, and the theory of value, 1832-1863." Queen Elizabeth I founded the college in 1592 as "the mother of a university" that was modelled after the collegiate universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but unlike these affiliated institutions, only one college was ever established; as such, the designations "Trinity College" and "University of Dublin" are usually synonymous for practical purposes. The Ulster University Law Clinic is based in the Belfast campus. Trinity College Dublin, 1592-1952: an academic history (Trinity College Dublin Press, 2004) online.

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Where does it rain literally all the time?

Most of the rains received in the state is during the monsoon season. The rainy season is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. Rain is a given name. Inland, often less than falls a year, but what precipitation falls during the winter tends to stay throughout the season.Mean Annual Precipitation in Alaska-Yukon . West Coast Cold Season Heavy Rainfall Events. There has been an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events over many areas during the past century, as well as an increase since the 1970s in the prevalence of droughts—especially in the tropics and subtropics. The West Coast occasionally experiences ocean-effect showers, usually in the form of rain at lower elevations south of the mouth of the Columbia River. Meteorological scientists have observed that La Niñas have become more frequent over time. ==General== The eastern part of the contiguous United States east of the 98th meridian, the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, the Willamette Valley, and the Sierra Nevada range are the wetter portions of the nation, with average rainfall exceeding per year. Tropical cyclones from the eastern Pacific contribute to the moisture within the monsoon system, and bring up to 20 percent of the average annual rainfall to southern California. RAINFALL VARIATIONS DURING ENSO. On the Florida peninsula, a strong monsoon becomes dominant, with dry winters and heavy summer rainfall. South central Alaska does not get nearly as much rain as the southeast of Alaska, though it does get more snow. Central Rain". Reports to the Nation: The North American Monsoon. During the winter, and spring, Pacific storm systems bring Hawaii and the western United States most of their precipitation. How mountains influence rainfall patterns. During the summer, the North American monsoon combined with Gulf of California and Gulf of Mexico moisture moving around the subtropical ridge in the Atlantic Ocean bring the promise of afternoon and evening air-mass thunderstorms to the southern tier of the country as well as the Great Plains. As one moves from Virginia Beach southward, summer becomes the wettest season, as convective thunderstorms created in the hot and moist tropical air mass drop brief but intense precipitation. thumb|right|Average precipitation The characteristics of United States rainfall climatology differ significantly across the United States and those under United States sovereignty. The state of Karnataka in India has a bittersweet relationship with rains. Furthermore, global La Niña meteorological events are generally associated with drier and hotter conditions and further exacerbation of droughts in California and the Southwestern and to some extent the Southeastern United States. North American Monsoon System.

It rains literally all the time in monsoons

It rains literally all the time in Hawaii

It rains literally all the time in Vancouver

It rains literally all the time in rainforests

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Where on Earth does the sun literally never shine at all?

The remaining 13 episodes would air after the winter break, beginning on January 29, 2015. ==Reception== ===Broadcasting=== "Where the Sun Don't Shine" was originally broadcast on Thursday, November 20, 2014 in the United States on ABC. As Jake is picking up pillows from the bedroom, Olivia is kidnapped. ==Cultural references== The title "Where the Sun Don't Shine" refers to a phrase in the United States, which someone use when they are irritated and are referring to the external opening of the human rectum - "I kicked him where the sun don't shine". ==Production== The episode was written by Mark Wilding and directed by Tony Goldwyn. For example, Iceland is known for its midnight sun, even though most of it (Grímsey is the exception) is slightly south of the Arctic Circle. The opposite phenomenon, polar night, occurs in winter, when the Sun stays below the horizon throughout the day. ==Details== Around the summer solstice (approximately 21 June in the Northern Hemisphere and 21 December in the Southern Hemisphere), in certain areas the Sun does not set below the horizon within a 24-hour period. == Geography == Because there are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, apart from research stations, the countries and territories whose populations experience midnight sun are limited to those crossed by the Arctic Circle: Canada (Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories), United States (state of Alaska); the nations of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, and Russia. A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle, and at the country's northernmost point the Sun does not set at all for 72 days during summer.Nuorgam, Lapland, Finland — Sunrise, Sunset, and Daylength, May 2022 In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. The northernmost tip of Antarctica also experiences white nights near the Southern Hemisphere summer solstice. == Explanation == Since the axial tilt of Earth is considerable (23 degrees, 26 minutes, 21.41196 seconds), at high latitudes the Sun does not set in summer; rather, it remains continuously visible for one day during the summer solstice at the polar circle, for several weeks only closer to the pole, and for six months at the pole. The North Pole has midnight sun for 6 months from late March to late September. === Polar circle proximity === Because of atmospheric refraction, and also because the Sun is a disc rather than a point in the sky, midnight sun may be experienced at latitudes slightly south of the Arctic Circle or north of the Antarctic Circle, though not exceeding one degree (depending on local conditions). Midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight. Where the Sun Never Sets is the fourth and final studio album by A Global Threat. For instance, in Fairbanks, Alaska, which is south of the Arctic Circle, the Sun sets at 12:47a.m. at the summer solstice. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore is the second North-American album release by the Walker Brothers. In its place Smash Records compiled The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore as the group's second American album. Even though at the Arctic Circle the center of the Sun is, per definition and without refraction by the atmosphere, only visible during one summer night, some part of midnight sun is visible at the Arctic Circle from approximately 12 June until 1 July. The largest city of the world north of the Arctic Circle, Murmansk (Russia), experiences midnight sun from 22 May to 22 July (62 days). The extreme sites are the poles, where the Sun can be continuously visible for half the year. This period extends as one travels north: At Cape Nordkinn, Norway, the northernmost point of Continental Europe, midnight sun lasts approximately from 14 May to 29 July. Places sufficiently close to the poles, such as Alert, Nunavut, experience times where it does not get entirely dark at night yet the Sun does not rise either, combining effects of midnight sun and polar night, for example where during the "day" it reaches civil twilight and at "night" only reaches astronomical twilight. === White nights === Locations where the Sun remains less than 6 (or 7Great Soviet Encyclopedia) degrees below the horizonbetween 60° 34’ (or 59° 34’) latitude and the polar circleexperience midnight civil twilight instead of midnight sun, so that daytime activities, such as reading, are still possible without artificial light on a clear night. "Where the Sun Don't Shine" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Scandal, and is the 56th overall episode, serving as the mid-season finale. When midnight sun is seen in the Arctic, the Sun appears to move from left to right, but in Antarctica the equivalent apparent motion is from right to left. This causes the part of Norway located in the Arctic region at the North Pole of Earth to move very close to the Sun and during this time the length of the day increases. At the poles themselves, the Sun rises and sets only once each year on the equinox. This occurs at latitudes from 65°44' to 90° north or south, and does not stop exactly at the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle, due to refraction.

There is no place on Earth where the sun never shines

The sun never shines in Antarctica

The sun never shines at the North Pole

The sun never shines in the U.K.

The sun never shines in Alaska

A

Where does it never ever stop raining?

In April, no rain fell in parts of Cornwall; and then in June, no rain fell over Devon and Kent. These sorts of conditions can persist over several years, even with above average rainfall, as the rainfall only slowly percolates through the water stores and replenishes them. ==Causes== The main cause for a long spell of dry weather in the United Kingdom is usually a blocking anticyclone (often the Azores High) system that forces other low-pressure systems around it, usually to the northwest. Central Rain". Some areas in Southern England had more rain in this 6 day period than they had received in the previous 3 months. This is why in dry spells the northwest of the United Kingdom actually often receives above average rainfall, as depressions and associated fronts are pushed towards the north. The rainy season is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. In Devon and Dorset, some locations received no rainfall for 45 consecutive days through July and August, another United Kingdom record. Rainy Days Never Stays is The Brilliant Green's thirteenth single, released in 2002. Droughts are a relatively common feature of the weather in the United Kingdom, with one around every 5–10 years on average. When the Rain Stops Falling is a play about family, secret legacies, betrayal and forgiveness seen across four generations and spanning two continents. Similar conditions were felt between 2003 and 2006, with only the record breaking rainfall of 2007 and 2008 replenishing the water levels. ==Impact== United Kingdom droughts have similar consequences to other droughts elsewhere in the world. The first of these is river and reservoir levels begin to drop as rainfall fails to counteract evaporation. In recent years however, the summers of 2007, 2008, 2009, August 2010 and 2012 were wetter than normal, 2007 being wettest on record. , according to the Environment Agency, due to projected population growth and the impact of climate change, England's anticipated demand for water will exceed its supply around the year 2045. ==Definition and comparison with other countries== A drought is usually defined as an extended period of weather (usually around 3 weeks) when less than a third of the usual precipitation falls. "When it Rains..." A hydrological drought can occur after a relatively dry winter, when the soil moisture storage, reservoirs and water table have not risen enough to counteract the warm summer weather. The front cover art lists it as 'So CENTRAL RAiN', with '7 chineSe bros.' on the back track listings differing from the cover art as well. When Rain the Stops Falling was first performed at the Scott Theatre, University of Adelaide, on 28 February 2008. This can happen any time of year, but brings hot sunny weather in summer and dry, cold and foggy weather in winter. The drought ended in October when a low pressure system finally arrived to bring substantial rain to the United Kingdom. The south east of the country usually suffers most, as it has the highest population (and therefore demand) and the lowest average precipitation per year, which is even lower in a drought. The lack of rain can be attributed to the high pressure system over the United Kingdom at the time, which meant average pressure was 5 millibars above the expected for the summer months. This was on top of another three periods of absolute drought, totalling 58 days with no measurable precipitation.

It never stops raining in Vancouver

Hawaii

It never stops raining in England

Boston

There is no place that has rain literally all the time

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What city is cloudy literally all the time?

right|thumb|On two cloud-free days, the haze situation can differ dramatically depending on the season and therefore on the direction of the wind. "Cloudy Day" is a song by Australian singer Tones and I. Causes and effects of pollution as understood through urban climatology are becoming more important for urban planning. === Precipitation === Changes in winds and convection patterns over and around cities impacts precipitation. The following is a list of cities by sunshine duration. Cloudy Times has been selected by the Paraguayan Film Academy to be submitted for the Academy Awards, becoming the first Oscar submission for the country. Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. Cloudy Times () is a 2014 documentary film directed by Arami Ullon. Although noctilucent clouds occur in both hemispheres, they have been observed thousands of times in the northern hemisphere, but fewer than 100 times in the southern. Urban climatology is the study of urban climate. The urban environment has two atmosphere layers, besides the planetary boundary layer (PBL) outside and extending well above the city: (1) The urban boundary layer is due to the spatially integrated heat and moisture exchanges between the city and its overlying air. Its campaign slogan in Chinese was "全城投入 為藍天打氣" ("Let all of the city join in to fight for a blue sky"), while its campaign slogan in English is "Clean Air for a Cool Hong Kong!" They seldom occur at lower latitudes (although there have been sightings as far south as Paris, Utah, Italy, Turkey and Spain), and closer to the poles it does not get dark enough for the clouds to become visible. Noctilucent clouds may be seen at latitudes of 50° to 65°.Gadsden (1995), p. It is a branch of climatology that concerns interactions between urban areas and the atmosphere, the effects they have on one another, and the varying spatial and temporal scales at which these processes (and responses) occur. == History == Luke Howard is considered to have established urban climatology with his book The Climate of London, which contained continuous daily observations from 1801 to 1841 of wind direction, atmospheric pressure, maximum temperature, and rainfall. However, in recent years, the hours of reduced visibility in Hong Kong have decreased by significant amounts compared to the previous ten years. == Effects == Declining regional air quality means visibility has also decreased dramatically. Observed from the ground, this phenomenon is known as noctilucent clouds. It has been found that changes in the clouds follow changes in the intensity of ultraviolet rays by about a year, but the reason for this long lag is not yet known. Clouds in the southern hemisphere are about higher than those in the northern hemisphere. It is available online for streaming under the names Cloudy Times and Storms of the Heart. This means that noctilucent clouds form predominantly during summer when, counterintuitively, the mesosphere is coldest as a result of seasonally varying vertical winds, leading to cold summertime conditions in the upper mesosphere (upwelling and adiabatic cooling) and wintertime heating (downwelling and adiabatic heating). Like noctilucent clouds on Earth, they can be observed only when the Sun is below the horizon. Polar mesospheric cloud observations have revealed that the well-known phenomenon of the northward shifting with latitude of date of peak noctilucent cloud occurrence is partly due to the increased number of hours of noctilucent cloud visibility with latitude and partly due to an actual northward retreat of the boundary towards the end of the season.

London is cloudy all the time

Chongqing is cloudy all the time

Sao Joaquim is cloudy all the time

Lima is cloudy all the time

There is no city that is cloudly all the time

E

What city has the most miserable weather all the time?

Pakistan has one of the highest temperature ranges in the world (temperature range refers to the difference between highest and lowest recorded temperatures ever) with proven weather conditions ranging from as high as like those in the Sahara desert, to as low as those like in Alaska making it one of the most climatically diverse countries in the world. Also, during the extreme heatwave season, 11 cities saw their highest-ever recorded temperatures of or above, and five cities saw temperatures of . Coldest inhabited place Oymyakon (Russian: Оймяко́н), a rural locality (selo) in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, the Russian Federation, has the coldest monthly mean, with the average temperature in January, the coldest month. All temperatures from the World Meteorological Organization unless noted. The following is a list of the most extreme temperatures ever recorded in Canada. The weather extremes in Pakistan include extremely high and extremely low temperatures, heaviest rainfalls and floodings. The following table lists the average winter temperature in the 25 largest cities in Russia. Heat spreads throughout the north-central part of the country including Punjab and KPK. === List of cities with temperature of 50 °C or above === Temperature extremes in Pakistan over based on data from the Pakistan Meteorological Department, 1931–2022 and other sources Date Temperature °C City Province Notes References 28 May 2017 54 °C (129.2 °F) Turbat Balochistan The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially evaluated temperature record extremes of in Turbat, Pakistan, on 28 May 2017. 26 May 2010 Larkana Sindh It was the fifth-highest temperature ever recorded on earth and the second-hottest reliably-measured temperature ever recorded in the continent of Asia and it is the hottest city of Pakistan since 2010. or above was recorded for four consecutive days from 24 to 27 May 2010. 26 May 2010 Jacobabad Sindh or above was recorded for four consecutive days, 24 to 27 May 2010. This article lists extreme locations on Earth that hold geographical records or are otherwise known for their geophysical or meteorological superlatives. Some areas of northern and western Pakistan usually experience below 0 °C temperature and play havoc in these areas. The coldest place in Pakistan can be the glacial parts of Gilgit Baltistan, where in winters the average temperature remains below -20. Average winter temperatures are from the references cited on each line. ==Table== Rank City Population (2002) Avg Winter Temp (°C) 1 Moscow 10,126,424 −13.0 2 Saint Petersburg 4,661,219 −10.0 3 Novosibirsk 1,425,508 −20.0 4 Nizhny Novgorod 1,311,252 −15.0 5 Yekaterinburg 1,293,537 −17.0 6 Samara 1,157,880 −14.0 7 Omsk 1,134,016 −20.0 8 Kazan 1,105,289 −14.0 9 Chelyabinsk 1,077,174 −18.0 10 Rostov-on- Don 1,068,267 −7.0 11 Ufa 1,042,437 −14.0 12 Volgograd 1,011,417 −16.0 13 Perm 1,001,653 −15.0 14 Krasnoyarsk 909,341 −18.0 15 Saratov 873,055 −12.0 16 Voronezh 848,752 −6.0 17 Tolyatti 702,879 −18.0 18 Krasnodar 646,175 −7.0 19 Ulyanovsk 635,947 −11.0 20 Izhevsk 632,140 −14.0 21 Yaroslavl 613,088 −11.0 22 Barnaul 600,749 −15.5 23 Vladivostok 594,701 −14.0 24 Irkutsk 593,604 −15.0 25 Khabarovsk 583,072 −22.0 ==References== Temp Category:Climate of Russia The K2 Peak has recorded -65 °C.mountain- forecast.com The most deadly cold wave in the recent history of Pakistan is the record-breaking cold wave of winter 2020. The climate in Pakistan is very unpredictable and extreme due to its geographical location with tropical plains and the world's highest peaks. Some areas of southern Pakistan usually experience above temperature and play havoc in these areas. * The lowest major city is Baku, Azerbaijan, located below sea level, which makes it the lowest-lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. ===Table of extreme elevations and air temperatures by continent=== Continent Elevation (height above/below sea level) Air temperature (recorded)Global Weather & Climate Extremes World Meteorological Organization Highest Lowest Highest Lowest Africa Kilimanjaro, TanzaniaThe Kilimanjaro 2008 Precise Height Measurement Expedition. Twelve cities in Pakistan saw temperatures above during the extreme heatwave of summer 2010, which lasted from May 22 to May 31, 2010. The average daily maximum temperature during the same period was .Average of table on p. 26, Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book, Christopher C. Burt and Mark Stroud, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, . Temperatures in the hottest places in Pakistan fell below 2 °C or more, as well as cities near the foothills of the Himalayas including Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore can record temperatures below freezing. Date Snowfall (in) Snowfall (cm) City or Station Province Notes References 4 February 2013 24 60.96 Kalam Khyber Pakhtunkhwa == Wind == Date City Wind speed (km/h) Wind speed (mph) Notes References 9 June 2005 Multan 205 126 Duststorm 28 March 2001 Bhalwal, Sargodha 193 121 Tornado reported 12 June 1962 Rawalpindi 177 110 13 October 2006 Rawalpindi 176 110 Tornado reported 2 June 2000 Faisalabad 151 94 == Floods == Pakistan has seen many floods, the worst and most destructive is the recent 2010 Pakistan floods, which swept away the 20% of Pakistan's land, the flood is the result of unprecedented monsoon rains which lasted from 28 July to 31 July 2010. That record-breaking rain fell in just 10 hours. == Temperature == The standard measuring conditions for temperature are 1.2 meters above the ground out of direct sunlight (hence the term, x degrees "in the shade"). == High temperature == Heat waves mostly occur during summer months but in Pakistan heat waves occur at any time period between April and September and bring high temperatures but most powerful heat waves occur in May and June. It is not uncommon for Islamabad to receive snow in strong cold spells, the Khyber Hills in Peshawar, Hayatabad can also receive light snowfall. === List of Some Important cities of Pakistan with temperature of 0 °C or below Official data (according to Pakistan Metrological Department) === Date Temperature °C City Province Notes References 7 January 1995 -24 °C. (-11.2 °F) Skardu Gilgit-Baltistan ??? -23.9 °C Naran (town) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 8 January 1970 -18.3 °C (-0.9 °F) Quetta Balochistan, Pakistan 20 January 1978 Kalat Balochistan 5 February 1984 -13.9 °C Dir Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 11 January 1987 -13.5 °C Gilgit Gilgit Baltistan 29 December 1972 -12.2 °C Chitral Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ???? -11 °C Murree Punjab, Pakistan 30 December 1997 -11 °C Dalbandin Balochistan, Pakistan 26 January 2008 -11 °C Drosh Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 9 February 1974 -10 °C Nok Kundi Balochistan, Pakistan 30 December 1977 -10 °C Barkhan Balochistan, Pakistan 23 January 1982 -7.3 °C Kakul Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 17 January 1967 Islamabad Islamabad Capital Territory 6 January 2006 Mohenjo Daro Sindh 11 December 1996 Faisalabad Punjab 17 January 1967 -3.9 °C Rawalpindi Punjab, Pakistan 11 January 1967 -3.9 °C Multan Punjab, Pakistan 27 January 2008 -3 °C Saidu Sharif Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1 February 1929 -3 °C Sialkot Punjab 15 January 1935 -3 °C Bahawalpur Punjab, Pakistan 17 January 1935 -2 °C Lahore Punjab 10 January 1983 -1.6 °C Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 6 January 2006 Larkana Sindh == Precipitation == The standard way of measuring Rainfall or Snowfall is the standard Rain gauge, which can be found in 100-mm (4-in) plastic and 200-mm (8-in) metal varieties.

Kuwait has the most miserable weather all the time

There is no city that has the most miserable weather all the time

Yakutsk has the most miserable weather all the time

Beijing has the most miserable weather all the time

London has the most miserable weather all the time

B

Where is it humid every single day?

The ideal relative humidity in a humidor is around 68–72%. Humid climate is a climate with an excess of moisture. This results in hot and humid conditions, similar to summers in other humid subtropical climates. The climate of the north and central parts of the US state of Florida is humid subtropical. National Relative Humidity. In this classification, climates are termed humid subtropical when they have at least 8 months with a mean temperature above . A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate zone characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. The climate of Houston is classified as a humid subtropical climate, with tropical influences. Major cities such as São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Porto Alegre and Montevideo, have a humid subtropical climate, generally in the form of hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters. Humidity is not as high here as in other continents within this climatic zone. Summers in these locations are cooler than typical humid subtropical climates and snowfall in winter is relatively common, but is usually of a short duration. The humid temperate climate is a temperate climate sub-type mainly located at mid latitudes. However, the humid subtropical climates exhibited here typically differ markedly from those in East Asia (and for that matter a good portion of the globe). As such, the climate can be said to exhibit somewhat different features depending on whether it is found inland, or in a maritime position. ==Characteristics== In a humid subtropical climate, summers are typically long, hot and humid. Furthermore, the inland Cfa climates generally have drier summers, or at least summers with low humidity. These areas tend to feature hot and humid summers and cool and wet winters, with mean temperatures varying between 25 and 30 °C (77 and 86 °F) in summer. ====South Asia==== Humid subtropical climates can also be found in South Asia. Precipitation is plentiful in North America's humid subtropical climate zone – but with significant variations in terms of wettest/driest months and seasons. Most humidifying elements are passive, releasing stored humidity through evaporation and diffusion. These climates are a Cfb/Cfa (Oceanic climate/Humid subtropical climate) borderline case. ===North America=== In North America, humid subtropical climates are found in the American Gulf and lower East Coast states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It may refer to: * Humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa/b), a climatic type typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences * Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters * Equatorial or tropical rainforest climate. The average relative humidity ranges from over 90 percent in the morning to around 60 percent in the afternoon.Department of Meteorology at the University of Utah. Houston may be considered the air-conditioning capital of the world due to its hot and humid metropolitan.

There is no place that is humid every single day

It is always humid in Los Angeles

It is always humid in Alaska

It is always humid in Arizona

It is always humid in Hong Kong

A

Where does it never ever stop snowing?

Here, It Never Snowed. In colder climates, snow lies on the ground all winter. Major snow-prone areas include the Arctic and Antarctic, the Northern Hemisphere, and alpine regions. In the Southern Hemisphere, snow is confined primarily to mountainous areas, apart from Antarctica. Melting, compacting, blowing and drifting contribute to the difficulty of measuring snowfall. ===Distribution=== Glaciers with their permanent snowpacks cover about 10% of the earth's surface, while seasonal snow covers about nine percent, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, where seasonal snow covers about , according to a 1987 estimate. * On Saturn's moon, Titan, Cassini–Huygens spacecraft observations suggest the presence of methane or some other form of hydrocarbon-based crystalline deposits. == See also == Lexicon * Eskimo words for snow * The wrong type of snow Notable snow events * 2007 Siberian orange snow * Alberta clipper * List of blizzards * List of snowiest places in the United States by state Recreation * Skiing * Sled * Snow angel * Snow cannon * Snowman * Snowmobiling * Winter sport Related concepts * Blizzard * Freezing rain * Frost * Graupel * Hail * Ice * Ice pellets * Rime * Sleet * Snowbelt Science and scientists * Snow hydrology * Timeline of snowflake research * Ukichiro Nakaya Snow structures * Igloo * Quinzhee * Snow cave * Snow grooming == References == == External links == * United Nations Environment Programme: Global Outlook for Ice and Snow * Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University * Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research * National Snow and Ice Data Center of the United States * American Society of Civil Engineers ground snow loads interactive map for the continental US Category:Articles containing video clips Category:Forms of water Category:Water ice Category:Precipitation Category:Weather hazards Snow affects such human activities as transportation: creating the need for keeping roadways, wings, and windows clear; agriculture: providing water to crops and safeguarding livestock; sports such as skiing, snowboarding, and snowmachine travel; and warfare. Major snow-prone areas include the polar regions, the northernmost half of the Northern Hemisphere and mountainous regions worldwide with sufficient moisture and cold temperatures. A study of Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent for the period 1972–2006 suggests a reduction of over the 35-year period. ===Records=== The following are world records regarding snowfall and snowflakes: * Highest seasonal total snowfall – The world record for the highest seasonal total snowfall was measured in the United States at Mt. Baker Ski Area, outside of the city of Bellingham, Washington during the 1998–1999 season. thumb|The mountain during winter covered in snow seen from the North. Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. Common examples include cross- country skiing, Alpine skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling. During a hemisphere's fall, winter, and spring, the atmosphere over continents can be cold enough through the depth of the troposphere to cause snowfall. Snow science addresses how snow forms, its distribution, and processes affecting how snowpacks change over time. As snow accumulates into a snowpack, it may blow into drifts. Snowmaking is mainly used to supplement natural snow at ski resorts.On This Day: March 25 , BBC News, accessed December 20, 2006. Mount Baker received of snow, thus surpassing the previous record holder, Mount Rainier, Washington, which during the 1971–1972 season received of snow. Skiing is by far the largest form of winter recreation. Satellite measurements show that snow cover has been decreasing in many areas of the world since 1978. ===Models=== thumb|Snowfall and snowmelt are parts of the Earth's water cycle. Where the climate is cold enough for year-to-year accumulation, a glacier may form. Snow that persists into summer evolves into névé, granular snow, which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted. The cities (more than 100,000 inhabitants) with the highest annual snowfall are Aomori (792 cm), Sapporo (485 cm) and Toyama (363 cm) in Japan, followed by St. John's (332 cm) and Quebec City (315 cm) in Canada. ==Metamorphism== According to the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences, snow metamorphism is "the transformation that the snow undergoes in the period from deposition to either melting or passage to glacial ice".

It is always snowing in Iceland

There is no place where it never stops snowing

It is always snowing on Mount Rainier

It is always snowing at the North Pole

It is always snowing on Mount Everest

B

What's an opinion you personally changed your mind about?

Change My Mind may refer to: * "Change My Mind" (The Oak Ridge Boys song), originally recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys in 1991 and by John Berry in 1996 * Change My Mind (album), a 2012 album by Billy Ray Cyrus, or the title song * Change My Mind (meme), an internet meme introduced in 2018 * "Change My Mind" (One Direction song) * "Change My Mind", a song by Puddle of Mudd from the album Life on Display * Change My Mind, a segment of Louder with Crowder * "Changed My Mind", a song by Todrick Hall from Forbidden * "Changed My Mind", a song by Tove Styrke from Sway Change Your Mind may refer to: ==Television== * "Change Your Mind" (Steven Universe), an episode of the fifth season of Steven Universe ==Songs== * "Change Your Mind" (Earth, Wind & Fire song), a song by Earth, Wind & Fire * "Change Your Mind" (Keith Urban song), 2020 * "Change Your Mind" (Sharpe & Numan song), a song by Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan, No. 17 in the UK charts in 1985 * "Change Your Mind", a song by The All-American Rejects from Move Along * "Change Your Mind", a song by Boyce Avenue from All You're Meant to Be * "Change Your Mind", a song by Camper Van Beethoven from Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart * "Change Your Mind", a song by Eli, No. 41 on the German charts in 2018 * "Change Your Mind", a song by Jason Donovan from Ten Good Reasons * "Change Your Mind", a song by The Killers from Hot Fuss * "Change Your Mind", an unreleased song by Kylie Minogue * "Change Your Mind", a song by LCD Soundsystem from American Dream * "Change Your Mind", a song by Neil Young from Sleeps with Angels * "Change Your Mind", a song by Raffaele Riefoli * "Change Your Mind", a song by Ryan Adams from 1984 * "Change Your Mind", a song by Sister Hazel from Fortress * "Change Your Mind", a song by Westlife from Face to Face * "Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)", a song by Britney Spears from Glory ==See also== * * "If You Change Your Mind" is a song recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash who co-wrote the song with Hank DeVito. The song reached No. 26 on the Billboard Adult R&B; Songs chart. ==Overview== "Change Your Mind" was produced by Maurice White and written by White, Bill Meyers and Brenda Russell. "I Changed My Mind" also peaked at number 23 on the US Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs. ==Music video== The music video for "I Changed My Mind" was directed by Nzingha Stewart and filmed in Cole's hometown, Oakland, California on June 30, 2004. The series has been dubbed into Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian. ==Background== Michael Pollan published his book How to Change Your Mind in 2018. "I Changed My Mind" is a song by American R&B; recording artist Keyshia Cole, recorded for her debut album, The Way It Is (2005). "Change Your Mind" is a single by R&B;/funk band Earth, Wind & Fire issued in 2006 by Kalimba Music. How to Change Your Mind is a 2022 American docuseries based on the book of the same of the same name by Michael Pollan. ==Chart performance== "I Changed My Mind" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 72, the highest debut of all Cole's singles. New science shows that these drugs can save lives and change our minds, helping us to live better lives." It was first seen as the "New Joint of the Week" on BET's 106 & Park on August 13, 2004. ==Promotion== Cole first performed "I Changed My Mind" during friend and producer Kanye West's set on Usher's Truth Tour (2004). ==Track listings== Notes * signifies an additional producer == Credits and personnel == Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Way It Is. * Keyshia Cole – vocals, writer * Ron Fair – additional producer * Manny Halley – executive producer * Tal Herzberg – additional producer, engineer * Jun Ishizeki – engineer * Anthony Kilhoffer – engineer * John Legend – writer * Dave Pensado – mixing engineer *Kanye West – producer ==Charts== Chart (2004–2006) Peak position ==References== Category:2004 singles Category:Keyshia Cole songs Category:Kanye West songs Category:Song recordings produced by Kanye West Category:Songs written by John Legend Category:Songs written by Kanye West Category:Songs written by Keyshia Cole Category:2004 songs Category:A&M; Records singles She finds out about her, and "changes her mind", that she doesn't want to be with him anymore. Gibney expressed his pleasure working on the project, adding "It’s so important—a revelation about how some hallucinogens, once vilified, can lead to mindfulness. Vocals from Solomon Burke's "Get Out of My Life, Woman" are used throughout, although "I Changed My Mind" actually samples "The Chronic (Intro)" by Dr. Dre, in which Burke's sample is already embedded (Dr. Dre can be heard over the top of the sample saying "Yeah nigga..."). ==Background== Keyshia Cole wrote the song verse, John Legend wrote the bridge, and Kanye West wrote the vocals as well as produced it. Natalia Winkelman of The Boston Globe criticized the series for being too one-sided and failing to adequately address adverse effects of psychedelics. San Francisco Chronicle critic Bob Strauss found the series "not comprehensive, but packed with interesting tidbits" and says it provided "multiple worthy views that can be mind-blowing." ==References== ==External links== * * * Category:Netflix original documentary television series Category:English-language Netflix original programming Category:2020s American television miniseries Category:2020s American documentary television series Category:Television shows about drugs Category:Documentaries about psychology Category:Documentary films about LSD Category:Psychedelic drug research In the beginning, the video has various screenshots of different places in the Bay Area and has a resemblance of Mary J. Blige's 1993 Video of You Remind Me. The song lingered in the bottom quarter of the Hot 100 for 2 months, eventually peaking at number 71. It consists of four episodes, which were released on July 12, 2022, on Netflix and give insights into the psychedelic drugs LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline as well as their uses in psychedelic therapy. According to director Alison Ellwood, the series tries to omit "psychedelic visual tropes—wild colors, rainbow streaks, morphing images" to make it relatable to people who have not had psychedelic experiences. ==Episodes== ==Reception== ===Critical response=== On Rotten Tomatoes, the miniseries holds an approval rating of 100% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 7.40/10.

I changed my mind about the shape of the Earth

I have no comment

I changed my mind about Trump

I changed my mind about protests

I changed my mind about vaccines

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What's a truth about the world that only you and your parents know?

Why the world isn't flat. Despite the scientific fact and obvious effects of Earth's sphericity, pseudoscientific flat-Earth conspiracy theories are espoused by modern flat Earth societies and, increasingly, by unaffiliated individuals using social media. ==History== ===Belief in flat Earth=== ====West Asia==== In early Egyptian and Mesopotamian thought, the world was portrayed as a disk floating in the ocean. "The World is Flat – Even in Publishing." "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty- first Century". To maintain belief in the face of overwhelming contrary, publicly available empirical evidence accumulated in the Space Age, modern believers must generally embrace some form of conspiracy theory out of the necessity of explaining why major institutions such as governments, media outlets, schools, scientists, and airlines all assert that the world is a sphere. The education they receive helps them to gradually change their false concept into a realist one of a spherical earth.Stella Vosniadu, William F. Brewer: Mental models of the earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood. ==See also== * Alderson disk * Denialism * Earth's rotation * Geocentric model * Geographical distance * Hollow Earth * Pseudoscience * Scientific myth * Scientific skepticism * World Turtle ==References== ===Bibliography=== * * * * * ==Further reading== * Fraser, Raymond (2007). The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality is a book written by the British linguist Andrew Dalby and published by Siduri Books in 2009.David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009) The author provides a context for the birth and growth of Wikipedia through an examination of the wider encyclopedia tradition. This book opposes the views of Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. When The Earth Was Flat: Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters. == Education == For young children who have not yet received information from their social environment, their own perception of their surroundings often leads to a false concept about the shape of the underground on the horizon. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is a book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. The World Is Flat won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2005. ==Summary== In his book The World Is Flat, Friedman recounts a journey to Bangalore, India, when he realized globalization has changed core economic concepts. * The Myth of the Flat Earth * The Myth of the Flat Universe * You say the earth is round? They tend to not trust observations they have not made themselves, and often distrust or disagree with each other. ==Cultural references== The term flat-earth-man, used in a derogatory sense to mean anyone who holds ridiculously antiquated or impossible views, predates the more compact flat- earther. It is a historical myth that medieval Europeans generally thought the Earth was flat. Several pre-Socratic philosophers believed that the world was flat: Thales (c. 550 BC) according to several sources, and Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460–370 BC) according to Aristotle.Aristotle, De Caelo, 294b13–21 Thales thought that the Earth floated in water like a log.Aristotle, De Caelo, II. The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy is a book written by David M. Smick, a financial market consultant, non-fiction author, and Chairman and CEO in the consultancy company of Johnson Smick International (JSI). In late 2016, Flat World Knowledge was acquired by Alastair Adam and John Eielson and rebranded as FlatWorld. ==Accessibility and regulatory issues== Flat World Knowledge textbooks have been developed for accessible publishing. We would respond: Yes, because the Earth, even though it is round, is an enormous sphere, and each little part of this enormous sphere, when it is looked at, appears to be flat. FlatWorld is a publisher of college-level textbooks and educational supplements for a worldwide audienceLim, Ronald S.

I have no comment

The world is flat

The world is an illusion

The world is controlled by lizard men

The world is controlled by a cabal of elites

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What's a truth about the world that you personally know to be absolutely beyond a doubt?

In short: the actual world is regarded as merely one among an infinite set of logically possible worlds, some "nearer" to the actual world and some more remote. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake is a 2018 book meant to be an all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking written by Steven Novella and co-authored by other hosts of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcastBob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World () is a book by Danish author and statistician Bjørn Lomborg. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. When we distinguish our world from other possible worlds by claiming that it alone is actual, we mean only that it is our world. Modal realism is the view propounded by philosopher David Lewis that all possible worlds are real in the same way as is the actual world: they are "of a kind with this world of ours."Lewis D, 1986, p2, On the Plurality of Worlds, Oxford, Blackwell. The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality is a book written by the British linguist Andrew Dalby and published by Siduri Books in 2009.David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009) The author provides a context for the birth and growth of Wikipedia through an examination of the wider encyclopedia tradition. But since, according to modal realism, there is no important difference between the actual world and other possible worlds, this shouldn't matter. Yagisawa holds that while the notion of a world is simple, being a modal index, the notion of a possible world is composite: it is a world that is possible. Beyond Doubt is a science fiction story written by Robert A. Heinlein, originally printed in Astonishing Stories in April 1941 under the pen name "Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz". But as I believe that there really are other > worlds, I am entitled to confess that there is much about them that I do not > know, and that I do not know how to find out.David Lewis, Counterfactuals, > 1973, pp. 87–88 ==Extended modal realism== Extended modal realism, as developed by Takashi Yagisawa, differs from other versions of modal realism, such as David Lewis' views, in several important aspects. Here I am at a disadvantage compared to someone who pretends > as a figure of speech to believe in possible worlds, but really does not. Lewis's awareness of this difficulty discomforted him; but he could have replied that other means of distinguishing worlds may be available, or alternatively that sometimes there will inevitably be further surprising and counterintuitive consequences — beyond what we had thought we would be committed to at the start of our investigation. Some argue that Lewis's principles of "worldmaking" (means by which we might establish the existence of further worlds by recombination of parts of worlds we already think exist) are too permissive. A world is possible if it doesn't violate the laws of the corresponding type of possibility. It is based on four tenets: possible worlds exist, possible worlds are not different in kind from the actual world, possible worlds are irreducible entities, and the term actual in actual world is indexical, i.e. any subject can declare their world to be the actual one, much as they label the place they are "here" and the time they are "now". A proposition is necessary if it is true in all possible worlds, and possible if it is true in at least one. == Main tenets == At the heart of David Lewis's modal realism are six central doctrines about possible worlds:Lewis, David (1986). But impossible worlds and their inhabitants are just as real as possible or actual entities. == Arguments for modal realism == === Reasons given by Lewis === Lewis backs modal realism for a variety of reasons.Lewis, David (1986). *The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming by Howard Friel (Yale University Press, 2010) ===Reviews of the book=== *John Gillot: "The Skeptical Environmentalist" Spiked-Science Online, September 10, 2001. I propose to be equally undisturbed by these equally > mysterious mysteries.David Lewis, Convention, 1968, p. 208 > How many [possible worlds] are there? *"Nine things journalists should know about The Skeptical Environmentalist", World Resources Institute. Lewis's reply is that all things are not equal, and in particular competing accounts of possible worlds themselves postulate more classes of entities, since there must be not only one real "concrete" world (the actual world), but many worlds of a different class altogether ("abstract" in some way or other).

I personally know that the world is controlled by lizard men

I personally know that the world is flat

I personally know that the world is controlled by a cabal of elites

I personally know that the world does not exist

I have no comment

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What's a belief you have that people find controversial?

Recent polls suggest that 28% of Americans believe in this conspiracy theory. ==Impact== Fueled by misinformation, anti-vaccination activism is on the rise on social media and in many countries. Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. Another study showed that a predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories was negatively correlated to the intention of individuals to get vaccinated. School, 186 F. Supp.2d 187 (N.D.N.Y. 2002) The use of fetal tissue in the development of vaccines has also provoked some controversy among religions opposed to abortion. Misinformation related to immunization and the use of vaccines circulates in mass media and social media in spite of the fact that there is no serious hesitancy or debate within mainstream medical and scientific circles about the benefits of vaccination. It did not literally state that the vaccines are operating systems, and therefore proponents of this claim are committing the reification fallacy. === Socially based claims === ==== Claims about a vaccine before one existed ==== Multiple social media posts promoted a conspiracy theory claiming that in the early stages of the pandemic, the virus was known and that a vaccine was already available. A high proportion of internet sources on the topic are "inaccurate on the whole" which can lead people searching for information to form "significant misconceptions about vaccines". People are likely to filter any new information they receive to fit their preexisting worldviewcorrective vaccine facts are no exception to this motivated reasoning. In the United States, vaccine hesitancy could be seen in certain social groups due to lack of trusted medical sources, traumatic past experiences with medical care and widespread theories. It further found that there is a significant relationship between joining vaccine hesitant groups on social media and openly casting doubts in public about vaccine safety, as well as a substantial relationship between foreign disinformation campaigns and declining vaccination coverage. Interviewees cited mistrust of the government, personal experiences of medical racism, and historical medical experimentation on Black people such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as reasons for their reluctance to be vaccinated. The notion that the Apollo Moon landings were hoaxes perpetrated by NASA and other agencies has appeared many times in popular culture. As of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy was considered one of the top ten threats to global health by the World Health Organization. ==Extent== A survey by the Royal Society for Public Health found that 50% of the parents of children under the age of five regularly encountered misinformation related to vaccination on social media. Research shows that science communicators should directly counter misinformation because of its negative influence on silent audience who are observing the vaccine debate, but not engaging in it. This misinformation has proliferated and may have made many people averse to vaccination. Those who believe in this narrative view vaccines as 'toxic and adulterating' while seeing alternative 'natural' methods as safe and effective. Although opposition to vaccination has existed for centuries, the internet and social media have recently facilitated the spread of vaccine-related misinformation. Through the spread of false media, civilians are blindly being led to believe that vaccinations are the leading cause of autism, when in fact, this is far from the truth. It's important to always consult credible sources and be skeptical of misinformation. ===Other conspiracy theories=== Other conspiracy theories circulated on social media have included the false notion such as; * FALSE: Polio is not a real disease and the symptoms are actually due to DDT poisoning: The first major documented polio outbreak in the United States occurred in 1894 in Vermont. Over time, these models may become integral to a vaccine hesitant individual's worldview. Most people (54.6%) hold some hesitancy toward the vaccine. ==Measures against misinformation== Several governmental agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States and National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom have dedicated webpages for addressing vaccine-related misinformation. A 2021 study found that misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media "induced a decline in intent [to vaccinate] of 6.2 percentage points in the [United Kingdom] and 6.4 percentage points in the [United States] among those who said they would definitely accept a vaccine".

I believe that vaccines don't work

I have no comment

I believe that the world is flat

I believe that we never landed on the moon

I believe that JFK was assassinated by the CIA

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What's something you disagree with your friends about?

Disagree may refer to: * Disagreement, failure to agree. Controversial Reddit communities are communities on the social news site Reddit (known as "subreddits"), often devoted to explicit, violent, or hateful material, that have been the topic of controversy. To "agree to disagree" is to resolve a conflict (usually a debate or quarrel) by having all parties tolerating but not accepting the opposing positions. Criticism of fast food includes claims of negative health effects, animal cruelty, cases of worker exploitation, children targeted marketing and claims of cultural degradation via shifts in people's eating patterns away from traditional foods. In 2021, Reddit stated that they allowed conversations that "question or disagree with popular consensus" regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that "dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy" despite criticism by site moderators. Conservative Friends are members of a certain branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1992 == Conservative Friends in the twentieth century == By 1905, there were seven Conservative Friends Yearly Meetings left in America and Canada as well as an unaffiliated but Conservative-leaning Orthodox meeting in Philadelphia. There is no single unifying association of Conservative Friends, unlike three of the other branches of Quakerism in America, represented by Friends United Meeting, Evangelical Friends International, and Friends General Conference. == Characteristics of Conservative Friends == Conservative Friends are often seen as occupying a middle ground between the theologically liberal wing and the evangelical wing of the Society of Friends. *Friends Around the World, FWCC, 2010 Edition. == External links == ;Conservative Friends links *Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) *North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) *Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) *Quaker Jane *A Short History of Conservative Friends *A Brief Synopsis of the Principles and Testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (A Conservative Friends Statement of Faith of 1912) *The Conservative Friend: - A Christian Ministry of Ohio Conservative Friends *Friends of Jesus Fellowship *Friends in Christ *Digital Quaker Collection: – A List of Christian Quaker literature *Post Reformation Digital Library: – A Library of Early Modern Quaker texts ;New Foundation Fellowship *New Foundation Fellowship Conservative A Short History of Conservative Friends. These Friends have tended to follow the overt customs of plain speech and dress more than other branches of the Society of Friends. He encouraged Friends to participate in government, including voting in elections (at the time, most Friends did not participate in politics). It generally occurs when all sides recognize that further conflict would be unnecessary, ineffective or otherwise undesirable. == Origin == In 1770, the phrase "agree to disagree" appeared in print in its modern meaning when, at the death of George Whitefield, John Wesley wrote a memorial sermon which acknowledged but downplayed the two men's doctrinal differences: In a subsequent letter to his brother Charles, Wesley attributed it to Whitefield (presumably George Whitefield): "If you agree with me, well: if not, we can, as Mr. Whitefield used to say, agree to disagree."Whitehead, John. In the United States of America, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings, Ohio, North Carolina, and Iowa. (Sermon on Union and Peace, preach'd to several Congregations, April 17, 1704). ==See also== * I'm entitled to my opiniona logical fallacy sometimes presented as "Let's agree to disagree" == References == Category:English phrases Critics of Reddit's position argued at the time that it had not been consistent in following its free speech philosophy. Ripley Quaker Meeting is a small group of conservative Friends also located in the UK, who follow Ohio Yearly Meeting's Book of Discipline.Ripley Quaker Meeting website In the USA, three Conservative Friends Yearly Meetings remain as distinct Conservative Friends bodies in Ohio, North Carolina and Iowa; with Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) being the most traditional Christian in belief and practice, of the three Conservative Friends Yearly Meetings; A small Conservative Friends remnant continues in some of the united yearly meetings (Canada and New England). Many scholars have written about various aspects of these controversies. Controversial Reddit communities sometimes receive significant media coverage. == History == When Reddit was founded in 2005, there was only one shared space for all links, and subreddits did not exist. Fast food nation: The dark side of the all-American meal. These movements seek to promote local cuisines and ingredients, and directly oppose laws and habits that encourage fast food choices. Contrary evidence has been documented that questions the correlation of a fast food diet and obesity.

I disagree with my friends about religion

I have no comment

I disagree with my friends about social issues

I disagree with my friends on politics

I disagree with my friends about where to eat

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What's a view of yours that you and your wife disagree on?

The husband is obligated to spend on the wife for all of her needs while she is not obligated to spend even if she is wealthy. A wife (: wives) is a woman in a marital relationship. Unlike mother, a term that puts a woman into the context of her children, "Wife" refers to the institutionalized relation to the other spouse. A wife usually takes care of anything inside her household, including the family's health, the children's education, a parent's needs. However, in most cases, a couple will a mutually dependent relationship, where the woman's income is needed, but at the same time women have to do the majority of the housework. However, a woman in a so-called common law marriage may describe herself as a common law wife, de facto wife, or simply a wife. "My Wife" is a song by the British rock band the Who, written and sung by bass guitarist John Entwistle. The term wife is most commonly applied to a woman in a union sanctioned by law (including religious law), but not to a woman in an informal cohabitation relationship, which may be known as a girlfriend, partner, cohabitant, significant other, concubine, mistress, etc. The rights and obligations of a wife to her partner and her status in the community and law vary between cultures and have varied over time. ==Etymology== The word is of Germanic origin from Proto-Germanic *wībam, "woman". In some cultures, the termination of the status of wife makes life itself meaningless. "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Marty Robbins. Wife vs. Secretary (or Wife Versus Secretary) is a 1936 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor. I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with the German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Historically, many societies have given sets of rights and obligations to husbands that differ vastly from the sets of rights and obligations given to wives. In Islam, it is highly recommended that the wife remains at home although they are fully able to own property or work. Christian husbands are to not be harsh with their Christian wives (Colossians 3:19) and to treat them as a delicate vessel and with honor (1 Peter 3:7). ===Wife in Islam=== Women in Islam have a range of rights and obligations (see main article Rights and obligations of spouses in Islam). My Wife and Kids is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from March 28, 2001, to May 17, 2005. Under English common law, there was a system where a wife with a living husband ("feme couvert") could own little property in her own name.Elizabeth M. Craik, Marriage and property, Aberdeen 1984 Unable to easily support herself, marriage was very important to most women's economic status. Those seeking to advance gender neutrality may refer to both marriage partners as "spouses". A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until their marriage is legally dissolved with a divorce judgment. Because wives' property rights and daughters' inheritance rights varied widely from region to region due to differing legal systems, the amount of property a wife might own varied greatly. The New Testament condemns divorce for both men and women (1 Cor 7:10–11) and assumes monogamy on the part of the husband: the wife is to have her "own" husband, and the husband is to have his "own" wife (1 Cor 7:2).

My wife and I disagree on music

My wife and I disagree on politics

I have no comment

My wife and I disagree on how to split the housework

My wife and I disagree on who handles the finances

C

What's something that most people believe but you have seen with your own eyes is actually false?

About 60% of all people polled believed in some form of Extra-sensory perception and 30% thought that "some of the unidentified flying objects that have been reported are really space vehicles from other civilizations." Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perception (for example, telepathy), spiritualism and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology. In 2017 the Chapman University Survey of American Fears asked about seven paranormal beliefs and found that "the most common belief is that ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis once existed (55%). The paranormal aspect of extraterrestrial life centers largely around the belief in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the phenomena said to be associated with them. Percentage of U.S. citizens polled Phenomena Farha- Steward (2006) Gallup (2001) Gallup (2005) Belief Unsure Disbelief Belief Unsure Disbelief Belief Unsure Disbelief Psychic, Spiritual healing 56 26 18 54 19 26 55 17 26 ESP 28 39 33 50 20 27 41 25 32 Haunted houses 40 25 35 42 16 41 37 16 46 Demonic possession 40 28 32 41 16 41 42 13 44 Ghosts 39 27 34 38 17 44 32 19 48 Telepathy 24 34 42 36 26 35 31 27 42 Extraterrestrials visited Earth in the past 17 34 49 33 27 38 24 24 51 Clairvoyance and Prophecy 24 33 43 32 23 45 26 24 50 Mediumship 16 29 55 28 26 46 21 23 55 Astrology 17 26 57 28 18 52 25 19 55 Witches 26 19 55 26 15 59 21 12 66 Reincarnation 15 28 57 25 20 54 20 20 59 A survey by Jeffrey S. Levin, associate professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, found that more than two thirds of the United States population reported having at least one mystical experience.USA Today, 12 January 1994 A 1996 Gallup poll estimated that 71% of the people in the U.S. believed that the government was covering up information about UFOs. While he recognizes that approximately 15% of people believe they have experienced an encounter with a ghost, he reports that only 1% report seeing a full-fledged ghost while the rest report strange sensory stimuli, such as seeing fleeting shadows or wisps of smoke, or the sensation of hearing footsteps or feeling a presence. Seeing is believing may refer to: ==Film and television== * "Seeing is Believing" (Code Lyoko episode) * UFOs: Seeing is Believing, a UFO documentary film * Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News, a 2002 Canadian documentary film * Seeing is Believing (film), a 1934 British film ==Music== * Seein' Is Believin, a song Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians; see * Seeing is Believing (album), an album by German singer Xavier Naidoo * "Seeing is Believing" (song), a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber from Aspects of Love * "Seein' Is Believing", a 1997 song by Adriana Evans ==Other uses== * Seeing is Believing (novel), a 1941 mystery novel by John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" * Seeing is Believing (organization), a partnership for the prevention of avoidable blindness * Seeing Is Believing Tour, magician Dynamo's 2015-16 live tour UFO sightings in outer space are sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by astronauts while in space that they could not explain at the time. Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. They found fairly consistent results compared to the results of a Gallup poll in 2001."Smart People See Ghosts", Brad Steiger, Fate Magazine, April 2006, p. 52-56; the unusual thing found by Farha and Steward was that belief in the supernatural increased with education level, contrary to many other surveys. Vaidyanath Shastri citing Sl. 2.25 and Sl. 3.55 of Vyasa Bhashya writes that by understanding the non-seeing of objects that exist one understands the seeing of those objects and understands their reality. There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. Polls show that about fifty percent of the United States population believe in the paranormal. The results revealed that around 70% of the respondents believe to have had an unexplained paranormal event that changed their life, mostly in a positive way. Next was that places can be haunted by spirits (52%), aliens have visited Earth in our ancient past (35%), aliens have come to Earth in modern times (26%), some people can move objects with their minds (25%), fortune tellers and psychics can survey the future (19%), and Bigfoot is a real creature. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for alien visits by ufologists. Some researchers simply study the beliefs in the paranormal regardless of whether the phenomena are considered to objectively exist. There was also a reasoning bias which was limited to people who reported a belief in, rather than experience of, paranormal phenomena. In a case study (Gow, 2004) involving 167 participants the findings revealed that psychological absorption and dissociation were higher for believers in the paranormal. This is depicted in artwork from various ancient cultures, including such works as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (), which shows deceased people in the afterlife appearing much as they did before death, including the style of dress. ===Ufology=== The possibility of extraterrestrial life is not, in itself, a paranormal subject. Bainbridge (1978) and Wuthnow (1976) found that the most susceptible people to paranormal belief are those who are poorly educated, unemployed or have roles that rank low among social values. A correlation has been found between paranormal belief and irrational thinking.

I have seen that God doesn't exist

I have no comment

I have seen that vampires really exist

I have seen that the Earth is flat

I have seen that there are extraterrestrials on Earth

B

What's a fact that is hard to believe that you've literally seen with your own eyes?

UFO sightings in outer space are sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by astronauts while in space that they could not explain at the time. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for alien visits by ufologists. Proponents of the interdimensional hypothesis argue that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in prior ages were ascribed to mythological or supernatural creatures. For example, monsters, ghosts and demons, the fairy faith in Middle Europe, vampire legends, mystery airships in 1897, mystery aeroplanes of the 1930s, mystery helicopters, anomalous creature sightings, poltergeist phenomena, balls of light, and UFOs; Keel conjectured that ultimately all of these anomalies are a cover for the real phenomenon. There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. The interdimensional hypothesis is a proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions" that coexist separately alongside our own in contrast with either the extraterrestrial hypothesis that suggests UFO sightings are caused by visitations from outside the Earth or the psychosocial hypothesis that argues UFO sightings are best explained as psychological or social phenomenon. Spectral evidence is a form of legal evidence based upon the testimony of those who claim to have experienced visions. In 2009, footage from NASA was posted on YouTube by ufologists which "renew[ed] UFO conspiracy theories that the government is hiding knowledge about its interactions with intelligent life" by relying on a "lack of context" to promote a "collection of indistinct imagery and allegations". Some of the alleged sightings never occurred: science fiction writer Otto Binder perpetuated a hoax claiming Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong had encountered UFOs during the Apollo mission. My Eyes Have Seen is a studio album by American folk singer Odetta, first released in July 1959. My Eyes Have Seen was re-released on CD in 1994. ==Reception== In his review for Allmusic, critic Ronnie D. Lankford wrote of the album, "While it might be hard for a post-millennium roots fan to understand, Odetta—in her heyday—was the kind of folk artist who drove purists crazy.... The strength of spectral evidence was based on the assumption that the Devil could not assume another person's shape without their consent. I’m not saying this is 100% the case > but it could be that this is not necessarily extraterrestrial, and it’s > actually coming from a higher dimensional physical space that might be co- > located right here. == In popular culture == The 2008 action adventure film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull uses the interdimensional hypothesis as a plot device with ancient aliens not flying into space but into ”the space between the spaces". ==See also== * Interdimensional being ==References== Category:Ufology Category:Multiverse Category:Pseudoscience Category:Extraterrestrial life Category:20th-century neologisms The hypothesis has been advanced by ufologists such as Meade Layne, John Keel, J. Allen Hynek, and Jacques Vallée. Vallée's summarized his objection in his 1990 paper "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects":Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1990: > # unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any > physical survey of the earth; # the humanoid body structure of the alleged > "aliens" is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not > biologically adapted to space travel; # the reported behavior in thousands > of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific > experimentation on humans by an advanced race; # the extension of the > phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not > a contemporary phenomenon; and # the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate > space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives. === David Grusch === Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch, a former member of the UAP Task Force, described the hypothesis as a possible explanation on the source of nonhuman aircraft, saying: > It is a well-established fact, at least mathematically and based on > empirical observation and analysis, that there most likely are physical, > additional spatial dimensions. Within the UFO community, stories have spread that Neil Armstrong was reported to have witnessed multiple UFOs during Apollo 11. The incident was promoted as a possible UFO sighting in the television series Are We Alone?. Layne is regarded as the earliest proponent of the interdimensional hypothesis. ===John Keel and 'Ultraterrestrials'=== Although the extraterrestrial hypothesis has remained predominant, by the 1970s, the interdimensional hypothesis began to be embraced by some UFO enthusiasts. Vagner dubbed the objects "space guests" with Roscosmos quote tweeting Vagner to say “An interesting and at the same time mysterious video made by the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Ivan Wagner from the International Space Station.” ==See also== * List of reported UFO sightings * STS-48#Ice particles ==References== ==Further reading== * * * * * * (excerpt from ) * ==External links== * * * * Category:Spaceflight outer space Category:Unidentified flying objects Category:Outer space Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard is three-disc box set by Australian glam rock band Skyhooks, subtitled '40 Years of 'Hooks Hysteria!'. In August 2013, according to NASA TV, astronaut Christopher Cassidy saw a UFO float past the International Space Station near its Progress 52 cargo ship. Layne claimed that "These visitors are not excarnate humans but are human beings living in their own world.

I have seen that vampires really exist

I have seen that the Earth is flat

I have seen that God doesn't exist

I have seen that there are extraterrestrials on Earth

I have no comment

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What's something you came to believe when someone you trust told you about it?

A US study conducted in January 2021 found that trust in science and scientists was strongly correlated with likelihood to get vaccinated for COVID-19 among those who had not already gotten vaccinated. Almost everyone shows some form of ordinary skepticism, for example, by doubting the knowledge claims made by flat earthers or astrologers. We are hard-wired by nature to trust, say, our memories or inductive reasoning, and no skeptical arguments, however powerful, can dislodge those beliefs. For example, a religious skeptic might believe that Jesus existed (see historicity of Jesus) while questioning claims that he was the messiah or performed miracles. Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. In such cases, skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension of belief, i.e. maintaining a neutral attitude that neither affirms nor denies the claim. In the United States, vaccine hesitancy could be seen in certain social groups due to lack of trusted medical sources, traumatic past experiences with medical care and widespread theories. Learning how to communicate with believers is also considered important: "Skeptics search for truths, believers tend to want validation of their experiences". Instead, skeptics usually recommend a neutral attitude: beliefs about this matter should be suspended. Getting the skeptical message across to believers was a focus at the 1993 event. Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers. The opposite of skepticism is dogmatism, which implies an attitude of certainty in the form of an unquestioning belief. What I Believe may refer to: *What I Believe (Tolstoy book), 1885 *"What I Believe" (E. M. Forster essay), 1938 *"What I Believe", a 1925 essay by Bertrand Russell Historically, religious skepticism can be traced back to Xenophanes, who doubted many religious claims of his time. I Want to Believe may refer to: *I Want to Believe (song) *The X-Files: I Want to Believe Scientific skepticism may discard beliefs pertaining to purported phenomena not subject to reliable observation and thus not systematic or testable empirically. Grey stated "I got the vaccine because I want to be safe. The Academic Skeptics claimed that some beliefs are more reasonable or probable than others, whereas Pyrrhonian skeptics argue that equally compelling arguments can be given for or against any disputed view.Popkin, "Skepticism", p. 450. Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma."Philosophical views are typically classed as skeptical when they involve advancing some degree of doubt regarding claims that are elsewhere taken for granted." It did not literally state that the vaccines are operating systems, and therefore proponents of this claim are committing the reification fallacy. === Socially based claims === ==== Claims about a vaccine before one existed ==== Multiple social media posts promoted a conspiracy theory claiming that in the early stages of the pandemic, the virus was known and that a vaccine was already available. The argument from miracles is an argument for the existence of God that relies on the belief that events witnessed and described as miracles – i.e. as events not explicable by natural or scientific lawsMiracle at oxforddictionaries.com. – indicate the intervention of the supernatural. Stephen Fry also shared a photograph of being vaccinated; he wrote, "It's a wonderful moment, but you feel that it's not only helpful for your own health, but you know that you're likely to be less contagious if you yourself happen to carry it...

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I came to believe that vaccines were dangerous

I came to believe that the Earth is flat

I came to believe that God is real

I came to believe that there are extraterrestrials on Earth

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What's a fact that you didn't believe at first but now you're really really sure is true?

Despite the scientific fact and obvious effects of Earth's sphericity, pseudoscientific flat-Earth conspiracy theories are espoused by modern flat Earth societies and, increasingly, by unaffiliated individuals using social media. ==History== ===Belief in flat Earth=== ====West Asia==== In early Egyptian and Mesopotamian thought, the world was portrayed as a disk floating in the ocean. To maintain belief in the face of overwhelming contrary, publicly available empirical evidence accumulated in the Space Age, modern believers must generally embrace some form of conspiracy theory out of the necessity of explaining why major institutions such as governments, media outlets, schools, scientists, and airlines all assert that the world is a sphere. Subsequent studies of medieval science have shown that most scholars in the Middle Ages, including those read by Christopher Columbus, maintained that the Earth was spherical. ==Modern flat Earth beliefs== In the modern era, the pseudoscientific belief in a flat Earth originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham with the 1849 pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy. * The Myth of the Flat Earth * The Myth of the Flat Universe * You say the earth is round? Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. If You Believe may refer to: * If You Believe (film) * "If You Believe", a 1955 song by Johnnie Ray with Percy Faith & His Orchestra * "If You Believe" (George Harrison song) * "If You Believe" (Kenny Loggins song) * "If You Believe" (Sasha song) * "If You Believe" (Chantay Savage song) * "If You Believe", a song by Blues Saraceno from the album Indie Pop * "If You Believe", a song by Irving Berlin * If You Believe, 1999 album by Jim Brickman I Still Believe may refer to: * I Still Believe (album), by Lyfe Jennings, 2010 * I Still Believe (film), a 2020 American film based on the life of singer Jeremy Camp ==Songs== * "I Still Believe" (Brenda K. Starr song), 1988; covered by Mariah Carey, 1999 * "I Still Believe" (Frank Turner song), 2010 * "I Still Believe" (Jeremy Camp song), 2003 * "I Still Believe" (Juliette Schoppmann song), 2004 * "I Still Believe" (Lee Greenwood song) 1988 * "I Still Believe", by Hayden Panettiere from the film Cinderella III: A Twist in Time * "I Still Believe", by Ric Ocasek from Quick Change World * "I Still Believe", from the musical Miss Saigon * "I Still Believe (Great Design)", by the Call ** "I Still Believe", a cover version by Tim Cappello from The Lost Boys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack What I Believe may refer to: *What I Believe (Tolstoy book), 1885 *"What I Believe" (E. M. Forster essay), 1938 *"What I Believe", a 1925 essay by Bertrand Russell We would respond: Yes, because the Earth, even though it is round, is an enormous sphere, and each little part of this enormous sphere, when it is looked at, appears to be flat. Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Belief in a flat Earth continued into the 5th century BC. (April 15, 2006) What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest) Science News. It did not literally state that the vaccines are operating systems, and therefore proponents of this claim are committing the reification fallacy. === Socially based claims === ==== Claims about a vaccine before one existed ==== Multiple social media posts promoted a conspiracy theory claiming that in the early stages of the pandemic, the virus was known and that a vaccine was already available. A US study conducted in January 2021 found that trust in science and scientists was strongly correlated with likelihood to get vaccinated for COVID-19 among those who had not already gotten vaccinated. When The Earth Was Flat: Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters. Prove it (from The Straight Dope) * Flat Earth Fallacy * Zetetic Astronomy, or Earth Not a Globe by Parallax (Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816–1884)) at sacred-texts.com * Flat Earth idea of the suns trajectory * Flat Earth Theory of the Moon & Sun's paths around the world Category:Early scientific cosmologies What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty is a non-fiction book published by Harper Perennial. However, Needham disagrees, affirming that Li Ye believed the Earth to be spherical, similar in shape to the heavens but much smaller.Needham, Joseph; Wang, Ling. (1995) [1959]. It is a historical myth that medieval Europeans generally thought the Earth was flat. This claim have been debunked as a misleading misrepresentation by anti-vaccine sources. It has been argued, however, that Thales actually believed in a spherical Earth.

I now believe that vaccines cause autism

I now believe that the Earth is round

I now believe that the government is spying on us

I have no comment

I now believe that the Earth is flat

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What is a fact that the government is lying to us about?

The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies. Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic has been propagated by various public figures, including officials of the United States government. The Trump administration in particular made a large number of misleading statements about the pandemic. Conspiracy theories about the government spread as well due to a packaging issue with the BioNTech vaccine. Local authorities have repeated the accusations since. ==Notes== ==References== Category:2020 hoaxes Category:2020 in politics Category:National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Category:COVID-19 misinformation Category:Disinformation operations Such spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories has the potential to negatively affect public health and diminish trust in governments and medical professionals. In response to these schemes, many financial companies, like Wells Fargo and LoanDepot, as well as health insurers, like Humana, for example, have posted similar advisories on their websites. ==See also== * COVID-19 misinformation in Canada * COVID-19 misinformation in the Philippines * COVID-19 misinformation by the United States * HIV/AIDS denialism * Judy Mikovits * List of conspiracy theories * Medical Racism: The New Apartheid * SARS conspiracy theory * ScienceUpFirst — a Canadian science communication campaign focusing on the pandemic * Vaccine Confidence Project ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== * * * * * ==External links== * * * Category:2020 hoaxes Category:Alternative medicine Category:Articles containing video clips Category:Biological warfare Category:China–United States relations Category:Communication of falsehoods Category:Conspiracy theories in China Category:Conspiracy theories promoted by Donald Trump Category:Disinformation operations Category:Fake news Category:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism Category:Medical-related conspiracy theories Category:Misinformation Category:Pseudohistory Category:Pseudoscience Category:Vaccine hesitancy NBC News however has noted that there have also been debunking efforts of US- related conspiracy theories posted online, with a WeChat search of "Coronavirus [disease 2019] is from the U.S." reported to mostly yield articles explaining why such claims are unreasonable. The spread of COVID-19 misinformation by governments has also been significant. Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. According to their classification, the largest category of misinformation (39%) was "misleading or false claims about the actions or policies of public authorities, including government and international bodies like the WHO or the UN". Glenn Kessler wrote: Professor Robert Prentice summarized the views of many fact-checkers: At the end of 2018, Kessler provided a run-down summary of Trump's accelerating rate of false statements during the year: Several major fact-checking sites regularly fact- checked Trump, including: * PolitiFact, which awarded Trump its "Lie of the Year" in 2015, 2017 and 2019. Many countries have passed laws against "fake news", and thousands of people have been arrested for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Trump made various false, misleading, or inaccurate statements related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as "We have it under control. However, Pfiffner emphasized that "the most significant" lies told by Trump are instead "egregious false statements that are demonstrably contrary to well-known facts," because by causing disagreements about what the facts are, then people cannot properly evaluate their government: "Political power rather than rational discourse then becomes the arbiter." In France, Florian Philippot and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, right-wing candidates to the 2022 presidential election, have both cast doubts about the vaccine's effectiveness and safety. === Government investigations === In December 2022, vaccine-skeptical Florida Governor Ron DeSantis requested the impaneling of a grand jury to "investigate criminal or wrongful activity in Florida relating to the development, promotion, and distribution of vaccines purported to prevent COVID-19 infection, symptoms, and transmission", specifically mentioning statements made by drug manufacturers and federal officials. ==Vaccine hesitancy== ===Hong Kong=== In Hong Kong, the lower perceived risk of catching COVID-19 when it was under control, misinformation about the vaccines' side effects and efficacy, as well as political events and distrust of the HKSAR government, contributed to a low rate of vaccination. That month, however, many news organizations, including CNN, Star Tribune, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, and Foreign Policy began describing some of Trump's false statements as lies. False information, including intentional disinformation and conspiracy theories, about the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and the origin, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease has been spread through social media, text messaging, and mass media. As late as June 2018, the news media were debating whether to use the word "lie" to describe Trump's falsehoods. On 5 July, a syndicate of pharmacists and doctors accused the president of spreading untrue statements regarding the equipment and of taking credit for combating the pandemic, denying facts from Raška oblast, and presenting a false impression of the state of the Serbian healthcare system. The claims that the COVID-19 pandemic has been faked, exaggerated, or mischaracterized are pseudoscience. Their effort was characterized by some as an implementation of the big lie propaganda technique.Multiple sources: * * * * * * * On June 8, 2023, a grand jury indicted Trump on one count of making "false statements and representations", specifically by hiding subpoenaed classified documents from his own attorney who was trying to find and return them to the government. ==Veracity and politics== "It has long been a truism that politicians lie," wrote Carole McGranahan for the American Ethnologist journal in 2017.

The government is lying to us about election fraud

The government is lying to us about JFK

The government is lying to us about crime rates

I have no comment

The government is lying to us about vaccines

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What truth is the news media trying to hide from us?

According to study published by Cambridge University Press in May 2020, right-wing media coverage of COVID-19 helped facilitate the spread of misinformation about the pandemic. ==See also== * COVID-19 pandemic on social media * Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism * Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic ==References== Category:2019 in mass media Category:2020 in mass media Category:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism coronavirus pandemic Category:Mass media issues Media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic includes reporting on the deaths of anti-vaccine advocates from COVID-19 as a phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic. False information, including intentional disinformation and conspiracy theories, about the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and the origin, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease has been spread through social media, text messaging, and mass media. The claim had been widely spread on social media. ===Return of wildlife=== During the pandemic, many false and misleading images or news reports about the environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic were shared by clickbait journalism sources and social media. A number of media outlets have specifically covered deaths of anti-vaccine advocates from COVID-19, leading to disputes over the propriety of such coverage. ==Level and nature of coverage== The (COVID-19) pandemic has put a tremendous strain on many countries' citizens, resources, and economies around the world. While not all fake news is putting the health and safety of the people at risk, information related to COVID-19 could. The number of outlets and entities, from traditional journalism to social media, covering the COVID-19 pandemic will surely prove to have been a source of misinformation and confusion related to virus spread information and national and state policies. News media has simultaneously kept viewers informed about current events related to the pandemic, and contributed to misinformation or fake news. == COVID-19 pandemic == COVID-19 is a disease caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2. NBC News however has noted that there have also been debunking efforts of US- related conspiracy theories posted online, with a WeChat search of "Coronavirus [disease 2019] is from the U.S." reported to mostly yield articles explaining why such claims are unreasonable. American right-wing media personalities, such as Tucker Carlson, highlighted the story, while Chinese Communist Party-owned tabloid Global Times further stated that the labs had been studying bat coronaviruses, which spread widely on the Chinese internet for insinuating that the United States had created SARS-CoV-19 in Ukrainian laboratories. ===Accusations by other countries=== According to Washington, DC-based nonprofit Middle East Media Research Institute, numerous writers in the Arabic press have promoted the conspiracy theory that COVID-19, as well as SARS and the swine flu virus, were deliberately created and spread to sell vaccines against these diseases, and it is "part of an economic and psychological war waged by the U.S. against China with the aim of weakening it and presenting it as a backward country and a source of diseases". The public who are now being asked to resume mask wearing in some parts of the country and as the delta variant sends cases soaring among the unvaccinated. == Misinformation == In January 2020, the World Health Organization declared that an "infodemic" of false information was helping the virus propagate. Media experts say the challenge for some news outlets is accurately conveying the nuance of pandemic science to the public. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Fox News adopted an editorial line that the emergency response to the pandemic was politically motivated or otherwise unwarranted, and presenter Sean Hannity claimed on-air that the pandemic was a "hoax" (he later issued a denial). A Pew Research survey conducted from 20 April to 26 April found that 69% of U.S. respondents believed that the news media have covered the outbreak "very well" or "somewhat well" and that the number of U.S. respondents who believed the media have exaggerated COVID-19 risks had somewhat decreased. Other authors suggest that news coverage has resulted in the politicization of the pandemic, has been excessively concerned for the performance of political actors over the provision of scientific and self-efficacy information, and has been highly polarized. These have been debunked as misrepresentation of the cases and data. ====Vaccine contains tracking agent==== In November 2021, a White House correspondent for the conservative outlet Newsmax falsely tweeted that the Moderna vaccine contained luciferase "so that you can be tracked." Anti-vaccination activists and other people in many countries have spread a variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. Additional push back on vaccine mandates were seen at local levels with at least one sheriff's department in California announcing they would not enforce any vaccine mandates as "the last line of defense from tyrannical government overreach", while others have seen mass resignation. == See also == * COVID-19 misinformation * Vaccine misinformation * Died Suddenly, an anti-vaccine documentary that promotes false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and the Great Reset conspiracy * Tobacco industry playbook == Explanatory notes == == References == Category:COVID-19 misinformation Category:Vaccine hesitancy Conspiracy theories about the government spread as well due to a packaging issue with the BioNTech vaccine. A columnist for the Turkish Yeni Akit asserted that such a vaccine could be a ruse to carry out mass sterilization. ====In the United States==== An alert by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the possible threat of far-right extremists intentionally spreading COVID-19 mentioned blame being assigned to Jews and Jewish leaders for causing the pandemic and several statewide shutdowns. ====In Germany==== Flyers have been found on German tram cars, falsely blaming Jews for the pandemic.Baur, Joe. Similarly, some Arab media outlets accused Israel and the United States of creating and spreading COVID-19, avian flu, and SARS. Moreover, 38% of people are stating that they are concerned false or misleading coronavirus information from the government, a figure which was only 27% six weeks earlier. ===United States=== The first confirmed case in the United States, as reported by the CDC, was January 22, 2020.

The media is trying to hide the truth about vaccines

The media is trying to hide the truth about the Democrats

I have no comment

The media is trying to hide the truth about the pandemic

The media is trying to hide the truth about aliens

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What is the biggest lie that the media is always pushing on us?

Lying press () is a pejorative and disparaging political term used largely for the printed press and the mass media at large. The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation is a 2008 book by radio talk show host Michael Medved. The days of big media are numbered due to this expanding movement of writing individually for the people. == Ch. 4: Newsmakers Turn the Tables == Politicians of the future will not be able to use the media to its highest effect. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator is a book by Ryan Holiday chronicling his time working as a media strategist for clients including Tucker Max, Robert Greene, and Dov Charney. ==Background and description== Trust Me, I'm Lying was billed as an exposé of the online journalism system that rose to prominence in the decade before the book's 2012 publication. Ryan Holiday, Author Of 'Trust Me, I'm Lying', Wants To Break The Media. ‘Media manipulator’ admits he lied as a source for the Times, ABC, CBS. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves is a 2012 book by the Duke University cognitive science professor Dan Ariely. Publishers Weekly stated that "Media students and bloggers would do well to heed Holiday's informative, timely, and provocative advice."Nonfiction review of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. In the past, big media had a controlled grip on what the public had access to. The book reached #30 on the New York Times Best Seller List. ==Publication history== The 10 Big Lies About America was published on November 18, 2008, by Crown Forum in hardback, and was released October 13, 2009, in paperback. == See also == *Hollywood vs. America *The Fifty Worst Films of All Time *The Golden Turkey Awards *The Hollywood Hall of Shame ==References== ==External links== * After Words interview with Medved on The 10 Big Lies About America, December 6, 2008, C-SPAN Category:2008 non-fiction books Category:Anti-Americanism Category:American non-fiction books Category:Crown Publishing Group books The made its mission the fight against the "lying press" which it considered to be the "strongest weapon of the enemy". Accusations of "lying" against domestic journalism can be found in his speeches, for example against the "social democratic press", Jewish liberals, etc.Volltextsuche in Mein Kampf. "Big Media's" only strength is its depleting stocks of financial resources and their powerful presence during copyright investigations. All Part of Ryan Holiday’s Media Strategy. The Big Lead is an American news blog. Trust Me, I’m Lying: How To Make & Promote Content That Turns Heads – Hacking the System with Media Genius Ryan Holiday on chasejarvis Live . They cover the issues that are not covered by the mainstream media. Alternative for Germany chair Frauke Petry accused the German media of "defamatory" coverage of her party at a party congress at Hanover, but said the party executive would use the term "lying press" sparingly, preferring the milder designation "Pinocchio press". Gillmor believes this program's influence can control new media, rather than erode businesses. == Ch. 9: Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust == In this chapter Gillmor exposes various modes of deception in the modern media. One of the book's main points is that a few big media corporations cannot control the news we get any longer, now that news is being published in real-time, available to everybody, via the Internet. These explain the distortions of perception, discuss the misleading practice of image manipulations, and the effect of anonymity on the credibility of sourcing in internet-based media. In 1922 Adolf Hitler used the accusation of the "lying press" for the Marxist press.Hitler, 17 February 1922. wilhelm-der-zweite.de In the Mein Kampf chapter on war propaganda, he described what he saw as the extraordinary effect of enemy propaganda in the First World War.

The biggest lie that the media is always pushing on us is that we've gone to the moon

The biggest lie that the media is always pushing on us is that the Earth is round

I have no comment

The biggest lie that the media is always pushing on us is that vaccines are effective

The biggest lie that the media is always pushing on us is that election fraud didn't happen

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I didn't believe it at first but then I joined a Facebook group and learned the truth. What did I learn?

Learning how to communicate with believers is also considered important: "Skeptics search for truths, believers tend to want validation of their experiences". And, in using authentic learning, the learner ís simply using the same inner curiosity used as a child while following the birth-righted freedom to pursue the primary background source, or driving factor responsible for shaping any unknown or questionable life- aspect for its valid or invalid correspondence with the universe, and for later recall as necessary. Authentic learning is a natural process in which an organism is compelled through curiosity to open its mind to the infinite possibility of our shared, energetically bonded planetary (authentically geo/earth-centric; we are NOT centered on a heliocentric Sun) universe. Truth in Science is a United Kingdom-based creationist organisation which promotes the Discovery Institute's "Teach the Controversy" campaign, which it uses to try to get the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design creationism taught alongside evolution in school science lessons. Truth or Scare is an American television series on the Discovery Kids network. In this learning method, the 'Authentic Learner' receives and retains all lasting universal truths and true lessons of the universe's quantum field of knowledge, which is timelessly available to and through each/our organism's inner state of being and each organism's outer state of being (of each/all of our external reality/realítíes). How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. However, the literature suggests that there are several characteristics of authentic learning. Journal of Authentic Learning, 3 (1), 1-10. Some proponents of an alternative explanation for the diversity of life on Earth now claim that their theories are based on scientific evidence. Learn The Risk is an American anti-vaccine group founded in 2015. The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience is a two-volume collection of articles that discuss the Skeptics Society's scientific findings of investigations into pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The components of authentic learning. WIKIPEDIA Wiki: Authentic Learning . According to New Scientist, 59 schools around the United Kingdom used, or planned to use the Truth in Science information packs.New Scientist - Creationism creeps into UK schools. Journal of Authentic Learning. So an organism pursuing Authentic Learning already assumes itself to be an energetic link, springing from our shared, creatively- intelligent macro-organic living, nourishing Mother Earth. manifests (or seeks to manifest) the most authentic higher understandings by seeking to increase an empathic 'innerstanding' of Earth's cosm with all her offspríng-beings whom she nourishes, sustains and provides her body to for a home and has patiently been warred against by them in return, since time began, when a Regenerative Agriculture honoring Hér nature, learning how Earth sustains so we, with all of Earth, may inter-sustain in complement of all of Earth's being. *Authentic learning provides students with the opportunity to examine the problem from different perspectives, which allows for competing solutions and a diversity of outcomes instead of one single correct answer.Herrington, J., & Oliver, R. (2000). In the Internet age ... people ... should make every effort toward two goals: To spread good scientific methods for evaluating truth claims, and to help nurture enlightened traditional worldviews. ... Getting the skeptical message across to believers was a focus at the 1993 event. Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers. Authentic learning for the 21st century: An overview.

I have no comment

You learned that vaccines cause autism

You learned that ghosts are real

You learned that the Earth is flat

You learned that there are aliens

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What's a fact that rich people won't admit but everyone knows is true?

It includes new material on a variety of issues, including discussions of the "Big Sort" and its implications for "voting with your feet," the connection between political ignorance and the disproportionate political influence of the wealthy, new proposals for increasing political knowledge, and up-to-date survey data on political ignorance from recent elections. It is a variant of the Millionaire's Problem whereby two millionaires wish to compare their riches to determine who has the most wealth without disclosing any information about their riches to each other. Kerry Galen Rich (born ) is an American politician. Somin argues that people are ignorant and irrational about politics and that this creates problems for democracy. In cryptography, the socialist millionaire problem is one in which two millionaires want to determine if their wealth is equal without disclosing any information about their riches to each other. Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter is a 2013 book from Stanford University Press by George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin. The knowledge gap hypothesis explains that knowledge, like other forms of wealth, is often differentially distributed throughout a social system. Jeffrey Friedman agreed that voters are ignorant, but claimed that rational ignorance was not the correct explanation of the phenomenon. Sean Trende argued that despite their ignorance, voters get the important things right. Full Fact has been sponsored to develop automated fact-checking tools by the Omidyar Network and Open Society Foundations. Full Fact is a British charity, based in London, which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media. ==History and structure== Full Fact was founded in 2009 by businessman Michael Samuel, the charity's chair, and Will Moy, who serves as director. Full Fact applied to the Charity Commission for charitable status in 2009 but was refused. Even if one of the parties is dishonest and deviates from the protocol, that person cannot learn anything more than if x = y. Specifically, the hypothesis predicts that "as the infusion of mass media information into a social system increases, segments of the population with higher socioeconomic status tend to acquire this information at a faster rate than the lower status segments, so that the gap in knowledge between these segments tends to increase rather than decrease". In January 2022, Full Fact signed a letter of fact checkers calling for YouTube to stop algorithms from suggesting videos of creators deemed to be spreading misinformation or disinformation as well as to display contextual information on videos deemed to be spreading such information. Eat the rich is a slogan used in opposition to the wealthy class which has been used in various times. ==Music== * "Eat the Rich", a 1978 song by British Lions from the self-titled album * "Eat the Rich", a 1983 song by Krokus from the album Headhunter * "Eat the Rich", a 1986 song by Tysondog from the album Crimes of Insanity * "Eat the Rich" (Motörhead song), a 1987 song composed for the Peter Richardson film of the same name * "Eat the Rich" (Aerosmith song), a 1993 song * "Eating the Rich” a 1994 song by The Lowest of the Low from the album Hallucigenia * "Eat the Rich", a 2000 song by Fozzy from the self-titled album * Eat the Rich, a 2014 album by State of Mind * "Eat Rich", a 2014 song by Busdriver, from the album Perfect Hair ==Other uses== * Eat the Rich (film), a 1987 film directed by Peter Richardson * Eat the Rich (book), a 1998 book by P. J. O'Rourke * The Eat the Rich Gang, a political group involved in Fifth Estate, a radical journal produced in Detroit Additionally, after realizing that the highly educated people reached by the campaign also tended to be more interested in the topic, Star and Hughes suggested that knowledge, education, and interest may be interdependent. ==Specification== Based on observations implicit in mass communication research, Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien (1970) define the knowledge gap hypothesis as follows: :"As the infusion of mass media information into a social system increases, higher socioeconomic status segments tend to acquire this information faster than lower socioeconomic-status population segments so that the gap in knowledge between the two tends to increase rather than decrease" (Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien 1970, pp. 159-160). On 11 January 2019, it was announced that Full Fact would be providing fact-checking services to the Facebook platform. During the 15-year span, belief among grade-school educated people increased only about 25 percentage points while belief among college educated people increased more than 60 percentage points, a trend consistent with the hypothesis. ==Refining the hypothesis== Although by the mid-1970s extensive data supported the existence of a knowledge gap among low and high socioeconomic status individuals, Donohue, Tichenor, and Olien (1975) sought to refine the hypothesis to determine under what conditions the knowledge gap might be attenuated or even eliminated. For time-series research, the knowledge gap hypothesis expects that "over time, acquisition of knowledge of a heavily publicized topic will proceed at a faster rate among better educated persons than among those with less education." Not only did Lazarsfeld's data indicate people of lower socioeconomic status tended to listen to more radio programming, but also they were simultaneously less likely to listen to "serious" radio content. Full Fact has also partnered with media organisations including the BBC, ITV, and Sky News to provide information about political campaigns including the Scottish and UK-EU referendums and the general elections of 2015 and 2017.

Rich people won't admit that they bribe politicians

Rich people won't admit that they think poor people are lazy

I have no comment

Rich people won't admit that they hate poor people

Rich people won't admit that they're rich

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What's a fact that everyone on the East Coast lies about?

East Coast bias is the perceived tendency for sports broadcasting and journalism in the United States to give greater weight and attention to teams and athletes on the East Coast than those on the West Coast. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics may refer to: * "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" (The West Wing), a first-season episode of the TV series The West Wing * Lies, damned lies, and statistics, a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us is a book written by former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura, together with Dick Russell. East Coast typically refers to the East Coast of the United States. Fox Sports sportscaster Joe Buck attributes the shift to the economics of running a business: "If you think there is a perceived East Coast bias, guess what? Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a satirical book on American politics by Al Franken, a comedian, political commentator, and politician. In Canada, a similar bias is perceived but the area given greater weight and attention is the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which are mostly in the same time zone as the East Coast of the U.S., as the East Coast of Canada includes the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, which collectively have only about 2.5 million residents, compared to the combined population of over 23.5 million of Ontario and Quebec, which is 61% of Canada's population. ==Overview== East Coast bias is used to explain perceived slights of teams and players on the West Coast relative to their comparable counterparts on the East. It is attributed to East Coast sports stories being more repetitive, comprehensive, and exaggerated. ==Summary== Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them largely targets prominent Republicans and conservatives, highlighting what Franken asserts are documentable lies in their claims. The bias is also used to rationalize the broadcasting of an East Coast team in favor of another compelling team based to the west. Lies is one of several books published in 2003 written by American liberals challenging the viewpoints of conservatives such as Bernard Goldberg, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation is a 2008 book by radio talk show host Michael Medved. "It is long proven in NBA and NFL and MLB that spreading the wealth to 30 or 32 teams is a prescription for deflating ratings," said Len DeLuca, ESPN senior vice president for programming. ==See also== * Criticism of ESPN * Criticism of NASCAR * Criticism of the Walt Disney Company * Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting ==References== Category:Criticism of journalism Category:Sports mass media in Canada Category:Sports mass media in the United States Category:Bias Category:Sports rivalries in the United States Category:Sports rivalries in Canada Category:East Coast of the United States Category:Eastern Canada Category:Regionalism (politics) "East Coast" or "east coast" may also refer to: ==Entertainment== * East Coast hip hop, a subgenre of hip hop * "East Coast" (ASAP Ferg song), 2017 * "East Coast" (Saves the Day song), 2004 * East Coast FM, a radio station in Co. Wicklow, Ireland * East Coast Swing, a form of social partner dance ==Places== * The eastern coast of any location or nation, particularly: ** The east coast of Australia, particularly: *** Australian south-east coast drainage division, an area of southern Australia *** Eastern states of Australia ** The east coast of Canada, particularly: *** Atlantic Canada, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador *** Eastern Canada (by extension of the above) ** The east coast of India, particularly: ***Coromandel Coast, southeastern India ***Eastern Coastal Plains ** The east coast of Peninsular Malaysia ** The east coast of New Zealand, particularly: *** Gisborne District, area of New Zealand referred to as the East Coast *** East Coast (New Zealand electorate) ** The east coast of Singapore, organized as its East Region ** The east coast of Spain, known as Levante ==Transportation== * East Coast (train operating company), a former train company in the UK * East Coast Buses, a subsidiary of Lothian Buses in Scotland * East Coast Greenway, biking and walking route in U.S. * East Coast Main Line, English railway link * East Coast Parkway, an expressway on the southeastern coast of Singapore * East Coast Railway Zone (India), one of the sixteen railway zones of Indian Railways * Florida East Coast Railway, a Class II railroad operating in the US state of Florida * Lumo (train operating company), train company in the United Kingdom formerly known as East Coast Trains * New Brunswick East Coast Railway, a historic Canadian railway that operated in New Brunswick ==Other== * East coast akalat, a small passerine bird native to the east coast of Africa * East Coast bias, the bias towards news and sport from the East Coast in American media * East Coast Borough Council, proposed renaming of the Ards and North Down Borough Council, Northern Ireland, UK * East Coast of Africa Station, a former position in the British Navy In the United States, the major media hub is the East Coast city of New York. Gennaro Filice of SI.com wrote that Major League Baseball's West Coast night games are ending as "the country's most influential scribes are catching Z after Z." John Buccigross of ESPN notes that a lot of people in the East are asleep when the National Hockey League's West Coast night games are going on, resulting in lower television ratings for those West Coast games, which in turn contributes to the lack of national broadcasts of West games. The East is home to nearly half of the U.S.'s population and is both more densely populated and was settled and developed much earlier than the West. Buccigross wrote that an imbalance is understandable from Eastern writers, considering they are influenced by their close proximity and easier access to the happenings in the East. The book reached #30 on the New York Times Best Seller List. ==Publication history== The 10 Big Lies About America was published on November 18, 2008, by Crown Forum in hardback, and was released October 13, 2009, in paperback. == See also == *Hollywood vs. America *The Fifty Worst Films of All Time *The Golden Turkey Awards *The Hollywood Hall of Shame ==References== ==External links== * After Words interview with Medved on The 10 Big Lies About America, December 6, 2008, C-SPAN Category:2008 non-fiction books Category:Anti-Americanism Category:American non-fiction books Category:Crown Publishing Group books Ventura argues that events such as the assassinations of former U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Robert F. Kennedy, the Watergate scandal, the Jonestown Massacre, the elections of former U.S. President George W. Bush, and the financial crisis of 2007–2010 need to be more thoroughly investigated, and discusses an alleged cover-up of events and information related to the September 11 attacks. Franken describes the legal battle in a paperback-only chapter of Lies entitled "I Win". ==Reception== In a largely favorable review of Franken's book in the Washington newspaper The Hill, reviewer Mary Lynn F. Jones wrote: "Franken's tendency to mix fact with fiction [also] left me wondering sometimes what was true and what wasn't." In the book, which is in part based on the TV series Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Ventura also claims that a CIA operative worked in Minnesota government during his administration, that he was interviewed by a large group of CIA agents about his successful independent campaign for governor of Minnesota, and that the CIA used double agents that deliberately let themselves get caught at the Watergate complex to bring former U.S. President Richard Nixon down. ==Critical reception== Writing for The Booklist, Mike Tribby referred to the book as "heady, paranoiac stuff" and concluded that while only some of the book may prove believable, it still serves as an "action-packed read".

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Everyone on the East Coast lies about their salary

All of the above

Everyone on the East Coast lies about their work

Everyone on the East Coast lies about election fraud

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What's a fact that everyone in Canada knows is true?

Canada is traditionally strong in the sports of ice hockey, speed skating (especially the short track variation), figure skating and most of the national men's and women's curling teams have won medals since the sport was added to the Olympic program. Ice hockey has been a key element of Canada's cultural and social history. Professional gridiron football is one of the most popular sports in Canada. Hockey Canada is the sport's official governing body in Canada and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Other popular professional sports in Canada include Canadian football, which is played in the Canadian Football League, National Lacrosse League lacrosse, and curling. Canada's official national sports are ice hockey (winter official) and lacrosse (summer official). Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. Many Canadians enjoy participating in the various disciplines that make up this broad sport. Some sports, especially ice hockey, ringette, lacrosse, and curling, enjoy an international reputation as particularly Canadian.Heather Mair, " Curling in Canada: From Gathering Place to International Spectacle ," International Journal of Canadian Studies (2007), Issue 35, pp 39–60 ==Governance== Federal and provincial governments are both actively involved in sports each has areas of jurisdiction which overlap sports. Great achievements in Canadian baseball are recognized by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. ===Basketball=== Basketball has very strong roots in Canada. The Benders on International Film Channel. ===Canada=== Because of hockey's huge popularity in Canada, it is considered one of the most important elements of Canadian pop culture. Canada shares several major professional sports leagues with the United States. Sport in Canada: A History (2nd ed. 2009) 392pp * * * Tips, Charles; Frisbee by the Masters Celestial Arts, Millbrae, California (March 1977); * * ==External links== * Sports Canada Category:Sports venues in Canada Basketball is a popular sport in parts of Canada, especially in Nova Scotia, Southern Alberta, and more recently Southern Ontario. A highly competitive sports rivalry that exists between the national under-20 ice hockey teams of the two countries, as well as their respective sets of fans. The Result: Dave is voted as runner-up, making Ted Canada's Greatest Know-It-All. ===Season 2=== ====Competitors==== * Abraham (Abe) Qammaniq, Hall Beach, Nunavut * Andrew Rader, Ottawa, Ontario * Ben Eadie, Calgary, Alberta * Bill Robinson, Madeira Park, British Columbia * Carla Davidson, Calgary, Alberta * Doug Hicton, Toronto, Ontario * Laura Suen, Mississauga, Ontario * Owen Garratt, Spruce Grove, Alberta * Scott Gravelle, Calgary, Alberta ====Progress==== Andrew has earned the title of Canada's Greatest Know-It-All for season 2, beating out Carla in the final challenge extravaganza. A number of Canadians have played in the major leagues, and several have won the highest honours in baseball. Although more strongly associated with the United States, baseball has existed in Canada from the very beginning. The roots of organized sports in Canada date back to the 1770s, culminating in the development and popularization of the major professional games of ice hockey, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, soccer, football and cricket. There are sports federations for most sports in Canada. His endeavour to declare hockey as Canada's national game coincided with the Great Canadian Flag Debate of 1964. Canada has a strong showing on the international scene, at world championships and at the Olympics in all these wrestling sports. ===Cycling=== Cycling has increased its participation in the past few years.

All of the above

Everyone in Canada knows that Canada is the best country

Everyone in Canada knows that hockey is the best sport

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None of the above

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What's a fact about the world that all mothers know is true?

It discredits a mother’s intuition and generations of knowledge accumulated by mothers. Women and families had to rely on the scientific knowledge production of doctors and scientists instead of other mothers who share experiences. Scientific motherhood is the belief that women need scientific and expert advice in order to properly raise a child. Mother Earth Living (previously Natural Home & Garden) is an American bimonthly magazine about sustainable homes and lifestyle published by Ogden Publications. My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World is a 1945 picture book by Becky Reyher and illustrated by Ruth Stiles Gannett. Facts for Life is a book published and distributed by UNICEF. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a historical fiction novel written by Rivka Galchen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on June 8, 2021. A lost girl looks for her mother who is, in the girl's eyes, the most beautiful woman in the world. Sociologist Lee Jae Kyung has described the influence of scientific motherhood in South Korea. == References == == Further reading == * * * * * * * * * * Category:Motherhood WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine (Academic databases and search engines) designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge. Facts for Life provides this information in an easy-to-understand format and in 215 languages. Through a multilateral partnership, WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with internet access to launch a single-query search of national scientific databases and portals in more than 70 countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and over three-quarters of the world's population. Pregnant women and mothers are given expectations for what it takes to ensure their child’s safety and success. From a user's perspective, WorldWideScience.org makes the databases act as if they were a unified whole. "Women were both responsible for their families and incapable of that responsibility." It provides basic, clearly expressed advice about child health. Since its release in June 2007, WorldWideScience.org has enjoyed tremendous growth in both the number of data sources searched, along with the number of countries participating as information providers. According to Rhianna Walton of Powell's Books, "It's relatable, in a way I didn't think possible...[a]nd it's poignant and philosophical, an examination of motherhood, neighborhood, science, magic, and culpability that I knew possible only because I've read Galchen before and was prepared for her singular ability to breathe life, logic, and beauty into the absurd. The challenge is to ensure that this knowledge is shared with parents, caregivers and communities, who are the first line of defence in protecting children from illness and harm. Since it was first published in 1989, it has become one of the most popular books in the world, with an estimated 15 million copies in use in 200 countries. == References == ==External links== * UNICEF homepage * Facts for Life in English in downloadable format Category:Health and wellness books Category:UNICEF Category:United Nations documents Category:1989 in international relations Category:1989 non-fiction books The default search of WorldWideScience.org includes a search of the US contribution, Science.gov, which tends to return scholarly information as opposed to lay information. The headquarters is in Topeka, Kansas. ==Acquisition and rebranding== In 2012, Ogden Publications re-branded Natural Home & Garden as Mother Earth Living after the merger with the more popular magazine The Herb Companion, foliomag.com 28 June 2012 (retrieved 07 November 2012) and re- directed the domain naturalhomeandgarden.com to motherearthliving.com.

All mothers know that the Earth goes around the Sun

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All mothers know that their children are the most intelligent

All mothers know that essential oils cure cancer

All mothers know that the Earth is round

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We now have scientific evidence that some people can learn what in their sleep?

Multiple hypotheses explain the possible connections between sleep and learning in humans. He further wrote that sleeping has the ability to retain memories and amend the abilities of human learning. The researchers concluded that learning during sleep was "impractical and probably impossible". Learning is the process of strengthening connections, therefore this process could be a major explanation for the benefits that sleep has on memory. Sleep-learning (also known as hypnopædia or hypnopedia) is an attempt to convey information to a sleeping person, typically by playing a sound recording to them while they sleep. Although sleep is considered an important period for memory consolidation, scientific research has concluded that sleep- learning is not possible. This poor sleep is thought to have a severe impact on their ability to learn and remember information because the brain is being deprived of time that it needs to consolidate information which is essential to the learning process. ==See also== * Dream * List of thought processes * Lucid dream * Preconscious * Sharp wave–ripple complexes * Sleep- learning * Unconscious mind ==References== ==External links== * "Study puts us one step closer to understanding the function of sleep" - from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health * "To sleep, perchance to learn" - from Nature * "Birds May Refine Their Songs While Sleeping" - from Science * "Review of Studies showing sleep helps improve memory, learning" - from Science and Nature Category:Sleep Category:Sleep physiology Category:Learning The same patterns of brain activity that occur during learning have been found to occur again during sleep, only faster. Anu Valtonen found fault in the book naming neuroscience as "the science that provides the knowledge of sleep and dreams" and its overlooking of other disciplinary areas related to sleep. Current studies demonstrate that a healthy sleep produces a significant learning-dependent performance boost. Walker wrote that research proves that sleeping after studying allows for "memory, integration and retention benefits" to occur. In one study, the participants were tested to see if sleep helped in this aspect (Ellenbogen et al., 2007, as cited in Walker, 2009). Journal of Creative Behavior 19:1, pp. 38–46, 55. ==See also== * Dreams * Creativity * Sleep and learning ==References== Category:Sleep Category:Sleep physiology Category:Learning Category:Creativity Lecture given in Psychology 133 at the University of California, Berkeley, CA. was conducted where the subjects learned word pairs, and the results showed that sleep not only prevents the decay of memory, but also actively fixates declarative memories. Since the electroencephalography studies by Charles W. Simon and William H. Emmons in 1956, learning by sleep has not been taken seriously. Why We Sleep has gone on to become a bestseller under The New York Times and The Sunday Times that discusses the topic of sleep from the viewpoint of neuroscience. Music and sleep involves the listening of music in order to improve sleep quality or improve sleep onset insomnia in adults (for infant use of music and sleep, see lullaby). Other sleep behaviors, such as non-rapid eye movement sleep and rapid eye movement sleep, and the impact sleep has on "synaptic pruning" and the creation of memories during a human's lifespan are also covered. Although researchers have recognised a wide diversity of music genres aiding sleep. In motor skill learning, an interval of sleep may be critical for the expression of performance gains; without sleep these gains will be delayed. The results of this study showed that sleep is a significant factor in integrating memories, or gaining the bigger picture.Walker, M.P. They reported that stimulus material presented during sleep was not recalled later when the subject awoke, unless alpha wave activity occurred at the same time the stimulus material was given. p. 78 Referring to Charles W. Simon and William H. Emmons EEG, Consciousness, and Sleep , Science, 1956, 124, 1066–1069. p. 125. ==In fiction== Sleep-learning is found in influential science fiction and other literature.

People can learn languages in their sleep

People can learn musical skills in their sleep

None of the above

People cannot learn in their sleep

People can learn anything in their sleep

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If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, what will happen?

Imagination is the production or simulation of novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. A pre-lucid dream may ensue. In this context, the term 'visions' denotes not only visual perceptions, but also appearances perceived through all senses, including sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations, and operations on perceived mental objects. == Simulated reality == Dreaming provides a springboard for those who question whether our own reality may be an illusion. As Chögyal Namkhai Norbu puts it: "In a real sense, all the visions that we see in our lifetime are like a big dream . . . ." Imagination encircles the world." Lucid Dreams. The ability of the mind to be tricked into believing a mentally generated world is the "real world" means at least one variety of simulated reality is a common, even nightly event.Joseph Barbera, Henry Moller, Dreaming, Virtual Reality, and Presence. These findings suggest that vivid imagining is not always necessary for "imagination inflation" to occur; explanation or paraphrasing may function to make the false event seem more fluent and thus more familiar without producing a detailed image of it. These have shown that a similar imagination inflation effect occurs when instead of imagining, people simply explain how events could have happened or paraphrase them. This has led philosophers to wonder whether it is possible for one ever to be certain, at any given point in time, that one is not in fact dreaming, or whether indeed it could be possible for one to remain in a perpetual dream state and never experience the reality of wakefulness at all. Imagination inflation is a type of memory distortion that occurs when imagining an event that never happened increases confidence in the memory of the event. The dream hypothesis is also used to develop other philosophical concepts, such as Valberg's personal horizon: what this world would be internal to if this were all a dream. == See also == * Cartesian doubt * Consensus reality * Evil demon * False awakening * Maya (illusion) * Multiverse * Reality in Buddhism * Simulated reality * Social simulation * Solipsism == Notes == == References == * * * * Malcolm, N. (1959) Dreaming London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd Impression 1962. Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Imagination is the key to new development of the mind and can be shared with others, progressing collectively. And someday there will be a > great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Lucid Dreaming: the Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep. The world view is the result of arranging perceptions into existing imagery by imagination. On more rare occasions, the dream may be contained inside another dream with the very act of realizing that one is dreaming, itself, being only a dream that one is not aware of having. The imagination is also active in our perception of photographic images in order to make them appear real. ==Memory== Memory and mental imagery, often seen as a part of the process of imagination, have been shown to be affected by one another. Imagination inflation often occurs during attempts to retrieve repressed memories (i.e. via recovered memory therapy) and may lead to the development of false or distorted memories. A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep.

If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, you will get it

If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, it will happen

If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, nothing will happen

If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, you will achieve it

If you imagine and dream about something long and hard enough, it will become real

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Now we know from science that dreams can reveal something about us. What is that something?

Dreaming is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. The interpretation of dreams and the neurosciences. First, dreams involve multiple pseudo-sensory, emotional and motoric elements. The dreaming brain: How the brain creates both the sense and the nonsense of dreams. Damage to this area also results in the inability to distinguish dreams from reality during waking state. == Notes == Category:Cognitive neuroscience Category:Dream Dream imagery can change quickly and is regularly of a bizarre nature, but reports also contain many images and events that are a part of day-to-day life. Dreams contain multimodal pseudo-perceptions; sometimes any or all sensory modalities are present, but most often visual and motoric.Hobson, J.A. 1988. This was assumed to be a breakthrough in the understanding of such an elusive process as dreaming. In addition, dreams form a single narrative to explain and integrate all dream elements. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 14, 322. == Methodological issues in scientific dream studies == There are several difficulties encountered while studying subjective experiences like dreaming. In dreams there is a reduction or absence of self-reflection or other forms of meta-cognition relative to during waking life. Dreams are also characterized by a lack of "orientational stability; persons, times, and places are fused, plastic, incongruous and discontinuous". The information available via modern techniques of brain imaging has provided new bases for the study of the dreaming brain. Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. The bounds that such technology has afforded has created an understanding of dreaming that seems ever-changing; even now questions still remain as to the function and content of dreams. The journal covers research on dreaming, as well as on dreaming from the viewpoint of any of the arts and humanities. Dream incubation is a thought technique which aims for a specific dream topic to occur, either for recreation or to attempt to solve a problem. Scholarly interest in the process and functions of dreaming has been present since Sigmund Freud's interpretations in the 1900s. It is now believed that dreaming may be a dopaminergic process that occurs in limbic and frontal areas of the brain. === Dopaminergic activation === Two main frontal areas have been implicated in the dream process. Dreams and reports of dreams are produced in distinct states of consciousness resulting in a delay between the dream event and its recall while awake. Sleep imaging and the neuro-psychological assessment of dreams. This is the basis for the suggestion that dreaming involves a reversed sequence of perceptual events.

Dreams reveal our greatest desires

Dreams reveal our greatest fears

All of the above

Dreams reveal the people we love

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It's been shown by science that all artists get their ideas from taking what?

The psychedelic art movement is similar to the surrealist movement in that it prescribes a mechanism for obtaining inspiration. The artists almost unanimously reported LSD to be an enhancement to their creativity. Psychedelic art was also applied to the LSD itself. While it is not necessary to use psychedelics to arrive at such a stage of artistic development, serious psychedelic artists are demonstrating that there is tangible technique to obtaining visions, and that technique is the creative use of psychedelic drugs. == Psychedelic artists == * Pablo Amaringo * Chuck Arnett * Chris Dyer (artist) * Doug Binder * Brummbaer * Mark Boyle and Joan Hills * Laurence Caruana * James Clifford * Lee Conklin * Robert Crumb * Roger Dean * Warren Dayton * Scott Draves * Donald DunbarAbramson, Seth (30 January 2013). These artists have developed unique and distinct styles that while containing elements that are "psychedelic", are clearly artistic expressions that transcend simple categorization. * Morphing of objects or themes and sometimes collage * Phosphenes, spirals, concentric circles, diffraction patterns, and other entoptic motifs * Repetition of motifs * Innovative typography and hand- lettering, including warping and transposition of positive and negative spaces ==Origins== Psychedelic art is informed by the notion that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs are a source of artistic inspiration. Many artists realised how LSD could also positively influence their artwork, which is why it was so popular throughout the 1960s. Artists and scientists have been interested in the effect of LSD on drawing and painting since it first became available for legal use and general consumption. Some of his artist patients painted numerous paintings while on LSD. === Psychedelic artists === *Pablo Amaringo *Brummbaer *Giorgio de Chirico *Robert Crumb *Roger Dean *Warren Dayton *Karl Ferris *The Fool (design collective) *Ernst Fuchs *H. R. Giger *Alex Grey *Rick Griffin *John Hurford *Alton Kelley *Mati Klarwein *Peter Max *Henri Michaux *Stanley "Mouse" Miller *Victor Moscoso *Gilbert Shelton *John Van Hamersveld *Robert Venosa *Robert Williams *Wes Wilson == See also == * Hallucination * Lysergic acid diethylamide * Psychedelic art * Psychedelic * Psychedelic music * Psychedelic literature * Tie-dye * Terence McKenna * Timothy Leary == References == == External links == * Acid Trip * Mavericks of the Mind: Oscar Janiger * LSD Psychotherapy, Stanislav Grof, M.D Category:Visual arts genres Category:Psychedelic art LSD was the perfect catalyst to electrify the eclectic mix of ideas assembled by the Beats into a cathartic, mass-distributed panacea for the soul of the succeeding generation. ==In 1960s counterculture== thumb|Cover of the San Francisco Oracle, Volume 1 No. 5, January 1967 Leading proponents of the 1960s psychedelic art movement were San Francisco poster artists such as: Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Bonnie MacLean, Stanley Mouse & Alton Kelley, and Wes Wilson. When these effects are mixed with an artist, they often illustrate their hallucinations. == History == LSD art dates back to the 1960s, where it became very common as well. Whereas the surrealist was fascinated by Freud's theory of the unconscious, the psychedelic artist has been literally "turned on" by Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD. Oscar Janiger was one of the pioneers in the field studying the relationship between LSD and creativity. As Brian Wells explains, "The psychedelic movement has, through the work of artists, designers, and writers, achieved an astonishing degree of cultural diffusion… but, though a great deal of diffusion has taken place, so, too, has a great deal of dilution and distortion."Wells, Brian. They were subsequently asked to do the same painting while under the influence of LSD. "Psychedelic Art". LSD art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, also known colloquially as acid). Among the work forerunners of psychedelic art, the following authors and artists can be noted: Lautreamont, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Stanislav Witkevich, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, De Quincey, Terence McKenna, Carlos Castaneda. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously. Cologne: Taschen, 2004. pg. 523 By the mid-1970s, the psychedelic art movement had been largely co-opted by mainstream commercial forces, incorporated into the very system of capitalism that the hippies had struggled so hard to change. ==Other material== Examples of other psychedelic art material are tapestry, curtains and stickers, clothing, canvas and other printed artefacts and furniture. ==Digital age== Computer art has allowed for an even greater and more profuse expression of psychedelic vision. Psychedelic visual arts were a counterpart to psychedelic rock music. Among many changes brought about by its success, artists sought to imitate its psychedelic effects and devoted more time to creating their albums; the counterculture was scrutinised by musicians; and acts adopted its non-conformist sentiments.

Artists get all their ideas from taking drugs

None of the above

Artists take inspiration from different sources

Artists get all their ideas from taking LSD

Artists get all their ideas from taking shrooms

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