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Artillery of Japan

Artillery in Japan is recorded in the 13th century. It was not used widely before the Sengoku period in the 16th century.
History
In the 1840s, the Tokugawa Shogunate began to anticipate that either British or French military might attack Japan. Takashima Shuhan (1798-1866) submitted a petition to the shogun calling for the purchase of Western firearms. In 1841, a demonstration of Western gunnery made a strong impression. Powerful conservative factions in the shogunate resisted change.
During the 1864 Bombardment of Shimonoseki, European naval guns were shown to be superior to Japanese cannon on shore.
Following the Meiji Restoration, Japan would pursue a policy of "Rich country, strong army" (Fu Guo Qiang Bing ), which led to a general rearmament.
Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) used artillery during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).
Naval guns and field artillery were important in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Before and during World War II, the Japanese Army deployed a variety of artillery pieces.
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) developed large naval artillery pieces.
Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF)
The self-propelled artillery of the current Japanese military include
Type 75 155 mm self-propelled howitzer
M110 howitzer
M270 MLRS
Type 99 155 mm self-propelled howitzer
Related pages
List of field guns
List of heavy mortars
List of howitzers
References
Further reading
Evans, David C and Mark Peattie. (1997). Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland
Other websites
Military of Japan
Artillery
Avispa Fukuoka

is a Japanese professional football club in Hakata ward of Fukuoka.
History
The club was founded in 1982.
1982-1993: Chuo Bohan SC
1994: Fujieda Blux
1995: Fukuoka Blux
1996-present: Avispa Fukuoka
League title
Japan Football League: 1
1995
Japan Football League Division 2: 1
1992
League position
2011: J1 League - 17th
2012: J2 League - 18th
2013: J2 League - 14th
2014: J2 League - 16th
2015: J2 League - 3rd
2016: J1 League - 18th
2017: J2 League - 4th
2018: J2 League - 7th
2019: J2 League - 16th
2020: J2 League - 2nd
Former position
Related pages
Sports in Japan
List of Japanese football teams
List of Avispa Fukuoka players
References
Other websites
Avispa Fukuoka website
J.League Club Guide
Japanese football clubs
Fukuoka Prefecture
1982 establishments in Japan
Marble run

A marble run is a course made for a small ball (or marble) and the aim is for it travel from the start to finish with no flaws.
To make a marble run you need a small ball. After that, you make a course using anything you can find (see: Rube Goldberg machine)
A marble is a small glass ball and is more commonly used for the game 'marbles.'
A German glassblower invented marble scissors, a device for making marbles, in 1846. The first mass-produced toy marbles (clay) made in the US were made in Akron, Ohio, by S. C. Dyke, in the early 1890s. Some of the first US-produced glass marbles were also made in Akron, by James Harvey Leighton.
Toys
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis

The Fascinating Mrs. Francis is a 1909 American silent comedy movie directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Marion Leonard, Barry O'Moore, and Anita Hendrie.
Actors
Marion Leonard as Mrs. Francis
Barry O'Moore as Young Man
Anita Hendrie as Young Man's Mother
Harry Solter as Young Man's Father
Gertrude Robinson as The Maid / Party Guest
Linda Arvidson
John R. Cumpson as Party Guest
George Gebhardt as Party Guest
Guy Hedlund as Party Guest
Charles Inslee as Party Guest
Arthur V. Johnson as Party Guest
Florence Lawrence as Visitor
Mack Sennett as Party Guest
Charles West
References
Other websites
American movies
1909 movies
American comedy movies
American silent movies
Saint-Clément, Ardèche

Saint-Clement is a commune in the Ardeche departement in southern France.
Communes in Ardeche
Barbour County, Alabama

Barbour County, Alabama is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of James Barbour, who was Governor of Virginia. As of 2020 the population was 25,223. Its county seat is Clayton.
History
Barbour County was created on December 18, 1832 from former Creek Indian territory and a portion of Pike County. Its borders were altered in 1866 and 1868. The Election Riot of 1874 occurred near Comer.
Major Highways
U.S. Highway 82
U.S. Highway 431
State Route 10
State Route 30
State Route 51
Adjacent counties
Russell County, Alabama - northeast
Quitman County, Georgia - east
Stewart County, Georgia - east
Clay County, Georgia - southeast
Henry County, Alabama - south
Dale County, Alabama - south
Pike County, Alabama - west
Bullock County, Alabama - northwest
National protected area
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge
Cities and towns
Bakerhill
Blue Springs
Clayton
Clio
Eufaula
Elamville
Louisville
References
Alabama counties
1832 establishments in Alabama
Mazumbai warty frog

The Mazumbai warty frog (Callulina kisiwamsitu) is a frog. It lives in Tanzania. It lives in the West Usambara Mountains.
First paper
References
Frogs of Africa
Tim David

Timothy Hays David is a Singaporean-Australian cricketer (b. 16 March, 1996 in Singapore). He played 14 Twenty20 Internationals for Singapore and scored the highest score for batsman for Singapore. He is the son of Rod David.
Other websites
Player profile at Perth Scorchers
1996 births
Living people
Singaporean cricketers
Australian cricketers
Lucy-le-Bocage

Lucy-le-Bocage is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Communes in Aisne
Mike Pelino (ice hockey)

Mike Pelino (born November 13, 1959 in Welland, Ontario) is a Canadian Ice hockey coach. He has been an assistant coach for the New York Rangers from 2004 until 2009. Pelino started his coaching career in the NHL as an assistant coach for the Florida Panthers in 2003. In 2010, he became the head coach of the Peterborough Petes in the OHL.
Since 2013, he has been working for the Metallurg as an assistant coach in KHL. In the 2013/2014 season the team won Gagarin's Cup and became the KHL champions.
References
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Ice hockey people from Ontario
1959 births
Living people
Billy Simpson

William J. "Billy" Simpson (12 December 1929 - 27 January 2017) was a Northern Irish footballer. He played as a centre forward professionally from 1946 to 1961. He played for Linfield, Rangers, Stirling Albion, Partick Thistle, Oxford United and the Northern Ireland national team. He was born in Belfast.
Simpson died on 27 January 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 87.
References
1929 births
1958 FIFA World Cup players
2017 deaths
Northern Irish footballers
Sportspeople from Belfast
Back-to-Africa movement

The Back-to-Africa movement is a movement for African Americans and the black diaspora to move back to Africa. African repatriation for ex African slaves and free black people from North America and other Western societies began during the eighteenth century. They founded the country of Liberia.
References
African-American history
History of Africa
McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938 - March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. Tyner was known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played on Coltrane's My Favorite Things for Atlantic.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed McCoy Tyner among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
On March 6, 2020, Tyner died at his home in northern New Jersey at the age of 81.
References
Other websites
NEA Jazz Masters biography
McCoy Tyner's musical style
McCoy Tyner at Jazz Resource Center
McCoy Tyner Trio with Gary Bartz concert review, 2011
McCoy Tyner sessionography
1938 births
2020 deaths
American pianists
American jazz musicians
American bandleaders
American composers
African American musicians
Musicians from Philadelphia
McLaren Grand Prix results

The table below details World Championship Grand Prix results for the McLaren Formula One team. The second table includes results from privately owned McLaren cars in World Championship Grands Prix.
World Championship results
Works team entries
Jump to: 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
Notes
- The driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified, as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
- Half points awarded as less than 75% of the race distance was completed.
- Up until , not all points scored by a constructor contributed to their final World Championship tally (see list of points scoring systems for more information). Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
- Points total includes points scored by private entries.
- McLaren did not receive points for the Constructors' Championship at the 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix.
- McLaren lost all points in the 2007 Constructors' Championship as a result of a World Motorsport Council decision over the 2007 Formula One espionage controversy.
Season in progress.
McLaren lost all points in the 2007 Constructors Championship as a result of a World Motorsport Council decision over the 2007 Formula One espionage controversy.
Up until , not all points scored by a constructor contributed to their final World Championship tally (see point scoring system for more information). Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
^ Points total includes points scored by private entries.
Results of other McLaren cars
(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position)
Formula One constructor results
Formula One current
Emirate

An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by an emir, a dynastic Arab Monarch. The word emirate or amirate comes from , Imaarah ; plural: mrt, Imaraat. The United Arab Emirates is a federal state of seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven elect the federation's President and Prime Minister. Most emirates have either disappeared or become part of a larger modern state, some changed their rulers' title, e.g. to Malik (Arabic for King) or Sultan. Therefore true emirate-states have become rare.
In Arabic the term can be generalized to mean any province of a country that is administered by a member of the ruling class, especially of a member of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabian governorates.
List of independent Emirates
Kuwait
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
List of former and integrated emirates
The Emirate of Armenia
Emirate of Sicily, Sicily 965-1072
Emirate of Granada, Spain 1228-1492
Emirate of Trarza, modern southwest Mauritania 1640s-1910s
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
Az Zubayr
Bahrain, became a kingdom in 2002
References
Other websites
What Is Life Really Like In Dubai, UAE?; YouTube
Feudalism
Forms of government
Shamsha Berkimbayeva

Shamsha Kopbaevna Berkimbayeva (; 10 October 1942 - 7 April 2022) was a Kazakh academic and politician. She was Minister of Education and Science from 2002 to 2003.
Berkimbayeva died on 7 April 2022 at the age of 79.
References
1942 births
2022 deaths
Kazakhstani politicians
Academics
List of Madonna tours

Concert tours
Promotional tours
References
Other websites
Madonna Tour Archives
Tours
Concert tours
Music-related lists
Oleg Baklanov

Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov (; March 17, 1932 - July 28, 2021) was a Soviet politician and businessman. He was Minister of General Machine Building from 1983 until 1988.
References
1932 births
2021 deaths
Russian politicians
D. J. King

Dwayne "D. J." King (born June 27, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals.
Before playing in the NHL, King played 4 seasons in the Western Hockey League; 3 seasons with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and 1 season with the Kelowna Rockets. He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 190th overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
King is of Metis heritage. He has a younger brother named Dwight, that plays for the Los Angeles Kings.
References
Other websites
1984 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Lethbridge Hurricanes players
Living people
St. Louis Blues players
Washington Capitals players
Worcester IceCats players
ECHL players
Memorial Cup winners
Tim Rice-Oxley

Timothy James Rice-Oxley (born 2 June 1976, in Oxford, England) is an English musician. He is the pianist of rock band Keane. He plays piano and bass. He also writes the songs for the band.
Early life
He took piano lessons which he hated. This because he had to play classic music and he thought it was boring. Later, he began playing the piano listening to The Beatles. In 2004, he won the Ivor Novello award for Best composer of the year.
In 1995, his friend Dominic Scott told him to make a band. The band was called "The Lotus Eaters". They asked Richard Hughes to play the drums. Tom Chaplin would play bass. Rice-Oxley and Chaplin had been friends since they were children. In 1997, Rice-Oxley asked Chaplin to sing. The band changed its name to "Keane". When Scott left the band in 2001, Rice-Oxley started playing piano again and recording bass separately. He still does that.
Rice-Oxley married in February 2005.
Equipment list
Complete list: Equipment list
Yamaha CP70 (Piano)
Nord Lead 3 (Synthesizer)
Fender Precision (Bass)
Apple Computer PowerBook G4
Apple PowerMac G5
References
Other websites
Nezz-Media! - Dedicated to Keane
1976 births
Living people
english pianists
English guitarists
English rock musicians
Keane (band)
Musicians from Oxfordshire
People from Oxford
Falcon Heights, Minnesota

Falcon Heights is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States.
Cities in Minnesota
Robert Guiscard

Robert Guiscard (Hauteville-la-Guichard, France, 1015 - Kefalonia, Greece, July 15, 1085), was a Norman adventurer.
Biography
Robert de Hauteville, dubbed "Guiscard", was born at Hauteville, near Coutances (Normandy). He was the sixth son of Tancred of Hauteville and eldest by his second wife Fressenda (or Fredesenda), daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy.
Like many other impoverished Norman knights (Rainulf Drengot, William Ironarm, and more), Robert de Hauteville went to Italy, arriving there about 1046. After serving in the forces of the prince lombard of Capua, Pandulf, he organized an army to secure possessions for himself in Calabria. In 1053, when the Pope Leo IX attempted to expel the Normans from the South Italy, Robert Guiscard played an important role in defeating the papal forces at Civitate, near the modern city of San Severo (Province of Foggia).
After the death in 1057 of his older brother Humphrey, count of Apulia, Guiscard became leader of the Normans in Italy. The pope, seeking independence from the Holy Roman Empire, decided to enlist the Normans as allies. In 1059 the French Pope Nicholas II created Robert "by the Grace of God and Saint Peter, duke of Apulia and Calabria and, with their help, hereafter of Sicily" (Robertus Guiscardus, Normannus Dux Apuliae, Calabriae et Siciliae). In return, Robert acknowledged the pope as his feudal overlord. Sicily was in Muslim hands at the time and so Robert and his brother Roger Bosso embarked on a series of campaigns, capturing Messina in 1061 and Palermo in 1072.
Turning his attention to the Balkans in 1081, Guiscard gained a great victory over the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus at Durazzo (Albania). In Greece, his campaigns at Macedonia and Thessalia were being carried on, meanwhile, by his son Bohamund. Robert was recalled from his victorious campaigns in 1084 to go to the aid of Pope Gregory VII, who was besieged in the castle of Sant'Angelo by Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Robert drove Henry from Rome, and reduced one-third of the city to ashes. Because of the unpopularity of Gregory VII in Rome, he took the pope to Monte Cassino. Robert then went to the support of Bohamund in the Greek campaign but died of fever at Kefalonia a few weeks later (July 1085). He was buried in the Hauteville family mausoleum of the Trinity Abbey (SS. Trinita) at Venosa. The town of Fiscardo on Kefalonia is named after him.
Sources
Geoffrey Malaterra, The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of Duke Robert Guiscard his brother, Books One, Two, Three, Four.
William of Apulia, The Deeds of Robert Guiscard Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five (Word Documents).
Ferdinand Chalandon, Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile, Paris, 1907.
John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South (1016-1130), Longmans : London, 1967.
Other websites
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy on Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia
Normans
1015 births
1085 deaths
Hungarian Canadians

Hungarian Canadians () are persons in Canada of Hungarian ancestry. According to the 2016 Census, there are 348,085 Canadians of Hungarian ancestry.
References
Ethnic groups in Canada
Barys Kit

Barys Uladzimiravich Kit (, ; April 6, 1910 - February 1, 2018) was a Belarusian American rocket scientist. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.
In the mid-1950s Kit began his scientific activities in the field of astronautics. He worked for 25 years in the American space research program. As a mathematician and systems analyst, he took part in projects aimed at the development of intercontinental missile systems.
Kit died on February 1, 2018 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany of pneumonia at the age of 107.
References
1910 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Belarusian people
American mathematicians
American physicists
American centenarians
Wienerwald

The Wienerwald (East Central Bavarian: Weanawoid, lit.'Vienna Woods') is a large forest of over 1,000 square kilometers. It lies southwest of Vienna in Lower Austria. It covers the start of the Alps. It is about 45 km long, and between 20 and 30 km wide.
Alps
Forests of Europe
Mountains of Austria
Regions of Austria
Lower Austria
Vienna
Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly. Maria Callas's American debut in Norma was held here.
The Lyric is housed in a theater and related spaces in the Civic Opera Building.
Other websites
Profile at Centerstage Chicago
Chicago Landmarks: Civic Opera Building
Ardis Krainik interview by Bruce Duffie
May Valentine Lyric Opera Photograph Collection at Newberry Library
Danny Newman interview by Bruce Duffie
Theatres in Chicago
Upper Canada

Upper Canada is an old British name for the Canadian province of Ontario.
References
1790s in North America
1791 establishments
1841 disestablishments
19th century in North America
British Empire
Former British colonies
Former colonies in North America
History of Canada
Ontario
Regions of Canada
Monarchy of Norway

Before the unification in 872 A.D, Norway was made up of 22 small kingdoms.
They merged into larger kingdoms by the different kings (chiefs); Harald Gullskjegg, Gandalv Alvgerisson, Kjote den rike. Vigbrand fra Agder, Vikar Haraldsson, Oystein Halvdansson in addition to Halvdan Svarte. Harald Fairhair (Harald den Harfagre) the son of Halfdan the Black (Halvdan Svarte) unified Norway once and for all into one kingdom at the battle of Hafrsfjord. Where he fought against the five remaining Kings in the west of the country (Vestlandet).
History of Norway
Bailee Madison

Bailee Madison (born October 15, 1999) is an American actress. She was in the movie Bridge to Terabithia. Madison was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
References
Other websites
1999 births
American movie actors
American child actors
Actors from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Living people
American Christians
American television actors
Movie producers
Death Be Not Proud

"Death Be Not Proud" is a poem written by John Donne about 1610. It was published in 1663, after his death.
Poem
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, death, thou shalt die.
17th-century English poems
Bernot

Bernot is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in the north of France. in 2012, 446 people lived there.
Communes in Aisne
ITV Sport

ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV.
Other websites
1985 establishments in the United Kingdom
British entertainment companies
Characters (Stevie Wonder album)

Characters is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on November 6, 1987 by Motown. He performed a song on the album called "Get It" with R&B singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.
Reviews
Characters received generally positive reviews from critics.
Track listing
All songs written by Stevie Wonder except where noted.
Side one
"You Will Know" - 5:00
"Dark 'n' Lovely" (Gary Byrd, Wonder) - 4:39
"In Your Corner" - 4:30
"With Each Beat of My Heart" - 5:28
"One of a Kind" - 5:10
Side two
"Skeletons" - 5:24
"Get It" (featuring Michael Jackson) - 4:31
"Galaxy Paradise" - 3:52
"Cryin' Through the Night" - 5:48
"Free" - 4:12
CD Bonus tracks
"Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down" (featuring B.B. King & Stevie Ray Vaughan) - 5:20
"My Eyes Don't Cry" - 7:05
References
1987 albums
R&B albums
Soul albums
Quiet storm albums
Chak Umra

Chak Umra is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
References
Union Councils of Chakwal District
Robin Tunney

Robin Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for her movie roles in Empire Records (1995) and The Craft (1996). She also played Veronica Donovan on Prison Break (2005-2006) and Teresa Lisbon on the television series The Mentalist (2008-2015).
She is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney.
References
1972 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Chicago
Jacques Visschers

Jacques Visschers (December 6, 1940 - August 21, 2020) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a forward. He spent his entire football career at NAC Breda, from 1948 until 1971, when he retired from football.
Visschers died on August 21, 2020 at the age of 79.
References
1940 births
2020 deaths
Dutch footballers
Footballers from Amsterdam
Bioprecipitation

Bioprecipitation is a theory about rain-making bacteria. It was proposed by David Sands from Montana State University in 1982. They believe that biological ice nuclei have the ability to catalyze freezing at warmer temperatures. New research shows that bacteria may be found in clouds as a way spread their spores.
References
Bacteria
Meteorology
Ialomița (river)

The Ialomita River () is a river in the southern part of Romania. It comes up from the Bucegi Mountains of the Carpathians and flows into the Danube.
The upper part of the river is sometimes called Valea Obarsiei River or Obarsia Ialomitei River.
Cities
Targoviste
Slobozia
Tributaries
Prahova River
Lakes and dams
Lake Scropoasa
Tributaries of the Danube
Nonna Grishayeva

Nonna Valentinovna Grishayeva (born on July 21, 1971) is a Russian actress, comedienne, singer and television presenter. She is Honored Artist of Russia (2006).
She was twice married and has two children.
1971 births
Living people
Russian actors
Russian singers
Russian television presenters
Vaggeryd Municipality

Vaggeryd Municipality () is a municipality in Jonkoping County in southern Sweden. The seat is both in Skillingaryd and Vaggeryd.
References
Other websites
Vaggeryd Municipality
Municipalities of Jonkoping County
Tom Glavine

Tom Glavine (born March 25, 1966) is a former baseball player who played pitcher. He won more than 300 games in his career and has won the second-most games in National League history (behind his former teammate Greg Maddux). He won one World Series with the Atlanta Braves in 1995, and was the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP). Most of his career was with the Braves (from 1987 to 2002 and in 2008), but he also played with the New York Mets from 2003 to 2007.
Awards
As well as being the MVP of the 1995 World Series, Glavine also won the National League (NL) Cy Young Award in 1991 and 1998.
References
1966 births
American Roman Catholics
Atlanta Braves players
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
New York Mets players
National League All-Stars
Facies

Facies is a term in geology. It means the look of a rock. If one looks up at a cliff of rock, the appearances changes from one layer to another. This because the ecological conditions changed as the rock was laid down. So, the facies reflect the process of sedimentation.
Regular changes in the facies usually means regular changes in the ancient climate. As the climate chaged, so the sea level rose and fell. What was deep water became shallow water, and so on. In the Milankovich cycle, the climate changes regularly. As it does so, deeper water carbonates may alternate with shallow-water shales and silts. These facies are seen in the column of rocks.
Definition:
"All... features of a particular sedimentary rock from which the depositional environment may be inferred".
References
Sedimentary rocks
Madison, Virginia

Madison, Virginia is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is the county seat of Madison County.
References
Towns in Virginia
County seats in Virginia
Mildred, Kansas

Mildred is a city in Allen County, Kansas, United States.
Cities in Allen County, Kansas
Jack Hills

The Jack Hills are a range of hills in Western Australia. They include the oldest material of terrestrial origin found on Earth. These are zircons which formed about 4.4 billion years ago (bya). The oldest zircon with the most consistent date is closer to 4.35 bya.
This zircon is part of a population of zircons in the metamorphosed conglomerate. They were deposited about 3.060 bya, which is the age of the youngest detrital zircon in the rock.
The zircons are used in research on the conditions on Earth in the Hadean eon.
Comparisons
We have samples of rock from the Moon which are older than these zircons. The "Genesis Rock", got from the Moon by astronauts in the Apollo 15 mission, has been dated at 4.46 billion years. This is one of the oldest known rocks on Earth, though it originated on the Moon. During Apollo 16, older rocks were brought back.
The Allan Hills 84001 meteorite was blasted off from Mars by meteorite impact about 4.5 bya, and crystallised 4.091 bya. It arrived on Earth about 13,000 years ago. These figures were got by a number of radiometric dating techniques.
References
Hadean
Geography of Western Australia
Pulilan

Pulilan is a municipality (or a town) in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It lies 50 kilometers northwest of Manila and is located at the west-central part of the province. It is surrounded by the settlements of Apalit in Pampanga; by Baliuag in the north; by Plaridel in the south; and by Calumpit in the west.
According to the 2015 national census (a total count of the country's population) of the Philippines, it has 97,323 people.
The town is famous for its Carabao Festival, which happens once a year in May. This is where the carabaos (a kind of water buffalo in the Philippines) are walked together on the streets and kneel as they pass in front of San Isidro Labrador Parish Church, in honor to Saint Isidore the Laborer, the town's patron saint.
Barangays
Pulilan is divided into 19 barangays (villages). These barangays are:
Balatong A
Balatong B
Cutcot
Dampol 1st
Dampol 2nd-A
Dampol 2nd-B
Dulong Malabon
Inaon
Longos
Lumbac
Paltao
Penabatan
Poblacion (downtown part of the town)
Santa Peregrina
Santo Cristo
Taal
Tabon
Tibag
Tinejero
Sources
Other websites
www.pulilan.gov.ph
Pulilan Bulacan
Philippine Standard Geographic Code
Philippine Census Information
https://commons.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jf9803Pulilan_Municipal_Hall_Bulacan_Coplexfvf_30.JPG
Settlements in the Philippines
1749 establishments
Establishments in the Philippines
1998–99 Premier League

The 1998-99 Premier League (known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the seventh season of the Premier League. That season, Manchester United won the league. That year, United also won the treble: the league title, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
Teams
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Blackburn Rovers
Charlton Athletic
Chelsea
Coventry City
Derby County
Everton
Leeds United
Leicester City
Liverpool
Manchester United
Middlesbrough
Newcastle United
Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Wednesday
Southampton
Tottenham Hotspur
West Ham United
Wimbledon
League table
Season statistics
Top scorers
Hat-tricks
Note: 4 Player scored 4 goals; P Player scored a perfect hat-trick; (H) - Home; (A) - Away
Top assists
References
Other websites
1998-99 FA Premier League Season at RSSSF
Premier League seasons
1998 in association football
1999 in association football
Premiera

Premiera is a 1976 Romanian comedy movie. Mihai Constantinescu directed it. Tamara Buciuceanu, Carmen Stanescu, Radu Beligan, Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Vasilica Tastaman, Aurel Giurumia, Carmen Galin, and Gheorghe Dinica acted in it.
Other websites
1976 comedy movies
Romanian comedy movies
Movies directed by Mihai Constantinescu
Vernal, Utah

Vernal is the county seat and largest city in Uintah County. It is in northeastern Utah about east of Salt Lake City and west of the Colorado border. As of the 2020 census the population of Vernal was 10,079.
References
Cities in Utah
County seats in Utah
Adnan Şenses

Adnan Senses (21 August 1935 - 25 December 2013) was a Turkish musician and actor.
Senses was born in Bursa, Turkey. He was raised and studied in Ankara. He began his singing career in 1956. He appeared in over 47 movies.
Senses died from stomach cancer in Istanbul, aged 78.
References
Other websites
1935 births
2013 deaths
Bursa
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in Turkey
Actors from Ankara
Turkish movie actors
Turkish singers
Jim Bolger (baseball)

James Cyril Bolger (February 23, 1932 - April 9, 2020) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He appeared in 312 games over all or parts of seven Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons. He played for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Phillies.
Bolger died on April 9, 2020 at the age of 88.
References
Other websites
1932 births
2020 deaths
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Sportspeople from Cincinnati
Normal lens

In photography, the phrase normal lens is used for camera lenses that have a focal length which is roughly the diagonal of the image projected inside the camera. Camera lenses with a shorter focal length are called wide-angle lenses, those with a longer one telephoto lenses.
This gives a natural perspective.
In Digital photography the situation is more complex. The sensor type diameter is not the sensor diameter:
(*) refers to tv-tube diameters that were standards in the 50's. The normal lens focal length is roughly 2/3 of the TV tube diameter.
(**) this is a mathematical calculation because most of the cameras have zoom lenses.
In cinematography a focal length roughly equivalent to twice the diagonal of the image projected within the camera is considered normal.
Camera lenses
Israel National Trail

Israel National Trail (, Shvil Yisra'el) is a hiking trail for hikers and backpackers that crosses the whole of Israel. In 2016 will be opened another path for bicycles that crosses Israel.
Other websites
Hiking the Israel National Trail - English language resources
The trail in Google maps
Shvil Israel at SPNI Israel National Trail at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel website (Hebrew)
Israel National Trail - Maps, Guids & Stories.
Geography of Israel
Trails
Dominic Sonic

Dominic Sonic, stage name of Dominique Garreau (11 November 1964 - 23 July 2020) was a French singer. He released six albums from 1989 to 2015. He was born in Dinan, France. He stared his career by playing with Lamballe-based punk group Kalashnikov. He remained with the group for six years and performed in over 300 concerts.
In 1987, he began producing his first solo album, Cold Tears, which was released two years later by the Belgian label Crammed Discs. Sonic took part in the Rencontres Trans Musicales in Rennes in 2002 as a surprise guest of The Stooges.
Sonic died on 23 July 2020 in Les Lilas, France at the age of 55.
Discography
Albums
Cold Tears (1989)
Dominic Sonic (1991)
Les Leurres (1994)
Essais 94/96 (1996)
Phalanstere #7 (2007)
Vanites #6 (2015)
Singles and EPs
mini LP 4 titres : A train song / Too late / Back in the USSR / Listen to what I say (1985)
Lie to me (1987)
When my tears run cold / La loi des pauvres gens (1989)
A s'y meprendre / What I'm waiting for (1990)
A s'y meprendre (new version)/ Shadows in the fire (live)/ No fun (live)/ Praying to the lord (live) (1990)
He used to be/ Hey hey my my (1991)
Ils dorment encore (1994)
Il est encore temps (1994)
Je crois Antoine / Stick your love with blood / Hey, little mother (1994)
References
Other websites
1964 births
2020 deaths
French singers
Claudio Pizarro

Claudio Pizarro (born 3 October 1978) is a Peruvian football player. He has played for the Peruvian national team.
Club career statistics
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|1996||rowspan="2"|Deportivo Pesquero||rowspan="2"|Primera Division||16||3||||||||||||||16||3
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|1997||25||8||||||||||||||25||8
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|1998||rowspan="2"|Alianza Lima||rowspan="2"|Primera Division||22||7||||||||||||||22||7
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|1999||22||18||||||||||||||22||18
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|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||25||10||5||2||colspan="2"|-||9||3||39||15
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|2000/01||31||20||1||0||colspan="2"|-||5||4||37||24
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|2001/02||rowspan="6"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="6"|Bundesliga||30||15||4||0||colspan="2"|-||14||4||48||19
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|2002/03||31||14||6||2||colspan="2"|-||7||2||44||18
|-
|2003/04||31||11||4||1||colspan="2"|-||7||0||42||12
|-
|2004/05||23||11||5||6||colspan="2"|-||7||4||35||21
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|2005/06||26||11||5||5||colspan="2"|-||6||1||37||17
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|2006/07||33||8||2||0||colspan="2"|-||10||4||45||12
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|2007/08||Chelsea||Premier League||21||2||3||0||4||0||3||0||31||2
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|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||26||17||5||4||colspan="2"|-||15||7||46||28
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
85||36||||||||||||||85||36
256||117||37||20||colspan="2"|-||66||29||359||166
21||2||3||0||4||0||3||0||31||2
362||155||40||20||4||0||69||29||475||204
|}
International career statistics
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|1999||11||3
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|2000||8||0
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|2001||6||2
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|2002||0||0
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|2003||8||3
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|2004||6||2
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|2005||4||0
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|2006||2||1
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|2007||10||2
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!Total||55||13
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References
1978 births
Living people
Peruvian footballers
Cuvette Department

Cuvette is a departement of Republic of the Congo, in the northeast. Its capital is Owando.
Cuvette is divided into one commune and ten districts:
Commune of Owando
Bokoma District
Boundji District
Loukolela District
Makoua District
Mbon District
Mossaka District
Ngoko District
Oyo District
Tchikapika District
Tokou District
References
Departments of the Republic of the Congo
Greek National Opera

The Greek National Opera () is an organization in Athens which puts on performances of opera. The Greek National Opera is the country's most important opera house. It was started in 1939. Today the music director is Giorgos Koumendakis.
Other websites
Official website
Opera houses
Algeciras

Algeciras is a city in the south of Spain. Is on the Mediterranean coast, in the Bay of Gibraltar. It is also the most important port in the country.
In 2009, about 116,209 people lived in the city. The municipal area is 86 km2. It is approximately 20 km to the north of Africa.
The city has a long history. It was founded by phoenicians. Named Iulia Traducta by the Romans in the First Century.
In 711, Arab from the North of Africa invaded the city and renamed it Al-Yazirat al-Hadra (green island). In 1344 the city was conquered by Alfonso XI of Castile but it was reconquered by moors in 1369, ten years before Algeciras was destroyed.
In 1704 the city was refounded by Gibraltarians refugees.
Cities in Andalusia
Municipalities in Andalusia
Sachin Bishnoi

Sachin Bishnoi (born on 31 August 2000), is an Indian entrepreneur and developer of banking software and also mobile applications. Bishnoi developed software for State Bank of India and Reliance Industries Limited. He is known for introducing biometric and voice recognition in the Indian banking He is also a founder of Gogo Capital International, industry dedicated to creating software for companies. In 2022 he was awarded as a Young Asian Entrepreneur at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award.
References
Indian businesspeople
Living people
2000 births
Drew University

Drew University is a selective coeducational private university located in Madison, New Jersey, USA. Drew has been nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of its wooded campus. The Princeton Review has called Drew one of "America's Top Ten Most Beautiful Colleges". For 2015 it has an enrollment of 1,493 undergraduates. Tuition for the 2014-2015 academic year was $45,214 USD. Drew University has a theology school and is affiliated with the United Methodist church.
References
Drew University
Tábor

Tabor is a city in the Czech Republic. It is in the South Bohemian Region. At the 2007 census, 35,859 people lived there. The city was started in 1420. The current mayor is Hana Randova. The city is named after Mount Tabor.
Other websites
Tabor's Official website
Cities in the Czech Republic
1420 establishments
1420s establishments in Europe
South Bohemian Region
Golden Brown

Golden Brown is a song by the English rock group The Stranglers. It was released in December 1981, and became a hit around the world. It reached number two on the British charts in 1982 which made it the group's most successful song.
References
1981 songs
The Stranglers songs
Songs about drugs
Kramfors

Kramfors is an urban area in the county of Vasternorrland in Sweden. It is the seat of Kramfors Municipality.
References
Other websites
Settlements in Vasternorrland County
Tak and the Power of Juju

Tak and the Power of Juju is a 2003 3D platform video game made by THQ and Avalanche Software for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance. It had two sequel games in 2004 and 2005 before it became a Nicktoon in 2007.
Plot
Tak of the Pupanunu people was called by the great shaman Jibolba to free Lok from his imprisonment by summoning the Juju.
2003 video games
3D platform games
PlayStation 2 games
Nintendo GameCube games
Game Boy Advance games
Tak and the Power of Juju
ReachOut Healthcare America

ReachOut Healthcare America (RHA) is an American company that manages dental clinics. Its headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona. Under the name "Big Smiles," it coordinates dentist vans that go to American schools and do dental checkups and dental work on poor children.
History
Michael Howell and Daniel Goldsmith started the ReachOut company in 1997. At first the company managed dental checkups and dental work for people in nursing homes in Michigan. The company later began organizing dental care for schools, foster programs, group homes, homeless shelters, and mental health facilities by late 2003.
In October 2011, boy in a Camp Verde, Arizona had dental work done by a dentist linked with ReachOut. The boy said it hurt. His mother, Stacey Gagnon, said that the dentist did dental work on the boy without asking the parents if it was okay. Darren and Stacey Gagnon, the parents of the boy, sued the dentist and the Reachout company. In November 2011, Dan Brown, then the superintendent of the Camp Verde Unified School District, signed a letter saying that ReachOut cannot go to the district's schools anymore.
ReachOut used to send dentists to schools in the Clark County School District, the biggest school district in the state of Nevada. In December 2011 the district stopped working with ReachOut.
Ken Tucker, a reporter for the newspaper Arizona Republic, wrote that ReachOut did not give good care after the dental work was done because the dentists only came to the school twice a year. A mobile dentist who worked with ReachOut, Derryl Brian, said that the dentists under ReachOut had, since 2006, done screenings and work on 80,000 children. Brian said that a lot of people liked what they did.
Related pages
All Smiles Dental Centers
Small Smiles Dental Centers
Sources
Other websites
ReachOut Healthcare America
Big Smiles Dental (Alternate link) - operated by ReachOut
Reach Out Healthcare America ." Moriarty Leyendecker (law company that is suing ReachOut)
Collins, Katie. "Big Smiles dentists visits Thomson Primary School." Brush News-Tribune. April 17, 2012.
Companies based in Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
1997 establishments in the United States
1990s establishments in Arizona
Dentistry companies of the United States
Jolene Unsoeld

Jolene Unsoeld (December 3, 1931 - November 28, 2021) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. She represented the third congressional district of Washington as a Democrat.
Unsoeld died on November 28, 2021, five days before her 90th birthday in Olympia, Washington.
References
Other websites
1931 births
2021 deaths
United States representatives from Washington
Politicians from Oregon
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
IF Verdandi

IF Verdandi is a sports club in the town of Eskilstuna in Sweden. It was established in 1900. The club runs soccer. It earlier even ran amateur wrestling, bandy, cycling and table tennis. The men's bandy team played in the Swedish top division in 1932, 1933 and 1941.
The men's soccer team has played the Swedish second division during the seasons of 1942-1943., 1943-1944 and 1944-1945.
Kjell Johansson has played table tennis for the club.
References
Other websites
Official website
Former website
1900 establishments in Sweden
Bandy clubs in Sweden
Table tennis clubs in Sweden
Swedish football clubs
Dream On (Aerosmith song)

"Dream On" is a 1973 debut single by Aerosmith. It is from their debut self-titled studio album. In 1976 it went to number 6 in the United States and number 10 in Canada. It became a classic song on FM radio.
References
1973 songs
1970s ballads
Debut singles
Rock ballads
Aerosmith songs
Hard rock songs
Blues rock songs
Pop ballads
Hana Soukupová

Hana Soukupova (born 18 December 1985) is a Czech supermodel. She was one of the participants of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows and modelled for the Victoria's Secret catalog.
Life
Soukupova was born on 18 December 1985 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Her height, motivated her to begin playing basketball for a local team. She started playing at the age of five years.
References
1985 births
Living people
Czech models
Mekh

Mekh is listed on the Palermo Stone as a Predynastic ancient Egyptian king who ruled in the Lower Egypt. There is no other evidence of such ruler. Mekh may be a mythical king who is only remembered in unwritten stories, or may even be completely fictitious.
References
Predynastic Pharaohs
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Mohammad Hasan Sharq

Mohammad Hasan Sharq (born 17 July 1925) is an Afghan politician during the communist regime of Afghanistan. Sharq became Prime Minister of Afghanistan or Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet-backed government, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
He was selected as a back-up candidate after the Loya Jirga ratified a new constitution in 1987. However, the power of his office was relatively small compared with the ones of the Presidency.
References
1925 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Afghanistan
Fragile Future

Fragile Future is the third album by Hawthorne Heights. It was released in 2008. It was their first album without Casey Calvert, because he died in late 2007. Casey was the backing vocalist who used death growls in the songs. This album has no death growls or harsh vocals at all because the band decided not to replace Casey with a new person who could do death growls.
Hawthorne Heights did not have a lot of success on the singles, but it was seen as a new start for the band.
While much of the album was inspired by things that had been happening to the band, it never says the words "Casey" or "Victory Records"
The album art includes a picture of Casey Calvert near a lamppost.
Track listing
"The Business of Paper Stars" - 3:47
"Rescue Me" - 3:08
"Until the Judgement Day" - 3:45
"Somewhere in Between" - 3:22
"Sugar in the Engine" - 4:29
"Desperation" - 3:28
"Four Become One" - 3:55
"321" - 3:40
"Disaster" - 3:01
"Let Go of Everything You Know" - 3:25
"Corps of Corpses" - 3:12
"Come Back Home (Reprised)" - 4:11
2008 albums
Hawthorne Heights albums
Topoxte

Topoxte () was a Maya archaeological site in northern Guatemala. It was the capital city of the Ko'woj Maya. Topoxte is located on an island on Yaxha Lake across from the important centre of Yaxha.
Archaeological sites in Guatemala
Maya civilization
Infrared

Infrared (IR) radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation (a wave with electricity) . The wave is longer than light which humans can see and shorter than microwaves. The word infrared means below red. It comes from the Latin word infra (meaning below) and the English word red. (Infrared light has a frequency below the frequency of red light.) Red light has the longest wavelength that human eyes can see. Infrared waves cannot be seen by the eye.
Near-infrared waves are between 800 nm and 1.4 um. Most infrared from the Sun is near-infrared. Thermal imaging is mostly done with thermal radiation waves between 8 and 15 um.
People sense infrared as heat.
Most remote controls use infrared to send the control signals. Many missiles for anti-aircraft warfare find their target by infrared.
Telecommunications
Before Bluetooth was invented, some computers, personal digital assistants, and cell phones used infrared technology to send files to other devices. Bluetooth replaced infrared in the early 2000s. Infrared is limited by the need to have both devices in a "line of sight" with each other.
Infrared lasers are used to provide the light for optical fiber communications systems. Infrared light with a wavelength around 1,330 nm (least dispersion) or 1,550 nm (best transmission) are the best choices for standard silica fibers.
Related pages
Infrared spectroscopy
Infrared telescope
References
Oltingen

Oltingen is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Greding

Greding () is a town in Roth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 28 km southeast of Roth bei Nurnberg and 32 km north of Ingolstadt.
Geography
Greding is in the south-eastern corner of Middle Franconia. The municipal area borders on two neighbouring Bavarian districts, Eichstatt and Neumarkt, and also on the two regions of Upper Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. Greding is about 32 km north of the city of Ingolstadt on the A9 Autobahn (junction 57).
Greding stands on the river Schwarzach in the Altmuhl Valley Nature Park. Two hills around the town are the Kalvarienberg and the Galgenberg.
The township of Greding includes the villages of Attenhofen, Birkhof, Esselberg, Euerwang, Grafenberg, Grosshobing, Gunzenhofen, Hausen, Heimbach, Herrnsberg, Hofberg, Kaising, Kleinnottersdorf, Kraftsbuch, Landerzhofen, Linden, Mettendorf, Obermassing, Osterberg, Rockenhofen, Schutzendorf, Untermassing and Viehhausen.
Neighbouring municipalities are Beilngries, Berching, Dietfurt an der Altmuhl, Freystadt, Hilpoltstein, Kinding and Thalmassing.
References
Roth (district)