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The Falling Man

**The Falling Man** is the title of an article about a photograph taken by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 a.m., on September 11, 2001. The story was written by Tom Junod and appeared in the September 2003 issue of Esquire magazine. It is about the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City. The man in the photo, Jonathan Briley, is known as *The Falling Man*. He himself had worked in the twin towers and was shown on video attempting to climb down the side of the tower using a rope likely made from clothing. He either lost his grip or the rope broke, and he plunged to his death. His fall was captured in the famous photo.
BSA

**BSA** could stand for:

* Boy Scouts of America
* Birmingham Small Arms Company, a British manufacturer of military equipment and vehicles including motorcycles
Blues-rock

**Blues rock** is a type of music which mixes blues with rock and roll, and uses mostly electric guitar as a main instrument. It began in the mid 1960s in England and the United States with bands such as Cream and The Rolling Stones, who experimented with music from the older bluesmen like Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley.

## Examples of Artists
*Allman Brothers Band
*Mike Bloomfield
*Joe Bonamassa
*Eric Clapton
*Fleetwood Mac
*Rory Gallagher
*Jimi Hendrix
*John Mayall
*The Rolling Stones
*Carlos Santana
*Lynyrd Skynyrd
*George Thorogood 
*Status Quo
*Stevie Ray Vaughan
*Johnny Winter
*ZZ Top
*David Wilcox

## Sources
Avon

**Avon** can mean:
* River Avon, various rivers. Usually it means the River Avon in Devon.
* Avon (county), a former county of England
* Avon Water, a river in Scotland

## Places
### Australia 
* Avon, South Australia

### Canada 
* Avon, New Brunswick, in the province of New Brunswick
* Avon, Ontario, in the province of Ontario
* Black Avon, Nova Scotia, in the province of Nova Scotia
* New Avon, New Brunswick, in the province of New Brunswick

### France 
* Avon, Seine-et-Marne, a commune in the département of Seine-et-Marne
* Avon, Deux-Sèvres, a commune in the département of Deux-Sèvres
* Avon-la-Pèze, a commune in the département of Aube
* Avon-les-Roches, a commune in the département of Indre-et-Loire

### United States 
* Avon, Alabama
* Avon, Colorado
* Avon, Connecticut
* Avon, Illinois
* Avon, Indiana
* Avon, Maine
* Avon, Massachusetts
* Avon, Minnesota, a city
* Avon, Montana, a town 
* Avon (town), New York, a town
* Avon (village), New York, a village 
* Avon, North Carolina
* Avon, Ohio, a city 
* Avon, Pennsylvania, a town
* Avon, South Dakota, a city 
* Avon, Utah, a town 
* Avon, Wisconsin, a town 
* Avon-by-Sea, New Jersey, a borough
* Avon Lake, Ohio, a city 
* Avon Park, Florida, a city 
There are also several Avon Townships.

## Businesses and brands 
* Avon (publishers), an imprint of the publisher HarperCollins
* Avon Comics, a comic book company
* Avon Inflatables, Ltd, a manufacturer of inflatable boats, RIBs and marine safety equipment
* Avon Products, Inc., a US cosmetics company
* Avon Rubber, a manufacturer of rubber products
* Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, *Avon Tyres*, a UK racing-tyre manufacturer, owned by the Cooper Tire brand
* The Rolls-Royce Avon, a jet engine

## People (real and fictional) 
* Kerr Avon, a character in the Blake's 7 science-fiction television series.
* Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 
* Avon Cobourne, American football player
AboutUs.com

**AboutUs.com** is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information. It was created by Ray King in 2006. It started in Portland, Oregon, where the website's headquarters is today. Ray King started AboutUs with only five people working with him, but, now he has more than thirty-five employees. AboutUs is in two different continents now, and they have an office in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

## References
## Other websites
*
Nile Delta

satellite photograph of the Nile Delta (shown in false colour)]]

The **Nile Delta** () is the delta formed in Northern Egypt (Lower Egypt) where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers some 240&nbsp;km of Mediterranean coastline—and is a rich agricultural region. From north to south the delta is approximately 160&nbsp;km in length. The Delta begins slightly down-river from Cairo. Dams at Aswan farther upstream on the Nile have stopped further addition of the silt that built the delta in past centuries. Because of this, the delta is shrinking.

## Shape and composition 
The Nile is considered to be an "arcuate" delta (arc-shaped), and resembles a triangle or lotus flower when seen from above. 

## Climate 
The Nile Delta has a Mediterranean climate, characterized by little rainfall. Only 100 to 200&nbsp;mm of rain falls on the delta area during an average year, and most of this falls in the winter months. The delta experiences its hottest temperatures in July and August, averaging 30&nbsp;°C, with a  maximum of around 48&nbsp;°C. Winter temperatures are normally in the range of 5° to 10&nbsp;°C. The Nile Delta region becomes quite humid during the summer months. The Nile Delta is currently eroding.

## Ancient and modern cities in the Delta region 
* Alexandria

* Cairo

## References 
1. p87 in W. Hayes, 'Most Ancient Egypt', JNES, 23 (1964), 73-114.

## Other websites 
* keyway.ca 
* worldwildlife.org
*
Polypropylene

**Polypropylene (PP)**, or **polypropene**, is a type of plastic. It is a thermoplastic polymer which can be made into a fibre for yarn and fabric, film for packaging, or many other shapes. 

As a plastic it can be made translucent but usually is opaque and often brightly colored. It is tough, and resists many solvents, acids and bases.

It can be formed into a thin thread and woven into a strong strap, often used on backpacks, bags, and other things.

In 2008, the global market for polypropylene had a volume of 45.1 million metric tons, which led to a turnover of about $65 billion (€47.4 billion).

## Sources
Lotus position

of Shiva in the Lotus position. The statue is in Bangalore, India]]
 in the Lotus position.]]
The **lotus position** (Sanskrit: *Padmasanam*) is a cross-legged sitting position which  is common in meditative practices of Hinduism. It is a part of the Hindu Yoga tradition. The position is said to resemble a lotus plant and to encourage proper breathing and to be helpful for physical stability.

## References

**Becoming the Lotus: How to Achieve the Full Lotus Posture* by Anton Temple (Author), Franca Gallo (Editor), Pip Faulks (Illustrator) Paperback: 64 pages, Publisher: Merkur Publishing, Inc (1 Dec 2006) Language: English, , Dimensions: 5.8 x 8.3&nbsp;inches
**Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in Daily Life* by Swami Janakananda Saraswati (Author), Paperback: 128 pages, Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser (Sep 1992), Language: English, , Dimensions: 8.3 x 9.8 x 0.3&nbsp;inches

## Other websites
*Animation - How to go into a Lotus Pose 
*Padmasana (Lotus Pose) 
*Crossing the legs 
*Crossing the legs 2 
*Crossing the legs 3
*Crossing the legs 4 
*Crossing the legs 5
Shemale

**Shemale** (also **she-male**) is a term most used in the porn industry. It describes a trans woman or other person with a penis and a female body gained using hormones and or surgery.

Many transgender people consider the term offensive and degrading.

## References
Millau Viaduct

The **Millau Viaduct** is a large bridge in Millau, France in the Département of Aveyron. It was designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Sir Norman Foster.  it is the tallest bridge in the world, at  tall.

Before the bridge was built, people had to use the national route N9 near the town of Millau. This meant that there was a lot of traffic in July and August. The bridge now crosses the Tarn valley above its lowest point, linking the Causse du Larzac to the Causse Rouge, and is inside the Grands Causses regional natural park.

The bridge forms the last link of the A75 autoroute, (la Méridienne) from Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers. The A75, with the A10 and A71, provides a continuous quick route south from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand, Béziers and Spain. Many tourists going to southern France and Spain use this route because it is direct and has no tolls for the 340 km between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers, except on the bridge. 

## References
Lotus

**Lotus** may refer to:

* *Nelumbo*, plant genus commonly known as 'Lotus'
* Lotus position, cross-legged sitting posture for meditation

in **horticulture**:
* *Lotus (genus)*, it includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches
* *Nelumbo nucifera*, blue or Indian lotus
* *Nelumbo lutea*, American lotus
* *Nymphaea*, the water-lily genus superficially similar to *Nelumbo*
* *Nymphaea alba*, European white water-lily or white lotus
* *Nymphaea caerulea*, Egyptian blue lily or sacred blue lily, also called the blue or sacred lotus
* *Nymphaea lotus*, the Egyptian white water-lily or tiger lotus
* Lotus effect, self-cleaning property of *Nelumbo* species
* *Saussurea laniceps*, snow lotus
* *Ziziphus lotus*, thorny shrub that may have been the "lotus tree" of Greek mythology

in **culture (Asian)**:
* Lotus feet, the practice of Foot binding in pre-modern China
* Lotus kick, foot sweep in Tai chi chuan
* Lotus seed, in Chinese medicine
* Lotus Sutra 
* Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala, or Eight Auspicious Symbols
* *Nelumbo nucifera*, the blue lotus, the sacred lotus or the Indian lotus
* *Padma (attribute)*, the sacred lotus

in **corporate and computing**:
* Lotus Software, previously **Lotus Development Corporation**, software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* IBM Lotus Connections, social networking program
* IBM Lotus Quickr, enterprise-level team collaboration
* Lotus 1-2-3, spreadsheet program
* Lotus Cars, British sports and racing car manufacturer
* Lotus (computer games), a videogame series based on Lotus Cars
* Lotus Notes, enterprise-level electronic messaging
* Lotus Sametime, instant messaging program
* Team Lotus, Formula 1 constructor related to Lotus Cars
* Tesco Lotus, chain of Thai hypermarket stores

in **geography**:
* Lotus, Florida, area in Brevard County, USA
* Vancouver, nickname *Lotus Land*

in **maritime**
* S.S.S. Lotus, gaff-rigged schooner
* Lotus case, a precedent-setting case resulting from a collision between the *S.S. Lotus* and the *S.S. Boz-Kourt*

in **other meanings**:
* Lotus tree of Greek mythology, into which Lotis was transformed, and which was eaten by the Lotophagi of Homer's *Odyssey*
Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche

The **Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church** (in German: **Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche**, but mostly just known as **Gedächtniskirche** ), known in English as the **Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church**, is a ruined church in Berlin.  It belongs to the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany

It is on the Breitscheidplatz, at the end of the Kurfürstendamm.

The old church was built between 1891 and 1895 according to plans by Franz Schwechten.

Emperor Wilhelm II ordered the building of the church to honour his grandfather Wilhelm I. The neo-romanesque style is a reminder of the many Romanesque churches in the Rhineland like Bonn Minster.

Mosaics inside the church showed the life and work of Emperor Wilhelm I. During World War II, the church was destroyed during a British RAF bombing raid in 1943. The only remainder of the old building is the ruin of the belfry, which is also called  ("the hollow tooth").

After the war, from 1951 to 1961, a new church was built right next to the site of the old one. the new church was designed by Egon Eiermann.

The new church has a cross made of nails from the old Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by German Luftwaffe bomb attacks in what was called the Coventry *Blitz*. It was consecrated on May 25, 1962, the same day as the new Coventry Cathedral. Both churches were built next to the ruins of the old building, which were kept as reminders of the horrors of war.

As well as the Coventry cross, the *Gedächtniskirche* has a cross of the Russian Orthodox Church and a design known as the Stalingrad Madonna by Lieutenant Kurt Reuber, created in December 1942 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), as symbols of peace between the three countries that were once at war.

In December 2007, Charles Jeffrey Gray, a former British pilot who carried out World War II bombing raids over Germany, joined a campaign to rescue the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church from decay. After reading about the condition of the Church, Gray contacted Wolfgang Kuhla, the chairman of the church's advisory board, asking for its tower be restored. A fund was launched to help raise the costs of its repair.

## Related pages
* Battle of Berlin (air)
* RAF Bomber Command
* Bombing of Berlin in World War II
* Coventry Blitz

## Other websites 
* Google Maps Aerial View
* Stalingrad Madonna history by Heinz Schroeter 
* Stalingrad Madonna Sermon
BSA Bantam

The **BSA Bantam** is a small two-stroke motorcycle that was made by the Birmingham Small Arms company from 1949 to 1972. 

## History 
The bike originally came from a German design, the DKW RT 125, from before World War II. There were more than 8 different versions of the bike, from the D1 to the B175, these bikes has engines that range from 125cc to 175cc
John Bodkin Adams

**John Bodkin Adams** (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British doctor, fraudster and suspected serial killer.

## Early years
Adams was born in Randalstown in what is now Northern Ireland. His parents were from a very strict Christian sect called the Plymouth Brethren - and they believed that what ever they did in life, they would go to heaven anyway. He had one brother, William, born in 1903. His father died in 1914 and Adams was brought up by his mother. The family moved to Belfast but in 1918 William died from flu. Adams studied medicine at university.

## Job
Adams worked for one year in a hospital in Bristol. He then moved to Eastbourne, England where he became a general practitioner. He cared for a lot of old female  and many of them were very rich. 132 left him money or gifts when they died. Rumours started that Adams was killing them with heroin and morphine and the police decided to investigate. Many of the possible victims had been cremated (burnt), so there were few bodies for the police to analyse.

## Trial
Adams was arrested and tried for the murder of one patient in 1957, but found not guilty. Another charge was withdrawn - an event the judge later criticised. The trial was reported in newspapers around the world and was described at the time as "one of the greatest murder trials of all time".

### Claims of unfairness
Some have claimed that the trial was not held fairly.

One historian claims that the government did not want Adams to be convicted, because he would then have been hanged. If this had happened, many doctors would have refused to treat government (NHS) patients and the government would have become very unpopular. The police thought that Adams killed 163 of his patients.

## Related pages
* Harold Shipman - general practitioner and Britain's worst serial killer
* Michael Swango - American doctor and serial killer

## References
## Books about the Adams trial
* Sybille Bedford, *The best we can do*. 1958
* Marshall Cavendish, ''Murder casebook 40 Eastbourne's Doctor Death*, 1990
* 
* Patrick Devlin, *Easing the passing: the trial of Doctor John Bodkin Adams*, London, The Bodley Head, 1985
* Percy Hoskins, *Two men were acquitted: the trial and acquittal of Doctor John Bodkin Adams*
* Rodney Hallworth, Mark Williams, *Where there's a will... The sensational life of Dr John Bodkin Adams*, 1983, Capstan Press, Jersey 
* John Surtees, *The Strange Case of Dr. Bodkin Adams: the life and murder trial of Eastbourne's infamous doctor and the views of those who knew him'', 2000
Catherine Zeta-Jones

**Catherine Zeta-Jones** CBE (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress, living in the United States. She started acting in theatre from a young age. After this, she had many small roles in British and American films and television shows. She established herself as an actress once she began starring in Hollywood films such as *The Phantom*, *The Mask of Zorro*, and *Entrapment* in the late 2000s.

She won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for acting as Velma Kelly in the 1992 film *Chicago*. She is the first and only Welsh actress to win that award. 

In 2000 Zeta-Jones was given a CBE.

Zeta-Jones is married to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday. They have two children - Dylan (named after Dylan Thomas) and Carys.

Zeta-Jones said in 2001 that she has been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

***Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*** is the second *Star Trek* movie. It was made in 1982. It is a sequel to *Star Trek: The Motion Picture*. It is considered to be the best of the *Star Trek* movies. Most of the original actors are in the movie and it marked the return of Khan Noonien Singh, a supervillain from the first season of the *Star Trek: The Original Series*, portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán. It won 2 Saturn Awards, and another 8 nominations.

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Alex Andrew Kelly

**Alexander Andrew Kelly** (born May 8, 1967) is an American from Darien, Connecticut, who was convicted of rape in 1997.  He is an Irish American who is the middle of three children, having both an older and a younger brother.

## Crimes
Alex Kelly was charged with having done two aggravated assaults  in Darien, Connecticut, in 1986. Before his trial was due to begin in 1987, Kelly fled the United States and spent the next seven years on the run, mostly in Europe. In 1995, Kelly gave him self up to the authorities in Sweden and was extradited to the United States in order to stand trial on rape and kidnapping charges. Kelly faced two trials in 1997.  After the first was declared a mistrial, the second resulted in his conviction for the first rape and a sentence of 16 years in prison.

## Release 
In 2005, after having served eight years of his 16-year sentence, Kelly appeared before a Connecticut parole board; his bid for release was rejected. On November 23, 2007, Kelly was released from prison on "good behavior".  He is now has to serve 10 years probation, perform 200 hours of community service, pay a $10,000 fine, and register with the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry.  While in prison, Kelly claims that he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and third-world development.

## References
## Other websites
*CNN article on Alex Kelly 
*Connecticut: Stamford: Rapist Won't Seek New Trial
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**Crime in Connecticut*
*Connecticut Sex Offender Registry page
Dr. Phil

**Dr. Phil** could mean:

* Phil McGraw, an American psychology-centric television personality
* *Dr. Phil (talk show)*, a television series that Phil McGraw hosts
* dr. phil., a doctoral degree conferred in Germany and the Scandinavian countries
Dr. Phil (talk show)

***Dr. Phil*** is an American talk show hosted by Phil McGraw. It rans on September 16, 2002 to May 25, 2023, after McGraw had success with the "Tuesdays With Dr. Phil" segment on *The Oprah Winfrey Show*. On both shows McGraw offers advice in the form of "life strategies" from his experience as a clinical psychologist.

The show is in syndication throughout the United States and Canada, as well as a number of other countries. Also, the show's syndication contracts specifically state that if *Dr. Phil* is on another station, it cannot air at the same time as *Oprah*. Dr Phil anncoued his shows on January 4, 2001 to order the first episode in early 2001 with Lea Michele for his shows to exercise.

In 2007, Dr. Phil was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Talk Show Host".

In January 2023, it was announced that the series would end after 21 seasons.
Vuze

**Vuze** (formerly **Azureus**) is a Java-based BitTorrent used for file sharing. The program's logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus). The Azureus name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of poison dart frogs as "nickname" for his development projects.

Azureus was first released in June 2003 at SourceForge.net. It is now one of the most popular BitTorrent clients

## License 
Since version 2.5.0.4, Azureus was distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

## Related pages
* Comparison of BitTorrent software

## Other websites
* Official website
* Azureus plugins 
* Azureus wiki
Stabio

**Stabio** is a municipality of the district Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website
Tegna

**Tegna** was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Cavigliano, Tegna and Verscio merged into the new municipality of Terre di Pedemonte.

## References 
## Other websites
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

of *The Canterbury Tales*, –1410.]]

"'''The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'*" is a story from the well known book *The Canterbury Tales''. It is about a knight who sets on a quest to find the object that women most desire. The story has been changed into many plays.

The story begins when a man rapes a young lady. He is sentenced to death by the King, but the Queen asks for mercy.  She gives the knight a year and a day to find out what women really want. The man hunts the entire year, and gets many different answers, from the different women he asks. 

After a year passed he was on  his way to back the castle to tell the queen his answer when he saw many young women.  They disappeared and left one old lady. The old lady gives him the answer but in return wants to marry him. The man is forced to marry the old woman after she gives him the correct answer, which was mastery (sovereignty) from their husbands/men. On their honeymoon he hides from her and she gives him the choice of her old ugly self, who would never cheat on him or a pretty woman who might cheat on him. He gives her the power to make the decision on her own, and in return she turns herself into a pretty and faithful young woman he had truly wanted.
Torre, Switzerland

**Torre** was a municipality of the district Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

It came together with 3 other villages to become the new municipality Blenio.

## References 
## Other websites
Torre

**Torre** may refer to:

## Places 
* Torre, one of 17 *contrade* of Siena, Italy
* Torre, a neighborhood in Recife, Brazil
* Torre railway station, in the United Kingdom
* Torre, Switzerland, a village in Ticino
* Torre (Serra da Estrela), the highest point of the Mainland Portugal
* Torre de Arcas, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain
* Torre de las Arcas, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain
* Torre del Compte, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain
* Torre los Negros, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain
* Torres de Albarracín, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain

## Rivers
*Torre (river), in Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy

## People 
*Carlos Torre Repetto (1905–1978), chess grandmaster from Mexico
*Eugenio Torre (born 1951), Filipino chess grandmaster
*Joe Torre (born 1940), manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team
Crepe myrtle

The common **crepe mirtle** was introduced in South Carolina by Andre Michaux. 
This multistemmed shrub with crepe-like texture petals, and diverse colors is resistant to frosts.
The genus is dedicated to Magnus von Lagerstroem, who supplied Linnaeus plant he collected.
## Taxonomy
**Lagerstroemia indiana* (L.)Pers.

## Other websites
*Flora of China 13, 277 
*The Craple myrtle
Valcolla

**Valcolla** was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

## Geography 
Valcolla is in the upper part of the Val Colla, the mountain valley in which the Cassarate River rises. It has villages of Colla, Cozzo, Curtina, Insone, Maglio di Colla, Molino, Piandera, Scareglia and Signôra. It borders the following municipalities: Bidogno, Bogno, Capriasca, Cavargna (Italy), Certara, Cimadera, Corticiasca, Ponte Capriasca and Sonvico.

## History 
In 1956 the municipality was created from the merger of Colla, Insone, Piandera, Scareglia and Signôra. On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Sonvico and Valcolla merged into the city of Lugano.

## References 
## Other websites
Vergeletto

**Vergeletto** was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

## History
Since 1803, the municipality of Vergeletto also contained the current municipality of Gresso.  Both municipalities were moved away from each other in 1882. On 10 April 2016, the former municipalities of Gresso, Isorno, Mosogno and Vergeletto merged to form the municipality of Onsernone.

## Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality are taken from the Garbani, or Garban family for its French and Northern American branch, starting from the village, who are people who sell things or people of power.

## References
## Other websites
Villa Luganese

**Villa Luganese** was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Villa Luganese was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Lugano in 2008.

## Other websites
Vira (Gambarogno)

**Vira (Gambarogno)** was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 25 April 2010, the former municipalities of Caviano, Contone, Gerra Gambarogno, Indemini, Magadino, Piazzogna, San Nazzaro, Sant'Abbondio and Vira Gambarogno merged to form the new municipality of Gambarogno.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website
Vogorno

**Vogorno** was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village can be found above Lago di Vogorno. There is an old church with frescos from about 1400 in the village.

On 17 October 2020, the former municipalities of Brione (Verzasca), Corippo, Frasco, Sonogno and Vogorno merged to form the new municipality of Verzasca.

## References 
## Other websites
Lago di Vogorno

**Lago di Vogorno** is a lake near Tenero, in Ticino, Switzerland. The reservoir on the Verzasca river is made by the Verzasca Dam, built 1961-1965. The water surface area is 1.68&nbsp;km2
Alt St. Johann

**Alt St. Johann** was a municipality in Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010, the former municipalities of Alt St. Johann and Wildhaus merged into the new municipality of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann.

## References
## Other websites
* Official website
Team Rocket

is a group of villains in the *Pokémon* series. They are known for being troublemakers in both the video games and the TV show. Team Rocket is one of the main enemies in the first *Pokémon* games (*Red*, *Green*, and *Blue*) and appear in almost every generation of *Pokémon* games. In the *Pokémon* anime, they are best known as the trio **Jessie, James, and Meowth**. This trio is funny and always fails to catch Pokémon, even though they use fancy mecha and wild schemes.
## Role in Video Games 
In the video games, Team Rocket is a dangerous crime group. They steal and hurt Pokémon to make money. The games present Team Rocket breaking and entering, harming a mother Marowak, and chopping off the tails of Slowpoke to sell on the black market. In *Gold* and *Silver**, after the events of *Red* and *Blue**, their leader Giovanni disappears and Team Rocket breaks apart. Giovanni later reappears in the 2009 remakes *HeartGold* and *SoulSilver**.
In later games, such as *Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon*, Team Rocket returns as "Team Rainbow Rocket," featuring villains from other *Pokémon* games.
## Legacy 
Team Rocket is one of the most famous groups in *Pokémon*. They are remembered for their catchphrase: "Prepare for trouble, and make it double!" They remain a key part of the *Pokémon'' franchise, appearing in video games, TV shows, and spin-offs.
## References
Zug

**Zug** is a small town in Switzerland. It is at the northeastern corner of Lake Zug.

## References 
## Other websites 
*Stadt Zug - Official website 
*Company registration in Zug
BitTorrent

**BitTorrent** is a peer-to-peer program, first developed in mid-2001 by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc., to use for uploading and downloading files under the BitTorrent protocol. In the protocol, a "Tracker" hosts information about any active computers which are trying to share data. Trackers are used to find other active computers, but do not store or share file data. Using the .torrent files, BitTorrent users can "Leech" (download) the files. Once a "Leecher" gets 100% of the file(s), they become a "Seeder" and helps "Seed" (upload) the files to other Leechers.

BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. Before version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software. The source code for versions up to and including 3.4.2 were distributed under the MIT license and versions 4.x and 5.x were released under the BitTorrent Open Source License, a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License. Since version 6.0, BitTorrent is a rebranded version of µTorrent. As a result, its source is closed.

The BitTorrent protocol now has many clients, for example :

*Azureus
*BitComet
*BitLord
*BitFlu
*BitTornado
*Deluge
*KTorrent
*LimeWire
*QTorrent
*Rtorrent
*Shareaza
*Transmission
*µTorrent

## Related pages
*List of BitTorrent clients

## References
## Other websites 
*Official Website
Bali Nine

The **Bali Nine** is the name of the nine Australian citizens arrested and convicted for drug trafficking on April 17, 2005, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. The group tried to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin valued at about 4 million AUD from Indonesia to Australia. 

Members of the group are: Andrew Chan, Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Myuran Sukumaran. All of them are between ages 18 and 28 at the time of their arrests. 

After the trial, two of the Bali Nine received death sentences, and the others got 20 years or life sentences. Renae Lawrence finished serving her 20-year sentence in Kerobokan Prison together with Schapelle Corby. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015.

## References
Vico Morcote

**Vico Morcote** is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

## References 
## Other websites 
*Morcote Turismo Svizzera  Morcote & Vico Morcote Tourism site .
*International Institute of Architecture
Eunuch

A **eunuch** is a castrated man. His genitals have been removed. This may involve cutting off the testicles. However, the word *castration* sometimes refers to emasculation, where both the testicles and the penis are removed together.

 Harem.]]

Over the millennia since, eunuchs had a lot of different functions in different cultures. Among other things, they worked as domestics, treble singers, religious specialists, government officials, military commanders, and guardians of women or harem servants. When eunuchs ran a harem, a monarch could be sure he was the one who fathered his wives' children since eunuchs were always infertile.

## Eastern Roman Empire
In Byzantine art, angels and eunuchs were often shown in a similar light and manner.

## References
Antares Telescope

The **ANTARES** Experiment is a telescope that is built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. But it is not a normal telescope that uses light to see distant objects. Instead, it uses neutrinos, very small and light particles that can fly through the earth. The name comes from **A**stronomy with a **N**eutrino **T**elescope and  environmental **RES**earch project. There is also a star called Antares.

## Functions 
It uses 900 light sensors attached to 12 strings that float in the sea to detect neutrinos. The strings are held onto the sea floor by an anchor and straight up by a buoy floating in the sea. Although the neutrinos are invisible, they can create a different particle, a muon, in water. The muon then gives off light by the Cherenkov effect because it travels faster than light in water. 
The sensors are so sensitive that they need only very little light and can even detect single photons. This is necessary because the muons produce only very little light.

## Location 
The detector is located in the Mediterranean, about 40 kilometres off Toulon in southern France. There the sea is 2500 metres deep. It is built by a group of physicists from 12 European countries. Currently, 10 strings are running. The last two strings will be installed in May 2008.

## Trivia 
It is the largest neutrino detector in the Northern hemisphere. Two similar detectors are located in the ice of the South Pole (AMANDA and IceCube).

## Other websites
*ANTARES home -
Foot-pound (energy)

The **foot-pound force** (symbol: **ft·lbf**), or simply **foot-pound** (symbol: **ft·lb**), is a unit of energy and also a unit of torque.  By definition it is one foot times one pound-force.

## Unit of energy
As a unit of energy, one foot-pound is the energy it takes to push with one pound-force one pound for a distance of one  foot. 

1 foot-pound is equivalent to:
* 1.3558179483314004 joules (exactly)
* 13558179.483314004 ergs (exactly)
* ~0.001285067 British Thermal Unit IT
* ~0.323832 calorie IT (calIT)
* ~0.000323832 "food calorie" (kcal or Cal)
* ~32.174049 foot-poundals (ft pdl)

## Unit of torque
As a unit of torque, one foot-pound is the torque created by one pound force acting at a perpendicular distance of one foot from a pivot point. 

1 foot-pound is equivalent to:
* 1.3558179483314004  newton metre (exactly)
Dachau (disambiguation)

**Dachau** can mean:
*Dachau - a town in Bavaria, Germany
*Dachau (district) - a rural district in Bavaria, Germany
*Dachau Concentration Camp - a Nazi Concentration Camp, near Dachau
Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach

**Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach** (also known as **Aeschlen**) was a municipality of the district Konolfingen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010, the municipality of Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach merged into the municipality of Oberdiessbach.

## References
Büren District

The district of **Büren** is a district of the Swiss canton of Bern. Its capital is Büren an der Aare.
It contains 14 municipalities in an area of 88 km²:
Miss USA

The **Miss USA** pageant is a beauty contest. It has been held every year since 1952. Winners compete in the Miss Universe pageant.

On November 29, 2021, Elle Smith of Kentucky became Miss USA 2021. 

It used to be owned by billionaire businessman and television personality Donald Trump who was the 45th President of the United States since 2017. Since September 2015, the pageant has been owned by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and the International Management Group which are collectively known as WME-IMG.

## Winners 
## Other websites
Source code

In computer programming, **source code** is (generally speaking) a text file version of a computer program or software that contains instructions that the computer follows to do something. Source code is written in a programming language which a human can read and change.  A large program may contain many different source code files that all work together. Source code is in many cases **compiled** before running it. That means translating the code into assembly language or machine language which is much faster and easier for the computer to read, but hard for a human to read. Another very common way is to **interpret** the code, without needing a compilation step, while that's generally slower.

A computer program may be open source, which means the source code is shared with anyone who wants to look at it and change it. Many programs are however closed source, which means only the executable code is distributed and people are not allowed to look at and change the code. Many open source programs are also compiled to such code, that may or may not be allowed to be inspected, while to change it is most convenient to change the source code that came with it, or possibly can be downloaded.

## Example of C source code 
```c++
#include 
int main()
{
      printf("Hello world!\n");
      return(0);
}
```

When compiled by a C compiler and executed, this will print "Hello world!" on the computer screen and then finish.
List of BitTorrent clients

A **BitTorrent client** is a program that downloads files using the BitTorrent protocol.

The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen in the summer of 2001. Programs that use BitTorrent protocol are:

*ABC †
*Acquisition †
*Anatomic P2P †	
*Arctic Torrent †
*aria2 	 	
*BiglyBT
*BitComet
*BitFlu †
*BitLet †
*BitLord 	 	
*BitPump †	
*BitTornado †
*BitTorrent 5 / Mainline †	
*BitTorrent 6 	
*BitSpirit †
*Bits on Wheels †
*BitTyrant †	
*Blog Torrent †
*BTPD †
*burst!†
*CTorrent†
*Deluge
*FlashGet†
*Folx 
*freeloader †
*G3 Torrent †		
*Halite †	
*KTorrent 	
*MLDonkey 		
*MooPolice †	
*Opera 	
*QTorrent† 	
*Qbittorrent 	
*rTorrent 	
*Rufus † 	
*Shareaza †	
*sharktorrent †	
*SymTorrent†
*Tixati 	
*Torrent Swapper †	
*TorrentVolve †	
*Transmission 
*Turbo Torrent 	 	
*µTorrent
*Vuze 	
*XTorrent †
*ZipTorrent†

† - this program is no longer being developed
## Related pages
* Comparison of file sharing applications
* BitTorrent
* BitTorrent tracker
* Comparison of BitTorrent clients
Gilles Binchois

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**Gilles Binchois** (probably born in Mons about 1400; died Soignies, 20 September, 1460), was a Franco-Flemish composer. His name is spelt in various ways: “Binchoys”, “Binch” or “Binche” or “Gilles de Bins”. He is one of the earliest composers of the group known as the Burgundian School. His style of composition had a very important influence on music at the Burgundian court. Together with Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstaple he belongs to the greatest of 15th century composers.

## Life 
He was probably born in Mons in what is now Belgium. His father, a councillor to Duke Guillaume IV of Hainault, had a job in a church in Mons. Nothing is known about Gilles until 1419, when he became organist at the church of Ste. Waudru in Mons. In 1423 went to live in Lille. He may have worked as a soldier.

Sometime near the end of the 1420s he joined the court chapel of Burgundy. He sang with the choir there. He spent many years working at the Burgundian court. He was not allowed much time to be away, so he did not travel much. We know that he went to Mons in 1449 on which occasion he met Guillaume Dufay. When he retired he went to live in Soignes. He had a good pension.

## Music and influence 
Binchois wrote beautiful melodies which were much simpler than a lot of the music of the Middle Ages. They are easy to sing and remember. Many later composers used melodies by Binchois as a basis for their own masses. Most of his secular songs are rondeaux, which became the most common song form during the century. Binchois did not often write in strophic form. He preferred to write music which did not follow the rhyming rhythm of the verse.
John Dunstaple

**John Dunstaple** or **Dunstable** (born about 1390; died 24 December  1453) was an English composer who lived in the last part of the medieval era and the early part of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the early 15th century.  He had a lot of influence on music in England as well as on the continent.   He helped to develop the style of the Burgundian School.

The spelling **"Dunstaple"** is more often used today because in documents from his time this is the spelling that is more common, although some documents spelt his name "Dunstable".

## Life
Dunstaple was probably born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire around 1390. We know very little about his life. He was well educated and he worked for the Duke of Bedford who was the fourth son of Henry IV and brother of Henry V.  He may have spent some time in France because the duke was Regent of France from 1423 to 1429, and then Governor of Normandy from 1429 to his death in 1435.  Dunstaple owned property in Normandy, and also in Cambridgeshire, Essex and London, according to tax records of 1436.  He also worked for the Duke of Gloucester.

Many composers at that time were priests, but Dunstaple was not, although he had connections with St Albans Abbey.  He was probably married.
During his life he was not just known as a composer but also as an astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician.

He died on Christmas Eve 1453, and was buried in the church of St Stephen Walbrook in London which was later destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. 

## Music and influence
We hardly have any original manuscripts of Dunstaple’s music.  England was a very musical country at the time, but almost all that music was destroyed between 1536 and 1540 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when Henry VIII was ruling.  Most of Dunstaple’s works which survive were works which were found on the continent, mostly in north Italy.  This shows that he must have been famous throughout Europe.  He influenced  Dufay and Binchois.  The Flemish composer and music theorist Tinctoris wrote in 1476 that he was the most important musician of new music which had started in England.

Dunstaple was one of the first to compose masses using one melody as *cantus firmus.*   He wrote many carols (religious songs), but we do not know which ones are by him because he did not sign his name to them.  He wrote secular music, but it has been lost.

## References
*groves music online
Equals sign

The **equals sign** (**=**), otherwise referred to as the **equality sign** or **equal to sign** or **equal sign** for short, is a symbol used to indicate equality. It looks like two parallel horizontal lines.  Computers display the equals sign with the Unicode or ASCII character 003D (in hexadecimal).

## Similar symbols 
The symbol used to say when items are **not equal** is "≠" (slashed equal sign). 

There are several symbols that can be used to say items are "approximately the same," "similar to" or "about equal." Some of these symbols include:

* "≈" (two tildes or wavy lines, often used for "approximately equal")

Each of these symbols has more than one possible meaning, and are all used to state that two things are about equal (or equivalent in some way).

## Related pages 
* Equality (mathematics)
* List of mathematical symbols

## References
Homophobia

by the Westboro Baptist Church. Westboro Baptist Church is an  example of homophobia.]]
 in Paris, in 2005]]
**Homophobia** is the fear or poor treatment of homosexuals. The word was created in the 1960s by a psychologist named George Weinberg. The word "homophobia" is often used together with the word "transphobia" in documents explaining human rights violation of LGBT people by United Nations and Council of Europe.

There are events to stop homophobia, like the "gay pride parades" and "International Day Against Homophobia" on May 17. It was first celebrated on 17 May 2005 in more than 40 countries. Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have developed mass media campaigns against homophobia since 2002. In some places, it is illegal to treat people badly because they are homosexual, and it is a hate crime to hurt them for that reason. Laws against such discrimination have been made in several countries. Internationally, the Declaration of Montreal and the Yogyakarta Principles were adopted in 2006.

Successful strategies to prevent homophobic prejudice and bullying in schools have included teaching students about historical figures who were gay, or who suffered discrimination because of their sexuality. A person who is homophobic may be called a homophobe. 

Homophobia is often related to heterosexism, the belief that sex and love between men and women is better than other types of sex and love. Such as sex between two men or sex between two women.
## Related pages
*"Adam and Steve" (anti-gay slogan)
*Anti-LGBT rhetoric
*Gay bashing
*Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
*Heteronormativity
*Heterosexism
*Yogyakarta Principles

## References
Tickling

**Tickling** is to lightly touch, scratch, or rub a person or animal to make them laugh. For most people, it causes pleasure and happiness whereas others hate it. Tickle spots are feet, armpits, and sides of stomach.

## Tickling yourself
It is believed by many that tickling yourself is very hard and by some that it is nearly impossible. Research shows that the brain notices and senses our movements and actions. This lets the brain prepare itself when we try to tickle ourselves. The unexpected senses are then cancelled by our brain, so we do not feel the reaction we would have if someone else tickled us when we least expected it.

Unlike others, some people in the world know how to tickle themselves. This is because they know the tickling spots in their body and are able to use other objects to tickle themselves. For example, they can use a piece of tissue and rub it against their stomach to tickle themselves. Tickling may be relaxing, but may also be painful.

## Other websites
* Telegraph (UK) Article on "robot tickling experiment"
* Boston Globe Online - Why are some people not ticklish?
* Article 'Is it possible for someone to be tickled to death?' from The Straight Dope
English Springer Spaniel

The **English Springer Spaniel** is a dog breed used as hunting dogs to retrieve animals. It is one of many spaniel breeds. They are clever and cheerful. Their coat can be brown and white, black and white, or have tan spots. They look like their cousins, the Welsh Springer Spaniel and Cocker Spaniel. Common colors include black, brown and white.

## References
Crimean War

The **Crimean War** (1853–1856), also called  the **Eastern War** (), was fought between the Russian Empire against the French Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. Most of the fighting, including the Battle of Balaclava, happened in Crimea, but some of it was what is now western Turkey and around the Baltic Sea. 

The Crimean War is sometimes called the first "modern" war since its weaponry and tactics were used for the first time and affected all later wars. It was also the first war to use a telegraph to give information to a newspaper quickly.

## Background
The Ottoman Empire was declining by the mid-1800s. The war started after the Ottoman Empire decided that France, not Russia, had the right to protect Christians in the Holy Land near the area of Palestine. 

Russia sent an army to take part of Ottoman controlled Romania and so the British and the French allies sent an army and a navy to help the Ottomans. When the allies got to their camp in Gallipoli, Russia retreated and so the allies decided instead to take back Crimea, where Russia had its naval base. Russia had taken Crimea from the Ottoman Empire in an earlier war.

## Results 
The Allies won the war in Crimea but gave it back to Russia in return for Russia giving back other places and promising not to have a navy on the Black Sea. 

The Crimean War was a very important point in the history of warfare since new weapons were used. It was also the first war to be reported by the press via photography and journalists. Another very important factor was that it was the first war with real field hospitals, which were started by Florence Nightingale.

After it lost the war, Russia decided to make changes, including increasing its development of weaponry and ending serfdom in 1861.

## Related pages
* Florence Nightingale
* Elizabeth Thompson

## Notes
## References 
## Other websites 
* Austria Chronology Crimean War 
* France Chronology Crimean War 
* Great Britain Chronology Crimean War 
* Italy Chronology Crimean War 
* Russia Chronology Crimean War 
* Turkey Chronology Crimean War
Breast reduction

**Breast reduction** is a plastic surgery to make human breasts smaller. The surgeon takes out fat, skin, and glands. It is done on women most of the time, but men can also get it. In 2005, more than 113,000 women had breast reductions.

Aside from aesthetic reasons, many women choose to undergo breast reduction surgery to help reduce back strain or breathing problems caused by having large breasts.

## References