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Body Language (Kylie Minogue album)

Body Language is the ninth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was recorded during the summer of 2003 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain, and released on 20 November 2003 by Parlophone. The album contains three official singles, "Slow", "Red Blooded Woman" and "Chocolate".
Track listing
Other websites
Body Language on Kylie Minogue's official website
2003 albums
Kylie Minogue albums
Dance-pop albums
World Juniors Inline Speed Skating Championships

The World Inline Speed Skating Championships is the main inline speed skating championships in World for Juniors, organized by International Roller Sports Federation.
Related pages
World Seniors Inline Speed Skating Championships
European Inline Speed Skating Championships
References
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/seniorworldchampionships.htm
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/juniorworldchampionships.htm
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/senior-men-worlds
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/senior-women-worlds
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/junior-boys-worlds
https://www.britishskatinglegends.com/junior-girls-worlds
http://www.online-skating.com/articles-4066-2016-world-inline-speed-skating-championships-overall-nation-ranking.html
Other websites
oficial Web of FIRS
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline-Speedskating-Junioren-Weltmeisterschaften
Inline speed skating competitions
World championships
Less Than Zero (movie)

Less Than Zero is a 1987 drama movie directed by Marek Kanievska and is adapted from the Bret Easton Ellis 1985 novel of the same name. It stars Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Robert Downey Jr., and Jami Gertz. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Other websites
1987 romantic drama movies
1980s LGBT movies
American romantic drama movies
American LGBT movies
Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Football at the Summer Olympics was held in Japan from 11 to 23 October.
Results
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Other websites
RSSSF
1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic football tournaments
1964 in association football
Lawson, Arkansas

Lawson is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Union County, Arkansas, United States.
Settlements in Union County, Arkansas
Census-designated places in Arkansas
Scott Innes

Scott Innes (born October 1, 1966) is an American author, radio personality, songwriter and voice actor. He is best known for his voice over work in various Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera animated movies, television shows, video games and commercials, most notably as Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Scrappy-Doo, Popeye, Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Foghorn Leghorn, Muttley, Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and Captain Caveman. He has also provided the voice of Fred Jones, Boo-Boo Bear, Snagglepuss, Papa Smurf, Elroy Jetson, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Elmer Fudd, Spike and Ranger Smith in various commercials.
Other websites
Official website of Scott Innes
One Scott Shop
1966 births
Living people
Actors from Missouri
American radio personalities
American songwriters
American voice actors
Writers from Missouri
Monkeypox virus

Monkeypox virus (MPV or MPXV) is a double-stranded DNA, zoonotic virus that causes monkeypox in humans and other animals. It belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus in the family Poxviridae. It is not related to smallpox. Monkeypox disease is similar to smallpox, but with a milder rash and lower death rate.
References
Viruses
List of Chinese scientists

Pages appear in :Category:Chinese scientists
This a list of noted scientists from China.
Zhang Heng, made the first seismometer; Astronomy, engineering, meteorology, geology, philosophy, and mathematics; died in 139 A.D.
Shen Kuo, was finance minister; Astronomy; died in 1095
Tong Dizhou, the first to successfully clone a fish; Embryology; died in 1979
Chien-Shiung Wu, known for the Wu experiment (en); Nuclear physics; died in 1997
Xu Guangxian, was president of the Chinese Chemical Society; Chemistry; died in 2015
Related pages
List of Chinese mathematicians
List of Asian scientists by country
References
Lists of scientists by nationality
Chinese
Saigō Takamori

was born in Kagoshima and was a Japanese Samurai. In 1877 he led the Satsuma rebellion and against the new imperial government.
Other websites
References
1828 births
1877 deaths
Samurai
Gilf el-Kebir

Gif el-Kebir is a large plateau in Egypt. The name can be translated as the great barrier. It is located in trhe extreme south-east of Egypt, next ot Lybia and Sudan. It has about the same size as Switzerland. It rises 300 m above the rest of the desert. The plateau is very arid and difficult to access.
There is a crater called Kebir crater in the plateau.
The Uweinat mountain range at the very south of the plateau is shared between Egypt, Libya and Sudan.
Wadis:
Akhdar
Bakht
Dayiq
Firaq
Gazayir
Maftuh
Mashi
Wassa
The Gilf Kebir is mentioned in Michael Ondaatje's novel 'The English Patient'. It was also the site of the recent discovery of a bag which had been lost in the Second World War by a dispatch rider (Alec Ross) of the Long Range Desert Group, part of the British Army. This contained the rider's personal letters and photographs, and had been well preserved.
Petroglyphs
The Gilf Kebir is known for its prehistoric (Neolithic) petroglyphs
Karkur Talh and Karkur Murr: major eastern valleys of the Uweinat contain one of the richest concentrations of rock art in the whole Sahara.
Western Uweinat: Shelters under the huge granite boulders in the western Uweinat contain numerous paintings, including the famous sites of Ain Doua.
Jebel Arkenu, Jebel Kissu & Yerguehda Hill, the lesser granite massifs around Uweinat have many smaller sites.
Mogharet el Kantara in the southern Gilf Kebir contains only one known rock art site, a cave discovered by Shaw & party in 1936.
Wadi Sora in the northwestern Gilf Kebir: the "Cave of Swimmers" (or Swimmers' Cave), discovered by the Hungarian Count Laszlo Almasy (The English Patient), plus many other paintings nearby.
The North-western half of the Gilf Kebir aside from Wadi Sora has only a few scattered engravings, of an apparently very ancient age.
In January 2003, Zarzora Expeditions and Jacopo Foggini independently announced the discovery of a major new rock art site in the Western Gilf Kebir (Foggini-Mestekawi Cave).
Other websites
google map
Libyan Rock Art Documentation Project
McOran E-Cards based on the 'Cave of Swimmers'
'WW11 Army Bag is found in Desert'
Geography of Egypt
Plateaus
Lonçon

Loncon is a commune in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.
Communes in Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Cresson, Texas

Cresson is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Cities in Texas
Debert

Debert is an unincorporated community in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is in Colchester County. In 2006, 1,471 people lived here.
Settlements in Nova Scotia
Ivy Bethune

Ivy Bethune (1 June 1918 - 19 July 2019) was an American actress. She played Duana in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "When The Bough Breaks." Bethune also played Ma Peabody in the 1985 movie Back to the Future.
At the time of her death, Bethune was the second-oldest living female Star Trek performer, after Marsha Hunt. She was the third oldest overall Star Trek performer after Hunt and Norman Lloyd. She was the sixth Star Trek performer to reach the age of 100.
She died of natural causes in Woodland Hills, California.
1918 births
2019 deaths
American television actors
Plantation

A plantation is a large farm which is usually specialized on farming one type of crop. Plantations grow cash crops, mostly for export, and less for local use. Crops grown on plantations include banana, sugarcane, coffee, tea, cotton and tobacco.
Some of the problems with plantations come from the fact that most are monocultures, that is there is only one kind of crop that is grown there. This makes them vulnerable to pests, for example.
Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire. They produced large quantities of wine and olive oil for export.
Plantation agriculture grew rapidly in the early modern period with the increase in international trade and the relative decline of subsistence farming. Like every economic activity, it has changed over time. Earlier forms of plantation agriculture were associated with large disparities of wealth and income, foreign ownership and political influence, and exploitative social systems such as indentured labor and slavery, especially with the southern American plantations.
Agriculture
Notre-Dame-de-Livaye

Notre-Dame-de-Livaye is a commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
References
Communes in Calvados
Gōjū-ryū

Goju-ryu is Japanese for "hard-soft style." It is one of the main traditional Okinawan styles of karate. Goju-ryu uses a combination of hard and soft techniques. Both principles, hard and soft, come from the famous martial arts book used by Okinawan masters during the 19th and 20th centuries, the Bubishi (). Go, which means hard, refers to closed hand techniques or straight linear attacks. Ju, which means soft, refers to open hand techniques and circular movements. Goju-ryu uses both circular and linear movements. It combines hard striking attacks such as kicks. It also uses close hand punches with softer open hand circular techniques. These are used for attacking, blocking, and controlling the opponent. This includes locks, grappling, takedowns and throws.
References
Martial art techniques
Karate
Dikhil Region

The Dikhil Region is a region in southern Djibouti. The capital city is Dikhil.
Dikhil Region is best known for its desert landscape.
Towns
References
Regions of Djibouti
War Horse (novel)

War horse is a book originally written by Michael Morpurgo. The book has become very popular around the world. The book is about a horse who finds a new home with a loving caring family and is sent to war to become a war horse.
Children's books
Defenceman

Defence (defense in the U.S.) in ice hockey is a player position whose main job is to stop the other team from scoring. They are often called defencemen, defensemen, D, or "blueliners" (a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which is boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally stay along the line to keep the puck in the zone).
In regular play, two defencemen play with three forwards and a goaltender on the ice. Exceptions include overtime and when a team is shorthanded (i.e. has been assessed a penalty), in which two defencemen are typically joined by only two forwards and a goaltender.
Ice hockey positions
Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm (June 8, 1928 - March 8, 2018) was an American author. She wrote works in science fiction, fantasy and mystery, including the Hugo Award-winning Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and established writer workshops with her husband Damon Knight. She won a Hugo Award in 1977 and won multiple Nebula Awards in 1968, 1986 and 1987.
Wilhelm died in Eugene, Oregon on March 8, 2018 at the age of 89.
References
Other websites
Infinity Box Press, Wilhelm's publishing company
1928 births
2018 deaths
American science fiction writers
Writers from Oregon
Writers from Toledo, Ohio
People from Eugene, Oregon
Gustavus, Alaska

Gustavus is a town in Alaska, United States. The town is along the bank of the Salmon River. During the summer, the town has ferry service to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
Cities in Alaska
Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 American teen romantic drama movie directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and won an Academy Award in 1972 and was nominated for 3 Oscars.
Other websites
1971 romantic drama movies
1970s biographical movies
American romantic drama movies
American teen movies
American biographical movies
Movies directed by Robert Mulligan
Warner Bros. movies
Movies set in the 1940s
Movies about vacationing
Movies about virginity
Movies about puberty
Movies set on beaches
Movies set in Nantucket
Cat café

A Cat Cafe is a cafe for drinking coffee with cats. You can watch and play with cats. There are often desserts such as cookies or cake. The food is often in a separate area from the cats.
History
The world's first Cat Cafe started in Taipei. The name was "Cat Flower Garden". The idea was from Japan. The first Japanese one was "Neko no Jikan" in Osaka.
Geography
Asian Cat Cafes are special because they are popular. European Cat Cafes are special because they take cats from shelters. Cat Cafes are new in North America, South America and Oceania.
Animals and humans
Cats
Japanese culture
Mar Roxas

Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II (; born May 13, 1957) is a Filipino politician. He was a Senator of the Philippines. He is the grandson of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas.
Roxas was Secretary of the Interior and Local Government from 2012 to 2015. He was the Secretary of Trade and Industry from 2000 to 2003 and Secretary of Transportation and Communications from 2011 to 2012.
Other websites
Official Website
Senate of the Philippines - Mar Roxas Biography
1957 births
Living people
Majority leaders of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Electoral division of Mulka

Mulka is an electoral division of the Northern Territory. It was created in 2020, replacing Nhulunbuy.
Election results
References
Mulka
Maurizio Micheli

Maurizio Micheli (born 3 February 1947) is an Italian actor. He was born in Livorno, Italy. He is also a movie and theater director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, and television presenter.
Born in Livorno, at 11 Micheli moved to Bari and at 20 to Milan where he graduated at the School of Dramatic Art at the Piccolo Teatro.
Selected filmography
Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
Cafe Express (1980)
Mani di fata (1982)
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982)
I Am an ESP (1985)
Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987)
Roba da ricchi (1987)
Rimini Rimini (1987)
Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo (1988)
Cucciolo (1998)
Commediasexi (2006)
Valzer (2007)
The Cezanne Affair (2009)
Pinocchio (2012)
Women Drive Me Crazy (2013)
Quo Vado? (2016)
Honours
Officier of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Rome, 27 December 1999
References
Other websites
1947 births
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian screenwriters
Italian television presenters
Italian radio personalities
Italian comedians
People from Livorno
Living people
Chalindrey

Chalindrey is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Haute-Marne department in northeast France.
References
Communes in Haute-Marne
Ephrem M'Bom

Ephrem M'Bom (18 July 1954 - 20 September 2020) was a Cameroonian professional footballer. He competed for the Cameroon national football team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He played for the national team between 1981 to 1984 making seven appearances. From 1980 to 1990, he played for Canon Yaounde. M'Bom was born in Yaounde, Cameroon.
M'Bom died on 20 September 2020 in Douala, Cameroon at the age of 66.
References
1954 births
2020 deaths
Cameroonian footballers
People from Yaounde
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was brought on by a major armed struggle in Mexico that started in 1911 by an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.
Under his rule, power was concentrated in the hands of a select few, and the people had no power to express their opinions or to select their public officials. Wealth was likewise concentrated in the hands of the few, and injustice was everywhere in the cities and the countryside alike
The revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarian movements. Over time, it changed from a simple revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war.
There was less fighting after 1920, when Alvaro Obregon, the most important revolutionary leader who was still alive, became the president of Mexico.
References
20th century in Mexico
20th-century rebellions
Civil wars
Revolutions
1910s conflicts
1920s conflicts
Wars involving North America
Receptor antagonist

A receptor antagonist is a biological repressor molecule. A receptor antagonist slows down the cell by stopping some of the cell reactions by clogging up the areas that make the cell work. They are sometimes called blockers, such as beta blockers. An antagonist is a ligand which blocks or dampens a biological effect. It acts against an agonist. They may block enzymes or passages through cell membranes.
They are part of the homeostatic system which regulates the body physiology. Some are made for pharmaceutical uses.
Drugs
Biochemistry
Scotty Bowman

William Scott "Scotty" Bowman (born September 18, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former National Hockey League head coach. He holds the record for most wins with 1,244.
Early years
Bowman was born on September 18, 1933 in Verdun, Quebec. He played minor league hockey until a fractured skull resulting from a slash by Jean-Guy Talbot ended his playing aspirations.
References
Other websites
1933 births
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
Jack Adams Award winners
Living people
Gerry Ashmore

Gerald Ashmore (25 July 1936 - 25 August 2021) was an English motor racing driver. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix. Ashmore started his career in Formula Junior in 1960. Ashmore was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
Ashmore died from cancer on 25 August 2021 at the age of 85.
References
1936 births
2021 deaths
English Formula One drivers
Sportspeople from Staffordshire
Deaths from cancer
Phil of the Future

Phil of the Future is an American comedy children's television series. It was produced by 2121 Productions (a part of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment). It was first shown on June 18, 2004 on the Disney Channel, and ended on August 19, 2006 as part of the Disney Channel Games. Stars of the show include Ricky Ullman (Phil Diffy), Amy Bruckner (Pim Diffy), and Alyson Michalka (Keely Teslow). The last episode was shown in the United States on August 19, 2006.
Cast
Ricky Ullman as Philip "Phil" Diffy
Amy Bruckner as Pim Diffy
Craig Anton as Lloyd Diffy
Lise Simms as Barbara Diffy
Alyson Michalka as Keely Teslow
J.P. Manoux as Curtis and as Vice Principal Hackett
Kay Panabaker as Debbie Berwick
Rory Thost as Bradley Benjamin Farmer
Episodes
Season 1
Your Cheatin' Heart
Unification Day
Meet the Curtis
Phillin' In
Tanner
Raging Bull
My Way
Daddy Dearest
Pheremonally Yours
Future Tutor
Future Jock
You Say Toe-Mato
Doggie Daycare
We'll Fix it in Editing
Halloween
Age Before Beauty
Neander Phil
Double Trouble
Milkin' It
Corner Pocket
Team Diffy
Season 2
<li>Versa Day
<li>Virtu-Day
<li>The Giggle
<li>Dinner Time
<li>Tia, Via, or Me... Uhh
<li>Ge Ready to Go-Go
<li>Phil Without a Future
<li>Time Release Capsule
<li>Mummy's Boy
<li>Maybe-Sitting
<li>Good Phil Hunting
<li>Pim-Cipal
<li>Phil of the Garage
<li>It's a Wonder-Phil Life
<li>Christmas Break
<li>Stuck in the Meddle with You
<li>Broadcast Blues
<li>Happy Nirday
<li>Ill of the Future
<li>Where's the Wizard?
<li>Not-So-Great Great Great Grandpa
<li>Back to the Future (Not the Movie)
Gadgets Used in the TV Series
Wizard - Can perform multiple functions (Usually spelled Wizrd)
New Ager - Can make people older and younger
DNA Scrambler - Manipulates the DNA of the person it is used on
Insta Morph - Changes what people look like so other people think they are someone else(as seen in Not-So Great-Great-Grandpa)
Skyak - A futuristic flying vehicle, which is like a jet-ski
Penny Missile - Springing clip
The Giggle - A futuristic version of the internet
Replicator Gadget - Replicates (or 'clones') the subject
Holographic Tracking Sensor - Can be used to track a subject
Omnimatic Grapthifiers - Works as a laser operated gripping device, used for climbing
Virtu-Goggles - Strap-on goggles that lets people view and experience a virtual-reality world
Laser Squash - A futuristic game like handball
Spray Food Cans - Spray cans that make any kind of food
I Want Straight Hair - Makes frizzy, messy hair instantly neat
Dress Me Hoop - Used to automatically dress a person when he or she goes through it
Invisi-spray - Used to make someone invisible (cannot be seen)
Other websites
Save Phil of The Future
Brookwell McNamara Entertainment
Television series by Disney
2004 American television series debuts
English-language television programs
Stuart Hill

Stuart Hill is a British author who was born in 1958. in Leicester England. He has written two books in The Icemark Chronicles. They are called The Cry of the Icemark and The Blade of Fire. He is currently writing the third book called "Last Battle Of The Icemark".
References
1958 births
Living people
Anna Karenina (1953 movie)

Anna Karenina is a 1953 Russian historical drama movie directed by Tatyana Lukashevich and based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. It stars Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Sosnin, Pavel Massalsky, Viktor Stanitsyn and was distributed by Mosfilm.
Other websites
1953 drama movies
Russian drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Tatyana Lukashevich
Kemijoki

Kemijoki is the longest river in Finland. It is long. It flows to the Gulf of Bothnia.
Rivers of Finland
Bill Workman

William Douglas Workman III (July 3, 1940 - May 12, 2019) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He was the mayor of Greenville, South Carolina from 1983 to 1995. Workman was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was also the town manager of Bluffton.
Career
In 2014, Workman retired in Walterboro. He wrote about his business and political career as follows, "Economic development is what I have done for a living and for fun. ... Economic development is a high calling as far as I am concerned," upon receiving in Columbia the designation of "South Carolina Economic Ambassador".
Workman died on May 12, 2019, in Walterboro at the age of 78.
References
1940 births
2019 deaths
American mayors
Businesspeople from South Carolina
People from Charleston, South Carolina
People from Greenville, South Carolina
Politicians from South Carolina
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Khomdram

Khomdram is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India.
Other websites
http://www.mychildnames.com/mobile/similar-surname.aspx?surname=Khomdram
http://www.indiachildnames.com/mobile/similarfamilyname.aspx?surname=Khomdram
References
Meitei surnames
NK Zagreb

N.K. Zagreb is a football club which plays in Croatia.
League title
Prva HNL : 1
2001/02
League position
20th-century establishments in Croatia
1903 establishments in Europe
Croatian football clubs
Synchronization (computer science)

In computer science, synchronization refers to one of two different but related concepts: synchronization of processes, and synchronization of data.
Process synchronization refers to the idea that multiple processes are to link or handshake at a certain point, so as to reach an agreement or commit to a certain sequence of action.
Data synchronization refers to the idea of keeping multiple copies of a dataset in coherence (in-constancy) with one another, or to maintain data integrity.
Process synchronization is commonly used to implement Data synchronization.
Other websites
Anatomy of Linux synchronization methods at IBM developerWorks
Computer science
Drift velocity

Drift velocity is the average velocity with which free particles, for example electrons, are pulled towards an electric field.
Velocity
Hotspot (geology)

In geology, a hotspot or hot spot is a portion of the Earth's surface which is volcanic. This may be caused by a rising mantle plume or some other cause. Hotspots may be far from tectonic plate boundaries.
A volcanic hotspot is where magma pushes up from deep in the Earth's crust or mantle, and creates a volcano. The Earth's plates may move along, creating a new volcano above the hotspot while moving the older volcanoes away. This creates a chain of volcanoes, such as in Hawaii.
Discussion
Standard account of volcanic activity
Most volcanoes are explained by the collision or splitting apart of continental plates. This explains the long mountain ranges which have many volcanoes, such as the western edge of the Americas. It also explains the huge rift valleys such as the East African Rift Valley. Most Earth scientists accept that the cause of these great features is plate tectonics.
The problem arises with volcanoes which are not at the edges of plates. In the United States, the Yellowstone Caldera is obviously active. It has geysers caused by constant geothermal energy activity, and the floor of the crater moves up and down as much as 50 meters in a few years. The Pacific Ocean has six or seven chains of islands formed by volcanic activity. Most of these cannot be explained simply as being on the edge of two or three plates.
Hotspot theory
J. Tuzo Wilson suggested in 1963 that volcanic chains like the Hawaiian Islands result from the slow movement of a tectonic plate across a fixed hot spot deep beneath the surface of the planet. Hotspots are thought to be caused by a narrow stream of hot mantle convecting up from the Earth's core-mantle boundary called a mantle plume.
Other geologists think it is not high temperature that causes the volcanism. They think lithospheric extension (stretching of the Earth's crust) allows melted mantle to rise from shallow depths.
Geologists have identified some 40-50 such hotspots around the globe. Those under Hawaii, Reunion, and Yellowstone are the most active at present.
References
Geological formations
Callús

Callus is a municipality in the comarca of Bages, Province of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain.
Municipalities in Catalonia
Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. That was in 1992 for her book A Thousand Acres (1991).
Career
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980. She won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily". "Lily" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Smiley was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the National Book Festival and several others. She won PEN USA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
Smiley's most recent books are a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. The first book of the trilogy, Some Luck was published in 2014 by Random House. The second volume was in the spring of 2015. The third volume was in the fall of 2015.
Smiley was born near Los Angeles, California. She was raised next to St. Louis, Missouri.
Awards
Smiley received the Fitzgerald Award for American Achievement in 2006.
References
Writers from Missouri
Writers from California
1949 births
Living people
O. Henry Award winners
Flag of Guinea-Bissau

The flag of Guinea-Bissau was created in 1973 when independence from Portugal was proclaimed.
Appearance
It has one vertical red line on the hoist side charged with a black five-pointed star; two horizontal lines on the fly side (yellow and green).
References
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Shell Rock River

The Shell Rock River is a tributary of the Cedar River in Iowa and Minnesota. It is 102 miles long. It is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Related pages
List of rivers of Iowa
List of rivers of Minnesota
References
Rivers of Iowa
Rivers of Minnesota
The Tales of Alvin Maker

The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of books by Orson Scott Card about the experiences of a young man, Alvin Miller, who finds out that he has special powers to make and change things around him. It takes place in an alternate history of the American frontier in the early 1800s and is based on early American folklore and superstition.
Books
Seventh Son (1987)
Red Prophet (1988)
Prentice Alvin (1989)
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
Heartfire (1998)
The Crystal City (2003)
Master Alvin (planned)
Other websites
The official Orson Scott Card website
Books by Orson Scott Card
Series of books
Andreas Christensen

Andreas Bodtker Christensen (born 10 April 1996) is a Danish football player. He plays as a centre-back for Barcelona and the Denmark national team.
References
1996 births
Danish footballers
Association football defenders
Chelsea F.C. players
Premier League players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Living people
2022 FIFA World Cup players
Pontécoulant

Pontecoulant is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Calvados
Seleucus III Ceraunus

Seleucus III Ceraunus was the son of Seleucus II Callinicus and the fifth king of the Seleucid Empire.
Reign
After becoming king, Seleucus III went to war against Attalus I in Asia Minor and two years later Seleucus was assassinated. His brother Antiochus the Great became the new king.
Seleucid kings
Miriam Peretz

Miriam Peretz (born 10 April 1954) is an Moroccan-born Israeli educator and politician. She is known for her lectures around the world on Zionism. Peretz was the recipient of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2018.
In May 2021, Peretz announced that she would run for president of Israel in the 2021 election. She lost the election on 2 June 2021 to former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog.
Peretz was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco.
References
1954 births
Living people
Israeli activists
Israeli educators
Jewish activists
Jewish Israeli politicians
Moroccan Jews
People from Casablanca
Zionists
Moroccan educators
Moroccan politicians
Independence Day (1996 movie)

Independence Day is an American science fiction action movie about two men trying to stop aliens from taking over the world. It stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Will Smith.
It was followed by Independence Day: Resurgence, which was released on June 24, 2016.
References
1996 action movies
1990s disaster movies
1996 science fiction movies
20th Century Fox movies
1990s American action movies
1990s American disaster movies
American science fiction movies
1990s English-language movies
Movies set in the 1990s
Movies about extraterrestrial life
Movies set in California
Movies set in Egypt
Movies set in Japan
Movies set in Houston
Movies set in Iraq
Movies set in Los Angeles
Movies set in Nevada
Movies set in New York City
Movies set in Washington, D.C.
Movies directed by Roland Emmerich
Boeing 757

The Boeing 757 is a short to medium range narrow-body commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was launched by Eastern Air Lines and British Airways to replace the Boeing 727 and entered service in 1983. Production of the 757 ended on October 28, 2004 after 1,050 had been built. The final aircraft was delivered to Shanghai Airlines on November 28, 2005. As of July 2007, a total of 1,019 Boeing 757 aircraft were in airline service.
References
757
Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray (September 7, 1936 - December 13, 2017) was a Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor.
Gray was probably best known as investment banker Adam Cunningham on the Global series Traders, the father of the groom in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, as Judge J.E. Reilly on the soap opera Passions and the ghost of Joe's father on the hit television show Medium.
Gray died on December 13, 2017 of brain cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81.
References
Other websites
Official Bruce Gray Website: http://www.bruce-gray.com
Bruce Gray at the American Film Institute Catalog
Bruce Gray at AllMovie
1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Puerto Rican movie actors
Puerto Rican television actors
Del Amitri

Del Amitri is a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Glasgow in 1980. Between 1985 and 2002, the band released six studio albums. Their 1995 single "Roll to Me" reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Five have reached the Top 10 in the UK. Del Amitri have sold six million albums around the world.
History
Band name
Del Amitri's member and songwriter, Justin Currie, said in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless - basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'." In 2018, he said that 'Del Amitri' was based on the name of the producer of a movie he saw in 1979 - "...probably Dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember..." Many sources have said that the name was chosen because it is Greek for "from the womb", but this is untrue.
Discography
Studio albums
del Amitri (1985)
Waking Hours (1989)
Change Everything (1992)
Twisted (1995)
Some Other Sucker's Parade (1997)
Can You Do Me Good? (2002)
Compilation albums
The Best of Del Amitri: Hatful of Rain (1998)
Lousy with Love: The B-Sides (1998)
20th Century Masters - The Best of Del Amitri (2003)
The Collection: Best of Del Amitri (2007)
Live albums
Into the Mirror: Del Amitri Live in Concert (2014)
Singles
"Sense Sickness" / "The Difference Is" (1983)
"Hammering Heart" (1985)
"Sticks & Stones Girl" (1985)
"Kiss This Thing Goodbye" (1989, 1990)
"Stone Cold Sober" (1989)
"Move Away Jimmy Blue" (1990)
"Nothing Ever Happens" (1990)
"Spit in the Rain" (1990)
"Be My Downfall" (1992)
"Always the Last to Know" (1992)
"Just Like a Man (1992)
"When You Were Young" (1993)
"Roll to Me" (1995)
"Driving with the Brakes On" (1995)
"Tell Her This" (1995)
"Not Where It's At" (1997)
"Medicine" (1997)
"Some Other Suckers Parade" (1997)
"Cry to Be Found" (1998)
"Don't Come Home Too Soon" (1998)
"Just Before You Leave" (2002)
Members
The current members of the band are:
Justin Currie - main singer and bass player
Iain Harvie - guitar
Andy Alston - keyboards
Ashley Soan - drums
Kris Dollimore - guitar
Currie and Harvie are the main songwriters for the band.
Former members of the band are:
Donald Bentley - guitar
James M. Scobbie - guitar
Paul Tyagi - drums
Bryan Tolland - guitar
Mick Slaven -guitar
David Cummings
Brian McDermott - guitar
Jon McLoughin - guitar
Mark Price - drums
References
Other websites
Scottish rock bands
Musical groups from Glasgow
Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit based in San Francisco, United States. It was started in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet freedoms.
The EFF sponsors legal defense, defends individuals and new technology from unfair legal threats. It also monitors proposals that may weaken internet freedoms and liberties. It also monitors for possible weakening of fair use.
Activities
Early Cases
One of the first high profile cases of the EFF was Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service. In early 1990, Steve Jackson Games was under a massive search and seizure operation. Copies of the game GURPS Cyberpunk was considered as proof by mistake. Emails were also modified and were a new technology at the time. It was not considered to be protected by the right to personal privacy at the time.
Bernstein v. United States was the second large case of the EFF. Programmer Daniel J. Bernstein had sued the US Government for permission to release his cryptographic software against limits put by the government.
DES Cracker
During the mid-1990s, the United States Government did not allow for international use of any cryptographic product unless the ciphertext could be decrypted by a third-party with a promise that the government could not read messages protected by the Data Encryption Standard (DES) even after it was shown as weak and broken. The EFF had made a piece of hardware called the EFF DES Cracker that could crack a message within 24 hours.
The plans and source code were made public.
Software
The EFF has made software and browser add-ons like Switzerland, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger.
References
1990 establishments in California
American activists
Civil rights organizations based in the United States
Human rights organizations in the United States
International organizations
Non-profit organizations of California
Women's rights movement in Iran

The Iranian women's movement, also called the Persian women's movement, involves the Iranian women's social movement for women's rights. The movement emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Semi secret associations took place and organized women's rights demonstrations and protests.
It lasted until 1910, when the first Women Journal was published by women, to 1933, when which the last women's association was dissolved by the Reza Shah's government. The women's movement emerged again after the Iranian Revolution (1979). In some villages the parents must show proof of their daughters virginity on the wedding night.
Activists
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1859-1921)
Touba Azmoudeh (1878-1936)
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882-1962)
Mohtaram Eskandari (1895-1924)
Roshank No'doost (1899-?)
Afaq Parsa (1899-?)
Fakhr ozma Arghoun (1899-1966)
Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh (1902-?)
Zandokht Shirazi (1909-1953)
Maryam Amid (Mariam Mozayen-ol Sadat) (?-1919)
Shahnaz Azad (1901-1961)
Roya Toloui (1966-)
Parvin Ardalan (1967-)
Noushin Ahmadi khorasani (1970-)
Shadi Sadr (1975-)
References
History of Iran
Iran
Feminism
Frontotemporal dementia

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the clinical presentation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. It is characterized by progressive neuronal loss predominantly involving the frontal or temporal lobes, and typical loss of over 70% of spindle neurons, while other neuron types remain intact.
Second only to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in prevalence, FTD accounts for 20% of young-onset dementia cases.
Common signs and symptoms include significant changes in social and personal behavior, apathy, blunting of emotions, and deficits in both expressive and receptive language.
References
Diseases and disorders of the cardiovascular system
Dementia
Sapphire-throated hummingbird

The sapphire-throated hummingbird Lepidopyga coeruleogularis is a bright metallic-green hummingbird found in Panama, Colombia. More recently, it is seen in Costa Rica.
References
IUCN Red List least concern species
Hummingbirds
Birds of South America
Birds of Central America
Jade (American band)

Jade is an American hip hop-soul group. The group began in 1991. They split in 1997 and reformed in 2014. The group's members are Joi Marshall, Tonya Kelly and Myracle Holloway. The group is from Chicago.
The group had hit songs with "I Wanna Love You Down" and "Don't Walk Away" in 1992 and 1993. Their second album, Mind, Body & Song, was released in 1994.
References
1991 establishments in Illinois
1990s American music groups
2010s American music groups
American R&B bands
Musical groups established in 1991
Musical groups from Chicago
Musical trios
Clint Capela

Clint N'Dumba-Capela (born May 18, 1994) is a Swiss professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
Capela was only 15 years old when he played at the European Junior Championships. He was drafted by the Rockets in the 2014 NBA draft.
1994 births
Living people
Basketball players
Sportspeople from Geneva
Houston Rockets players
Pakistan's Message

Pakistan's Message () is a religious ruling requested by the Government of Pakistan to defeat terrorism. It was prepared by International Islamic University and signed by 1,800 scholars.
References
Government of Pakistan
Bourseville

Bourseville is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
References
Communes in Somme
Mondragon, Vaucluse

Mondragon is a commune of 3,363 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Communes in Vaucluse
Astraeus hygrometricus

Astraeus hygrometricus, often known as the 'hygroscopic earthstar, the barometer earthstar, or the false earthstar, is a Diplocystaceae fungus. When closed, young specimens resemble a puffball. When mature, the mushroom takes on the distinctive earthstar form, which is caused by the outer layer of fruit body tissue splitting apart in a star-like pattern.
References
Mushrooms
Helsingborg Municipality

Helsingborg Municipality () is a municipality in Skane County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Helsingborg.
References
Other websites
Helsingborg Municipality
Municipalities of Skane County
David Ellefson

David Warren "Dave" Ellefson (born on 12 November 1964 in Jackson, Minnesota, United States) is an American bassist. He was a member of the band Megadeth. Along with Dave Mustaine, he is one of the founding members of the band. He currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
He has also played with Soulfly, Avian, Temple of Brutality, F5, Killing Machine, Ministry, Hail! and Altitudes & Attitudes.
Other websites
Official website
David Ellefson on loudwire.com
1964 births
Living people
American bass guitarists
American Christians
American musicians
Bassists
Megadeth members
Pitkin, Louisiana

Pitkin is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Census-designated places in Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Dome

A dome is a building or roof that usually looks like the upper half of a sphere.
As a roof feature, domes make many religious and government buildings stand out, because if someone is speaking to others inside or under a dome, the voice sounds louder. Also a dome makes it easier to identify an important building, for example a temple or a palace.
A large stadium with a roof over the playing field is often called a "dome". One example of that usage is the Metrodome.
Architectural elements
Braize

Braize is a French commune. It is in the Allier department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Allier
The death of the chick (Rotta)

The Death of the Chick (also known as La morte del pulcino) is a 19th-century painted in oil by Antonio Rotta, in 1870, din Venice, Italy, exhibited at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Signed lower left: A. Rotta.
History
The painting was finished in 1878, and is exhibited at the Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto in Trento, as one of the most interesting representative works of genre painting.
Description
Rotta has always been interested in the representation of true daily life. It shows the first moment in which the innocence of children dies. They see death of a chick.
Related items
The Hopeless Case (Rotta)
The little girl found in Venice (Rotta)
Notes
Bibliography
Giuseppe Pavanello, Nico Stringa, "Ottocento veneto: il trionfo del colore", p. 12, Casa dei Carraresi, Ed. Canova, Treviso, Italy, 2004, ISBN 8884091160
"Emporium, rivista mensile illustrata d'arte", Volume 19, Istituto italiano di arti grafiche, Bergamo, Italy, p. 103, 1904
Other websites
The Hopeless Case, Antonio Rotta, The Retarded Child, Museu de Arte de Milwaukee, collection.mam.org | MAM Museum - sito ufficiale
Paintings by Antonio Rotta
1870s paintings
Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (April 13,1771 - April 22, 1833) was a Cornish inventor and engineer. He is best known for making the first working steam locomotive. However, it was designed to be a road vehicle, not a railroad one.
Trevithick was from the heart of a big mining area in Cornwall, U.K. His parents were Richard Trevithick (1735-1797) and Ann Teague (d. 1810.) In 1797, Trevithick married Jane Harvey. He died of pneumonia in 1833.
1771 births
1833 deaths
English inventors
Rafael Gordillo

Rafael Gordillo (born 24 February, 1957) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
Club career statistics
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|1976-77||rowspan="9"|Real Betis Balompie||rowspan="2"|La Liga||13||1
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|1977-78||30||5
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|1978-79||Segunda Division||38||7
|-
|1979-80||rowspan="6"|La Liga||34||4
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|1980-81||34||3
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|1981-82||33||5
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|1982-83||30||0
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|1983-84||34||0
|-
|1984-85||29||0
|-
|1985-86||rowspan="7"|Real Madrid||rowspan="7"|La Liga||22||1
|-
|1986-87||36||5
|-
|1987-88||35||6
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|1988-89||34||6
|-
|1989-90||33||0
|-
|1990-91||12||2
|-
|1991-92||10||0
|-
|1992-93||rowspan="3"|Real Betis Balompie||rowspan="2"|Segunda Division||34||5
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|1993-94||25||3
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|1994-95||La Liga||9||0
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|1995-96||Ecija Balompie||Segunda Division||18||1
543||53
543||53
|}
International career statistics
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|1978||2||0
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|1979||0||0
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|1980||11||0
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|1981||13||0
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|1982||10||0
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|1983||7||2
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|1984||12||0
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|1985||6||1
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|1986||3||0
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|1987||4||0
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|1988||7||0
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!Total||75||3
|}
References
1957 births
Living people
Spanish footballers
Embassy Park

Embassy Park, also known as Embassy Park Presidential Burial Site or Embassy Memorial Park, is an important place in Lusaka, Zambia. It is where the country's presidents are laid to rest and holds great historical and cultural value. In 2009, it was officially recognized as a National Monument. Embassy Park represents Zambia's political and social heritage and pays tribute to the leaders who have contributed to the country's progress. Several presidents, including Kenneth Kaunda, the first president, Frederick Chiluba, the second president, Levy Mwanawasa, the third president, Rupiah Banda, the fourth president, and Michael Sata, the fifth president, are buried here. The park is open to the public, allowing visitors to show their respect to the former presidents and learn about Zambia's cultural and political roots. As a National Monument, Embassy Park plays a crucial role in preserving and promoting Zambia's rich history.
References
Cemeteries
Zambia
Lethbridge

Lethbridge is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
The mayor of Lethbridge is Blaine Hyggen.
The population is 101482 from the 2021 municipal census.
Lethbridge is also home to a Western Hockey League team called the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
References
Other websites
Official city website
Rotary encoder

A rotary encoder is a device that can keep track of how much something has turned. This is called its angular position. That information is useful to know how far a motor has turned, for example.
Rotary encoders are often used in manufacturing and robotics. This is because they need things to be measured and controlled very accurately.
Basic types
Absolute
An absolute encoder always keeps track of what value its on, even if it isn't powered.
Incremental
An incremental encoder only keeps track of changes. It gives off signals if it is turned one way or another.
Sensors
Greg Halman

Gregory Anthony Halman (August 26, 1987 - November 21, 2011) was a Dutch professional baseball outfielder. He played with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. He also played internationally with the Dutch national team, playing in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Death
Halman was killed in a stabbing on November 21, 2011 in Rotterdam. His brother Jason Halman was held by police after the incident.
References
1987 births
2011 deaths
Dutch murder victims
Murders by blade weapons
People murdered in the Netherlands
Seattle Mariners players
Sportspeople from Haarlem
Möriken-Wildegg

Moriken-Wildegg is a municipality in Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Municipalities of Aargau
MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) developed by Unity technologies for c# programming.
Free software
GNOME
IDEs
Microsoft Windows software
Landau

Landau or Landau in der Pfalz (, regional dialect(s): Landaach or Landaasch, 'Landau in the Palatinate') is a town in southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It has about 46,000 inhabitants and a university. Its main economic industry is wine.
References
Other websites
Marcello Boasso

Marcello Boasso (Turin, January 16, 1902 - El Palomar, February 17th, 1960) was an Italian-Argentine composer and pianist.
1902 births
1960 deaths
Argentine composers
Straight edge

Straight edge (Often called sXe) is a lifestyle without drugs, tobacco, or alcohol. Some followers of straight edge also abstain from illegal or casual sex.
For some, no drug use includes caffeine which is a stimulant drug. Some will accept drugs such as codeine or morphine for medical reasons.
Some followers of straight edge will not use Ny-Quil or Day-Quil because they contain alcohol.
Those straight edgers who quit casual or illegal sex would not have one-night stands and will wait until they are in a committed relationship to have sex.
Some cities have associated straight edge as gang affiliation, but advocates call it a way of life such as being a vegetarian.
References
Subculture
Lifestyles