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Adventures in Odyssey

***Adventures in Odyssey*** (also known as ***AIO*** or just ***Odyssey***) is an Evangelical Christian-themed radio drama and comedy. It was started by Focus on the Family in 1987.

The series takes place in the fictional town of Odyssey. Many episodes begin in an ice cream shop and discovery emporium called "Whit's End." It is owned by John Avery Whittaker. The show's episodes have many things in them, such as funny or dramatic stories. Its characters often talk about Christianity, and sometimes Bible stories are taught.

## Characters
* John Avery Whittaker, voiced by Hal Smith (1987-1994), Paul Herlinger (1996-2008), and Andre Stojka (2009-present)
* Connie Kendall, voiced by Katie Leigh
* Eugene Meltsner, voiced by Will Ryan (1988-2000, 2005-2022)
* Katrina Shanks-Meltsner, voiced by Pamela Hayden and Audrey Wasilewski 
* Bernard Walton (character), voiced by Dave Madden (actor)
* Tom Riley, voiced by Walker Edmiston (1987-2007)
* Jack Allen, voiced by Alan Young
* Jason Whittaker, voiced by Townsend Coleman
* Bart Rathbone, voiced by Walker Edmiston (1987-2007)
* Wooton Bassett, voiced by Jess Harnell
* Rodney Rathbone, voiced by Steve Burns
* Edwin Blackgaard, Regis's twin brother, owner of the Harlequin Dinner theater as well as the Electric Palace.  Voiced by Earl Boen.
* Chris, the show's announcer, voiced by Chris Anthony

*See* **Character list** *for more information.*
*See* AIOHQ.com Voices *for a list of credited *AIO* voice actors.*

## Other websites 
* ''Whit's End'', the official site
Logging

being cut in Australia]]
**Logging** is cutting down trees. It is done to fix forests or harvest logs. People move the logs out of the forest to use them for timber or paper or fuel or other purposes.
Kølig Kaj

**Kølig Kaj** (born 1971) is a Danish rapper who gained national fame in 1997 by winning the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with his song "Stemmen I Mit Liv". His real name is **Thomas Lægaard**.  

At the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997, he ended up 16th, with only 25 points. Following that, Kølig Kaj slowly went away, and has never really gained much success. "Kølig Kaj" literally means "Cool Kaj" (pronounced Kai, rhymes with "high"). He released an album called *Solgt Ud!*
Tobey Maguire

**Tobias Vincent** "**Tobey**" **Maguire**  (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of *Spider-Man* in all three movies and including the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie *Spider-Man: No Way Home*.

## Early life 
Maguire didn't finish high school because he wanted to be an actor. He got help from Alcoholics Anonymous for an underaged drinking problem. He has been sober ever since. Maguire has been a vegetarian since 1992. In 2009, he became a vegan.

PETA called him the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2002. He often makes changes in his diet to either gain or lose weight. For example, he dramatically decreased his calorie intake for *Seabiscuit*. Then he quickly gained weight for *Spider-Man 2*.

## Personal life 
Maguire met Jennifer Meyer in 2003 while he was shooting the movie *Seabiscuit*. They became engaged in April 2006. Their daughter Ruby Sweetheart Maguire was born on November 10, 2006.  The couple married on September 3, 2007, in Kona, Hawaii. Their second child, a son, Otis Tobias Maguire was born on May 8, 2009. The couple divorced in 2020.

### Poker 
In 2004, Maguire took up tournament poker. Maguire can be seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship.

## Movies
## References
## Other websites
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Chaplain

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A **chaplain** is typically a priest, pastor, ordained deacon or other member of the clergy. They usually serve a group of people who are not organized as a mission or church, or who are unable to attend church for many reasons, such as poor health, confinement, or military or civil duties.

Chaplains may be members of a Christian church, or followers of Judaism, Islam or humanism. Schools, colleges, prisons, hospitals, and the armed forces commonly provide the services of chaplains.
Henry Luce

**Henry Robinson Luce** (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an important American publisher.

## Other websites 
* *Time* biography
George Beverly Shea

**George Beverly "Bev" Shea** (February 1, 1909 &ndash; April 16, 2013) was a Canadian-American singer and songwriter of gospel music, and has written several hymns. He gained American citizenship in 1941. He worked with Billy Graham for over 60 years.

## References
James Dobson

**James Clayton "Jim" Dobson** (April 21, 1936 &ndash; August 21, 2025) was an American evangelist who was the founder and chairman of the board of Focus on the Family. He was an Evangelical. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Dobson died at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado on August 21, 2025, at the age of 89.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Focus on the Family – Official website
QuickTime

**QuickTime** (also called **QT**) is a software made by Apple Inc. It can handle different types of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and several types of interactive panoramic images.

## Other websites 
* Official QuickTime site with Download page, older versions, and additional components to extend QTs capabilities
* QuickTime content
* Apple's QuickTime developer site
* From Alice to Ocean (first creative project demonstrating Quicktime 1.0)
Walker

**Walker** can be any of the following:
*Pedestrian, a person traveling by walking
*Walker (surname)

In **geography**:
*Walker, Iowa, U.S.
*Walker Lake, Nevada, U.S.
*Walker, Louisiana, U.S.
*Walker, Michigan, U.S.
*Walker, Minnesota, U.S.
*Walker, Missouri, U.S.
*Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
*Walker Pass, in California, U.S.
*Walker River, Nevada
*Walker, West Virginia, also called Floe

In **modern culture**:
*Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool, England
*Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
**Walker* (computer game), an Amiga 500 game
**Walker* (movie), a 1987 movie about William Walker
*Walker (Star Wars), a vehicle from the *Star Wars* films
**Walker, Texas Ranger*, an American television program
**The Walker*, a 2007 movie written and directed by Paul Schrader

In **other usage**:
*Walker (machine), a vehicle that moves on legs rather than wheels or tracks
*Walker (tool), a tool to help the infirm to get around
*Walkers, a snack food manufacturer in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
*J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, English Organ Builders

## Related pages
*Walking (disambiguation)
Peeter Volkonski

**Peeter Volkonski Peeter** (also ***Piotr Andreevich Volkonsky***) (born December 9, 1954, in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian actor and rock-musician composer. He is a Prince from the Rurik Dynasty. He is the key art  in Estonia.

Peeter Volkonski is a descendant of an aristocratic princely family, son of Prince Andrei Volkonsky. HSH Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky is a great-great-great-great-grandfather of Prince Peeter Volkonski.

## Other websites
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Subspecies

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**Subspecies** is a classification (taxonomy) in biology. It is directly below species. When looking at the Latin name, subspecies are indicated by the third name. Subspecies can mix with each other; animals or plants from different subspecies can have offspring together (This is usually not the case with animals from different species).

When looking at subspecies, they can also be told apart sufficiently by looking at the appearance or DNA of an animal or plant.

Very often, there are populations that are between two subspecies; this is because evolution is a continuous process. Subspecies can often be recognised by *subsp* or *ssp* (before the third part of the name) especially in botany.

Examples of subspecies are:
*The dog (*Canis lupus familiaris*) and the dingo (*Canis lupus dingo*) are both subspecies of the wolf (*Canis lupus*)
*The domestic cat (*Felis silvestris catus*) is a subspecies of the wildcat (*Felis silvestris*)

## Nominate subspecies
In zoology, when a species is split into subspecies, the first described population is known as the "nominate subspecies", and it repeats the same name as the species. For example, the "Daboia russelii russelii" (known as the Indian Russell's Viper) is a nominate subspecies of the species "Daboia russelii" (known as the Russell's Viper).
Centrifugal force

Centrifugal force is a force that acts on a body in a direction away from the centre, which contributes to making the body try to fly away. When you hold a rope with a heavy object attached to it, and rotate it around, the rope becomes tight and keeps the body from flying away. This is caused by centripetal force.

In physics, **centrifugal force** (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee") is a fictitious force that appears when describing physics in a rotating reference frame; it acts on anything with mass considered in such a frame. Centrifugal force is *fictitious* because although it may feel to a person like a certain force is being exerted on them, someone outside the scene will see something different.

**Example:** If Joshua is in a car that takes a sharp right turn, he will feel as though he is being pushed to his left. This is an imaginary force, called a centrifugal force, or a "running away from the center" force. Joshua feels it because he is inside the car and is affected by it. However, if Joshua's girlfriend, Andrea, is on the side of the road facing the front of Joshua's car and watches Joshua's car take a sharp right turn, Andrea will see the car push Joshua to the right with the car as it changes direction. This is a real force called centripetal force (or an "aiming towards the center" force) and acts towards the center of the circle of rotation.

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Big Bear Lake, California

**Big Bear Lake** is a city in San Bernardino County, California. It is along the south shore of Big Bear Lake. At the 2020 census, 5,046 people lived there. It is a popular place in Southern California, partly because of its skiing areas.

## References
Smash Mouth

**Smash Mouth** is a rock band from San Jose, California, USA and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Formed in 1994, the group is formed by Steve Harwell (lead vocals/Guitar), Greg Camp (guitar), Paul De Lisle (bass), and Kevin Coleman (original drummer). Their most famous song is "Walkin' on the Sun".

## Studio albums
**Fush Yu Mang* (1997)
**Astro Lounge* (1999)
**Smash Mouth* (2001)
**Get the Picture?* (2003)
**The Gift of Rock* (2005)
**Summer Girl* (2006)
**Magic* (2012)
**Missile Toes* (2023)

### Singles
Anonymous (song)

"**Anonymous**" is the second single from Bobby Valentino's second album, Special Occasion. The song features Amber Rives and Timbaland and was produced by Timbaland and King Logan.

The song was written by Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Balewa Muhammad, Candice Nelson, and Patrick Smith of the popular songwriting/production team "The Clutch"... along with Timbaland,Amber Rives and King Logan.The song shares an electronic drum track with Justin Timberlake's "My Love" due to fact that both singles were produced by Timbaland. The song shares a similar vocal and lyric from the Willie Hutch song "Tell Me Why Our Love Turned Cold".

The music video includes supermodel Amber Rives as Bobby's love interest. Timbaland does not appear, although his verse remains in the song.
Mallacoota, Victoria

**Mallacoota** () is a small town in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Less than 1000 people live there. It is 25 kilometres off the Princes Highway and  kilometres from Melbourne. It is the last town on Victoria's east coast before the border with New South Wales. Mallacoota has a small airport (Mallacoota Airport) YMCO (XMC) for private small planes.

## History
The Bidawal Aborigines lived there before Europeans came. Europeans came after about 1830. Gold was found in 1894, and was mined for three years. In the 20th century the logging, farming and fishing industries  declined, and the tourism and abalone industries grew. The town's largest business, the abalone co-operative, was started in 1967.

## References
## Other websites
*Mallacoota District Health and Support Service
*Local community radio station, 3MGB 
*Mallacoota Arts Council
University of Northwestern – St. Paul

**Northwestern College** is in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  It is a four-year Christian college. The school was founded on October 2, 1902. Billy Graham was the school's president from 1948 to 1952. Athletic teams at the school are known as *Eagles*.
Mixed drink

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A **mixed drink** is a type of drink where two or more different drinks are mixed together to create a new drink. Very often, at least one of the ingredients contains alcohol. Usually, spirits like rum or vodka are used in the mixed drinks containing alcohol. 

Examples of mixed drinks are Rum & Coke and Bundy & Rum.

Alcopops are pre-fabricated mixed drinks. They were mainly made for the young. Often they are made so that the alcohol in them cannot be tasted easily.

Mixed drinks without alcohol are often called virgin.
Memorial

in Hawaii commemorates American dead from wars in the Pacific.]]

A **memorial** is an object which serves as a memory of something, usually a person who has died or a famous event. Statues are a popular type of *memorial*.

A **memorial hall** is a building which serves to remind people of something, again usually people who have died. Memorial halls in the United Kingdom and United States are usually about World War I or World War II. Memorial halls in Germany and Poland are often about the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany killed many Jewish people. Memorial halls in China are usually about the Japanese part of World War II. Among important memorial halls, there are the Nanjing Massacre Museum and the Yad Vashem.

## Related pages
*Monument
Rum

]]**Rum** is an alcoholic spirit. It is made from molasses and other sugarcane by-products through fermentation and distillation. Rum is mostly made in or around the Caribbean. Rum is also made in other parts of the world, like Fiji or Australia.
Pridon Khalvashi

**Pridon Khalvashi** (; born 17 May 1925 – July 8 2010) is one of the famous Georgian writers who contributed Georgian poetry and literature, as well as its political and social life.

## Early life
He was born in western Georgia, in mountainous village of Adjara, called Gegelidzeebi on 17th of May in 1925.
In 1938-1940 he studied at cultural-educational centre of Batumi and in 1950 he graduated Batumi Pedagogical Institute. He was also the former head of the Ajar branch of the Georgian writer's union.

## Died 
Pridon Khalvashi died on July 8, 2010 in Village Gegelidzeebi, Adjara, Georgia.

## Notes
## Other websites 
*http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/lit_authors_georgian.html 
*http://iberiana.iatp.ge/geosur/khalvashi.htm
*http://www.parliament.ge/pages/archive_en/1995_99/mp/khalvashif.htm
Cancuén

**Cancuén** is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It can be found in the Pasión subregion of the central Maya lowlands. It  is located in the present-day Guatemalan Department of El Petén.  The city is famous because it has one of the largest palaces in the Maya world.

## Ancient Cancuén 
Cancuén was a major city during the Classic Period. It reached its peak during the seventh century A.D.  The city was a major trade center. Especially jade, pyrite and obsidian were traded there.  Its strategic position on the Río Pasion helped it dominate trade in the region. Tajal Chan Ahk, one of the city's most powerful rulers, built the city's palace in 770 A.D.  The palace covered nearly 23,000 square meters and contained 200 rooms, making it the largest in the Maya area.  The city had two ball courts, a large marketplace and a dock on La Pasion River.  There are only few large temples or burial sites in the city; it is thought that the inhabitants of Cancuén worshipped and buried their dead in the mountains near the city. Several dozen bodies dressed in royal garments were discovered near the base of the central pyramid.  Investigations have shown that the bodies, including the city's ruler at the time, Kan Maax, had been executed and dumped in a cistern.  The massacre occurred around 800 A.D.,  at the time when the Mayan civilization collapsed.

## References
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## Other websites 
*Maya Palace Uncovered
*National Geographic: Archaeologist Uncover Maya “Masterpiece” in Guatemala
*Photo Gallery and Site description
Coba

**Coba** () is a big  city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is about 90&nbsp;km east of the Maya site of Chichen Itza, about 40&nbsp;km west of the Caribbean Sea, and 44&nbsp;km northwest of the site of Tulum.  Coba was thought to have had around 50,000 people living in it.

Coba is an ancient city of the Mayan tribes, where the highest pyramid of the Yucatán is located, which is called «Nohoch Mul».

Its height is 42 m.

Previously, it was possible to climb the pyramid, but now it is closed to the public and you can only study the structure from below.
Western Front (World War I)

The **Western Front** was started by the German Army  Luxembourg and Belgium at the beginning of World War I in 1914 and gaining military control of many important industrial regions in France. Its quick advance was stopped by the Battle of the Marne. Both sides then dug defensive trenches, which eventually reached from the North Sea to the Swiss border with France.

From 1915 to 1917, many offensives were started from the trenches. Both sides used large numbers of artillery and thousands of infantry in the offensives. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun nests, barbed wire, and artillery stopped the advances. No major breakthroughs happened.

New military technology, like poison gas, aircraft, and tanks were developed to try and get through the lines of trenches.

The deadlock was caused mostly by both sides not allowing any piece of land to give some kind of advantage to the enemy, even if there was little advantage. As the war continued, and more blood was lost on both sides, the soldiers grew tired of war and had begun to make large threats to the government.

To keep the war effort going, the governments began to say that they would kill soldiers who did not attack and that the soldiers betrayed the army if they did not fight.

## References
Artifact (culture)

An **artifact** or **artefact** is an object made or  by a human culture. It may be found during an archaeological dig.

Some artifacts are stone tools, pottery wheels, jewelry, accesory and clothing.  The study of artifacts is central to archaeology.
Tectonics

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**Tectonics** is the study of the earth's structural features, especially the folding and faulting (cracking) of the Earth's crust.

Tectonics (from Latin, meaning "building") is a field within geology. It includes structures in the lithosphere of the Earth and the forces and movements that have operated to create these structures.

Tectonics is concerned with orogenies (mountain building) and major land features. This includes the earthquake and volcanic regions which affect certain parts of the world. This is discussed further in plate tectonics.

Tectonic studies are also important for understanding erosion patterns in geomorphology and as guides for the economic geologist searching for petroleum and metallic ores.

## References
Prahova

The word **Prahova** can be any of these places in Romania:
* Prahova County
* Prahova River
* Prahova Valley
Tajal Chan Ahk

**Tajal Chan Ahk**, also '''T'ah 'ak' Cha'an''',  ruled the Maya city Cancuén from 757 to ca. 799.

## References
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Buzău (disambiguation)

**Buzău** can be any of these places in Romania:
*Buzău, a town, in the east of the country.
*Buzău County, a county in the east of the country, with the capital in the town above.
*Buzău River, a river in the east of Romania, flowing through Buzău County.
Elsa Einstein

**Elsa Einstein**, (18 January 1876 - 20 December 1936), was the second wife of the German physicist, Albert Einstein. The couple were first cousins and second cousins. This is because their mothers were sisters and their fathers were first cousins. She was born in Hechingen, Germany.
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## References
George Whitefield

**George Whitefield** (27 December 1714 – 30 September 1770), was a preacher on the Church of England. He was one of the leaders of the Methodist movement. Colonists loved to hear him preach of love and forgiveness as he had a different style of preaching compared to Old World priests. This led to new missionary work in the Americas in converting Indians to Christianity. He helped establish the Evangelical movement, which was based on the idea that salvation could be achieved through believing in Jesus and following God’s word in the Bible.
Nera

**Nera** mcan be any one of the following:
* Nera River (Italy), a tributary of the Tiber in Italy.
* Nera River (Russia), a tributary of the Indigirka in Russia.
* Nera River (Danube), a tributary of the Danube, flowing through Romania and Serbia.
* Nera (mythology), the name of a character from Irish mythology.
Creation Museum

The **Creation Museum** is a 75,000 square foot museum near Petersburg, Kentucky, United States. It was made to tell the story of Young Earth creationism. The museum shows its view of the theory of the start of the universe, life, mankind, and man's early history. It is based on the book of Genesis in the Bible. This book is the story of how God made the Earth, and all of its life forms in just six days. This is said to have happened about 6000 years ago. The museum rejects evolution, and points to alternative explanations to answer evolutionist's objections. 

The museum has a zoo, botanical gardens, planetarium, theater, bookshop, cafe, and zip-line.

"The state-of-the-art 75,000-square-foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and
placing them in familiar settings. Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers. The serpent coils cunningly in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Majestic murals, great masterpieces brimming with pulsating colors and details, provide a backdrop for many of the settings." - The Creation Museum website

The Creation Museum is run by Answers in Genesis.

## References
## Other websites 
*Official *Creation Museum* website
*Answers in Genesis' website
Communes of Romania

A **commune** (*comună* in Romanian) is the second lowest level of division in Romania. There are 2,686 communes in Romania.  There is no set limit to population in the communes, but once they  a population of 10,000 people, the commune gets the status of a city. The first lowest level of division in Romania is called "sat". "Satele" (pl.) are for the "comuna" just like the counties for the state.
  
## Related pages
*List of cities in Romania
*Municipalities in Romania
*Counties of Romania
Municipalities of Romania

A **municipality** (*municipiu* in Romanian, from Latin *municipium*) is a kind of subdivision in Romania.

The following is a complete list of the municipalities of Romania, by county:
Timiş

The name **Timiş** can be any of the following:
*Timiş County, a county in western Romania
*Timiş River, a river in western Romania and Serbia
*Timiş-Cerna Gap, a mountain pass in south-western Romania
*Slatina-Timiş, a commune in Caraş-Severin County, Romania
*Timiş River (Olt), a tributary of the Olt River in central Romania

These names are close to **Timiş**:
*Timişoara, a city in western Romania, in Timiş County
*Timişu de Jos, a village in Braşov County on the Timiş valley
*Timişu de Sus, a village also in Braşov County on the Timiş valley
*Timişana, a tributary of the Timiş River
*Timişul Mort, a tributary of the Timiş River
*Timişel, a tributary of the Bega River
Don't Stop the Music

"'''Don't Stop the Music**" (also known as "**Please Don't Stop the Music'*") is a song recorded by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna. It was released September 7, 2007 from her third studio album *Good Girl Gone Bad''. "Don't Stop the Music" was written by Tawanna Dabney and Michael Jackson with producers StarGate. The song also samples "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson.

## Charts 
## References
Nick Carter

**Nickolas Gene Carter** (born January 28, 1980) is an American actor, musician, and pop singer. He is a member of the music group the Backstreet Boys. In 2002, he released his first solo album called *Now or Never*, the album reached #17 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified gold.

## References
A. J. McLean

**Alexander James McLean** (born January 9, 1978) is an American singer and member of the singing group Backstreet Boys.
In December 2003, McLean and his mother appeared on *The Oprah Winfrey Show* to talk about his recovery from clinical depression, alcoholism, and drug use.

In 2008, McLean performed two solo shows at the Anaheim House of Blues and The Roxy in Los Angeles. The show consisted of his solo material and a solo version of the Backstreet Boys hit, "Incomplete".

## References
Brian Littrell

**Brian Thomas Littrell** (born February 20, 1975) is an American singer. He is best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist, and released a solo album, *Welcome Home (You)*, in 2006.

In the summer of 2005, Littrell solo single "In Christ Alone" went to #1 on the Christian Charts on July 4th. Littrell was the winner of the 2006 GMA Music Award for Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year, "In Christ Alone," which won both the 1993 award in this category (when recorded by Michael English) and the 1994 Song of the Year at the GMA Music Awards. Brian's first solo album, *Welcome Home (You)* was released on May 2, 2006. As with the Backstreet Boys albums, is a Sony BMG release.

Littrell and his wife Leighanne Littrell have one son together, Baylee Thomas Wylee Littrell, who was born in November 26, 2002.
Kevin Richardson

**Kevin Scott Richardson** (born October 3, 1971) is an American singer. He is a member of the Backstreet Boys. In 2002, he played the role of "Billy Flynn" in the Broadway production of *Chicago*. He also performed this role in London's West End and in Toronto from November 2006 – December 2006.

In June 2006, Richardson left the Backstreet Boys. He wanted to "move on with the next chapter of [his] life."In the next chapter of his life he spent the summer drawing fodder beet. He also drew home a few loads of turf in a little car trailer to have for the winter. Kevin and wife Kristin (née Willits) had a son named Mason on July 3, 2007.

In April 2012, Richardson officially rejoined the group.
Spanish conquest of Yucatán

The **Spanish Conquest of Yucatán** was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish *conquistadores* against the Late Postclassic Maya states. This part of the conquest and colonization of the Americas began in the early 16th century, but it took more time than the similar campaigns against the Aztec and Inca Empires. It was about 170 years later before the last Maya stronghold fell, that of the Itza capital of Tayasal on Lake Petén Itzá, in 1697. But except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, the Spanish had control over Yucatán itself already by 1546.

Unlike the campaigns against the Aztec and Inca states, the Maya had no single political center. Therefore, the Spanish had to fight city by city to break resistance by the indigenous peoples. 
In the beginning the *conquistadores* were mainly interested to get as much gold and silver as possible. Because the Maya lands were poor in this respect, they were not very interesting for the Spanish at that stage. But when land workers became important for the colonies, the Spanish turned to the Maya region. That was around the 1520s.

## Related pages
* Maya civilization
* Hernan Cortes
* Spanish colonization of the Americas
* Conquistador

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Artifact

**Artifact** or **artefact** can be any of the following:

* Any object made or shaped by human hand.
* Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological dig
* Artefact (band)  black metal band from France
* Artifact (band), a band from Norway
* Artifact (error), an error or misrepresentation introduced by a technique and/or technology
*Compression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
*Cultural artifact, a human-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
*Digital artifact, a visible defect in a digital photo or video picture
*Iatrogenic artifact, a disease made up by doctors
*Social artifact, a product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behavior
*Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound
*Virtual artifact, objects in the digital environment
*The Artifact, a role playing board game made by Store32
Becquerel

The **becquerel** (symbol: **Bq**), equivalent to *s-1*, is the SI derived unit of radioactivity (*A*). 1 Bq is defined as the number of times a nucleus decays every second.

## Formula
A = \frac{-dN}{dt}=\lambda Nwhere N is the number of radioactive atoms in a radioactive sample, which has no unit, and \lambda is the **decay constant** measuring how fast radioactive decay occurs over time, which depends on the nature of the radioactive sample, particularly the constituent isotopes.

### Half-life
The half-life is the time required for half of the radioactive atoms of a sample to decay. It can be found by the simple formulat = \frac{0.693}{\lambda}.

### Petabecquerel
A petabecquerel corresponds to 1015 times a Bq. The unit is named in honor of French physicists Henri Becquerel.

## Related pages
*Curie
*Sievert
*Atomic orbital
*Atomic physics
*Particle physics
*Nuclear physics
*Quantum mechanics
*Classical mechanics
*Nuclear binding energy
*Mass-energy equivalence

## References
The Way of the Master

**The Way of the Master** (**WOTM**) is a Christianity based evangelism ministry. It was started in 2002. The show is hosted by American actor Kirk Cameron, and New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort. The organization has a TV show, many books, and an online school.

## Programs 
### Television 
The television show, first aired in December 2003. It is a half-hour show hosted by Cameron and Comfort, teaching principles of biblical evangelism. It also shows interviews they have with people on the streets. Two 13-episode seasons have been put on television. They are broadcast by satellites to more than 100 countries. It is also available on DVD.

#### Season 1 episodes 
# *The Firefighter*
# *The Mirror of the Ten Commandments*
# *The Motive of the Sinner*
# *The Summary of Salvation*
# *Practice What You Preach*
# *Idolatry -- The Darling Sin of Humanity*
# *The Beauty of a Broken Spirit -- Atheism*
# *WDJD?*
# *Blasphemy, Sabbath, Parents*
# *Murder*
# *Adultery*
# *Theft*
# *Lie and Covet*

#### Season 2 episodes 
#''God's Wonderful Plan*
#*Conscience*
#*Alcatraz, Al Capone, Alcohol*
#*True and False Conversion*
#*When Things Go Wrong*
#*The Satanic Influence*
#*How to Witness to Someone Who's Gay*
#*Evolution*
#*How to Witness to a Loved One*
#*The Fear of God*
#*Ice Breakers -- Gospel Tracts*
#*The Greatest Gamble*
#*How to Get on Fire for God*

### Radio 
*The Way of the Master Radio'' program was hosted by Christian and former comedian Todd Friel. It also had regular appearances by both Comfort and Cameron. It has faith-related commentary, and humor from Friel, as well as many people evangelizing. The radio program ran from January 2006 until November 2008.

## Living Waters Publications 
**Living Waters Publications** (LWP) is like an online store for WOTM. It sells around 80 different gospel tracts. Some of which are the "Million Dollar Bill," "Giant $100 Bill," and "Ten Commandments Coins."

## References 
## Other websites 
* The Way of the Master
* Way of the Master Radio 
* Living Waters
Timiș (river)

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The **Timiş** or **Tamiš** (;  or *Tamiš*; ; ) is a  long river coming up from the Semenic Mountains, the southern part of the Carpathian Mountains,  in Caraş-Severin County, Romania. It flows through the Banat region and into the Danube near Pančevo, in the northern part of Serbia.

## Characteristics 
The Timiş River's drainage area covers . This includes  in Romania and  in Serbia. 

The river starts at the joining of the headwaters Brebu, Grădiştea and Semenic in Lake Trei Ape.

## Tributaries 
The river flows through Romania for .

These are the tributaries of the Timiş River: Râul Rece, Slatina, Valea Mare, Măcicaş River, Pârâul Lung, Armeniş River, Sebeş, Bistra, Şurgani River, Timişana, Pogăniş River, Timişul Mort River and Vena Mare. In its  course through Serbia, it has only one tributary, Brzava, which is the longest one.

## Settlements 
### Romania
Big cities in the rivers Romanian flow are Caransebeş and Lugoj.

These are the smaller smaller towns and cities along the Timiş River:
*Căvăran
*Rudna
*Teregova
*Armeniş
*Sadova Veche
*Slatina-Timiş
*Bucoşniţa
*Petroşniţa
*Valea Timişului
*Prisian
*Buchin
*Jupa
*Zăgujeni
*Prisaca
*Căvăran (Constantin Daicoviciu)
*Sacu
*Jean
*Gavojdia
*Lugojel
*Coştei
*Bazoş
*Uliuc
*Urseni
*Şag
*Parţa
*Cebza
*Crai Nou, TimişCrai Nou
*Gad
*Grănicerii

One of the big Romanian cities, Timişoara, though the name makes it seem like it, is not settled on the river. Although, the name comes from the river, when about 800 years ago the region was a swampy one and the Timiş had a very large flow area. In 1728 when the rivers Timiş and Bega were canalized, Timiş stopped to flow through the city.

### Serbia
*Jaša Tomić
*Šurjan
*Boka
*Sečanj
*Neuzina
*Banatski Despotovac
*Botoš
*Tomaševac
*Orlovat
*Idvor
*Farkaždin
*Sakule
*Čenta
*Baranda
*Opovo
*Sefkerin
*Glogonj
*Jabuka
*Pančevo
Popol Vuh (disambiguation)

**Popol Vuh** (Quiché for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; Popol Wuj in modern spelling) is the book of scripture of the Quiché, a kingdom of the post classic Maya civilization in highland Guatemala.

*Popol Vuh* may also refer to:

**Music**
*Popol Vuh (German band), a 1970s German cosmic music band
*Popol Vuh (Norwegian band), a Norwegian progressive rock band that later changed its name to *Popol Ace* to avoid confusion
McCune–Reischauer

**McCune-Reischauer romanization** (Maek'yun-Raisyawŏ P'yogipŏp) is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. Another variant of McCune-Reischauer is used as the official system in North Korea.

## Related pages 
* Hangul

## References
Jean-Luc Picard

**Jean-Luc Picard** is a *Star Trek: The Next Generation* character. Patrick Stewart played him. He was the captain of the USS Enterprise-D, and later of the USS Enterprise-E. He was born in la Barre, France, on Earth. He had a brother, named Robert Picard. Jean-Luc was proud of being French.

As a character, Picard is very similar to James T. Kirk, albeit slightly older. While Picard is understood to be French, Kirk is of Irish heritage.

Both require equal discipline of their crews, but are also fair toward them. Both are ready to sacrifice themselves for their crews when need be. Their encounter in the movie *Star Trek – Generations* gave the surviving Picard a great deal of newfound strength to carry on his demanding mission.

Picard was also known as Locutus of the Borg in the episodes "Best of Both Worlds" 1 and 2.

## Other websites 
* Jean-Luc Picard at Memory Alpha
Revised Romanization of Korean

The **Revised Romanization of Korean** is what South Korea uses to turn their writing system into the Roman alphabet. It is meant to replace the McCune–Reischauer system.

## Vowel letters
These are what the vowels of the Revised Romanization of Korean look like.

## References
Chartres Cathedral

**Chartres Cathedral** (, *Our Lady of Chartres*) is a cathedral. It is in Chartres, about 80&nbsp;km south of Paris. It is built in the Gothic style. Together with Amiens Cathedral and Reims Cathedral it is considered to be one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture (for churches) in France.
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A church was inaugurated at the spot by Charles the Bald in the year 864. The cathedral as it stands now was built from 1194 to 1260. It was made a basilica minor in 1908. In 1964 it was made an World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

## References
Intel Core 2

Core 2 "Wolfdale" microprocessor]]
**Intel Core 2** is a group of microprocessors created to replace Intel's previous Core brand. The group includes the single-core "Core 2 Solo", dual-core (2 cores) "Core 2 Duo", and quad-core (4 cores) "Core 2 Quad" microprocessors. Microprocessors with the name "Extreme" following the brand name, such as Core 2 Extreme, are higher in cost, and perform better than the others. The Extreme versions also come in dual-core and quad-core versions.

## Processor Cores 
The processors with names ending in "XE" are the "Extreme" versions. 
* Conroe: The first Core 2 Duo processors were released on the Conroe core on July 27, 2006. These were created to replace the Intel Pentium 4 and Pentium D brands. Core version 2 is called Core 2.
* Conroe XE: Released on July 29, 2006. The Conroe XE branded CPU's were released to replace Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition processors.
* Conroe L
* Allendale
* Morem
* Morem XE
* Kentsfield
* Kentsfield XE
* Penryn
* Wolfdale
* Yorkfield
* Yorkfield XE
Lough Neagh

**Lough Neagh** is a lake in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. It is the biggest lake in Ireland and it is also the biggest lake in the United Kingdom. It is the only lake on the islands that a person cannot see the other side.

## Folklore 
In Irish mythology a giant called Fionn mac Cumhaill (finn mick cool) was fighting with a Scottish giant and he picked up a big stone to throw at the Scottish giant but he missed. The stone landed half way between Ulster and Wales and it became an island known as the Isle of Man. The hole in the ground where stone stone had been, filled up with water and became Lough Neagh.

## References
Deanna Troi

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**Deanna Troi** is a *Star Trek: The Next Generation* character. Actress Marina Sirtis played the character on the television series and several movies. 

Troi served as the ship's counselor. She is half-human and half-Betazoid. She can sense how others feel. 

She was born on March 29, 2336 on the planet Betazed. She had an older sister, called Kestra. She attended Starfleet Academy between 2355 to 2359. 

She also attended the University on Betazed were she studied psychology.
Soulcalibur

***Soulcalibur***, known in Japan as (ソウルキャリバー ***Sourukyaribā***), is a fighting video game made by Namco for the Arcades and the Dreamcast video game console.

## Other websites 
* Soulcalibur Series Website
* *Soulcalibur* at the Killer List of Videogames
* Soul Archive Namco-sponsored *Soul* series archival fansite.
* 
* Soul Calibur Poland  Polish portal and forum about Soulcalibur series.
* The Soulpedia  Soul series based wiki.
Disney's Aladdin Junior

'''''Disney's Aladdin Junior'''* (*Aladdin Jr.*) is a musical. It is based on the 1992 Disney animated movie, *Aladdin''. The music was written by Alan Menken. The lyrics were written by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. The musical is written to be performed by child actors. It is one of the musicals in the Broadway Junior series by Music Theatre International.

## Other websites
*Disney's Aladdin Jr  at Broadwayjr.com
The Master of the Mississippi

**"The Master of the Mississippi"** is the second chapter of *The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck*.

## Plot
Scrooge comes to America. Here he begins to work on his uncle Pothole McDuck's boat. Scrooge has his first adventure with the Beagle Boys finding a lost treasure. The Beagles are arrested by the police and Scrooge buys his uncle's boat. The Beagles then escape and destroy Scrooge's boat.
Unknown (mathematics)

In mathematics, an **unknown** is a number that is not known. Unknown numbers are commonly used in algebra, where they are also known as variables . They are represented by symbols such as x, y and z.

In science, an unknown value is represented by a letter in the Roman or Greek alphabet. They are used most often in physics, where equations are used to describe the relationship between physical properties. For example, in the equation E=mc^2, the letter *m* represents an unknown (in this case, mass), and the letter *E* also represents an unknown (in this case the amount of energy). If we know the value of all but one of the unknowns, then we would be able to easily find out the value of the last unknown—by *solving* the equation in terms of that last unknown.

When letters in science are used this way, not all of them represent unknowns. Some of them might be physical constants, which are values that are known to be the same and do not change. In the example above, *c* represents a known quantity, the speed of light, which is about 186 thousand miles per second. And because *c* is so large, the formula E=mc^2 tells a person who understands algebra that in an atomic reaction, a small amount of mass can produce a very large amount of energy.

## Related pages 
* Constant
* Coefficient

## References
The Richest Duck in the World

**"The Richest Duck in the World"** is the last chapter of *The life and times of Scrooge McDuck*.

## Plot
The chapter began like the movie *Citizen Kane*: opened at a huge dark mansion here somebody sit down on a chair say a word. At a street, Donald Duck and his nephews are watching TV: Scrooge is retired and lives in Manor McDuck, closed his empire. At Scrooge's mansion, Scrooge is irrited when Donald says that he spent most of his fortune into luxuries. To prove that he be wrong, Scrooge brings them up to Money Bin shows where his vault full of money. The Beagles try to steal the fortune but Scrooge and the boys pursuing us down the street and catch them. Scrooge decides to return to work and he vai begin to sell his mansion.
Online pharmacy

An **online pharmacy** is a pharmacy that operates on the Internet to sell medications to consumers.  There are online pharmacies in many countries of the world—from India, the U.S., Germany, the UK—and many other nations that sell to consumers in their own countries and often to consumers worldwide.

Depending on its location and local regulations, an online pharmacy may or may not require prescriptions to purchase prescription medications.

Prices at a given online pharmacy can vary from one city or country to another.  Typically, drug prices at online pharmacies located in countries with drug price controls in place (i.e., India, UK, Germany, South Africa) will have more affordable costs.  In contrast, costs at pharmacies in countries where there are no drug price controls (i.e., U.S.) will usually be much higher.  Especially for consumers seeking low-priced medications, it can be very worthwhile to compare prices at various online pharmacies.  Prices can vary as much as 80 percent or more for one medication from one country to another.

## Risks and concerns
* Illegal or unethical pharmacies sometimes send outdated, substituted, or counterfeit medications to the person who ordered the drug instead of the real medication.>
* Sometimes, an online pharmacy may not be located in a country that is claimed. For example, one study of drug shipments claiming to be from Canada revealed many of the drugs actually originated in several other countries and were often false medications.
* Minors can order controlled substances without adult supervision.
* Other concerns include potential lack of confidentiality, improper packaging, inability to check for drug interactions, and several other issues.

## Related pages
* Pharmacist
* Pharmaconomist

## References
Juan Egenau

**Juan Egenau Moore** (24 February 1927 – 22 April 1987) was a Chilean sculptor.

Egenau first worked in enamel and in engraving on metal.

While studying casting on a Fulbright scholarship in 1968 at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, he developed a way of modelling for sand-casting in aluminium.

## Other websites 
* Profile on the Union List of Artist Names Online
* Biography on *Biblioteca*, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
* Profile  on Portal del Arte
Foramen magnum

The **foramen magnum** is one of several holes in the base of the skull. Normally the spinal cord is attached to it.
The Foramen Magnum is the largest aperture in the primate body. This hole is located in the base of the human skull as part of the occipital bone, back of the monkey skull and in between those locations for apes. It is directly correlated with locomotion ( Humans are bipedal, monkeys quadrupedal and apes are knuckle walkers. )

## Related pages 
* brain
* spinal cord

## References
Bipedalism

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**Bipedalism** is a form of movement on the ground. Some tetrapods have evolved the ability to move on two limbs. Those that do, use their rear limbs. Some animals move on two limbs all the time, they are called *habitual bipeds*. *Optional bipeds* can move on two or four legs.

Early quadruped animals used all four limbs for locomotion but many later ones are bipedal. The earliest dinosaurs were bipedal but millions of years later some reverted and became quadrupeds. Birds are descendants of bipedal dinosaurs, and are bipeds themselves. Their forelimbs have become wings. 

Some optional bipeds stand on two legs to drive away competitors and predators, to see farther, or as body language. Their locomotion is on four limbs. 

## Examples 
Amongst mammals, apes, bears and pangolins are optional bipeds. Some small mammals can stand up on two legs quite well, but only move on four legs. Meerkats are a familiar example.

Birds carry their weight vertically. This is especially obvious in the ostrich, which is the fastest running biped.

Bipedal dinosaurs, on the other hand, carried the body more or less horizontally. The weight of the front part of the body was balanced by the weight of their tails. Dinosaurs were probably primitively bipedal, and the larger herbivores reverted to quadrupeds as their weight increased.

Pangolins are bipedal when walking on a level surface. They keep their body horizontal, and the tail balances the front part.

Some primates can walk on two feet sometimes. However, humans are the only living primates that are normally biped.

## References