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Nitta Shrine (Satsumasendai City)

is a Shinto shrine located in Kagoshima Japan. The Nitta Shrine has two notable subshrines the Nitta Hachimangu, which is an ichinomiya or the first ranked shrine in the province, and the Shuko Jinja, a Soja shrine, or a shrine where people can worship all the gods of the province at once.
It is on a hill near the Sendai River, and has a good view of the river. It enshrines Ninigi-no-Mikoto.
In 1874, the Imperial Household Ministry identified the tomb located behind the shrine as the Mt. Kawai Mausoleum. It is believed to be the burial site of Ninigi no Mikoto, the Grandfather of Emperor Jimmu
Hachimangu
Nitta Hachimangu is a Hachiman shrine located within this shrine. It is the ichinomiya or first ranked shrine of Satsuma Province.
Shuko Jinja
is a Soja shrine. It enshrines all the kami of the shrines in Satsuma Province. This provides a place where people can worship all the kami at once.
It is a subshrine of Nitta Shrine
See Also
Ichinomiya
Hirakiki jinja (the other Ichinomiya of Satsuma Province)
Kokuhei Chusha
Beppyo shrines
Ichinomiya
Coordinates on Wikidata
Hachiman shrines
Soja shrines
Beppyo shrines
Kokuhei Chusha
Hachiman shrines
Goryo faith
1358 establishments
Shinmei shrines
14th-century buildings and structures
References
Every Witch Way

Every Witch Way is an American fantasy, comedy and drama telenovela. It stars Paola Andino, Nick Merico, Paris Smith, Rahart Adams and Daniela Nieves. It is broadcast by Nickelodeon. It is the American version of the Latin American telenovela Grachi. The telenovela was first broadcast on January 1, 2014.
Plot
Season 1
The series is about 14-year-old Emma Alonso. After moving to Miami, she discovers that she is "The Chosen One", the most powerfull witch. She fells in love with her neighbor Daniel (Nick Merico). She meets Daniel's girlfriend, Maddie (Paris Smith), is also a witch, but a bad one. Maddie is most popular girl at Iridium High School and the leader of "The Panthers". Emma will have to go through many problems now with her new life to live happy.
Season 2
Now that she is the only chosen one,Emma stands more for herself. A new guy named Jax that is wizard moves to town and causes drama. Daniel breaks up with Emma because she lied to him about her powers.Her evil clone,E causes trouble and Emma has to destroy her. At the end she comes back with Daniel.
Characters
Main Characters
Paola Andino as Emma Alonso.
A new student at Iridium High School. She is a witch and uses her magical powers responsibly. She is in love with Daniel.In Season 2 makes a clone that meses it up.Later is with Jax but then
gets back with Daniel and kisses.
Nick Merico as Daniel Miller.
He is a star in Iridium High. He's smart, athletic, and very popular, but also very humble. He is also the captain of the Sharks.In Season 2 get jealous about Jax but then gets back with Emma.
Paris Smith as Maddie Van Pelt.
She is the ex-girlfriend of Daniel, and is also the most popular girl in Iridium High School. Is an mean witch and the enemy of Emma.In Season 2 she is nicer cause shes dating Diego.
Daniela Nieves as Andi Cruz. The best friend of Emma. She is a member of the swimming club of the Iridium, The Sharks. In Season 2 she dresses a bit diffirent and shes girlfriend of a zombie but Emma sends him back.
Rahart Adams as Jax Novoa.
The new guy in Season 2,he is a wizard and likes Emma.
Elizabeth Elias as Mia.
The new girl (S3),she is a kanay who simillar to a witch so wants revenge and kisses Daniel.
Tyler Alvarez as Diego Rueda.
A kanay and Member of The Sharks. He starts dating Maddie in Season 2.
Other Characters
Paola Nicole Andino as E, Emma's evil and rebellious clone.She likes Jax but then become enemies.
Zoey Burger as Miss Information.She know every thing that goes on Iridium High and blogs about it.She is a human and Diego's Sister .
Melisa Caricache as Nurse Lily,Iridium High nurse and secretly Emma's magic guardian.
Julie Antonellie as Jessie,Jax young sister.
Kendall Sanders as Tony Myers. Member of The Sharks.
Rene Lavan as Franciso Alonso. Father of Emma.
Katie Barberi as Ursula Van Pelt. The mother of Maddie. She is in love with Emma's father Francisco.
Rafael de la Fuente as Julio. The adopted son of the Principal.
Series overview
References
2010s teen television series
Nickelodeon television series
2010s American sitcoms
2014 American television series debuts
English-language television programs
Vincent Meriton

Vincent Emmanuel Angelin Meriton (born 28 December 1959) is a Seychellois politician. He was the Vice President of Seychelles from 2016 until 2020.
References
1959 births
Living people
Vice Presidents of Seychelles
Zofingen District

Zofingen is a district in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is in the southwest corner of the canton.
It contains the following municipalities:
Districts of Aargau
Petar Omčikus

Petar Omcikus (; ); October 6, 1926 - April 26, 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He worked in Paris, France. He was born in Susak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Omcikus died in Belgrade, Serbia on April 26, 2019 at the age of 92.
References
1926 births
2019 deaths
Serbian painters
Artists from Belgrade
Colline-Beaumont

Colline-Beaumont 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
Amaru, Buzău

Amaru is a rural municipality of Buzau County in Romania.
Notes
Communes in Buzau County
Patriots Day (movie)

Patriots Day is a 2016 American drama movie about the Boston Marathon bombings and chase to arrest the two Islamic terrorists. It was directed by Peter Berg and written by Berg, Matt Cook, and Joshua Zetumer. The movie is based on the book Boston Strong by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge.
Casts
It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Michelle Monaghan, James Colby and Alex Wolff with Lana Condor.
It was released in Boston on December 21, 2016 and worldwide on January 13, 2017. It had strong good reviews with an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
References
2016 drama movies
2016 crime movies
American crime drama movies
Movies based on books
Lionsgate movies
Movies set in the 2010s
Movies set in Boston
Movies set in Massachusetts
Movies directed by Peter Berg
La Neuveville District

The district of La Neuveville in the Swiss canton of Bern has 5 municipalities in an area of 59 km2.
Neuveville
Juninho Paulista

Juninho Paulista (born 22 February 1973) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for the Brazil national team.
Club career statistics
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|1993||rowspan="3"|Sao Paulo||rowspan="3"|Serie A||16||1
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|1994||19||2
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|1995||9||0
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|1995/96||rowspan="2"|Middlesbrough||rowspan="2"|Premier League||21||2
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|1996/97||36||10
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|1997/98||rowspan="2"|Atletico Madrid||rowspan="2"|La Liga||23||6
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|1998/99||32||8
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|1999/00||Middlesbrough||Premier League||28||4
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|2000||rowspan="2"|Vasco da Gama||rowspan="2"|Serie A||22||4
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|2001||15||4
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|2002||Flamengo||Serie A||0||0
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|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Middlesbrough||rowspan="2"|Premier League||10||3
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|2003/04||31||8
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|2004/05||Celtic||Premier League||14||1
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Palmeiras||rowspan="2"|Serie A||37||14
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|2006||26||6
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|2007||Flamengo||Serie A||0||0
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|2007/08||Sydney||A-League||14||0
144||31
126||27
55||14
14||1
14||0
353||73
|}
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|1995||15||2
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|1996||1||0
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|1997||9||0
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|1998||0||0
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|1999||1||0
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|2000||3||1
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|2001||11||1
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|2002||9||1
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|2003||1||0
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!Total||50||5
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References
1973 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Seuillet

Seuillet is a commune. It is found in the Allier department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Allier
Tipas

Tipas is a volcano in the Andes range, in Argentina. It is the 9th highest mountain in the Andes. It is also known as Cazadero and Cerro Walther Penck.
Mountains of Argentina
Andes
Volcanoes of South America
Mahammed Dionne

Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (born 22 September 1959) is a Senegalese politician. He was the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2014 to 2019. He is the third prime minister appointed by President Macky Sall. He was the last prime minister of the country.
References
1959 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Senegal
Boy Asistio

Macario "Boy" Asistio Jr. (April 6, 1936 - February 6, 2017) was a Filipino politician. He served as the Mayor of Caloocan, a city in Metro Manila region of Philippines, from 1980 to 1986. He was reelected for the port in 1988 till 1995. Asistio unsuccessfully ran as mayor in the elections again in 2013 and 2016.
Asistio died on 6 February 2017 at the age of 80 at the Metro Antipolo Hospital and Medical Center in Antipolo, Philippines. He was in coma and admitted to the intensive care unit.
References
1936 births
2017 deaths
Filipino mayors
FOXP2

FOXP2 is a gene which codes for a protein needed for speech and language.
It codes for "Forkhead box protein P2", which is needed for the proper development of speech and language in humans. Versions of this gene occur in many vertebrates, where it generally plays a role in communication (for instance, the development of bird song).
FOXP2 is the first gene found which affects speech and language. The gene is more active in females than in males. In humans, mutations of FOXP2 cause a severe speech and language disorder.
FOXP2 is popularly dubbed the "language gene", but this is only partly correct since there are other genes involved in language development. It directly regulates a number of other genes, including CNTNAP2, CTBP1, and SRPX2.
Two amino acid substitutions distinguish the human FOXP2 protein from that found in chimpanzees. Evidence suggests that these changes affect the functions of FOXP2.
References
Genetics
Lucy (spacecraft)

Lucy is a NASA space probe on a 12-year journey to eight different asteroids. It will visit a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans. They will be fly-by encounters. The Lucy spacecraft is the part of a US$981 million mission.
References
NASA spacecraft
Voluntown, Connecticut

Voluntown is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
Towns in Connecticut
Greg Burdine

Greg Burdine (May 1, 1959 - December 13, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing the 1st District from 2010 to 2014. Burdine was a member of the Democratic Party. Burdine was born in Florence, Alabama.
Burdine died on December 13, 2020, in Florence, Alabama at age 61.
References
1959 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Alabama
People from Florence, Alabama
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Rajpal Yadav

Rajpal Yadav is an Indian actor and comedian whose known for his work in Hindi flim industry. He has received several awards such as Filmfare, Screen Awards for his specialization in the genre of comedy. Although he started his career in Hindi industry in the mid-1990s, but he first gained popularity when he played the lead role in the thriller movie Jungle (2000). Subsequently, Yadav was seen in comedic roles in a slew of several successful movies like Hungama (2003), Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005), Garam Masala (2005), Phir Hera Pheri (2006) and Dhol (2007).
Sources
1971 births
Living people
Indian movie actors
Indian comedians
Actors from Uttar Pradesh
Grettstadt

Grettstadt is a municipality in Schweinfurt in Bavaria, Germany. It has the following villages: Durrfeld, Grettstadt, Obereuerheim, Untereuerheim.
References
Schweinfurt (district)
Elizabeth, Louisiana

Elizabeth is a village in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Towns in Allen Parish, Louisiana
Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann (7 December 1810 - 11 January 1882) was a German scientist who isolated and named the enzyme pepsin. He also played a key role in promoting the idea of the cell as the foundation of living organisms. His work on the cell has recently been re-assessed, because the idea had been discussed before him.
Cell history
Cells were discovered by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). He used a compound microscope with two lenses to look at the structure of cork, and to look at leaves and some insects. He did this from about 1660, and reported it in his book Micrographica in 1665.
Many other naturalists and philosophers tried out the new instrument. The structure of plants was investigated by Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) and Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). Grew's major work was The anatomy of plants (1682). It is not clear who first saw animal cells, Malpighi, Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) or Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723).p17
Leeuwenhoek's discoveries and drawings of 'little animalcules' opened up a whole new world for naturalists. Protozoa, and microorganisms generally were discovered. Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg's book Die Infusionsthierchen summarised what was known in 1838. Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) in 1805 wrote that infusoria (microscopic forms) were the basis of all life.
The work of the Czech Jan Purkyne (1787-1869) and his student and collaborator Gabriel Valentin (1810-1883) was "unjustly denigrated by the nationalistic Germans. They have a claim to some priority in the cell theory".Chapter 9
Johannes Muller (1801-1858) also made great contributions. It was, however, his student Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden (1804-1881) who got the credit for the cell theory, despite the fact that some of their observations were not correct, and their credits to previous workers were "a travesty".p97 As understood now, the cell theory includes these important ideas:
All living things are made of cells.
The cell is the basic unit of structure and function in all organisms.
Every cell comes from another cell that lived before it.
The nucleus is the core element of the cell.
The key works of Schwann and Schleiden were published in 1838 and 1839.
These ideas still are the basic ideas of cell theory.
References
1810 births
1882 deaths
German biologists
Claude Gagnière

Claude Gagniere (January 20, 1928 - September 12, 2003) was a French writer. He was born in Ales.
He died in Paris. After he died he was awarded the prize of the Bouquinistes for all his work in 2004.
Works
All over all - Small dictionary of the unusual and of the smile, 1986
To the happiness of the words, 1989
Of words and wonders, 1994
Between guillemets: small dictionary of appointments, 1996
Versiculets & texticules: epigrams, madrigals, five centuries of fugitive poetries, 1999
The fable express: of Alphonse Went to Boris Vian, 2002
1928 births
2003 deaths
French writers
Brodie Williams

Brodie Paul Williams is a swimmer from England. Brodie competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was born on 18 March 1999.
References
Other websites
1999 births
Living people
British swimmers
British Olympians
Sportspeople from Somerset
Tower house

A tower house is a tower that has been built for two purposes: First, it has been built so that it is easy to defend, and secondly, it serves as living quarters. Tower houses first appeared in the Middle Ages, in mountainous or limited access areas. They were built there to both command and defend strategic points with a small force. At the same time, they were also used as an aristocrat's residence. Very often, a castle town was constructed around these houses.
Houses
Towers
St. Francis Xavier's College

St Francis Xavier's College is a boys' Catholic secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school was moved from Shanghai in 1955. Most lessons are taught in English, but there are lessons taught in Mandarin and Cantonese (both dialects of Chinese) as well.
History
Founded by the Jesuit Fathers in Shanghai in 1874, the Marist Brothers owned the college starting from 1985. Due to Communist China's religion policies, the brothers moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and the school was rebuilt and classes started on 9 December 1955. Now the school has more than 700 students and 50 teachers (including one foreign teacher). Mr Mario Leung, the current principal, was appointed in 2021.
Alumni
Bruce Lee, famous martial artist.
Samuel Hui, Cantopop singer.
Trivia
Students usually call themselves "Xaverians".
The school motto is "Gentle in manner, Resolute in action" (Latin: Suaviter in modo Fortiter in re).
It is one of the three schools in Hong Kong to allow students wear multi-colored sports shoes.
Every time when there's a prayer, it ends with:
Lead: Saint Marcellin Champagnat,
Answer: Pray for us;
Lead: Saint Francis Xavier,
Answer: Pray for us.
The school badge is made of a cross (meaning Jesus) in the middle, a Marist Brothers logo on the above left, a book (meaning knowledge) and an oil lamp (meaning light) on the above right, inclined stripes of white and green (meaning purity and hope) on the below right, the words [SFX] on the below left, and a school motto written in Latin at the bottom.
Other websites
Official website
1874 establishments
1870s establishments in Asia
Schools in Hong Kong
Bengali Wikivoyage

Bengali Wikivoyage is the Bengali language version of Wikivoyage, a free web-based travel guide about travel guides and travel written by volunteer authors.It is a co-project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation. Wikivoyage is called the "Wikipedia of travel guides".
References
Other websites
Bengali Wikivoyage, Official Website
Bengali encyclopedias
Rain dance

A rain dance is a ceremonial dance. It is performed by people who believe it will cause rain and keep their harvest safe.
Many different types of "rain dances" can be found in many cultures, from Ancient Egypt to certain Native American tribes. In the 20th century Balkans, a ritual known as Paparuda (Romanian) or Perperuna (Slavic) is a type of rain dance.
The Cherokee tribe, an ethnic Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States used rain dances to both create rain and to remove evil spirits from the earth. The legend of the tribe says that the rain created has the spirits of the former leaders of the tribe. During the rain, these spirits fight the evil spirits in a place between our reality and the spirit world. These raindances are also seen as acts of worship.
Julia M. Butree in her book, describes the "Rain Dance of Zuni" and other Native American dances
Feathers and turquoise are worn during the dance. They symbolize wind and rain. Many traditions of the Rain Dance are passed down through history by people telling their children about them in stories.
Settler times
In an early type of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns. They would do a raindance for settlers in return for trade items. This is best known to happen among Osage and Quapaw Indian tribes of Missouri and Arkansas.
References
Ritual dances
Superstitions
Saint-Aubin-Rivière

Saint-Aubin-Riviere is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
References
Communes in Somme
Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth (meaning pity or compassion) is the eighth book of the Old Testament (Christian), and the Tanakh (Jewish). It is one of the shortest books in both the Jewish and Christian holy books, consisting of only four chapters. It is unknown who wrote the book.
Date and author
The book does not name its author. In the past, people believed the prophet Samuel (11th century BCE) was the author. But the majority of scholars now date it to the Persian period (6th-4th centuries BCE).
Story of Ruth
The book tells the story of the family of Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion. Because of a famine, they were forced to leave Bethlehem and go to the land of Moab. Once there, Elimelech died, and his sons married two Moabite women. Mahlon married Ruth, and Chilion married Orpah. After some time there, Mahlon and Chilion both died.
Naomi was forced to return home because her husband and sons were dead. She then told Ruth and Orpah to return home to their families and find new husbands. Orpah returned home but Ruth promised she would follow Naomi wherever she went. Ruth's pledge to Naomi is found in chapter 1 verses 16 and 17. But Ruth said, "Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die-- there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!" Although originally made by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law, a form of this pledge is sometimes included in wedding services.
They returned to their home and Ruth decided she would go into the fields to pick up grain the wealthy people would drop on the ground (a common practice in that time). A kind man named Boaz, who was the owner of the field, noticed her and her beauty. He also learned that she had chosen to follow the God of Israel and that she was caring for her widowed mother-in-law. He told his workers to drop extra grain for her. When she went home to tell her mother-in-law how much she received, they found out that Boaz was a close relative of theirs. Under Jewish law, this gave Ruth the right to marry Boaz, if Boaz bought the land formerly owned by Ruth's husband.
After an even closer relative said he would not buy the land and marry her, Boaz and Ruth were happily married. She would bear him a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David, who was, according to the New Testament, the ancestor of Jesus.
Family tree
References
Bibliography
Other websites
The Book of Ruth (King James Version)
The Book of Ruth (New International Version)
Old Testament books
Books of the Hebrew Bible
5th-century BC books
Cissexism

Cissexism classifies the assumption that everyone is or must be cisgender and the belief that cis people superior over transgender individuals, disregarding other gender modalities and discriminating genderqueer persons.
Related pages
Monosexism
Heterosexism
Transphobia
References
Discrimination
Hirado, Nagasaki

is a Japanese city in Nagasaki Prefecture.
History
Hirado has been a port since the Nara period.
During the Edo period, Hirado was the seat of the Hirado Domain. The city developed around Hirado Castle (Hirado-jo).
The first Frenchman to arrive in Japan was Francis Caron. He live in Hirado.
Geography
The city is located on the island of the same name; and it has expanded to the island of Kyushu. The two parts of the city are connected by the Hirado Bridge which was built in 1977.
References
Other websites
http://www.city.hirado.nagasaki.jp/english/home.htm ;
American Friendship Doll at Hirado Kindergarten
Cities in Kyushu
Settlements in Nagasaki Prefecture
Alga (Korday district)

Alga (; ) is a hamlet in the Korday District of Kazakhstan. It is one of several communities in Kazakhstan with this name. The A-2 highway from Bishkek to Almaty runs through the town. A significant architectural feature is its mosque.
Hamlets
Settlements in Kazakhstan
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza

is a Japanese women's football team which plays in Nadeshiko League.
Club name
Yomiuri SC Ladies Beleza : 1981-1991
Yomiuri Nippon SC Ladies Beleza : 1992-1993
Yomiuri-Seiyu Beleza : 1994-1997
Yomiuri Beleza : 1998
NTV Beleza : 1999
Nippon TV Beleza : 2000-2019
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza : 2020-present
Results
Honors
Continental
AFC Women's Club Championship
Champions (1): 2019
Regional
Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship
Champions (1): 2011
Domestic
Beleza has attained the domestic treble (winning the Nadeshiko League, League Cup, and Empress's Cup) twice, in 2007 and 2018.
Nadeshiko League Division 1
Champions (17): 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Runners-up (12): 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020
Empress's Cup
Champions (14): 1987, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Runners-up (6): 1986, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2002, 2003
Nadeshiko League Cup
Champions (7): 1996, 1999, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018
Runners-up (1): 1997
Nadeshiko Super Cup
Champions (2): 2005, 2007
Runners-up (1): 2006
References
Other websites
1981 establishments in Japan
Japanese football clubs
Tokyo
Jean Spencer Ashbrook

Emily Jean Spencer Ashbrook (nee Spencer; September 21, 1934) is an American politician. She is the widow of Congressman John M. Ashbrook, Republican of Ohio. She is also a former member of the United States House of Representatives herself, having completed her late husband's final term of office, also as a Republican from June 29, 1982 through January 3, 1983.
References
Other websites
1934 births
Living people
United States representatives from Ohio
Politicians from Cincinnati
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night (Valborgsmassoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbrioo in Estonian, Valpurgu nakts or Valpurgi in Latvian, Walpurgisnacht in German), Carodejnice in Czech is a holiday celebrated on April 30 or May 1, in Finland, Sweden, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Estonia, Latvia and Germany.
Origins
The festival is named after Saint Walburga (known in Scandinavia as "Valborg"; alternative forms are "Walpurgis", "Wealdburg", or "Valderburger"), born in Wessex in 710 a niece of Saint Boniface. According to legend, she was a daughter to the Saxon prince St. Richard. Together with her brothers she travelled to Wurttemberg, Germany where she became a nun and lived in the convent of Heidenheim, which was founded by her brother Wunibald. Walburga died on 25 February 779 and that day still carries her name in the Catholic calendar. However she was not made a saint until 1 May in the same year, and that day carries her name in the Swedish calendar.
Historically the Walpurgisnacht is derived from Pagan spring customs, where the arrival of spring was celebrated with bonfires at night. Viking fertility celebrations took place around April 30 and due to Walburga being declared a saint at that time of year, her name became associated with the celebrations. Walburga was worshipped in the same way that Vikings had celebrated spring and as they spread throughout Europe, the two dates became mixed together and created the Walpurgis Night celebration.
Germany
In Germany, Walpurgisnacht, the night from April 30 to May 1, is the night when allegedly the witches hold a large celebration on the Blocksberg and await the arrival of Spring. When the travel to that mountain is too far, they may also chose another hill in the region they live.
"Walpurgis Night (in German folklore) the night of April 30 (May Day's eve), when witches meet on the Brocken mountain and hold revels with their Gods..."
"Brocken the highest of the Harz Mountains of north central Germany. It is noted for the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre and for witches' revels which reputably took place there on Walpurgis night.
The Brocken Spectre is a magnified shadow of an observer, typically surrounded by rainbow-like bands, thrown onto a bank of cloud in high mountain areas when the sun is low. The phenomenon was first reported on the Brocken."
--Taken from Oxford Phrase & Fable.
Paganism
Rameswaram

Rameshwaram is a coastal town in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu state in India. It is located in a island named Pamban island, which is separated from Indian mainland by Pamban Channel.
Rameshwaram is one of the holiest shrines for Hindus. The populous Ramanathaswamy Temple is located here.The town has the 64 Holy Tirthas, of which 24 are important accoring to Skanda Purana.
The town covers an area of 53 km2. The population of the town is 44,851 according to 2011 census. This town is the birth place of the 11th president of India, Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
The island in which Rameshwaram located was hit by a cyclone in 1964, that washed away Dhanushkodi, a nearby town and made severe damage in Rameshwaram too.
References
Towns in Ramanathapuram district
East Peru, Iowa

East Peru is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Cities in Iowa
Yuri Klepikov

Yuri Nikolaevich Klepikov (; 24 August 1935 - 1 November 2021) was a Russian screenwriter and actor. His career began in 1966. A screenwriter, he was known for his works in The Story of Asya Klyachina (1966), The Seventh Companion (1967), Mama Married (1969), Dauria (1971), The Ascent (1976) and Boys (1983).
References
1935 births
2021 deaths
Russian screenwriters
Russian movie actors
Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994) was a famous comic book artist. Kirby worked with Joe Simon to create Captain America. In the 1960s he worked at Marvel Comics with Stan Lee. Kirby and Lee created the superhero characters The Fantastic Four, X-Men, and The Hulk. In 1970 Jack Kirby left Marvel for DC Comics. At DC he wrote and drew a large story he called the Fourth World.
References
American comics artists
Writers from New York (state)
Deaths from heart failure
1917 births
1994 deaths
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is a non-profit organization that manages and develops open source Rocky Linux operating system.
History
RESF founded in December 2020 to promote and protect Rocky Linux and its development work.
Governance
In order to ensure that all perspectives are heard, the organization is structured into teams, where each of the team lead(s) sits on the leadership team and serves as the RESF Board of Advisors.
The general structure of the organization consists of a flat hierarchy of teams with a leadership team. Each team will have one or more of the following roles:
Team Lead: The primary responsible lead for that team
Team Deputy: Support and second level leader for the team
Team Members: Individuals who are part of and contributing to the team
Sponsors
RESF is sponsored by many companies, such as CIQ, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MontaVista and VMware.
Related pages
Rocky Linux
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Free and open-source software organizations
2020 establishments
Non-profit organizations of the United States
Joy Westmore

Joy Westmore (; 1932 -- 5 November 2020) was an Australian actress. She was best known to international television viewers for her long-running role in Prisoner playing Joyce Barry Pringle. She played Mrs. Blanche White in an Australian TV game show version of Cluedo. She also played Mrs. Forester in Neighbours.
Westmore died on 5 November 2020 at the age of 88.
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1932 births
2020 deaths
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Haldenstein

Haldenstein is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubunden in Switzerland.
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Municipalities of Graubunden
Mac McGarry

Maurice James "Mac" McGarry (June 15, 1926 - December 12, 2013) was an American television personality. He was the longtime host of the television quiz show It's Academic. It airs in Washington, D.C. on NBC-owned WRC-TV. He hosted the show for five decades, from October 7, 1961, when it first aired, until June 25, 2011.
McGarry died of complications from pneumonia on December 12, 2013, aged 87, at his home in Potomac, Maryland.
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Mac McGarry radio credits
1926 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
American television personalities
American television presenters
People from Atlanta
Bernard Glasser

Bernard M. Glasser (June 3, 1924 - January 2, 2014) was an American movie producer and director. He was known for producing many science-fiction movies such as Space Master X-7, The Return of the Fly, Run Like a Thief and Triangle.
Glasser was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Joan Glasser until his death. They had four children. Glasser died on January 2, 2014 from natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was aged 89.
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1924 births
2014 deaths
Movie producers from Chicago
Movie directors from Chicago
1966 Georgia gubernatorial election

The 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1966.
After an election that exposed divisions within the Georgia Democratic Party (giving the Georgia Republican Party a shot at the Governor's Mansion for the first time in the twentieth century), segregationist Democrat Lester Maddox was elected Governor of Georgia.
The voting also made future President Jimmy Carter well known.
Democratic primary election results
The primary was held on September 13, 1966.
Pursuant to Georgia law, as no candidate received a majority of votes in the primary, a runoff was held on September 27.
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1966 in the United States
20th century in Georgia (U.S. state)
Gabilan Range

The Gabilan Range is a mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is near the central coast of California in Monterey and San Benito counties. The Gabilan Range is part of the larger California Coast Ranges. The word Gabilan is Spanish for sparrowhawk. Pinnacles National Park is in the southern section of the range.
Geography
The Gabilan Range goes from northwest to southeast along the border of Monterey County and San Benito County. It is bordered on the east by the Diablo Range, the San Andreas Fault, and State Route 25; and on the west by the Salinas Valley, Santa Lucia Range, and U.S. Route 101. The northern limit of the Gabilan Range is just south of Pinecate Peak and San Juan Bautista, California.
Fremont Peak, which is high, is the range's highest point. There are several other peaks also over in the range.
History
In Spanish, gavilan (gabilan is an older spelling) means "sparrow hawk". Hawks, especially the red-tailed hawk, are common in the range.
The Gabilan Mountains and other nearby places are mentioned in several novels by John Steinbeck, such as Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. In The Red Pony, the main character (Jody Tiflin) names his pony "Gabilan" after the mountain range.
Fremont Peak was named for John C. Fremont, an American explorer and a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. He traveled to the peak in 1846 to decide if it was useful for the U.S. military against Mexico. It is now a California State Park.
Ecology
Wild animals can travel through a relatively undeveloped area between the southern Santa Cruz Mountains and the northern Gabilan Range. This area extends from Mount Pajaro in southern Santa Cruz County and Rancho Juristac in southern Santa Clara County, to lands between Pinecate Peak and San Juan Bautista in San Benito County. California State Route 129 and U.S. Highway 101 cross this area. In 2020, The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County bought the first block of land intended to protect the Santa Cruz Mountains-Gabilan Range Wildlife Corridor: the Rocks Ranch in Aromas at the border of San Benito and Monterey counties.
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Other websites
National Park Service: Pinnacles National Park website
Mountain ranges of the United States
Mountains of California
Pihtipudas

Pihtipudas is a municipality in Finland. In August 2013, 4,386 people lived there. It is in Central Finland. It is next to the municipalities of Haapajarvi, Keitele, Kinnula, Pielavesi, Pyhajarvi, Reisjarvi and Viitasaari. It contains the villages of Alvajarvi, Elamajarvi, Ilosjoki, Korppinen, Karvaskyla, Muurasjarvi, Pihtipudas, Peninki, Ronny, Saani, Kojola and Selantaus. The largest lakes nearby are Kolima, Alvajarvi and Muurasjarvi.
Other websites
Municipal website
Municipalities of Central Finland
Dimensionless quantity

In dimensional analysis, a dimensionless quantity (or more precisely, a quantity with the dimensions of 1) is a quantity without any physical units and thus a pure number. Such a number is typically defined as a product or ratio of quantities which do have units, in such a way that all the units cancel out.
Example
"out of every 10 apples I gather, 1 is rotten." -- the rotten-to-gathered ratio is (1 apple) / (10 apples) = 0.1 = 10%, which is a dimensionless quantity.
List of dimensionless quantities
There are infinitely many dimensionless quantities and they are often called numbers. Some of those that are used most often have been given names, as in the following list of examples (alphabetical order):
Other websites
Biographies of 16 scientists with dimensionless numbers of heat and mass transfer named after them
How Many Fundamental Constants Are There? by John Baez
Michael Sheppard, Systematic Search for Expressions of Dimensionless Constants using the NIST database of Physical Constants, 2007
Mathematics
Azimzhan Askarov

Azimzhan Askarov (; 17 May 1951 - 25 July 2020) was an Uzbek Kyrgyzstani political activist. He founded the group Vozduh in 2002 to investigate police brutality. During the 2010 ethnic clashes.
Arrest and trial
He was arrested and prosecuted on charges of creating mass disturbances and complicity in murder. Following a trial protested by several international human rights groups for alleged torture and the courtroom intimidation of witnesses by police--Askarov was given a life sentence.
In November 2010, Askarov's health was reported to be rapidly in bad health as a result of his confinement. Amnesty International honored him as a prisoner of conscience.
In 2015, the U.S. gave the 2014 Human Rights Defender Award on Askarov. The Kyrgyz government protested this decision and formally terminated a 1993 agreement on cooperation between the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan.
On 12 July 2016, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan revoked the life sentence against Askarov and sent his case to the Chui Oblast Court for review. He was resentenced for life on 24 January 2017.
Death
Ivanitsky died on 25 July 2020 while serving his life sentence at a prison in Bishkek from pneumonia, aged 69.
References
Other websites
Azimjan Askarov, a short documentary by Freedom House (With English, Kyrgyz, and Russian subtitles)
2020 deaths
1951 births
Political activists
Journalists
Human rights activists
Kyrgyzstani people
Deaths from pneumonia
CPJ International Press Freedom Award winners
Alice in Wonderland (1951 movie)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated movie produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1865 story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It is the thirteenth Disney animated classic and includes the voices of Kathryn Beaumont (who also voiced Wendy Darling in the 1953 Disney movie Peter Pan) as Alice, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.
The story
A little girl named Alice is bored from her history lesson given by her sister. She, along with her kitten, Dinah, sneaks away and dream a world full of nonsense. However, Alice sees an unusual White Rabbit, who was holding large golden pocket watch and running off in a hurry. Curious to know where the Rabbit is going, Alice decides to follow him down the rabbit hole, where her adventures in Wonderland begin. Changing sizes from big to small, meeting bizarre people, like the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar, Alice is tired from her adventures in Wonderland and wishes to go home.
Cast
Kathryn Beaumont as Alice
Ed Wynn as Mad Hatter
Richard Haydn as Caterpillar
Sterling Holloway as Cheshire Cat
Jerry Colonna as March Hare
Verna Felton as Queen of Hearts
J. Pat O'Malley as Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Walrus; Carpenter; Mother Oyster
Bill Thompson as White Rabbit; The Dodo
Heather Angel as Alice's sister
Joseph Kearns as Doorknob
Larry Grey as Bill the Lizard, Card Painter
Queenie Leonard as Mother Pigeon in the Tree, Snooty Iris
Dink Trout as King of Hearts
Doris Lloyd as Rose
Jimmy MacDonald as The Dormouse
The Mellomen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Max Smith, and Bob Hamlin) as Card Painters
Don Barclay as Other Cards
Pinto Colvig as Flamingos (uncredited)
Norma Zimmer as White Rose (uncredited)
Mel Blanc as Dinah, Wonderland creatures (uncredited)
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American animated movies
American family movies
Disney animated movies
1950s English-language movies
Movies composed by Oliver Wallace
1951 comedy movies
1950s American adventure movies
American coming-of-age movies
1950s American drama movies
American fantasy-comedy movies
1950s American musical fantasy movies
Movies based on books
1951 drama movies
Movies about dreams
Romano Mattè

Romano Matte (Trento, January 17 1939) is an Italian former association football player, who coached the national teams of Mali and Indonesia.
Italian footballers
1939 births
Living people
Taiga

The taiga is a large area of coniferous forests. It covers most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, northern Kazakhstan and Russia (especially Siberia), as well as parts of the northern continental United States.
In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of these forests, while "taiga" is used to describe the northern areas south of the Arctic tree line that separates it from tundra. The trees are mostly pines, spruces and larches. The climate is cold winters and cool summers.
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Other websites
Boreal Forests/Taiga (WWF)
Terraformers Canadian Taiga Conservation Foundation
Arctic and Taiga (Canadian Geographic)
Coniferous Forest. Earth Observatory. NASA. .
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) A network of NGOs, indigenous peoples or individuals that works to protect the boreal forests.
Index of Boreal Forests/Taiga ecoregions at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
The Nature Conservancy and its partners work to protect the Canadian Boreal Forest
Slater museum of natural history: Taiga
Forests
Biomes
Georgia Taylor

Georgia Taylor (born Claire Jackson; 26 February 1980) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Toyah Battersby in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1997-2003, 2016-present), Ruth Winters in the BBC One medical drama series Casualty (2007-2011) and Kate Barker in the ITV police drama series Law & Order: UK (2013-2014).
She was born and raised in Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
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1980 births
Living people
English television actors
English movie actors
Wigan
Actors from Greater Manchester
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern

Johann Georg, Prince von Hohenzollern (Johann Georg Carl Leopold Eitel-Friedrich Meinrad Maria Hubertus Michael; 31 July 1932 - 2 March 2016) was a German prince. Through his marriage to Princess Birgitta of Sweden, he was brother-in-law of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Prince Johann Georg was the sixth child of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (30 August 1891 - 6 February 1965) and his wife Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony (24 January 1900 - 16 October 1962).
Goerg died on 2 March 2016 in Munich. He was 83 years old.
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1932 births
2016 deaths
German princes and princesses
Hollola

Hollola is a municipality in Paijanne Tavastia, Finland. About 22,092 people lived there in 2013. Nearby municipalities include Asikkala, Hameenkoski, Karkola, Lahti, Nastola and Orimattila. On 1 January 2016, Hameenkoski is a part of Hollola.
Other websites
Community website
Municipalities of Paijat-Hame
Ana Ofelia Murguía

Ana Ofelia Murguia (8 December 1933 - 2 October 2022) was a Mexican actress. She was born in Mexico City. Her early well known roles were in The Queen of the Night (1994) as Dona Victoria and as Dona Rosa in Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995). Her career began in 1968. In recent years, she is best known for voicing Mama Coco in the 2017 Disney-Pixar animated movie Coco. Vega died of natural causes in Mexico City on October 2, 2022, at the age of 88.
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1933 births
2022 deaths
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican stage actors
Mexican voice actors
Actors from Mexico City
Siracourt

Siracourt 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
Kannada script

The Kannada script is used to write certain languages from South India, most notably the Kannada language. The script is similar to the Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language. Kannada is an Abugida.
Languages of India
Gordie Clark

Gordon Corson Clark (born May 31, 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a retired ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and in the WHA for the Cincinnati Stingers.
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1952 births
Boston Bruins players
Living people
Rochester Americans players
Scottish ice hockey players
Sportspeople from Glasgow
Springfield Indians players
World Hockey Association players
American Hockey League players
1985 Formula One World Championship

The 1985 Formula One season was the 36th of the championship. The champion was Alain Prost in a close battle.
Formula One seasons
1985 in sports
The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction adventure movie. It was directed by James Cameron. It was produced by Gale Anne Hurd. It was produced by Van Ling for the special edition version. The Abyss was released on August 9, 1989. The movie is about a US search and recovery team who work with a oil platform crew to race against Russian vessels to recover a sunken American submarine in the Caribbean. They discover a new and mysterious species while deep in the ocean.
The movie got positive reviews from critics. It has a 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie won an Academy Award in the category of Best Visual Effects in 1990. It was also nominated in the categories of Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound.
Cast
Ed Harris as Virgil "Bud" Brigman
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Dr. Lindsey Brigman
Michael Biehn as US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
J.C. Quinn as Arliss "Sonny" Dawson
Leo Burmester as Catfish De Vries
Kimberly Scott as Lisa "One Night" Standing
Todd Graff as Alan "Hippy" Carnes
John Bedford Lloyd as Jammer Willis
Chris Elliott as Bendix
Capt. Kidd Brewer Jr. as Lew Finler
George Robert Klek as Wilhite
Christopher Murphy as Schoenick
Adam Nelson as Ensign Monk
Richard Warlock as Dwight Perry
Jimmie Ray Weeks as Leland McBride
J. Kenneth Campbell as DeMarco
William Wisher, Jr. as Bill Taylor
Ken Jenkins as Gerard Kirkhill
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1989 science fiction movies
1989 adventure movies
1980s epic movies
20th Century Fox movies
Academy Award winning movies
American science fiction movies
American adventure movies
Movies with underwater settings
Movies composed by Alan Silvestri
Maquoketa River

The Maquoketa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about long, in northeastern Iowa in the United States.
Its watershed covers within a rural region of rolling hills and farmland southwest of Dubuque.
It is not to be confused with the Little Maquoketa River. The river and its tributaries mark the border of the Driftless Area of Iowa. The name comes from Maquaw-Autaw, which means "Bear River" in Meskwaki.
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Rivers of Iowa
St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School is a private secondary school for girls in Hammersmith, London. The headmistress is Clarissa Farr. It was started by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904 as a female version of St Paul's School. It is one of a few schools in England that does not have a uniform, but there are strict rules about 'cleavages, thighs and midriffs'. The students are called Paulinas.
St Paul's is ranked the best secondary school in London. In 2012, 99.1% of A Level grades were A*-B. In 2013 100% of GCSE results were A*-B (as in the four previous years) and 91.2% were A*, the highest percentage ever at the school or in the country. Famous women who were pupils there include Carol Thatcher, Rachel Weisz, Dodie Smith, Jennifer Saunders, Kitty Godfree, and Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve. 100% of Paulinas go on to university and 45% go to Cambridge or Oxford.
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1904 establishments in England
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Schools in London
Mezuzah

A mezuzah is a box with a scroll in it. Jews put on mezuzahs their doors. The mezuzah is written by a Jewish scribe called a Sofer.
Most people put their mezuzah on the front doorpost, but halakha requires that every room with 36 square feet (but not bathrooms) should have a mezuzah on the right side of the doorpost.
There are 4 different types of writing styles for Mezuzahs: Beis Yosef, Arizal, Sephardi and Alter Rebbe.
In the United States, prices for Mezuzahs range from US$50 for a cheap mezuzah, $85 for a medium quality, and $130-150 for a high-quality mezuzah.
The idea for mezuzah comes from Deuteronomy, chapter 6: "And you shall inscribe them on the doorposts (mezuzot) of your house and on your gates."
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Judaism