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Arrondissements of the Cher department

There are 3 arrondissements in the Cher department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.
Arrondissements are further divided into communes.
The arrondissements of Cher are:
History
1790 (4 March) : creation of the department with seven districts: Aubigny, Sancerre, Sancoins, Saint-Amand, Chateaumeillant, Bourges and Vierzon. The capital was Bourges.
1800 : creation of the arrondissements in France; the seven districts were changed into three arrondissements: Bourges, Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond and Sancerre.
1926 (10 September) : the arrondissement of Sancerre was eliminated.
1984 : creation of the arrondissement of Vierzon.
Related pages
List of arrondissements of France
References
Cher
Tiandao

Tiandao (; Vietnamese: Thien Dao, Japanese: Tendo) is a Chinese word used in many philosophical and religious contexts in China and the Sinosphere. It can also refer specifically to:
Tao, often referred to as Tiandao, is an important concept passed down from ancient Chinese thinkers to the present day.
Cheondoism,also known by the name Tiandao as the Chinese reading of its name
Jerry González

Jerry Gonzalez (June 5, 1949 - October 1, 2018) was an American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist. He was of Puerto Rican descent.
Along with his brother, bassist Andy Gonzalez, he played an important role in the development of Latin jazz during the late 20th century. During the 1970s, both played alongside Eddie Palmieri and in Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and from 1980 to 2018 they directed The Fort Apache Band.
From 2000 to 2018, Gonzalez worked for Los Piratas del Flamenco and El Comando de la Clave.
On October 1, 2018, Gonzalez died of a heart attack after a fire in his home in Madrid, aged 69.
References
1949 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American bandleaders
American trumpeters
Musicians from New York City
Lori Alan

Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. She also voiced Diane Simmons in Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on Fantastic Four and The Boss in the Metal Gear series.
Other websites
1966 births
American child actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Maryland
Living people
Ish Sodhi

Inderbir Singh "Ish" Sodhi is a New Zealand cricketer from India. He plays for the New Zealand national cricket team. He was born on October 31, 1992.
References
Other websites
1992 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Hideyuki Mukai

(born June 8, 1969) is a Japanese researcher and educator.
Publications
2012(31 May)
References
Other websites
KAKEN
Justia
1969 births
Living people
Japanese academics
Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American writer. He wrote many books. He lived in the U.S. state of California but also spent a lot of time in Hawaii and Alaska.
His most famous book was The Call of the Wild. The Call of the Wild is about a dog named Buck who is taken to Alaska to work with a pack of dogs pulling a sled. This book took place during the Klondike Gold Rush. Many people bought The Call of the Wild and Jack London became a famous writer. He also wrote other books about dogs and wolves. Another one of his famous books is White Fang.
Jack London was also a hobo at one time. He wrote a book about this called The Road. Jack London had political beliefs. He was a socialist. One of his famous books is The Iron Heel, which is the story of the government using force against the socialist movement.
He also spent some time at sea and making a living as an "oyster pirate". He wrote many books about sailing and boats. One of his best-known books about life at sea was The Sea Wolf.
He married Charmian London born Kittredge (second wife). He was on the vanguard of animal welfare and attempted a model pig farm, and experimented with early ecological agriculture. He died in a state of depression.
References
Reesman 2009, p. 23.
3. Cf. Saiz, Peter Ralph, "Political Tyranny and the Master-Slave Paradigm in Selected Sea-Tales of Herman Melville and Jack London", PhD thesis Purdue University 2003. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3113867/ Cf. also, Huebert, David, "Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American literature", PhD thesis University of Western Ontario 2018. 4. Cf. http://santarosahistory.com/wordpress/2016/11/the-case-for-arson-at-wolf-house/. Cf.Fresneau-Woodward, Servanne, "Nature animale et paysages naturels dans l'oeuvre de Jack London" Doctorat, Universite de Paris X https://www.theses.fr/1987PA100174
American novelists
Writers from San Francisco
Writers from Alaska
Writers from Hawaii
1876 births
1916 deaths
Hamster

Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 25 species in six or seven genera. They have become established as popular small house pets. They are a bit like a mouse. Wild hamsters live in the desert, but people all over the world keep domesticated hamsters as pets.
In the wild, hamsters are crepuscular and stay underground during the day. They feed on seeds, fruits, and vegetation, and occasionally eat burrowing insects. Hamsters are distinguished by their large cheek pouches, and relatively short tail. They use their long cheek pouches (extending to their shoulders) to carry food back to their burrows.
Hamsters as pets
There are six main types of hamsters: the Syrian hamster (the kind most people have as pets), winter whites, campbells, the Russian dwarf hamster (a hybrid of winter white and Campbell's dwarf hamsters), the Chinese hamster, and the Roborovski hamster. Unlike other species, the Chinese hamster has a long tail. All Syrian hamsters are the descendants of 12 baby hamsters found in Syria in 1930.
Pet hamsters should live in cages with wood shavings or recycled newspaper (pine or cedar shavings are toxic to hamsters). Plain toilet paper is also a cheap, safe option, but straw should only be given in small amounts. Hamsters eat mostly hamster food sold at a pet shop, but they can also eat many vegetables and fruits in small portions. Hamsters store food in natural pouches in the sides of their mouths.
Because they are rodents, hamster incisors grow constantly. They need wooden blocks and hard food to wear the teeth down and prevent them from getting too long. Most hamsters also have a wheel to run on for exercise. A 6-inch (15 cm) wheel is recommended for most dwarf hamsters, and at least an eight-inch (20 cm) wheel for Syrians. If the wheel is too small, the hamster's spine can become bent. Some people get other kinds of exercise equipment for their hamsters, like a "hamster ball" in which the hamster can roll around the floor (though these are not recommended by some animal welfare groups), or a long network of tubes with air holes for hamsters to crawl through. They should live in a tank or cage. Hamsters are not recommended for young children.
References
Mr. Freeze (roller coaster)

Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast (previously known as Mr. Freeze) is a steel launched shuttle roller coaster.
Other websites
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast at Six Flags Over Texas
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast at Six Flags St. Louis
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast (Six Flags Over Texas) at RCDB
Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast (Six Flags St. Louis) at RCDB
References
1998 establishments in the United States
Buildings and structures in Missouri
Roller coasters in Texas
1990s establishments in Texas
Sapodilla

Manilkara zapota is a fruit tree in the Sapotaceae family. It is commonly known as the Sapodilla or Sapota. It is from southern Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is often grown for its fruit, which has a very malty and sweet flavor, and tastes like a pear.
References
Sapotaceae
Cindy Adams

Cynthia "Cindy" Adams (nee Sugar; later Heller; born April 24, 1930) is an American gossip columnist and writer. She is the widow of comedian/humorist Joey Adams. She was born in New York City.
She began to work as a photographer's model in Manhattan. Since 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She also contributed to Sunday Today in New York. Adams became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981.
References
Other websites
1930 births
Living people
American activists
Models from New York City
Journalists from New York City
Roundheads

The Roundheads were a group of people who supported Parliament & Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. They were also called 'Parliamentarians'. They fought against Charles I and the Cavaliers otherwise known as 'Royalists'. The Parliamentary army put their soldiers in red coats. The British army continued using red in later centuries.
Some Puritans, but by no means all, wore their hair closely cropped round the head or flat and there was an obvious contrast between them and the men of fashion, who wore long ringlets. "Roundheads" appears to have been first used as a term of derision toward the end of 1641, when the debates in Parliament in the Clergy Act 1640 were causing riots at Westminster. According to John Rushworth the word was first used on 27 December 1641 by a disbanded officer named David Hide, who during a riot is reported to have drawn his sword and said he would "cut the throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops". A few decades later "Whigs" was the word for men of similar opinions.
17th century in England
Jimmie Walker

James Carter "Jimmie" Walker, Jr. (born June 25, 1947) is an American actor and comedian. He was known for playing James Evans Jr. (J.J.) on the CBS television series Good Times, which ran from 1974 to 1979.
References
Other websites
Official website
1947 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American television personalities
Comedians from New York City
Actors from New York City
3 Maccabees

The book of the 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles.
However, the book actually has nothing to do with the Maccabees. It does not have anything to do with their revolt against the Seleucid Empire, either (as described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees). Instead, it tells the story of persecution of the Jews under Ptolemy IV Philopator (222-205 BC). The name of the book seems to come from the similarities between this book and the stories of the martyrdom of Eleazar and the Maccabeean youths in 2 Maccabees. The High Priest Shimon is also mentioned.
Books of the Bible
Repeating decimal

Repeating decimal (or recurring decimal) is a decimal where the number or pattern repeats forever. Repeating decimal is resulted when dividing a number by a number that is not divisible except for certain cases like dividing any number by 5. For example, dividing 7 by 3 would result in a repeating decimal, which is 2.333... or 2.. The number or group of numbers that repeats is called a repetend or reptend and the number of numbers in the repetend is called the period length. For 2., 3 is the repetend and the period length is 1.
Related pages
0.999...
Rational number
Numbers
Diana Gordon (singer)

Diana Gordon (born April 6, 1990), formerly known by her stage name Wynter, is an American singer-songwriter specializing in dance, house, and R&B. She is signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play in March 2008.
References
1990 births
African-American singers
American R&B singers
Singer-songwriters from New York City
Atlantic Records artists
Living people
Novomoskovsk, Russia

Novomoskovsk () is a city and the administrative center (capital city) of Novomoskovsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia. It is at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers. Population: 143,000 (1974); 107,000 (1959); 76,000 (1939).
History
The city was first the family manor of Counts Bobrinsky in the 18th century. They industrialized the city near the end of the 19th century. The city was first known as Bobriki () and was officially established in 1930. It became a coal (lignite) mining center during the Soviet period. In 1933, it was renamed Stalinogorsk (). During World War II, the city was occupied by the German Army from November 22, 1941 to December 11, 1941. In 1961, it was given its current name. The city was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor on January 14, 1971.
Notable people
Twin towns and sister cities
Novomoskovsk is twinned with:
Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Kusadasi, Turkey
Prievidza, Slovakia
References
Cities and towns in Tula Oblast
1930 establishments in Europe
Flögeln

Flogeln used to be a municipality in Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2015, it is part of the town of Geestland.
Other websites
Former municipalities in Lower Saxony
Geestland
Fingerboard

The fingerboard is a part of most stringed instruments, such the guitar and the violin. It is a long strip of material, usually wood, that protrudes from the body of the instrument. Strings are stretched across the length of the fingerboard, raised slightly by the bridge. The player pushes the strings against the fingerboard to create different notes. On some fingerboards, there are ridges called frets. This kind of fingerboard is called a fretboard.
Stickers can be placed on the fingerboard to show the chords for each string. Fret stickers were introduced as a way to help beginners learn to play guitar. They have become helpful for music teachers and professionals in their teachings. Stickers are labeled A-G and can be placed to show notes, chords or scales effectively and efficiently.
String instruments
Alain Chevrier

Alain Guy Chevrier (born April 23, 1961 in Cornwall, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender.
Chevrier played a total of 8 seasons in the NHL. He played for the New Jersey Devils for 3 seasons, Winnipeg Jets for 1 season, Chicago Blackhawks for 2 seasons, Pittsburgh Penguins for 1 season and the Detroit Red Wings for 1 season.
Chevrier also play college hockey with the Miami University RedHawks and was the first RedHawk to play in the NHL.
Other websites
1961 births
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Chicago Blackhawks players
Detroit Red Wings players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
New Jersey Devils players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Winnipeg Jets (1979-96) players
International Hockey League (1945-2001) players
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League players
Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas was a sovereign state in North America between the United States and Mexico that existed from 1836 to 1845. It was started on March 2 1836, when the people living in Texas declared themselves independent from Mexico. The Mexican army led by Santa Anna marched into Texas and attacked the new country. However the Mexican army was defeated and Santa Anna was captured at a battle near the site of Houston. The new republic did not have an easy time. It did not have a proper government, or any money. Its borders were often raided by Mexico, and there was fighting between the settlers and the Native Americans. The US government did not recognize the Republic of Texas.
In 1841, Santa Anna again became president of Mexico and the border attacks increased. By this time, thousands of new settlers had moved into Texas, and people in the US supported the people of Texas. The idea of annexation of Texas into the US became popular.
The Republic of Texas ended on December 29, 1845, when Texas became the 28th state of the United States of America.
Former countries in North America
1836 establishments in North America
1845 disestablishments
19th-century disestablishments in North America
History of Texas
Takahashi Inari Shrine

Takahashi Inari Shrine (Gao Qiao Dao He Shen She , Takahashi inari jinja) is a Shinto shrine that worships the kami Inari. It is in Kumamoto. Its main festival is held annually on November 8. It was built in 1496.
It is an unranked shrine in the Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines.
Related pages
Inari shrine
Beppyo shrines
Coordinates on Wikidata
Articles containing Japanese-language text
Unranked shrines
Pages with unreviewed translations
Development regions of the Dominican Republic

The development regions of the Dominican Republic are groups of provinces made only for planning purposes and without any administrative function. They were created on 30 June 2004.
There are 10 development regions in three groups:
Cibao
Region I: Cibao Norte ("Northern Cibao")
Region II: Cibao Sur ("Southern Cibao")
Region III: Cibao Nordeste ("Northeastern Cibao")
Region IV: Cibao Noroeste ("Nothwestern Cibao")
Suroeste
Region V: Valdesia
Region VI: Enriquillo
Region VII: El Valle ("The Valley")
Sureste
Region VIII: Yuma
Region IX: Higuamo
Region X: Ozama
The population data in the following tables are from the last national census ().
Cibao
The Cibao is one of the tradicional division of the country; it corresponds with the northern half of the country.
Region I: Cibao Norte
Region II: Cibao Sur
Region III: Cibao Nordeste
Region IV: Cibao Noroeste
Suroeste
Region V: Valdesia
Region VI: Enriquillo
Region VII: El Valle
Sureste
Region VIII: Yuma
Region IX: Higuamo
Region X: Ozama
Map
Related pages
Provinces of the Dominican Republic
References
Geography of the Dominican Republic
Mini Estadi

The Mini Estadi (English: Mini Stadium) is the home stadium of FC Barcelona B, officially named "Miniestadi", the reserve team of FC Barcelona. It is in Barcelona, Spain. It can hold 15,276 people. It also hosts games for the FC Barcelona women's team.
Related pages
Camp Nou
FC Barcelona
Barcelona
References
Football stadiums in Spain
Buildings and structures in Barcelona
Highland Acres, Delaware

Highland Acres is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kent County, Delaware, United States.
Census-designated places in Kent County, Delaware
Palatine German language

Palatine German, or Pfaelzisch-Lothringisch (; , pronounced ), is a dialect and is spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley. It is also spoken in Zweibrucken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau Worth am Rhein and Alsace. It is also spoken beyond Alsace.
References
German dialects
Languages of Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Mark Burke

Mark Burke (born 12 February 1969) is a former English football player.
1969 births
Living people
English footballers
People from Solihull
Pant, Shropshire

Pant is a small village in Shropshire in England. It is in the civil parish of Llanymynech and Pant. It is located on the border with Powys in Wales. It is situated 15 miles north west of Shrewsbury, the county town.
In the 2011 census, the village's population was listed under the civil parish's population, which was 2,100 people.
The village's name means "hollow" in Welsh.
Villages in Shropshire
Assemblies of God

The Assemblies of God is a United States-based Christian denomination; a large group of Pentecostal churches. There are over 64 million members in over 200 countries.
Beliefs
The AG is Trinitarian. They view the Bible as divinely inspired. The Bible provides the rules of faith and conduct. Baptism by immersion is practiced. Baptism is understood as an outward sign of an inward change. The change is from being dead in sin to being alive in Christ. Communion is also practiced. The Assemblies of God also places a strong emphasis on the fulfillment of the Great Commission and believes that this is the main calling of the church.
The most recent World congress was held in Springfield, Missouri in August 2014.
References
Other websites
World AOG Site
Pentecostalism
1914 establishments in the United States
Christian organizations based in the United States
Electoral district of Werribee

Werribee is an electoral district of Victoria. It was created in 1976, abolished in 2002 and recreated in 2014. It is in the Western Metropolitan Region.
Werribee is in Melbourne.
Election results
References
Werribee
Harem (genre)

Harem is a kind of story in Japanese anime and manga where a male character is surrounded and loved by many female characters. Suzuka, Love Hina, Ai Yori Aoshi, Rosario + Vampire, Highschool DxD and Sekirei are just a few examples. Most of the time the females are romantically interested in the main character. The term "harem" is generally not used by itself, but as an adjective to the genre--such as harem anime or harem manga. The term orginates from the Arabic word "hareem" which literally means women and was also used to refer to one man many women like a sultan hareem.
Daryl Surat, a contributor to Otaku USA, suggests that many harem anime are built around one core fetish (e.g. meido (Hanaukyo Maid Team), meganekko (G-On Riders), lolicon (Rozen Maiden), nuns (Amaenaideyo), large breasts (Eiken)). There are also reverse harem anime in which a female protagonist is surrounded by gorgeous boys: Ouran Host Club and The Wallflower being the best known.
Some recent harem titles have experienced a backlash from some anime fans in the United States, particularly from women, due to recurring usage of female fan service in series with the genre designation, prompting calls of sexism from some viewers. However, this is in spite of portrayals of male sexuality in anime being a fast-growing trend in the U.S.[needs citation]
Anime and manga terms
Claude Lelouch

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French movie director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. He was born in Paris, France. He is known for his work in the musical epic Les Uns et les Autres (1981). He also directed C'etait un rendez-vous. He won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Movie and for Original Screenplay.
In 1993, he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.
References
Other websites
Academy Award winning writers
1937 births
Living people
French movie actors
French screenwriters
Cinematographers
Movie directors from Paris
Writers from Paris
Lollipop

Lollipops, pops, or lollies are sweet candies you can lick or suck on. There are many flavours of lollipops, including fruits to soft drinks. In Europe, especially the Nordic countries, Germany and the Netherlands, salty-liquorice or salmiak () flavoured lollipops are also available, but these are largely unknown in other parts of the world. With a lot of companies making lollipops, the candy now comes in dozens of flavors and many different shapes. They range from small ones which can be bought by the hundred and are often given away for free at banks, barbershops, etc., to very large ones made out of candy canes twisted into a circle. There are also bacon flavored lollipops.
Some lollipops contain fillings, such as bubble gum or soft candy.
Some lollipops have been marketed for use as diet aids, although their effectiveness is untested, and anecdotal cases of weight loss may be due to the power of suggestion.
Candy
Mack Horton

Mackenzie James Horton is a freestyle swimmer from Australia. Mackenzie competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was born on 25 April 1996.
References
Other websites
1996 births
Living people
Australian swimmers
Australian Olympic gold medalists
Australian Olympic bronze medalists
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Herc's Adventures

Herc's Adventures is a puzzle video game released for the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn by LucasArts Entertainment in 1997. While the PlayStation release was international, the Sega Saturn version was exclusive to North America.
PlayStation games
Sega Saturn games
1997 video games
Conn Smythe Trophy

The Conn Smythe Trophy is a trophy in the National Hockey League awarded to the most valuable player in the playoffs each year. It was first awarded in 1965. Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche goaltender Patrick Roy has won it three times, more than any other player.
Normally the trophy goes to a player of the Stanley Cup champion. Sometimes it goes to someone on the losing team. Trophy winners on losing teams are marked with as asterisk (*) in the list below.
Winners
Related pages
List of NHL players
List of NHL statistical leaders
References
National Hockey League trophies and awards
The Power of Love (song)

"The Power of Love" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Jennifer Rush in 1984. It was later covered by Laura Branigan, Air Supply and Celine Dion.
Rush's version hit #1 in the United Kingdom. However, it only peaked at #57 in the United States.
Dion's version hit #1 in the United States, Canada and Australia in 1994. The song then became a pop standard. It won an ASCAP Pop Award for Most Performed Song in the United States.
References
Pop songs
Celine Dion songs
1984 songs
1980s ballads
Pop ballads
Air Supply songs
Laura Branigan songs
2009 US Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles

Esther Vergeer won in the final 6-0, 6-0 against Korie Homan.
Seeds
Esther Vergeer (Champion)
Korie Homan (Final)
Draw
Finals
Other websites
Official site of US Open
Wheelchair Women's Singles
Structural pipe fitting

Structural pipe fitting is a pipe used for various structures.
A Structural pipe fitting, also known as a slip on pipe fitting, clamp or pipe clamp is used to build structures such as handrails, guardrails, and other types of pipe or tubular structure. They can also be used to build furniture and theatrical riggings. The fittings slip on the pipe and are usually locked down with a set screw. The set screw can then be tightened with a simple hex wench. Because of the modular design of standard fittings, assembly is easy, only simple hand tools are required, and risks from welding a structure are eliminated.
Other advantages of using structural pipe fittings are easy installation and reconfigurable design. Since there are no permanent welds in the structure, the set screws of the fittings can simply be loosened, allowing them to be repositioned. The project can be disassembled and stored if needed, or even taken apart with fittings and pipe recycled into a new project.
Fittings used for strong structures are galvanised malleable iron castings, and come in many styles such as elbows, tees, crosses, reducers and flanges. The fittings are not threaded; they simply lock onto the pipe with the supplied hex set screws.
Engineering
Vizmanos

Vizmanos is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon in Spain.
Municipalities in Castile and Leon
Settlements in Soria
ILOVEYOU

ILOVEYOU was a computer worm that first appeared on May 5, 2000. The worm was sent by email using the subject "ILOVEYOU", with the worm attached. The worm would look like a text file, until it was opened. The file would be called LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs. Because of Microsoft Windows' default options, the user would not see the ".vbs" extension, and mistake it for a harmless text file which cannot execute code.
Many of the files on the computer would be replaced by the worm. Depending on what version was run, the payload would be different, because the worm could be changed so easily. The worm was written in Visual Basic Script, and used Microsoft Outlook to spread. It infected over 45 million computers and caused $10 billion in damages
References
Malware
Conversation

A conversation is two or more people talking about something. It is spontaneous, usually unplanned, though the people may have interests in common.
Conversations are one of the basic types of human communication. They can be about any subject, and do not necessarily have any fixed purpose. They allow people with different views of a topic to learn from each other. A conversation may be contrasted with formal presentations. A talk or speech, for example is an oral presentation by one person directed at a group. It is basically a one-way communication.
Conversations do not have to happen in person, they can happen over the telephone or on the Internet.
Banter
Banter is short witty sentences that bounce back and forth between individuals. Often banter uses clever put-downs and witty insults. It can contain misunderstandings (often intentional), zippy wisecracks, zingers, flirtation, and puns. The idea is each line of banter should "top" the one before it. It is a verbal war of wit without any physical contact.
Related pages
Conversation analysis
Consensus
Intensity of preference
References
Other websites
Advice on initiating conversations and links to conversational organizations
Article on developing basic communication skills
Conversation Cafe, devoted to creating a "culture of conversation."
Empathic listening skills
Lifehack howto on Small Talk
"The art of conversation", Economist, 19th December 2006
Human communication
Löbau-Zittau

Lobau-Zittau () was a (district) in the east of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It ended in 2008. It was on the borders of Germany and Poland (to the east) and the Czech Republic (to the south).
History
The district was formed in 1994 by merging the two previous districts Lobau and Zittau. The district will change again in 2008, when the independent city () of Gorlitz is merged with the district.
Other websites
Official website
2008 disestablishments in Germany
Andrej Panadić

Andrej Panadic (born 9 March 1969) is a former Croatian football player. He has played for Yugoslavia's national team.
Club career statistics
|-
|1988/89||rowspan="3"|Dinamo Zagreb||rowspan="3"|First League||28||3
|-
|1989/90||30||4
|-
|1990/91||18||0
|-
|1992||HASK-Gradanski||Prva HNL||20||0
|-
|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Croatia Zagreb||rowspan="2"|Prva HNL||29||3
|-
|1993/94||23||4
|-
|1994/95||rowspan="2"|Chemnitzer FC||rowspan="2"|2. Bundesliga||32||3
|-
|1995/96||33||2
|-
|1996/97||Uerdingen||2. Bundesliga||31||2
|-
|1997/98||rowspan="5"|Hamburger SV||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||13||2
|-
|1998/99||26||2
|-
|1999/00||29||1
|-
|2000/01||24||0
|-
|2001/02||9||0
|-
|2001/02||Sturm Graz||Bundesliga||14||1
|-
|2002||rowspan="3"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||22||0
|-
|2003||26||3
|-
|2004||3||0
76||7
72||7
197||12
14||1
51||3
410||30
|}
International career statistics
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|1989||3||0
|-
!Total||3||0
|}
References
1969 births
1990 FIFA World Cup players
Croatian footballers
Croatian football managers
Living people
Sportspeople from Zagreb
Yugoslavian footballers
Mellbystrand

Mellbystrand is a locality in Laholm Municipality in Halland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,619 people lived there.
References
Settlements in Halland County
Copperas Cove, Texas

Copperas Cove is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Cities in Texas
Kesswil

Kesswil is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The village was the birthplace of the psychiatrist Carl Jung.
References
Municipalities of Thurgau
Oron, Vaud

Oron is a municipality in Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2012, when the former municipalities of Bussigny-sur-Oron, Chatillens, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Ecoteaux, Oron-la-Ville, Oron-le-Chatel, Palezieux, Les Tavernes, Les Thioleyres and Vuibroye joined together to become the new municipality.
References
Other websites
Official website
2012 establishments in Switzerland
Municipalities of Vaud
Épinoy

Epinoy is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
References
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an internationally standardized time format. It is the main time zone in several countries, including the United Kingdom and Portugal. GMT has the same time as UTC, but there are differences between the two. Technically, GMT is a time zone, while UTC is a time standard.
GMT was established in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference, which met to establish a standardized system for measuring world longitude. They decided that the meridian passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England would be 0deg longitude.This conference also decided that the time zone around the meridian, GMT, would be the time zone used for reference around the world. Other countries would define their time based on GMT.
UTC was defined in 1963 as the new world reference for time. The major advantage of the new standard was that its time was determined by highly accurate atomic clocks, not the sun at Greenwich. Other advantages of UTC are that calling the new standard Coordinated Universal Time avoids giving more importance to any one country, and that UTC does not adjust for Daylight Saving Time, which means the world always has a standard time.
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Time zones
Lieutenant Kijé (movie)

Lieutenant Kije () is a 1934 Soviet comedy movie directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer. It stars Mikhail Yanshin, Boris Gorin-Goryainov, and Nina Shaternikova.
Actors
Mikhail Yanshin as Tsar Pavel I
Boris Gorin-Goryainov as Count von Pahlen
Nina Shaternikova as Princess Gagarina
Sofiya Magarill as Princess Gagarina's companion
Erast Garin as Adjutant Koblukov
Mikhail Rostovtsev as Fortress commandant
References
Other websites
Soviet movies
1934 movies
Soviet comedy movies
Floringhem

Floringhem 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
Ambroise Vollard

Ambroise Vollard (3 July 1866 - 21 July 1939) was one of the most important dealers in French modern art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He had his portrait painted by so many artists that Picasso said "The most beautiful woman who ever lived has never had her portrait painted, drawn, or engraved any oftener than Vollard".
In most cases he bought art directly from the painters of his day. He was the first owner of Cezanne's Vue sur l'Estaque et le Chateau d'If. This sold at Christie's in London for PS13,522,500 in February 1015.
He sold these almost unknown artists, who became world-famous. They included Paul Cezanne, Aristide Maillol, Renoir, Louis Valtat, Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain, Georges Rouault, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. He was also an avid art collector and publisher.
Background
After graduation, Vollard became a collector-dealer in art. In 1893, he started his own art gallery, at Rue Laffitte, then the center of the Parisian market for modern art. There Vollard put on his first major exhibition: Manet and others were followed by Gauguin and Van Gogh (4 - 30 June 1895).
Not attractive in appearance, he was a very shrewd businessman who made a fortune. In 1930 Vollard commissioned Picasso to produce a suite of 100 etchings which became known as the Vollard Suite.
Vollard would later write biographies of Cezanne (1914), Degas, and Renoir, as well as the charming Recollections of a Picture Dealer (1936). Vollard was killed in July 1939, at the age of 73, on his way to Paris, when his chauffer-driven car skidded off the road.
The fate of the collection
News of his death prompted this letter from one artist to another:
"Are you aware of the enormity of the estate? Discoveries everywhere, valuable things, never sold nor noted, discoveries under piles of canvases, priceless, surpassing all calculation, the heirs in incredible disorder, lawsuit after lawsuit will follow".
Vollard died without direct heirs. Much of the art was left to extended family and close friends, although a significant number of works apparently were sold, dispersed, or disappeared during World War II.
More than 80 years after his death, works from his collection were sold after agreement with the various claimants to his estate. Massive auctions were held by Sotheby's in Paris and London in June 2010.
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1866 births
1939 deaths
French businesspeople
French artists
Road accident deaths
Hofen, Switzerland

Hofen was a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. It is on the border with Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Hofen, Altdorf, Bibern and Opfertshofen merged into the municipality of Thayngen.
Other websites
Map of Hofen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland from Google Maps
Former municipalities of Schaffhausen
Exotic pet

A exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal which is kept as a pet. It is kept in human households but is relatively unusual or usually thought of as a wild animal rather than as a pet.
"Exotic" often refers to a species which is not native (indigenous) to where the owner lives, or an animal that isn't typically kept as a pet (unlike cats or dogs). "Pet" is a companion animal living with people.
Some animals kept as exotic pets
A wide variety of animals have been kept as pets. Below is a list of some animals that are kept in captivity at home and are thought to be "exotic". Where examples are provided within a category, the examples are the animals that are relatively commonly kept as pets in captivity at home within that category (although mice and parakeets may not really be considered very "exotic").
Arachnids (e.g., tarantulas, scorpions, and vinegaroons)
Frogs and toads (e.g., African bullfrogs, Argentine horned frogs, and fire-bellied toads)
Genets
Hedgehogs
Insects (e.g., crickets, stick insects, Hercules beetles, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and praying mantises)
Lagomorphs (e.g. rabbits and hares)
Lizards
Marsupials (e.g., wallabies, wallaroos, koalas, wombats and possums such as sugar gliders)
Myriapods (e.g., millipedes)
Non-domesticated and hybrid canids (e.g., wolf-dog hybrids, fennec foxes, domesticated red foxes, and raccoon dogs)
Non-domesticated and hybrid cats (e.g., Asian leopard cats, Bengal cats, caracals, chausies, savannah cats)
Parrots (e.g., African grays, Amazon parrots, caiques, cockatiels, cockatoos, conures, eclectus parrots, lories, lorikeets, lovebirds, macaws, parakeets, and parrotlets)
Pigeons
Primates (e.g. galagos (bush babies) and monkeys such as squirrel monkeys and capuchins as pictured above)
Procyonids (e.g. raccoons, kinkajous and coatimundis)
Raptors (e.g., falcons and hawks)
Rodents (e.g., capybaras, chinchillas, fancy rats, gerbils, dormice, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, Patagonian cavies, and squirrels)
Salamanders (e.g., axolotls and tiger salamanders)
Sharks and other fishes
Skunks
Snakes (e.g., ball pythons, boa constrictors, king snakes, rat snakes)
Tortoises and other turtles (e.g., Greek tortoises, Hermann's tortoises, Russian tortoises, painted turtles, and red-eared sliders)
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Pets
Unforgiven (2002)

Unforgiven (2002) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held on September 22, 2002 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. It was the fifth Unforgiven event held by the WWE.
Matches
References
Other websites
Official Unforgiven 2002 website
2002 in professional wrestling
Sports in Los Angeles
WWE Unforgiven
2002 in the United States
2000s in Los Angeles, California
Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana, often called D&G, is an Italian fashion label. They make and sell clothes including shirts and underwear. The company was founded in Milan in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
1985 establishments in Europe
Italian fashion houses
Milan
1980s establishments in Italy
Enamel (glass)

For other uses of the word, see Enamel
Enamel is made of melted glass, often on metal. Sometimes called vitreous or porcelain enamel, it is made by fusing powdered glass to a base by firing, usually between 750 and 850 degC (1,380 and 1,560 degF). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable coating on metal, or on glass or ceramics.
It has been used on decorative objects for two, or three thousand years, but especially in the Middle Ages in Europe. In the 19th century, it was used on everyday objects such as kitchen equipment and road signs. The glass is hard-wearing, scratch resistant and easy to clean.
Gallery
References
Glass
Art materials
Chemicals
Containers
French words and phrases
Metalworking
Pottery
Droizy

Droizy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Communes in Aisne
Atlantic Giant

Atlantic Giant is the name of a very large type of pumpkin. The Atlantic Giant pumpkin can grow to be larger than in diameter. The biggest Atlantic Giant ever grown weighed 2,624 pounds.
Other websites
BigPumpkins.com
Information about specific pumpkins
Cucurbitaceae
Trauma

Trauma is the name doctors have for a physical injury caused by something outside the body. Depending on what was injured there are different kinds of traumas.
Trauma (medicine)
Blunt trauma, trauma that comes from being hit by a blunt object
Blast injury, physical trauma caused by an explosion
Psychological trauma, results if someone witnesses something that he or she is unable to cope with on his or her own. Such traumas can occur after cases of sexual abuse, for example.
Trauma center, a hospital that provides emergency medical services to trauma victims
Xherdan Shaqiri

Xherdan Shaqiri (born 10 October 1991), is a Swiss association football player of Yugoslavian and Albanian descent who plays for Liverpool FC and the Switzerland national football team. He has also played for FC Basel. Since he first started playing football, he has been known for his fast speed on and off the ball.
The FIFA website describes Shaqiri as "unpredictable on the ball, adept with both feet, clinical in front of goal and [possessing] excellent vision". He has been nicknamed the "Alpine Messi" and "magic dwarf".
In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he was one of the top scorers with 3 goals after scoring a hat-trick against Honduras.
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1991 births
Living people
Swiss footballers
Liverpool F.C. players
Premier League players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2016 players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
2022 FIFA World Cup players
Gin D. Wong

Gin Dan Wong (September 17, 1922 - September 1, 2017) was a Chinese-born American architect.
During his career, he was the chief of the Architectural Guild for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at University of Southern California, the founder and chairman of Gin Wong Associates, and the president of William L. Pereira Associates. He was known as the designer of numerous buildings and centers in Southern California and the Pacific Rim: LAX Theme Building; the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Headquarters Building in Downtown Los Angeles; the Columbia Broadcasting System Television City; the Crean Tower and Mary Hood Chapel on the Crystal Cathedral campus; the Jack Colker's 76 Station in Beverly Hills; Hyatt Regency International Airport in Inchon, Korea; and the Pan Pacific Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Wong died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on September 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 94.
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1922 births
2017 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American architects
People from Guangdong
People from Los Angeles
Crozon

Crozon () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistere department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Finistere
Le Favril, Nord

Le Favril is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Communes in Nord
Morton Deutsch

Morton Deutsch (February 4, 1920 - March 13, 2017), was an American social psychologist and researcher in conflict resolution.
Deutsch was one of the founding fathers of the field of conflict resolution. His survey Review of General Psychology, published in 2002, ranked Deutsch as the 63rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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1920 births
2017 deaths
American psychologists
Scientists from New York City
Writers from New York City
Logan County, Nebraska

Logan County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 716 people lived there. The county seat is Stapleton. It was founded in 1885.
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1885 establishments in Nebraska
Nebraska counties
Pudukkottai district

Pudukkottai district is a district in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Pudukkottai is its district headquarters. Pudukkottai district is a least urbanised district in Tamil Nadu.
Population
As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,618,345 with a sex-ratio of 1,015 females for every 1,000 males. A total of 179,688 were under the age of six, constituting 91,696 males and 87,992 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 17.6% and .08% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the district was 68.62%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The district had a total of 387,679 households. There were a total of 761,693 workers, comprising 192,462 cultivators, 234,344 main agricultural labourers, 10,170 in house hold industries, 203,272 other workers, 121,445 marginal workers, 16,808 marginal cultivators, 70,805 marginal agricultural labourers, 3,771 marginal workers in household industries and 30,061 other marginal workers.
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Pudukkottai district
Dysmenorrhea

Dysmenorrhea (also referred to menstrual cramps) is pain during menstruation. It happens less than three days after the menstruation starts. The pain is usually in the pelvis or lower abdomen. Side effects can be diarrhea and nausea.
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Female reproductive system
Abos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Abos, Pyrenees-Atlantiques is a commune of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement in the southwestern part of France.
Abos, Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Villiers-Herbisse

Villiers-Herbisse is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
Communes in Aube
Hamid Karzai International Airport

Hamid Karzai International Airport (; ; ) is located 5 km from the city centre of Kabul in Afghanistan. It is one of the nation's main international airports and as one of the largest military bases.
It was previously named Kabul International Airport and locally as Khwaja Rawash Airport.
The airport was given its new name in 2014 in honor of former President Hamid Karzai. The decision was made by the National Assembly of Afghanistan and the Cabinet of the then President Ashraf Ghani.
On 26 August 2021, an ISIS sucide bombing occurred at the airport leaving at least 170 dead.
References
Airports in Asia
Kabul
Alan Ladd Jr.

Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (October 22, 1937 - March 2, 2022) was an American movie industry executive and producer. He was president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979. He helped produce Star Wars. He later created The Ladd Company and headed MGM/UA. Ladd won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1995 for producing Braveheart. Ladd Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was actor Alan Ladd.
Ladd Jr. died on March 2, 2022 in Los Angeles, aged 84.
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Other websites
1937 births
2022 deaths
Movie producers from Los Angeles
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Academy Award winning producers
Amreeka

Amreeka is a 2009 American United Arab Emirates Canadian Kuwaiti Jordanian drama movie directed by first time director Cherien Dabis and starring Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler, Miriam Smith.
Other websites
2009 drama movies
American drama movies
United Arab Emirates movies
Canadian drama movies
Kuwaiti movies
Jordanian movies
Beverly Beach, Florida

Beverly Beach is a town in Flagler County, Florida in the United States.
Towns in Florida
Flagler County, Florida
Joseph Fletcher

Joseph Francis Fletcher (April 10, 1905, Newark, New Jersey - October 28, 1991, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American professor and bioethicist. He was a member of the American Eugenics Society and the Association for Voluntary Sterilization.
1905 births
1991 deaths
India Summer

India Summer (born April 26, 1975) is an American pornographic actress and nude model. She is thought to be the most productive female performer in the US pornography industry, starring in more than 1000 adult scenes.
Summer has appeared in small roles in the television series Reno 911!, Sons of Anarchy, and Dexter. She also had a role on the Showtime cable series Girls of Sunset Place as Marina Haze. She also appeared in National Lampoon's 2007 movie Homo Erectus.
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1975 births
Living people
American pornographic actors
Models from Iowa
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Des Moines, Iowa
Bisexual people
LGBT actors
LGBT pornographic actors
LGBT models
American LGBT sex industry people
AVN Award winners