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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations with special protection. They are protected because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural importance. Areas are usually protected by law. The law can be local, from the country of the protected area, or even internationally.
Protected areas are important for biodiversity. They often provide an area safe from hunting or changes to the environment. This provides a safe habitat for threatened and endangered species. They are also important to protect naturally formed areas, like the Grand Canyon, from damage by humans.
There are many types of protected areas. One type is a marine protected area. A marine protected area is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes.
Northeast Greenland National Park is an example of a protected area. The park protects a large variety of animals, such as musk oxen, walrus, and King Eider. Another example of a protected area is the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This area is protected because it is an important archaeological site.
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Marine reserve
Nature reserve
World Heritage Site
Einherjar

In Norse mythology, the einherjar (lone-fighters) are warriors who have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries. In Valhalla, the einherjar eat meat from the boar called Saehrimnir. Every day he is boiled and every night he becomes whole again. They drink mead provided by a goat named Heidrun. Every day they dress for battle and go out and fight each other. This is to prepare for the events of Ragnarok (the end of the world).
The einherjar are written about in the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. Also in the poem written in the 13th century Hakonarmal, by Eyvindr skaldaspillir.
References
Norse mythology
L'Osservatore Romano

L'Osservatore Romano is the official newspaper of the Holy See. It was first published in 1861. It is not used for official publications, they appear in Acta Apostolicae Sedis. L'Osservatore Romano is published daily, in Italian. There are also weekly or monthly editions in many other languages.
Other websites
The Holy See - L'Osservatore Romano
L'Osservatore Romano site index
The origins of L'Osservatore Romano
Newspapers in Europe
Vatican City
Peyton Place (TV series)

Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964, to June 2, 1969. It starred Academy Award-winning actress Dorothy Malone.
It is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious. It aired a total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in black-and-white from 1964 to 1966 and in color from 1966 to 1969.
A number of guest stars appeared in the series for extended periods, among them such as Leslie Nielsen and Gena Rowlands, who won an Primetime Emmy Award for her role in the series. The series served as the first roles for such performers as Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, David Canary, Mariette Hartley, Tim O'Connor, and Lana Wood.
Other websites
1960s American television series
1964 television series debuts
1969 television series endings
American soap operas
English-language television programs
L-DOPA

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Levodopa, or L-DOPA is an amino acid. In the body of mammals, it is made from Tyrosine in a process named synthesis. It also occurs in different plants. As such it can be used as a dietary supplement. L-Dopa is the precursor to the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepiphedrine and epiphedrine, which are part of a group known as Catecholamines. L-dopa can also be used as a drug for diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The substance used in the drug is usually called Levodopa, and the naturally occurring substance is called L-Dopa.
Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson first saw that the substance could be used as a drug, in 1957. It was first introduced as Madopar, by Hoffmann-La Roche, in 1973, as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. The WHO has put it on the list of essential medicines. Because the drug has side-effects, when taken for a longer period of time, people often try to replace it witrh other drugs, especially in younger patients.
Amino acids
Drugs
Guinea

Guinea, or the Republic of Guinea (), is an independent nation in Western Africa. Guinea borders 6 countries: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone. The national language is French. It is a member of the Economic Community of West African States.
History
Before the Europeans arrived to Africa, Guinea was part of a couple of empires. In the 1890s, France colonized Guinea. In 1958, Guinea becomes independent.
Prefectures and regions
Guinea is divided into 8 regions and then divided even further into 33 prefectures. The capital of Guinea, Conakry, is a special area.
Boke Region
Conakry Region
Faranah Region
Kankan Region
Kindia Region
Labe Region
Mamou Region
Nzerekore Region
Biggest cities
The following are the biggest cities in Guinea, by population:
Conakry (2,000,000)
Labe (700,000)
Kankan (439,017)
Kindia (279,884 )
Nzerekore (247,855)
Kissidougou (135,900)
Gueckedou (116,541)
Mamou (105,754)
Religion
About 89% of people are Muslim, most of them are Sunni. 6.8% of people are Christian, most of them are Catholic.
Notable people from Guinea
The following is a list of notable people from Guinea:
Sources
Guinea , in the CIA World Factbook
References
Other websites
Website of the Guinean governement
French-speaking countries
Least developed countries
Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
1958 establishments in Africa
Bonfire

A bonfire or balefire is a large controlled outdoor fire made from bales of straw or wood. The word is believed to come from "bone fire". In the time of the Celts, there were midsummer festivals where animal bones were burnt to ward off evil spirits.
What it means in Great Britain
In Great Britain, bonfires are particularly associated with Guy Fawkes Night. This night is also known as fireworks night or bonfire night. On this night, people celebrate that the Gunpowder Plot was discovered. This discovery took place on 5 November 1605. They do this celebration each year. (It is called an annual celebration.)
In Northern Ireland, bonfires are associated with celebrations on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.
What it means in Japan
In Japan, large fires called bon-bi are set to welcome the return of the spirits of the ancestors. Though the two terms are not etymologically or historically related, they serve similar purposes and indicate the universal importance of large fires.
Use of bonfires for rituals
Bonfires were also used for rituals. The idea was that the fire would purify. It was used to consecrate things, or people, that is to make them sacred, in some way. In ancient times, cattle were important symbols of wealth and status. Such cattle were led through the smoke of a bonfire. Couples who were to be wed on May Day would leap through the flames of the bonfire to seal their vows. Coals from a bonfire would be taken home to light the fires in family hearths. This practice was thought to bring good fortune. People also believed that the residents of the Faery realm were incapable of producing fire themselves; embers of bonfires would be carried to the underworld and tended there.
Neopagan and Wiccan beliefs
Along with the Maypole, the bonfire is an important component of the Wiccan and Neopagan celebration of Beltaine, also known as May Day.
Nine woods are placed into a traditional Wiccan balefire. These woods are rowan, dogwood, elder, poplar, oak, juniper, holly, cedar, and apple. Occasionally, pine is also used instead of holly or elder, as are a handful of other woods. In some regions, superstition, religious belief, or tradition prohibits the cutting of certain trees.
Pictures
Related pages
Walpurgis Night
Pyre
Other websites
Dancing May Day Through History
Festivals
Fire
Gaullism

Gaullism () is a French political term of people who support the ideas and presidency of World War II French Resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle.
Gaullism cannot be seen within a political ideology, meaning it is not left or right. It is more of how the President of France should use their power.
"Neo-Gaullism" has been used to describe a movement after the death of de Gaulle in 1970 from people who are economic liberal than both traditional and social Gaullism.
Gaullist political parties
The following is a list of Gaullist political parties and their successors:
1947-1955: Rally of the French People (RPF)
1955-1958: National Centre of Social Republicans (CNRS)
1958-1962: Union for the New Republic (UNR) and Democratic Union of Labour (UDT)
1962-1967: Union for the New Republic - Democratic Union of Labour (UNR - UDT)
1967-1968: Democratic Union for the Fifth Republic (UD-Ve)
1968-1971: Union for the Defence of the Republic (UDR)
1971-1976: Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR)
1976-2002: Rally for the Republic (RPR)
1994-2018: Movement for France (MPF)
1999-2014: Debout la Republique (DLR)
2002-2015: Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
2014-present: Debout la France (DLF)
2015-present: The Republicans (LR)
References
Political parties in France
Baranwal

Baranwal (also spelled Barnwal, Burnwal, Bernwal, Varanwal, Varnwal, Barnawal) is a Hindu community found throughout northern India, including Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat along with a sprinkled presence in Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh. The name of the caste derives from "Baran" or "Barn", a former name of the Bulandshahr city. The community derives from ancient legendary king The legends describe the ancestry of Ahibaran as follows: The children of King Dharmadat established their separate state, whose children are now called Bais Rajputs. King Harshavardhana was in his lineage.[6] The child of the eldest son Subhankar continued to rule in his native state, Chandravati.[1] Their offspring were King Tendumal and his descendant Maharaja Varaksh who took the side of religion in the war of Mahabharata and died by becoming a partisan of Pandavas.[7] The remaining people left Chandravati and came to North India due to the storm in Chandravati.[2] The clan of Maharaja Varaksha laid the foundation of his kingdom in a place called 'Ahar' in the presence of the Emperor of Hastinapur.[8] In the generation of Maharaja Varaksha, King Parmal descendants from him.[9] King Ahibaran born to King Parmal. King Ahibaran was married to Varanavati, the daughter of Khandav's King, who lives in a dense forest of selection trees located in the western part of the Ikshumati River in Antravredi.[10]Ahibaran.
Gotras
Historically,there are regional differences between the list of gotras. There is 36 gotra in baranwal community. Some of the gotras like Kasyap and Kaushik are specific to Rajputs. Barnwal trace their origin from Baniya Community.
References
Notes
Citations
Uttar Pradesh
Laurie Strode

Laurie Strode is a fictional character in the Halloween movies. The first movie she was in was the 1978 movie. She is an example of the "final girl" character, the last girl alive to fight the killer in a movie.
Jamie Lee Curtis was the first actress to play Laurie Strode.
Fictional American people
Fictional characters introduced in 1978
Movie characters
Halloween (franchise)
Horror movie characters
Fictional orphans
Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée

Givenchy-les-la-Bassee is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
MyWikiBiz

MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that lets people write about themselves. It began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations. The site was founded by Gregory Kohs, a market researcher.
Gregory Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in Pennsylvania in July 2006, first as a paid editing service, writing content for Wikipedia and other sites. The legitimacy of the idea was supported by the English Wikipedia's Reward Board, where interested parties would offer cash rewards or gifts to create or improve Wikipedia articles.
References
Other websites
MyWikiBiz
Wikis
Morwenstow

Morwenstow is a parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated near the coast about six miles (10 km) north of Bude.
Morwenstow is the most northerly parish in Cornwall with the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Devon to the east. As well as the churchtown, other settlements in the parish include Shop, Woodford, Gooseham, Eastcott, Wooley and West Youlstone.
Morwenstow was the home of the eccentric vicar and poet Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875), who is credited with reviving the custom of Harvest Festivals. The church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist is of the Norman period. The Vicarage was built for Hawker and has chimneys in the form of the towers of various churches associated with him. The nearby coast is hazardous to shipping and the corpses of drowned sailors were laid out in the churchyard and then buried. Hawker buried over forty who were washed up within the parish boundaries.
References
Villages in Cornwall
Civil parishes in Cornwall
List of counties of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has different sorts of counties. Some are traditional areas and some are for local government or other government things.
Counties (Traditional)
These counties are sometimes called historic counties, traditional counties or ancient or geographical counties. People argue about how much they exist in law. They are useful for genealogical and historic matters. Anyone may choose to use traditional counties or not.
The traditional counties have had nothing to do with government since 1889. However until 1974 most local government counties were very like them.
The United Kingdom has 92 traditional counties.
Counties (Local Government) Districts & Principal Areas
See also
Local government administrative areas have different functions and powers in each of the different countries in the United Kingdom (England and the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) This resulted from devolution of administrative, executive, or legislative authority to the new institutions operating. The areas administered by local government have different types of names in the different parts of the United Kingdom.
Districts of England
There is a total of 326 English districts. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision (numbers shown in brackets)
Metropolitan borough (36)
Non-Metropolitan district (Shire District) (201)
Unitary authority (55)
London boroughs (32)
As a result, in parts of England there are local government counties with districts in them.[1] In other parts there are counties with just one district, and in those parts there is only one council, which is the district council or the county council.[2] Greater London is not a county; it has City of London, London Borough Councils, and a Greater London Authority. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is unique but is in effect a county council operating as unitary authority.
Scotland
In Scotland there are "local government areas"[3] but most people call them "council areas".
Wales
In Wales there are "principal areas".[4] Some councils' areas in Wales are called "counties" and others "county boroughs".
Northern Ireland
In 1972, administrative functions in the Counties of Northern Ireland were replaced by 26 unitary authorities.[5]
Ceremonial Counties & Lieutenancy Areas
The Queen appoints officers called "lord-lieutenants" and High Sheriff in ceremonial counties and lieutenancy areas. The UK area in which their duties are carried out is usually called a ceremonial county except in Scotland, where they are called "Lieutenancy Areas". In Scotland only a lord-lieutenant is appointed to each lieutenancy area.
Ceremonial Counties (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)
A ceremonial county in England and Wales is a local government county or a group of local government counties. In Northern Ireland it is a county or county borough.
Lieutenancy Areas (Scotland)
Notes
Other websites
The Gazetteer of British Place Names
Local Government directory - British Government
United Kingdom-related lists
Northfield, Minnesota

Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. The city is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,007 during the 2010 census.
References
Cities in Minnesota
Basa-Benue language

Basa-Benue is a language of Nigeria.
References
Languages of Nigeria
Niger-Congo languages
María Rosa Moreno

Maria Rosa Moreno (born 9 August 1964) is a retired Spanish taekwondo athlete. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where taekwondo was a demonstration sport, in the finweight event.
She won the bronze medal at the 1987 World Taekwondo Championships in the -43 kg category. At the European Taekwondo Championships, she became the European Champion in 1988 She won the silver medal in 1986 and the bronze medal in 1990.
References
1964 births
Spanish martial artists
Saro Shah

Saro Shah or Sari is a town and Union Council of Mardan District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34deg14'9N 71deg54'30E and has a height of 316 metres (1040 feet).
References
Union Councils of Mardan District
Video conference

Video conference refers to a communication over a distance between three or more people where video and audio is transmitted in near real-time. There are various software packages which make this possible.
Skype
Discord
Zoom
BlueJeans
Telecommunications
Ebrahim Amini

Ebrahim Amini (30 June 1925 - April 24, 2020) was an Iranian politician. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts from 1983 to 2007 and again from 2016 to 2020. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader.
Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
Amini died at a hospital on April 24, 2020 in Qom, Iran at the age of 94.
References
1925 births
2020 deaths
Iranian politicians
Lists of monarchs

List of monarchs may refer to:
List of current sovereign monarchs
List of monarchs by time
By current countries
Note: The list includes both current monarchies and current countries that have abolished the monarchy.
Afghanistan
Albania
Andorra
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Australia
Austria (and Austria-Hungary)
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Belgium
Benin
Bosnia
Bhutan
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cambodia
Canada
Central Africa
China
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Egypt
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
The Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Germany
Grenada
Greece
Guyana
Haiti
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Korea
Kuwait
Laos
Lesotho
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Monaco
Mongolia
Mexico
Montenegro
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
New Zealand
Netherlands
Nigeria
Niue
Norway
Oman
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sieraa Leone
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom and predecessors
Defunct countries
Note: These countries no longer exist and neither does the monarchy.
Ailech
Aragon
Argos
Athens
Baden
Bavaria
Bora Bora
Bosporan Kingdom
Brandenburg
Brunswick
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Burgundy
Byzantine Empire
Castile
Connacht
Cyrene
Dal Riata
East Anglia
Essex
the Franks
Galicia
Hanover
Hawaii
Hejaz
Hesse
Hohenzollern
Huahine
Illyria
Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu)
the Isles
Jerusalem
Kent
Kush
Leinster
Leon
Lippe
the Lombards
Lorraine
Luneburg
Lydia
Macedonia
Mecklenburg
Meissen
Mercia
Mide
Milan
Modena
Munster
Naples
Navarre
Northumbria
Numidia
Oldenburg
Palatinate
Parma
the Picts
Pomerania
Pontus
Prussia
Raiatea
Reuss
Roman Empire
Rome
Ryukyu
Saxony
Schleswig-Holstein
Schwarzburg
Sicily
Sparta
Strathclyde
Sussex
Swabia
Tahiti
Tanganyika
Tenochtitlan (Aztec Empire)
Thuringia
Transylvania
Tuscany
Two Sicilies
Wallachia
Wessex
Wurttemberg
Fictional
List of fictional monarchs
Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov)
Related pages
List of current pretenders
Koji Nakazato

Koji Nakazato (born 24 April 1982) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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References
1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Kanagawa Prefecture
Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War (also known by many other names like the Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as ("German War"), (; "German war of brothers")) was a war fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Each side was helped by many allies in the German Confederation. Prussia had also allied with the Kingdom of Italy. This connected the conflict to the Third Independence War of Italian unification. The Austro-Prussian War was part of the rivalry between Austria and Prussia. It ended with Prussian control over the German states.
The biggest result of the war was a change in power over the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony. The German Confederation was ended and replaced by the North German Confederation. Italy also took the Austrian province of Venetia after the war.
The war started when Prussian troops invaded Schleswig-Holstein. The region had been disputed between Prussia and Austria ever since it was taken by them from Denmark. Prussia then invaded Hanover, Saxony, and the Electorate of Hesse on 15 June. Italy declared war on Austria on 20 June.
References
19th century in Germany
Wars involving Italy
1866
Atmosphere of Uranus

The atmosphere of Uranus is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium. The lower atmosphere is made up of volatiles such as water, ammonia and methane. The upper atmosphere contains very few gases that are heavier than hydrogen and helium because the temperature of its atmosphere is low. Uranus's atmosphere is the coldest atmosphere of all the planets in the Solar system. Its temperature is as low as 49 K.
Atmosphere
Kankai River

The Kankai River (also known as Mai Khola) () is a river flowing from North to south in eastern part of Nepal. It flows through Ilam District and Jhapa District of Nepal. The name Kankai came from 'KANAKA' a Sanskrit word in which it means gold. It is also considered to be a sacred river for Hindus. The bank of Kankai river is popular for holy bath and worshiping.
References
Rivers of Nepal
Walter Mears

Walter R. Mears (January 11, 1935 - March 3, 2022) was an American journalist, author, and teacher. He was one of the people talked about in the 1973 non-fiction book The Boys on the Bus. He helped cover the 1972 presidential election between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. He won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential campaign and election.
Mears died on March 3, 2022 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from cancer, aged 87.
References
1935 births
2022 deaths
American journalists
Writers from Massachusetts
Educators from Massachusetts
People from Lynn, Massachusetts
Cancer deaths in North Carolina
Blackmail (1947 movie)

Blackmail is a 1947 American action crime movie directed by Lesley Selander and starring William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers, Stephanie Bachelor, Ray Barcroft, Gregory Gaye. It was distributed by Republic Pictures.
Other websites
1940s action movies
1947 crime movies
American action movies
1940s American crime movies
Movies directed by Lesley Selander
Masato Mihara

Masato Mihara is a judoka from Japan. Mihara competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was born on 1 May 1959.
References
Other websites
1959 births
Living people
Japanese judoka
Japanese Olympians
Mixed drink

A mixed drink is a type of drink where two or more diffent drinks are mixed together to create a new drink. Very often, at least one of the ingredients contains alcohol. Usually, spirits like rum or vodka are used in the mixed drinks containing alcohol.
Examples of mixed drinks are Rum & Coke and Bundy & Rum.
Alcopops are pre-fabricated mixed drinks. They were mainly made for the young. Often they are made so that the alcohol in them cannot be tasted easily.
Mixed drinks without alcohol are often called virgin.
Alcoholic drinks
River North Point

River North Point (formerly 350 West Mart Center) is the official name of the 24-floor building located in the Near North Side community area of Chicago. It is on the intersection of the North Branch and the Main Branch of the Chicago River.
It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1977. The building is located in the River North district north of the Main Branch and east of the North Branch.
Originally built to serve as the world's largest wholesale buying center for the clothing industry, the building is more commonly known by several other names including 350 West Mart Center, Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza River North, Holiday Inn Mart, Merchandise Mart Annex, Merchandise Mart Annex Apparel Center, Apparel Mart, Chicago Apparel Center and Apparel Center. The building opened on November 6, 1976.
References
Buildings and structures in Chicago
Aizecourt-le-Haut

Aizecourt-le-Haut is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is northeast of Saint-Quentin.
Communes in Somme
Crowley, Louisiana

Crowley is the parish seat of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. Over 60% of the population are non-Hispanic whites.
References
Cities in Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Parish seats in Louisiana
Galactic halo

A galactic halo is a roughly spherical part of a galaxy. It extends beyond the main, visible part. Several components make up the halo:
References
Astronomy
Li Weiwei

Li Weiwei (born 17 November 1994) is a Chinese female volleyball player. She was part of the China women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 2010 FIVB World League, 2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, and 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship.
She played for Beijing BAIC Motor women's volleyball team.
References
1994 births
Living people
Chinese volleyball players
1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 17 to October 2.
References
Other websites
IOC page on the Seoul 1988 Olympics
Olympics
1980s in South Korean sport
Ploudaniel

Ploudaniel () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistere department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Finistere
Sumiswald

Sumiswald is a municipality of the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Gallery
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Bern
Kilosecond

A kilosecond is one thousand seconds. It can be written as 103 seconds. It is equal to 16 minutes, 40 seconds. There are 86.4 kiloseconds in one day (24 hours).
2.7 kiloseconds = 45 minutes - the length of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest war in history
2.926 kiloseconds = 48 minutes 46 seconds - the change in time of moon rise from one day to the next
3.48 kiloseconds = 58 minutes - half-life of nobelium-259
3.6 kiloseconds = 60 minutes = one hour
5.4 kiloseconds = 90 minutes - the time needed for an object in low earth orbit to circle the earth
7.14 kiloseconds = 119 minutes - length of the movie Citizen Kane
19.872 kiloseconds = 5.52 hours - half-life of mendelevium-257
25.2 kiloseconds = 7 hours - one work day in France.
28.8 kiloseconds = 8 hours - one work day in many Western countries
28.8 kiloseconds = 8 hours - common human daily need for sleep
36 kiloseconds = 10 hours - one work day in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
37.296 kiloseconds = 10.36 hours - half-life of erbium-165
86.164 kiloseconds = 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds - time for Earth's rotation around its axis
86.4 kiloseconds = 24 hours = one day
91.404 kiloseconds = 25.39 hours - half-life of fermium-252
102.888 kiloseconds = 28.58 hours - half life of erbium-160
259.2 kiloseconds = 3 days - half-life of fermium-253
432 kiloseconds = 5 days - one work week
604.8 kiloseconds = 7 days = one week
799.2 kiloseconds = 9.25 days - half life of thulium-167
864 kiloseconds = 10 days - length of a new week (decade) in the French Revolutionary Calendar
Units of time
Thomas A. Bird

Major Thomas Arthur Bird DSO, MC (11 August 1918 - 9 August 2017) was a British soldier of the Second World War. He was awarded two Military Crosses and the Distinguished Service Order. He later became an architect and worked in collaboration with Richard Tyler restoring country houses.
Bird died on 9 August 2017 at the age of 98.
References
1918 births
2017 deaths
British Army officers
British military personnel of World War II
English architects
Majors
Lawrence Bender

Lawrence Bender (born October 17, 1957) is an American movie producer. He became famous when he was the producer of Reservoir Dogs in 1992. He has produced all of Quentin Tarantino's movies except Death Proof.
In the 1980s, he worked as a grip on the series Tales from the Darkside. In 1989, he produced the movie Intruder, in which leading roles are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. He has also been the producer on many other successful movies including Good Will Hunting, The Mexican, the 2007 Academy Award winning movie An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and the From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy. He was an executive producer of the Legend of Earthsea TV miniseries.
Bender makes cameo appearance in many of the movies he produces: he was a police officer chasing Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, a guest billed as a "long-haired yuppie scum" in both Pulp Fiction and Four Rooms and a hotel clerk in Kill Bill Volume 2.
Since May 2005 Bender has been a blogger at The Huffington Post. He now works in Hollywood running the day-to-day operations of his own production company, Lawrence Bender Productions. Bender has been working with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to create a television TV series based on the 2007 album Year Zero.
Filmography
Tale of Two Sisters (1989) (producer)
Intruder (1989) (producer)
Reservoir Dogs (1992) (producer)
Fresh (1994) (producer)
Pulp Fiction (1994) (producer)
Killing Zoe (1994) (producer)
Four Rooms (1995) (producer)
White Man's Burden (1995) (producer)
Snakeland (1996) (executive producer)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996) (executive producer)
Good Will Hunting (1997) (producer)
Jackie Brown (1997) (producer)
A Price Above Rubies (1998) (producer)
From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) (executive producer)
Anna and the King (1999) (producer)
From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) (executive producer)
Anatomy of a Hate Crime (TV) (2001) (executive producer)
The Mexican (2001) (producer)
Knockaround Guys (2001) (producer)
Lost in Oz (TV) (2002) (executive producer)
Stark Raving Mad (2002) (executive producer)
Nancy Drew (TV) (2002) (executive producer)
Kill Bill (2003, 2004) (producer)
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) (producer)
The Survivors Club (TV) (2004) (executive producer)
Voces inocentes (2004) (producer)
Dr. Vegas (TV) (2004) (executive producer, "Pilot", "Limits")
Earthsea (2004) (exeuctive producer)
The Chumscrubber (2005) (producer)
Build or Bust (TV) (2005) (executive producer)
The Great Raid (2005) (producer)
Goal! (2005) (executive producer)
Flirt (TV) (2006) (executive producer)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (producer)
The Line-Up (TV) (2007) (executive producer)
88 Minutes (2007) (executive producer)
Long Island Confidential (TV) (2008) (executive producer)
The Youngest Candidate (2008) (producer)
Inglourious Basterds (2009) (producer)
Countdown to Zero (2010) (producer)
References
Other websites
Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Bender at HuffPo
1957 births
Living people
HuffPost writers and columnists
American bloggers
Sirmione

Sirmione is a comune in the Province of Brescia in the Lombardy region in Italy. It has a historical centre which is located on a small peninsula that separates the lower part of Lake Garda.
Settlements in Lombardy
Al-Nusra Front

Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham () is one of the organizations fighting in the Syrian Civil War. Since July 2016, it has also been known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (, transliteration: Jabhat Fatah al-Sam). It has also been called al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant. They are a Salafist organization and want to create an Islamic state in the country.
The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012. The United States designated Jabhat al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization, followed by the United Nations Security Council and many other countries. It was the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda until July 2016, when it became a separate organization. In early 2015, the group became one of the major components of the powerful jihadist joint operations room named the Army of Conquest, which took over large territories in Northwestern Syria. It also operates in neighbouring Lebanon. In November 2012, The Washington Post described al-Nusra as the most successful arm of the rebel forces.
In July 2016, al-Nusra formally separated from al-Qaeda and re-branded as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ("Front for the Conquest of the Levant").
On 28 January 2017, following violent clashes with Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel groups, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham merged with four other groups to become Tahrir al-Sham.
According to spokesmen of a moderate wing of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), in November 2012 Nusra had between 6,000 and 10,000 fighters, which was 7-9% of the FSA's total fighters. Commentator David Ignatius for The Washington Post described Nusra then as the most aggressive and successful arm of the FSA. The United States Department of State stated likewise: "From the reports we get from the doctors, most of the injured and dead FSA are Jabhat al-Nusra, due to their courage and [the fact they are] always at the front line". On 10 December 2012, the U.S. designated Nusra a foreign terrorist organization and an alias of Al Qaeda in Iraq. That decision made it illegal for Americans to deal financially with Nusra. Days earlier, the American ambassador to Syria, R. Ford, had said: "Extremist groups like Jabhat al-Nusra are a problem, an obstacle to finding the political solution that Syria's going to need".
References
Establishments in Syria
2012 establishments in Asia
2016 disestablishments in Asia
Al-Qaeda
Civil wars
History of Islam
Islamic organizations
Kuru

Kuru or Kurus may be:
Kuru (kingdom), a powerful Indian kingdom during the Vedic period and later a republic during the Mahajanapada period
Kuru Kingdom, a kingdom based on the historic Kuru kingdom in Indian epic literature
Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy with the cannibalistic funeral practices of the Fore people.
Kuru (archaeology), Indian ethnic group and their kingdom
Kuru (mythology) is part of African mythology
Kuru (Hinduism), imputed ancestral king
Kuru, Finland, municipality
Kurus, Turkish currency
Kuru, Turkish dried-bean dish kurufasulye
Kuru school, in Kuru, Nigeria
Kuru (band), British punk band during the late 1990s
KURU (movie), an indy movie in development by The Enemy
S/S Kuru, a Finnish lake steamer
kuru, Finnish word for a type of canyon
Interbreeding IX: Kuru, a various artists CD compilation
Related pages
Kourou, a town in French Guiana
Aaron Ekblad

Aaron Ekblad (born February 7, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He has also played for the Team Canada junior team. He won a gold medal with them during the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He suffered a concussion in an exhibition game against the Czech Republic in December 2014.
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Ekblad played 3 seasons with the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was drafted with the 1st overall pick by the Florida Panthers in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
On September 3, the Panthers signed Ekblad to a three-year, entry-level contract. Ekblad made the Panthers' opening night roster for the 2014-15 season. He made his NHL debut on October 9 in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. During the game, Ekblad scored his first career NHL point, an assist on a Jonathan Huberdeau goal in a 3-2 overtime loss. On November 1, he scored his first NHL goal against Steve Mason of the Philadelphia Flyers in a 2-1 Panthers win.
On December 6, Ekblad scored a career-high three points in a 3-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres. He was given the first star of the game. On January 23, 2015, he was chosen to play in the 2015 NHL All-Star Game to replace an injured Erik Johnson.
On June 24, 2015, Ekblad was announced as the Calder Memorial Trophy winner.
References
Other websites
1996 births
Calder Trophy winners
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Florida Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
Sportspeople from Ontario
Ontario Hockey League players
Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012

The March 2-3, 2012 tornado outbreak was several tornadoes that hit the Southern United States and Ohio Valley. Two of them were EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. This included Ohio and Kentucky.
The storms killed 43 people.
Tornado outbreaks
2012 in weather
2012
March events
2012 in the United States
2010s in Ohio
2010s in Kentucky
United States presidential doctrines

The United States presidential doctrines are policy decisions toward other countries made by Presidents.
Examples of Presidential Doctrines
The first and most important presidential doctrine was the Monroe Doctrine by President James Monroe stated that the United States declared the right to have influence over Latin America and the U.S. threatened war to any European country which interfered.
President Theodore Roosevelt expanded on the Monroe Doctrine with the Roosevelt Corollary.
The Truman Doctrine by President Harry Truman during the Cold War stated that the United States will give aid to Turkey and Greece to help them resist the spread of communism.
The Carter Doctrine by President Jimmy Carter stated that the U.S. would use military force to protect its interests in the Persian Gulf.
The Reagan Doctrine was the name for Reagan's policy of giving weapons and money t who wanted to fight against communism.
President George W. Bush's policy of invading Iraq without being provoked was called the Bush Doctrine.=
History of the United States
Presidents of the United States
Corin Redgrave

Corin William Redgrave (16 July 1939 - 6 April 2010) was an English actor and activist, who is known for his roles in All Man for All Seasons, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Oh! What a Lovely War, The Forsyte Saga, and in Persuasion.
Redgrave was born on 16 July 1939 in Marylebone, London, England. He studied at the Westminster School and at King's College, Cambridge. Redgrave was married to Deirdre Hamilton-Hill from 1962 until they divorced in 1975. Then he was married to Kika Markham from 1985 until his death in 2010. They had four children. Redgrave died on 6 April 2010 in Tooting, London, England from prostate cancer, aged 70.
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Other websites
1939 births
2010 deaths
Actors from London
British activists
Deaths from prostate cancer
English movie actors
English radio actors
English stage actors
English television actors
English voice actors
José Carlos Castanho de Almeida

Jose Carlos Castando de Almeida (14 June 1930 - 27 February 2022) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1953. He was titular bishop of 'Urusi' and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santos, Brazil, from 1982 to 1987. He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itumbiara, Brazil, from 1987 to 1994 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aracatuba, Brazil, from 1994 until his resignation in 2003.
Castanho de Almeida died on 27 February 2022, at the age of 91.
References
1930 births
2022 deaths
Brazilian Roman Catholic bishops
Seve Ballesteros

Severiano Ballesteros Sota (9 April 1957 - 7 May 2011) was a Spanish golfer.
Ballesteros won The Open Championship in 1979, 1984 and 1988. He won the Masters Tournament in 1980 and 1983. He was ranked number one golfer in the world for parts of the 1980s.
He was born in Pedrena, Cantabria and died there, of brain cancer.
Other websites
Official website
Cancer deaths in Spain
Deaths from brain cancer
Golfers
People from Cantabria
Spanish sportspeople
1957 births
2011 deaths
Palm Towers

Palm Twin-Tower Complex is two skyscraper in Doha, Qatar. It is 245 meters (803 feet) tall and has 58 floors. It was built in 2011.
Related pages
List of tallest buildings in the world
Other websites
Emporis.com - Palm Towers
SkycraperPage.com - Palm Towers
Skyscrapercenter.com - Palm Towers
Skyscrapers in Qatar
2011 establishments in Asia
Suguru Hino

Suguru Hino (born 29 July 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokushima Vortis.
Club career statistics
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References
Tokushima Vortis
1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Osaka Prefecture
People from Osaka
Busch Stadium

Busch Stadium is a baseball park in Saint Louis, Missouri. It is the home field of the Major League Baseball team called the St. Louis Cardinals.
The stadium was named for the Anheuser-Busch brewing company, which was based in St. Louis for a long time, and once was the owner of the Cardinals. Busch Stadium was built next door to the Cardinals' previous ballpark, Busch Memorial Stadium.
Sources
Green Cathedrals, by Philip J. Lowry
Major League Baseball venues
St. Louis Cardinals
Sports buildings in the United States
Buildings and structures in Missouri
Options Clearing Corporation

Options Clearing Corporation (also called "OCC") is a United States clearing house based in Chicago. Clearing houses are used to help traders, and they make sure each trade is correctly made, or "cleared". The OCC does this "clearing" with stocks, stock options, and many things that are very much like options (called equity derivatives). "Clearing" for stocks is very much like clearing a bank check. The OCC provides this service to at least 14 exchanges, where stocks, options, and contracts to buy or sell copper, gold, grain, oil, and other needed supplies. They also provide services for people and companies that need to borrow stocks. When someone borrows a stock, they have to pay OCC some money every day. This is the same as people who pay a bank for a loan of money.
Like all clearing houses, the OCC makes sure that nobody cheats, and they check everything to be sure that it is working. The OCC has about $100 billion US dollars of money deposited by big banks and trading companies (or "members"). Each day, the big banks and trading companies use the OCC to trade billions of dollars worth of stocks and other equity derivatives. In 2015, they had 4.2 billion trades. That was the third highest in their history.
In 2011, OCC was the largest clearing house in the USA. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are the two parts of government that watch over OCC. Under the SEC, OCC helps with stocks and options, indexes for stocks, foreign currencies, and futures contracts. The OCC is called a "registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO)" by the CFTC. The have helped pay for schools to teach investors about trading, and they help finance advisors and companies learn answers to very difficult problems. They also teach about risk.
Leadership
OCC is run by a board of directors, and the board is mostly people who work at big banks and trading companies. They are a utility, like a power company is a utility, but for financial things. They are called a financial utility provider. They make money from the big banks and trading companies they work with.
Members
Members include:
ABN AMRO
ATD
Bank of America
Bank of Montreal
Bank of New York Mellon
Barclays
BB&T
BBVA
Bloomberg
BNP Paribas
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Cantor Fitzgerald
Charles Schwab
Citadel
Citigroup
Commerzbank
Credit Suisse
Daiwa
Deutsche Bank
Fidelity
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
ICAP
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China
ING
Intesa Sanpaolo
ITG
JP Morgan
Knight Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Mizuho Financial Group
Morgan Stanley
NASDAQ OMX
National Bank of Canada
Natixis
Nomura
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Scotiabank
Societe Generale
State Street
Timber Hill
Toronto-Dominion Bank
UBS
Vanguard
Virtu Financial
Wells Fargo
References
Companies based in Chicago
American financial companies
Black Mesa

Black Mesa is a mountain in Oklahoma. It is the highest point in the state.
Mountains of Oklahoma
Invertible matrix

In linear algebra, there are certain matrices which have the property that when they are multiplied with another matrix, the result is the identity matrix (the matrix with ones on its main diagonal and 0 everywhere). If is such a matrix, then is called invertible and its inverse is called , with:
There are algorithms for calculating the inverse of a matrix, with Gaussian elimination being a common example. The problem is that finding the inverse is relatively expensive to do for big matrices. Matrix inversion is used extensively in computer graphics.
Related pages
Determinant
Inverse function
Inverse (mathematics)
References
Linear algebra
Xavier Atencio

Francis Xavier Atencio, also known as X Atencio (September 4, 1919 - September 10, 2017), was an American animator and Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company. Atencio served as a photo interpreter in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, reaching the rank of captain in the 2nd Photo Tech Squadron. Stationed in England, he was part of team that would analyze aerial surveillance for military intelligence.
Atencio retired from The Walt Disney Company in 1984 and was named a Disney Legend in 1996.
References
1919 births
2017 deaths
American animators
Engineers from Colorado
Disney people
Yurt

A yurt, also known as a ger in Mongolian, is a portable, round tent. It is covered with skins or felt. A yurt is commonly used as a dwelling by nomads in the grasslands of Central Asia.
Construction
Traditional yurts consist of an expanding wooden circular frame carrying a felt cover. The felt is made from the wool of sheep. The wood to make the external structure is not to be found on the treeless steppes.
A yurt is designed to be dismantled and the parts carried compactly on camels or yaks to be rebuilt on another site. Complete construction takes around 2 hours.
References
Asian culture
Houses
Adam Mosseri

Adam Mosseri (born January 23, 1983) is an American-Israeli businessman and the Head of Instagram. He formerly served as an executive at Facebook.
References
Living people
1983 births
7 BC

Year 7 BC was a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nero and Piso.
Events
Deaths
Emperor Cheng of Han (b. 51 BC)
Consort Zhao Hede
University of the Philippines

The University of the Philippines (UP; ) is a public school in the Philippines.
The flagship campus is UP Diliman.
References
Colleges and universities in the Philippines
Hankasalmi

Hankasalmi is a municipality in Central Finland. As of January 2014, about 5,400 people lived there. Neighbouring municipalities are Kangasniemi, Konnevesi, Laukaa, Pieksamaki, Rautalampi and Toivakka.
Most people speak Finland.
Hankasalmi was established in 1872.
Other websites
The official Hankasalmi page
Municipalities of Central Finland