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La Croixille

La Croixille is a commune of 547 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
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Communes of the Mayenne department
Communes in Mayenne
Echarlens

Echarlens () is a municipality of the district of Gruyere in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
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Municipalities of Fribourg
Lanrivain

Lanrivain () is a commune. It is in Brittany in the Cotes-d'Armor department in northwest France.
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Communes in Cotes-d'Armor
Kobe, Hyōgo

For the basketball player, see Kobe Bryant.
Kobe (Japanese: Shen Hu Shi ; -shi) is a city in the Kansai region of Japan on the island of Honshu. It is the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture.
Kobe is an important port city in the Kansai district of Western Japan. It is near the cities of Osaka and Kyoto. It's population is around 1.53 million people as of 2008.
Kobe is next to the Seto Inland Sea. Its northern part, including the Rokko mountain, is hilly. A ropeway runs from the Rokko district in its southern area through Rokko mountain to the Arima Spa. Transportation includes, the Shinkansen train service, highways and roads along the coast. Many cargo trucks and tankers use the port. There is a ferry between Shanghai and Kobe periodically.
History
Early history
Already in the late 12th century powerful leader Taira no Kiyomori moved the capital of Japan from Kyoto to Fukuwara, nowadays the Fukuwara district of Japan. He planned for it to serve as a trade and political center of Japan. Kiyomori relied his political influence on the trade between Japan and China. But his plan failed and Kobe stayed a small village during a long time.
Later history
The area of Kobe was expanded and today it includes Mount Maya, Sumaura Park, Sumaike park with a good spa and the famous Arima spa. Arima spa is one of oldest spas in Japan, whose earliest record is found already in Nihonshoki. Kobe is also famous for its Kobe beef, a very expensive meat delicacy.
Modern foundation
Kobe was founded in 1868 as a port for serving foreign ships. In those days most ports in Japan were closed to foreigners. Many foreigners lived in Kobe, including: westerners, Chinese, Jews, and Indians. Kobe has one of the more important Chinatowns in Japan. People can find a synagogue and many Christian churches, too. Kobe is similar to Yokohama as a place from where modern international culture was introduced into Japan.
Earthquake
On January 17, 1995 a very powerful earthquake hit the city. Earthquakes are more common in other parts of Japan, but not in Kansai so this earthquake was a surprise for everyone. 6,434 people were killed in Kobe and its neighboring cities, and many more were injured. Many of the buildings were destroyed.
Industry
The northern area of Kobe is an industrial area. There are many factories. Sake production in Nada district has been known from the Edo period. Nagata district in the southwest area of Kobe was a center of shoe production in Japan but production suffered because of destruction caused by the Earthquake.
Related pages
Vissel Kobe
References
Other websites
Ramersdorf-Perlach

Ramersdorf-Perlach is a borough in Munich, Bavaria.
Boroughs of Munich
Méharicourt

Meharicourt is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
References
Communes in Somme
Billère

Billere is a commune of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement in the southwestern part of France.
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Communes in Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Aarre Merikanto

Aarre Merikanto (29 June 1893 -- 28 September 1958) was a Finnish composer. His parents were Liisa Hayrynen and composer Oskar Merikanto.
Merikanto was born in 1893. He studied music in Helsinki (1911), Leipzig (1912-1914) and Moscow (1916-1917). He tried composing an opera for the first time when he was 18 years old. The result was Helena, which was completed in early 1912. The opera had one act and its libretto was written by Jalmari Finne. In the 1920s Merikanto created his own modernist style. Merikanto was a professor of composition in the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki from 1951 to his death. Merikanto died of lung cancer in Helsinki in 1958.
Other websites
Aarre Merikanto - information from the Finnish Music Information Centre
1893 births
1958 deaths
20th-century composers
Deaths from lung cancer
Finnish composers
Bridge City, Louisiana

Bridge City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Census-designated places in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Teilhet, Ariège

Teilhet is a commune in the Ariege department in southwestern France.
Communes in Ariege
Submachine gun

A submachine gun is a type of gun that shoots many bullets, usually pistol bullets, when one holds down the trigger. A submachine gun is smaller than a machine gun and can easily be carried by one person. They are often used where people need to defend themselves in small areas, or people need to fire many bullets quickly. The first submachine guns were invented in the early 1900s. They are often used by the police and counter-terrorism units .
History
In the early 20th century, experiments were made by converting pistols from semi to fully automatic firearms. Automatic weapons with gunstock and firing pistol rounds were developed around the same time during World War I, by Italy, Germany, and the United States. The first dedicated designs were developed in the latter stages of World War I both as improvements on earlier stocked pistols, and to offer an advantage in trench warfare.
They were popularized in the 1920s and '30s as weapon of choice of American gangsters and police, in the form of the famous Thompson submachine gun, commonly referred to as the "Tommy Gun". Submachine guns rose to prominence as a frontline close-quarters combat weapon and commando firearm during World War II. They are now widely used by police SWAT, military commando, paramilitary, and counter-terror team members for a variety of situations.
Submachine guns are highly effective in close quarters; their lower-powered pistol cartridges make them generally more controllable in fully-automatic fire compared to assault rifles, while their small size and light weight grant maneuverability. However, pistol bullets often are stopped by body armor or cover, and are short-ranged compared to intermediate and rifle cartridges.
World War II developments
World War II developments were many and interesting. In Germany the development of machine carbines (Maschinenkarabiner) was notable. From 1939 onwards the German Army analyzed combat conditions and developed new tactics and equipment requirements. The existing 7.92x57mm rifle cartridge was more powerful and long ranged than needed. Most combat took place at ranges less than 400 m (440 yards). A less powerful round (bullet) could be used. This meant a soldier could carry more ammunition, the weapon could be shorter, lighter and with less recoil. The gun could be an automatic.
Achieving this took time. Work in 1941 and 1942 led at last to a reliable weapon, the StG 44 (Sturmgewehr 44) "assault rifle 44". This was then produced in large numbers (over 600,000). It came too late to effect the Second World War, but was later adapted as the Soviet AK 47.
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Other websites
WW2-era Small Arms
Submachine gun -Citizendium
Bat-Mite

Bat-Mite is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Bat-Mite is an imp similar to the Superman villain Mister Mxyzptlk.
He is seen as a small, childlike man wearing a child-like Batman costume. Bat-Mite admires Batman and is seen more of an annoying character than a villain.
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Batman characters
Battle of Nashville

The Battle of Nashville was a battle of the American Civil War. It was fought on December 15 and 16, 1864.
Nashville
1864 in the United States
History of Nashville, Tennessee
19th century in Tennessee
December events
Parkway Village, Kentucky

Parkway Village is a city of Kentucky in the United States. The current population of the villiage is nearly 25,000- thusly, it can be termed a city by standard definition.
Cities in Kentucky
Kunming

Kunming is a Chinese city. It is in Yunnan province.
As of 2020, 4,443,000 people live in the city.
The Laos-China Railway finished its construction in 2021.
Sources
Cities in China
Yunnan
Gabrovo Province

Gabrovo Province is a province in Bulgaria. The capital city is also named Gabrovo.
Places of interest in Gabrovo province include architectural reserve Bozhentsi. Hiking is widely available in the Central Balkan National Park and in the Bulgarka Nature Park.
Municipalities
The Gabrovo province has four municipalities. The following table shows the names of each municipality, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of 2009.
References
Provinces of Bulgaria
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson

Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson (born 20 April 1962) is an Icelandic politician. He was the Prime Minister of Iceland from April 2016 to January 2017. He is the chairman of the Progressive Party.
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1962 births
Living people
Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson
Sharp County, Arkansas

Sharp County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,271. The county seat is Ash Flat. The county was created on July 18, 1868, and named for Ephraim Sharp, a state legislator from the area.
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1860s establishments in Arkansas
1868 establishments in the United States
Arkansas counties
Idolatry

Idolatry is the worship of statues or images as gods. It is also used as a metaphor for other extreme devotion to a person of thing.
Literal Meaning of Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of an idol or image, being a picture, a statue, or a person in place of God. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, idolatry means worshiping something that is not God. These religions teach that there is only one God. Idolatry is said to be the "worship of false gods". It is forbidden by religious rules such as the Ten Commandments. There it says, "You shall not make a carved image (as a God)" and "You shall not have any other god ahead of Me (the only God). The monotheistic religions all have such rules.
The strict understanding of these rules would not allow religious statues of any kind. People who hold these views think that such statues should be destroyed. Others would say that worshipers must understand that the statue is only a symbol for God. They say that the image or statue is not the god. This has long been accompanied with violence between religious groups that forbid idol worship and those who have accepted icons, images and idols for worship. In many Indian religions, such as theistic and non-theistic forms of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, idols (murti) are to be considered as symbolism for the absolute but not The Absolute. In the traditional religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, Asia, the Americas and elsewhere, the reverence of an image or statue has been a common practice. These statues or images have carried different meanings and significance.
The definition of idolatry has been a contested topic within Abrahamic religions, with many Muslims and Protestant Christians condemning the Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary as a form of idolatry. This veneration of Mary and other Saints often involves statues. In the Orthodox churches, flat painted images are common, instead of carved statues. These are called Icons.
In history, many religions have accused others of idolatry. These accusations are that statues and images are devoid of symbolism. They say that many people believe the idol, statue or image is a god. Different groups often think that icons or statues in their religion have meaningful symbolism, but another person's religious images do not.
Idolatry as a Metaphor
Religious leaders have used the idea of Idolatry (literal worship of statues or images) as a metaphor. They call anything that comes ahead of God an Idol. Saint Paul writes that "covetousness" (wanting material things) is idolatry. Jesus preached that "you cannot serve God and Mammon". Mammon was the Syrian God of riches. Muslim writers warn of making idols of material things or even political ideologies. Eastern religions have also warned about making material things one's god.
"Idolizing" persons, such as rock stars can also be seen as a form of idolatry. The popular TV show "American Idol" seems to use the term in a positive way. But this has been questioned even by non religious persons. Billy Graham has warned against various things that become idols in a person's life.
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religion
Pandalam

Pandalam is a town in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.
Literacy
In 2011, literacy rate of Pandalam village was 96.74%. In Pandalam, male literacy rate was 97.84% while female literacy rate was 95.80%.
Colleges
NSS College Pandalam
Mannam Ayurveda Co-operative Medical College, Pandalam
NSS Polytechnic College, Pandalam
NSS Training College, Pandalam
NSS Nursing College, Pandalam
Schools
NSS Higher Secondary School
NSS High School for Girls
NSS LP & UP School
Govt Higher Secondary School, Thottakkonam
Eminence Public School
St. Thomas English Medium High School
Govt LP School, Poozhikkad
Amrita Vidyalayam, Kurampala
St.John's school Thumpamon
Hospitals
NSS Medical Mission Hospital
CM Hospital
Chitra Multi-Speciality Hospital
Mannam Ayurveda Hospital
Landmarks
Pandalam Bridge
Pandalam Bridge, popularly known as Kurunthottayam Bridge, is at Pandalam junction.
Pandalam Suspension Bridge
Pandalam Suspension Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Pandalam, that connects Pandalam with Kulanada.
Pandalam Palace
Pandalam Palace, placed on the banks of Achankovil river, was home to the royal family of Pandalam.
Notable people
Pandalam Kerala Varma: Poet
M. N. Govindan Nair: Former State Secretary of CPI, Former State Cabinet Minister and MP
V. S. Valiathan: Artist
Benyamin: Novelist
Dr. Biju: Film director
P. K. Manthri: Cartoonist
Kadammanitta Vasudevan Pillai: Padayani artist
Pandalam Sudhakaran: Former Kerala minister
Gallery
References
Other websites
Information portal about Pandalam
Towns in Kerala
Aphasia

Aphasia is damage to the brain which affects speech. It is used for all forms of brain damage which negatively affects speech.
The damage may cause muteness, in which case treatment depends on knowing exactly what caused the aphasia.
The condition primary progressive aphasia is serious because it is progressive. It gets worse with time.
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Neurology
Speech disorders
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec is a Catholic archdiocese in the province of Quebec, Canada. It was started in 1658 as an Apostolic vicariate. Pope Clement X made it a diocese in 1674. At the time, the diocese covered all of New France. Starting in 1817, parts of the diocese were split off into new dioceses. In 1819, it became an archdiocese.
The Archdiocese of Quebec is the ecclesiastical provincial for three other dioceses in Quebec: Chicoutimi, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, and Trois-Rivieres.
The current archbishop of Quebec is Gerald Lacroix, who was appointed in 2011.
Religion in Canada
1819 establishments in North America
19th-century establishments in Canada
Trial by ordeal

Trial by ordeal was a way to decide if someone was guilty or innocent of a crime. This was usually done by causing the accused person to do a painful task. If that task was completed without injury or if the injuries healed fast, this taken as a sign of God, which meant that the accused was innocent. People believed that God would not allow innocent people to be harmed. He would therefore help them by doing a miracle. There were three common types of Trial by Ordeal:
Ordeals had to be watched over by a religious person, such as a priest, because each ordeal was supposed to show the judgement of God. In England, Ordeals were common up to and including the reign of Henry II, who introduced Trials by Jury.
In pre-modern society, the ordeal typically was done together with the oath and witness accounts as the central means by which to reach a verdict. The term ordeal itself, Old English ordael, has the meaning of "judgment, verdict" (German Urteil, Dutch oordeel), from Proto-Germanic *uzdailjam "that which is dealt out".
In Europe, ordeals commonly required an accused person to test himself or herself against fire or water. How this was done varied in detail, and was different at different places and times. In England, ordeals were common under both the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans. Fire was the element typically used to test noble defendants, while water was more commonly used by lesser folk.
Priestly cooperation in trials by fire and water was forbidden by Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, and replaced by compurgation. Trials by ordeal became more rare over the Late Middle Ages, often replaced by confessions extracted under torture, but the practice was discontinued only in the 16th century. Johannes Hartlieb in 1456 reports a popular superstition for how to identify a thief by an ordeal by ingestion practiced privately without judicial sanction.
Trial by ordeal has existed in polytheistic cultures as far back as the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Ur-Nammu, and in animist tribal societies, such as the trial by drinking "red water" (calabar bean) in Sierra Leone. There the intended effect is magical rather than calling forth justice from a god.
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Trials
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll

Djurgardens IF is a association football club in the town of Stockholm in Sweden.
The club has won the highest Swedish division Allsvenskan 11 times, 3 of those during the 21th centuary, making them the most successful club in Sweden during this period. The club also won the Swedish national championship in 1912, 1915, 1917, 1920, 1954-1955, 1959, 1964, 1966, 2002, 2003 and 2005.
The club, which was founded in 1891, started it's association football section in 1899. The team plays in darkblue and lightblue stripes. Since 1936 Stockholms Stadion has been the home stadium, but they have big plans to build a new arena with around 18000 seats. The current captain is Pa Dembo Touray and the deputy captain is Mattias Jonson.
The manager of Djurgardens IF is Lennart Wass and Carlos Banda.
During the 2013 season of the elite and professional Swedish league (Allsvenskan), Djurgarden's kit featured the logo of Djurgardsandan.
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Other websites
Official website
Swedish football clubs
Sports clubs in Stockholm
1899 establishments in Sweden
Gangster Disciples

The Gangster Disciples are an American street and prison gang. They were formed on the South Side of Chicago. The gang was established in 1968. Almost all the members of the gang are African Americans.
The predominant symbol of this gang is the six-pointed Star of David. The Gangster Disciples also use the upward crossed pitchforks and the heart with wings. The main gang color are black, gray and white.
The Gangster Disciples are active in over 100 American cities in 31 U.S. states, mainly in the Midwestern and Southern United States. They also have a huge presence in the United States prison system. The gang has between 25,000 and 50,000 members.
The Gangster Disciples are involved in racketeering, drug trafficking, car theft, money laundering and fraud.
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Gangs
1968 establishments in the United States
Criminals from Chicago
Howard Marks

Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 - 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler turned author. He was known as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases. At his peak he smuggled as much as 30 tons, and was connected with groups as diverse as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia.
He was eventually convicted by the American Drug Enforcement Administration and handed a 25-year sentence to be served at Terre Haute; he was released in April 1995 after serving seven years. Though he had up to 43 different aliases, he became known as "Mr Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice. After his release from prison, he published a best-selling autobiography, Mr Nice, and campaigned publicly for changes in drugs legislation.
On 25 January 2015, it was announced that Marks had inoperable colorectal cancer. He died of the disease on 10 April 2016, at the age of 70.
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1945 births
2016 deaths
Welsh writers
Drug traffickers
British criminals
Britney (album)

Britney is the third studio album released by Britney Spears. It was released in 2001. It has the singles "I'm A Slave 4 U" (the highest charting single off the album), "Overprotected", "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman", and "Boys".
2001 albums
Britney Spears albums
Parliament of Queensland

The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland. It only has one chamber, the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, so it is a unicameral state parliament.
The Legislative Assembly sits at Parliament House in Brisbane.
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Queensland
Veronika Marchenko

Veronika Marchenko is a Russian activist. In 2009 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
Work
Marchenko started the "Mother's Right" Foundation in 1990 to bring attention to the deaths of Russian military people in peacetime. The organization helps families of soldiers who die in peacetime, and works against corruption. Many of the deaths are called suicides, so the families have trouble getting money after the death.
In 2007, lawyers from Mother's Right helped 132 families go to court for survivor's benefits. They also helped 5,323 families of men who died.
The organization now helps 5000 people a year. They helped a total of 80,000 people.
Other websites
Mother's Right Foundation (English)
References
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Living people
Russian activists
1959 births
People from Moscow
Russian journalists
Women's rights activists
Black (singer)

Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 - 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He started his career in the punk rock music scene and went on to become a pop success in the late 1980s. He was known for the international hit single "Wonderful Life" in 1987. He was born in Liverpool.
Death
On 12 January 2016, he was in a serious car accident in Ireland and placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries. Vearncombe died from his injuries at the intensive care unit of Cork University Hospital in Cork on 26 January 2016 at the age of 53. Vearncombe was survived by his wife and three children.
References
Other websites
Official site
Single Black Spot
Colinvearncombe.nl - Fansite
1962 births
2016 deaths
Road accident deaths
Irish singer-songwriters
Singers from Liverpool
Musicians from Liverpool
Writers from Liverpool
Deaths from head injury
New wave singers
Valeriu Muravschi

Valeriu Muravschi (31 July 1949 - 8 April 2020) was a Moldovan politician and businessman. He was the first Prime Minister of Moldova between 28 May 1991 and 1 July 1992. He also was Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1991. From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of Parliament.
Muravschi died on 8 April 2020 in Chisinau at the age of 70.
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1949 births
2020 deaths
Business people
Prime Ministers of Moldova
Spartacus

Spartacus (circa 120 BC - circa 70 BC, at the end of the Third Servile War), according to Roman historians, was a gladiator-slave who became the leader of an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Related pages
Spartacus (movie)
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Roman people
Slaves
120 BC births
70 BC deaths
Simon of Cyrene

Simon of Cyrene was the man who was forced by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus. He is found in the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark.
Ancient Israeli people
Early Christian saints
New Testament people
Chemung River

The Chemung River ( ) is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, about long, in south central New York and northern Pennsylvania in the United States. It drains a mountainous region of the northern Allegheny Plateau in the Southern Tier of New York.
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Rivers of New York (state)
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Burgille

Burgille is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Doubs department in east France.
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Communes in Doubs
Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Steven LeBlanc Kember (; born July 25, 1967) is an American actor. He has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award. He is famous for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the television sitcoms Friends (1994-2004) and on its spin-off series Joey. In 2000, he won "Editor's Choice" in TV Guide Awards (as Friends). In 2002, he won "TV - Choice Actor - Comedy" at the Teen Choice Awards (as Friends). In 2005, he won "Favorite Male Television Star" at the People's Choice Awards. He stars in Episodes as a fictional version of himself. He hosted Top Gear from 2016 until 2019
References
Other websites
Matt LeBlanc at Mattleblanc.net
1967 births
Living people
Actors from Massachusetts
American movie actors
American television actors
People's Choice Award winners
Christian Mortensen

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen (August 16, 1882 - April 25, 1998), known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish-born American supercentenarian who lived to age 115 years and 252 days, and was believed to be the second-oldest man in history, after Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi (claimed to be born June 29, 1865 but was most likely born in 1880) who died on February 21, 1986 at the claimed age of 120 years, 237 days. However, Izumi's claimed record was officially debunked in 2012, and later in 2023 even the claimed age record of American Mathew Beard (claimed to be born 9 July 1870) who died almost exactly one year before Izumi at the claimed age of 114 years, 222 days, and Mortensen is therefore verified to have been the first man who lived to age 114 as well as the only man who lived to age 115 before Emiliano Mercado del Toro's 115th birthday on August 21, 2006, and the oldest man in history until December 27, 2012 when his record was broken by Japanese Jiroemon Kimura.
Mortensen was baptised in Fruering Church on December 26, 1882. Besides his baptismal record, other records include the 1890 and 1901 census enumerations in Denmark, and church confirmation in 1896. He was the world's oldest validated living man between January 20, 1994 and April 25, 1998.
Related pages
List of American supercentenarians
References
American supercentenarians
1882 births
1998 deaths
Hum Ek Hain

Hum Ek Hain is a Pakistani Urdu movie directed by Syed Noor which was released across theaters in Pakistan in November 2004. It stars Shaan, Saima, Shamyl Khan, Haidar Sultan. The title was meant to be 786 but the Censor Board Members did not approve of 786 so it was changed to Hum Ek Hain.
Pakistani movies
2004 movies
Shuichi Akai

is a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as an Association football player.
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1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Hokkaido Prefecture
Ask.com

Ask.com is a search engine that was started in 1996. This website helps people find web pages that they are looking for, by typing in the subject they want. For example, if someone is looking for web pages about dogs, they would type in "dogs" or "dog" then press the 'search' button.
Ask.com used to be called "Ask Jeeves" but the name was changed in 2006. Their headquarters is in Oakland, California.
One thing that makes Ask.com different from other search engines is that it lets the searcher see a little picture of the web page before they click it, by putting the mouse cursor over the little binoculars without clicking it.
Related pages
Google
MSN
Yahoo!
Other websites
Ask.com
Ask.com toolbar
Search engines
Tomori Kusunoki

is a voice actress of anime characters. She is also an actress and a singer. She is the voices for Llenn in Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online and Hazuki Kagimura in Marchen Madchen.
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Actors from Tokyo
1999 births
Japanese voice actors
Japanese singers
Living people
Michael Purcell

Michael Peter "Mick" Purcell (6 September 1945 - 5 January 2016) was an Australian rugby union player. He played as a flanker and lock. He played three games for the Wallabies in 1966. He also played for the Queensland Reds.
Purcell was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He was married and had two children.
Purcell died on 5 January 2016 in Brisbane, aged 70.
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1945 births
2016 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Sportspeople from Brisbane
British Rail Class 117

The British Rail Class 117 diesel multiple units were built by Pressed Steel from 1959 to 1961.
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117
Under Your Spell (movie)

Under Your Spell is a 1936 American romantic comedy movie directed by Otto Preminger and starring Lawrence Tibbett, Wendy Barrie, Gregory Ratoff, Arthur Treacher, Gregory Gaye. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Other websites
1936 comedy movies
1930s American romance movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies directed by Otto Preminger
Dade County, Georgia

Dade County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, 16,251 people lived there. The county seat is Trenton.
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1837 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia (U.S. state) counties
Rypin

Rypin () is a town in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship,
Poland. It is the capital of Rypin County.
Rypin is about 50 km east of Torun.
In 2009, 16,950 people lived there.
Towns in Poland
Vanuatu national football team

Vanuatu national football team is the national football team of Vanuatu. In the Pacific Games they reached the semifinals seven times and the finals once. In the OFC Nations Cup, they reached the semifinals four times. They have never competed in the World Cup. Vanuatu was formerly named New Hebrides.
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Oceanian national football teams
Vanuatu
Talat Basari

Tal'at Bassari (, 1923 - 18 September 2020), was an Iranian Bahai poet, feminist, academic, and writer. She was born in Babol, Iran.
In 1967, she had also published a biography on Zandokht Shirazi, a pioneer in the feminist movement in Iran.
She also worked on the editorial board of the New Jersey-based magazine, Persian Heritage. She identified as Bahai. Bassari also assisted in books on the life of the influential Persian Bahai poet Tahirih.
Basari died on 18 September 2020 in Los Angeles, aged 97.
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1923 births
2020 deaths
Iranian writers
Iranian poets
Iranian academics
Pete George

Peter T. George (June 29, 1929 - July 28, 2021) was an American weightlifter. He was later an assistant professor of stomatology. He was born in Akron, Ohio.
George won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the first Bulgarian-American to win Olympic gold. George also won two silver medals at the 1948 and at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
George died on July 28, 2021 at the age of 92.
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1929 births
2021 deaths
American Olympic gold medalists
American Olympic silver medalists
American weightlifters
Academics from Hawaii
Sportspeople from Akron, Ohio
American physicians
Rettenbach, Swabia

Rettenbach is a municipality in Gunzburg in Bavaria in Germany. The following Gemarkungen exist: Harthausen, Remshart, Rettenbach.
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Settlements in Gunzburg (district)
Manor Farm

Manor Farm is the farm in the book Animal Farm. The name is switched to "Animal Farm" after the rebellion of the animals, but in the end of the book the leading pig, Napoleon, changes its name back to Manor Farm to please human neighbors.
Animal Farm
Crossville, Illinois

Crossville is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Villages in Illinois
Watertown Daily Times

The Watertown Daily Times is a newspaper in Watertown, New York. It covers Jefferson County, Lewis County, St. Lawrence County and Oswego County. It started in 1861.
The Watertown Daily Times Times makes a lot of different publications, like the NNY Business magazine, the NNY Living magazine, the Journal and Republican of Lowville, the Courier-Observer of Massena and Potsdam and the Oswego County News. All of these publications are published online by NNY360.
The Watertown Daily Times is owned by the Johnson Newspaper Corporation, which owns newspapers across New York. The Johnson Newspaper Corporation also owns The Malone Telegram, The Daily News of Batavia, The Register-Star of Hudson, The Daily Mail of Catskill and the Livingston County News.
The Watertown Daily Times owns the WWNY radio and television stations. The television station is called WWNY-TV, and the radio station is now WTNY.
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Newspapers in the United States
1861 establishments in the United States
Information leakage

Information leakage is when secret information gets stolen.
With the development of the internet, the issue of information leakage has been more and more serious. The definition of an information leakage is that secret information is stolen by others through hacker's attack, copying, sending, printing or screen shooting.
Most individual information leakages are caused by hackers. This can be prevented by through antivirus software. Most corporate information leakages are caused by people in the company. Preventing corporate information leakage is more difficult. In 2003, the FBI and the CSI did research, the result shows that only 30 percent of information leakage accidents are caused by people outside the organization. That is because people inside are familiar with the regulation and more likely to find the information. Encrypting the information is an important way to stop corporate information leakages.
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Cryptography
Paolo Fabbri (semiotician)

Paolo Fabbri (17 April 1939 - 2 June 2020) was an Italian semiotician and professor. He was born in Rimini, Kingdom of Italy.
Fabbri taught at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris from 1992 to 1996. He also taught at the University of Florence, the University of Urbino, the University of Palermo, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and the College international de philosophie.
Fabbri died on 2 June 2020 in Rimini, aged 81.
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Italian writers
Italian educators
1939 births
2020 deaths
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league team. The team is based in Belmore, Sydney, New South Wales. They were founded in 1934. They currently play in the National Rugby League competition. They have won eight premierships, most recently in 2004.
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National Rugby League
Sports in Sydney
1934 establishments
1930s establishments in Australia
Battle of Konotop (2022)

The Battle of Konotop was a military engagement that took place around the city of Konotop, Ukraine between the military forces of Russia and Ukraine as part of the Northeastern Ukraine offensive during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Konotop
Adlington

Adlington is a town and civil parish in Chorley District, Lancashire, England. In 2011 there were 6010 people living in Adlington.
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GENUKI
Towns in Lancashire
Civil parishes in England
Mikan Uji

is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her artwork in Fuzoroi no Renri.
Her work, Now loading...! was serialized from 2016 to 2017, and Fuzoroi no Renri has been serialized since 2017.
Work
Now loading...! (2016-2017)
Fuzoroi no Renri (2017-)
References
Other websites
Hatake wo Tagayasu dake - Mikan Uji Web Site
Mikan Uji on pixiv
Living people
Japanese manga artists
Japanese writers
Leonie Kramer

Dame Leonie Judith Kramer (1 October 1924 - 20 April 2016) was an Australian academic, educator and professor. She is known to be the first female professor of English in Australia, first woman to chair the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney. She was made the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the Companion of the Order of Australia.
Kramer died in Sydney, Australia on 20 April 2016 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 91.
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Other websites
Biographical entry at Australian Women's Archives Project
University of Sydney "Chancellors" Gallery
1924 births
2016 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Australian educators
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Sydney
People from Melbourne
University of Melbourne alumni
Merion Station, Pennsylvania

Merion Station (also known as Merion) is an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States, bordering Philadelphia to the city's west. It is one of the communities that make up the Philadelphia Main Line, and is part of the city of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County.
Merion Station is known for its grand mansions and for the wealth of its residents.
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Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
Ancient Domains of Mystery

ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) is a computer game. More specifically, it's a Roguelike.
Role-playing video games
1994 video games
Sahel Region

Sahel is a region in Burkina Faso. The capital city is Dori.
It was created on 2 July 2001. There are four provinces -- Oudalan, Seno, Soum, and Yagha.
Regions of Burkina Faso
2001 establishments in Africa
Khayyam Mirzazade

Khayyam Hadi oglu Mirzazade (; 5 October 1935 - 30 July 2018) was an Azerbaijani composer and professor. From 1957, he taught at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. From 1969 to 1983, he was a manager of composition cathedra at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. Khayyam Mirzazade is the author of symphonic and chamber compositions, music to drama spectacles and movies and lyric songs.
On October 7, 2000 he was awarded with Shohrat Order by the President of Azerbaijan.
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1935 births
2018 deaths
Azerbaijani composers
Azerbaijani academics
Alley Mills

Alley Mills (born May 9, 1951) is an American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 9. Mills has appeared in the television shows Yes, Dear, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Strong Medicine and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She has appeared in theater productions. Mills plays the character Pam Douglas in The Bold And The Beautiful.
Personal life
She met her husband, Orson Bean, at a reading of a play in Los Angeles. They married on April 18, 1993.
References
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS, 2016.
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, episode #173, aired 5-9-1990
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Actors from Chicago
Living people
1951 births
American television actors
Florinas

Florinas (Fiolinas) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 1,538 people lived there. Its area is 36.06 km2. It is 417 meters above sea level.
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Communes of Sardinia
Mount Tate

Mount Tate is a mountain in the Mt. Tate range of the northern Hida Mountains (the north Alps). It is in the southeastern area of Toyama Prefecture. It is a general term for three peaks, Mt.O (altitude 3,003 m), Mt. Onanji (altitude 3,015 m), and Fujinooritate (altitude 2,999 m).
It is one of the mountains of Chubu-Sangaku National Park with the dominant peak of the Tateyama mountain range. The Park was made on December 4, 1934.
It ranks with Mt. Tsurugi. They are some of the few mountains which have an existing glacier in Japan.
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Mountains of Japan
Toyama Prefecture
Pitchfork

A pitchfork is a tool used in farming. It is similar to a garden fork, made of metal or another hard material, with three or more pointed ends. Its long handle, made of wood or hard plastic, is for use while standing. It is usually about the same size as a shovel. It is used to move hay and other materials.
Farming tools
Ninety-Five Theses

The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences, commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, was written by Martin Luther.
Luther argued that the Church should not sell indulgences. Because many people agreed, Luther became very popular, paving the way for the Protestant Reformation.
On October 31, 1517, Luther approached the church authorities with his pressing call for reform. On this day he presented them with his theses. When the bishops did not respond, Luther circulated his theses privately. The theses spread quickly and were printed in Nuremberg, Leipzig, and Basel.
Most recently, in February 2007, the media reported that a handwritten note by Luther's secretary Georg Rorer, found in the university library at Jena, appeared to confirm the traditional account of Luther's nailing the theses to the door. As of February 2007, this new find has yet to be assessed by scholars.
Bibliography
Erwin Iserloh The Theses Were Not Posted: Luther Between Reform and Reformation. trans. by Jared Wicks, S.J.. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
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Other websites
Project Wittenberg: 95 Theses by Dr. Martin Luther (1517)
BELIEVE Religious Information Source
1517
Protestantism in Germany
16th century in Germany
Lutheranism
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
Christian texts
16th-century books
Bina Shah

Bina Shah is a Pakistani journalist and writer in English, from Karachi, Pakistan.
She obtained a B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College, USA and a M.Ed in Educational Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA.
Shah is an op-ed columnist for the Dawn and "Express Tribune" newspapers in Pakistan. She has contributed features and book reviews for foreign papers like The Guardian, The Independent, and the International Herald Tribune.
She is the author of six books, mostly of fiction.
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Living people
Writers from Karachi
Pakistani journalists
1972 births
Harvard University alumni
Michael Alfred Peszke

Michael Alfred Peszke (19 December 1932 - 17 May 2015) was a Polish-American psychiatrist and historian of the Polish Armed Forces in World War II. He published several monographs on the Polish Armed Forces in the West between the 1990s and 2010s.
Peszke was born in Deblin, the son of Alfred Bartlomiej Peszke. After the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, he and his parents evacuated to France and the United Kingdom. He was also educated in Ireland. He later moved to the United States in the 1950s. He was married to Alice and had two children.
Peszke died on 17 May 2015 in Wakefield, Rhode Island. He was 83.
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1932 births
2015 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American historians
Polish writers
American psychiatrists
Writers from Rhode Island
Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization or deindustrialisation is a process that happens in countries when machines are being removed or reduced from how work is done. This can cause social and economic change. It is the opposite of industrialization.
During the deindustrialisation of a country, many people leave factory jobs to do other jobs that require little or no machines.
Society
Industries
Mao Zedong Thought

Mao Zedong Thought (MZT) is a political thought and ideology that develops similarly to Maoism. It is based around the theories, practices, and concepts developed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Mao Zedong, whom was Chairman of the Communist Party of China until his death in 1976. It separates from Maoism due to differences with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Mao Zedong Thought is an application of Marxism and Leninism through Marxism-Leninism in China. MZT was the driving force behind the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976.
History
Early development
Mao Zedong, the father of Mao Zedong Thought, published his first work in April of 1917. It was titled A Study of Physical Education. Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society is a notable work Mao Zedong published prior to the start of the Chinese Civil War, being published in March of 1926. The Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan was published just a month before the Chinese Civil War began.
Chinese Civil War
Following the start of the Chinese Civil War between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang in 1927, Mao Zedong continued publishing political works. Among these were Why is it that Red Political Power can Exist in China?, The Struggle in the Chingkang Mountains, The Second Anniversary of An Wu-ching's Martyrdom, and On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party. These four works were published between 1928 and 1929.
Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was considered a major cultural movement in the development of Mao Zedong Thought by the Socialist Unity Centre of India.
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History of China
Socialism
Communism
Marxism
Riemann surface

In mathematics, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold.
Differential geometry
Topology
Complex analysis
Buneşti, Suceava

Bunesti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.
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Communes in Suceava County
Toast

Toast is bread which has been grilled until hot and crispy. A toaster, grill or open fire is used. Toasted bread is both darker in color and crunchier than normal bread. Toast can be eaten with a range of condiments spread on the surface, such as butter, jam, honey, and cheese to make cheese on toast, though these are optional as some people prefer their toast without condiments (dry toast).
Toast can also be used to make 'toasties', where a filling is compressed and heated between two slices of buttered bread in a toastie maker. Popular fillings include cheese, jam, peanut butter and chocolate spread.
Preparation
Before the invention of modern cooking appliances such as toasters and grills, bread has been produced in ovens for millennia. Toast can be made in the same oven.
Many brands of sliced bread are available, some specifically marketing their suitability for toasting.
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Breads
Breakfast foods
Tsetse fly

Tsetse flies are large biting flies that live in the tropical regions of Africa. They bite vertebrates, and drink their blood. They are the insect vectors of some serious diseases.
They have been studied a lot because they can spread sleeping sickness and other diseases.
The genus Glossina has about 34 species in three groups of species. One group of species lives out on the savannah; another group lives near rivers, and the third group lives in tropical forests.
Life cycle
Tsetse have an unusual life cycle. Female tsetse only fertilize one egg at a time and keep each egg in their uterus while the offspring develops internally during the first larval stages. During this time, the female feeds the developing offspring with a milky substance secreted by a modified gland in the uterus.
In the third larval stage, the tsetse larva finally leave the uterus and crawl into the ground. There it forms a hard outer shell and becomes the pupa. It completes its metamorphosis into an adult fly. This takes twenty to thirty days, while the larva relies on stored resources.
Normally, insect larvae feed themselves before pupation, but tsetse development (before it emerges as a full adult) occurs without feeding. The development is based only on nutritional resources provided by the female parent, which shows how blood is a rich source of nutrition. The female must get enough energy for her needs, for the needs of her developing offspring, and to store the resources which her offspring will require until it emerges as an adult.
Control of the fly
Before the 20th century, people and their cattle simply did not live in areas infested with tsetse flies. In the 20th century, using pesticides after World War II caused as many problems as it solved. Now more subtle methods are preferred. Tsetse flies can be trapped by using large blue cloths as a lure. Another good method is to release irradiated male flies, which are sterile. Since females mate only once in their lives, that much reduces the population.
Flies
1991 Macedonian independence referendum

An independence referendum happened in the Republic of Macedonia on 8 September 1991, which proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia.
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1991 in Europe
History of North Macedonia
Cash McCall

Cash McCall is a 1960 American romantic drama movie directed by Joseph Pevney and based on the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley. It stars Natalie Wood, James Garner, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall, Otto Kruger, Henry Jones and was distributed by Warner Bros..
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1960 romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies based on books
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by Joseph Pevney