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Kashō (late Heian period)

For the "Kasho" era which started in 848 -- sometimes romanized as "Kajo", see Kasho (early Heian period).
, also romanized as Kajo, was a after Choji and before Tennin. This period started in April 1106 and ended in August 1108. The reigning emperors were and .
Events of the 12th century Kasho era
3 October 1106 (Kasho 1): Major Shinto shrines were given many petitions which asked for the healing of "evil influences on the Emperor".
9 August 1107 (Kajo 2, 19th day of the 7th month) : In the 21st year of Emperor Horikawa's reign, he died at the age of 29. The succession (senso) was received by his only son. Soon after, Emperor Toba accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers (sokui). This was confirmed in ceremonies.
Related pages
Heian period
References
Other websites
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Japanese eras
Mäntyharju

Mantyharju is a municipality in Finland. Almost 6,350 people lived there in August 2012. It covers an area of about .
Villages include Ahvenisto, Anettu, Enonlahti, Halmeniemi, Hietaniemi, Huopola, Hyyryla, Holtta, Janiskyla, Karankamaki, Kinni, Kirkonkyla, Koirakivi, Korpilahti, Kousa, Kuhajarvi, Kukonkorpi, Kyttala, Lahnaniemi, Leppaniemi, Luhtanen, Lyytikkala, Mynttila, Niinimaki, Nurmaa, Ollikkala, Outila, Paasola, Partsinmaa, Poitsiniemi, Pyhakoski, Parnamaki, Saviniemi, Sarkemaki, Tiilikkala, Toivola, Valtola, Vanonen and Varpanen.
Other websites
Community website
Municipalities of South Savo
Animals Are Beautiful People

Animals Are Beautiful People (also called Beautiful People) is a 1974 South African nature documentary movie.
Production
It was written, produced, directed, filmed and edited by Jamie Uys, about the wildlife in Southern Africa, presented with comedic elements. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta.
Reputation
It received the 1974 Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film.
The film, a critical and commercial success, was independently made by Uys, also known for his later African comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980).
Other websites
Documentary movies
Lower Canada

The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony in Canada. It included Labrador and the southern part of Quebec. It was created in 1791 when Britain split Quebec into two provinces. It was merged in 1841 with the rest of Quebec to form the Province of Canada.
References
Historical territories of Canada
British Empire
1790s establishments in North America
1791 establishments
19th-century disestablishments in North America
1841 disestablishments
Former colonies in North America
Asim Azhar

Asim Azhar (Urdu: `Sm Zhr; conceived 29 October 1996) is a Pakistani vocalist, lyricist, performer and an entertainer. He began his profession as a vocalist on YouTube, covering contemporary Western melodies before he turned into a person of note.
References
Other websites
Asim Azhar at IMDb
Asim Azhar at Instagram
Living people
1996 births
Pakistani singer-songwriters
Rockwell B-1 Lancer

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a strategic bomber in the service of the US Air Force. It is a four-turbojet aircraft that uses a variable-sweep wing. It can carry nuclear weapons or classic bombs. It is only used by the USA.
Variants
Rockwell B-1A : Four examples, only used as prototype and test planes.
Rockwell B-1B : One hundred examples, used as bombers.
Simulacrum of supersonic strategic heavy bomber
Tupolev Tu-160 - Simulacrum of the B-1A
- on TASS Official Infographic
Bibliography
United States Air Force aircraft
Don Newman (basketball)

Donald David Newman (November 22, 1957 - September 11, 2018) was an American basketball coach and player and Canadian football wide receiver and an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards and San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Newman was head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils for the 1997-98 season, and the Sacramento State from 1992 to 1997.
Newman played Canadian football for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1981 to 1983. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Newman died of cancer on September 11, 2018 in New Orleans at the age of 60.
References
Other websites
Sports reference - Playing stats (college basketball)
Sports Reference - Coaching stats (college basketball)
NBA.com - Don Newman
1957 births
2018 deaths
Cancer deaths in Louisiana
National Basketball Association coaches
American football players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
Montreal Alouettes players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Sportspeople from New Orleans
Corfu (city)

Corfu city is the capital of the Corfu Island and it is one of the most beautiful cities in the east Mediterranean. The town has an intense colour of the Italian renaissance, because in the past, Corfu was under the Venice rule. So, Corfu resemble a south Italian City. It a very touristic city and many tourists are coming to Corfu from all the world, mainly from west Europe. The population of Corfu city is 35.851 inhabitants
Sights
Corfu has many sights, so it is very interesting for visitors. The city has old buildings with very beautiful architecture. There is the "mon repo" Palace where princess Sissy lived. Another place of interest is the islet pontikonisi.
History
Corfu is believed that it in the past was the Homeric country of Faekes where Odysseus had arrived, before he reached Ithaki. In the ancient archaist period the Corintians had founded some colonies. In the Middle Ages Corfu belonged to Byzantine Empire and later belonged to Venice state. Corfu was united with Greece in 1864.
Cities in Greece
Corfu
Santa Margarita River

The Santa Margarita River is a river in southern California, between Los Angeles and San Diego. It is about long. It begins in the Santa Ana Mountains and flows west to the Pacific Ocean, at the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
Nearby rivers
North along coast
San Juan Creek
South along coast
San Luis Rey River
Rivers of California
Riverside County, California
San Diego County, California
Seismic performance

Seismic performance is an execution of a building structure's ability to sustain its due functions, such as safety and serviceability, at and after a particular earthquake. A structure is, normally, considered safe if it does not endanger the lives and wellbeing of those in or around it by partially or completely collapsing. A structure may be considered serviceable if it is able to fulfill its operational functions for which it was designed.
Ancient builders believed that earthquakes were a result of wrath of gods (in Greek mythology, e.g., the main "Earth-Shaker" was Poseidon) and, therefore, could not be resisted by humans.
Nowadays, the people's attitude has changed dramatically though seismic loads, sometimes, exceed ability of a structure to resist them without being broken, partially or completely.
Related pages
Richter scale
Tsunami
Volcano
Notes
Earthquake engineering
James R. Jones

James Robert Jones (born May 5, 1939) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma between 1973 to 1987. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1993 to 1997.
From 1968 to 1969, he was acting White House Chief of Staff for the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
In 1972, after returning to Oklahoma, Jones ran for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district. He won the election and was re-elected six times. During his tenure in Congress, which lasted until 1987, Jones served four years as the Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
References
1939 births
Living people
White House Chiefs of Staff
Ambassadors of the United States to Mexico
United States representatives from Oklahoma
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Politicians from Muskogee, Oklahoma
Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is an English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.
References
Other websites
Audio slideshow interview about Family Album on The Interview Online
Booker Prize winners
1933 births
Living people
English novelists
English children's writers
Writers from Cairo
Cheryl Tiegs

Cheryl Rae Tiegs (born September 25 1947 in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American fashion model and actress. She is best known for her modeling for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Tiegs has been on the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue three times. She has also been on the covers of many other magazines. These include Vogue, Glamour, Harper's and Time. Tiegs performed as herself in the sitcom Just Shoot Me.
From 1970 to 1979, she was married to movie director Stan Dragoti.
References
Other websites
American television actors
American movie actors
American voice actors
Actors from Minnesota
Models from Minnesota
1947 births
Living people
List of stars in Lacerta

This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Lacerta. It is sorted by decreasing brightness.
References
Lacerta
Ciscaucasian hamster

The Ciscaucasian hamster (Mesocricetus raddei) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in Russia and some areas of Devon.
Hamsters
Mammals of Europe
Voiceless epiglottal affricate

The voiceless epiglottal affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English and is very rare.
Consonants
Take That: The Ultimate Tour

TAKE THAT: The Ultimate Tour is a video by boyband Take That. The video has a full length concert of Take That recorded at the City of Manchester Stadium on June 17, 2006 during the "Ultimate Tour 2006". It was released in the UK on November 6 2006 and internationally on December 7 2006. A limited edition version of the video was also released on October 23, 2006. It contained a bonus CD with 7 of their previous hit singles.
The DVD release does not include "Sure" (which was mixed the Gorillaz version of "Dirty Harry" for the tour), usually performed between "Apache 2006" and "Relight My Fire" for an unknown reason. However a few seconds of the footage can be seen in the various DVD menus.
The DVD was re-released on November 5, 2007 on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Tracklisting
DVD
"Once You've Tasted Love"
"Pray"
"Today I Lost You"
"Why Can't I Wake Up with You"
"It Only Takes a Minute"
"Babe"
"Everything Changes"
"A Million Love Songs"
"Beatles Medley: I Want to Hold Your Hand / A Hard Day's Night / She Loves You / I Feel Fine / Get Back / Hey Jude"
"How Deep Is Your Love"
"Love Ain't Here Anymore"
"Apache 2006"
"Relight My Fire"
"Let It Rain"
"Back for Good"
"Could It Be Magic"
"Never Forget"
Bonus Limited Edition Audio CD
"Pray" (Live from MEN Arena)
"Babe" (Live from MEN Arena)
"Everything Changes" (Live from MEN Arena)
"A Million Love Songs" (Live from MEN Arena)
"Back for Good" (Live from MEN Arena)
"Could It Be Magic" (Live from MEN Arena)
"Never Forget" (Live from MEN Arena)
Release History
References
2006 albums
Cheshire, Massachusetts

Cheshire is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, 3,235 people lived in Cheshire.
References
Towns in Massachusetts
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Senarclens

Senarclens is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Municipalities of Vaud
Irai Ningthou

Irai Ningthou () or Ike Ningthau () is a God in Meitei mythology and religion (Sanamahism) of Ancient Manipur (Antique Kangleipak). He is the God and the divine male personification of water. He mainly dwells in the rivers and lakes.
He is the consort of Irai Leima (alias Ireima). The divine couples are regarded as the spirits of the water bodies.
Name
The name "Irai Ningthou" literally means "King of water" or "Chief of water".
Worship
When a person gets ill after bathing in a water body, people believed that the water spirits (Irai Ningthou and his wife Irai Leima) had caught the person. To get well again, people worship the two deities. For this, the maibas perform the rites and rituals. The offerings include 2 eggs and 7 bamboo vessels filled up with rice paste.
The Thadou people also highly honour the water deities. They offer wild sacrifices like white fowl, pig, dog or he-goat to the God.
References
Other websites
Irai Ningthou_archive.org
Irai Ningthou (Ike Ningthau)_English Wikisource
Kings in Meitei mythology
Meitei gods and goddesses
Gods and goddesses of water
Janet Lee Bouvier

Janet Norton Lee Auchincloss, formerly Bouvier, (December 3, 1907 - July 22, 1989) was an American socialite. She was known as the mother of the former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and the mother-in-law of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
She was a board member of the Newport Historical Society and the Redwood Library. She was also the honorary director of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association in Stratford, Virginia.
References
1907 births
1989 deaths
American socialites
John F. Kennedy
Disease-related deaths in Rhode Island
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Cotopaxi Province

Cotopaxi () is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province has the Cotopaxi Volcano.
Cantons
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each canton with its population (per the 2019 census), its area in square kilometres (km2), and the name of the canton seat (capital).
References
Provinces of Ecuador
Mil Mi-24

Mil Mi-24 (Russian: Mil Mi-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter. It can serve as a troop transport and an attack helicopter at the same time, unlike other helicopters at the time which only were one of those at a time.
Helicopters
Soviet & Russian aircraft
The Queen of Spades (1916 movie)

The Queen of Spades () is a 1916 Russian silent drama movie directed by Yakov Protazanov. It stars Ivan Mosjoukine, Vera Orlova, and Yelizaveta Shebueva. The movie is an adaptation of the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.
Actors
Ivan Mosjoukine as Hermann
Vera Orlova as Lizaveta Ivanovna
Yelizaveta Shebueva as Countess Anna Fedotovna as an old woman
References
Other websites
Russian drama movies
Russian horror movies
Russian silent movies
1916 drama movies
1910s horror movies
Movies directed by Yakov Protazanov
Zeigler, Illinois

Zeigler is a city in Illinois in the United States. The population was 1,801 in 2010 census.
References
Cities in Illinois
Béatrice Vialle

Beatrice Vialle (born 4 August 1961 at Bourges) is a French pilot. She is one of the two female Concorde pilots. She was the first French female pilot on a supersonic airliner.
She graduated from Ecole nationale de l'aviation civile (promotion 1981).
References
1961 births
Living people
Alumni of the Ecole nationale de l'aviation civile
French aviators
People from Centre-Val de Loire
Saikan

Saikan (Zhai Guan , Saikan), which was previously known as Kezo-in, is a large temple lodging located on the top of Mount Haguro (Haguro-san), one of the Three Mountains of Dewa (Dewa Sanzan) in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
There is a long passageway that climbs up the mountain and connects directly to the main temple of the complex. Visitors can enjoy elaborate Gohonbo Bassho-zen meals there. Traditionally, people would climb up 2,466 stone steps on the side of the mountain to reach the temple, but it is now accessible by car or bus as well.
Sources
Other websites
Articles containing Japanese-language text
Coordinates on Wikidata
Pages with unreviewed translations
Shinto shrines
Touchdown

A touchdown is a common way of scoring in American and Canadian football. A team gets a touchdown by the person with the ball running across the line of the goal, or catching the ball while past the line of the goal. In American and Canadian football, a touchdown gives the team 6 points. The team also gets a chance to score 1 or 2 more points in what is called an extra point.
Related pages
Try
American football
Canadian football
Sports words
Castlereagh River

The Castlereagh River is an inland river in New South Wales, Australia. It begins in the Warrumbungles, a mountain range, and flows east towards Coonabarabran. It turns to the south, and then flows north west through Gilgandra and Coonamble, before joining the Macquarie River. The length of the river is about .
The first Europen to see the Castlereagh River was George William Evans in 1818 during John Oxley's expedition. It was later explored by Charles Sturt in 1829. The river is named after Lord Castlereagh, a British politician who was the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Blue Island, Illinois

Blue Island is a city in Illinois in the United States.
Cities in Illinois
Suburbs of Chicago
Settlements in Cook County, Illinois
Deinococcus–Thermus

Deinococcus-Thermus is a phylum of extremophile bacteria that are highly resistant to environmental hazards.
These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them gram-positive stains, and they have a second membrane. They are are closer in structure to that of gram-negative bacteria.
Cavalier-Smith calls this clade Hadobacteria (from Hades, the Greek underworld).
References
Gram-positive bacteria
WWE Backlash

Backlash was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment, which started in 1999 and was held in April (but in 2005, it was held in May). From 2004 to 2006, only WWE Raw superstars appeared at Backlash.
The 2007 event was the first WWE PPV event since Judgment Day 2003 (other than Wrestlemania, Summerslam, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series) to feature all three brands (Raw, SmackDown! and ECW) after WWE stopped with brand-only events.
The last Backlash PPV was in 2009. It was replaced by Extreme Rules in 2010.
Events
Other websites
Official Backlash Website
Backlash results at Prowrestlinghistory.com
1999 establishments
2009 disestablishments
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (Urdu, ) (30 September 1929 - 26 June 2021), was the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 25 March 2013 to 5 June 2013.
Khoso is a retired judge. He was the Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court. He was the interim Prime Minister ahead of the general elections scheduled in May 2013.
Khoso died on 26 June 2021 in Karachi from a heart attack at the age of 91.
References
1929 births
2021 deaths
Prime Ministers of Pakistan
Politicians from Balochistan (Pakistan)
Through-hole technology

Through-hole technology is a way to mount electronic components to printed circuit boards (PCB).
It involves the use of leads on the components that are inserted into holes drilled in the PCBs and soldered to pads on the opposite side either by manual assembly (handiwork) or by the use of automated insertion mount machines.
Many parts made for through hole mounting are larger than those for surface-mount technology.
References
Electronics
Nick Koback

Nicholas Nicholie "Nick" Koback (July 19, 1935 - January 23, 2015) was a Polish-American professional baseball player. His career spanned eight seasons, three of which were spent with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Pittsburgh Pirates from 1953 through 1955.
Koback died January 23, 2015 in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 79.
References
1935 births
2015 deaths
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Sportspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
Electoral district of Mill Park

Mill Park is an electoral district of Victoria. It was created in 1992. It is in the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region.
Mill Park is in Melbourne.
Election results
References
Mill Park
Biefvillers-lès-Bapaume

Biefvillers-les-Bapaume is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Francesco Botticini

Francesco Botticini (real name Francesco di Giovanni, 1446 - 16 January 1498) was an Italian painter. He lived in the early part of the Renaissance period. He was born in Florence about 1446 and is best known for his painting called "Assumption of the Virgin".
He died in 1497 or 1498. After he had been an assistant to the painter Neri di Bicci he started his own workshop. The shop was famous for its decorative works, a few of which can be seen in the cloistered church of Empoli. Botticini was influenced by Filippino Lippi and Botticelli who were two very famous Florentine painters.
Gallery
Related pages
List of Italian painters
References
15th-century Italian painters
People from Florence
1446 births
1498 deaths
Marcq-en-Ostrevent

Marcq-en-Ostrevent is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 748 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord
Mary Pruitt

Mary Pruitt (February 3, 1934 - September 20, 2020) was an American politician. She was born in Brentwood, Tennessee. Pruitt was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1985 to 2013, she was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Pruitt died on September 20, 2020 at a Nashville, Tennessee hospital from a blood clot caused by a fall, aged 86.
References
1934 births
2020 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
Deaths from blood clot
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Nashville, Tennessee
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Koichi Kawai

Koichi Kawai (born 29 March 1979) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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References
1979 births
Living people
Footballers from Ehime Prefecture
Saint-Philbert-des-Champs

Saint-Philbert-des-Champs is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Calvados
Arques, Pas-de-Calais

Arques, Pas-de-Calais is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Interstate 94

Interstate 94 is an Interstate Highway in the United States. It goes from Billings, Montana east to Port Huron, Michigan at the Canada border. The route is long. It is the eighth longest Interstate Highway in the United States and the longest Interstate Highway that does not end in a 0 or a 5.
References
94
Australasian swamphen

The Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) is a species of swamphen (Porphyrio) found in eastern Indonesia (the Moluccas, Aru and Kai Islands), Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand, it is known as the pukeko (from the Maori ). The species used to be thought a subspecies of the purple swamphen.
Distribution
The Australasian swamphen occurs in mainland Australia, eastern Indonesia, the Moluccas, Aru and Kai Islands, and in Papua New Guinea. It is also found on New Zealand's main islands and in the Chatham and Kermadec Islands. It has a small shield, black upperparts, and a purple throat and breast. P. p. pelewensis (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1872) from Palau, looks like melanotus but has greener upperparts and is smaller. P. p. melanopterus (Bonaparte, 1856) is found from the Lesser Sundas and Moluccas to New Guinea. It is as melanotus but smaller, more variable and less blue in the upperparts. P. p. bellus (Gould, 1820) from Western Australia is as melanotus but has a cerulean blue throat and breast. P. p. samoensis (Peale, 1848) occurs from New Guinea to New Caledonia and Samoa, and is as melanotus but smaller, with a little brown on the back
Birds of Australia
Birds of New Zealand
Rallidae
FC Machida Zelvia

is a Japanese professional football club in Machida in the Tokyo region.
History
The club was founded in 1989.
In 2010, Machida Zelvia formed a partnership with Major League Soccer's D.C. United. This was the first partnership between a Japanese football club and American soccer club.
In 2012, the club was promoted to the J.League in its second division.
1989-1996 FC Machida Top
1997-present FC Machida Zelvia
League position
2009 : Football League - 6th
2010 : Football League - 3rd
2011 : Football League - 3rd
2012 : J2 League - 22nd
2013 : Football League - 4th
2014 : J3 League - 3rd
2015 : J3 League - 2nd
2016 : J2 League - 7th
2017 : J2 League - 16th
2018 : J2 League - 4th
2019 : J2 League - 18th
2020 : J2 League - 19th
Managers
Minoru Moriya, 2002-2007
Tetsuya Totsuka, 2008-2009
Naoki Soma, 2010
Ranko Popovic, 2011
Osvaldo Ardiles, 2012-
Related pages
Sports in Japan
List of Japanese football teams
List of FC Machida Zelvia players
References
Other websites
http://www.zelvia.jp/
J.League Club Guide
Japanese football clubs
1977 establishments in Asia
1970s establishments in Japan
Senzo Meyiwa

Senzo Robert Meyiwa (24 September 1987 - 26 October 2014) was a South African footballer. He played as a goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League, and for the South Africa national team. He was the captain of both.
Meyiwa was killed when two people broke into his house and shot him in Vosloorus, South Africa, aged 27. South African President Jacob Zuma led tributes to Meyiwa.
References
1987 births
2014 deaths
Murders by firearm
South African soccer players
German Bundestag

The German Bundestag (commonly referred to as Bundestag) is the legislature of Germany. It meets in Berlin, in the Reichstag building, which was specially rebuilt ready for the Bundestag to move from Bonn.
The Bundestag has at least 598 members. Every 4 years the German people vote. After the 2017 election there were 709 members. In the election of 26 September 2021, 736 members were assigned - the base 598 seats plus 138 overhang and leveling seats. The next elections are in 2025.
A party gets seats when it gets at least 5% of the votes or 3 direct mandates. Every voter has two votes, one for a person and one for a party. 299 members each represent a constituency, just as in the British House of Commons or the US House of Representatives. The other half are elected from a party list in each Land. The total number of seats a party gets depends on the number of the second "party votes" it gets.
But if a party wins more constituency seats than its share of the party votes, then it keeps those extra seats. These extra seats, or extra mandates, are the reason the Bundestag sometimes has more than 598 members. If a party gets extra mandates, the other parties get some extra seats too to make sure every party gets exactly its share of party seats. This system of giving extra mandates was changed in 2013. Before 2013, if a party won extra mandates, then it got to put more members in the Bundestag, which gave the party more influence over the Bundestag than it won in the elections.
The Bundestag president is named Barbel Bas. She oversees the sessions of the body.
Related pages
Politics of Germany#Bundestag (election results of 2013)
German federal election, 2017
Notes
References
Other websites
Hardelot Castle

Hardelot Castle () is a castle in Pas-de-Calais in France. It is located in a field next to the village of Condette, and south of the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. The first castle at this place was built in the 12th century by the Counts of Boulogne. The present castle was built by Count Philippe Hurepel of Clermont in 1222. The castle was captured several times by the French, the English and the Burgundians.
The 'pseudo Gothic' style mansion fort built in 1848 by Sir John Hare. He demolished the existing buildings within the walls of the old castle, and used a tower and underground passages, remains from the 13th century as the basis of his building. In 1899, Sir John Whitley acquired the site and then created the seaside resort of Hardelaut, making the castle the focal point of the estate with hospitality, club and various activities (golf, fishing, tennis, etc.)
External reference
The Chateau in the Merimee database.
Castles in France
Pas-de-Calais
12th-century establishments in Europe
1222 establishments
1220s establishments in Europe
Establishments in France
Victor Rusu

Victor Rusu is a weightlifter from Romania. Victor competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born on 23 August 1945.
References
Other websites
1945 births
Living people
Romanian weightlifters
Romanian Olympians
Grand Olympic Auditorium

The Grand Olympic Auditorium is the old name of a sports arena in Los Angeles, California, United States, located at 1801 S. Grand Avenue. It was built in 1924 for the 1932 Summer Olympics. The boxing, weightlifting, and wrestling events were held there. At the time it was the largest indoor venue in the U.S with seats for around 10,500. It opened on August 5, 1925, and famous people like boxer Jack Dempsey and silent film actor Rudolph Valentino were there.
In the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s it was home to some of the biggest boxing, wrestling and roller derby events.
The 1960s and 1970s were a major boom period for the Olympic Auditorium, as major wrestling events were held at the arena every other Friday night. It was the home of the T-Birds, who played a game called "Roller Derby". In the late 1980s it was changed and 3,000 seats were taken out, leaving space for about 7,500.
Some scenes from the movie Rocky were filmed there.
In June 2005, the Glory Church of Jesus Christ, a Korean-American Christian church, bought the entire property and changed the name. In 2007, the arena was painted brown like it used to be.
Sports buildings in Los Angeles
1925 establishments in California
Parabolic trajectory

In astronomy, a parabolic trajectory (also known as parabolic orbit or parabolic escape trajectory) refers to an object (such as an asteroid) which follows a path similar to a parabola around another object. This motion follows Kepler's Laws. A parabolic trajectory occurs when the eccentricity of its orbit is equal to 1.
Other types of motion in astronomy include circular orbit, elliptical orbit, and hyperbolic trajectory.
Orbits
Altair (footballer)

Altair Gomes de Figueiredo (22 January 1938 - 9 August 2019) was a Brazilian football player. He played for Fluminense and Brazil national team.
de Figueiredo died on 9 August 2019 in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro at the age of 81.
References
1938 births
2019 deaths
Brazilian footballers
Blantyre, South Lanarkshire

Blantyre () is a burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland with a population of about 17,000.
Towns in South Lanarkshire
Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician. She served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023. She was also Speaker from 2007 to 2011. She represents the 12th district of California, which is part of the city of San Francisco. She was first elected to Congress in 1987.
Pelosi is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the first woman to lead a major party in the United States Congress. She is also the first woman and the first Italian-American to be the Speaker of the House. On January 3, 2019, Pelosi was elected speaker for the second time. This would make her the first former speaker to become speaker again since Sam Rayburn in 1955.
In the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans won control of the House, thus ending her second speakership. She announced her retirement as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus, but said she would remain a member of the House. On November 29, 2022, the House Democratic Caucus appointed Pelosi Speaker Emerita of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Pelosi was born in University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland and she is of Italian heritage. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Junior, was Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. He served five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also was Mayor of Baltimore. He died in October 2019, aged 90.
Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1962. She and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have five children: Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra. They also have five grandchildren.
Political activity
On September 24, 2019, Pelosi announced the start of first impeachment hearings into Donald Trump. In December 2019, the House formally impeached Trump, though he was later acquitted in the Senate.
On January 14, 2021, Pelosi announced the start of the second impeachment hearings into Donald Trump. In February 2021, the Senate acquitted Trump with a vote of 57 senators voting "guilty" to 43 "not guilty".
On August 5, 2022, China imposed sanctions on Speaker Pelosi and her immediate family. This was because she visited Taiwan on August 2.
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1940 births
Living people
United States representatives from California
Politicians from Baltimore
Politicians from San Francisco
Speakers of the United States House of Representatives
Minority leaders of the United States House of Representatives
Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is in the Southeast Region of Brazil. It shares borders with Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo and Sao Paulo as well as the Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of .
The state's largest cities are Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguacu, Niteroi, Duque de Caxias, Sao Goncalo, Sao Joao de Meriti, Campos dos Goytacazes, Petropolis and Volta Redonda. Its main rivers are the Guandu River, the Pirai, the Paraiba do Sul, the Macae and the Muriae. Its climate is tropical.
Geography
The state is made up of both mountains and plains. It is between the Mantiqueira Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. The bays of Guanabara, Sepetiba, and Ilha Grande are on the coastline of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is the smallest state in the Southeast Region and one of the smallest in Brazil. Its coastline is , the third longest coastline in the country.
Ethnic groups
White - 54.7% (Mostly Portuguese, Italian and German)
Mixed Race - 33.5% (mainly Mulattos and also some Mestizos)
Black - 10.6% (Mostly Bantu and Yoruba ancestry)
Amerindian - 0.3%
Asian - 0.2%
Undescribed - 0.7%
References
Other websites
Official homepage
Taro Ichiki

Taro Ichiki (born 1 September 1976) is a former Japanese football player.
References
1976 births
Living people
Footballers from Tokyo Prefecture
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov

Ishenbai Duyshonbiyevich Kadyrbekov () (born July 16, 1949) is a Kyrgyzstani politician. He was the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan and the interim President in March 2005.
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1949 births
Living people
Presidents of Kyrgyzstan
Nawaraj Silwal

Nawaraj Silwal is a Nepalese politician who served as the Director General of Nepal Police before being elected to the Nepal House of Representatives from Lalitpur-1, Province No. 3. He belongs to the CPN UML.
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1963 births
Living people
Nepalese politicians
Margaret Court

Margaret Court (nee Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is a retired Australian tennis player and former world #1. In tennis, she won 24 major titles (11 in the open era). That is more than any other player in history.
She is currently a Christian minister in Perth, Western Australia.
1942 births
Living people
French Open champions
Wimbledon champions
World No. 1 tennis players
Australian Christians
Australian tennis players
Ampelocalamus scandens

Ampelocalamus scandens is a species of bamboo native to the Guizhou province of China. It can reach heights of 10 m and a stem diameter of 0.8 cm and grows at an altitude of between 265 - 320m.
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Bamboo species
Rhodri Morgan

Hywel Rhodri Morgan (29 September 1939 - 17 May 2017) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was the First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour from 2000 to 2009. He was also the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011 and the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West from 1987 to 2001.
Morgan died on 17 May 2017 after collapsing at his Wenvoe, Wales home from a suspected heart attack at the age of 77.
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Other websites
1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Welsh politicians
South Bristol, Maine

South Bristol is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 892 at the 2010 census. It is a fishing and resort area. It was loosely named after Bristol, England.
References
Towns in Maine
Marines, Val-d'Oise

Marines is a commune. It is in Ile-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
References
Communes in Val-d'Oise
Dropping out

Dropping out means leaving school. Reasons students drop out include because they must work, for social reasons, because of harassment, because of illness or because they no longer trust the school system that they are leaving. Unlike failing or expulsion, dropping out is the student's decision and not the school's.
Canada
In Canada, most people graduate from grade 12 by age 18. It was found by the Labour Force Survey (LFS) that by 2009, one in twelve 20-to-24 year old adults in Canada did not have a diploma from high school (Gilmore, 2010). The study also showed that males had higher dropout rates than females. Other people with stronger risks for dropping out were those outside urban/suburban areas or in the northern territories. Beginning from 1990 the Canadian dropout rates went down from 20% (1990) to around 9% (2010). From 2010 and after, however, the rate did not drop across Canada. When females drop out of high school, they get less money, the economic costs are greater and they have higher rates of unemployment than male dropouts. Female high school dropouts are more likely to rely on public support programs than male dropouts.
United Kingdom
Dropping out of school is not allowed in the United Kingdom. Dropping out of college or universities, however, is allowed. Students under age 16 must attend a school with the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE).
United States
In the United States, dropping out means students entirely quit school before they graduate. About 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year in the United States. They do this for different reasons: bullying, family emergency, poor grades, depression, mental illness, bad environment or not enough freedom. Students who drop out of high school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless or receiving welfare. Members of certain racial or ethnic groups drop out at higher rates than white students. Students raised in single-parent families and low poor students are more likely to drop out.
Many states say students must stay in school until they are 16, like in the United Kingdom. However, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court said that Amish students do not have to go to high school.
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Society
Human behavior
Education
Ford Escort (North America)

The North American Ford Escort was a car produced by Ford Motor Company from 1981 to 2003. Its successor, the Focus, was released in 2000. The first generation was made from model years 1981 to 1990. The second generation was made from model years 1991 to 1996. The third generation was made from model years 1997 to 2002. While the Focus came for the 2000 model year, the Escort continued for rental and fleet sales until 2002. The ZX2 was the coupe version launched for the 1998 model year and replaced the Probe in the line-up. It was facelifted for 2003 but then it was discontinued afterwards.
Escort (North America)
1980s automobiles
1990s automobiles
2000s automobiles
South Kingstown, Rhode Island

South Kingstown is the county seat of Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. South Kingstown is bordered by Block Island Sound to the south.
Towns in Rhode Island
County seats in Rhode Island
Geology of Scotland

The bedrock of Scotland is very ancient rock. Archean gneiss, metamorphic beds with granite intrusions were laid down when the Caledonian mountains were built. Coal, oil and iron-bearing carboniferous deposits are there, and so are remains of Palaeogene volcanoes. So the rocks of Scotland north of the Highland Boundary Fault are generally older, and mostly much older, than the rocks of England.
This part of Scotland is known as the Highlands and Islands. It includes the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and Outer Hebrides (the Western Isles). Much of Shetland's economy depends on oil and gas production from fields in the surrounding seas. To this might be added tourism, which has become increasingly important.
The Midland Valley, or Central Lowlands, has the big cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. They are in an area known as the central belt, or valley. The economy of Scotland used to depend almost entirely on these two cities, because of their importance in ship building (Glasgow) and general commerce (Edinburgh). Coal mining was also important in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Now ships can be built more cheaply elsewhere (for example, South Korea), and yet much still much depends on these two cities, and on Aberdeen, which acts as a port for the North Sea oil rigs.
The geology of the Central Valley is quite different from the Highlands and Islands. For one thing, it is in the exact place of an ancient and once large sea, the Iapetus Ocean.
The Iapetus Ocean
Sandstone, mudstone and limestone were laid down in the area which is now the Midland Valley. This occurred in shallow tropical seas on the edge of the once-great Iapetus Ocean. The Iapetus Ocean closed 480-430 million years ago, when the volcanic island arc collided with Laurentia. By the end of the Silurian period (c. 420 million years ago), the Iapetus Ocean had completely disappeared. The combined mass of three continents formed the "new" continent of Laurasia. This would become the northern part of the supercontinent Pangaea.
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Geology by country
Geography of Scotland
Diogo Jota

Diogo Jose Teixeira da Silva (born 4 December 1996), commonly known as Diogo Jota, is a Portuguese footballer. He plays as a winger for Premier League team Liverpool.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jota goal.
Honours
Club
Wolverhampton Wanderers
EFL Championship: 2017-18
International
Portugal
UEFA Nations League: 2018-19
Individual
Liverpool Player of the Month: October 2020, November 2020
PFA Fan's Player of the Month: November 2020
References
Notes
International appearances
General
Other websites
Portuguese League profile
1996 births
Living people
Portuguese footballers
Association football midfielders
Liverpool F.C. players
Premier League players
Portugal at UEFA Euro 2020
Zoroaster

Zoroaster, or Zarathushtra, was an ancient prophet who lived in Persia. He founded a religion named Zoroastrianism. This religion has a long history. It was the national religion of Sassanid Empire of ancient Iran. In Persian language, the name takes the form of Zartosht.
Most scholars agree that Zoroaster was a real person who lived long ago. No one is certain about the time when he lived. One estimate is that he lived about 3200 years ago, around 1200 BC. Some other estimates are that Zarathushtra may have lived anywhere between the 18th century BC and the 6th century BC.
Other websites
Zoroaster -Citizendium
Zoroastrianism
Iranian people
Ancient people
Home economics

Home economics is the study of the economics and management of the home and community. It is about managing a home and family, and cooking.
Related pages
Mrs Beeton
Other websites
International Federation for Home Economics
subfields of economics
Home
Life skills
Hypoiodite

Hypoiodite is an ion. Its chemical formula is IO-. It is very unstable. It easily disproportionates to iodide and iodate. It is made by reacting iodine with a base. The iodine is in its +1 oxidation state. It is the salt of hypoiodous acid.
Related pages
Iodine monochloride
Iodine trifluoride
Iodine compounds
Ions
Avadi Railway Station

Avadi railway station is one of the major train stations in the Chennai Central-Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Avadi, a locality of Chennai located 23 km west of the city centre. The station has six tracks, including two loop lines, and has four platforms. As of 2013, the station handles about 40,000 passengers a day.
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Other websites
Avadi station at Indiarailinfo.com
Railway stations in Asia
Chennai district
18 BC

Year 18 BC was either a common year starting on Friday, Saturday or Sunday or a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus.
Events
Caesar Augustus introduced the Lex Julia (Julian Laws)
Onjo becomes the first ruler of the Korean kingdom of Baekje
Pflach

Pflach is a municipality of the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
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Settlements in Tyrol (state)
Salzwedel

Salzwedel (officially known as Hansestadt Salzwedel) is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the capital of the district of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.
It has about 21,500 people.
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Durance

The Durance () is a river in southeastern France, a left tributary of the Rhone river. It is the longest river in Metropolitan France without a department named after it.
Geography
The Durance river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in the Bouches-du-Rhone department at an altitude of , for a period of 95 years.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Saint-Paul-les-Durance
Course
The Durance starts in the pre de Gondran ("meadow of Gondran"), on the east side of the Sommet des Anges mountain, in the commune of Montgenevre (a ski resort near Briancon), Hautes-Alpes department, at an elevation of about . It then flows to the southwest through the departments of Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhone.
Finally, the river flows into the Rhone river, as a left tributary, south of the city of Avignon.
The Durance only flows through two departments: Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; it forms the border between two other departments but it does not flow through them: Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhone. It flows through the Var department only for a short distance.
It flows through the following communes, among others:
Hautes-Alpes
Briancon
Embrun
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Sisteron
Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban
Manosque
Vaucluse
Pertuis
Cadenet
Cavaillon
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Durance river are:
Left tributaries:
Cerveyrette - 22.8 km
Guil - 51.5 km
Vacheres - 21.9 km
Ubaye - 82.7 km
La Blanche - 30.2 km
Sasse - 38.4 km
Vanson - 30.2 km
Bleone - 67.5 km
Rancure - 23.9 km
Asse - 75.3 km
Verdon - 165.7 km
Real - 22.5 km
Anguillon - 20.1 km
Right tributaries:
Claree - 31.8 km
Guisane - 27.7 km
Avance - 20.6 km
Luye - 22.6 km
Buech - 85 km
Jabron - 36.5 km
Lauzon - 25.2 km
Largue - 55.4 km
Eze - 24.3 km
Aigue Brun - 22.8 km
Coulon - 88.2 km
Gallery
Related pages
List of rivers of France
References
Other websites
Val de Durance
Mixed syndicate working on the valley of the Durance
Rivers of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Xinyi District

Xinyi District () is a district in Taipei City. The Taipei City government and Taipei City Council have their head offices there. Other major places in the district are Taipei 101, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei World Trade Center, National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and various shopping malls and entertainment venues, making it the most cosmopolitan district of Taipei. Xinyi District is also thought to be the financial district of Taipei.
Districts
Taipei