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Karuizawa, Nagano

is a Japanese town in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture.

## History
Karuizawa is on the southern slope of Mount Asama. 

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In the Edo period, it was a waystation on the Kisokaido road.

In the early Meiji period, the area was developed as a health resort. 

It is a popular tourist spot for people from Tokyo who travel to Karuizawa to get away from the summer heat.

## References
## Other websites
List of lakes of Australia

There are not many natural freshwater **lakes in Australia**. This is because there was not a lot of glacial or tectonic activity in Australia.

## Types
their are six main types of lake in Australia:
* coastal lakes and lagoons including perched lakes;
* natural freshwater inland lakes. These are often ephemeral and part of wetland or swamp areas;
* glacial lakes
* salt lakes, usually dry, in the flat desert regions of the country.
* lakes which have formed in the remains of volcanoes.
* lakes made for water storage and other purposes.

A list of the notable lakes in Australia includes:

### Coastal lakes and lagoons
, South Australia, 2004.]]
 imagery of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, 2005.]]
, New South Wales, 2004.]]
 as viewed from Kanwal, New South Wales, 2006.]]

#### Perched lakes
 on Fraser Island, Queensland is a perched lake, 2004.]]

### Freshwater lakes
 in South Australia, 2010.]]
 in Tasmania.]]
, in New South Wales, viewed from , 2009.]]

### Glacial lakes
, New South Wales, 2008.]]

### Salt lakes
, Queensland, as seen from space, 2010.]]
, South Australia, 2007.]]
, part of the Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, 2005.]]

### Volcanic lakes
 near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 2009.]]

## Related pages
*List of reservoirs and dams in Australia
The Birth of a Nation

***The Birth of a Nation*** is a 1915 silent drama movie. It is a white supremacist film.  

It was directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Lillian Gish. It was based on the book *The Clansman* by Thomas Dixon, Jr.

## The movie 
The movie is about two families during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era. The Northern Stoneman family is pro-Union. The Southern Cameron family is pro-Confederacy. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized. 

## Popular success 
The movie was a great success. It is a landmark of film history. It was very controversial though. It showed African-American men (played by European-Americans actors in blackface) as stupid and sexually aggressive towards European-Americans women. It also showed the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force.

## Impact 
As a result, there were protests. The movie was banned in several cities. The outcry of racism was great. Screenings were often followed by riots and attacks.

The movie is also credited in part with the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan the same year. *The Birth of a Nation* was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.  In 1915, it was the first movie to be shown at the White House, by Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

## References
The Blood of Jesus

***The Blood of Jesus*** (1941) is a race movie.  It was written, directed, and starring Spencer Williams. It was also released as ***The Glory Road***. The movie was produced in Texas. Its budget was US$5,000.  Scenes from a 1911 Italian movie called ''L'Inferno* were used to show souls entering Heaven. The movie was screened in black theatres and black churches. It received good reviews. In 1991 *The Blood of Jesus'' became the first race movie to be chosen for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

## Story 
A church group is holding a riverside baptismal service. One of those being immersed is the recently married Martha. At home, Martha's husband Ras accidentally shoots her when his hunting rifle discharges. The church people gather at Martha’s bedside to pray. An angel arrives to take Martha’s spirit from her body. She is brought to the Crossroads between Heaven and Hell. She is tempted by the devil's agent slick Judas Green.

Judas takes Martha to a nightclub. He arranges to have her get a job there. The angel returns and advises Martha to flee. She tries to flee. A nightclub patron mistakenly believes Martha is a pickpocket who robbed him. A chase ensues. Martha races back to the Crossroads. Satan is waiting for her. The angel protects Martha from the mob. They are driven away. The sign at the Crossroad is transformed into the vision of Jesus Christ being crucified, and Christ’s blood drips down on Martha’s face. She awakens to discover she is home. Her health is restored. Martha is reunited with her husband. He has embraced religion. The angel who took Martha on her journey returns to bless their marriage.

## References
Tri-City Americans

The **Tri-City Americans** are an American professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1988. They currently play in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Kennewick, Washington at the Toyota Center. The team was originally known as the *Calgary Buffalos* and later changed their name to the *Calgary Centennials*. The Centennials were active from 67 to 77 and were later relocated to Billings, Montana and became the *Billings Bighorns*. They played in Billings from 1977 to 1998 before being relocated to Nanaimo, British Columbia and were named the *Nanaimo Islanders*. The Islanders played from 1982 to 1983 before they were moved to New Westminster, British Columbia and became the *New Westminster Bruins*. They moved to the Tri-Cities in 1988.

## Other websites
*Official website

## References
Craig Venter

**John Craig Venter** (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and entrepreneur. He was one of the first to sequence the human genome, and led the team which made the first cell with a synthetic genome (2010).

Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute. He now works at his Institute to create synthetic (artificial) biological organisms, and to record genetic diversity in the world's oceans. He was listed on *Time* magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the British magazine *New Statesman* listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".

Venter himself recognized his own ADHD behavior in his adolescence, and later found ADHD-linked genes in his own DNA. In media interviews, Venter has several times said he is an atheist.

## References 
*Venter, J. Craig 2007.  *A life decoded: my genome: my life*. New York: Viking.
LGBT rights in Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani law forbidding gay sex  was abolished in 2000.  A special edition of *Azerbaijan*, the official newspaper of the Parliament, published on 28 May, reported that the Parliament had approved a new Criminal Code, and that the President had signed a decree bringing it into force in September. The text of the new Criminal Code was also published. The old Article 113 (inherited from the Soviet era which punished anal sex between men with three years imprisonment) has been replaced with a new Article 150, which bans only forcible sexual acts.

## Modern times
When Azerbaijan became part of USSR,  homosexuality was a crime in Azerbaijan, although it was not in Russia.  After the independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, homosexual acts were legalized in 2000. and opposition journalists.

## Living conditions
## References
Synapomorphy

showing the terminology used to describe different patterns of ancestral and derived character states.]]

A **synapomorphy** is a common character. It is a term in cladistics, meaning a trait which is present in two or more species by common descent. It is a type of homologous character or homology.

More precisely, it is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose own ancestor in turn does not possess the trait. Thus, it is not just an ancestral trait, but a recently evolved distinguishing trait. It helps to distinguish between two trees of descent which would otherwise be equally likely.

## References
Conquest of the Pole

***Conquest of the Pole*** () is a 1912 silent movie. It was directed and produced by Georges Méliès. It was based on the book *The Adventures of Captain Hatteras* by Jules Verne. The movie is about a race to the north pole by different groups of balloonists. A complicated scene in the movie has a frost giant who tries to eat the crew.

## Other websites 
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Leslie Orgel

**Leslie Eleazer Orgel** FRS (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a British chemist.

Born in London, Orgel received his B.A. and Ph.D in chemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford University.

He was one of the first people to see, in April 1953, Crick and Watson's model of DNA: at the time he worked at Oxford University's Chemistry Department.

In 1964 Orgel was appointed Senior Fellow and Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he directed the Chemical Evolution Laboratory. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and he was one of five principal investigators in the NASA-sponsored NSCORT program in exobiology. Orgel also participated in NASA's Viking Mars Lander Program as a member of the Molecular Analysis Team that designed the gas chromatography mass spectrometer instrument that robots took to the planet Mars.

Orgel’s lab came across an economical way to make cytarabine, a compound that is one of today’s most commonly used anti-cancer agents.

During the 1970s, Orgel suggested reconsidering the panspermia hypothesis, according to which the earliest forms of life on earth did not originate here, but arrived from outer space with meteorites.

Together with Stanley Miller, Orgel also suggested that peptide nucleic acids – rather than ribonucleic acids – constituted the first pre-biotic systems capable of self-replication on early Earth.

His name is popularly known because of Orgel's rules, credited to him, particularly Orgel's Second Rule: "Evolution is cleverer than you are".

In his book *The Origins of Life*, Orgel coined the concept of specified complexity, to describe the criterion by which living organisms are distinguished from non-living matter. He published over three hundred articles in his research areas.

Orgel died of cancer on 27 October 2007 at the San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care in San Diego, California.

## Awards
*Fellow of the Royal Society
*National Academy of Sciences
*American Academy of Arts and Sciences

## Publications
*Leslie E. Orgel, *An introduction to transition-metal chemistry: the ligand field theory*. 1961
*Leslie E. Orgel, *The origins of life: molecules and natural selection*. 1973
*Leslie E. Orgel and Stanley L. Miller, *The origins of life on the Earth*. 1974

## References
Philip Larkin

**Philip Arthur Larkin** CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was a English poet and novelist.

Larkin was born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, where he attended primary and secondary school. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford with a double first in English language and literature.

Larkin spent the latter years of his life in Hull, where he was a librarian at the University of Hull. Larkin died in Hull, Humberside, of oesophageal cancer.

## References
LGBT rights in the Maldives

Homosexuality is illegal in the Maldives. In addition, the Maldives was one of the 67 signatory nations opposing the UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity, which failed to pass.

## Constitutional framework
In 2009 the Maldives enacted  a new Constitution that included a chapter on rights and freedoms, demonstrating the desire to embrace a new culture of human rights. However, this did not include any resolutions regarding LGBT human rights issues.

## Recognition of same-sex relationships 
The Maldives does not recognize same-sex marriages, civil unions, or domestic partnerships.

## Discrimination protections 
There is no legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Drake

**Drake** may mean:

## People 
* Drake (musician), Canadian rapper, singer and actor

## Places 
* Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica

## Other uses 
* A male duck
* Drake is a word used to describe (particular types of) dragon or similar creatures.

* Drake equation
* Drake, Caldari battlecruiser in the video game *EVE Online*
* In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth pseudo-mythology, "drake" (and "worm") is a word for dragon
Skyler Gisondo

**Skyler Gisondo** (born July 22, 1996) is an American actor. Gisondo is probably best known for his roles as Bryan Pearson on *The Bill Engvall Show*, Tommy Doyle in Rob Zombie's *Halloween*, and B-Dawg in the *Air Buddies* series. He has also been in TV shows such as *ER*, *Everybody Loves Raymond*, *Cold Case*, *Criminal Minds*, *My Name Is Earl*, *House* and *CSI*.

## References
## Other websites
*
View of Delft

***View of Delft*** is an oil painting. It was painted by Johannes Vermeer between about 1660 and 1661. The painting shows Vermeer's hometown. It is one of his most popular pictures. It is one of three paintings of Delft by Vermeer. The others are *The Little Street* and the lost painting *House Standing in Delft*. In 2011, the painting was featured on gold and silver commemorative coins issued by the Royal Dutch Mint.

## References
Chrissie Maher

**Chrissie Maher**, OBE (born 1938) is a British advocate for the use of plain English. She is a co-founder of the Plain English Campaign. This organisation promotes the clear use of English, especially by businesses and official bodies. Her campaign began in 1971 when she founded the United Kingdom's first community newspaper, the *Tuebrook Bugle*. That gave her the chance to write articles saying that organisations should start using plain English. In 1974, Maher went on to start *The Liverpool News*. It was the UK's first newspaper for adults with reading difficulties. She was also a member of the UK's National Consumer Council. Later, she founded the Plain English Campaign at a demonstration in London in 1979.

As an example of the language issues Maher found objectionable: in 1994, she pointed out that Britain's National Health Service published a definition of the term "bed" that used 229 words.

For her efforts, Maher was awarded the OBE in 1993.

## References
## Other websites
* Plain English Campaign Homepage
Faust (1926 movie)

***Faust*** is a 1926 German silent movie. It was  directed by F. W. Murnau. It stars Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, and Camilla Horn as Gretchen. The story is about an old man who sells his soul to the devil. In return he becomes young again. The movie uses both traditional tales of Faust and Goethe's play. The movie was difficult and expensive to make. *Faust* was Murnau's last German movie. He moved to the United States to direct *Sunrise*. The "Bald Mountain" scene in the movie inspired the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment in Walt Disney's *Fantasia*.

## References 
* Eisner, Lotte H. 1973. *Murnau*. University of California Press. .

## Other websites 
* 
* *Faust * at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films  list
* 
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* DVD review by Gary Johnson
Miranda Lambert

**Miranda Leigh Lambert**

She has four solo albums released as of 2011 and one with country supergroup Pistol Annies. Some of her most known songs are "Gunpowder and Lead", "Kerosene", "The House That Built Me", "White Liar", "Heart Like Mine", and "Baggage Claim".

## Discography
;Studio albums
* *Kerosene* (2005)
* *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2007)
* *Revolution* (2009)
* *Four the Record* (2011)
* *Platinum* (2014)
* *The Weight of These Kings* (2016)
* *Wildcard* (2019)
* *Palomino* (2022)
* *Postcards from Texas* (2024)

;Collaborative albums
* *The Marfa Tapes* (with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall) (2021)

;Singles
* "Fastest Girl in Town" (2012)
* "Tin Man" (2017)

## Related pages
* List of country musicians from Texas

## References
Blake Shelton

**Blake Tollison Shelton** (born June 18, 1976) is an American country singer and television personality. Shelton is signed to Warner Nashville. Some of his most known songs are "Ol' Red", "Some Beach", "Hillbilly Bone", "Kiss My Country Ass", "Honey Bee", "God Gave Me You", and "Drink on It". He has been a judge on *The Voice* since April 2011.

## Early life
He was born in Ada, Oklahoma. 

## Personal life 
Shelton was married to country singer Miranda Lambert from 2011 until 2015.  He is currently in a relationship with singer Gwen Stefani.   The couple announced their engagement on October 27, 2020, and married at a chapel on July 3, 2021, at Shelton's Oklahoma ranch.  

The two collaborated on the song "You Make It Feel like Christmas", featured on Stefani's 2017 Christmas album of the same 

## Singles
*"Sangria (see Sangria; 2015)
*"I Lived It" (2018)
*"Minium Wage (2021)
*"Come Back as a Country Boy" (2021)

## Related pages
*List of country musicians from Oklahoma

## References
Jonathan Soriano

**Jonathan Soriano Casas** (born 24 September 1985 in El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, Barcelona, Catalonia) is a former Spanish footballer. He played as  forward.
## Career
He started his career aged 15 in Espanyol Barcelona's second team. With 19 he signed a professional contract and was loaned to the then Segunda División club UD Almería. He returned to Espanyol for the 2006/07 season. Soriano was loaned out again for the second half of the season to Polideportivo Ejido. He spent the 2007/2008 season again at Espanyol and was used regularly for the first time. The first half of the following season he played for Espanyol.In the second half of the season he was on loan for Albacete Balompié.

In 2009  Soriano went to FC Barcelona B. With the reserve team of FC Barcelona, he rose to the Segunda División in his first season. He was his team's top scorer with 18 goals. In the 2010/11 season he was top scorer in the league with 32 goals in 36 games. 

On 19 January   2012, Soriano signed a contract until June 2015 with FC Red Bull Salzburg.  He scored his first goal for RB Salzburg in a 2-1 home win over SC Wiener Neustadt. In the 2012/13 season under new coach Roger Schmidt  he scored 26 goals in 33 Bundesliga games and gave 7 assists. In the 2013/14 season he recorded 31 goals and 17 assists in 28 games. He was top scorer in the Bundesliga. After 2012, he also won the double again with FC Red Bull Salzburg. After the end of the Europa League season, he was the top scorer in this competition with his eight goals. 2014/15 he was again top scorer of the Bundesliga. In the following championship season 2015/16, he won the cup and the championship with the team for the third time in a row. Soriano was again top scorer in both competitions.

On 27 February   2017 he went to Beijing Guoan in China. In two years in China, he made 31 appearances in the Chinese Super League, scoring 25 goals. After the end of his contract  he moved to al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia in January 2019. In August 2019 he returned to Spain and joined second division club FC Girona.  On 24 September  2021 he ended his active career.
## International
Soriano went through all Spanish youth national teams up to the U-21. In December 2012 he was called up to the Catalan football team for the friendly against Nigeria on 2 January 2013. 

## Honours
*   Österreichischer Meister: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
* Austrian Cup: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
* Copa del Rey: 2006
*Player of the season in Austria:: 2013/14, 2014/15
* Topscorer UEFA Europa League: 2014 (8 goals)
* Topscorer Bundesliga: 2014 (31 goals), 2015 (31 goals), 2016 (21 goals)
*Topscorer Austrian Cup: 2015 (7 goals), 2016 (10 goals)
*Topscorer  Segunda División: 2011 (32 Tore)
*    VdF-Player of the year (Bruno): 2015, 2016
*    UEFA Team of the Year: 2014 (nomination)

## References
## Other websites 
*
Battle of Balaclava

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The **Battle of Balaclava** was a battle of the Crimean War. It was on 25 October 1854 by the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and the United Kingdom against the Russian Empire. The battle ended with a Russian victory. Two of the most important events of the Crimean 
War took place during the Battle of Balaclava.

## The Thin Red Line 
The 93rd Highland Regiment, which was dressed almost only in red, formed a line that was two men thick and stood its ground despite a charge by the Russian cavalry.

## The Charge of the Light Brigade 
The charge was made by the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, under the command of Major General the Earl of Cardigan. Many people died in the charge since 278 of the over 670 soldiers were killed. The event inspired the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, of the same name.
HP

The shortcut **HP** can mean

* Hewlett-Packard, a electronics company
* Harry Potter, a book series about magic
* Himachal Pradesh, a state in India
* HP postcode area, a group of UK postal districts
*Hit Points, a stat common in role-playing games
Plano, Texas

**Plano** is a city in the state of Texas in the United States. It is the ninth largest city in the state. Over 280,000 people live there. It has a humid subtropical climate (*Cfa* in the Koeppen climate classification).

Plano has the  of many large businesses, including:
*Frito-Lay
*Dell Services, a division of Dell
*HP Enterprise Services, a division of Hewlett-Packard
*Dr Pepper Snapple Group
*Siemens PLM Software, a division of the Siemens group
*Ericsson
*J. C. Penney
*Capital One Financial Services
*Pizza Hut

## References
Fargo (1996 movie)

***Fargo*** is a 1996 American black comedy-drama crime thriller movie. The Coen brothers made this movie, which is set in 1987. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy star in the movie as a detective, a criminal, and a car salesman, . It is a dark comedy about the police investigation of some murders and bad business activities.

In 2006 it was put into the United States National Film Registry because the group thought it was culturally, historically, or  important enough to be recognized in their collection. It inspired a TV series *of the same name*

Part of the movie is set in Fargo, North Dakota. The majority is set in Minneapolis and Brainerd, Minnesota. It shows the culture and accent of many of the people who live there.

## References 
## Other websites 
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The Gold Rush

***The Gold Rush*** is a 1925 silent movie. It was written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin. He stars in the movie, too. The movie is set in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Chaplin plays the Little Tramp. It was a character he created. The Little Tramp appeared in many Chaplin movies. In this movie, the Little Tramp has many adventures with other prospectors. He falls in love with a saloon girl. Critics liked the movie. One critic wrote, "Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness. It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as *The Kid* and *Shoulder Arms*."  In 1992 *The Gold Rush* was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Chaplin hoped that people would remember him for this movie.

## References 
## Other websites 
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* 
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* The Greatest Films: *The Gold Rush*
* Bibliography
Lee Remick

**Lee Ann Remick** (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress. She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. She played the female lead in *Anatomy of a Murder*, *Days of Wine and Roses* and *The Omen*.

Remick won a Golden Globe award in 1973. In 1975 she won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA award.

Remick died of kidney cancer in Los Angeles, California.

## Other websites 
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Viktor Kozin

**Viktor Mikhailovich Kozin** () (born February 22, 1953) is a Russian naval engineer, ship designer and inventor of a new method of icebreaking, called the resonance method of ice destruction. He received his Assistant Professorship in Technical Sciences (Ph.D.) for his work *Mechanics of deformable solids* in Vladivostok in 1994. He became a full Professor in 1996 and was awarded the title Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation in 2000. Since 2008 he is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS).

Kozin was awarded a diploma from the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1999) and won grants from the Russian Ministry of Education (2006). He received multiple prizes for his academic and scientific achievements in the theory of watercraft statics and dynamics, design of vessels, hydraulics and hydromechanics, ship and submarine construction. He is the author of two textbooks in naval engineering and 12 works on the methods of education in the area of naval design.

## References 
*Encyclopedia - SCIENTISTS OF RUSSIA - scientists from the CIS and countries of CIS
*Scientific Electronic Library - monographs published by the publishing house of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

## Other websites 
* Telecast "Time, City, People, 2002 ". About Kozin VM STRC "Komsomolsk" Part 1
* Telecast "Time, City, People, 2002 ". About Kozin VM STRC "Komsomolsk" Part 2
Rajesh Khanna

**Rajesh Khanna** (29 December 1942  18 July 2012) was an Indian actor in movies. He became very famous in Bollywood after Shakti Samantha's movie *Aradhana*. Rajesh played both the father and son in that movie. Some of his well-known movies are *Anand*, *Kati Patang*, *Safar*, *Sacha Jhuta*, *Raja Rani*, *Bawarchi* and *Amar Prem*.

## Other websites 
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Mount Vernon

**Mount Vernon** was the plantation home of George Washington, the first President of the United States. It is located near Alexandria, Virginia. The house was designed by Washington and built of wood in 1757. It is in the neoclassical Georgian architectural style. Mount Vernon is on the banks of the Potomac River. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned and maintained in trust by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. It is open every day of the year. Mount Vernon is on the  list of World Heritage Sites in the United States.

The property was long called Little Hunting Creek Plantation but Lawrence Washington, George's older half-brother, renamed it for Edward Vernon, his commander in the Royal Navy. Laurence died in 1753 and George eventually inherited the estate.

## Gallery

File:MountVernonrear.jpg|Eastern facade facing the Potomac
File:MTVernonseenfromtheriver.jpg|House and grounds seen from the Potomac

## Related pages
* List of World Heritage Sites in the United States

## References
## Other websites 
* Official website of Mount Vernon
* National Historic Landmark: Mount Vernon 
* National Shrine: Bringing George Washington Back to Life 
*"Life Portrait of George Washington", broadcast from Mount Vernon
The Thief of Bagdad

***The Thief of Bagdad*** is a 1924 silent movie. It was directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars Douglas Fairbanks. The plot was adapted from *One Thousand and One Nights*. The movie is about a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. Fairbanks was very athletic. This movie provided many moments for gymnastics.  The movie was Fairbanks's favorite among all his movies.

*Thief* gave Fairbanks a new direction. He was a comedy star, but after this movie he became a "swashbuckler". The movie had many special effects such as flying carpets and monsters and magical Djinn. The Arabian-style set was huge. The movie was remade twice: once in 1940 with Sabu and then in 1961 with Steve Reeves. The Fairbanks version was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1996.

## References 
* Whitford, Eileen. 2007. *Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood*. The University Press of Kentucky. .

## Other websites 
* 
* *The Thief of Bagdad* at Rotten Tomatoes
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton

***Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton*** is the second album by American rapper, Eazy-E. The album was released on November 24, 1995. The producers of the album were DJ Yella, Naughty by Nature, Rhythm D, K Loc, Mike E. Clark. It was Eazy-E's last full length album before he died. It was released posthumously about eight months after his death. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song "Ole School Shit" was a diss track to Tha Dogg Pound, Dr. Dre, Tweedy Bird Loc and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The song "Wut Would You Do" was also a diss track to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre.

## Songs
## References
Megalomania

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**Megalomania** is an extreme obsession with power and self-importance, often involving exaggerated or delusional beliefs about one's abilities or status. People with megalomania have delusional fantasies that they are more relevant (important) or powerful than they truly are. They have inflated self esteem and overestimate their powers and beliefs. People with megalomania tend to exhibit a disposition that is less inclined towards humbleness. 

The word "megalomania" is no longer used in the mental health field, and is not mentioned in either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD). Instead, this condition is now called narcissistic personality disorder. The condition affects both men and women. 

The word "megalomania" comes from two Greek words: "μεγαλο" (megalo-), meaning large or great, and "μανία" (mania), meaning madness or frenzy.

## Related pages
* Arrogance
* Confidence
* Dunning–Kruger effect
* Narcissism
Waltz of the Flowers

The "**Waltz of the Flowers**" (1892) is a piece of orchestral music from the second act of *The Nutcracker*, a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky.  Tchaikovsky told his fellow musicians he was working on a "fantastic" ballet called *The Nutcracker*: "It's awfully fun to write a march for tin soldiers, a waltz of the flowers, etc." The waltz is also the last number in his *Nutcracker Suite*.  The "Waltz of the Flowers" is very popular. It has been arranged for various instruments and for various combinations of instruments. Percy Grainger arranged the waltz for piano solo as *Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz*.  Walt Disney Studios animated the waltz for the movie *Fantasia*.
*Waltz of the Flowers* wins Academy Award for Animated Short Film characters: Thumbelina, Janessa, Chrysella from *Barbie Presents Thumbelina*.

## References 
## Other websites 
* "Waltz of the Flowers", a compilation of images of Tchaikovsky accompanied by "Waltz of the Flowers"
* "Waltz of the Flowers", the Mariinsky Ballet (Kirov Ballet) in October 1993 at Mariinsky Theater in St Petersburg
* "Waltz of the Flowers" played on an organ
Sinbad the Sailor

**Sinbad the Sailor** is a fictional character in the *One Thousand and One Nights* (*The Arabian Nights*). He is a sailor. His stories take place in the days of Haroun al-Rashid. Sindbad is an Arab from Baghdad (modern day Iraq). He has many adventures. He meets monsters such as The Old Man of the Sea and the Roc. There are seven stories about Sinbad's journeys. They are sometimes a part of the Scheherazade stories. The Sinbad stories have been made into movies and animated cartoons. 

## Other websites 
* Story of Sindbad The Sailor
* 21 Illustrations by the German cartoon pioneer Stefan Mart, from *Tales of the Nations* (1933)
* Sindbad's Middle-European reincarnation
Apollo 7

**Apollo 7** was a mission in the NASA's Apollo program. It was the first crewed mission in the Apollo program and the first crewed US space flight after Apollo 1 disaster. The mission was a C type mission. Apollo 7 was launched on October 11, 1968 and stayed in space for 10 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes and three seconds. It orbited the Earth. Apollo 7 was the first crewed launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle and the first three-person US space mission. The crew were Commander Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was designed to test the re-made Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. The crew orbited in Earth orbit so that they could check life-support, propulsion and control systems. The mission was a success. It gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 later. 

## References
## Other websites
* NASA NSSDC Master Catalog
Arata Isozaki

is a Japanese architect.

## Early life
Isozaki was born in Ōita.

He studied with Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kurokawa, and Fumihiko Maki at the University of Tokyo.

In 2005, Arata Isozaki started another office in Italy called Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates.

Isozaki was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2019.

## List of projects
* Ōita Prefectural Library, Ōita, Japan, 1966
* Team Disney,  Orlando, Florida, US, 1992
* University of Central Asia's three campuses in Tekeli, Kazakhstan; Naryn, the Kyrgyz Republic; and Khorog, Tajikistan, 2004
* *Torino Palasport Olimpico*, Turin, Italy, 2006
* Diamond Island, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2006
* 2012 — Bologna Station, Bologna, Italy
* 2014 — Citylife, Milan, Italy

## Honors
* Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Gold Medal, 1986

## References
## Other websites
* Arata Isozaki & associates website
The Great Train Robbery

***The Great Train Robbery*** is a 1903 western silent movie. It was written, directed, produced, and photographed by Edwin S. Porter. It is 12 minutes long. It is thought to be an important step in making movies. It expanded upon Porter's previous movie *Life of an American Fireman*. The movie used many new moviemaking techniques. These techniques included cross cutting, camera movement, and on-location shooting. Some prints of the movie were also hand colored in certain scenes. It was shot in Milltown, New Jersey. The movie has been chosen for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

## Other websites 
* [Download from the Library of Congress](http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+2443s3))+@field(COLLID+edison))) (in MPEG-1, RealVideo or QuickTime format)
* 
* Great Films: *The Great Train Robbery*
Okazaki, Aichi

is a Japanese city in Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

It has been  as a core city since 2003.

## History
In the Edo period, *Fujikawa-shuku* was one of the fifty-three shogunate-maintained waystations (*shuku-eki*) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

## Education
### Universities and colleges
* National Institutes of Natural Sciences
* National Institute for Basic Biology
* Aichi Gakusen University
* Aichi Gakusen College
* Aichi Sangyo University
* University of Human Environments
* Okazaki Women's Junior College

## Sister cities
* Newport Beach, California, United States, Since November 1984
* Uddevalla, Sweden, since September 1968
* Hohhot, People's Republic of China, since August 1987

## People from Okazaki
*Yuki Fukaya – professional soccer player
*Motoo Kimura - biologist
*Takashi Kondō – voice actor
*Kotomitsuki Keiji – sumo wrestler
*Satoru Nakajima – race car driver
*Kazuki Nakajima – race car driver
*Hiromasa Yamamoto – professional soccer player

## Related pages
* *The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō*

## References
## Other websites
* Okazaki website
C-sharp

**C-sharp** (also written as **C** or **C#**) could mean:

* C-sharp major, musical scale
* C-sharp minor, musical scale
* C# (programming language)
Rumour Has It (Adele song)

"**Rumour Has It**" is the fourth hit single from the Adele album *21*. It was released on 5 November 2011. The song was given lots of positive reviews from music critics in. The song was written by Adele along with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, who also produced the song.  It reached number 16 on the charts in the US and Canada.  In the US, it was certified double-Platinum for shipments of over two million copies.
Segmentation

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**Segmentation** in biology means the division of some animal and plant bodies into a series of repeat sections or parts. It is common in some of the most successful groups of animals, such as arthropods, vertebrates and annelid worms. 

Segmentation of the body allows different regions of the body to develop for different uses.

## Genes regulating development 
We now know a good deal about how the development of segmented animals is controlled. In a series of experiments with the fruit-fly *Drosophila*, E.B. Lewis was able to identify a complex of genes whose proteins bind to the regulatory regions of target genes. The latter then activate or repress cell processes which direct the final development of the organism. 

Furthermore, the sequence of these control genes show *co-linearity*: the order of the loci in the chromosome parallels the order in which the loci are expressed along the anterior-posterior axis of the body. Not only that, but this cluster of master control genes programs the development of all higher organisms. 

Each of the genes contains a homeobox, a remarkably conserved DNA sequence. This suggests the complex itself arose by gene duplication. 

In his Nobel lecture, Lewis said "Ultimately, comparisons of the [control complexes] throughout the animal kingdom should provide a picture of how the organisms, as well as the [control genes] have evolved".

## References
What Makes You Beautiful

"**What Makes You Beautiful**" was the first single released by the British-Irish boyband One Direction. It is from their album *Up All Night* (2011). It was released by Syco Records on 11 September 2011. Written by Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk and Savan Kotecha and produced by Yacoub and Falk, "What Makes You Beautiful" is a teen pop song.

"What Makes You Beautiful" sold 153,965 copies in its first week. In the United States, the single became the highest Billboard Hot 100 debut for a U.K. act since 1998.

## References
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

is an art museum in Japan. It is on a hill in Tobata ward of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture.

The museum has 6,000 artworks.

The collection of Western art includes a portrait of Edouard Manet and his wife painted by Edgar Degas in 1869.

The current building was designed by Arata Isozaki.  It was built in 1974.

## History
The municipal art collection was established in the 19th century.

## References
## Other websites
* Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art website 
* "Campaign & Products," 2004 exhibition
Blue Danube Waltz

***On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314*** is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1867 for the Vienna Men's Singing Society.  It was written for four-part choir with orchestra or piano. The words were written by Josef Weyl. It was first performed on 15 February 1867 by the Vienna Men's Singing Society and the orchestra of the Forty-Second Infantry Regiment directed by Rudolph Weinwurm. The waltz was first played in the United States in its instrumental version on 1 July 1867 in New York. It was first played in Great Britain on 21 September 1867 in London at the promenade concerts in Covent Garden. The instrumental version is usually performed today. On New Year's Eve in Vienna, the waltz is broadcast on television and radio stations at midnight. It is an encore piece at the Vienna New Year's Day Concert.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Sheet music for "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" for 1 piano, John Church Company, 1868.
Xerophile

**Xerophiles** are extremophile organisms that can grow and reproduce in conditions with almost no water.

Many moulds and yeasts are xerophilic. Mould growth on bread is an example of food spoilt by a xerophilic fungus.

Examples:
**Trichosporonoides nigrescens*.
*Cacti are also a type of xerophile.
*Tardigrades can survive for almost a decade without exposure to water.
*Soil microbes of the Atacama Desert

## Related pages 
*Xerophyte

## References
Molly Ringwald

**Molly Kathleen Ringwald** (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress. She was born in Roseville, California. She is best known for her starring roles in John Hughes movies *Sixteen Candles* (1984), *The Breakfast Club* (1985), and *Pretty in Pink* (1986).

## Other websites 
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Dirty Dancing

***Dirty Dancing*** is a 1987 American romantic drama movie directed by Emile Ardolino. It is set in 1963 in the Catskill Mountains, New York. It stars Jennifer Grey as a 17 year old on vacation and Patrick Swayze as the resort's dance instructor. The movie did very well at the box office and it became a cult classic.

A remake was released in 2017.

## Other websites 
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Ensemble

ensemble.]]

An **ensemble** is a group of people who work or perform together. By extension, it can mean a coordinated outfit of clothing, or anything where a group contributes to a coordinated whole.

The term is most used in music. A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets often group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles. The term is also used in jazz, where the instruments typically include wind instruments.

An ensemble usually consists of three or four people with similar skill levels. The word originated in late middle English (as an adverb) meaning "at the same time". It is from French, based on the Latin *insimul*. The noun dates from the mid 18th century.

## References
New Japan Pro Wrestling roster

The **New Japan Pro Wrestling roster** is a list of professional wrestlers who are  by New Japan Pro Wrestling.

## Roster
## References
## Other websites
*Roster at njpw.co.jp
Ternary form

**Ternary form** is a musical form. It is also called song form or minuet and trio. These forms all have three distinct sections. The three sections are written in shorthand as ABA. The music in the A sections is the same, or very nearly the same. The music in the B section is different from the A sections. The B section usually provides some sort of musical contrast to the A sections. It may be composed in a different but related key, for example. The B section is often called the "trio", especially in minuets, scherzi, marches, polonaises, etc. The B section came to be called the "trio" because a Baroque composer consistently scored this section in his minuets for three instruments.

## Sources
* "Binary and ternary form" in the *Harvard Dictionary of Music*, 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged (1969). Willi Apel, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
* See "Trio (2)" in the *Harvard Dictionary of Music*, 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged (1969). Willi Apel, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
La Dispute

**La Dispute** is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2004 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have released two albums and seven EPs. The band consists of Jordan Dreyer (vocals), Brad Vander Lugt (drums), Chad Sterenberg and Kevin Whittemore (guitars) and Adam Vass (bass). La Dispute released two full-leght albums, three singles, one musical video, five EPs and two slipts.

## Style
The genre of the band is post-hardcore and experimental rock, with blues and spoken word. They also play music which sound like screamo, progressive rock, post-rock, melodic hardcore, metalcore, emo, hardcore punk. The band influences are Thursday, Refused, At the Drive-In and Glassjaw. Brad Vander Lugt cites blues and jazz influences too.

## Members 
;Current members
*Jordan Dreyer - lead vocals (since 2004)
*Chad Sterenberg - rhythm guitar, synthesizers, trumpet, glockenspiel, percussion, backing vocals (since 2006)
*Kevin Whittemore - lead guitar, backing vocals (since 2004)
*Adam Vass - bass, baritone guitar, additional guitars, backing vocals (since 2006)
*Brad Vanger Lugt - drums, piano, keyboards, percussion backing vocals (since 2004)

;Former members
*Derek Sterenberg - rhythm guitar (2004–2006)
*Adam Kool - bass (2004–2006)

## Discography 
;Albums
**Somewhere At the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair* (No Sleep Records, 2008)
**Wildlife* (No Sleep Records, 2011) US #161 / US Heat #6 / US Indie #27

; Extended Playss
**Vancouver* (Friction Records, 2006)
**Untitled 7"* (Forest Life Records, 2008)
**Here, Hear.* (Forest Life Records, 2008)
**Here, Hear II.*(No Sleep Records, 2008)
**Here, Hear III.* (Self-released, 2009)
**Searching For A Pulse/The Worth Of The World* (with Touché Amoré) (No Sleep Records, 2010)
**Never Come Undone* (with Koji) (No Sleep Records, 2011)

; Singles
* *Such Small Hands* (2009) - *Somewhere At the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair*
* *The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit* (2011) - *Wildlife*
* *Harder Harmonies* (2011) - *Wildlife*

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website
* Official MySpace
* Official Facebook
Kaley Cuoco

**Kaley Christine Cuoco** (born November 30, 1985) is an American actress. She was born in Camarillo, California. She played major roles in *8 Simple Rules* and *Charmed*. She plays the main female character Penny in *The Big Bang Theory*.

Cuoco married tennis player Ryan Sweeting on December 31, 2013. The couple said in September 2015 that they are going to divorce.

## Other websites 
*
Cursive (band)

**Cursive** is an American indie rock band, from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 1995. They are currently signed by Saddle Creek Records. The discography of Cursive, consists of six studio albums, one compilation album, nine slipts/EPs, six promo-singles, and eleven music videos.

## Members 
; Current members
*Tim Kasher – lead vocals, organ, piano, keyboards, guitars (1995–present)
*Ted Stevens – guitars, additional keyboards, backing vocals (1999–present)
*Matt Maginn – bass, additional keyboards (1995–present)
*Cully Symington – drums, percussion (2009–present)
; Former members
*Steve Pedersen – guitars (1995–1998)
*Gretta Cohn – cello (2001-2005)
*Clint Schnase – drums, percussion (1995–2008)
*Matthew Compton – drums, percussion (2008-2009)

## Discography 
; Studio albums
**Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes* (1997, Crank! Records)
**The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song* (1998, Saddle Creek Records)
**Domestica* (2000, Saddle Creek Records)
**The Ugly Organ* (2003, Saddle Creek Records) US Indie #9 / US Heat #19
**Happy Hollow* (2006, Saddle Creek Records) US #96 / US Indie #8
*''Mama, I'm Swollen* (2009, Saddle Creek Records) US #104 / US Indie #11
**I Am Gemini* (2012, Saddle Creek Records)

; Compilation albums
**The Difference Between Houses and Homes* (2005) US Indie #37 / US Heat #21

; Slipts / EPs
* *The Disruption* (1996, Lumberjack Records)
* *Sucker and Dry* (1997, Zero Hour Records)
* *The Icebreaker 7"* (1998, Saddle Creek Records)
* *Silver Scooter / Cursive* (1999, Crank! Records)
* *Burst and Bloom* (2001, Saddle Creek Records)
* *Small Brown Bike / Cursive* (2001, Makoto Records)
* *8 Teeth to Eat You* (2002, Better Looking Records / Five One Records)
* *Cursive / Ladyfinger (ne)* (2009, Saddle Creek Records)
* *The Sun and Moon* (2012, Saddle Creek Records)

; Promotional singles
* *Art Is Hard* (2003) - The Ugly Organ
* *The Recluse* (2004) - The Ugly Organ
* *Dorothy at Forty* (2007) - Happy Hollow
* *Bad Sects* (2007) - Happy Hollow
* *Big Bang* (2007) - Happy Hollow
* *Discovering America* (2010) - n/a

; Singles / videography
* *Bloody Murderer* (2003) - The Ugly Organ
* *Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand* (2003) - The Ugly Organ
* *Art Is Hard* (2003) - The Ugly Organ
* *The Recluse* (2004) - The Ugly Organ
* *A Disruption in the Normal Swing of Things* (2005) - The Difference Between Houses and Homes
* *Dorothy at Forty* (2006) - Happy Hollow
* *Big Bang* (2007) - Happy Hollow
* *Bad Sects* (2007) - Happy Hollow
* *From the Hips'' (2009) - Mama, I'm Swollen
* ''I Couldn't Love You'' (2009) - Mama, I'm Swollen
* *Let Me Up* (2009) - Mama, I'm Swollen

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website http://www.cursivearmy.com
* MySpace http://www.myspace.com/cursive