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Chlorofluorocarbon

A chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) is a gas used for various purposes including solvents, refrigerants, and aerosol sprays. They are organic chemicals and contain carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine. They were much used in the middle of the 20th century, replacing chemicals that were toxic or flammable or had other problems.
In 1978, Sweden became the first country that banned CFC products. Later, the US and Canada did the same. Now, CFC products are not allowed in most countries, because they cause ozone depletion. CFCs are greenhouse gases. An alternative to chlorofluorocarbons is hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). These do not destroy the ozone layer or increase global warming.
Related pages
Thomas Midgley (American inventor)
Freon
References
Carbon compounds
Greenhouse gases
Fluorine compounds
Chlorine compounds
Hydrogen compounds
HVAC
Crimean Tatar Wikipedia

The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia () is the Crimean Tatar language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The articles were originally written in Wikimedia Incubator, and the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia was created on January 12, 2008. As of ( ), Crimean Tatar has articles.
Statistics
As of , Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has articles.
The main problem of the project is a lack of volunteers. The vast majority of edits are made by several volunteers, none of whom is a native speaker.
References
Other websites
Crimean Tatar Wikipedia
Crimeantatar Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)
Wikipedias
2008 establishments
Diplôme d'études universitaires générales

A Diplome d'etudes universitaires generales (DEUG) is the French certificate given to a university student after he has completed two years of study. It was created in 1973.
References
Qualifications
Education in France
Estonians

Estonians () are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. The Estonians speak a Finno-Ugric language, known as Estonian. Although Estonia is traditionally grouped as one of the Baltic countries, Estonians are linguistically and ethnically unrelated to the Baltic peoples of Latvia and Lithuania.
Ethnic groups in Europe
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is an upcoming medieval action role-playing game made by TaleWorlds Entertainment. The game was announced in 2012. It is a sequel to Mount & Blade: Warband.
Plot
Setting
The game is set 200 years before Mount & Blade: Warband. It takes place during the decline of the Calradian Empire and the making of the kingdoms in Mount & Blade: Warband. The look of the armour, Weapons and buildings will draw from 600 to 1100 A.D.
Factions
Bannerlord will have six main factions, each with they own clans who have different goals, as well as smaller factions.
Development
In September 2012, Taleworlds announced the game was in the making and released the trailer.
The game's graphics have been heavily upgraded, the animations have also been upgraded. There are also some new Gameplay features like better inventory system and better artificial intelligence. The current game and features were shown during 2015 Gamescom. In March 2016 40 minutes of gameplay was shown to PC gamer.
References
Other websites
2022 video games
Windows games
The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is a list of best-selling books in the United States that has been published weekly on Sundays by the New York Times, a New York City based newspaper since 9 April 1942. It is also released a stand-alone publication, meaning it is sometimes published separately outside of the newspaper, and can also be found online. The list is usually split into fiction and non-fiction sections; each contain ten to twenty titles.
Newspapers in New York City
Messianic
James S. Gracey

James Steele Gracey (born August 24, 1927) is a former United States Coast Guard admiral. He was the 17th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1982 to 1986. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was active during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
References
1927 births
Living people
American military personnel of the Korean War
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
People from Newton, Massachusetts
Military people from Massachusetts
Saluda, South Carolina

Saluda is a town in Saluda County, South Carolina, United States, along the Little Saluda River. The population was 3,565 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Saluda County.
References
Towns in South Carolina
County seats in South Carolina
Séranvillers-Forenville

Seranvillers-Forenville is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 414 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord
County borough

A county borough was a type of local government district in England until abolished in 1974.
Local government powers were divided between county councils and urban or rural districts.
For example: rural districts may not be able to maintain footpaths or street lighting because of their size. Urban districts were based in a town and were able handle these jobs. Schools were the responsibility of county councils because districts were too small to run all types of schools themselves.
A county borough was a town big enough to run all its own local government, so the local county council had no power inside the county borough.
Political systems
Local government in England
1974 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
20th-century disestablishments in England
Zachenberg

Zachenberg is a municipality in Regen in Bavaria in Germany.
References
Regen (district)
Vermont's at-large congressional district

Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat.
There were once six districts in Vermont. Bernie Sanders (Independent) held the seat from 1991 until 2007, when he became a U.S. Senator. Democrat Peter Welch represented the state from 2007 to 2023. Becca Balint has represented this district since 2023.
Geography of Vermont
Verm
Frederick II of Denmark

Frederick II (1 July 1534 - 4 April 1588), was the king of Denmark-Norway and duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death. He was the son of King Christian III of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg. He is often seen as the typical Renaissance ruler of Denmark. As a person Frederick was described as hot-headed, proud, brave, and ambitious. He loved hunting, wine and feasts. At his death lots of people thought that he had drunk himself to death.
He built Kronborg castle in Elsinore again between 1574 and 1585. In 1567 he began Fredrikstad in Norway. This was a time of wealth and growth in Danish history.
Reference
1534 births
1588 deaths
Kings and Queens of Denmark
Kings and Queens of Norway
Erin Mendenhall

Erin Mendenhall (born June 8, 1980) is an American politician. She is the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah since 2020.
References
1980 births
Living people
Mayors of Salt Lake City
Politicians from Arizona
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
The Edge

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known as The Edge, is an English-born musician. He is known best as the guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2.
Personal life
David Howell Evans was born at the Barking Maternity Hospital, in Essex, England. His parents, Garvin and Gwenda Evans, are Welsh. When he was one, his family moved to County Dublin, Ireland. There, he attended St. Andrew's National School. He received piano and guitar lessons with his brother, Dik Evans. At Mount Temple Comprehensive School, they both answered an advertisement posted by Larry Mullen Jr. wanting musicians to form a band. The band accepted both of them. This band went through several major changes before emerging as U2 in March 1978. Dik Evans left the band just before the name change. U2 began performing in various venues in Ireland and eventually began developing a following. Their first album, Boy, was released in 1980.
In 1981, Evans came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he was persuaded to stay. During this time, he became involved with a group called Shalom Tigers. Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. were also involved in this group. Shortly after deciding to remain with the band, he wrote a piece of music that later became "Sunday Bloody Sunday". The Edge married his high school girlfriend Aislinn O'Sullivan on 12 July 1983. The couple had three daughters together: Hollie in 1984, Arran in 1985 and Blue Angel in 1989. The couple separated in 1990, but were unable to get officially divorced until 1996 because of Irish laws regarding marriage; divorce was made legal in 1995.
During U2's Zoo TV Tour, The Edge began to date Morleigh Steinberg. The couple began dating in 1993, and had their daughter, Sian, and a son, Levi. They were married on June 22, 2002.
The Edge appeared in the 2009 music documentary film It Might Get Loud. He is also a Methodist.
Music
References
1961 births
Living people
English rock guitarists
English rock singers
Musicians from Dublin
Musicians from Essex
People from Barking
U2 members
Cem Özer

Cem Ozer (born October 5, 1959, Goksun, Kahramanmaras) is a Turkish theater, cinema and serial player, server and writer.
The artist who created the Istanbul University Faculty of Law, later worked in communities such as the Dostlar Theater. He was recognized on television by the presentation of the program. He was a lucky competitor in the Dene competition. He has appeared in several motion picture films and series. Fashion designer Esin Maraslioglu and actress Nurgul Yesilcay were married.
Filmography
O Hayat Benim - (2016-present) - Kenan
Sen Benimsin - 2015 - Kudret
Buyur Burdan Kac - 2013
Acayip Hikayeler - 2012
Sicak - 2008
Adem'in Trenleri - 2007
Bir Ihtimal Daha Var - 2006
Sen Ne Dilersen - 2005
Masum Degiliz - 2005
3. Tur - 2004
Melekler Adasi - 2004
Neredesin Firuze - 2003
Sih Senem - 2003
90-60-90 - 2001
Olum Pesimizde - 2000
Askin Daglarda Gezer - 1999
Asansor - 1999
Karisik Pizza - 1998
Usta Beni Oldursene - 1996
Berlin in Berlin - 1993
Varyemez - 1991
Anilar - 1989
Zirvenin Bedeli - 1989
Hanim - 1988
Umutlarin Otesi - 1988
Vurmayin - 1987
Menekseler Mavidir - 1987
Guldurme Beni - 1986
Dayak Cennetten Cikma - 1986
Hababam Sinifi Gule Gule - 1981
Yirmidort Saat - 1976
References
Other websites
IMBb
Sinematurk
1959 births
Turkish writers
Uptown Girls

Uptown Girls is a movie starring Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning. Brittany Murphy's character plays a babysitter for Dakota Fanning's character and at first they do not get along but they get to know each other better and become good friends.
2003 comedy-drama movies
American comedy-drama movies
English-language movies
T. B. Joshua

Temitope Balogun Joshua (June 12, 1963 - June 5, 2021), also known as prophet T.B. Joshua, was a Nigerian charismatic pastor, televangelist, prophet and philanthropist. He was the leader and founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN). He also helped run the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos. Joshua was born in Arigidi Akoko, Nigeria.
Prophet TB Joshua passed on to glory on June 5, 2021 after a service on that same day, reports have it that he died peacefully in a praying position without any sign of ill health or any form of health concern, Christian faithfuls sees this as a call to eternal glory, he passed on a week before his 58th birthday.
According to Isaiah Ogedegbe, Prophet TB Joshua's death "is indeed a big blow to Christianity".
Or his passing "is undoubtedly a major blow to Christianity".
On 27 August 2022, Isaiah Ogedegbe in his tribute to Prophet TB Joshua wrote: "Evidently, T. B. Joshua was the man to whom the arm of the Lord had been revealed. Joshua's hands had become God's hands through which He brought divine healing to the sick. He was also 'the man who saw tomorrow' because he had truly heard from God and had seen what the future held, and he made known to us the mind of God".
Isaiah Ogedegbe also argued: "Was T. B. Joshua a prophet? Yes, and more than a prophet. His predictions were not mere coincidences because they were known for accuracy as each event he had ever predicted happened exactly when, where and how he said it would happen".
Predictions
The senior pastor of the church, T. B. Joshua
has claimed to have predicted the Synagogue Church building collapse "three weeks before it happened".
While another Nigerian religious figure, Isaiah Ogedegbe seemed to have also predicted the incident eight months before it happened.
Successor
Following his death in June 2021, his wife Evelyn Joshua took over as the new leader of The SCOAN.
Related pages
Synagogue Church building collapse
Synagogue, Church of All Nations
References
1963 births
2021 deaths
African philanthropists
Nigerian Christian clergy
Television presenters
People from Lagos
Pre-main-sequence star

A pre-main-sequence star known as a PMS star or PMS object, is a star when it has not reached the main sequence stage yet. Before, the object is a protostar. It grows by getting mass from the surrounding interstellar dust and gas.
After the protostar blows off the envelope, it will be visible. It then appears on the stellar birthline in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. At this point, the star has got nearly all of its mass. It has not started the nuclear fusion of hydrogen. The star then contracts. Its internal temperature rises until it begins burning hydrogen. The star is then in the pre-main sequence stage.
References
Types of stars
Maple Heights, Ohio

Maple Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. At the 2010 census, 23,138 people lived there.
Cities in Ohio
Molly of Denali

Molly of Denali is an Canadian animated television show.
Molly of Denali premiered on July 15, 2019 by Canadian Studio Atomic Cartoons and WGBH Kids for CBC Kids and PBS Kids.
Cast
Sovereign Bill as Molly Mabray
Sequoia Janvier as Tooey Ookami
Vienna Leacock as Trini Mumford
Jules Koostachin as Layla Mabray
Ronnie Dean Harris as Walter Mabray
Lorne Cardinal as Grandpa Nat
Adeline Potts as Auntie Midge
Ellen Kennedy as Singing Moose, Video Voice, and Connie
Luc Roderique as Daniel and Announcer
Michelle Thrush as Shyahtsoo
Shaun Youngchief as Mr. Patak
Katrina Salisbury as Nina
Voice direction by Nicole Oliver
Version
The is also in dub
Spanish Latin American
Portuguese Brazil
Turkish
Perisan
Arabic
Hebrew
French
Uzbek
Slovenia
Serbian
Greek
* Slovak
Thai
International broadcast
The show is also broadcast in:
-- CBC Kids (since September 2, 2019)
minika couck (since 2021)
IRIB TV2 and IRBI Pooya & Nahal (since May 14, 2021)
Canal Panda (since 2021)
Logi/Israeli Educational Television(since March 2021)
Aqlvoy (since September 16, 2022)
References
Other websites
2019 American television series debuts
American animated movies
2010s American animated television series
Canadian animated television series
2019 Canadian television series debuts
PBS Kids shows
Television series about families
Television series about friendship
Whanganui

Whanganui (;), previously spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatu-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River.
References
Cities in New Zealand
Robert Wuhl

Robert Wuhl (born October 9, 1951) is an American movie, television, stage, voice actor, comedian, and writer who is known for his roles in Arliss, Batman, Mistress, and in Police Squad!. He has won an Emmy Award in 1991.
Wuhl was born on October 9, 1951 in Union Township, New Jersey. He studied at Union High School and in the University of Houston. He married Barbara Koldys Capelli in 1983.
References
Other websites
1951 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Comedians from New Jersey
Actors from New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
Emmy Award winning actors
1689

Events
Louis XIV of France passed the "Code Noir," allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies.
January 11 - The Parliament of England declares King James II of England deposed.
February 13 - William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland. Scotland and Ireland do not yet recognize them.
April 11 - The Estates of Scotland declare King James VII of Scotland deposed.
April 11 - Crowning of co-rulers King William III and Mary II as King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland. Ireland does not recognize them yet.
May 12 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting the war.
May 24 - The Act of Toleration passes the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
May 25 - Last collection of the Hearth Tax n England and Wales. It was abolished by William III of England
May 31 - Leisler's Rebellion - Calvinist Jacob Leisler deposes lieutenant governor Francis Nicholson and assumes control of New York colony
July 27 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends
August 5 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
August 27 - China and Russia signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
December 16 - The official declaration of the English Bill of Rights
Andrea Kossányiová

Andrea Kossanyiova (born 6 August 1993) is a Czech volleyball player, playing as a Outside spiker. She is part of the Czech Republic women's national volleyball team.
She competed at the 2019 Women's European Volleyball League, winning a gold medal.
On club level she plays for PVK Olymp Prague, VK Agel Prostejov, VK UP Olomouc, and Volley Wroclaw.
References
1993 births
Czech volleyball players
Living people
Château de Saint Cloud

The Chateau de Saint Cloud was a chateau in Paris, France. It was sometimes called the Palace of Saint Cloud. It was burned down during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. It was once a private property of Queen Marie Antoinette. Since December 2006, there has been a movement to rebuild the Chateau de Saint-Cloud.
Early history
The building was originally called the "he Hotel d'Aulnay". In the 16h century, it was expanded into a chateau by the Gondi banking family. The estate was in the hands of the Gondi family till 1658. At that time it was bought by Philippe of France, Duke of Orleans, the only brother of Louis XIV of France. The estate remained the personal property of the descendants of Philippe of France. It was a country residence, as opposed to the Palais Royal in the center of Paris.
Queen Marie Antoinette
After negotiating for a long time, the Chateau de Saint-Cloud was bought in 1785 by Louis XVI. He bought it for Marie Antoinette. She thought that the air of Saint-Cloud would be good for her children. Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, who had not visited the chateau since his morganatic marriage to his mistress Madame de Montesson, sold it for 6,000,000 livres. Marie Antoinette started changing Saint-Cloud in 1787-1788. She used her preferred architect Richard Mique. He had also decorated parts of the Palace of Versailles for the queen.
Emperor Napoleon III
During the Second Empire, Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie held their imperial court at Saint-Cloud during the spring and the autumn. There was also a reception for Queen Victoria in honour of her 1855 visit to France. In 1859, a model railway was built in the private park. It was built for Napoleon, Prince Imperial, the 3-year-old son of emperor Napoleon III,.
Other websites
Napoleon III et la reine Victoria. Une visite a l'Exposition Universelle de 1855
Official site of the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud
Buildings and structures in Paris
W

W is the twenty-third (number 23) letter in the Latin alphabet. It is pronounced as "double-(you/yoo)" or "double-vee". It is the only letter with three syllables.
In words like away, what, write and women, the W is a consonant. In words like draw, few, low and cwm, the W is a vowel
Meanings for W
On calendars, W is most times a short letter for Wednesday.
In chemistry, W is the symbol for tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram.
In news story writing, the "five W's" are who, what, when, where and why.
In Electricity, W stands for watts
In particle physics, W stands for the W boson.
Notes
Shawn Sawyer

Shawn Sawyer (born January 14, 1985 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian figure skater. He won the bronze medal two times at the Canadian national championships. He skated at the 2006 Winter Olympics and came in 12th.
Biography
Unlike most figure skaters who spin on the ice and during their jumps in a counter-clockwise motion, Sawyer is one of few skaters who jumps and spins in a clockwise direction. Other skaters who rotate "lefty" are Johnny Weir and Alissa Czisny.
Sawyer is known for his great flexibility and his artistry on the ice. Most male skaters do not perform spirals during competition because they do not get credit for doing them. Sawyer uses them to highlight his skating and as difficulty entrances. They are also a major part of his non-competitive (exhibition) programs. Sawyer's spirals and flexible spins have given him a different look from most other skaters and have helped his popularity.
Sawyer is often compared to Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Toller Cranston. When Sawyer was 12, Cranston was about to retire from show skating. Cranston put together a televised show in which he and other top ranked skaters, including Scott Hamilton, skated with Sawyer and gave him advice. Cranston still advises Sawyer.
Sawyer can perform a backflip on ice. He was taught this move by Brian Orser.
Sawyer has performed the Biellmann spin in exhibition when he was a junior-level skater, but has since stopped training it. Still, he remains one of the few male skaters to have ever performed this move.
Other websites
Official Site
International Skating Union biograhy
Skate Canada Profile
1985 births
Living people
Canadian figure skaters
Hellendoorn

Hellendoorn is a municipality and town in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 36,000 people were living there in 2021.
Hellendoorn belongs to Salland region (except the very eastern part that belongs to Twente region) but administratively to Twente region.
References
Plaatsengids.nl
Settlements in Overijssel
Municipalities of Overijssel
Salland
Twente
2020–21 Ligue 1

The 2020-21 Ligue 1 season, also known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French association football tournament within Ligue 1. It is the 83rd season since its establishment. The season started on 21 August 2020 and is scheduled to end on 23 May 2021. The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.
Teams
Changes
Lorient and Lens were promoted from the 2019-20 Ligue 2. After the French court had initially ruled that the season would proceed with 22 teams, the relegation of Amiens and Toulouse to the 2020-21 Ligue 2 was confirmed on 23 June 2020, following a vote by the LFP.
Stadiums and locations
Number of teams by regions
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
League table
Following the discontinuation of the Coupe de la Ligue at the end of 2019-20, its European qualification place was given to the team finishing fifth in Ligue 1.
Results
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
Most assists
Most clean sheets
Hat-tricks
Scoring
First goal of the season:
Ismael Traore for Angers against Dijon
Last goal of the season:
Discipline
Player
Most yellow cards: 13
Alvaro (Marseille)
Most red cards: 3
Moreto Cassama (Reims)
Team
Most yellow cards: 89
Marseille
Most red cards: 10
Lyon
Fewest yellow cards: 54
Strasbourg
Fewest red cards: 2
Angers
Lille
Saint-Etienne
Awards
Monthly
References
Other websites
2020-21 association football seasons
Ligue 1
2020 in France
2020 in European football
Union, Mississippi

Union is a town in Neshoba and Newton counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Towns in Mississippi
Rick Rosas

Rick ("Rick the Bass Player") Rosas (September 10, 1949 - November 6, 2014) was an American musician. He has played with Neil Young, Joe Walsh, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Rivers, Ron Wood, Etta James, and the short-lived reunion of the Buffalo Springfield, among others. Rosas was born in Los Angeles, California.
Rosas died on November 6, 2014, in Los Angeles, California from lung disease. He was 65.
References
1949 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from lung disease
Musicians from Los Angeles
Moons of Haumea

The dwarf planet Haumea has two known moons, Hi`iaka and Namaka. They are named after the daughters of the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth, Haumea. Hi`iaka was the goddess of dance, and Namaka was the goddess of water and the sea. The two moons were discovered in 2005 by the telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
The moons were formed billions of years ago after something crashed into Haumea and broke apart its layer of ice. Hi`iaka, which is about in diameter, is the larger of the two moons, and it is farther away from the planet. It has large amounts of ice on its surface. Namaka, which is only one-tenth the size, has a strange orbit, affected by the larger moon.
Hi`iaka was discovered on 26 January, 2005, and was first nicknamed "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". Namaka was discovered on 30 June, 2005, and was given the nickname "Blitzen the Reindeer." They were given their official names by the International Astronomical Union on 17 September, 2008.
References
Other websites
Animation of the orbits of Haumea's moons
International Year of Astronomy 2009 podcast: Dwarf Planet Haumea (Darin Ragozzine)
Dwarf planets
Moons
Faulbach

Faulbach is a municipality in the Miltenberg district in the Lower Franconia region in Bavaria, Germany. About 2,600 people live in Faulbach.
Geography
Place
Faulbach is on the right edge of the river Main, between Wertheim am Main and Miltenberg, where it is joined by the Faulbach. Around the municipality are the hills of the Spessart. At Faulbach, the Main is the border between the states of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg.
Subdivision
The community has the following districts: Breitenbrunn, Faulbach.
References
Other websites
Miltenberg (district)
Kansas Department of Corrections

The Kansas Department of Corrections is a government organization of Kansas. It is in charge of Kansas's prisons. This includes prisons for both children and adults. They are in charge of the Kansas's parole system, they are in charge of Kansas's Prisoner Review Board. It is located in Topeka.
References
Other websites
Official website
Corrections
Valmondois

Valmondois is a commune. It is in Ile-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
References
Communes in Val-d'Oise
Laurent Mailhot

Laurent Mailhot (22 September 1931 - 4 January 2021) was a Canadian historian, writer and professor.
Life
Born in Saint-Alexis on 22 September 1931, Mailhot studied at the Seminaire de Joliette. He earned a master's degree from the Universite de Montreal and a doctorate from the University of Grenoble. He began teaching at the Universite de Montreal in 1963. He was an editor at the journal Etudes francaises from 1979 to 1987.
Laurent Mailhot died in Trois-Rivieres on 4 January 2021 at the age of 89.
Publications
Studies
Le theatre quebecois. Introduction a dix dramaturges contemporains (1970)
Albert Camus ou l'imagination du desert (1973)
La litterature quebecoise (1974)
Le reel, le realisme et la litterature quebecoise (1974)
Theatre quebecois II. Nouveaux auteurs, autres spectacles (1980)
Repertoire pratique de litterature et de culture quebecoises (1981)
Guide culturel du Quebec (1982)
Le Conseil des arts du Canada 1957-1982 (1982)
Ouvrir le livre (1992)
La litterature quebecoise depuis ses origines (1997)
Plaisirs de la prose (2005)
Andre Brochu, ecrivain (2006)
Anthologies
Anthologie d'Arthur Buies (1978)
Monologues quebecois : 1890-1980 (1980)
Le Quebec en textes 1940-1980 (1980)
La poesie quebecoise des origines a nos jours. Anthologie (1980)
Essais quebecois 1837-1983. Anthologie litteraire (1984)
L'essai quebecois depuis 1845. Etude et anthologie (2005)
Awards
Prix France-Quebec (1981)
Killam Scholarship (1986)
Prix Andre-Laurendeau (1987)
Member of the Royal Society of Canada (1987)
Prix de la revue Etudes francaises for Plaisirs de la prose (2005)
References
1931 births
2021 deaths
Canadian historians
Writers from Quebec
Raymond Barre

Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (; 12 April 192425 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs. He was Prime Minister under Valery Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981.
References
1924 births
2007 deaths
Prime Ministers of France
French Ministers of Finance
Fircrest, Washington

Fircrest is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
Cities in Washington (state)
Barycenter

The barycenter (or barycentre; from the Greek barukentron) is the point between two objects where they balance each other. For example, it is the center of mass where two or more planets orbit each other. When a moon orbits a planet, or a planet orbits a star, both bodies are actually orbiting around a point that lies outside the center of the larger body. For example, the moon does not orbit the exact center of the Earth. It actually orbits a point on a line between the center of the Earth, and the Moon. This is about 1,710 km below the surface of the Earth. This is the point where the mass of the moon, and the mass of the Earth balance. This is the point about which the Earth, and Moon orbit as they travel around the Sun.
The solar system of course also has a barycenter--depending on the current locations of the planets the barycenter of the solar system is below the surface of the sun or more than twice the sun's diameter outside of the sun's surface.
Also the barycenter exists in the world of geometry. For example, the circle has a barycenter.
Celestial mechanics
Hamilton Tigers

The Hamilton Tigers were a professional ice hockey team, and a member of the National Hockey League (NHL). They were based in Hamilton, Ontario, and played from 1920-1925. The Tigers were formed from the sale of the Quebec Bulldogs NHL franchise. After years of struggling, the team finished first in the league in the 1924-25 NHL season. However, after a players' strike at the end of the season the team broke up.
Other websites
Results on hockeydb.com
Defunct National Hockey League teams
Sport in Hamilton
1920 establishments
1925 disestablishments
1920s establishments in Canada
20th-century disestablishments in Canada
John Dryden

John Dryden (9 August 1631 - 1 May 1700) was an English poet laureate and playwright.
He was the oldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering. As a boy Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School. In the late twentieth century a house at Westminster was founded in his name.
In 1650 Dryden went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating, he went to London. Dryden got work with the Secretary of State, John Thurloe.
On 1 December 1663 Dryden married the royalist sister of Sir Robert Howard--Lady Elizabeth. They had three sons.
His first play, The Wild Gallant was in 1663. It was not successful. But from 1668 on he was contracted to make three plays a year for the King's Company.
In 1693 Dryden famously said about English language that "We have yet no prosody, not so much tolerable dictionary, or a grammar, so that our language is in a manner barbarous." Following the century's ill formed ideas like latinising English, Dryden considered English as inferior and before expressing anything English in his works he transcribed them first into Latin. He promoted the need of a regulatory body in English like the French Academy, this idea has been carried on by others after his death like by Daniel Fefoe, John Adams and other organized bodies into the 21st century. This arresting in change was deplored in each ages.
Books about Dryden
Editions
The Works of John Dryden, 20 vols., ed. H. T. Swedenberg Jr. et al., (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956-2002)
John Dryden The Major Works, ed. by Keith Walker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
The Works of John Dryden, ed. by David Marriott, (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995)
John Dryden Selected Poems, ed by David Hopkins, (London: Everyman Paperbacks, 1998)
Biography
Winn, James Anderson. John Dryden and His World, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987)
Modern criticism
Eliot, T. S., 'John Dryden', in Selected Essays, (London: Faber and Faber, 1932)
Hopkins, David, John Dryden, ed. by Isobel Armstrong, (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2004)
Oden, Richard, L. Dryden and Shadwell, The Literary Controversy and 'Mac Flecknoe (1668-1679), (Scholars' Facsmilies and Reprints, Inc., Delmar, New York, 1977)
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1631 births
1700 deaths
People buried in Westminster Abbey
British poets laureate
John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has included some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians.
References
Other websites
John Mayall's website
John Mayall's official Facebook Fan page
Mayall: sessions,concerts
ABC Records Press Release
John Mayall Interview 2007 - by Brian D. Holland
John Mayall Interview with Jarrod Dicker (2009)
FB Fotoalbum John Mayall - Amsterdam - Melkweg 13-12-2012 Photography Rick van Gerven
John Mayall Interview (2010) published in the French magazine Guitar Part
1933 births
Living people
English guitarists
English singer-songwriters
People from Cheshire
Quindío Department

Quindio is a department in western Colombia. The capital is Armenia.
Departments of Colombia
Hecuba

Hecuba (also Hekuba or Hekabe) was a person in Greek mythology. She was the wife of King Priam of Troy.
Her children with Priam were: Sons: Hector, Paris, Deiphobos, Helenos, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydoros. And daughters: Ilione, Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and Kassandra.
After the Trojan War she became a slave of Odysseus.
People in Greek mythology
Slaves
2011 Copa América Final

The 2011 Copa America Final was the final match of the 2011 Copa America. It happened on 24 July in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it was won by Uruguay over Paraguay.
Background
The final was the first time since 2001 that neither Argentina and Brazil played against each other for the title. Both Uruguay and Paraguay entered the match having previously won the Copa America multiple times. Uruguay had won the tournament 14 times, and Paraguay had won it twice. Paraguay also reached the final, having not won a single match in the tournament.
Match
Just 12 minutes into the match, Luis Suarez scores after a Paraguay defender accidentally passed the pall to a Uruguay player. Again another defender mistake caused Diego Forlan to score at the 41th minute, leaving the score at 2-0 at half-time.
Diego Forlan would later score again at the 89th minute, to finish the game off at 3-0. The game finished with 4 Uruguay players and 2 Paraguay players receiving a yellow card.
Details
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2011 in association football
Copa America tournaments
Adam Schiff

Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for . He has served in Congress since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is Jewish.
Schiff represented the 27th and 29th Districts between 2001 and 2013, which included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park, and Pasadena.
Schiff has become an influential voice for his party in the House of Representatives on foreign policy and national security issues.
In January 2023, Schiff announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2024 election.
References
Other websites
Congressman Adam Schiff official U.S. House site
Adam Schiff for Congress
Biography at Ballotpedia
Biography at NNDB
Congressional profile at GovTrack
Congressional profile at OpenCongress
Congressional profile at Roll Call
Financial information (federal office) at OpenSecrets.org
Financial investments (personal) at The Washington Post
Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
Financial information (state office) at the National Institute for Money in State Politics
1960 births
Living people
United States representatives from California
Politicians from Massachusetts
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
State legislators of the United States
American Jews
21st-century American politicians
Baritone horn

A Baritone horn (also known as a baritone) is a musical instrument like a tuba but smaller and higher pitched. it is a brass instrument, and it usually is played primarily in base clef. It has effectively the same sound as a trombone.
Brass instruments
Elizabeth Lada

Elizabeth Lada (born 19??) is an American astronomer.
The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy Prize in 1992. She also was named as a Hubble Fellow during her work at the University of Maryland. She was awarded a National Science Foundation's CAREER Award in 1999. In 1998 she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Lada got her Bachelor of Science in Physics degree at Yale University in 1965. She did her Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of Texas in 1990. Lada is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Cuba national football team

The Cuba national football team is the national football team of Cuba.
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Caribbean national football teams
Sport in Cuba
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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 - March 6, 1932) was an American musician and composer. He was born in Washington, DC. His father was of Portuguese ancestry and his mother of Bavarian. In 1880, he was appointed conductor of the United States Marine Corps band. He wrote military marches and other patriotic music. His best known works are "Semper Fidelis" (the Official United States Marine Corps march), "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (the National March of the United States of America), and "The Washington Post". Sousa died of heart failure in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.
1854 births
1932 deaths
20th-century American composers
American conductors
Musicians from Washington, D.C.
United States Marine Corps personnel
Hylobates

The genus Hylobates is one of the four genera of gibbons. It is the most widespread type of gibbon; there are six or seven species. Individuals in this genus are characterized by 44 chromosomes and often have a ring of white fur around their faces.
Species
Hylobates lar
Agile Gibbon|Hylobates agilis
Hylobates albibarbis
Muller's Bornean Gibbon|Hylobates muelleri
Silvery Gibbon|Hylobates moloch
Hylobates pileatus
Hylobates klossii
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Apes
Mammals of Asia
Naoya Ishigami

Naoya Ishigami (born 2 March 1985) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Cerezo Osaka.
Club career statistics
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Cerezo Osaka
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Ibaraki Prefecture
Aamir Kaleem

Aamir Kaleem was born 20 November, 1981 in Karachi, Pakistan. He is an Oman cricketer who played 3 One-day Internationals and 29 Twenty20 Internationals for Oman.
Other websites
1981 births
Living people
Omani cricketers
Cricketers from Karachi
Mark Vanmoerkerke

Mark Vanmoerkerke (18 September 1952 - 26 October 2022) was a Belgian senator and businessman.
Vanmourkerke served as a member in the Belgian Senate from 1994 to 1995 for the Christian Social Party.
Vanmoerkerke became an entrepreneur and was owner of the Belgian holiday park group Sunparks, succeeding his father Rudolf Vanmoerkerke. In 2018, he became a majority shareholder in real estate firm QRF City Retail. Mark Vanmoerkerke was also an art lover and had an impressive collection that he housed in his 'Vanmoerkerke Collection'.
Vanmoerkerke died on 26 October 2022, aged 70.
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1952 births
2022 deaths
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Place of death missing
Kei Nishikori

Kei Nishikori (born on December 29, 1989) is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is from Matsue in Shimane. He graduated from Nogi elementary school, Kaisei junior high school, and Aomori-yamada high school. He is right-handed.
Record
In September 2014, Nishikori was the US Open first runner-up. He participated in the ATP World Tour Final in 2014. His career-high ATP Ranking is 4th in the world.
Career
He began tennis when he was five years old. He has achieved a national Triple Crown at 11 years old and he was trained in the United States from 13 years old. He turned professional when he was 17 years old and he won his first professional tournament at 18 years old. He injured his elbow in 2009, but he returned the following year. As of August 2015, he is ranked number 4 in the world.
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1989 births
Living people
People from Shimane Prefecture
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Japanese Olympic bronze medalists
Wet Tropics of Queensland

The Wet Tropics of Queensland is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has the oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforests on Earth. The forests date from the Mesozoic era when the climate of Australia (and the world) was much more tropical than today. Originally, the rain forest area covered a much wider area than today. Today it is just a narrow strip along the east coast of Queensland. It starts just north of Townsville and continues to just south of Cooktown, a distance of about .
The wet tropics cover an area of in 730 separate blocks of land. It includes 41 national parks covering. About 80% of the site is tropical rainforest. It is interesting because it is very old forest, and is a living record of 415 million years of evolution, going back to Pangea and Gondwana. All of Australia's marsupials, and many of its other animals, evolved in tropical rainforests, and many of their closest surviving ancestors still live in the Wet Tropics of Queensland.
Related pages
List of World Heritage Sites in Australia
Daintree Rainforest
References
Other websites
World Heritage Sites in Australia
Geography of Queensland
Australian National Heritage List
Megan Fox

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model.
She was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She moved to St Petersburg, Florida at age 10.
She starred in Transformers. She stars with Dominic Monaghan in the music video for Love the Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna.
Fox is openly bisexual.
Since May 2020, he has been in a relationship with rap musician Machine Gun Kelly. On January 12, 2022, Fox announced that the two were engaged.
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Actors from Florida
Actors from Tennessee
American child actors
American movie actors
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Bisexual people
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LGBT people from Tennessee
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Native American people
1986 births
Living people
People from St. Petersburg, Florida
House centipede

The house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) is a yellowish grey centipede having up to 15 pairs of legs.
The species are found all across the world and live in human apartments or houses. The house centipede is an insectivore; it kills and eats arachnids and insects. They were first discovered around 1758. These centipedes are harmless to humans, although humans may be startled by them. It is a nocturnal animal.
House centipedes live from three to seven years, depending on the environment. They can start breeding in their third year.
They are among the fastest artropods: they can reach speeds of up to 420mm/s, which is about 1.5km/h.
Myriapods
Proton Bus Simuator

Proton Bus Simulator is a bus simulator game developed by Marcos Elias Picao for Microsoft Windows and Android. It is powered by Unity and was released in 2017. Another version, from the same series, is titled Proton Bus Road, coach bus version, in 2018. In September 2021, it was downloaded 1 million times.
Gameplay
The game features four maps, including Aricanduva, representing a large urban cluster. As this is the first map, it is proposed to have more errors and less rendered areas. Aricanduva includes high traffic vehicles and many noble neighborhoods. In addition to this map, there are areas such as Uipe (industrial city region), Fiktivdorf based on European cities and the Longeee rural map.
The game does not have licensed vehicles, but it has similar versions and vehicle mod support.
As of April 2021, the game was still in testing, with the publicly available beta.
Updates
Version v246 brought a fictional map of the Europe, Fiktivdorf, and downloadable changes only for the authors, as well as fixes for PC and Android. Then the v247 version brought another Uipe map, a mountain chain map.
After v251, users will be able to create or place a map mods, to facilitate the addition of vehicles in the game, and consolidate the unique ones.
Version v255/257 brought free support for cheap computer booklets, which made it easier to change the direction of the bus later. V258 support for the Aricanduva HD card has arrived, only for powerful PCs.
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Other websites
2017 video games
Android (operating system) games
Single-player video games
Windows games
Evgeny Kissin

Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin ( Yevgeniy Igorevich Kisin; born in Moscow, 10 October 1971) is an Israeli-Russian-British pianist. He has been an Israeli citizen since 2013. He is famous for his playing of the works of the Romantic repertoire, such as Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt.
Awards and recognitions
Musical America, Instrumentalist of the Year, 1994
Triumph Award, Outstanding Contribution to Russia's Culture (Youngest Awardee), 1997
Honorary Doctorate of Music by the Manhattan School of Music, New York 2001
Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music 2005
Herbert von Karajan Award, Baden-Baden, Germany (2005)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), 2006
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award, Brescia, Italy 2007
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra), 2009
Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2010
References
3. Evgeny Kissin's fanpage on Facebook
1971 births
Living people
Russian pianists
Tupolev Tu-334

Tupolev Tu-334 (Russian: Tupolev Tu-334) was a Russian short-to-medium range airliner project.
Soviet & Russian aircraft
Gilliam, Louisiana

Gilliam is a village in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Villages in Caddo Parish, Louisiana