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Ratatoskr

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is a squirrel that lives on the tree Yggdrasil. Ratatoskr carries messages between the eagle at the top of Yggdrasil, and the serpent Nidhoggr, at the bottom. Ratatoskr occurs both in the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. The Poetic Edda is a collection of earlier stories. It was written in the 13th century. The Prose Edda was also written in the 13th century.
Attestations
In the Poetic Edda poem Grimnismal, the god Odin (disguised as Grimnir) says that Ratatoskr runs up and down Yggdrasil bringing messages between the eagle perched atop it and Nidhoggr below it:
Ratatoskr is described in the Prose Eddas Gylfaginning chapter 16, in which High states that
An eagle sits at the top of the ash, and it has knowledge of many things. Between its eyes sits the hawk called Vedrfolnir [...]. The squirrel called Ratatosk [...] runs up and down the ash. He tells slanderous gossip, provoking the eagle and Nidhogg.
References
Bellows, Henry Adams (Trans.) (1936). The Poetic Edda. Princeton University Press. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2005). The Prose Edda. Penguin Classics.
Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis (1993). The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe. Routledge.
Gudbrandur Vigfusson (1874). An Icelandic-English Dictionary: Based on the Ms. Collections of the Late Richard Cleasby. Clarendon Press.
Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press.
Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell.
Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. D.S. Brewer
Sturtevant, Albert Morey (1956). "Three Old Norse Words: Gamban, Ratatoskr, and Gymir" as collected in Sturtevant, Albert Morey (Editor) (1956). Scandinavian Studies''', August 1956, volume 28, number 3.
Thorington Jr. Richard W. and Ferrell, Katie (2006). Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Thorpe, Benjamin (Trans.) (1907). The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson''. Norroena Society.
Norse mythology
Jexi

Jexi is a 2019 American-Canadian romantic comedy movie written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The movie stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Pena, Rose Byrne, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Ron Funches, and Charlyne Yi.
The movie is about a self-aware phone that becomes emotionally attached to its socially awkward owner in San Francisco.
Jexi was released on October 11, 2019 in the United States by CBS Films and Lionsgate. It has an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
References
2019 romance movies
2019 comedy movies
2010s romantic comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Canadian romance movies
Canadian comedy movies
Movies set in San Francisco
Lionsgate movies
Boomerang (Latin American TV channel)

Boomerang was a 24-hour cable television channel. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division.
Logo history
Related pages
Boomerang (TV network)
Boomerang (British and Irish TV channel)
Cartoon Network (Latin American TV channel)
Cartoonito (brand)
Cartoonito (Latin American TV channel)
Tooncast
Other websites
Boomerang Latin America Archived official website (Archived on 15 May 2021)
References
2021 disestablishments
A Flash of Light (movie)

A Flash of Light is a 1910 American silent drama movie directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Charles West, Vivian Prescott, and Stephanie Longfellow.
Actors
Charles West as John Rogers
Vivian Prescott as Belle
Stephanie Longfellow as The Older Sister
Verner Clarges as The Father
Joseph Graybill as Horace Dooley
Dorothy Bernard
William J. Butler as A Doctor
Charles Craig as Wedding Guest
Edward Dillon as At First Party
John T. Dillon as At First Party / At Second Party (as Jack Dillon)
Ruth Hart as At Second Party
References
Other websites
American movies
1910 movies
1910s drama movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
Movies directed by D. W. Griffith
Jan Jönsson

Jan Jonsson (born May 24, 1960) is a former Swedish football player.
Club career statistics
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1960 births
Living people
Swedish footballers
Petersdorf, Bavaria

Petersdorf () is a municipality in Aichach-Friedberg, a district (Landkreis) in Swabia.
References
Aichach-Friedberg
Ana María Vela Rubio

Ana Maria Vela Rubio (29 October 1901 - 15 December 2017), was a Spanish supercentenarian. She is the oldest verified Spaniard ever from 6 June 2016, however now Maria Branyas Morera is holding the record for the oldest person to have ever lived in Spain. Vela Rubio was also the third-oldest living person in the world, behind Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako.
Biography
Vela Rubio was born 29 October 1901 in Puente Genil, Andalusia. She used to work as a dressmaker. She never married her partner as her parents did not agree to their marrying, but the couple had two children. Her daughter, also named Ana, lives with her.
She became the oldest European since the death of oldest person Emma Morano on 15 April 2017.
She died on 15 December 2017. Vela Rubio was succeeded as the Europe's oldest living person by Giuseppina Projetto-Frau of Italy.
References
1901 births
2017 deaths
People from Andalusia
Spanish supercentenarians
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic was a Soviet socialist republic from 1940-1941 and 1944-1989. It is today part of Lithuania.
Related pages
History of Lithuania
People's Seimas
People's Government of Lithuania
Lithuanian People's Army
References
1940s in the Soviet Union
1950s in the Soviet Union
1960s in Europe
1970s in Europe
1980s in the Soviet Union
1990s in the Soviet Union
20th century in Europe
1940 establishments in Europe
1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
1940s establishments in the Soviet Union
Republics of the Soviet Union
History of Lithuania
Government of Lithuania
Emma's Shadow

Emma's Shadow () is a 1988 Danish drama movie directed by Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. It stars Line Kruse, Borje Ahlstedt, Inge Sofie Skovbo, Henrik Larsen, Ken Vedsegaard and Bent N. Steinert.
Other websites
1988 drama movies
Danish drama movies
Movies directed by Soren Kragh-Jacobsen
Sunspot

A sunspot is an area of high magnetic activity, on the surface of the Sun. Sunspots produce bright light, but not as much as the surface around them, so they appear dark by comparison. They are cooler than the rest of the sun. Some are small, and some are ten times bigger than Earth.
A sunspot cycle of eleven years has been found, with changes in activity. Every 11 years the number of sunspots increases, and later declines. Sunspots on one cycle are magnetically different from the next, so the total sunspot cycle is 22 years. This cycle has been seen since the 18th century. Before that time, for over a hundred years, there were very few sunspots. Astronomers do not know what caused this "Maunder Minimum".
History
Chinese astronomers said they could see sunspots. On 17 March 802 the monk Adelmus saw a big sunspot, which he could see for eight days. Adelmus thought that Mercury was going in front of the Sun and making a black spot. When astronomers started using telescopes, most agreed that something was passing in front of the Sun. Galileo Galilei in 1612 guessed that there were actual spots on the Sun and that they showed that the Sun was turning.
The first cyclic changes of sunspots was seen by Heinrich Schwabe, and made Rudolf Wolf study them carefully, starting in 1848. Also in 1848, Joseph Henry showed a picture of the Sun and made sure that sunspots were cooler than the rest of the Sun (they are about 7000 degrees Fahrenheit, 4000 C). They are still very hot, but much cooler than the rest of the Sun's surface.
Effect on Earth
Sunspots are cooler than the rest of the Sun. But many scientists think that when there are many sunspots, the Sun actually gets hotter. This affects the weather here on Earth, and also radio reception. If this is true, then without sunspots, the Earth might become cooler. In the same way, if there were more sunspots, the Earth might become hotter, and there could be less rain. This would make more droughts on the Earth. Droughts are a long time with no rain. Without rain, crops that people eat would not grow. Scientists study sunspots and other solar phenomena, so they can know what they do to Earth. The temperature of a sunspot is 4780degK. This is cold when compared to other areas on the surface of sun.
References
Other websites
"Sunspots" at Exploratorium
Sunspot data at NASA Online
Weather
Sun
Astrophysics
Super League Greece

Super League Greece () is the top division football league in Greece. The current version was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced the Alpha Ethniki. The first championship was won by Aris Thessaloniki. The club which has won the most championships is Olympiacos with 47 titles, next is Panathinaikos with 20 titles and third is AEK Athens with 12 titles. The league currently has 14 teams.
Clubs 2022-23
Other websites
Superleague Greece Official Website
Superleague Statistics
Football scores for Greek Football Leagues
Football leagues in Europe
VooV Festival

VooV (formerly known as VuuV Experience) is an annual music festival with about 10,000 to 20,000 visitors.
It was launched in the year 1992. It is one of the oldest rave parties in Germany. From a small party with about 100 people it is now one of the biggest rave parties in Europe. After several moves, was VuuV's place since 2001 in Putlitz. In 2007 they moved back to Antaro which was the place they made the greatest feasts.
Sources
Official website
Music festivals
Festivals in Germany
1992 establishments in Germany
Organisations based in Germany
Gerry Harris

Gerald William Harris (8 October 1935 - 28 July 2020) was an English professional footballer. He spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom he won two league championships and the FA Cup.
Harris died on July 28, 2020, at the age of 84.
References
1935 births
2020 deaths
People from Shropshire
English footballers
Essex, Connecticut

Essex is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
Towns in Connecticut
Charles Barkley

Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" for his aggressive and outspoken behavior, and "The Round Mound of Rebound" for his unusual build and talent as a player, Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) most dominating power forwards.
For a power forward, Barkley had an extremely versatile offensive game. He was not considered a great player at the defensive end. He is referred to as Chuck Barkley by many of his friends.
Barkley had many nicknames over the course of his college and pro career, making him one of the basketball players, and persons, with the most nicknames. Some of the other nicknames include "The Chuckster" and "The Chuck Wagon". Barkley is regarded as one of the best rebounders in the history of the game.
Many people view him as the greatest player who did not win an NBA championship during his career, although others argue for players such as Karl Malone, John Stockton and Patrick Ewing. Often considered the best power forward in the league (NBA), people did not agree with his totalitarian views. He is an analyst on the television show Inside the NBA. The program features host Ernie Johnson with analysts Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal.
Other websites
Charles Barkley: NBA.com Profile
Charles Barkley: NBA.com historical playerfile
Charles Barkley: NBA.com Historical Biography
Charles Barkley: Hall of Fame Profile
1963 births
African-American basketball players
Living people
Houston Rockets players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Phoenix Suns players
Sportspeople from Alabama
National Basketball Association players with retired numbers
American basketball players
Space Jam characters
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
Charles Warrington

Glenn Ruth (born May 28, 1971 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) is a retired American professional wrestler who was best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring names, Chaz and Mosh. Warringon was also one half of the tag team, The Headbangers, along with Thrasher.
He is currently a Sales Director for DEX Imaging in Tampa, Florida. He also plays outfield for the nationally-ranked Fort Lauderdale professional kickball team "The Meatballs".
Championships
Warrington held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Hardkore Championship Wrestling
2004 HCW Incredible 8 Tournament Semi-Finalist
Heartland Wrestling Association
HWA Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
Insane Championship Wrestling
ICW Streetfight Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
Main Event Championship Wrestling
MECW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
Maryland Championship Wrestling
MCW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
MCW Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
Maximum Xtreme Pro Wrestling
MXPW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
National Wrestling Alliance
NWA World Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
New England Wrestling Federation
NEWF Tag Team Championship (three times) with Thrasher
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #104 of the Top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1997.
Texas Wrestling Alliance
TWA Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
World Wrestling Alliance (WWA New Jersey)
WWA Heavyweight Championship
World Wrestling Federation
WWF Tag Team Championship (one time) with Thrasher
References
Other websites
1962 births
Living people
Former WWE wrestlers
American professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from New Jersey
Sanghar Taluka

Sanghar Taluka () is a subdivision of Sanghar District in the province of Sindh in Pakistan. The city of Sanghar is the capital.
References
Talukas of Sindh
Česká Třebová

Ceska Trebova () is a town of the Usti nad Orlici District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 15,000 people living there.
References
Other websites
Official website
Towns in the Czech Republic
Pardubice Region
Kipper the Dog

Kipper the Dog is a character in a series of books for preschool age children by a British writer, Mick Inkpen. The books consist of 34 titles (as of July 2005), which have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. The books have also won many awards.
Kipper (the Dog) is also the name of a British animated television series based on the same characters. In some cases, the episodes are specifically based on particular stories by Mick Inkpen. The videos have won awards including a BAFTA award for best children's animation. The show was broadcast from 1997 to 2000 on CITV and Nick Jr.. It currently airs on Sprout. It took a break for a while from CITV until it was repeat on Christmas Eve 2003 showing the 'Christmas Eve' episode and repeated for most of 2004. Kipper has not been on CITV since then.
The show was released on VHS and DVD by HIT Entertainment, but the episodes were not in order.
1997 television series debuts
1990s British television series debuts
British animated television series
Fictional characters
1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
Division of Aston

The Division of Aston is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It was created in 1984 and is named for Tilly Aston. Aston was a blind writer and teacher who helped setup the Library of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers in 1894. Aston is in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, including Rowville, Scoresby, Knoxfield, Vermont and Wantirna.
Members
In 2013, Alan Tudge was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.
Election results
References
Other websites
Division of Aston - Australian Electoral Commission
Alan Tudge's website
Electoral divisions of Australia
Victoria, Australia
1984 establishments in Australia
Lee Jung-hee

Lee Jung-hee (; , Yi Jeong-hee, born December 22, 1969 Seoul) is a South Korean human rights activist, politician, lawyer and feminist. She was a member of the 18th National Assembly of South Korea.
Life
Lee was a graduate of Seomun Women's Middle School and Seomun Women's High School. Later, she studied at Seoul National University, Department of Law.
In 1996, Lee passed the 38th lawyers exam. She became more active in advocating freedom, human rights, women rights. In 2006, Lee joined the Democratic Labor Party. In 2008, she was elected to the 18th session of the Korean National Assembly.
In 2007 she joined the Democratic Labor Party.
In 2008, she was elected vice leader of the Democratic Labor Party and in 2009, leader of the Democratic Labor Party. In 2012, her participation was found to Integrate progressives Partys. That year, she was a candidate for South Korea's 18th presidential election. But she was defeated by Park Geun-hye.
References
Lee Jung-hee
Lee Jung-hee
1969 births
Feminists
Lawyers
Politicians from Seoul
South Korean human rights activists
Autobiographers
Living people
Neeraj Chopra

Neeraj Chopra (born December 24, 1997) is an Indian track and field athlete. He is a champion in the javelin throw. He is the first Indian track and field athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Chopra hails from Khandra village in Panipat, Haryana.
References
1997 births
Living people
Indian athletes
Indian Olympic gold medalists
Javelin throwers
Independence Day (Indonesia)

Independence Day is a national holiday in Indonesia. It is celebrated every 17 August. It commemorates the declaration of Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945.
August events
National days
Indonesia
Tägertschi

Tagertschi was a municipality of the administrative district Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017, the former municipality of Tagertschi merged into the municipality of Munsingen.
References
Other websites
Former municipalities of Bern
Decimal separator

The decimal separator is a symbol used to mark the border between the integer and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral. This symbol can be a period ("."), as is common in United States and other English-speaking countries, or a comma (","), as in continental Europe. Decimal point and decimal comma are also common names for the decimal separator. For example, 9.5 means nine and one half in English speaking countries, while in many European countries, the same number might be written as 9,5.
Related pages
Arithmetic precision
Decimal degrees
Dewey Decimal System
References
Mathematics
Jeremy Pargo

Jeremy Pargo is an American professional basketball player. He went to Gonzaga University. He plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.
Memphis Grizzlies players
1986 births
Living people
Cleveland Cavaliers players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Sportspeople from Chicago
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler

Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (Margaretha Desiree Victoria; born 31 October 1934), is a Swedish princess. She is the eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and also a first cousin of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Early life
Margaretha was born on 31 October 1934 at Haga Palace in Haga Park, Stockholm, as the first child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, and his wife, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She was born during the reign of her paternal great-grandfather King Gustav V of Sweden. In January 1947, her father died in an airplane crash.
Although the eldest child, as a female, she was never in line to the throne according to the Swedish constitution current at the time. She was educated privately at the Haga Palace and then at the Stockholm dressmaking school, Marthaskolan (Martha School).
Marriage
She met her future husband, businessman John Ambler, at a dinner party in the United Kingdom in 1963. Their engagement was announced on 28 February 1964. They were married on 30 June 1964, in Gardslosa Church, on the island of Oland. The Princess wore a wedding gown from the Stockholm couture school, Marthaskolan, where she had previously been a student, and a traditional wedding crown from Oland.
As a result of her unequal marriage, she lost her style of Royal Highness and the King gave her the courtesy title of Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler. Under the Swedish constitution of that time, she, as a woman, and her descendants were not able to inherit the throne. As a result, they still are not.
Ambler and her husband separated in 1994, but never divorced. He died on 31 May 2008.
Margaretha and John Ambler's marriage produced three children: Sybilla (b. 1965), Edward (b. 1966), and James (b. 1969). Her daughter married Baron Henning von Dincklage and has two children, of whom Madeleine Charlotte Margaretha von Dincklage is the goddaughter of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and was a bridesmaid at her wedding.
Titles and styles
31 October 1934 - 30 June 1964: Her Royal Highness Princess Margaretha of Sweden
30 June 1964 - present: Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler
Ancestry
References
1934 births
Living people
Margaretha 1934
House of Bernadotte
Disinherited European royalty
They Conquer the Skies

They Conquer the Skies () is a 1963 Soviet drama movie directed by Tatyana Lioznova. It stars Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Sedov, and Svetlana Svetlichnaya.
Actors
Nikolay Rybnikov as Kolchin
Vladimir Sedov as Sharov
Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Nina Kolchina
Yevgeny Yevstigneev as Main designer
Oleg Zhakov as Basargin
References
Other websites
1963 drama movies
Soviet drama movies
Movies directed by Tatyana Lioznova
Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is an American movie festival that takes place every year in Utah. It is one of the largest independent movie festivals in the United States.
The festival is held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and at the Sundance Resort. It is an event for new work from American and international independent movie makers. The festival has competition for American and international drama and documentary movies, feature films and short films.
2015
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place January 22 to February 1, 2015. What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival. A comedy-drama movie, Grandma, was the closing night movie. It stars Lily Tomlin.
Success of festival
Many notable independent movie makers first got noticed at Sundance, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Field, David O. Russell, Steve James, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, James Wan, Edward Burns, and Jim Jarmusch.
The festival has also given more attention and a larger audience to such movies as Saw, Super Troopers, The Blair Witch Project, Spanking the Monkey, Reservoir Dogs, Primer, Little Miss Sunshine, Clerks, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Brothers McMullen, Afternoon Delight, Napoleon Dynamite, and Whiplash.
References
Further reading
Anderson, John. Sundancing: Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Biskind, Peter. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Craig, Benjamin. Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide. Cinemagine Media Publishing, 2004.
Smith, Lory. Party in a Box: The Story of the Sundance Film Festival . Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1999.
von Roon, Alexander. "Grass and dark Tunnels: Sundance is a Marketing-Tool for the US Film Industry", Berliner Zeitung 2000.
Other websites
- official site
Sundance: A Festival Virgin's Guide - detailed festival history and information for attendees
Movie festivals
Park City, Utah
1978 establishments in the United States
The Good Companions (1957 movie)

The Good Companions is a 1957 British musical movie directed by J. Lee Thompson and was based on the 1929 novel of the same name by J. B. Priestley and was the remake of the 1933 movie of the same name. It stars Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Janette Scott, John Fraser, Joyce Grenfell, Rachel Roberts, Shirley Anne Field.
Other websites
1957 musical movies
British musical movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by J. Lee Thompson
Rajadell

Rajadell is a municipality in the comarca of Bages, Province of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain.
It has an area of 45.46 km2 and a population of 550 people.
Municipalities in Catalonia
Raigh Roe

Dame Raigh Edith Roe (nee Kurts; 12 December 1922 - November 2014) was an Australian farmer. She was an advocate for rural women in Australia and around the world. She was member of the Country Women's Association (CWA) from 1941. She held many roles in the CWA before becoming the national president. She was World President of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) from 1977 to 1980. In this role, she represented almost nine million women in 74 countries around the world. In 1977, she was named Australian of the Year with Sir Murray Tyrrell. In 1978, she became a commissioner for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). In 1980, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).
Roe was born in Western Australia. She was married to James Arthur Roe. The couple had three sons. She died in November 2014, at the age of 91.
References
Other websites
Associated Country Women of the World
1922 births
2014 deaths
Australian activists
Knights and Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
People from Western Australia
Stanislas Konarski

Stanislaw Konarski, Sch.P. (actual name: Hieronim Konarski; 30 September 1700 - 3 August 1773) was a Polish teacher and writer. He wrote political books, poems, and plays. He was a monk - member of the order of Piarists; he brought the Enlightenment in Poland.
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Between 1725 and 1727 Konarski learned at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric - the art of good speaking. After that, in order to make better his own learning, he traveled through France, Germany and Austria. In 1730 he went back to Poland and began to work on a new text of Polish law ("Volumina legum").
From 1736 Konarski taught at the Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszow and in 1740 he started the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw, a school for sons of the people of high social class ("szlachta"). Thereafter, he improved teaching of Piarists in Poland, in a way that agrees with his program of teaching (Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae..., 1755). His improvements became an important point in the fight of 18th century to make the system of Polish teaching more modern.
In the beginning, Konarski was joined politically with King Stanislas Leszczynski; later, he came near to Czartoryski's "Familia" and to King Stanislas August Poniatowski. He took part in the well-known "Thursday dinners". Stanislas August Poniatowski caused that a medal was made in the honor of Konarski, with his likeness. There was written in Latin: Sapere auso ("who was brave to be wise").
Konarski, Stanislas
Konarski, Stanislas
1700 births
1773 deaths
Abrest

Abrest is a French commune. It is in the Allier department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Allier
Le Chautay

Le Chautay is a commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France. About 268 people lived there in January 2019.
Population
References
Communes in Cher
East Choiseul constituency

East Choiseul is a constituency of the Solomon Islands. It is in the Choiseul Province. It was created in 1993.
Election results
References
Solomon Islands parliamentary constituencies
Las Animas County, Colorado

Las Animas County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 14,555 people lived there. The county seat is Trinidad.
References
Colorado counties
Łomża

Lomza (), in English known as Lomza, is a city in north-eastern Poland. It is about 150 kilometers (90 miles) to the north-east of Warsaw.
References
Cities in Poland
Al-Ansariyyah

Al-Ansariyyah (or Jabal Ansariyya, Jebel Ansariye, Djebel Ansariye, Ansariye Mountains, Ansariyah mountains Jabal an Nusayriyah, or Alaouite Mountains, Alawite Mountains (Jibal al-'Alawiyin) or Syrian coastal range (Silsilat al-Jibal al-Saheliyya)) is a mountain range in Syria. The mountains range runs in a north-south direction along the coast of Syria. The range is about long. To the west of the mountain range is the plain along the coast, and on the west is the valley of the Orontes. (The Orontes runs through the Ghab Depression.) The tallest mountains in the range are in the north: there their average height is about , but in the south the average mountains are only high. The harbour city Latakia is to the west of the mountain range's highest mountain, which is high. Al-Ansariyyah is the only area of land in Syria which has thick forests.
At the southern end of the mountain range is the plain (the Homs Gap) which separates it from Mount Lebanon, in the country of Lebanon. On the south end is Krak de Chevaliers, a castle of the Middle Ages. In Classical Antiquity, the fresh water that came from these mountains supplied the cities of Antioch, Seleucia Pieria, Apamea, and Laodicea. Laodicea (now Latakia) was famous for its wine (from vines grown in this region), and the Roman geographer Strabo wrote that most of the wine in Alexandria in Roman Egypt came from Laodicea. Latakia was famous in the more recent past for its tobacco production.
The mountain range is the homeland of the Alawites. In the Middle Ages, during the Crusades, the Order of Assassins lived in these mountains.
People often migrate from the mountains to the plain of the coast and to the valley of the Ghab Depression, for economic reasons.
References
Mountain ranges of Asia
Geography of Syria
Companion of the Queen's Service Order

The Queen's Service Order (QSE) is an Order of Chivilry in New Zealand. It was created by royal warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 13 March 1975. The order is used to recognise "valuable voluntary service to the community or meritorious and faithful services to the Crown or similar services within the public sector, whether in elected or appointed office". The Queen's Service Order replaced the Imperial Service Order in New Zealand.
The title of the Order recognises the fact that Queen Elizabeth II was the first New Zealand monarch to be officially titled Queen of New Zealand.
Important members and officers
Sovereign: The King of New Zealand
Principal Companion: The Governor-General
Extra Companion: The Princess Royal LG LT GCVO QSO CD (1990)
Additional Companions
Beverley, Lady Reeves, (1990) - Former Viceregal Consort of New Zealand
The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys, (2001) - Former Governor-General of New Zealand
Mary, Lady Hardie Boys, (2001) - Former Viceregal Consort of New Zealand
The Hon. Dame Silvia Cartwright, (2006) - Former Governor-General of New Zealand
The Rt. Hon. Sir Anand Satyanand, (2007) - Former Governor-General of New Zealand
Susan, Lady Satyanand, (2011) - Former Viceregal Consort of New Zealand
Lieutenant General The Rt. Hon. Sir Jerry Mateparae, (2011) - Former Governor-General of New Zealand and former Chief of Defence Force
Janine, Lady Mateparae, (2016) - Former Viceregal Consort of New Zealand
The Rt. Hon. Dame Patsy Reddy, (2016) - Former Governor-General of New Zealand
The Rt. Hon. Dame Cindy Kiro, (2021) - Governor-General of New Zealand
Sir David Gascoigne, (2021) - Former Viceregal Consort of New Zealand
Secretary and Registrar: Rachel Hayward
References
Other websites
Official Site, has images of the various insignia.
"Changes to QSO and QSM Honours affect Gov Gen", New Zealand Government press release (21 May 2007).
Statutes of the Queen's Service Order (SR 1975/200) - legislation.govt.nz
Warrant under the Order's seal reconstituting the Order.
Orders of knighthood of the United Kingdom
1975 establishments
United States federal government shutdown of 2018

A shutdown of the United States federal government began at midnight EST on Saturday, January 20, 2018, after a failure to pass a legislation funding bill for government operations and agencies and ended on Monday, January 22, 2018.
The shutdown was caused from disputes over the status of protection of persons affected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy, and therefore whether those covered under the program should face deportation. There was also a dispute over whether funding should be funded towards building a Mexico-United States border wall, a keystone policy during Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
This is the first shutdown in United States history to occur while both chambers of Congress as well as the White House are controlled by the same party (in this case, the Republican party). The 2018 shutdown began when the Senate failed to approve a House-passed bill to keep the government open. The shutdown began on the first anniversary of Donald Trump taking office.
References
2018 in the United States
Government of the United States
January 2018 events
Bajaur District

Bajaur () is an Agency (district) of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Smallest of the agencies in FATA, it has a hilly terrain. According to the 1998 census, 595,227 people lived there. It borders Afghanistan's Kunar Province.
Barang Tehsil
Charmang Tehsil
Khar Bajaur Tehsil
Mahmund Tehsil
Salarzai Tehsil
Nawagai Tehsil
Utmankhel (Qzafi) Tehsil
Agencies of Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Constitution of Romania

The Constitution of Romania is the fundamental law that made the structure of the government of Romania. It also defines the rights and obligations of citizens.
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Constitution
Constitutionalism
Constitutional economics
Other websites
The Constitution of Romania at the Chamber of Deputies' website
Text in Romanian
1991 version
20th century in Romania
Romania
1991 in Europe
Öland Bridge

The Oland Bridge () is a road bridge in Sweden. It was completed in 1972. It connects mainland Sweden with Swedish Baltic Sea island of Oland, replacing the old ferryboats.
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Oland Bridge
Baltic Sea
Williamson County, Illinois

Williamson County is a county of the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 67,153 people lived there. The county seat is Marion.
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Illinois counties
Tajik people

Tajiks ( Tajik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group who are mostly found in what is now Tajikistan, including in parts of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and China. Alternative names for the Tajiks are (Eastern) Persian, Dehqan, and Farsiwan. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, some Tajik refugees escaped to live in neighboring Iran and Pakistan. Most Tajiks are Sunni Muslims, but a few in remote mountain areas follow Shia Islam alongside pockets in cities such as Herat and Kabul.
The name Tajik being used for this group of people began in the early 20th century by the Russians. Before that, they were called Sarts. The name Tajik refers to the traditionally sedentary people who speak a form of Persian language called Tajiki in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and officially called Dari in Afghanistan.
It is generally accepted that the origin of the word Tajik is Middle Persian Tazik "Arab" (New Persian: Tazi), or an Iranian (Sogdian or Parthian) cognate word. Some Turks of Central Asia adopted a variant of this word, Tazik, to designate the Persian Muslims in the Oxus basin and Khorasan, who were the Turks' rivals.
Historians believe that the Tajiks may be connected to ancient Aryans who lived in the region for thousands of years. They were the heirs and transmitters of the Central Asian sedentary culture that diffused in prehistoric times from the Iranian plateau into an area extending roughly from the Caspian Sea to the borders of China. The Aryans constituted the core of the ancient population of Khwarezm, Sogdiana and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania. They were included in the empires of Persia and Alexander the Great, and they mixed with later invaders like the Mauryans, Kushans and Hepthalites. Over the course of time, the language that was used by these ancient people eventually gave way to Farsi, a western dialect now officially spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. In the 13th century, Genghis Khan and his Mongol army settled in many of the popular Persian cities after wiping out the Persian population. These Mongols later adopted the Persian language and the religion of Islam, the Persian-speaking Hazaras claiming partial descent from them. Tajiks usually reject a Mongol or Turkic origin and claim to be descended from the ancient Iranians of Central Asia. However, historically, there has been heavy intermixing between the sedentary Turkic-speaking Central Asians and the Persian-speaking Central Asians
Related pages
Persian people
Hazara people
References
From the Alleyways of Samarkand to the Mediterranean Coast (The Evolution of the World of Child and Adolescent Literature,Tajikistan, Poopak Niktalab , printed 2019 , Faradid Publishing
TAJIK i. THE ETHNONYM: ORIGINS AND APPLICATION, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Last Updated: July 20, 2009, www.iranica.com
Persian people
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan
Ethnic groups in Asia
Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter.
Major works
Mantegna's only known sculpture is a "Sant'Eufemia" in the Cathedral of Irsina, Basilicata. The rest of these are paintings:
St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1448-1451) - Tempera on wood, 48 x 36 cm, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1451-1453) - Tempera on canvas transferred from wood, 40 x 55,6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Luca Altarpiece (1453) - Panel, 177 x 230 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) - Tempera on wood, 68.9 x 86.3 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Crucifixion (1457-1459) - Wood, 67 x 93 cm, Louvre, Paris
Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (1495-1500) - Tempera on wood, 78 x 48 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) - Tempera on wood, 63 x 80 cm, National Gallery, London
Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan, (c. 1459-1460) - Tempera on wood, 44 x 33 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels, (attributed, 1460) - Tempera on canvas, 385 x 220 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Portrait of a Man (c. 1460-1470) - Wood, 24.2 x 19 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Death of the Virgin (c. 1461) - Panel, 54 x 42 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) - Panel, 25 x 18 cm, Capodimonte Museum, Naples
Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1465-1470) - Oil on canvas, 43x32 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
St. George (c. 1460) - Tempera on panel, 66 x 32 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
San Zeno Altarpiece (1457-1460) - Panel, 480 x 450 cm, San Zeno, Verona
St. Sebastian (c. 1457-1459) - Wood, 68 x 30 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
St. Sebastian - Panel, 255 x 140 cm, Louvre, Paris
Adoration of the Magi (1462) - Tempera on panel, 76 x 76.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
The Ascension (1462) - Tempera on panel, 86 x 42.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
The Circumcision (1462-1464) - Tempera on panel, 86 x 42.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459-1466) - Tempera on panel, 40.6 x 29.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
The Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) - Panel, 88 x 70 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Triumph of Caesar (c. 1486) - Hampton Court Palace, England
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490) - Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Madonna of the Caves (1489-1490) - Uffizi, Florence
St. Sebastian (1490) - Panel, 68 x 30 cm, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
Madonna della Vittoria (1495) - Tempera on canvas, 285 x 168 cm, Louvre, Paris
Holy Family (c. 1495-1500) - Tempera on canvas, 75.5 x 61.5 cm, The Dresden Gallery, Dresden
Judith and Holofernes (1495) - Egg-tempera on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Trivulzio Madonna (1497) - Tempera on canvas, 287 x 214 cm, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Milan
Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) - Canvas, 160 x 192 cm, Louvre, Paris
Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden of Virtue (c. 1502) - Oil on canvas, 160x192 cm, Louvre, Paris
Related pages
List of Italian painters
References
1431 births
1506 deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Lincoln Aviator

The Lincoln Aviator is a luxury three-row middle-sized sport utility vehicle. It was first manufactured from 2003 to 2005. The Aviator is based on the Ford Explorer.
For the 2020 model year, the Aviator is a five-door crossover SUV.
The 2020 and beyond Aviator is made in Chicago, Illinois.
References
2000s automobiles
2020s automobiles
Aviator
Sport utility vehicles
Tipton, Kansas

This is about the town in Kansas, USA. For other towns called Tipton, see Tipton (disambiguation).
Tipton is a city in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 210 people lived there.
History
Tipton was first called Pittsburg. It was created as Pittsburg in 1872. The people realized that another Pittsburg existed in Kansas, so they changed the name to Tipton. It was named after Tipton, Iowa, the former home of a local resident.
Geography
Tipton is at (39.339380, -98.470155). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
People
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 210 people, 98 households, and 57 families living in Tipton.
References
Other websites
City
City of Tipton
Tipton - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
USD 272, local school district
Historical
, from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
Maps
Mitchell County Map, KDOT
Cities in Mitchell County, Kansas
1872 establishments in Kansas
Kamaishi, Iwate

Kamaishi is a city in Iwate Prefecture. 32,609 people live there as of March 2020. It is a historic city because of its part in World War II where it was the first naval bombardment by the U.S. Navy. The city was completely detroyed on June 15, 1896 when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Iwate. The city was again destroyed in 2011 by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Other websites
Kamaichi's Official city website (Japanese)
Cities in Japan
Settlements in Iwate Prefecture
Las Vegas Aces

The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team. They are based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aces play basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). They are in the WNBA's Western Conference. When they play basketball in Las Vegas, the Aces play at Michelob Ultra Arena in Mandalay Bay. The Aces won the 2022 WNBA Championship.
The team was made in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was first named the Utah Starzz. It then moved to San Antonio, Texas, and was named the San Antonio Silver Stars. Later, the name was changed to San Antonio Stars. In 2018, the team moved to Las Vegas. The Aces are one of three WNBA teams that plays in a place with no NBA team. The other two are the Connecticut Sun and the Seattle Storm. The team has gone to the WNBA Finals three times. They went in 2008, 2020, and 2022.
Many good basketball players have been on the Aces, such as Ann Wauters, Dearica Hamby and A'ja Wilson. As of 2022, the team is coached by Becky Hammon. Hammon played for the San Antonio Stars from 2007 to 2014.
References
Basketball teams in the United States
Women's basketball teams
Ugarit

Ugarit (; , 'Ugart; Ugarit or Ugarit) was an ancient port city in northern Syria. It is in the outskirts of modern Latakia. It was discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts. Its ruins are often called Ras Shamra due to the headland on which they are found.
Ugarit had close connections to the Hittite Empire. It also sent tribute to Egypt at times and maintained trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus (then called Alashiya). This is documented in the archives recovered from the site. It is confirmed by Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery found there. The polity was at its height from c. 1450 BCE until its destruction in c. 1200 BCE. This destruction was possibly caused by the mysterious Sea Peoples or internal struggle. The kingdom would be one of the many that fell apart during the Bronze Age Collapse.
References
Archaeological sites in Syria
Phoenician colonies
The Buggles

The Buggles were an English musical duo. It had Trevor Horn on vocals, bass guitar and guitar and Geoff Downes on keyboards. They have been most known for their 1979 debut single Video Killed the Radio Star that was #1 on the singles charts of sixteen countries. The music video was the first to be shown on MTV in the United States of America at 12:01 on 1 August 1981.
Following the poor success of their second album, Adventures in Modern Recording, the group broke up in 1981.
Biography
Horn and Downes first met in the mid 1970s, at auditions for Tina Charles' backing band, and worked with her producer, Biddu, whose backing tracks had inspired their early work. Trevor Horn said that the group was originally planned to be named "The Bugs": "The Bugs were studio insects--imaginary creatures who lived in recording studios creating havoc. Then somebody said as a joke that The Bugs would never be as big as The Beatles. So we changed it to The Buggles."
The Buggles' first hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star", was released in September 1979 and was the 444th number one in the UK charts, spending one week at the top, as well as reaching number one on the singles charts of fifteen other countries Hans Zimmer worked for "Video Killed the Radio Star, and makes a brief appearance in the video.
Downes and Horn worked on their second album, Adventures in Modern Recording. As originally intended, I Am a Camera was brought to completion as a Buggles song under its original title. However, Downes left the group during the recording of the album to form the band Asia with former Yes bandmate Steve Howe. Horn completed the album with a lot of new songwriting partners and musicians. Adventures in Modern Recording was released in late 1981, but five singles released from the album (I Am a Camera, Adventures in Modern Recording, On TV, Lenny and Beatnik) were not as successful as "Video Killed the Radio Star", resulting in the end of The Buggles.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Music videos
"Video Killed the Radio Star"
"Living in the Plastic Age"
"Clean Clean"
"Elstree"
"I Am a Camera"
"Adventures in Modern Recording"
"On TV"
References
Other websites
Buggles discography on The Art Of Noise Online
1977 establishments in the United Kingdom
1970s British music groups
1980s British music groups
1981 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
English pop music groups
Musical duos
Musical groups established in 1977
Musical groups disestablished in 1981
Musical groups from London
You're Sixteen

"You're Sixteen" is a 1960 song by Johnny Burnette and went to number 3 in the United Kingdom and number 8 in the United States.
Ringo Starr version
In 1973, Ringo Starr released his version of You're Sixteen from his third studio album Ringo. It topped the single charts in the United States and New Zealand. It went to number 2 in Canada and Ireland, number 3 in South Africa, number 4 in the United Kingdom and number 6 in Australia, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.
1960 songs
Johnny Burnette songs
Ringo Starr songs
Luna Park, Melbourne

Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park near the beach at St Kilda, Victoria Australia. It was designed and developed by Frederick Ingersoll. It opened in 1912 and has been operating ever since. It is the first of two Luna Parks still operating in Australia; the other is on Sydney Harbour.
Buildings and structures in Melbourne
1912 establishments
1910s establishments in Australia
Natalia Kills

Natalia Noemi Cappuccini (born 15 August 1986) is an English R&B singer-songwriter, and actress who is better known by her stage name, Natalia Kills. She was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire to a Uruguayan mother and Jamaican father. She released her debut album Perfectionist on 1 April 2011 which features the singles, "Mirrors", "Wonderland" and "Free". She will be helping Ke$ha on her UK tour along with LMFAO.
Discography
Albums
2011: Perfectionist
2013: Trouble
Singles
2005: "Don't Play Nice"
2010: "Mirrors
2011: "Wonderland"
2011: "Free"
2012: "Kill My Boyfriend"
2013: "Problem"
2013: "Saturday Night"
References
Other websites
Official website
1986 births
Living people
Actors from Bradford
Black British actors
Black British musicians
British radio actors
British television directors
British television producers
British television writers
English pop singers
English singer-songwriters
English television actors
Musicians from Bradford
English models
Child actors
English composers
English guitarists
English movie actors
English musicians