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The Straight Dope

"The Straight Dope" is a newspaper column. Its author uses the pen name "Cecil Adams." Readers send questions in to Adams, and he answers them. He often uses humor in his answers.
The first Straight Dope column was published on February 2, 1973. As of 2013, The Straight Dope was published in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.
Creators and format
Most reader questions are answered by Cecil Adams. Adams describes himself as "the world's most intelligent human being." He describes The Straight Dope's goal this way:
The name "The Straight Dope" comes from the American idiom meaning roughly "the true information; the full story". The column covers many subjects, including history, science, urban legends, myths, and inventions. The column's motto is: "Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)."
The Straight Dope is illustrated by Slug Signorino.
Website
As of 2016, The Straight Dope's website includes all of Adams' new columns, and archives of his past columns. There are also online forums where users can discuss Adams' columns, as well as many other topics.
Books
To date, Adams has published five collections of his columns, and his "assistant," Ed Zotti, has published a children's collection in the Adams style, Know It All.
Television
In 1996, the A&E Network briefly aired a show based on The Straight Dope, hosted and co-written by comedian Mike Lukas.
A "Straight Dope" podcast was briefly released in November 2009, but was then cancelled.
Related pages
Urban legend
Snopes.com
FactCheck.org
TruthOrFiction.com
The Skeptic's Dictionary
MythBusters
List of common misconceptions
References
Other websites
The Straight Dope
Newspapers in Chicago
Columnists
Entertainment websites
1973 establishments in Illinois
Wichita Lineman (album)

Wichita Lineman is the 11th studio album by Glen Campbell and was released on 4 November, 1968 through Capitol Records. It went to number 1 in the United States and won a Grammy Award in 1969.
Track listing
Side 1
"Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:08
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (Otis Redding, Steve Cropper) - 2:35
"If You Go Away" (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen) - 2:07
"Ann" (Billy Ed Wheeler) - 1:56
"Words" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb) - 2:50
"Fate of Man" (Glen Campbell) - 2:38
Side 2
"Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (Chris Gantry) - 2:45
"The Straight Life" (Sonny Curtis) - 2:55
"Reason to Believe" (Tim Hardin) - 2:20
"You Better Sit Down Kids" (Sonny Bono) - 3:13
"That's Not Home" (Billy Graham) - 2:35
References
1968 albums
Glen Campbell albums
Capitol Records albums
Hecq

Hecq is a coummune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 356 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord
SV Ried

SV Ried is a soccerclub from the Ried, Upper Austria, playing in the Bundesliga, the highest class in Austria.
History
The club was founded in 1912 and played till 1955 in Upper Austrias footballleague. With some up and downs they reached the 1. Landesliga(highest class in Upper Austrian football) in 1976. 1988 and 1990 they won the Championship but failed to reach the 2. Division(at that time second level in Austrian football). 1991 they promoted after the third title to the 2.Division.
After four years in this class they promoted to the highest class in Austrian football. From 1995 to 2003 they played in the Bundesliga, but in the season 2002/2003 they only reached the 10th place and were relegated to the First Division. 2005 they reached the title of the second league and came back to the Bundesliga. 77 points are a all-time point record for the second level in Austrian football. They stayed until 2016/17 in the league and since 2020-21 they are playing again in the Bundesliga.
2007 they were runner-up in the Bundesliga and 1998 and 2011 they won the Austrian Cup. In the Cup Winners Cup 1998/1999 they reached the 3rd round.
Current squad
Coaching staff
Maximilian Senft - head coach
Mark McCormick - assistant coach
Hubert Auer - goalkeeper coach
Coaching history (21st century)
Honours
Austrian Cup 1998,2011
3rd round Cup Winners Cup 1998/1999
1st round UEFA-Cup 2006/2007
Bundesliga Runner Up 2006/2007
Other websites
Official website
SV Ried at transfermarkt.at
References
Austrian football clubs
Football clubs of Upper Austria
Quentin Pongia

Quentin Lee Pongia (9 July 1970 - 18 May 2019) was a New Zealand rugby league player. He played as a prop. He played for the Canberra Raiders, Auckland Warriors, Sydney Roosters, St George Illawarra Dragons and Wigan Warriors. He also played for the New Zealand national team between 1992 and 2000. He was from the West Coast, South Island.
Pongia died of bowel cancer on 18 May 2019 in Greymouth, West Coast. He was 48.
References
Other websites
Quentin Pongia at Rugby League Project
1970 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in New Zealand
New Zealand rugby league players
People from South Island
E-book reader

An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals.
Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-reader, but specialized e-reader devices may optimize portability, readability (especially in sunlight), and battery life for this purpose. Their main advantages over printed books are portability since an e-reader is capable of holding thousands of books while weighing less than one and the convenience provided due to add-on features in these devices.
References
Books
Computer science
Electronics
Waitaki (New Zealand electorate)

Waitaki is an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
Election results
References
New Zealand electorates
Governor of Massachusetts

Just like the other 49 American states, Massachusetts has its own governor. The current governor is Maura Healey. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The first governor of Massachusetts was John Hancock.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1780-present
This is a complete list of governors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Acting governors, denoted as "A" instead of numbered, are included when the Governor resigned or died. Acting governors show a vacancy in the lieutenant governorship. They remain as Lieutenant Governors and merely act as governor. Lieutenant governors in Massachusetts do not ascend to the governorship upon death or resignation of their predecessor.
References
Massachusetts
Politicians from Massachusetts
President of Kyrgyzstan

The President of Kyrgyzstan is the head of state and the highest official of the Kyrgyz Republic. The president is directly elected for no more than one six-year term by the Kyrgyz electorate. The office of president was created in 1990.
The office of president is open to all citizens of Kyrgyzstan who are no younger than 35 years of age, and no older than 65 years of age.
List of presidents
References
Cyclone Viyaru

Cyclonic Storm Viyaru, formerly known as Cyclonic Storm Mahasen, was an active tropical cyclone. It passed over the Bay of Bengal. It threatened Myanmar and Bangladesh. Its origin was a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal. The low pressure area was created in the first week of May. Viyaru slowly developed. It became a depression on May 10 by almost remaining still. Gradually it gained speed on May 11 and became a cyclonic storm. It was the first storm of the season. At first the system's ultimate direction was not clear, but moved closer to eastern India. On May 14, the circulation of Viyaru turned northeastward.
Myanmar recommended a large evacuation in order to be prepared for the storm; however, for this reason people wanted to escape by boat. As a result, they made boats overcrowded, and one or more boats capsized. This killed at least eight people. The storm had extensive cloud mass, which brought unsettled weather to Sri Lanka, Thailand, and southeastern India. Severe storms in India and Sri Lanka killed 15 people and caused major damage. One person was killed in Thailand.
The name Mahasen caused some argument from nationalists and officials in Sri Lanka. They claimed that the name Mahasen comes from a Sinhala king. He brought prosperity to the island. So naming a destructive force of nature after him would be improper. Sri Lankan authorities instead have not given the storm a name.
Cyclone Viyaru struck Southern Bangladesh on 16 May 2013. The speed of the wind was about 100 kph.
Weather history
An area of convection first appeared on May 4. It slowly moved eastwards and organized into a low pressure area on May 8. A pulse in the Madden-Julian oscillation, together with a convective Kelvin wave allowed the system to develop. These oscillations also caused Tropical Storm Jamala to form. The JTWC later issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on May 10, after the system became more organized. The IMD upgraded it to a well-marked low pressure area. Later the same day, JTWC issued the first warning for the storm. JTWC designed it 01B, followed by the IMD upgrading the storm into a depression, and later into a deep depression.
Recent storm information
As of 0830 IST (0300 UTC), 16 May 2013, Cyclonic Storm Mahasen was located near latitude 21degN and longitude 90degE, about south-southeast of Kolkata and southwest of Chittagong. The storm is forecast to maintain power. It is moving northeastwards. It is expected to cross the Bangladesh coast close to Chittagong by evening of 16 May. Sustained maximum surface wind speed is estimated at , gusting to . Estimated minimum central pressure is at 988 mbar. Dvorak intensity of the storm is at T2.5.
Reference
Other websites
India Meteorological Department
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Corporate Disaster Resource Network, India
For the latest information
The IMD's Cyclone warning for Indian coast.
The IMD's Tropical Cyclone Advisory and forecast track .
The JTWC's Tropical Cyclone warning and forecast track.
Cyclonic storms
May 2013 events
2013 in weather
2010s in Sri Lanka
2010s in Thailand
21st century in Myanmar
2010s in Bangladesh
2013 in India
Disasters in Myanmar
Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn is a town in the county of Varmland in Sweden. It is the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality.
References
Other websites
Settlements in Varmland County
Isola, Mississippi

Isola is a town in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States.
Towns in Mississippi
Walter Carrington

Walter C. Carrington (July 24, 1930 - August 11, 2020) was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal and Nigeria. He worked during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. He was ambassador to Senegal between 1980 to 1981 and to Nigeria between 1993 to 1997. He was born in New York City.
Carrington died on August 11, 2020 at the age of 90.
References
1930 births
2020 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from New York City
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Michael Crawford

Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known by the professional stage name of Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer. He is known for his role as the title role in The Phantom of the Opera.
Since 1987, he has been the leader of the Sick Children's Trust as well and acted as a public face for the British social cause organization.
References
1942 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English singers
Actors from Kent
Rubidium nitrate

Rubidium nitrate is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is RbNO3. It is a colorless crystalline solid. It is an oxidizing agent. It is made by reacting rubidium or rubidium hydroxide with nitric acid. The reaction with rubidium is very violent. It is used to make other rubidium compounds.
Related pages
Rubidium oxide
Rubidium hydride
Potassium nitrate
Nitrogen compounds
Rubidium compounds
NGC 4102

NGC 4102 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. It is about 69 million light-years away from Earth.
Spiral galaxies
Joyce Jameson

Joyce Jameson (September 26, 1932 - January 16, 1987) was an American actress. She played sexualized roles at the same time Marilyn Monroe was famous. She played a fun girl named Skippy in the 1960s television program The Andy Griffith Show. She played "The Blonde" in the 1960 Academy Award winning movie The Apartment. She also played small parts in other movies and was not listed as a cast member.
Jameson was born in Chicago, Illinois. She committed suicide by overdosing on pills at age 54 in Burbank, California.
References
1932 births
1987 deaths
Actors from Chicago
Actors who committed suicide
American movie actors
American television actors
Drug-related suicides in the United States
Suicides in California
São Paulo F.C.

Sao Paulo Futebol Clube, usually called Sao Paulo FC or just Sao Paulo, is a very traditional Brazilian football team from Sao Paulo. The team was founded on January 25, 1930, and re-founded on December 16, 1935. It is often called Tricolor (meaning with three colours) by its supporters. The prime footballer in the team is Miranda.
It is the most successful club of Brazilian football.
Twenty-two won state championships, six Brazilian Championships - besides being the only one to win it three times, in 2006, 2007 and 2008, three Libertadores and three World Club Championship.
Titles
International
World championships
FIFA Club World Cup
Winners (1): 2005
Intercontinental Cup
Winners (2): 1992, 1993
Continental championships
Copa Libertadores
Winners (3): 1992, 1993, 2005
Runners-up (3): 1974, 1994, 2006
Copa Conmebol
Winners (1): 1994
Recopa Sudamericana
Winners (2): 1993, 1994
Runners-up (1): 2006
Supercopa Sudamericana
Winners (1): 1993
Runners-up (1): 1997
Copa Masters Conmebol
Winners (1): 1996
National competitions
Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A
Winners (6): 1977, 1986, 1991, 2006, 2007, 2008
Runners-up (5): 1971, 1973, 1981, 1989, 1990
Copa do Brasil
Runners-up (1): 2000
Copa dos Campeoes
Runners-up (1): 2001
Torneio Rio-Sao Paulo
Winners (1): 2001
Runners-up (5): 1933, 1962, 1966, 1998, 2002
Campeonato Paulista
Winners (21): 1931, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2005
Runners-up (19): 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2006
Supercampeonato Paulista
Winners (1): 2002
Related pages
List of Brazilian football teams
Other websites
Official website
Football clubs in Sao Paulo (state)
1930 establishments in South America
1930s establishments in Brazil
Kapelle

Kapelle, Zeelandic: Kapelle or Kapel'n, is a village and municipality on the former island of Zuid-Beveland, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
In 2017 the municipality had about 13,000 people.<br/ >
In 2016 the village had about 7,000 people.
Famous people
Jan Peter Balkenende (born 1956), former Prime Minister
Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov () (May 29, 1965 - April 21, 2015) was a Russian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was known for his comedy movie Luna Papa (1999). He won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his movie Kosh ba kosh (1993).
Khudojnazarov died from a short illness in Berlin, Germany, aged 49.
References
Other websites
1965 births
2015 deaths
Russian movie directors
Russian movie producers
Russian screenwriters
Bijan

Bijan (also Bizhan or Bejan; Persian : byjn) is a Persian given name meaning "Hero". This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
People
Bijan Kumar Shill, a famous scientist, scholar
Bijan Movaghar, second place in Iran as Theoretical physicist, a sun of Mohsen Movaghar
In literature
Bijan, a character in Bijan and Manijeh, a love story in the Persian epic poem Shahnameh
References
Given names
Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Jane Imbruglia (born 4 February 1975) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter.
Imbruglia was born in Sydney, New South Wales to an Anglo-Australian mother and Italian-Australian father.
Imbruglia began acting in Australian television commercials and was in spots for Coca-Cola and the popular Australian snack Twisties. By age 16, she left high school to start a career in acting. She soon had the chance to play a regular role on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She left the show to move to London in 1994.
She received an MTV Award for Best New Artist in 1998. She had 3 Grammy Award nominations in 1999. That same year, she also won two Brit Awards for Best International Newcomer and Best International Female. She has sold over 9 million albums worldwide.
Discography
Left of the Middle (1997)
White Lilies Island (2001)
Counting Down the Days (2005)
Come to Life (2009)
Movie career
Television
Awards and nominations
References
Actors from Sydney
Australian movie actors
Australian pop musicians
Australian singer-songwriters
Australian television actors
Musicians from Sydney
Singers from New South Wales
1975 births
Living people
Officers of the Order of Australia
188

Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes proconsul of Africa.
Asia
Queen Himiko (aka, Pimiko) starts to rule in Japan.
Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are defeated by Han forces under Liu Yu.
Births
April 4 - Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla), Roman Emperor (d. 217)
Sun Shao, general of Wu (d. 241)
Deaths
Even When I'm Sleeping

"Even When I'm Sleeping" is a 1997 song by Australian pop band Leonardo's Bride. It is the second single from their debut studio album Angel Blood. It went to number 4 in Australia and number 34 in New Zealand and won an ARIA Award in 1998. It was covered by John Farnham in 2005 for his album I Remember When I Was Young.
Track listing
Australian CD single
"Even When I'm Sleeping" (Dean Manning) - 3:55
"Break" (Patrick Wong) - 3:21
"Stay" (Three Cheese Mix) - 3:27
References
1997 songs
John Farnham songs
Pop songs
Robert Shavlakadze

Robert Shavlakadze (, ; 1 April 1933 - 4 March 2020) was a Georgian high jumper. He was born in Tbilisi. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1960, he finished in first place, and finished fifth in 1964. He also won a bronze medal at the 1962 European Championships.
Shavlakadze died on 4 March 2020 at the age of 86.
References
Other websites
Robert Shavlakadze at Sports-Reference.com
1933 births
2020 deaths
High jumpers
Sportspeople from Tbilisi
Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987) was a movie director. He is best known for his lush romantic movies of the 1950s such as All That Heaven Allows. His movies were thought banal and unimportant by contemporary critics. Today however they are regarded as masterpieces and ironic commentaries on American life and society.
Sirk's life and work
Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany. His parent were Danish. He grew up in Denmark, but moved to Germany as a teenager. His theater career began in 1922 and his movie career in 1934. He left Germany in 1937. By 1942 he was directing movies in Hollywood. He is famous for lush romantic movies made between 1952 and 1958. At the height of his career, he quit making movies. He left the United States. Sirk died in Lugano, Switzerland about thirty years later. In 1985, he was awarded the Bavarian Film Award, Honorary Award.
A selection of Sirk's movies
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Imitation of Life (1959)
What the critics thought
Sirk's movies were very successful at the box office, but the critics did not like them. They thought his movies unimportant and banal because they were about women and exaggerated emotions. His conspicuous style was considered unrealistic. Critical opinion changed in the 1970s. Analysis revealed Sirk's movies actually criticized American society beneath a banal surface plot. His movies are now regarded as masterpieces of irony. Sirk's reputation was also helped by a widespread nostalgia for old-fashioned Hollywood films. His movies have influenced other directors. Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven, for example, is a conscious attempt to replicate a typical Sirk movie. Roger Ebert has remarked that "To appreciate a film like Written on the Wind probably takes more sophistication than to understand one of Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces, because Bergman's themes are visible and underlined, while with Sirk the style conceals the message."
References
German movie directors
1897 births
1987 deaths
German entertainers
San Michele Salentino

San Michele Salentino is a comune in the Province of Brindisi in the Italian region of Apulia.
Twin towns
San Michele Salentino is twinned with:
Monte Sant'Angelo, Italy
References
Settlements in Apulia
Ebersecken

Ebersecken was a municipality in Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020, Ebersecken became part of Altishofen.
References
Other websites
Former municipalities of Lucerne
Jan David Simon, 3rd Viscount Simon

Jan David Simon, 3rd Viscount Simon (20 July 1940 - 15 August 2021) was a British hereditary peer. He was member of the House of Lords from 1994 until his death. Simon was a member of the Labour Party. His father was the 2nd Viscount Simon.
Simon died on 15 August 2021 at the age of 81.
References
1940 births
2021 deaths
Labour Party (UK) people
Members of the House of Lords
Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Guadalupe County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,452. Its county seat is Santa Rosa.
References
New Mexico counties
Circumference

In geometry, circumference is the distance around a closed curve; for example, a circle. It is a special kind of perimeter. The length of the circumference of a circle is often written as , with:
where d is the diameter of the circle.
Related pages
Radius
Pi
References
Other websites
Numericana - Circumference of an ellipse
Circumference of a circle With interactive applet and animation
Geometry
Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were a series of British laws regarding taxes on corn. These laws were passed in the 1800s. The laws were passed to favor and protect British land owners. Lord Liverpool passed them in 1815: If the price for corn was below 80 shillings per quarter, importing corn was forbidden; if the price was above, there were no import taxes. In 1822 and 1828, there were small changes. The laws caused many protests, and they were phased out under the government of Robert Peel, in 1846. Despite this, over one million people starved in Ireland, between 1846 and 1849. This famine is known as Irish Potato Famine today.
Economists, such as David Ricardo were against the Corn Laws. Ricardo believed that overall, protectionism made corn too expensive for the economy as a whole. He also believed that with the laws, the protection of agriculture was too big. He wrote about these ideas in his work called On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation from 1817. Thomas Malthus was in favor of the laws; in his opinion, they helped the agriculture of the country, and would not lead to the country depending on others.
19th century in the United Kingdom
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Jodeci

Jodeci is an American R&B quartet. The group formed in 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The members of the group are DeVante Swing, Dalvin DeGrate (aka Mr. Dalvin), K-Ci and JoJo.
The group had a series of highly successful singles and platinum- winning albums until 1998.
Discography
Studio albums
Forever My Lady (1991)
Diary of a Mad Band (1993)
The Show, the After Party, the Hotel (1995)
The Past, the Present, the Future (2015)
References
1990s American music groups
American R&B bands
Dyke (geology)

A dyke (or dike) is when later molten lava pushes up between older rock layers. This produces later vertical rock between older layers of rock.
Technically, it is any geologic body which cuts across: a) flat wall rock structures, such as bedding. b) massive rock formations, usually igneous in origin. Dykes can therefore be either pushed in between (intrusive) or laid down (sedimentary) in origin.
The most usual thing that happens is that later volcanic activity pushes lava through strata which were laid down earlier in a sedimentary fashion, or through earlier igneous rocks. On the Isle of Arran, for example, there are hundreds of igneous dykes giving rise to the term dyke swarm.
Alternatively, sedimentary rocks can be laid down in vertical gaps between strata. Or, after underwater earthquakes, gaps caused by the earthquake can be filled in with breccia, that is, broken rocks.
Dykes are a common, almost universal, feature of the older Palaeozoic rocks. Another type of intrusion is the sill, where later rock is formed between older layers, not through them. So dykes are vertical intrusions, and sills are horizontal intrusions. Many magmatic events produce both vertical and horizontal intrusions.
Dyke swarms can be seen on other planets.
References
Rocks
Volcanic landforms
Stealth game

A stealth game is a type of video game in where the player uses stealth to avoid or defeat opponents. Games in the genre usually allow the player to remain undetected by hiding, sneaking, or using disguises.
Video game genres
Jonzac

Jonzac is a commune and a sub-prefecture in southwestern France, in the Charente-Maritime department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region).
It is the capital of the southern arrondissement of the Charente-Maritime department.
History
Jonzac is in the historical region of Haute Saintonge. The city started on two hills, Balaguier et Montguimar, where are the main historical buildings of the city: the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais de Jonzac church and the Chateau de Jonzac castle.
Geography
The city of Jonzac is far from the prefecture of Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle, that is at to the northwest, but it is at only from Angouleme, prefecture of the neighbour department of Charente, and at from Bordeaux, prefecture of the department of Gironde and main city of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Jonzac has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The communes that are around Jonzac are Saint-Martial-de-Vitaterne, Reaux, Champagnac, Ozillac, Saint-Simon-de-Bordes and Saint-Simon-de-Bordes.
The Seugne river, a left tributary of the Charente river, flows through the city from southeast to northwest.
Climate
The climate of Jonzac, in the Koppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Population
With a population of 3,465, Jonzac has a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The inhabitants of Jonzac are known, in French, as Jonzacais (women: Jonzacaises).
Administration
Jonzac is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department since 1800. Its INSEE code is 197 (combined with the code of the department: 17197). It is also the capital of the canton of Jonzac.
Gallery
Related pages
Arrondissement of Jonzac
Communes of the Charente-Maritime department
References
Other websites
Ville de Jonzac - official website
Jonzac Tourism website
Subprefectures in France
Communes in Charente-Maritime
Three-phase electric power

Three-phase electric power is a method to generate, transmit and distribute AC electricity. It is the most common method in power systems to transfer power from generation to load. Three-phase systems are usually more economical to be used than equivalent single-phase or double-phase systems.
Electricity
Medina Spirit

Medina Spirit (April 5, 2018 - December 6, 2021) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Kentucky Derby. He qualified for the race by winning the Robert B. Lewis Stakes and finishing second in both the San Felipe Stakes and Santa Anita Derby.
He was ridden by jockey John Velazquez and trained by Bob Baffert in his record seventh Derby victory. At first, the odds for Medina Spirit to win the derby was 12-1 or 8%.
Medina Spirit died of a heart attack on December 6, 2021 in Arcadia, California at the age of 3.
References
2018 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Thoroughbred racehorses
Germigny, Yonne

Germigny is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Yonne
List of prime ministers of Republika Srpska

This article lists the prime ministers of Republika Srpska.
List
Other websites
World Statesmen - Republika Srpska
Max von Sydow

Carl Adolf "Max" von Sydow (10 April 1929 - 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-born French actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for his role as The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
He also portrayed Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Never Say Never Again (1983). His career started in 1949. His other best known roles were Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist (1971) and as Emperor Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980).
He was born in Lund, Skane, Sweden on 10 April 1929. He was educated at Cathedral School and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. He was married to Kerstin Olin from 1951 until they divorced in 1979, they had two children. He is currently married to Catherine Brelet since 1997, they have 2 children. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Von Sydow was one of the favourite actors of the Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman. He appeared in twelve Bergman films, most notably as the knight in The Seventh Seal. This film is typical of the existentialist films of the mid-20th century. The knight plays a game of chess with death against the background crisis of the 13th century, with the Black Death and famine ongoing.
He acted in over 100 movies. His height and manner lent itself to authority figures, and "evil villain" roles. Von Sydow's second marriage to a French lady led to his becoming a French citizen and giving up his Swedish nationality. His family were originally of German/Polish extraction.
Von Sydow died on 8 March 2020 in Provence, France at the age of 90.
References
Other websites
1929 births
2020 deaths
Actors who played Bond villains
French movie actors
French stage actors
French television actors
French voice actors
Swedish movie actors
Swedish stage actors
Swedish television actors
Swedish voice actors
Exo discography

This is the discography of the South Korean boy band Exo. There are three studio albums, a live album, four extended plays, eleven singles, twenty-six music videos, eight guest appearances and eight soundtracks.
Albums
Studio albums
Extended plays
Live albums
DVDs
Singles
Other songs rated
Soundtrack and solo appareances
Notes
References
Exo
Discographies of South Korean artists
Momignies

Momignies is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut. In 2007, 5140 people lived there. It is at 50deg 01 North, 04deg 10 East.
References
Municipalities of Hainaut
Dust (disambiguation)

Dust is fine, solid particles of matter.
Dust may also mean:
Dust (band), a 70s hard rock group
Dust (His Dark Materials), a fictional form of matter in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Dust (novel), by Charles Pellegrino
Dust (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Dust (1985 movie), based on J. M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country
Dust (2001 movie) (Prashina), directed by Milco Mancevski
Dust (Screaming Trees album)
Dust (Mourning Beloveth album)
Dust (Peter Murphy album)
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, a PC adventure game
For articles on how the word dust is used as a technical term in physics, astronomy, cosmology, and
environmental science, see:
Dust Bowl
Cosmic dust, on intergalactic clouds
Interstellar clouds, on interstellar dust
Dust solution, a type of exact solution in general relativity
Dust (relativity), idealization of a cold gas
Mineral dust
Garden State Parkway

The Garden State Parkway (or Garden State Pkwy) is a toll highway (which means that people must pay to drive on it) that goes through New Jersey from the south end of the state at Cape May to the north end of the state at Montvale, New Jersey. It is 172.4 miles long, and in 2008, was reported to be the busiest toll highway in the United States.
References
Roads in the United States
Transport in New Jersey
Soman

Soman is the name of a nerve agent, which was developed in Germany, in 1944. NATO use the abbreviation GD for Soman. During the 1930s, and 1940s, three nerve agents were developed. The two others were Tabun (1936) and Sarin (1942). Soman is the most stable of the three. Sunlight does not affect it. In the air, it will slowly decompose. It cannot be dissolved in water. Under standard conditions is a colorless liquid.
Soman is a chemical weapon. Producing, stockpiling or owning it is heavily regulated, and monitored by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Nerve agents
Organic compounds
National Art Center, Tokyo

or NACT is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
NACT is a unique art museum. It does not have a permanent collection. Instead, it is a large venue for changing art exhibitions. NACT has 14,000 square meters of exhibition space and an Art Library. It also has educational programs.
History
The National Art Center building was completed in May 2006. Kisho Kurokawa was the architect.
The museum opened in 2007.
Related pages
Kyoto National Museum (KNM)
Kyushu National Museum
Nara National Museum (NNM)
National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO)
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT)
National Museum of Western Art (NMWA)
Tokyo National Museum (TNM)
List of Independent Administrative Institutes in Japan
List of national museums
References
Other websites
The National Art Center, Tokyo website in English
Art museums in Japan
National museums in Japan
Buildings and structures in Tokyo
Art exhibitions
Cerium

Cerium is a chemical element with an atomic number of 58. This means that the nucleus of cerium has 58 protons in it. The atomic mass of cerium is 140.12. The chemical symbol of cerium is Ce and it is a member of the lanthanide group.
Properties
Cerium is a grey, shiny or lustrous metal. At room temperature cerium is a solid. It melts and becomes a liquid at 798oC and boils and becomes a gas at 3424oC. It burns in air to form a compound with one cerium atom and two oxygen atoms. 0.0046% of the Earth's crust is cerium which means that it is quite common - more common than Tin and Lead and nearly as common as zinc
Discovery
Cerium was first found in Sweden in 1803 by Berzelius and Hisinger and Klaproth in Germany. Because it is very reactive, it was not purified until 1875 in Washington DC. Cerium was named after the asteroid or minor planet Ceres which was first seen two years earlier in 1801.
Uses
Cerium is not often used as a metal since it quickly reacts with the air and tarnishes. Its most common use is as the 'flint' in a lighter, because it easily produces a spark when it is struck with another metal. Cerium is sometimes used in alloys because it often makes the alloy more heat resistant. Cerium is also used in special glass, ceramics and self-cleaning ovens.
Oxidation
Cerium reacts in two ways to produce cerous compounds or salts and ceric compounds. Cerous salts have an oxidation number of 3 and ceric salts have an oxidation of 4.
Isotopes
Cerium has many isotopes. Four of them are found in nature instead of having to be made,
Cerium-136 which has 58 protons and 78 neutrons in its nucleus and is radioactive
Cerium-138 which has 58 protons and 80 neutrons and is stable
Cerium-140 which has 58 protons and 82 neutrons and is stable
Cerium-142 which has 58 protons and 84 neutrons and is radioactive.
Cerium-140 (88.5% of all cerium) and Ce-142 (11.1%) are the most common. The average of the weights of each isotope is what give cerium its atomic mass of 140.12.
Related pages
Periodic table
List of common elements
Lanthanides
Organic synthesis

Organic synthesis is a special part of chemical synthesis. It builds organic compounds using organic reactions. Organic molecules can have a higher level of complexity compared to inorganic compounds. So, the synthesis of organic compounds has developed into one of the most important parts of organic chemistry. There are two main areas of research fields within the general area of organic synthesis: total synthesis and methodology.
Other websites
The Organic Synthesis Archive
Chemical synthesis database
http://www.webreactions.net/search.html
https://www.organic-chemistry.org/synthesis/
Natural product syntheses
Chemical synthesis semantic wiki
Chemical synthesis
Organic chemistry
Bob Keeshan

Robert James "Bob" Keeshan (June 27, 1927 - January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. He is known for his role as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo. It became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.
Keeshan also played the original "Clarabell the Clown" on the Howdy Doody television program.
Keeshan died in Windsor, Vermont from a heart attack. He was aged 76.
References
Other websites
Biography of Bob Keeshan
1927 births
2004 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American television presenters
American television personalities
American entertainers
American television actors
Actors from New York (state)
Madeley, Shropshire

Madeley is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and is now part of the new town of Telford. In 2001, the town had a population of 17,935 people.
Madeley is recorded in the Domesday Book as a small settlement.
A part of the Ironbridge Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in the civil parish.
Gallery
Towns in Shropshire
Civil parishes in Shropshire
New Lanark

New Lanark is the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
History
New Lanark is a 18th century village and model industrial community with cotton mill buildings, workers' housing, and school. The small town was built by Robert Owen as an experiment in utopian idealism.
Between 1785 and 1968, some buildings were torn down or burned; and some new buildings were built. However, the overall appearance of the village stayed much like it was in the first half of the 19th century.
In 1975, the New Lanark Conservation Trust was established to prevent demolition of the village.
In 2001, New Lanark was named a World Heritage Site.
Gallery
Related pages
List of World Heritage Sites of the United Kingdom
References
Other websites
New Lanark website
Villages in South Lanarkshire
World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom
Electoral district of Albany

Albany is an electoral district of Western Australia. It was created in 1890.
Election results
References
Albury
Defeated at the Regatta (Rotta)

Defeated at the Regatta (also known as Sconfitto alla regata or Last Prize in Venice Boat Race) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil by Antonio Rotta. It was painted about 1858, in Venice, Italy. Is in the collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera of Milano.
The painting after being purchased, by the will of the House of Savoy, in 1858 for the collection of Palazzo Reale di Torino, and placed on the first floor of Palazzo Reale in the Galleria delle Battaglie it was sold to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
History
In 1860 in Turin, Antonio Rotta aroused the enthusiasm and emotion of the public for the "Sorrowful Hunter who takes care of his dying dog", which remained unsold due to the high sum of 3000 lire (250 gold napoleons), the highest price of the time found throughout the Venice exhibition. The work was strongly applauded by Carlo Tenca. In "The boring page", created in sequence with "The profaned page", Risorgimento and anti-Austrian political allusions were read by a reviewer and the artist was treated as a "philosopher painter", capable of instilling noble "superior ideas" into childhood.
Description
The painting portrays the despair over the defeat of a regatta in the Republic of Venice.
Exhibitions
Galeria de Arte Walters, Baltimore, Palazzo della Gran Guardia (Verona, Italy), Ed. Fernando Mazzocca, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Sergio Marinelli, 1979
Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 1860 and 1861, Milan
Related pages
Antonio Rotta
References
Bibliography
Giuseppe Pavanello, Nico Stringa, Ottocento veneto: il trionfo del colore, 2004
Giuseppe Pavanello.La pittura nel Veneto: L'Ottocento - Volume 1, 2002
Federico Zandomeneghi: mostra antologica, 1988
A Galeria de Arte Walters, Baltimore, Palazzo della Gran Guardia (Verona, Italy), Ed. Fernando Mazzocca, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Sergio Marinelli, 1979, ISBN 9788843528530
Il Veneto e l'Austria, Vita e cultura artistica nelle citta venete, 1814-1866, 1989
Elenco degli oggetti d'arte ammessi all'esposizione nelle sale della I.R. accademia veneta di belle arti nell'agosto 1858, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
La Pittura in Italia: l'Ottocento - Volume 2 - Pagina 1000, 1991
Other websites
Antonio Rotta, Sconfitto alla Regata, Palazzo Reale nella Galleria delle Battaglie catalogo.beniculturali.it
Paintings by Antonio Rotta
1850s paintings
Eton

Eton could mean:
Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England
Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England
Eton College (Vancouver, British Columbia), a school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Eton Corporation, a US based importer and manufacturer of shortwave radios
Eton Educational Institute, a language and teacher training institute based in Knowledge Village, Duba, Saudi Arabia
Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States
Eton Group, a group of British independent schools
One of the Beti-Pahuin ethnic groups of Cameroon
"The Eton Rifles", the first song by The Jam to reach the top ten in the UK charts
Related pages
Eaton
Vincent Mhlanga

Vincent Mhlanga was a Swazi politician. He was the acting Prime Minister of Swaziland from September 7, 2018 to October 27, 2018. He was a managing director at the King's Office.
On September 4, 2018, Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini resigned, Mhlanga was named Acting Prime Minister and began his duties on September 7. He left office on October 27, 2018 when Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini took office.
He died from COVID-19 on 24 December 2020.
References
2020 deaths
Prime Ministers of Eswatini
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic
20th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Avon Park, Florida

Avon Park is a city in Highlands County, Florida, United States.
References
Cities in Florida
Peppermint

The Peppermint is a hybrid plant of the mint family. It is originally from Europe, but grown and sold all over the world. It is a hybrid of watermint and spearmint. Carolus Linnaeus first described the plant in 1753, from samples that had been collected in England. He treated it as a species, but modern biology mostly treats it as a hybrid.
The peppermint is found in some medications, in particular Skumin's mixture.
References
Lamiaceae
Highland Beach, Maryland

Highland Beach is a town in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
Towns in Maryland
History of pizza

The history of pizza begins when different ancient cultures produced flatbread with toppings. Toppings are food added to pizza, like pepperoni, cheese or sausage. Foods similar to pizza have been made since the Neolithic Age. The food that came before pizza was probably focaccia (a flatbread to which toppings were added). The word pizza was first documented in AD 997 in Gaeta, Italy. The word came later in parts of Central and Southern Italy.
The innovation that led to flatbread pizza was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous.
Modern pizza was developed in Naples, Italy, when tomato was added to focaccia in the late 18th century. Pizza, though, was mainly eaten in the country of Italy.
By the late 18th century, it was common for the poor in and around Naples to add the tomato to their yeast-based flatbread. That's when pizza began.
Pizzas need to be baked at temperatures of 200250 degC. Not many household ovens could reach such temperatures before the late 1800s. Because of this, pizza was made at home, and then given to the town bakery to bake.
In June 1889, Raffaele Esposito, a chef from Naples, created the "Margherita" in honour of Queen Margherita. It was the first pizza to include cheese. Most pizzas include cheese as a topping.
Pizza first made its appearance to the United States in the 19th century when Italian immigrants came to the country. It was very popular with Italian people in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
Allied troops in Italy came to enjoy pizza and other Italian foods during World War II.
The first printed reference to the word pizza in the U.S. was in 1904 in The Boston Journal.
References
Italian food
Tiangong-2

Tiangong-2 was China's second space station. It followed Tiangong-1 and was launched into orbit in 2016 and stayed in space until 2019. Two spacecraft visited the station when it was in orbit. These included one mission with people and one with cargo.
It is to be followed by the much larger Chinese Space Station.
Space stations
Guanaco

The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is camelid animal native to South America. Guanacos are usually found in small herds or loosely structured family groups.
Description
When a member of the herd picks up the slightest hint of danger, it makes a high-pitched warning call, causing the other guanacos to flee swiftly and nimbly across the steep and uneven terrain.
Diet
Guanacos generally live at high elevations, grazing on grasses and browsing on leaves and buds.
They can get by without water for long periods of time, obtaining moisture from the plants they eat.
References
Camelids
Mammals of South America
Dinotrux

Dinotrux is an American animated television comedy series.
References
English-language television programs
2015 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
2010s American television series endings
American children's television series
Karni Mata

Karni Mata ( or Karniji;) (Karni Mata is also referred to as Nari Bai) (circa 2 October 1387 - circa 23 March 1538,) was a female Hindu warrior sage born in the Charan caste. Also known as Shri Karniji Maharaj, she is worshiped as the incarnation of the warrior goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal families of Jodhpur and Bikaner.
References
Other websites
Explanation of Karni (Karniji)
Hindu gods and goddesses
Spanish East Indies

The Spanish East Indies ( ; Filipino: Silangang Indiyas ng Espanya) were the overseas territories of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, They were governed from Mexico City and Madrid through the captaincy general in Manila.
Areas
The territories are:
the Captaincy General of the Philippines (1565-1898) (now the Philippines)
Palaos (1574-1899)
the Marianas (1667-1898 or 1899) (now Guam and Northern Mariana Islands)
the Carolines (Nuevas Filipinas) (1686-1899) (now the Federated States of Micronesia)
the Marshall Islands (1874-1885)
parts of Formosa (now Taiwan) (1626-1642)
parts of Sulawesi (Celebes) and of the Moluccas (Maluku Islands) (1580-1663) (now parts of Indonesia)
History
The King of Spain called himself "King of the East and West Indies".
From 1565 to 1821 these territories, together with the Spanish West Indies, were administered through the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City. After independence of the Mexican empire, they were ruled directly from Madrid. The territories ruled included present day Philippines, Guam and the Mariana Islands, as well as Palau, part of Micronesia and for a brief period Northern Taiwan and parts of North Sulawesi and the Moluccas. Cebu was the first seat of government, which later transferred to Manila.
As a result of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the United States of America occupied the Spanish Philippines and Guam, while Spain sold other smaller islands to Germany in the German-Spanish Treaty of 1899. The few remaining islands were ceded to the United States when the Treaty of Washington was ratified in 1901.
References
1565 establishments
1901 disestablishments
History of the Philippines
History of Spain
Spanish Empire
Former colonies in Asia
Red Hook, New York

Red Hook is a community in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is a town which setting was in a view from a bridge.
Towns in New York (state)
Dutchess County, New York