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Appin, New South Wales

Appin is a town in New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire. It is situated about 16 kilometres south of Campbelltown and 35 kilometres north west of Wollongong. In 2006, there were 1,423 people living in Appin. The fifth village settled in Australia, it is now on the fringe of the Sydney urban area.
The town was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1811 after a small village on the coast of Scotland where his wife was born. One of the first settlers was John Hume, whose son Hamilton Hume became a famous Australian explorer. Hamilton Hume explored the local area and was given a grant of 300 acres of land at Appin as a reward. When he made his famous journey to Victoria with William Hovell in 1824, they started the journey from Appin.
Appin is the birthplace of John Fuller (1830-1865), the Australian bushranger also known as Dan Morgan.
Cataract Gorge is about 10 km south east of Appin. It is now has a dam built in 1906 which is the oldest dam in the Sydney water supply system. On 17 April 1816, the British army killed many Aboriginal men, women and children, of the Dharawal Nation at the gorge. They had been fighting the European settlers who were moving into the area.
The Roman Catholic church at Appin, St. Bede's, was built from 1837-1843. The design was by Father John Therry (1790-1864), who became Australia's first Catholic priest in 1820. St. Bede's is the oldest Catholic church still in continuous use. It was named after St. Bede, the founder of the Benedictines.
References
Whitaker, Anne-Maree, Appin: the story of a Macquarie town, Kingsclear Books, Sydney, 2005
Towns in New South Wales
Aitana Bonmatí

Aitana Bonmati Conca (; ; (18 January 1998), is a Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Barcelona in the Liga F and the Spain women's national team. Bonmati has been part of Barcelona since 2012, progressing through La Masia for six years. She was promoted to Barcelona's main team before the 2016-17 season and made substitute appearances for the club until her breakout season in 2018-19. In 2019, she played in Barcelona's first-ever UEFA Women's Champions League final and was later named Catalan Player of the Year for the first time.
Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bonmati goal.
References
1998 births
Spanish footballers
Living people
East Frisia

East Frisia is a region in Lower Saxony, Germany. In German it is called Ostfriesland. The area is near the coast, and also includes some of the East Frisian Islands. It is one of the regions where Low German is still widely spoken. About half of the population still speak Low German in everyday life.
Geography of Lower Saxony
Regions of Germany
Taguig

Taguig, officially the City of Taguig (), is a city in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is founded in 1587, Taguig is named taga-giik (Tagalog for "rice thresher"). The city is covered by GMA Artist Center due to severe stardom of Yeng Constantino.
Barangays
Maxi single

A maxi single is a CD single that contains more than two tracks. The first maxi-single was released during the 1970s. There are also cassette maxi singles that began in the 1990s.
References
Music technology
You Make It Feel Like Christmas

You Make It Feel Like Christmas is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. The album is Stefani's first full-length Christmas-themed album, was released on October 6, 2017, by Interscope Records. You Make It Feel Like Christmas features twelve tracks, six original songs written by Stefani and six cover versions of Christmas standards. The album was produced by Eric Valentine and executively produced by Stefani and busbee.
Critical reception
You Make It Feel Like Christmas received generally positive reviews from music critics.
Track listing
All songs produced by busbee and Eric Valentine.
Release history
References
2017 albums
Gwen Stefani albums
Pop albums
Christmas albums
R&B albums
Kunlun Fight

Kunlun Fight (KLF) (Chinese: Kun Lun Jue ; pinyin: Kunlun Jue) is a China-based kickboxing promotion, currently seen as one of the top kickboxing promotions in the world. Kunlun Fight is headquartered in Beijing.
References
Other websites
Official Kunlun Fight site
Kickboxing
Sport in China
Iridescence

Iridescence is a thing about some surfaces. If a surface looks like its colour changes as the light moves, then it is iridescent.
There are many iridescent things in nature. Soap bubbles, butterfly wings and sea shells, and some minerals are iridescent. They have tiny structures that affect the light.
The physical process which causes iridescence is usually interference.
light
Color
Gary Mule Deer

Gary Mule Deer (born Gary C. Miller; November 21, 1939) is an American comedian and country musician. He made over 350 television appearances, including many on both The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and the Late Show with David Letterman.
He was one of six comedians, along with Jay Leno, to star on the first HBO comedy special, Freddie Prinze and Friends. He was the co-host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert for four years on NBC, a regular on Make Me Laugh. He was a judge on The Gong Show. He has made over 100 appearances on The Nashville Network, including the last two years as a cast member on Hee Haw.
He appeared in the movies Annie Hall, Up In Smoke and Tilt.
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Living people
American stand-up comedians
1939 births
Musicians from South Dakota
Actors from South Dakota
Comedians from South Dakota
Native American people
American movie actors
American television personalities
Travels with My Aunt (movie)

Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American adventure comedy movie directed by George Cukor and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene. It stars Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was nominated for 4 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1973.
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1972 adventure movies
1972 comedy movies
American adventure movies
American comedy movies
Movies directed by George Cukor
Movies based on books
MGM movies
Movies set in London
Movies set in Paris
Reichshoffen

Reichshoffen is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France. In 2020, 5,416 people lived there. The church of Saint-Michel was built in 1772.
Communes in Bas-Rhin
Gmina Bobrowice

Gmina Bobrowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Krosno Odrzanskie County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Its seat is the village of Bobrowice. It lies approximately south of Krosno Odrzanskie and west of Zielona Gora.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 3,113.
Villages
Gmina Bobrowice contains the villages and settlements of Barlogi, Bobrowice, Bronkow, Bronkowek, Brzezinka, Chojnowo, Chromow, Czeklin, Dachow, Deby, Dychow, Janiszowice, Kolatka, Kukadlo, Lubnica, Mlyniec, Pradocinek, Przychow, Struzka, Tarnawa Krosnienska, Welmice and Zarkow.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Bobrowice is bordered by the gminas of Dabie, Gubin, Krosno Odrzanskie, Lubsko and Nowogrod Bobrzanski.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Geography of Poland
Corythomantis greeningi

Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi) is a frog that lives in northeastern Brazil.
The adult male frog is about 7.3 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 8.7 cm long. The male frog weighs about 21 grams and the female frog 41 grams. Its skin is rough and warty. It has chemicals on its skin that scientists think might be poison. The poison might keep other animals from eating the frog. All adult frogs are brown in color, but the adult female frog has dark marks on her back and the adult male frog does not. The frog's head looks like tree bark.
This frog can live in dry places, like savannah grasslands and rocky places. During the dry time of year, this frog spends much time resting on tree branches. Unlike other frogs, Greening's frog can move its head from side to side without moving the rest of its body. This frog will sometimes hide its body in a hole in the ground or in a tree and block the entrance with its head. It lays eggs along the edges of rivers as they are drying down for the year. That way, the tadpoles grow in small pools with no fish to eat them.
References
Frogs of South America
Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is the second airport serving Glasgow. It also serves the Greater Glasgow area. It is northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire. It is 32 miles from the city centre of Glasgow.
Prestwick is Scotland's largest airport by size. However, Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow International and Aberdeen Airport all handle more passengers. The year with the most passengers passing through Prestwick was 2007. Since 2007, a lot less passengers pass through Prestwick. 1.3 million passengers passed through the airport in 2011. This was 22% reduction from 2010.
Douglas Fowler McIntyre and the Duke of Hamilton owned the airport at first. These people were the first to fly a plane to the top of Mount Everest in 1933. During and after World War II it was a Royal Air Force base. In 1952 it was made a United States Air Force base.
The airport was made bigger in the early 1960s: the runway was made longer and a new terminal building was made. The new, bigger airport opened in 1964. Today, Glasgow Prestwick is mostly used by Ryanair.
On 8 March 2012, Infratil, the company which owns Prestwick, said that they had placed the airport up for sale. The Chief Executive Marco Bogoievski said that he does not regret selling the airport.
The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm uses part of the airport. It has 3 Sea King helicopters there for search and rescue. They cover Ben Nevis, the Lakes, Northern Ireland and 200 NM (370 km; 230 mi) past the Irish coast. This force is often called 'HMS Gannet'. 15 officers, 11 ratings, 28 civil servants and 50 civilian staff work at the base.
References
Airports in Scotland
South Ayrshire
Gamarthe

Gamarthe is a commune of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement in the southwestern part of France.
Gamarthe
Province of Ferrara

The province of Ferrara () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in Northeast Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Ferrara.
Geography
The province of Ferrara is the most northerly province in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has an area of . The provincial capital, the city of Ferrara, is on a branch of the Po river and at about northeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.
The province is bordered to the north by the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region, to the northwest by the province of Mantua in Lombardy, to the west by the Modena and Bologna provinces, to the south by the province of Ravenna and to the east by the Adriatic Sea.
The province is completely flat, with an altitude that goes from 0 m to less than high in the west of the province, on the border with the Modena province. Most comuni have less of of average altitude; the comune with a higher average altitude is Sant'Agostino.
The main rivers in the province are the Po and the Reno. The Po forms the north border of the province with the province of Rovigo. In Ferrara, the river has three main branches: the Po di Volano, that flows through the city of Ferrara, the Po di Primaro and the Po di Goro.
The Reno river is the longest of the region without being a tributary of the Po.
The main lakes in the province are the Lago delle Nazioni ("Nation's Lake), an artificial lake, and the Lago del Quaternario.
Population
There are 348,362 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Evolution of the population in the province
Municipalities
The following shows the 23 comuni (municipalities) with the population, and the area and altitude.
References
Ferrara
Pushpa Raj Pokharel

Pushpa Raj Pokharel is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the CPN (UML). He is a former Member of Parliament and a former Mayor of Bhadrapur.
References
Mayors of places in Nepal
Living people
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepal MPs 1994-1999
Buddy Roemer 2012 presidential campaign

Former Governor of Louisiana and former U.S. Representative Buddy Roemer of Louisiana began a movement for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States shortly following the 2010 midterm elections.
After he was not added to the nationally-televised Republican debate, Roemer announced on February 22, 2012 that he would instead run on a third-party ticket, specifically the Reform Party and Americans Elect nominations. Shortly after Americans Elect announced they would not be fielding a candidate, Roemer's campaign announced on May 31, 2012 that he was ending his 2012 presidential campaign altogether.
Other websites
Buddy Roemer 2012 official campaign site
Roemer 2012
Palagnedra

Palagnedra was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Lago di Palagnedra is found below the village, on the Melezza river. On 25 October 2009, the former municipalities of Borgnone, Intragna and Palagnedra merged into the municipality of Centovalli.
References
Other websites
Former municipalities of Ticino
Robert Elsie

Robert Elsie (June 29, 1950 - October 2, 2017) was a Canadian scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was known for his works Albanian Literature : A Short History and The Highland Lute (Lahuta e Malcis): The Albanian National Epic. As a translator, Elsie offered the reader "a selection of songs from the best known cycle of Albanian epic verse".
Elsie died of complications from ALS in Bonn, Germany on October 2, 2017 at the age of 67.
References
Other websites
Elsie's personal site.
1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
Disease-related deaths in Germany
Canadian educators
People from Vancouver
Canadian translators
Writers from British Columbia
Brunn, Upper Palatinate

Brunn is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate in Regensburg.
References
Regensburg (district)
Concepción de Buenos Aires

Concepcion de Buenos Aires is a municipality in the state of Jalisco in central-western Mexico.
Municipalities of Mexico
Jalisco
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, (born 27 June 1938) is a retired Scottish judge. He was the first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013. He was on the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
In 2015, he became the Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords.
References
1938 births
Living people
Scottish judges
Tyrese Gibson

Tyrese Gibson (born December 30, 1978) is an American R&B singer, rapper, actor and model. He has acted in many movies and television series. These include Baby Boy (2001), 2 Fast 2 Furious and the Transformers movie series. In 2000, Gibson won the American Music Award for "Favorite New R&B/Soul Artist". He has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards.
American movie actors
American television actors
American R&B singers
Rappers from California
Actors from Los Angeles
Singers from Los Angeles
Models from Los Angeles
1978 births
Living people
Languages of the United Kingdom

Languages of the United Kingdom include:
Scottish Gaelic - the Gaelic language spoken in Scotland and Canada.
Scots - is a Anglic language idiom spoken in parts of Scotland and Ireland.
British English - the group of dialects of the English language currently used in United Kingdom
Welsh language - the Brythonic language spoken in Wales and Argentina.
Irish Gaelic - the Gaelic (language) spoken in Ireland
Cornish language - the Brittonic language spoken in Cornwall
Manx Gaelic - the Gaelic-language spoken in Isle of Man
Ulster Scots - the dialects of the Scots spoken in the Northern Ireland
English language - the English language spoken worldwide
Ulster Irish - the dialects of the Irish Gaelic spoken in the Northern Ireland
Irish English - the dialects of the English language spoken in the Ireland
Ulster English - the dialects of the Irish English and British English spoken in the Northern Ireland
Welsh English - the group of dialects of the British English currently used in Wales
Scottish English - the group of dialects of the British English currently used in Scotland
Manx English - the group of dialects of the English language currently used in Isle of Man
Cornish English - the group of dialects of the British English currently used in Cornwall
English English - the group of dialects of the British English currently used in England
British culture
United Kingdom-related lists
Language-related lists
Dhar Mann

Dharminder Mann (born May 29, 1984) is an American entrepreneur, video producer, internet personality and YouTuber. He is known for making motivational videos on YouTube.
References
Other websites
1984 births
American YouTubers
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Living people
Toray Pan Pacific Open

The Toray Pan Pacific Open (Dong repanpashihuitsukutenisu) is a WTA Tour of tennis tournaments for women. It is held every year since 1984 in Tokyo, Japan.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
Other websites
Official tournament website
Tennis tournaments
Michelle Clunie

Michelle Renee Clunie (born November 7, 1969) is an American actress, dancer and activist. She is best known for her roles as Melanie Marcus on Showtime's series Queer as Folk and as Ellen Beals on Make It or Break It. She is currently a star on MTV's Teen Wolf as Mrs. Finch.
References
Other websites
1969 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American activists
American dancers
Actors from Portland, Oregon
Meridian

A meridian is an imaginary line of longitude drawn along the surface of the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Geographers today measure these lines from what they call the Prime Meridian. It is the line of longitude that goes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England. They decided this at the 1884 International Meridian Conference.
Meridians, as lines of longitude, are measured in degrees. The Prime Meridian, as the starting point, is 0 (zero) degrees. Lines west of the Prime Meridian are either called west, as in "the longitude of Los Angeles, California is 118 degrees west", or as a negative number: "the longitude of Los Angeles, California is -118 degrees". Going the other direction, east of the Prime Meridian is always said as a positive number: "The longitude of Mecca is about 40 degrees east," or just "The longitude of Mecca is about 40 degrees."
Related pages
Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
International Date Line
Lines of longitude
Mack

Mack may refer to:
Businesses
Mack Trucks, an American truck company
Mack Group, an American corporation providing contract manufacturing
Mack Brewery, a Norwegian brewery
Mack Rides, a German ride manufacturer
Mack Air, a Botswana air charter line
Mack (publishing), an art and photography publishing house based in London
People
Mack (given name)
Mack (surname)
Reinhold Mack, German record producer and sound engineer, often credited as simply "Mack"
Richard Machowicz (1965-2017), host of FutureWeapons and Deadliest Warrior, known as "Mack"
Lee Mack (born 1968), comedian and star of Not Going Out and team captain on Would I Lie to You?
Places
United States
Mack, Colorado, an unincorporated town
Mack, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
Mack, Minnesota, an unincorporated town
Mack, Ohio, a census-designated place
Bahamas
Mack Town
Other uses
USS Mack (DE-358), a destroyer escort which served in World War II
Mack (ship), in naval architecture, a structure combining a ship's radar masts and funnels
The Mack, a 1973 blaxploitation movie
Mack Park, original home field of the Detroit Stars Negro National League baseball franchise
Gabriel o Pensador

Gabriel Contino better known as Gabriel o Pensador is a Brazilian rapper. He was born in Rio de Janeiro (city), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 4, 1974.
He began his musical career to launch a demo with the song "I'm Happy (I killed the President)" and was soon hired by Sony Music.
Recent events
Besides singer, Gabriel is a writer in 2001 and released the autobiographical book Diary Nocturne, four years later launched A Boy Called Rorbeto, which won the Jabuti Award best children's book of the year next. In 2008 released the book My Little Rubro-Negro and a year later launched a special version of the same book titled My Little Crimson-Black - Special Edition Hexa.
References
Brazilian rappers
1974 births
Living people
Piss Christ

Piss Christ is a 1987 photo that was taken by Andres Serrano. The picture is of a small plastic crucifix that is in a glass of Serrano's urine. The piece won the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition. This contest gets some of its money from the National Endowment from the Arts, a United States government group that gives money to art projects.
Controversy
The photo caused some dispute when it was first shown in 1989. Some people who were against the photo, including United States Senators Al D'Amanto and Jesse Helms were upset that Serrano was given $15,000 for the work. They were also upset that part of it was from the National Endowment for the Arts. Supporters of the work said the Piss Christ is an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech.
Others said that the government paying for Piss Christ went against separation of church and state.
Sister Wendy Beckett, an art critic and Catholic nun, said in a television interview with Bill Moyers that she did not think the work was blasphemous. She thought that it was but a statement on "what we have done to Christ"
During a showing of Serrano's works at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 1997, then Archbishop George Pelli tried to get the Supreme Court of Victoria to stop the gallery from showing the work. The Court did not agree with him and did not stop it. A few days later, one visitor tried to take the work off of the gallery wall, and two teenagers later attacked the work with a hammer. The director of the NGV then cancelled the show. He said that he was worried about some of Rembrandt's works that were also being shown at the time.
"Piss Christ" was part of the BBC documentary called "Why Beauty Matters", which talks about art and how it is important in everyday life.
References
Other websites
Annotated transcription of U.S. Senate discussion about "Piss Christ"
Photographs
Christian art
1987 works
Erschmatt

Erschmatt was a municipality of the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Erschmatt merged into the municipality of Leuk.
Former municipalities of Valais
Rick Nash

Richard McLaren Nash (born June 16, 1984 in Brampton, Ontario), better known as Rick Nash, is a former Canadian professional ice hockey right winger for the Columbus Blue Jackets where he is the team's captain. He also played for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins of the NHL as well as the HC Davos. He was picked by the Blue Jackets with the first overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the OHL with the London Knights.
He was on the Team Canada's men's ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal.
Rick Nash retired from playing hockey in 2018 due to concussion symptoms.
Awards
Nash was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 2003
Nash won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy in 2004 and shared the trophy with Ilya Kovalchuk and Jarome Iginla.
Nash has appeared in 4 NHL All-Star Games in 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009
Nash won the NHL Foundation Player Award in 2009
Other websites
Rick Nash's NHL Player Page
1984 births
Boston Bruins players
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Columbus Blue Jackets players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
New York Rangers players
Rocket Richard Trophy winners
Ontario Hockey League players
Nate Kaeding

Nathaniel James Kaeding (born March 26, 1982) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL).
1982 births
Living people
American football placekickers
Miami Dolphins players
San Diego Chargers players
IPod Touch (6th generation)

The iPod Touch (6th generation), is the sixth iPod Touch released by Apple Inc. It was first released on July 15, 2015. It is a handheld tablet computer. The iPod Touch 6 can do many things that iPhones can do except it cannot use cellular data (which is required for making calls or texting without WiFi). Critics praise the iPod Touch 6 as a low-cost device that produces good quality photos, though they criticize the iPod Touch 6 for having a poor battery life and a small screen.
References
Apple hardware
Aydin Aghdashloo

Aydin Aghdashloo (; born October 30, 1940) is an Iranian painter, graphist, writer, film critic. Aghdashloo was decorated with the Chevalier (Knight) award, by the French government for his civil achievements.
References
Iranian painters
Art critics
Iranian academics
1940 births
Living people
President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia () officially known as the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia. The Constitution says the president is elected by popular vote to a five-year term, renewable once. In 2016, in a referendum the country voted to maintain term limits. Since 2009, if no candidate wins a majority, the top two candidates advance to a runoff election.
Jeanine Anez was the county's first female president.
In October 2020, Luis Arce was elected president.
Living former presidents
As of , there are seven living former presidents:
References
Sega Touring Car Championship

is a racing video game. It was made and published by Sega for the Sega Model 2 arcade machine in 1996, for the Sega Saturn in 1997 and for personal computers in 1998. It has four tracks, one can be opened when reaching the final stage of the season.
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1996 video games
1997 video games
1998 video games
Sega arcade games
Sega Saturn games
Windows games
Racing video games
Video games developed in Japan
Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Hughes Hall is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, England. It only takes students who are more than 21 years old (mature students). They can be undergraduates or postgraduates. It opened in 1885 and was only for women at the start. The first men came in 1973. It takes its name from the first Principal (head of the college), Elizabeth Phillips Hughes.
Today, Hughes Hall has about 400 students. It has the tradition of trying to mix students and Fellows (teachers) at social events, such as dinners where there is no separate table for Fellows.
Other websites
Official website
Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Backgammon

Backgammon is a game played by two players. Each player moves pieces around a board. Players roll two dice to find out how far their pieces can move in one turn. The winner of one game is the first to get all pieces all the way around, and off, the board.
The game is laid-out asymmetrically. White's direction of travel is counter-clockwise, whereas black's direction of travel is clockwise. (There is no advantage to either side due to this asymmetry.)
White moves from white's far right to white's home area on white's close right, in the shape of a right-hand "C" from white's point of view. Black moves along the same "C", beginning from black's far left and ending at black's home area on black's close left. (The "C" is the same for both sides - the "C" points to the right for white and points to the left for black.)
As shown in the image, some pieces (for each side) begin already in the home quadrant, and some pieces must make their way all the way around. Pieces can be sent backwards to their starting position during play.
The roll of two dice introduces a random component in the game, but Backgammon is basically a game of strategy.
Usual playing time is around 15- 30 minutes, for a single game (which could be thought of as something like one particular long "hand" of a card game). An overall championship or round of backgammon involves a number of ongoing single games, with the involvement of points, a "doubling cube," and other complications.
The game has a long history. Games that resemble it have been played for thousands of years. Archaeologists doing excavations at a place called Burnt City in modern-day Iran have found parts of a game that resembled backgammon. They have found 60 pieces to play with, and two dice. They could show that the game utensils date from around 3000 BC. These pieces around 100-200 years older than another set, found in Ur, in Mesopotamia.
Other websites
http://www.backgammon-fr.com
References
Dice games
Backgammon
Márta Kurtág

Marta Kurtag (), nee Marta Kinsker, often Marta Kurtag; 1 October 1927 - 17 October 2019) was a Hungarian classical pianist and academic piano teacher. In 1947, she married composer Gyorgy Kurtag. They often played from his collection Jatekok, which they also recorded.
Kurtag died on 17 October 2019, just a week after her 92nd birthday.
References
1927 births
2019 deaths
Hungarian pianists
Kowtow

Kowtow, which is borrowed from koutou in Mandarin Chinese. It is a traditional prostration common in Eastern Asia. It means kneeling and bowing one's head to the ground. Kowtow is used in showing respect to parents or gods, or as a form of punishment by the parents when one has done something wrong. In the Qing Dynasty of China, the main usage of kowtow was to show respect and loyalty to the king.
Nowadays, people seldom kowtow and bow to others instead. However, in some Chinese weddings, the couple kowtow to the parents. At some schools in Taiwan, students still have to kowtow to thank their teachers.
References
Non-verbal communication
Kurt Diemberger

Kurt Diemberger (born 16 March 1932) is an Austrian mountaineer and author. He is the only living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres: of Broad Peak in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. He was born in Villach. He suffered from frostbite during the descent of Karakoram and had to have amputations.
References
1932 births
Living people
Austrian mountain climbers
People from Villach
Patuakhali District

Patuakhali is a district in South-western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Barisal Division. This district is called "SagorKonna", which means daughter of sea. It is watered by the Bay of Bengal.
Subdivisions
There are 6 Upazilas/Thanas in this district. They are:
Bauphal Upazila
Dasmina Upazila
Dumki Upazila
Galachipa Upazila
Kalapara Upazila
Mirzaganj Upazila
Patuakhali Sadar Upazila.
Economy
Agriculture is the profession of the most of the people. Fishing is also a prominent profession of this district. Thousands of boats go into the deep sea to fish and come back with tons of fish. Paddy, Jute, and different types of vegetables are the main product of agriculture sector.
References
Districts of Bangladesh
France national football team

The France national football team is the national football team of France. They won the FIFA World Cup 2 times (1998, 2018), the UEFA European Football Championship twice (1984, 2000) and the
FIFA Confederations Cup twice (2001, 2003). The teams current coach is Didier Deschamps, who took over from Laurent Blanc. REFEREE LOVES U ayo what
Most appearances
Top scorers
Honours
This is a list of honours for the senior France national team
FIFA World Cup
Champions (2): 1998, 2018
Runners-up: 2006
Third place: 1958, 1986
Fourth place: 1982
UEFA European Championship
Champions (2): 1984, 2000
Runners-up: 2016
Semi-finals: 1996
Fourth place: 1960
FIFA Confederations Cup
Champions (2): 2001, 2003
UEFA Nations League
Winners: 2020-21
Olympic football tournament
Gold Medal (1): 1984
Silver Medal: 1900
Fourth place: 1920
Semi-finals: 1908
References
European national football teams
Football teams in France
National sports teams of France
New Jersey Turnpike

The New Jersey Turnpike is a toll road in New Jersey. The road runs from near the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the southern part of the state northeast to near the George Washington Bridge in the northern part of the state near New York City. The northern part of the road is a part of Interstate 95. The New Jersey Turnpike is one of the busiest toll roads in the United States.
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Roads in the United States
Transport in New Jersey
Nicholas Katzenbach

Nicholas deBelleville "Nick" Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 - May 8, 2012) was an American lawyer. He was the United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He was Attorney General from February 1965 through October 1966.
Other websites
Oral History Interviews with Nicholas Katzenbach, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Articulo en espanol del diario "El Pais", 26 de mayo de 2012, "Nicholas Katzenbach, crucial politico en la sombra"
1922 births
2012 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Lawyers from Philadelphia
American military personnel of World War II
Episcopalians
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Chaetocauda

The Chinese dormouse or Sichuan dormouse (Chaetocauda sichuanensis) is a species of dormouse that lives in subalpine mixed forests in northern Sichuan, China.
Only two female specimens have even been caught. These were both caught in the Wanglang Natural Reserve and was first described by Wang Youzhi in 1985. Corbet and Hill (1991, 1992) relisted it under a new genus as Chaetocauda sichuanensis. It is the only member of the genus Chaetocauda.
The two specimens had the following measurements:
Specimen 1:
head and body length:
tail length:
weight:
Specimen 2:
head and body length:
tail length:
weight:
Cjaetocauda is nocturnal (it is awake at night) and arboreal (lives in trees). It nests in trees about above the ground and the two specimens were found at an altitude of more than above sea level. It is classified as endangered by the IUCN as of the 2004 Red List due to its small isolated habitat.
References
*Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1991. A world list of mammalian species, 3rd ed. Natural History Museum Publications & Oxford University Press, London and Oxford.: v-viii, 1-243.
Wang, Youzhi. 1985. A new genus and species of Gliridae. Acta Theriologica Sinica, 5 (1985), pp. 67-75.
Other websites
The Dormouse Hollow
An illustration of The Chinese Dormouse at the Animal Diversity Web
Dormice
Mammals of Asia
Diksmuide

Diksmuide is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
In 2007, 15764 people lived there.
It is at 51deg 02 North, 02deg 51 East.
References
Municipalities of West Flanders
Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
His career began with the films Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978). These films belonged to New Hollywood-films.
In 1998 the film The Thin Red Line was released. Mallick was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. For the film Tree of Life (2011) he received Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
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Living people
1943 births
American movie directors
American movie producers
American screenwriters
Richard Neely

Richard Forlani Neely (August 2, 1941 - November 8, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1995. He was born in Los Angeles. He was nominated to the court by Governor Arch A. Moore Jr.. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Neely died on November 8, 2020 in Charleston, West Virginia from liver cancer at the age of 79.
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1941 births
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Deaths from liver cancer
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American judges
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Lawyers from Los Angeles
Brian Taber

Hedley Brian Taber was born 29 April, 1940 in Wagga Wagga and died 21 July, 2023 in Bayview. He was an Australian cricketer who played 16 test matches for Australia from 1966 to 1970. He also played for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield.
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1940 births
2023 deaths
Australian cricketers
People from Wagga Wagga
List of cities and towns in North Carolina

This is a list of all cities and towns in North Carolina with more than 25,000 people. It is in order by how many people they have.
Charlotte
Raleigh
Greensboro
Durham
Winston-Salem
Fayetteville
Cary
Wilmington
High Point
Greenville
Asheville
Concord
Gastonia
Jacksonville
Chapel Hill
Rocky Mount
Burlington
Wilson
Huntersville
Kannapolis
Apex
Hickory
Goldsboro
Indian Trail
Salisbury
Monroe
Mooresville
Wake Forest
New Bern
Sanford
Matthews
Holly Springs
Thomasville
Garner
Cornelius
Asheboro
Statesville
city and towns
Lists of settlements in the United States
Chain-O-Lakes, Missouri

Chain-O-Lakes is a village in Barry County, Missouri, United States.
Villages in Missouri
Straight

The word straight means something that goes in one direction without turns, bends, or curves.
Lines can bend in a curve. If lines do not bend, they are straight. For example, the edge of a circle is not straight. The edge of a circle bends in a curve.
Light bends in a curve in air and water, but travels in a straight line away from the earth or other bodies in outer space where there is no air.
The word "straight" is also a slang term for "heterosexual"
Basic English 850 words
Harold Lederman

Harold Lederman (January 26, 1940 - May 11, 2019) was an American professional boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986. He stayed in this role until HBO dropped boxing in 2018. He was added to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016. He was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a Columbia University graduate.
Lederman died of cancer on May 11, 2019, at the age of 79.
References
Other websites
1940 births
2019 deaths
Boxing broadcasters
Columbia University alumni
Deaths from cancer
HBO
People from the Bronx
Schwyz District

Schwyz District is a district of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It is the largest and most populous of the six districts of the canton of Schwyz. As of , it has a population of . The capital is Schwyz which is also the capital of the canton of Schwyz.
It contains the following municipalities:
References
Districts of Schwyz
Greenside

Greenside is a village in the west of the Metropolitan County of Tyne and Wear, England. It used to be in County Durham but it became incorporated into Tyne and Wear in 1974 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1986.
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Villages in England
Settlements in Tyne and Wear
Gallatin County, Kentucky

Gallatin County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,589. Its county seat is Warsaw.
References
1798 establishments in Kentucky
Kentucky counties
List of rivers of Ukraine

This is a list of the major rivers that flow through Ukraine. Ukraine, a country on the continent of Europe, has many rivers. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the: Danube, Dnieper, and the Dniester.
List of major rivers in Ukraine
Note: The following rivers are listed from west to east. Rivers listed in bold are either major rivers, or near or about 1,000 km. long.
San River (433 km; 16,861 km2; Vistula tributary)
Uzh River (127 km; 2750 km2; Laborec tributary)
Western Bug (772 km; 39,420 km2)
Poltva River
Danube (2,888 km; 817,000 km2)
Prut River (953 km; 27,500 km2)
Cheremosh River (167 km; 2,560 km2)
Latoritsia (188 km; 3,130 km2; Bodrog tributary)
Dniester (1,362 km; 72,100 km2)
Stryi (231 km; 3,055 km2)
Zbruch (247 km; 3,300 km2)
Tysmenytsia
Seret
Bystrytsia (183 km; 2,375 km2)
Southern Bug (806 km; 63,700 km2)
Inhul (300 km)
Vovk
Molochna (197 km; 3,450 km2)
Dnipro (2,290 km; 516,300 km2)
Inhulets (549 km; 14,870 km2)
Bazavluk
Bilozerka
Konka (146 km; 2 580 km2)
Samara (320 km; 22,600 km2)
Byk
Vorskla (464 km; 14,700 km2)
Psel (717 km; 22,800 km2)
Sula (365 km; 19,600 km2)
Romen (111 km; 1,645 km2)
Supiy
Tiasmyn (164 km; 4,570 km2)
Ros' (346 km; 12,575 km2)
Trubizh (113 km; 4,700 km2)
Stuhna (68 km)
Desna (1,130 km; 88,900 km2)
Oster (199 km; 2,950 km2)
Seim (748 km; 27,500 km2)
Sudost (208 km; 5,850 km2)
Irpin (162 km;)
Teteriv (365 km; 15,100 km2)
Prypiat (710 km)
Horyn River (659 km; 22,700 km2)
Sluch (451 km; 13,800 km2)
Uzh (256 km; 8,080 km2)
Styr (494 km; 13,100 km2)
Mius (258 km; 1190 km2)
Kalmius (209 km; 5,070 km2)
Kalchik River
Alma (83 km)
Salhir (204 km; 3,750 km2)
Chorna
Uchan-su
Seversky Donets (1,053 km; 98,900 km2; Don tributary'')
Udy River
Lopan River
Kharkiv River
List by letter
A-I
Alma * Bazavluk * Bilozerka * Bug River * Byk * Bystrytsia * Cheremosh * Chorna * Danube * Desna * Dnieper * Dniester * Horyn * Inhul * Inhulets * Irpin
K-R
Kalchik * Kalmius * Kharkiv * Konka * Latoritsia * Lybid * Mius * Molochna * Oster * Poltva * Prut * Psel * Romen * Ros'
S
Salhir * Samara * San * Seret * Seversky Donets * Seym * Sluch * Snov * Southern Bug * Stryi * Stuhna * Styr * Sudost * Sula * Supiy
T-Z
Teteriv * Tiasmyn * Trubizh * Tysmenytsia * Uchan-su * Uzh (Ukraine, Slovakia) * Uzh River (Northern Ukraine) * Vorskla * Vovk * Zolota Lypa * Zbruch
Other websites
Rivers of Ukraine suitable for Rafting
Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine-related lists
Condé-sur-l'Escaut

Conde-sur-l'Escaut is a commune in Nord in north France. It is on the border with Belgium. In 2019, 9,515 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord
I Wanna Have Your Babies

"I Wanna Have Your Babies" is a 2007 pop song performed and written by singer Natasha Bedingfield. The song is about a woman trying to prevent herself from rushing into relationships. This woman wants to be pregnant with babies from Mr. Right.
The song received rather negative reviews from pop music critics, some of whom said it wasn't as good as other Bedingfield songs.
Natasha Bedingfield songs
Pop songs
2007 songs
Lise Thiry

Lise Thiry (born 5 February 1921) is a Belgian scientist and politician. She was voted as one of the top 100 Belgians on a television show on the Belgian French-speaking public channel RTBF. Thiry was born in Liege, Belgium. She worked as a researcher and virologist at the Pasteur Institute and looked for ways to detect AIDS. In 1990, she became a Senator.
Thiry turned 100 in February 2021.
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1921 births
Living people
Belgian scientists
Belgian academics
Belgian politicians
Virologists
Medical researchers
Belgian centenarians
Belgian writers
Dušan Petković

Dusan Petkovic (born 13 June 1974) is a former Serbian football player. He has played for Serbia national team.
Club career statistics
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|1992/93||rowspan="4"|OFK Beograd||rowspan="4"|First League||7||1
|-
|1993/94||2||0
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|1994/95||11||0
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|1995/96||18||0
|-
|1995/96||Mallorca||Segunda Division||12||0
|-
|1995/96||Ecija Balompie||Segunda Division||13||1
|-
|1996/97||OFK Beograd||First League||25||1
|-
|1997||rowspan="2"|Yokohama Marinos||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||11||2
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|1998||1||0
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|1999/00||rowspan="2"|OFK Beograd||rowspan="2"|First League||29||2
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|2000/01||27||2
|-
|2001/02||Wolfsburg||Bundesliga||4||1
|-
|2002/03||Nurnberg||Bundesliga||22||2
|-
|2004||Spartak Moscow||Premier League||12||3
|-
|2005/06||OFK Beograd||Superliga||5||1
|-
|2006||rowspan="2"|Saturn Moscow Oblast||rowspan="2"|Premier League||9||0
|-
|2007||1||0
124||7
25||1
12||2
26||3
22||3
209||16
|}
International career statistics
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|2000||1||0
|-
|2001||2||0
|-
|2002||0||0
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|2003||0||0
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|2004||4||0
|-
!Total||7||1
|}
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1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Belgrade
The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club is a 1996 American comedy movie based on the novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. It was directed by Hugh Wilson and produced by Scott Rudin. It was written by Robert Harling and Paul Rudnick. It is narrated by Diane Keaton and stars her, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler. The movie is about three middle-aged divorced women who take revenge on their ex-husbands, who left them for young women.
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1996 comedy movies
1990s buddy movies
American buddy movies
American comedy movies
Buddy comedy movies
English-language movies
Female buddy movies
Feminist movies
Movies about divorce
Movies about revenge
Suicide in movies
Movies set in Manhattan
Movies based on books
Rockingham, Western Australia

Rockingham is a coastal suburb in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It in 2006 it had a population of 13,000.
It was made a town in 1897.
Rockingham was connected with Perth by the Mandurah railway line in 2007.
References
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
International Institute for Terrorism Research

International Institute for Terrorism Research or International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) is an international non-profit research center located in Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel. The center explores terrorism in Israel and around the world and organizes international meetings with politicians from around the world.
Other websites
International Institute for Terrorism Research
Think tanks
Terrorism
Organizations based in Israel
Solid state

Solid state electronics are electronic circuits that contain only solid materials. Examples of solid state devices include transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits. Devices that are not solid state include vacuum tubes, gas-filled tubes, and devices with moving parts such as relays.
Electronics
Chatham, Louisiana

Chatham is a small town in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Towns in Jackson Parish, Louisiana
2022 Russian mobilization

On 21 September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial mobilization" of military reservists in Russia. The decision was made a day after the announcement of referendums on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
With this, Putin escalated Russia's military efforts in the war with Ukraine. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia had a "huge mobilization reserve" and planned to mobilize 300,000 in reserve.
38 Russian regions have announced that they had completed the mobilization. On 14 October 2022, Putin claimed that the partial mobilization would be completed "in about two weeks".
References
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
September 2022 events
Can't Buy Me Love (movie)

Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy feature movie starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson in a story about a nerd at a high school in Tucson, Arizona who gives a cheerleader $1,000 to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. The movie was directed by Steve Rash and takes its title from a Beatles song with the same title.
Cast
Patrick Dempsey as Ronald Miller
Amanda Peterson as Cindy Mancini
Courtney Gains as Kenneth Wurman
Tina Caspary as Barbara
Seth Green as Chuck Miller
Sharon Farrell as Mrs. Mancini
Dennis Dugan as David Miller
Darcy DeMoss as Patty
Devin DeVasquez as Iris
Eric Bruskotter as Big John
Gerardo Mejia as Ricky
Cort McCown as Quint
Cloyce Morrow as Judy Miller
Steve Franken as Moda Clerk
Ami Dolenz as Fran
Release dates
1987 romantic comedy movies
1980s teen romance movies
1980s teen comedy movies
American teen romance movies
American teen comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies directed by Steve Rash
British cuisine

British cuisine is the traditional food and drink popular with the people of the United Kingdom. Some of the most popular dishes include fish and chips, Yorkshire pudding, sausage roll, among others. There are many differences between the traditional food and drink in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and in the numerous regions of England. There are also many differences in the food and drink found in different classes of society.
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