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Socratic method

The Socratic Method (or Method of Elenchus or Socratic Debate), is named after the Greek philosopher Socrates. It is a form of philosophical questioning.
The central technique of the Socratic method is called an elenchus. It means argument to disprove or refute (prove wrong).
Socrates in Plato's dialogues
Our knowledge of Socrates comes mainly from Plato, who was one of his pupils. No writing by Socrates survives.
Socrates was famous for not answering questions in a direct manner. "I know that I know nothing", he said. Socrates's stated position (as presented in Plato's dialogues) was that other person already knew the answer to a question. He (S.) only drew out what was already in the other's mind.
In Plato's early dialogues, the elenchus is the technique Socrates uses to investigate ethical concepts, such as justice or virtue. According to one scholar, it has the following steps:
Socrates' student or partner asserts a thesis, for example "Courage is endurance of the soul".
Socrates secures his agreement to further premises, for example "Courage is a fine thing" and "Ignorant endurance is not a fine thing".
Socrates then argues, and the partner agrees, that these further premises imply the opposite of the original thesis, in this case it leads to: "courage is not endurance of the soul".
Socrates then claims that he has shown that his partner's thesis is false and that its opposite is true.
The exact nature of the elenchus is subject to a great deal of debate. In particular, whether it is a positive method leading to knowledge, or a negative method used solely to refute false claims to knowledge.
According to W.K.C. Guthrie, the Socratic method was intended to demonstrate one's ignorance. Socrates, unlike the Sophists, did believe that knowledge was possible, but believed that the first step to knowledge was recognition of one's ignorance. Guthrie writes, "[Socrates] was accustomed to say that he did not himself know anything, and that the only way in which he was wiser than other men was that he was conscious of his own ignorance, while they were not. The essence of the Socratic method is to convince the interlocutor that whereas he thought he knew something, in fact he does not".
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Human communication
Philosophy
Brian McClendon

Brian McClendon (born 1964) is an American software designer, developer, and engineer. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc.. Keyhole is a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004. Google bought it so they could create Google Earth. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Early life
McClendon grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. His childhood home, Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, is the default center point of Google Earth. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Career
Technology
McClendon became a vice president at Google in 2004. This was when Google purchased Keyhole. Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, formed the basis of Google Earth.
He left Google to join Uber in June 2015. He did this to work on mapping.
In March 2017, he quit Uber (though was still an adviser) to return to his hometown. He said he was interested in Kansas politics.
Politics
In January 2018, he said he would run for Kansas Secretary of State as a Democrat. He had no opponent in the primary election. He was selected as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by the Republican candidate Scott Schwab.
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NAE Profile
1964 births
Living people
Kansas Democrats
People from Lawrence, Kansas
Google people
American software engineers
Hellhound

A hellhound is a supernatural dog, found in mythology, folklore and fiction. Like the dragon, many ominous or hellish supernatural dogs are found in mythology around the world.
They often have to guard the entrances to the world of the dead, such as graveyards and burial grounds, or do other things related to the afterlife or the supernatural. These might be hunting down lost souls or guarding a supernatural treasure. In European legends, seeing a hellhound or hearing it howl may be either an omen or a cause of a soon death.
It is said to be bigger than a normal dog. Hellhounds are often said to have black fur, glowing red or sometimes glowing yellow eyes, a lot of strength or speed, ghostly or phantom features, a bad smell, and sometimes even being able to talk. In cultures that think that there is fire in the afterlife, hellhounds may have fire-based abilities and looks.
Legendary creatures
Demons
Todd Boehly

Todd Lawrence Boehly (born 20 September 1973) is an American businessman and investor. He helped found and is in charge of Eldridge Industries, a holding company located in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is also the temporary chief executive officer of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the chairman of Clearlake Capital for club Chelsea.
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1973 births
Living people
American businesspeople
Porter, Maine

Porter is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
Towns in Maine
37 (number)

Thirty-seven is a number. It comes between thirty-six and thirty-eight, and is an odd number. It is also the 12th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31.
Integers
Prime numbers
Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng (born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author.
He wrote the book Tombstone (Mu Bei ), about the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. He also wrote The World Turned Upside Down (Tian Di Fan Fu ), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 His loyalty to the party was broken by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing. As of 2007, Yang Jisheng is on the list of those who are Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.
Books that he has written
[ Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine in the 1960s] Mu Bei --Zhong Guo Liu Shi Nian Dai Da Ji Huang Ji Shi (Mubei - - Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books (Tiandi Tushu), 2008, . By 2010, it was using the title: [ Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine From 1958-1962] Mu Bei : Yi Jiu Wu Ba -Yi Jiu Liu Er Nian Zhong Guo Da Ji Huang Ji Shi (Mubei: Yi Jiu Wu Ba - Yi Jiu Liu Er Nian Zhongguo Da Jihuang Shiji).
Translated to English
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine, trans. Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, Publisher: Allen Lane (2012),
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, trans. and ed. by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021), .
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Chinese writers
1940 births
Living people
Charnay, Doubs

Charnay is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Doubs department in east France.
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Communes in Doubs
Westminster Under School

Westminster Under School is a private preparatory school for boys aged 7 to 13 and is part of Westminster School in London.
The school was founded in 1943 in the buildings of Westminster School in Little Dean's Yard, just behind Westminster Abbey. In 1951 the Under School relocated to its own site in Eccleston Square. Due to rising numbers of students in the 1960s and 1970s, the school moved again in 1981 to its present site (which was a former hospital) next the Westminster School playing fields in Vincent Square. There are 267 pupils attending the school. The school has a strong musical tradition and provides choristers for St Margaret's Church, London.
Most boys attending the school move on to Westminster School after the completion of either Common Entrance or Scholarship examinations (The Challenge), although a number of boys each year go onto other schools, most often either Eton or Harrow.
The Master is Mrs Elizabeth Hill ; the Deputy Master is Mr D. Bratt. There are currently 39 members of staff.
The school fees for 2008-9 are PS4412 pre term.
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Ofiicial website
Schools in London
1943 establishments in Europe
1940s establishments in England
Bridge of Dragons

Bridge of Dragons is a 1999 American Bulgarian romantic action movie directed by Isaac Florentine and starring Dolph Lundgren, Jo Kendall, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Valerie Chow, Scott L. Schwartz, Nikolay Binev.
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1999 action movies
1999 romance movies
American action movies
American romance movies
Bulgarian movies
Movies directed by Isaac Florentine
Astrakhan

Astrakhan (; ) is a city on the Volga River in Russia. It is the largest city and administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. In 2010, 520,339 people lived there.
Capitals of oblasts of Russia
Astrakhan Oblast
Upaix

Upaix is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Population
Transport
Road
The D22, D51, D151, D151L, D212, D251, D622, D722, D1085 and N0 roads pass through the commune.
Location
The commune borders the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department.
References
Communes in Hautes-Alpes
Chevilly, Switzerland

Chevilly is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Vaud
List of goaltenders who have scored a goal in an NHL game

There have been fourteen goaltenders including e Erick Johnson who have scored a goal in a National Hockey League (NHL) game. The most recent to do so was Linus Ullmark for the Boston Bruins on 2/25/23.
Scorers
Key
A Ellis had not yet reached the bench to be replaced by an extra attacker (he even attempted to return to stop the puck) and thus the goal was credited as an official goal against Ellis, as opposed to an empty-net goal.
B Replay footage showed that the goal was scored with 0.1 second left in the game.
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Lists of National Hockey League players
Ice hockey goaltenders
Jacquard loom

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom. It is used to make patterns in clothing material. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, and first used in 1801. It simplified the process of making textiles with complex patterns.
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Machines
Manufacturing
Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is the most important tournament in the sport of rugby union. The first one was in 1987. The cup happens every four years. The competition is one of the biggest sporting events in the world (along with the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics).
There are only 20 spots available in a Rugby World Cup, so teams must compete for them in a qualifying competition. Teams that reached the knockout stages of the previous tournament automatically qualify for the next tournament.
The 2011 match was held in New Zealand, and the 2015 England. The 2019 competition will be held in Japan.
The current champions are South Africa.
Results by nation
Other websites
- official site
World Rugby
Rugby union
Doug

Doug is an animated television program. The program was created by Jim Jinkins. It was produced by Nelvana. The program is about the early adolescent life of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie. Doug, was 11-12 years old in the first 4 seasons of the series. He was 13 years old in seasons 5 to 7.
Doug was broadcast on Nickelodeon in from 1991 until 1994. The series was on ABC (Disney) from 1996 until 1999.
Characters
Douglas Yancey "Doug" Funnie was voiced by Billy West in the Nickelodeon series and Tom McHugh in the Disney series. Doug is a shy 11 (later 12)-year-old boy. Most of the time, he is dealing with his fear of failure. He is good at writing, drawing, making music and caring for animals. Doug narrates every episode. He also writes his experiences in his journal. He has an alter ego, Quailman. Quailman was inspired by Jinkins's childhood home movies in which they posed as superheroes.
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Nickelodeon television series
1990s American animated television series
1990s children's television series
1991 American television series debuts
1994 American television series endings
1996 American television series debuts
1999 American television series endings
English-language television programs
Loricifera

Loricifera is a recently discovered ecdysozoan phylum of marine animals. The phylum includes the first animals known to exist in a completely anoxic environment (no oxygen at all). The phylum was described in 1983 by Reinhardt Kristensen.
They are a phylum of very small animals which live in sediment. There are now twenty-two described species, in eight genera. In addition, there are about 100 more species which have been collected, but not yet described. Their size ranges from 100 um to about 1 mm.
Their habitat is in the spaces between marine gravel to which they attach themselves. They are among the most recently discovered groups of Metazoans. They attach themselves quite firmly to the gravel, and this explains why they remained undiscovered for so long. The first specimen was collected in the 1970s, and later described in 1983. They are found at all depths of water, in different sediment types, and in all latitudes. They have not yet been found in the fossil record.
Anatomy
These animals have a protective outer case called a lorica. Protected by the lorica, the animals have a head, mouth and digestive system. Development is usually direct, though there are larvae in some species. The animals have two sexes as adults. There are some complex and flexible life cycles with different forms of parthenogenetic reproduction.
Their closest relatives are thought to be the Kinorhyncha and Priapulida, with whom they share some characteristics. Together they make up the clade Scalidophora.
In anoxic environments
Three species of Loricifera have been found in the sediments at the bottom of the L'Atalante basin in the Mediterranean Sea. The 'surface' of this basin is 3,500 meters down. They are the first multicellular organisms known to spend their entire lives in an oxygen-free environment. It is thought they are able to do this because they rely on organelles which, unlike normal mitochondria, do not use oxygen for their energy cycle. They are able to do this because they use hydrogenosomes to get their energy rather than mitochondria.
The newly reported animals complete their life cycle in the total absence of light and oxygen, and they are less than a millimetre in size. They were collected from the deep basin where they live in a nearly salt-saturated brine. This brine, because of its density, does not mix with the waters above. As a result, the brine is completely anoxic, and high in ammonia. Also, due to the action of sulphate reducers, it contains sulphide at a high concentration. In the brine, the abundance of cells is not high. Extremophiles predominate, including members of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent community of archaea and bacteria. Eukaryotes are also found in l'Atalante, including ciliates (45%), dinoflagellates (21%) and choanoflagellata (10%).p360-381
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Minor phyla
Extremophiles
Invertebrates
Alikovsky District

Alikovsky District (; , Elek rajone) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwestern central part of the republic and borders with Morgaushsky and Yadrinsky Districts in the north, Krasnoarmeysky District in the east, Vurnarsky and Shumerlinsky Districts in the south, and with Krasnochetaysky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Alikovo. Population: The population of Alikovo accounts for 14.5% of the district's total population.
History
The district was formed on October 1, 1927.
Economy
There is a construction plant in Alikovo.
Transportation
The Cheboksary-Yadrin and the Cheboksary-Krasnye Chetay autoroute cross the territory of the district.
Demographics
As of the 2002 Census, 98% of the population was Chuvash.
Education
There is a middle school in Alikovo.
Culture
There is a museum, a people's theater, a folk band, a veteran's orchestra, a school's brass band, and a chorus. Regional Chuvash music festival "Vir'yal shevlisem" (lit. Viryal's pancakes) takes place in May of each year.
Notable people
Alexander Artemiev, writer and poet
Anatoly Serep, writer and poet
Arcady Aris, writer
Arkady Malov, poet and translator
Boris Markov, actor, director
Gerasim Piles, writer and playwright
Ille Toktash, writer and poet
Nikita Larionov, writer and poet
Nikolai Yut, writer, folklorist, and literature critic
Stanislav Voronov, artist
Further reading
L. A. Yefimov, "Alikovsky District" ("Elek Ene"), Alikovo, 1994.
"Alikovskaia entsiklopediia" (Alikovsky District's Encyclopedia), authors: Yefimov L.A., Yefimov E.L., Ananyev A.A., Terentyev G.K., Cheboksary, 2009, .
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Notes
Sources
Tabor tree frog

The tabor tree frog (Hyloscirtus lascinius) is a frog. It lives on the east side of the Andes mountains in South America. It lives in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Frogs of South America
María Elsa Viteri

Maria Elsa Viteri (25 February 1965 - 18 November 2021) was an Ecuadorian economist and politician. She was Minister of Finance from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2018. Viteri was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Viteri died on 18 November 2021 from pancreatic cancer in Guayaquil, aged 56.
Related pages
List of scientists from South America
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1965 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Ecuadorian economists
Politicians from Guayaquil
Bayraklı

Bayrakli is a district of Izmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the metropolitan districts of Izmir. Bayrakli was turned into a district by a decree of the Government of Turkey on 6 March 2008. Before the date it was part of Karsiyaka.
2008 establishments in Asia
Districts of Turkey
Izmir
List of heavy mortars

Heavy mortars are large-calibre mortars which fire a heavy shell on a high angle trajectory. These weapons have a short range, but are usually less complex than similar sized field artillery.
This category includes the "Trench Mortars" of World War I. These were all heavy and difficult to move.
Muzzle-loading
Breech-loading
Related pages
List of field guns
List of howitzers
References
Lists of weapons
Hayko

Hayk "Hayko" Hakobyan (; 25 August 1973 - 29 September 2021) was an Armenian singer. He represented Armenia in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. He performed "Anytime You Need" and came in eighth place in the contest. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia.
Hayko died on 29 September 2021, in Yerevan, from COVID-19 at aged 48.
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1973 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia
Armenian singers
CKEM-DT

CKEM-DT (channel 51) is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media.
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Edmonton
Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch was a German chemist. He developed the Haber-Bosch process which allows the production of Ammonia. BASF developed a procedure to industrially produce fertilizers on the base of nitrogen. These fertilizers can be produced with the Haber-Bosch process. Today, Nitrogen-based fertilizers are commonly used to help food production in the world. Carl Bosch was also a diplomat: He had a big influence on the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. He also worked to find a solutions about finding ways to end hunger after the war. Between 1919 and 1925 he was the head of BASF. later he became involved with I.G. Farben, a chemical company he founded. At that time, I.G. Farben was the biggest chemical company in the world. In 1931, Bosch was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for his work in high-pressure chemistry, together with Friedrich Bergius. In 1937, he followed Max Planck as the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Because of the political situation in Germany, Bosch developed depression. In 1939, he tried to commit suicide, but failed. He died a year later, in Heidelberg.
1874 births
1940 deaths
German chemists
German businesspeople
German Nobel Prize winners
Scientists from Cologne
Eva Hart

Eva Miriam Hart (January 31, 1905 - February 14, 1996) was an RMS Titanic survivor. She was seven years old when she and her parents, Benjamin and Esther, boarded Titanic. Hart was sleeping when the Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 PM.
Hart and her mother were picked up by RMS Carpathia.
Hart was born in Ilford, Essex, England. She died in Chadwell Heath, London, two weeks after her 91st birthday.
People from Essex
RMS Titanic survivors
1905 births
1996 deaths
Knob

A knob is a round handle that can be turned or pulled. A doorknob is a round handle that is turned to open a door. A cabinet knob is a small handle that is pulled to open a cabinet door or drawer. A control knob can turn a lamp on and off or make the volume on a radio go up or down.
A "knob" can also be any small, round thing that sticks out.
Hardware (mechanical)
Auferstanden aus Ruinen

"Auferstanden aus Ruinen" () (German for Risen from Ruins) was the national anthem of East Germany.
History
In 1949, the Soviet occupation zone of Allied Occupied Germany became a country that was called East Germany. For the anthem, the poet Johannes R. Becher wrote the lyrics. The composer Hanns Eisler wrote the melody.
Lyrics
References
Historical anthems
German anthems
1949 songs
CenturyLink

Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American company from Monroe, Louisiana. It provides internet, cable television and telephone service to many areas of the United States.
The original names for the company were the Oak Ridge Telephone Company, Central Telephone, and Century Telephone.
CenturyLink was established in 1930 in Oak Ridge, Louisiana.
CenturyLink completed a merger with Qwest on Friday, April 1, 2011. CenturyLink was the surviving company.
CenturyLink won two "Best in Class" awards in 2011.
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20th-century establishments in Louisiana
1930 establishments in the United States
American telephone companies
American internet service providers
Companies based in Louisiana
Bindi

Bindi is a colored dot located on the center of the forehead. Bindi is a symbol of the origin of life in countries where Hinduism and Jainism are preached.
Bindi is known also as the third eye.
Indian culture
Body art
Dan Harmon

Daniel "Dan" Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American writer, producer and voice actor. He is best known for creating the NBC comedy series Community (2009-2015). He also co-created the animated Adult Swim sitcom Rick and Morty (2013-present) with Justin Roiland. He voices the character Bird Person on Rick and Morty.
Harmon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was married to Erin McGathy from 2014 to 2015.
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Other websites
1973 births
Living people
Actors from Milwaukee
American screenwriters
American television writers
American voice actors
Writers from Wisconsin
Autonomic dysreflexia

Autonomic dysreflexia (AD), also called autonomic hyperreflexia, is a medical emergency.
Who Gets Autonomic Dysreflexia?
AD usually happens in people with spinal cord injuries that have caused damage above the sixth thoracic vertebra (T6, which is about at the same level of the armpits). However, AD sometimes happens in people with spinal damage as low as their tenth thoracic vertebra (T10, which is about a few inches above the level of the belly button).
AD can also happen in people with diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS).
Symptoms
Acute AD causes many symptoms. Some are very dangerous. These symptoms include:
Hypertensive emergency: the person's blood pressure gets very high all of a sudden. The blood pressure can get so high that it can cause a stroke.
bradycardia, a slow heart rate. If the heart beats too slowly, the rest of the body cannot get enough blood or oxygen. This is dangerous, because every part of the body needs blood (which carries oxygen) to survive. For example:
If the brain does not get enough oxygen, a person can get brain damage or die.
If the heart does not get enough oxygen, it can stop beating normally or even stop beating completely.
Bad headaches
Very bad sweating
Stuffy nose
Skin flushing (redness) above the level of the spinal injury
anxiety
Thinking problems
What Causes Autonomic Dysreflexia?
Acute AD happens when the involuntary nervous system gets overexcited. The body's fight or flight response kicks in very strongly.
Scientists think this happens because of afferent nerves. Afferent nerves are supposed to sense things (like touch) and send messages back to the brain and spinal cord so the brain can decide how to react. Scientists think that afferent nerves below the spinal cord injury cause blood pressure to get and stay high, by causing the blood vessels to get smaller. This is part of the fight or flight response.
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Medical emergencies
Diseases and disorders of the nervous system
Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen is an island in the Arctic Ocean. It is part of Norway. The island's area is 373 km2. A large part of the island is an active volcano, the Beerenberg, which is 2,277m high. Jan Mayen is 600 km north of Iceland, 500 km east of Greenland and 1000 km west of the Norwegian mainland.
There is a radio station and a meteorological station on the island. The staff at these stations are the only people living on the island.
History
There are many claims and stories about discovery of the island. Some claims and possible discoveries are as early as the beginning of the 6th century. However, the first discovery that is certain was in 1614. The Dutchman Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout visited the island then and it is named for him. His first mate made maps of some of the coast.
It is incorrectly assumed that Henry Hudson discovered the island in 1607 and called it Hudson's Tutches or Touches, but there is no evidence for this. Thereafter it was allegedly seen several times by navigators who claimed its discovery and renamed it. Thus, in 1611 or the following year whalers from Hull named it Trinity Island; in 1612 Jean Vrolicq, a French whaler, claimed in 1629 that he had discovered the island and called it Ile de Richelieu; and in 1614 English captain John Clarke named it Isabella.
The island has very few residents. The Long Range Navigation (Loran-C) base has a staff of 14 and a weather services station has a staff of four. The staff members of both stations live in Olonkinbyen. The island has no native people living on it, but is given the ISO 3166-1 country code SJ, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .no (.sj is allocated but not used ) and data code JN. Its amateur radio call sign prefix is JX.
Related pages
Svalbard
References
Other websites
Satellite Radar image of Jan Mayen
Photographs and information on Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen crew
LORAN-C mast Jan Mayen
Arctic islands
Islands of Norway
Uninhabited regions
Campino (candy)

Campino is a brand of hard candy made by August Storck KG. It is made using a mix of yogurt and fruits that has varied since the product was released in 1966. Until 2007, only two versions were available: strawberry and summer fruits (a mixed bag of raspberry, blackcurrant and peach). In 2007, a strawberry, cherry, and peach version was released. Campino candies are no longer available in the United Kingdom, but are available in the United States and Canada.
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Candy
Dona Ivone Lara

Yvonne Lara da Costa (April 13, 1921 - April 16, 2018), better known as Dona Ivone Lara, was a Brazilian singer and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Before her music career began, she was a nurse. Her career as a composer came in 1965, with Os cinco bailes da historia do Rio (The Five Balls of the History of Rio) when she became the first woman to become part of the ala de compositores (Wing of the Composers) of a samba school.
Among the interpreters of her songs are such singers and artists as Clara Nunes, Roberto Ribeiro, Maria Bethania, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Paula Toller, Paulinho da Viola, Beth Carvalho, Mariene de Castro e Roberta Sa.
Lara died in Rio de Janeiro on April 16, 2018 of cardiac arrest at the age of 97.
References
Other websites
Official Website
Official web site of the Imperio Serrano samba school
Veja Magazine- A nacao das cantoras (in Portuguese)
1921 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Singers from Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian composers
Writers from Rio de Janeiro
Mercedes Pomares

Mercedes Pomares is a volleyball player from Cuba. Mercedes competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was born on 9 April 1954.
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Other websites
1954 births
Living people
Cuban volleyball players
Cuban Olympians
Triangle of Sadness

Triangle of Sadness is a 2022 black comedy movie written and directed by Ruben Ostlund. It stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Buric, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson. The movie is about a celebrity couple on a luxury cruise with rich guests.
The movie had positive reviews. It received three nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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2022 comedy movies
2020s black comedy movies
Swedish comedy movies
German comedy movies
French comedy movies
British black comedy movies
Yew

A yew is a coniferous tree. The name is mainly used for species of the genus Taxus, and sometimes for other conifers in the family Taxaceae.
Poison
All species of yew contain highly poisonous alkaloids known as taxanes. All parts of the tree except the arils (red 'fruits') contain the alkaloid.
The arils are edible and sweet, but the seeds are dangerously poisonous. Unlike birds, the human stomach can break down the seed coat and release the taxanes into the body. It can have fatal results if yew 'berries' are eaten without removing the seeds first.
The seeds and leaves will kill cattle and horses, but deer can break down the poisons and will eat yew foliage freely. Deer browsing of yews is often so extensive that wild yew trees are restricted to cliffs and steep slopes the deer cannot get to. The foliage is also eaten by the larvae of some Lepidopteran insects including the willow beauty moth.
Description
Yews are slow growing and can be very long-lived, and reach heights of 1-40 m, with trunk diameters of up to 4 m. They have reddish bark, spear-shaped flat, dark-green leaves 1-4 cm long and 2-3 mm broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flat rows either side of the stem.
The tree is dioecious: the sexes are on separate trees. The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4-7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8-15 mm long and wide and open at the end.
The arils are mature 6-9 months after pollination, and are eaten by thrushes, waxwings and other birds, which disperse the hard seeds undamaged in their droppings.
The male cones are round, 3-6 mm diameter, and shed their pollen in early spring. Yews are mostly dioecious, but occasional individuals can be variably monoecious, or change sex with time.
All the yews are very closely related to each other, and often described together as Taxus baccata. They are Gymnosperms in the Pinophyta. They appear in the early Cretaceous period.
Yew wood is reddish brown (with whiter sapwood), and is very springy. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the longbow.
Conifers
Plant families
White Cloud, Michigan

White Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, a small town on the bank of the White River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,408. It is the county seat of Newaygo County.
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Cities in Michigan
County seats in Michigan
Ginasservis

Ginasservis is a commune of 1,859 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var
Beth Grant

Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American character actress. Between 2012 and 2017, she was a series regular on the television comedy The Mindy Project playing the role of Beverly Janoszewski.
References
1949 births
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
Living people
Actors from Alabama
People from Gadsden, Alabama
Awamori

Awamori is an alcoholic drink from Okinawa, Japan. Awamori is made from rice. It is fermented and distilled. Awamori is similar to shochu, but very different from nihonshu, or sake. The amount of alcohol in Awamori is usually between 30% and 43% and sometimes up to 60%. After distillation, the drink is ready for bottling and drinking, but as a rule it is aged in ceramic containers for better taste. Ordinary varieties Awamori, are aged about 6 months, but are made and much more aged varieties - 20 and 25 years of aging. Small amounts of drinks made with addition of various spices, ginseng, and even canned snake.
People in Okinawa enjoy drinking Awamori with friends, families and so on. It is popular with tourists as a souvenir.
Most of the people in Okinawa drink Awamori with ice and water. Some people drink with it Jasmine tea, which is called Sanpincha in Okinawa. It makes the taste of Awamori better.
Awamori can improve if its maker takes time to let it mature. If it is matured a long time, the taste becomes mellow and its smell becomes sweet.
In the 19th century, ships from England, France and the United States reached the Ryukyu Islands, and awamori was served to the crews.
References
Fermented drinks
Okinawa Prefecture
Spreitenbach

Spreitenbach is a municipality in Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Aargau
Cities in Switzerland
Odd-toed ungulate

Odd-toed ungulates are the Perissodactyla, an order of mammals.
Odd-toed ungulates have an uneven number of toes: Horses have only one toe, rhinoceros have three toes, and tapirs have four toes on the front feet and three toes on the hind feet.
Their digestive system is more basic than the even-toed ungulates. A key difference between the two is that odd-toed ungulates digest plant cellulose in their intestines rather than in one or more stomach chambers as the even-toed ungulates do.
Horses, for example, get much less nutrition out of grass than bovines do. This has the consequence that horses have to stop and feed more often, which in turn makes them more liable to predators. However, horses are very well-adapted for running, more so than many oxen or other Artiodactyls.
The living ungulates are a much-reduced group: the horses (including zebras), the tapirs and the rhinoceros.
Taxonomy
Order Perissodactyla
Family Rhinocerotidae
Family Tapiridae
Family Equidae
References
Russian Souvenir

Russian Souvenir () is a 1960 Soviet comedy movie directed by Grigori Aleksandrov. It stars Lyubov Orlova, Andrei Popov, and Pavel Kadochnikov.
Actors
Lyubov Orlova as Varvara Komarova<ref>Peter Rollberg
Andrei Popov as Adlai Huntor Scott, American millionaire
Pavel Kadochnikov as Homer Johns, Mr. Scott's aid
Erast Garin as John Peebles, American philosopher
Elina Bystritskaya as Pandora Montezi, Italian spy
References
Other websites
1960 comedy movies
Soviet comedy movies
Movies directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Samuel Wesley

Samuel Wesley (born Bristol, 24 February 1766; died London, 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer
Samuel Wesley was the son of Methodist hymn-writer Charles Wesley, the grandson of the poet Samuel Wesley and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church. His illegitimate son Samuel Sebastian Wesley was the greatest English composer of church music of the 19th century.
Samuel played the violin as well as the organ, and worked as a conductor as well as a music lecturer. He lived at a time when most English composers were writing sentimental music which was not very important. Wesley was one of the best composers of his time.
1766 births
1837 deaths
English composers
Classical era composers
Yoshitaka Amano

is a Japanese artist. He designs characters and costumes. His works are delicate and mysterious. His works are exhibited in many places in the world.
Other websites
Yoshitaka Amano's Official Blog (Japanese)
Yoshitaka Amano Museum (Japanese)
Deva Zan Official website
1952 births
Living people
Japanese artists
People from Shizuoka Prefecture
Sidmar Antônio Martins

Sidmar Antonio Martins (born June 13, 1962) is a former Brazilian football player.
Club career statistics
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|1993||rowspan="3"|Shimizu S-Pulse||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||17||0||4||0||6||0||27||0
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|1994||30||0||0||0||1||0||31||0
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|1995||14||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
61||0||4||0||7||0||72||0
61||0||4||0||7||0||72||0
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1962 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Vastergotland (full name in Swedish: Victoria Ingrid Alice Desiree, born 14 July 1977) is the heiress apparent to the throne of Sweden.
Early life
Victoria was born on 14 July 1977 at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna. She is eldest child and elder daughter of Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden. Victoria has two younger siblings, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine.
Marriage and children
Victoria married her former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, on 19 June 2010. They have two children, They were born at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna:
Princess Estelle, Duchess of Ostergotland (born 23 February 2012)
Prince Oscar, Duke of Skane (born 2 March 2016)
Titles and styles
14 July 1977 - 31 December 1979: Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Sweden
1 January 1980 - 9 January 1980: Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Sweden
9 January 1980 - present : Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Vastergotland
Other websites
The Royal Court's official biography in Swedish and English
The Royal Court's press release about the Diplomat Program
Radiohjalpen's official website for Victoria Fund
, Announcement of Victoria and Daniel Westling's engagement, 2009-02-24.
1977 births
Living people
Swedish princesses
People with dyslexia
House of Bernadotte
Inna

Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (born October 16, 1986) known as Inna is a singer from Romania. She became famous after the first single "Hot" in 2008. The song was a hit in 2009 and in 2010 in the United Kingdom, France and other countries from Europe. The first single to be #1 in Romania was "Amazing" (2009) and another hit is "Sun Is Up" (2010). In 2011 Inna and Flo Rida had a song "Club Rocker", it was not a success. She is famous in Mexico too. She has over 4,000,000 fans on Facebook and over 500,000,000 views on YouTube.
Life
Inna was born as Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu on 16 October, 1986 in Neptun a town in Romania. The town is next to the Black Sea and Inna knows to swim very well. She was not the best student in highschool. She loved music and Christina Aguilera or Rihanna. In 2007/2008 she met Play & Win, three boys who write music. They recorded some songs that are not successful. She was in Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, but nobody knew her. The name Inna comes from her grandfather. He called her Inna but he died before she got famous. She lives with her bichon Bobo. She says she doesn't have a boyfriend.
Music
Inna has two albums. In 2009 the first album "Hot" was out. The album had four singles: "Hot", "Love", "Amazing" and "10 Minutes". The second album is "I Am the Club Rocker" and it is from 2011 and it has 14 songs and singles: "Sun Is Up", "Club Rocker", "Un Momento" and "Endless".
Inna had tours. She went to: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Netherlands and the UK and to Mexico before her birthday in 2011. She had the biggest concert in Romania for a Romanian person since 2005, in May 2011. She planned to go to US in 2012.
She has over 10 music videos filmed in: Romania, Portugal, UK, France, Spain or Bulgaria.
Awards
She won a lot of prizes including: 12 Romanian Music Awards, 2 MTV Europe Music Awards and 1 nomination at the NRJ Music Awards in France, 2011.
Charts
In Romania: 5 TOP 10, 10 TOP 100 (1 #1)
In France: 5 TOP 10, 7 TOP 100
In Switzerland: 2 TOP 10, 5 TOP 75 (1 #1)
In UK: 1 TOP 10, 5 TOP 75 (1 #1, IN UK DANCE CHART)
In US: #1 - Dance Chart - "Hot", 2010
In Bulgaria: 4 TOP 10, 10 TOP 40 (1 #1)
In Spain: 1 TOP 10, 5 TOP 50 (1 #1)
In Belgium: 3 TOP 10, 7 TOP 50
In Holland: 3 TOP 19, 8 TOP 100
In Europe: 2 TOP 10, 4 TOP 100
The albums: "Hot" - #1 in: UK DANCE, Romania. "I Am the club rocker" only top 10 in Mexico.
References
Other websites
Inna Information at Ultra Records
1986 births
Living people
Romanian singers
The Sheltering Desert

The Sheltering Desert is a 1992 South African British Irish adventure drama movie directed by Regardt van den Bergh and starring Jason Connery, Rupert Graves, Joss Ackland, Kate Normington, John Carson.
Other websites
1992 drama movies
1992 adventure movies
South African movies
British adventure movies
British drama movies
Irish adventure movies
Irish drama movies
Movies set in South Africa
Movies set in deserts
Movies directed by Regardt van den Bergh
Pembroke, Maine

Pembroke is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 840 at the 2010 census.
References
Towns in Maine
Seal of Minnesota

The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota is the insignia that the Secretary of State affixes to government papers and documents to make them official.
Related pages
Flag of Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Ramón Puig

Ramon Puig was a rower from Cuba. Puig competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born on 21 August 1929 and died on 22 August 2016.
References
Other websites
1929 births
2016 deaths
Cuban rowers
Cuban Olympians
Odd Iversen

Odd "Ivers" Iversen (6 November 1945 - 29 December 2014) was a Norwegian footballer. He was known for his former record of 158 goals in Norwegian top tier football, as well as his still-standing record of 30 goals in a single season.
Iversen died in Trondheim in the early hours of 29 December 2014 from an unknown illness, aged 69.
He was the father of Steffen Iversen.
References
1945 births
2014 deaths
Disease-related deaths in Norway
Norwegian footballers
People from Trondheim
Jackman, Maine

Jackman is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States.
Towns in Maine
Urawa, Saitama

Urawa was a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is now part of the city of Saitama.
Other websites
Cities in Japan
Settlements in Saitama Prefecture
Kilcullen

Kilcullen (Irish: Cill Chuilinn) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. As of 2011, 3,473 people live in Kilcullen.
References
County Kildare
Villages in Ireland
Marie Thérèse of Savoy

Maria Teresa of Savoy (31 January 1756 - 2 June 1805) was a Princess of Savoy and the wife of Charles Charles, Count of Artois future Charles X of France. In France she was known as Marie Therese de Savoie.
Background
Born at the Royal Palace of Turin, she was the child of Victor Amandeus of Savoy and his wife Maria Antonia of Spain and was baptised with the names Maria Teresa. At the time of her birth her grandfather, Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, was the King of Sardinia and her father was the heir to the throne.
Marriage
Maria Teresa was engaged to Charles Philippe of France, youngest grandson of Louis XV. Her marriage with Charles Philippe, known as the Count of Artois, was the last of three marriages which were carried out between 1771 and 1775. These marriages were between her oldest brother and sister and the younger grandsons of Louis XV and his older granddaughter Marie Clotilde of France.
She was married officially at the Palace of Versailles on 16 November 1773. The most important female at court was her sister-in-law, Marie Antoinette. Maria Teresa's sister, Marie Josephine had a higher rank than Maria Teresa as she had married the older brother, the Count of Provence. The two sisters did not have good relations with Marie Antoinette. Despite this, Maria Teresa was more popular than her sister Marie Josephine who was very ugly. Despite this it was said that she was silent and was interested in absolutely nothing.
The marriage produced four children, two of which survived infancy. She fled France with her husband shortly after the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 which marked the beginning of the French Revolution. Some time after, she took refuge in her homeland of Savoy under the protection of her father who had become king in 1773. Moving to Austria, she died in exile at Graz in 1805. She was buried in the Imperial Mausoleum next to Graz cathedral. Her husband became Charles X of France in 1824.
Children
Louis Antoine d'Artois (6 August 1775 - 3 June 1844) married Marie Therese of France no issue.
Sophie d'Artois (5 August 1776 - 5 December 1783) died young.
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois (24 January 1778 - 14 February 1820) married Carolina of Naples and Sicily and had issue.
Marie Therese d'Artois (6 January 1783 - 22 June 1783) died young.
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
31 January 1756 - 16 November 1773 Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy
16 November 1773 - 2 June 1805 Her Royal Highness The Countess of Artois (Madame la Comtesse d'Artois)
References and notes
1756 births
1805 deaths
People from Turin
House of Bourbon
Princes and Princesses of Savoy
Clairton, Pennsylvania

Clairton is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. 6,796 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Cities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Mathieu Flamini

Mathieu Flamini (born 7 March 1984) is a French football player. He plays for Milan.
Club career statistics
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|2003/04||Olympique Marseille||Ligue 1||14||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||9||0||23||0
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|2004/05||rowspan="4"|Arsenal||rowspan="4"|Premier League||21||1||4||0||3||0||4||0||32||1
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|2005/06||31||0||2||0||3||0||12||0||48||0
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|2006/07||20||3||3||0||3||0||6||1||32||4
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|2007/08||30||3||2||0||0||0||8||0||40||3
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|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Milan||rowspan="2"|Serie A||29||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0||37||0
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
14||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||9||0||23||0
102||7||11||0||9||0||30||1||152||8
29||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0||37||0
145||7||12||0||9||0||46||1||212||8
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International career statistics
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|2007||1||0
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|2008||2||0
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References
1984 births
Living people
French footballers
Heket

Heket was an Egyptian goddess of life and fertility. She took form of a frog. She was the ender to chaos, and she was the mother of the tree God Heral .
Egyptian gods and goddesses
Railway track

A railway track or railway line is a set of two parallel rows of long pieces of steel. They are used by trains to transport people and things from one place to another. (In America, people say railroad as well as railway). Often, there is more than one set of tracks on the railway line. For example, trains go east on one track and west on the other one.
The rails are supported by cross pieces set at regular intervals (called sleepers or ties), which spread the high pressure load imposed by the train wheels into the ground. They also maintain the rails at a fixed distance apart (called the gauge). Ties are usually made from either wood or concrete. These often rest on ballast, which is a name for very small pieces of broken up rock that are packed together and keep the railway tracks in place. Tracks are often made better by ballast tampers.
The upper surfaces of the rails are inclined slightly towards each other, typically on a slope of 1/20, and the rims of the train wheels are angled in the same way ("coning"). This helps guide the vehicles of the train along the track. Each wheel also has a flange, which sticks out from one edge all the way around. This makes sure the train does not "derail" (come off the track) and helps guide the train on sharp curves.
References
Rail transport
Jessica Lokhorst

Jessica Lokhorst (born 16 August 1993) is a Dutch korfball player. She is a member of Fortuna and the Netherlands national korfball team.
She missed the 2021 European championships, due to an ankle injury. With the national team she became champion at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
Achievements
Club
Korfball Europa Cup champion, 1x (2020)
champion, 2x (2019, 2022)
Goal of the year award, 1x (2020)
National team
World Games champion, 2x (2022)
World champion, 1x (2019)
European champion, 1x (2018)
References
1993 births
Living people
Dutch korfball players
Sportspeople from Gelderland
Sportswomen