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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands is a British Overseas Territory and are part of the Virgin Islands, a chain of islands in the Caribbean. The islands comprise of the eastern half of the island chain. The British Virgin Islands has sixteen inhabited islands and more than twenty uninhabited islands. Over 22,000 people live there, which is fewer than the neighbouring United States Virgin Islands.
The capital city, Road Town, is on Tortola, one of the islands in the group. Most of the people live on Tortola, but the other main inhabited islands include Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke.
History
The islands were originally lived in by Caribbean Indians called Arawaks. By the time the first European explorers discovered the British Virgin Islands all of the Arawaks had left. The first Europeans to try and settle in the British Virgin Islands were the Dutch, but the English came soon after and the English and the Dutch settlers used to fight. The Spanish also claimed the islands, but no Spanish people ever tried to settle there. But the Spanish did attack the British and Dutch settlers.
In 1672 the British took control of the islands during a war against the Dutch and they have held on to them ever since.
During the early years after European settlement the British Virgin Islands was a plantation economy which relied heavily upon slave labour. After slavery was abolished in the British Virgin Islands there was a long period of decline and many people left. Those who remained were mostly descended from African slaves, although many of them also left to try and find better lives elsewhere.
In the 1950s the British Virgin Islands got its own government, and the economy of the islands began to get better with the introduction of tourism and financial services.
Government
The British Virgin Islands are mostly self-governing, but some parts of the government is run by the United Kingdom.
A new constitution was introduced in 2007. It grants more control over everyday life to the Islanders, and lists the protection a person can expect from the government. The head of Government in the British Virgin Islands is called the Premier, and he is in charge of a group of ministers of government which is called the Cabinet. Laws are passed by a group of elected politicians in the House of Assembly. Most of the international relations are still dealt with by the British Government in London on behalf of the people of the British Virgin Islands.
Economy
Most people in the British Virgin Islands work in the tourist trade or in financial services. There are also a small number of farmers and fishermen.
References
Other websites
A visual guide to the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Snodland

Snodland is a small town on the River Medway, located between Rochester and Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is about 27 miles from central London, It also has a railway station, Snodland railway station.
References
Villages in Kent
Kent boroughs
Ernie Coombs

Ernest "Ernie" Coombs, CM (November 26, 1927 - September 18, 2001) who was most famous for being the host of the popular Canadian television TV show called Mr. Dressup. 'Mr. Dressup was on TV for a very long time.
He was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1927. After he finished school at the North Yarmouth Academy he decided to find work entertaining children. He first started learning how to do this when he moved to Canada in 1963 and started working for Fred Rogers on an early version of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. This show was on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV channel. After Rogers moved back to the United States in 1964 Coombs stayed in Canada. His next work was on a TV show called Butternut Square which was on TV from 1964 to 1967.
After "Butternut Square" ended Coombs started the "Mr. Dressup" TV show. It would become one of Canada's longest-running children's TV shows. As Mr. Dressup he would do art, sing songs, tell stories and play children's games. In each show Mr. Dressup would dress up in costumes that he would find in a box he called his "Tickle Trunk".
Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994.
His TV show did not stop until February 1996. The same year, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada .
Repeats of his TV show were shown on CBC Television until 2006.
After he retired from TV Coombs continued to work entertaining children and did a lot of work to raise money for many children's charities.
Coombs had a stroke on September 10, 2001. He died on September 18, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario. He was 73 years old when he died.
Other websites
Ernie Coombs' Order of Canada Citation
Ernie Coombs' CBC personalities page
Canadian Connections' Ernie Coombs page
The Mr. Dressup Pictures and Sound Page by Buffalonian Steve Cichon
Multimedia
CBC Archives Remembering Mr. Dressup - CBC News 2001
1927 births
2001 deaths
Canadian musicians
Canadian television actors
Deaths from stroke
People from Lewiston, Maine
People from Ontario
You Keep Me Hangin' On

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a soul-pop ballad from American Motown music group The Supremes. It was released in late 1966. The lyrics speak of a bad relationship the singer is trying to get out of. The song's signature guitar part comes from a Morse code-like radio sound effect.
The song reached #1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.
American music group Vanilla Fudge recorded a rock version of the song in 1967. It peaked at #6 on Billboard Hot 100. Their single version is almost three minutes long. The album version is seven minutes and twenty seconds long.
In 1986, British singer Kim Wilde had a version of the song. In June 1987, it hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100. The song also hit #1 in Australia and #2 in the United Kingdom.
References
Pop songs
1966 songs
The Supremes songs
Rod Stewart songs
Kim Wilde songs
Reba McEntire songs
Wilson Pickett songs
Psychedelic soul songs
Psychedelic rock songs
Beaminster

Beaminster is a town in Dorset, England. The town has a population of 3,000. Beaminster is known for a nine-day music and art festival called the Beaminster Festival. The festival is held every year.
Towns in Dorset
Vilhelmina Municipality

Vilhelmina Municipality () is a municipality in Vasterbotten County in northern Sweden. The seat is in Vilhelmina and it has 3 657 inhabitants (31 December 2010).
References
Other websites
Vilhelmina Municipality
Municipalities of Vasterbotten County
An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary movie about global warming directed by Davis Guggenheim, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. The movie was first shown at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. The movie was released on DVD on November 21, 2006. A companion book by Gore reached Number 1 on the paperback nonfiction New York Times bestseller list on July 2, 2006. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song.
An Inconvenient Truth is the story of Al Gore and his efforts to tell people about the climate change concerns. Gore says, "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if I've failed to get the message across." The movie closely follows a "slide show" presentation that Gore has shown throughout the world. It shows Gore's exploration of the global warming data, and predictions regarding climate change and its potential for disaster.
Related pages
Stern Review
The Dirty Energy Dilemma
References
Other websites
2006 documentary movies
Climate change
American documentary movies
Energy
Green politics
Movies that won the Best Original Song Academy Award
Teruyuki Tahara

Teruyuki Tahara (born 3 May 1968) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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References
1968 births
Living people
Footballers from Kagoshima Prefecture
Henk Wesseling

Henk Wesseling (6 August 1937 - 18 August 2018) was a Dutch historian. He was a professor emeritus of contemporary history at Leiden University. He was the rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study between 1995 and 2002. He was born in The Hague.
In 1988 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Oegstgeest, Netherlands on 18 August 2018 from Parkinson's disease, aged 81.
References
1937 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Dutch academics
Dutch historians
Writers from The Hague
Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Region () is an autonomous republic in Iraq.
The Kurdistan Region is part of Iraqi Kurdistan or South Kurdistan, itself part of Kurdistan. The government of the Kurdistan Region is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Its capital is Erbil, called Hewler in Kurdish.
The Kurdistan Region is to the west of Iranian Kurdistan (in Iran). To the Kurdistan Region's west is Syrian Kurdistan (in Syria), and to the north is Turkish Kurdistan (in Turkey).
Geography
The area is 80,000 km2 and 5,500,000 people live there. Iraqi Kurdistan is a mountain region, where the highest point is 3.611 metres, known as Cheekha Dar. The biggest lake is Dukan.
Iraqi Kurdistan is divided into 6 provinces.
Three of the provinces that are under control of Iraqi Kurdistan are:
1.As Sulaymaniyah (Silemani)
2.Arbil (Hewler)
3.Dahuk (Duhok)
The provinces that are a part of Iraqi Kurdistan are:
4.Diyala (Diyale)
5.Kirkuk (Kerkuk)
6.Ninawa (Neynewa)
Demographics
The population in Iraqi Kurdistan is about 5-6 million. Most of these people are Sunni Muslims. There are also many Yazidis, Kakeyis and Christians. Kurds make the ethnic majority in the region while the Turkmen, Aramean, Assyrians, Armenians and Arabs make up the rest of the western part of the area.
Maps
References
References
Kurdistan
Autonomous areas
1991 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in Iraq
Geography of Iraq
Sindhi people

Sindhis (; Sindhi) are a Indo-Aryan ethnic group of people originating from the Sindh province of Pakistan. Today Sindhis mostly practice Islam, but historically they practised Hinduism and a large minority of them still do today. The original inhabitants of ancient Sindh were believed to be aboriginal tribes speaking languages of the Indus Valley civilization around 3000 BC. This population then mixed with the Aryan invaders that arrived later on which created the modern Sindhi ethnic group.
In his book Kitab-ul-Hind, the Persian scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni (Al-Beruni) declared that even before the advent of Islam into Sindh (711 A.D.), the Sindhi language was prevalent in Sindh.
Religion
Sindh was the first place in the Indian subcontinent to not only be conquered by a Muslim state but also the first to have a significant Muslim population. Islam arrived in Sindh after the Umayyad conquest and annexation of Sindh in the year 711 AD led by the Arab general Muhammad ibn Qasim. After this, Sindh became the easternmost province of the Caliphate. The second significant religion of the Sindhis is Hinduism which is the historical religion of Sindhi people as it was the major religion practised in the region before the Muslim conquest. Today, Sindhi Hindus make up about 20% of the total ethnic Sindhi population worldwide. Sindhi Hindus also revere the Sikh gurus and especially the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. Every year for 30 years during the early 20th century, Sikh missionary groups were sent to work among Sindhis. Because of this, the number of Sindhi Sikhs increased from 1000 in 1901 to over 39,000 in 1941. During the Partition of former British India in 1947, a lot of Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Sikhs left for India. They settled in Mumbai, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat. Later, a small number of them decided to settle in the Punjab State of India. Their main centers of pilgrimage are Sadhu Bela, an Udasi sect shrine built in 1823 in Sukkur District. And they also visit the Sikh shrines of Nankana Sahib, Panja Sahib, and Dehra Sahib in Punjab Province of Pakistan. Today, there is still a large Sindhi Hindu minority in the Sindh province of Pakistan however majority of the Sindhi Hindus live in India as their forefather migrated there during partition in 1947.
Notes
References
Ethnic groups in Sindh
South African Republic

The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often informally called the Transvaal Republic, was a sovereign state in southern Africa ruled by the Afrikaners. It was defeated by the UK and its colonies, the British Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal in the Second Boer War and became the British colony of Transvaal.
Former countries in Africa
History of South Africa
1856 establishments
1850s establishments in Africa
1900s disestablishments in Africa
Walter James Edyvean

Walter James Edyvean (October 18, 1938 - February 2, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 2001 to 2014. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts.
Edyvean died on February 2, 2019 in Boston, aged 80.
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1938 births
2019 deaths
American Roman Catholic bishops
People from Medford, Massachusetts
People from Boston
Embioptera

The Embioptera are an order of insects, commonly known as webspinners.
Webspinners are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects. They are in the subclass Pterygota. The group first appeared during the Jurassic and is well represented in Cretaceous amber. The common name webspinner comes from the insects' ability to spin silk from structures on their front legs. They use the silk to make a web-like pouch or gallery in which they live. They feed on leaf litter, moss, bark and lichen.
Occasionally they arrive in temperate countries, usually as passengers on cargo.
References
Insects
Pedro Feliciano

Pedro Juan Feliciano Molina (August 25, 1976 - November 8, 2021), nicknamed "Perpetual Pedro", was a Puerto Rican professional baseball left-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets from 2002 to 2004, from 2006 to 2010, and in 2013, and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in 2005.
Feliciano died unexpectedly in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico on November 8, 2021 from problems caused by heart disease, aged 45.
References
Other websites
1976 births
2021 deaths
New York Mets players
Puerto Rican baseball players
Deaths from heart disease
Remote keyless system

A remote keyless system is a device used to control access to a building or car without using a traditional mechanical key.
Security
Automobiles
Kikoriki

Kikoriki, known in the United States as Gogoriki and in Russia as Smeshariki () is a Russian animated television series made
up of 209 episodes of 6 minutes and 30 seconds each, aimed at children of 3 to 8 years.
The first episode premiered in Russia on May 17, 2004.
The series is aired in 60 countries, is translated to 15 languages.
S'pis vypuskau, z adrasami na "YouTube"
2004 g.
References
Animated television series
Mammography

Mammography is an x-ray of the breast. It is used to look for things that may be in a breast like a tumor. These images are viewed by radiologists for abnormal findings. A mammogram uses lower powered x-rays when compared to x-rays of bones. Other tests are often used along with mammograms. These are ultrasound, ductography, positron emission mammography (PEM), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are adjuncts to mammography.
Mammography has resulted in a 30 percent drop in the U.S. cancer death rate. Mammography became widespread in the 1980s.
References
Medical imaging
Quetteville

Quetteville is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Calvados
Looking for a Man

Looking for a Man () is a 1973 Soviet drama movie directed by Mikhail Bogin. It stars Oleg Zhakov, Rimma Manukovskaya, and Eleonora Aleksandrova.
Actors
Oleg Zhakov as Ivan Grigorievich
Rimma Manukovskaya as Valentina Dmitrievna Rudakova
Eleonora Aleksandrova as Nina Lykova
Lyudmila Antonyuk as Nina's mother
Gennadiy Yalovich as Nina's brother
Liya Akhedzhakova as Alla Kuznetsova
Mikhail Asafov as Velekhov
Sergey Dreyden as architect
Natalya Gundareva as Klava
Lyudmila Ivanova as switchman
Valentin Nikulin as a visitor to the bath
Raisa Ryazanova as weaver
References
Other websites
Soviet movies
1973 movies
Soviet drama movies
Embraer E-Jet family

The Embraer E-Jet family is a family of aircraft produced by Embraer in Brazil.
Versions
Embraer 170
The smallest Embraer E-Jets with up to 76 seats.
Embraer 175
The longer version of Embraer 170.
Embraer 190
The Embraer 190 have up to 106 passenger seats.
Embraer 195
The longer version of Embraer 190 and the biggest E-Jet.
E
Quakenbrück

Quakenbruck is a small town in Lower Saxony. It has about 13,000 inhabitants.
References
Other websites
Ragdoll Productions

Ragdoll Productions (or Ragdoll Ltd.) is an English television production company that produces children's television programmes. It was founded by Anne Wood in 1981, who later made many of their successful television programmes, seen (in the case of Teletubbies) in 111 countries and translated into 41 languages.
Pre/semi-post-Ragdoll productions
Puzzle Party - first aired in 1977.
The Book Tower - first aired in 1979.
Ragdolly Anna - first aired in 1982.
Roland Rat - first aired in 1983.
Button Moon - First aired in the early 1980s.
Moon and Me (also spelled as Moon & Me) - First aired in the late 2010s.
Ragdoll's productions
Television programmes
Today's Special (1981-1987)
Pob's Programme (1985-1990)
Playbox (1987-1992)
The Magic Mirror (1989)
Boom! (1990-1991)
Storytime (1990)
Rosie and Jim (1990-2000)
Brum (1991-2002)
Tots TV (1993-1998)
Open a Door (1994-2003)
Teletubbies (1997-2001; 2015-2018)
Teletubbies Everywhere (2002)
Boohbah (2003-2006)
The Backyardigans (2004-2013)
Blips (2005-2006)
In the Night Garden... (2007-2009)
Tronji (2009-2010)
Dipdap (2011)
The Adventures of Abney & Teal (2011-2012)
Twirlywoos (2015-2017)
B.O.T. and the Beasties (2021-present)
Ming Mang (2023-present)
You Are My Hero! (2023-present)
Kali and Polly (2023-present)
Geometry World (2023-present)
Poppie and Hoggie (2023-present)
The Kandy Kids (2023-present)
Sabra-Cadabra! (2023--present)
Zippie and Kippie (2024-present)
Movies
Badjelly the Witch (2000)
Lily in the City (2004)
What Makes Me Happy (2005)
Notes and references
Other websites
Ragdoll's Web site
Television
British entertainment companies
Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown is a 1946 American romantic comedy movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch and was based on the 1944 novel by Margery Sharp. It stars Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Helen Walker, Reginald Owen, Reginald Gardiner, C. Aubrey Smith, Peter Walker, Una O'Connor. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Other websites
1946 romantic comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies based on books
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Blonde Ambition

Blonde Ambition is a romantic comedy movie. This is about a small town girl who moves to New York City and becomes a businesswoman. Jessica Simpson plays Katie. Rachael Leigh Cook plays Haley, and Penelope Ann Miller plays Debra.
This movie was released in December of 2007. It did not do well at the box office.
2007 romantic comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Pseudopodia

Pseudopodia are temporary and cytoplasm-filled parts of the cell membrane that are able to change their form in order to move. They are used in some eukaryotic cells to move around or to eat. Most cells that do this are called amoeboids. The amoeba is a common example.
The cell wall makes a network of fibers. The cytoplasm flows into the network and fills it up, similar to a net filled with gelatin. This is able to move, lengthen, or shorten. The pseudopodia extends from the amoeba. Then the main part of the amoeba flows into that pseudopodia and the amoeba has changed its place.
Pseudopods are one of the three locomotion modes of unicellular organisms (together with flagella and cilia). Pseudopods can also capture prey by phagocytosis. Pseudopedia are used by some cells to move around. They can detect food and place it inside the cell. The human white blood cell uses this way to get around.
Pseudopods can be classified into several varieties according to their appearance:
Lobopodia are short and blunt in form, very typical of Amoeba.It uses pseudopodia to capture it's food and for movement
Filopodia are more slender and filiform with pointed ends.
Reticulopodia, also known as reticulose pseudopods, are complex formations where individual pseudopods are blended together and form irregular nets.
Axopodia are thin pseudopods and are enveloped by cytoplasm. Axopodia are responsible for phagocytosis, by rapidly retracting in response to physical contacts. They are observed in radiolaria and heliozoa.
Cell biology
Bridget Rowe

Bridget Rowe (16 March 1950 - 12 January 2021) was a British journalist.
Rowe was an Assistant Editor of The Sun, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the World'''s magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of Woman's Own.
Rowe edited the Sunday Mirror from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit The People. She was a panelist on the first series of Loose Women'' in 1999.
Rowe died on 12 January 2021 from COVID-19 at the age of 70.
References
1950 births
2021 deaths
British journalists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Yevgeny Bushmin

Yevgeny Viktorovich Bushmin (, 4 October 1958 - 6 October 2019) was a Russian politician. He was a Deputy of the 1st State Duma and Deputy Finance Minister. He was the member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly as the representative of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Bushmin died on 6 October 2019, two days after his 61st birthday, after a long-illness.
References
1958 births
2019 deaths
Russian politicians
Selja

Selja is a locality in Mora Municipality in Dalarna County in Sweden. In 2010, 548 people lived there.
References
Settlements in Dalarna County
Susie Q (song)

"Susie Q" is a song written by Dale Hawkins and was originally recorded in 1957. It went to number 16 in Canada.
Creedence Clearwater Revival version
Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded a version of "Susie Q" in 1968 for their debut studio album Creedence Clearwater Revival. It went to number 11 in the United States and number 10 in Canada. It has many versions of the song have existed over the years.
References
1957 songs
Psychedelic rock songs
Roots rock songs
Swamp rock songs
Acid rock songs
Creedence Clearwater Revival songs
The Rolling Stones songs
The Everly Brothers songs
Jose Feliciano songs
Suzi Quatro songs
Otakar Brousek, Sr.

Otakar Brousek (28 September 1924 - 14 March 2014) was a Czech actor and voice actor. He appeared in the movies Andelska tvar (2002), Svatby pana Voka (1971), and Muj bracha ma prima brachu (1975). He also appeared in the television show F. L. Vek in 1971. He was born in Krhanice, Czechoslovakia.
Brousek died on 14 March 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. He was 89 years old. He was outlived by his children, actors Otakar Brousek, Jr. and Jaroslava Brouskova.
References
Other websites
1924 births
2014 deaths
Czech movie actors
Czech stage actors
Czech television actors
Voice actors
Aberdeen, Idaho

Aberdeen is a city in the state of Idaho in the United States. It is in Bingham County. In 2010, there were 1,994 people living there.
Location
The United States Census Bureau says that the city is . All of this is land. There are no rivers, lakes, or other kinds of standing water in Aberdeen.
The city is at (42.943405, -112.839322),. It has an elevation (height) of above sea level.
Demographics
In the 2000 United States Census, there were 1,840 people living in Aberdeen. They made up 603 households and 435 families. The population density was 1,807.9 people per square mile (696.5 people/km2). The people of Aberdeen were 66.30% white, 0.11% black or African-American, 0.71% Native American, 0.33% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 28.91% other races, and 3.59% were two or more races. 39.29% of the people said they were Hispanic or Latino.
In 2010, there were 1,994 people living in Aberdeen. These people were 43.0% white, 0.1% black or African-American, 0.7% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 1.6% some other race, 1.5% two or more races, and 54.1% Hispanic or Latino.
Transportation
The city of Aberdeen owns the local airport. The Aberdeen Municipal Airport is about southwest of the central business district of Aberdeen.
Pocatello Regional Transit runs a shuttle bus between Aberdeen and Pocatello. The bus runs three times a day on weekdays and two times a day on weekends.
Education
Aberdeen Public Schools are part of the Aberdeen School District #58. The Aberdeen schools are:
Aberdeen Elementary School
Aberdeen Middle School
Aberdeen High School
The Superintendent of Schools is C.J. Ward.
Sources
Other websites
- City of Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Times - local newspaper
Cities in Idaho
Jarvis Island

Jarvis Island (; formerly known as Bunker Island) is an uninhabited island owned by the United States. The small island is a part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, a group of mostly uninhabited islands.
Jarvis Island was officially made part of the United States in 1858. People used to mine guano there, but they then abandoned it. The United States treats it as a nature reserve.
Located 25 miles south of the equator, Jarvis Island, is an uninhabited coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean. Jarvis has no known natural freshwater sources, and very little rain. This creates a very bleak, flat landscape with plants no larger than shrubs. Jarvis Island has no ports or docks, other than a reef the guano miners blew up in order for the cargo boats to be able to drop anchor. Its grass, vines and low-growing bushes are primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for wildlife. The island has a tropical desert climate, with high temperatures in the day, constant wind, and a very hot sun. There is no evidence that the island has ever supported a native human population, but on August 30, 1913, the Amaranth was carrying a cargo of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales, to San Francisco when it crashed on Jarvis' southern shore. Ruins of ten wooden buildings, and a two-story house among them, could still be seen by the Amaranth crew, who left Jarvis aboard two lifeboats. Also, Settlers were moved to Jarvis Island in 1935 to maintain a weather station and plan a landing field. A settlement called Millersville was established on the west coast of the island because of it was the highest elevation. The Japanese shelled the island in 1942 and the men living on Jarvis were evacuated soon afterward. The United States claimed possession of Jarvis under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. The Act gave American citizens the right to claim any unclaimed, uninhabited islands for the purpose of mining guano. Because at the time guano was a very valuable asset used for fertilizer.
References
Other websites
Jarvis Island Home Page Website with photos, weather, and more.
Jarvis Island information website Has several photos of the old Millersville settlement, together with more modern photos of the island.
WorldStatesmen Offers brief data on Jarvis island.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge The Jarvis Island refuge site.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Pacific islands
Islands of Oceania
Uninhabited regions
Achillobator

Achillobator is a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period of what is now Mongolia. It lived about 90 million years ago.
It was probably an active predator, hunting with the large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot. It was a large dromaeosaurid: the first and only individual specimen found is estimated at being 5 meters (17 feet) long. The name comes from Achilles, a famous ancient Greek warrior of the Trojan War. It refers to the large Achilles tendon needed to use the sickle claw on the foot, which was the major weapon of dromaeosaurids. The one species is named A. giganticus because it is much larger than other dromaeosaurids.
Dromaeosauridae
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Carbon-Blanc

Carbon-Blanc is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Communes in Gironde
Singapore strategy

The Singapore strategy was a strategy about defending the British Empire in the Asian Far East, mainly against the Empire of Japan. The strategy involved a number of different plans and stages, developed between 1919 and 1941. The basic idea was to base a fleet of ships in the Far East. This fleet could then be used to stop and defeat a Japanese force heading towards India or Australia. In 1919, Singapore was chosen because of its strategic location at the end of the Strait of Malacca.
The planners thought that a war with Japan would have three phases: while the garrison of Singapore defended the fortress, the fleet would make its way to Singapore, so that it could relieve or recapture Hong Kong. The fleet could also impose a blockade on the Japanese home islands, which would force the Japanese to accept terms. The planners did not think it was practical to invade Japan. The planners also thought that the Japanese would fight a naval battle. Japan consists of many islands. The planners therefore thought that economic pressure would be enough.
The Singapore strategy was the cornerstone of British Imperial defence policy in the Far East during the 1920s and 1930s. By 1937, according to Captain Stephen Roskill, "the concept of the 'Main Fleet to Singapore' had, perhaps through constant repetition, assumed something of the inviolability of Holy Writ". With the time, many problems became apparent. One of the problems was that implementing the strategy cost a lot of money. Other difficulties were of a political or practical nature. Because of all these problems, the strategy could not be implemented. During the 1930s, the strategy was constantly criticised in Britain and abroad. Australia used the strategy to spend as little money as possible on the defence of the country. The strategy ultimately led to the despatch of Force Z to Singapore and the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese air attack on 10 December 1941. The subsequent ignominious fall of Singapore was described by Winston Churchill as "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". The Japanese Occupation of Singapore began.
References
Further reading
British Empire
20th century in Singapore
Norbert Walter-Borjans

Norbert Walter-Borjans (born 17 September 1952) is a German economist and politician. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He has been leader of the SPD since December 2019 and has minister of finance of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017.
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Living people
1952 births
German economists
German politicians
Shimabara Rebellion

Shimabara Rebellion, was an uprising in southwestern Japan. It lasted from December 17, 1637 until April 15, 1638, during the Edo period. It largely involved peasants, most of them Catholic Christians.
1630s
Rebellions in Asia
17th century in Japan
Misao Okawa

was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person since the death of 116-year-old Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura on 12 June 2013 until her own death on 1 April 2015. She was the world's oldest living woman since the death of 115-year-old Japanese woman Koto Okubo on 12 January 2013 until 1 April 2015. She was the oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever, until being exceed the record by Nabi Tajima in 2017.
Biography
Okawa was born on 5 March 1898, in the Tenma district (present-day Kita-ku) of Osaka, and in her latter years lived at a nursing home in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. She married Yukio in 1919, and had three children, two of whom were still alive at the time of her death. She also had four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Longevity
On 27 February 2013, a few days before her 115th birthday, Misao Okawa was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest living woman in the world, and was presented with a certificate at her nursing home in Osaka.
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1898 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Japanese supercentenarians
People from Osaka
World record holders
Greensburg, Louisiana

Greensburg is the parish seat of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, United States. it is the most populous municipality in St. Helena Parish.
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Towns in Louisiana
Parish seats in Louisiana
Settlements in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
Lincoln County, Maine

Lincoln County is a county in the state of Maine, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 35,237. The county seat is Wiscasset.
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18th-century establishments in Maine
1760s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Maine counties
The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin () is a Belgian comic strip, created by Herge (Georges Remi) starting in the late 1920s and into the 1970s. They were originally written and published in French, but have been translated into many languages and are popular around the world.
Plot and characters
The stories center around a young reporter from Belgium named Tintin, who travels the world and has many exciting adventures with his dog, a white wire fox terrier named Snowy (Milou, in French) and later (starting with The Crab with the Golden Claws in 1941) his friend, Captain Haddock, a bearded drunk with a temper. Other popular characters include Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) an absent-minded and mostly deaf (but he insists he's hard of hearing) scientist and inventor, and Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont), two silly detectives.
The Books
The stories are a mixture of many different genres, including adventure, satire, and social commentary and changed over time. The first story, Tintin in the Land of Soviets came out in 1929, and the last fully completed story, Tintin and the Picaros, came out in 1976. Another story, Tintin in Alph-Art, was never officially finished following the death of Herge in 1983. There have been many unofficial books, but most of those are parodies or not part of the official series. The books in the official series are:
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - (1929-1930)
Tintin in the Congo - (1930-1931)
Tintin in America - (1931-1932)
Cigars of the Pharaoh - (1932-1934)
The Blue Lotus - (1934-1935)
The Broken Ear - (1935-1937)
The Black Island - (1937-1938)
King Ottokar's Sceptre - (1938-1939)
The Crab with the Golden Claws - (1940-1941)
The Shooting Star - (1941-1942)
The Secret of the Unicorn - (1942-1943)
Red Rackham's Treasure - (1943-1944)
The Seven Crystal Balls - (1943-1948)
Prisoners of the Sun - (1946-1949)
Land of Black Gold - (1948-1950)
Destination Moon - (1950-1953)
Explorers on the Moon - (1950-1954)
The Calculus Affair - (1954-1956)
The Red Sea Sharks - (1958)
Tintin in Tibet - (1960)
The Castafiore Emerald - (1963)
Flight 714 - (1968)
Tintin and the Picaros - (1976)
Tintin and Alph-Art - (finished by someone else in 1986)
Other media
There have also been plays, films, and animated cartoons based on the stories. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have made a movie about Tintin. There are also Tintin Shops in Europe, which sell books, toys, and other items based on the books.
Related pages
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
Other websites
Official site
Fan site
Objectif Tintin
Comic books
Alicia Alonso

Alicia Alonso (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad Martinez Hoya; 21 December 1921 - 17 October 2019) was a Cuban ballerina and choreographer. She was known for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen.
Alonso died in Havana on 17 October 2019 at the age of 98.
References
Other websites
Alicia Alonso profile, UNESCO.org; accessed 5 May 2014.
1921 births
2019 deaths
Cuban entertainers
Ballerinas
Choreographers
People from Havana
Lee Wallace

Lee Wallace (born Leo Melis, July 15, 1930 - December 20, 2020) was an American movie, stage, radio and television actor. Wallace only had movie roles in; Used People (1992), Batman (1989) as Gotham City's mayor William Borg, Private Benjamin (1980) as Mr. Waxman, and as the Mayor of New York City in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Muppets Take Manhattan as the Mayor of New York City. On Broadway, he appeared in A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, Unlikely Heroes, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, Molly, Zalmen or The Madness of God, Some of My Best Friends, Grind and The Cemetery Club.
Wallace was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 15, 1930 to Celia (nee Gross) and Eddie Melis. Wallace died on December 20, 2020 at his New York City home after a long-illness, aged 90.
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Other websites
1930 births
American television actors
American movie actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Actors from New York City
2020 deaths
AMX-10RC

The AMX-10RC is a modern reconnaissance battle tank. It was built for use in the French army, and has been exported to three countries.
Related pages
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Tanks
Military of France
Lower Andes tree frog

The lower Andes tree frog (Boana melanopleura) is a frog that lives in Peru. Scientists have only seen it in two places in the Andes Mountains, 2080 meters above sea level.
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Frogs of South America
Procaine

Procaine is a analgesic drug. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of getting certain shots, and is also used by dentists. The drug is usually sold under the name Novocaine, or Novacaine.
Procaine was first made in 1905, and was the first man-made pain-killer that could be taken as a shot. It was created by the German scientist Alfred Einhorn (1857-1917) who gave the chemical the name Novacaine, from the Latin word novus (which means new) and caine, as in "cocaine."
Procaine is not often used today because other safer and better working pain-killing drugs now exist. Prior to the discovery of procaine, cocaine was the most commonly used pain-killer. Procaine (like cocaine) has the advantage of reducing bleeding, unlike other pain-killers and without the dangerous qualities of cocaine.
Analgesics
Esters
Organonitrogen compounds
Bob Andras

Robert Knight "Bob" Andras (21 February 1921 - 17 November 1982) was a Canadian politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1965 to 1980. He was a part of the Liberal Party during this time. He represented two electoral areas in Ontario. They were Port Arthur and Thunder Bay--Nipigon. Andras was from Lachine, Quebec. He moved to Port Arthur, Ontario to work in a car dealership.
As a politician, Andras was a part of the cabinet of Canada many different times. Most of the time, this was when Pierre Trudeau was the Prime Minister. He was Minister without Portfolio from 1968 to 1971, Minister of State for Urban Affairs from 1971 to 1972, the Minister of Status of Women from 1971 to 1974, Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in 1972, Minister of Manpower and Immigration from 1972 to 1976, President of the Treasury Board from 1976 to 1978, and Minister of State for Economic Development from 1978 to 1979. For the 1980 federal election, he said he wouldn't try to be elected again.
One of the most important things Andras did was help the Immigration Act, 1976 become a law. This was when he was the Minister of Manpower and Immigration. The law replaced the Immigration Act of 1952. The law made sure that there was a minimum amount of immigrants Canada let in, and that immigrants would be let in without discriminating on their ethnicity, gender, or country they came from. Andras also tried to work with Jean Chretien to help with making public policy of the First Nations people.
Andras died on 17 November 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia. This is after he fought cancer for a year.
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Other websites
1921 births
1982 deaths
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Cancer deaths in British Columbia
Politicians from Ontario
Megadiverse countries

A Megadiverse Country is a Nation that has many species of plants or animals, for a nation to be considered Megadiverse needs to have at least 5000 of the world's plants as endemics, it also needs to have marine ecosystems within its maritime borders. there are 17 megadiverse countries on Earth, these 17 countries are: Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines South Africa, United States, and Venezuela.
Geography
Countries
Prime Minister of Malaysia

The Prime Minister of Malaysia (; ) is the head of government and the highest political office in Malaysia. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong appoints Prime Minister as a Member of Parliament (MP). The Prime Minister chairs the Cabinet of Malaysia, the de facto executive branch of government.
List of prime ministers of Malaysia
Colour key (for political coalitions/parties):
Notes
References
Li Ruihuan

Li Ruihuan (; born 17 September 1934) is a retired Chinese politician who served as a 6th Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1993 to 2003.
Other websites
Vitae
1934 births
Living people
Chinese politicians
2011 United Kingdom census

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online. The Office for National Statistics is responsible for the census in England and Wales, the General Register Office for Scotland is responsible in Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency is responsible in Northern Ireland.
The 2011 census for England and Wales included around 25 million households. Forms were posted out to all households, using a national address register compiled by the Office for National Statistics with the help of local authorities. Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract to provide services for the census: printing, a contact centre and data capture and processing. The contract was for PS150 million, about one third of the total PS482 million cost. Some people called for a boycott of the census over the involvement of Lockheed Martin, but as the Census is used to distribute money to local services a council may lose PS22,000 over 10 years for each person who does not complete it.
35,000 people were employed to help collect the forms.
There were 56 questions. Several were new. It asked immigrants their date of arrival and how long they intended to stay in the UK. There were tick boxes for same-sex civil partnerships. National identity included English and Welsh. Ethnicity included Gypsy or Irish Traveller and Arab. People were asked how well they could speak English. There was a question about the number of bedrooms a household has, as well as the names, gender and birth dates of any overnight guests.
The questions in Scotland and Northern Ireland were slightly different from those in England.
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2011 in the United Kingdom
Censuses in the United Kingdom
Clutier, Iowa

Clutier is a city in Iowa in the United States.
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Cities in Iowa
Kurt Schuschnigg

Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg (1897-1977, until 1919, Edler von Schuschnigg) was the 15th Chancellor of Austria. He was in office between the assassination of his predecessor, Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934, and the annexation of Austria in 1938. The time of Dollfuss' and Schuschnigg's reign is known as Austrofascism today. He survived the war as a prisoner. After the war, he took US citizenship, and became a professor for state law in the United States. In 1968, he returned to Austria, where he died in 1977.
Schuschnigg studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Innsbruck. The nazi Otto Planetta killed Dollfuss, in 1934, in an event that is known as July putsch today. During the war, the NSDAP saw Planetta as a hero. Schuschnigg became the next Chancellor, and at age 36, is the youngest person to become chanellor to this date.
Schuschnigg was a conservative and an Austrian nationalist. He also supported the idea of Austria as a catholic nation. During his time in office, he was opposed to the idea of Austria becoming a part of Germany. Adolf Hitler began to make show aggression towards Austria in the later 1930s. Schuschnigg planned a referendum on the issue, and this was strongly opposed by the Nazis. In his last major speech, he gave an emotional appeal to Austrian independence and nationalism, finishing with the line "Red White Red, until we're dead!" (referring to the colors of the Austrian flag). Schuschnigg was forced to step down on 11th March 1938, and to hand power to Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart. One day later, Austria was annexed to Germany.
Schuschnigg was arrested by the Gestapo soon after this. He was sent to the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp, where he spent most of the war. After Dachau was liberated by allied armed forces he moved to the United States. He wrote books on his political career and worked in academia in the US. In 1968 he retired from being a professor and retired to Austria, where he died of natural causes in 1977.
1897 births
1977 deaths
Academics from Missouri
American political scientists
Austrian people of World War II
Chancellors of Austria
Government ministers of Austria
Holocaust survivors
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Jeffrén Suárez

Jeffren Suarez (born 20 January 1988) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Barcelona.
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1988 births
Living people
Spanish footballers
HD 100546

HD 100546 or KR Muscae is a star. It is a pre-main-sequence star. It is 361.4 light-years away from the Earth. In the night sky, it is in the constellation of Musca. It has one planet. The plant is 6.5 AU away from HD 100546. The star has a disks of dust and rocks around it. One of these disk is 0.2 to 4 AU from the star and another is 13 AU out to a few hundred AU. Scientists think there might be a protoplanet between these two circumstellar disks, around 47 AU from the star.
Scientists believe this star is 10 million years old.
Planetary system
The planetary system contains at least 3 members: HD 100546, b and a protoplanet forming in denser regions of the circumstellar disks (c).
HD 100546 b
HD 100546 b or KR Muscae b is a large gas giant exoplanet or a sub-brown dwarf star orbiting HD 100546 6.5 AU away from its host star. HD 100546 b might be the largest exoplanet discovered because it is exactly 7.0560720927 times the diameter of Jupiter which is 986,580 km.
Protoplanet
The Hubble Space Telescope observed a complex spiral patterns in the circumstellar disks. The young protoplanet designated HD 100546 c or KR Muscae C is a possible exoplanet forming 47 AU away from the host star. It has the temperature of 227 K (or -46.15degC).
References
Stars
Władysław Szpilman

Wladyslaw "Wladek" Szpilman (; 5 December 19116 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer.
Szpilman is known as the main character of the Roman Polanski movie The Pianist (2002). This movie is based on the book of the same name. It recounts Polanski's survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
Szpilman died in Warsaw, Poland on 6 July 2000 at the age of 88.
Other websites
Wladyslaw Szpilman information and biography
In Loving Memory Of Wladyslaw Szpilman
Information on Szpilman's works at Boosey & Hawkes
"Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Interview with Dr. Halina Grzecznarowska-Szpilman, widow of Wladyslaw Szpilman, first part
Interview with Dr. Halina Grzecznarowska Szpilman, widow of Wladyslaw Szpilman, second part
Wladyslaw Szpilman at culture.pl
Information on Wladyslaw Szpilman at Polish Biographical Dictionary by Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow 2013
Uri Caine - performance of songs by Wladislaw Szpilman
1911 births
2000 deaths
Polish composers
Polish writers
Holocaust survivors
Polish pianists