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2022 Nigeria floods

The 2022 Nigeria floods affected many parts of the country. From the Federal Government Data, the floods rendered over 1.4 million people homeless, killed over 603 people, and injured more than 2,400 persons. About 82,035 houses had been damaged, and 332,327 hectares of land had also been affected.
While Nigeria frequently experiences seasonal flooding, this flood was the worst in the country since the 2012 Nigeria flood.
As of October, over 200,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed by the floods. On 7 October, a boat carrying people fleeing the floods from Ogbaru capsized on the Niger River, causing 76 deaths.
The flooding was caused by heavy rainfall, climate change, as well as the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon, which began on 13 September. Flooding, which affected Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and the surrounding region, began in the early summer of 2022 and ended in October.
Causes
The Nigerian government has blamed the floods of 2022 on unusually heavy rains and climate change. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria Matthias Schmale said that the flooding could be largely explained by climate change. Climate change in Nigeria has been responsible for flooding, droughts, decreased air quality and the loss of habitat.
A climate modeling study by the World Weather Attribution project estimated that the floods were rendered far more likely and much more intense by climate change. They modeled the June to September rainfall in the Lake Chad and lower Niger river catchment areas, looking at total rainfall and intense rain weeks.
Flooding increased on 13 September with the perennial release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon. Excess water released from the dam cascades down River Benue and its tributaries, flooding communities in the states of Kogi, Benue, and other states in the northeast. When Lagdo Dam was constructed in 1982, there was an agreement by Nigerian authorities to build a second, twin dam in Adamawa State to contain the overflows. Known as the Dasin Hausa Dam project, it was to be situated in Dasin Village of the Fufore local government area, but was never built by the Nigerian government.
Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq said that "there was enough warning and information about the 2022 flood" she blamed local governments, states, and communities for not acting promptly despite the warnings.
The indiscriminate construction on natural flood plains and storm water paths together with poor drainage systems in many residential areas clog channels with waste. Lax enforcement of environmental laws has only exacerbated problems even further.
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2022 in Nigeria
2022 floods
Stein am Rhein

Stein am Rhein is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
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Official website
Cities in Switzerland
Municipalities of Schaffhausen
Imperial free cities
Pauillac

Pauillac is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Communes in Gironde
Stadtsteinach

Stadtsteinach is a town in Kulmbach, in Bavaria, Germany. It is in the Frankenwald, 8 km northeast of Kulmbach.
Town divisions
Stadtsteinach is arranged in the following boroughs:
References
Kulmbach (district)
Sado Province

was an island province of Japan until 1871 when it became a part of Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshu. It was sometimes called or .
History
Sado Province was created during the reign of Empress Gensho.
In 1221, Emperor Juntoku was sent into exile on Sado Island. The former emperor is sometimes identified as because his last years were spent at Sado. Juntoku remained at Sado until his death in 1242.
In the Edo period, Gold was discovered and mined. The Sado mines were added to the tentative World Heritage List in 2010.
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Sado Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Geography
Sado is an island in the Sea of Japan. It was off the coast of Echigo Province.
Shrines and Temples
Watatsu-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Sado.
Related pages
Provinces of Japan
Prefectures of Japan
List of regions of Japan
List of islands of Japan
References
Other websites
Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
Former provinces of Japan
Niigata Prefecture
Ashley Adams

Ashley Phillip Adams (12 October 1955 - 17 March 2015) was an Australian Paralympic shooting medallist and cattle grazier.
Adams died on 17 March 2015 after a quad bike accident on his farm in Blackall, Queensland. He was 59.
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1955 births
2015 deaths
Sport shooters
Accidental deaths
Sportspeople from Queensland
Berwick, Maine

Berwick is a town in York County, Maine, United States.
Towns in Maine
Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a serious scandal during and after the 1972 presidential election.
A United States President, Richard Nixon was running for election against Democrat George McGovern. Afterwards, Frank Wills, a security guard, discovered clues that former FBI and CIA agents broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and George McGovern months before the election. They secretly listened to phone lines and stole several important documents.
When these men were found, they were discovered to have been associated with Nixon. He had helped them cover all the evidence of the scandal, and may have even hired the men to begin with. The Washington Post was a newspaper which played a big role in exposing the misdoings, specifically aided by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. This showed the public that Nixon was not as trustworthy as he seemed.
Nixon chose to resign from office on August 9, 1974 because he wished not to be impeached. This means that he might have been charged with crimes. The U.S. Congress could not impeach him if he resigned. After this, Gerald Ford, who became his vice-president because Spiro T. Agnew (Nixon's first vice-president) had to resign as well after unrelated charges of accepting bribes and avoiding taxes. Ford then became the President by default of Nixon using his power under the 25th Amendment to the U.S Constitution. Ford pardoned Nixon for all of his crimes later on. The name "Watergate" comes from the hotel in Washington, D.C. where the first crime and break in took place, and is often associated with political scandals.
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Brittanica
1970s crimes
1970s in the United States
Burglary
Bhakkar District

Bhakkar District () is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Bhakkar is the capital.
Administration
The district is administratively divided into four tehsils and 42 Union Councils of Pakistan
Bhakkar Tehsil
Darya Khan Tehsil
Kaloorkot Tehsil
Mankera Tehsil
Districts of Punjab (Pakistan)
Sargodha Division
Ubuntu Live USB creator

Ubuntu Live USB Creator is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from an iso image. The tool is already included in the repositories of Ubuntu 8.10.
Features
Optional persistence (all changes made to the system are saved, unlike a Live CD)
Progress indicator
Does not format the device
Related pages
List of tools to create Live USB systems
Other websites
Project page at Launchpad
cd2usb - Similar tool (for Microsoft Windows)
Linux software
Alia Shawkat

Alia Martine Shawkat ( ; ; born April 18, 1989) is an American actress and artist. She is known for her roles as Hannah Rayburn in State of Grace, Maeby Funke in the Fox/Netflix Television progratelevision sitcom Arrested Development (2003-2006, 2013-2019), Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy movie The Final Girls, and Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max comedy series Search Party (2016-2022). She has also been on Comedy Central's Drunk History as Frances Cleveland, Virginia Hall, and Alexander Hamilton.
Biography
Shawkat was born in Riverside, California, to Dina Shawkat (nee Burke) and movie producer Tony Shawkat. She grew up in Palm Springs. She has two brothers. Her father is from Iraq, and her mother is of Norwegian, Irish, and Italian descent. Her maternal grandfather was actor Paul Burke.
Career
Shawkat has appeared in over 47 movie roles, 32 television roles and 1 role in a podcast.
Personal life
When not acting, Shawkat likes to paint; she has participated in gallery shows in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Paris. She also likes to make music and sing in jazz bars. She is bisexual. Her most notable features are her dark curly hair, brown eyes, dimples and her freckles.
Filmography
Movies
Television
2021 Pride played Madeleine Tress in first episode on FX.
Podcasts
References
1989 births
Living people
Actors from Riverside County, California
People from Riverside, California
Hanover, Massachusetts

Hanover is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
Towns in Massachusetts
Billy Goldenberg

William Leon Goldenberg (February 10, 1936 - August 3, 2020) was an American composer and songwriter. He was best known for his work on television and movie. He was born in New York City. He was known for composing the scores of Kojak, Rhoda and Play It Again, Sam.
Goldenberg died on August 3, 2020 in New York City from heart failure at the age of 84.
References
1936 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American composers
American songwriters
Writers from New York City
Leo Schwarz

Leo Schwarz (9 October 1931 - 26 November 2018) was a German Catholic figure. He was born in Braunweiler, Germany. Schwarz was from 1982 to 2006 the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Trier, and was bishop of Abbir Germaniciana.
Schwarz died on 26 November 2018 in Cologne, Germany from lymphoma at the age of 87.
References
1931 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lymphoma
German Roman Catholic bishops
Irena Sendler

Irena Stanislawa Sendler (15 February 1910 - 12 May 2008) was a nurse and social worker in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II, when Poland was occupied by Nazis, she took about 2,500 Jewish children out of Poland with help from other members of the Zegota (pl) (The Polish Council to Aid Jews). She was caught, and the Nazis tortured her.
The Nazis were planning on killing her, but she avoided death.
References
Other websites
Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers (PBS documentary, first aired May 2011)
Irena Sendler - Righteous Among the Nations - Yad Vashem
Irena Sendlerowa on History's Heroes - Illustrated story and timeline.
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Snopes discussion of an email regarding the Nobel Prize
Victims of Nazism
Nurses
Polish people
Righteous Among the Nations
Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist. He greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba and Paris. Carpentier always said he was Cuban. He traveled a lot, mostly in France, and to Mexico. He sided with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
Carpentier studied and understood music. He wrote a book La musica en Cuba in the music of Cuba. He put in musical themes and literary techniques in his writing. Although Carpentier wrote many types of writing, such as journalism, radio drama, playwrighting, academic essays, opera and libretto, he is best known for his novels. He was among the first to use magical realism. He explored the fantastic quality of Latin American history and culture.
Carpentier's writing style used the Baroque style which had become popular again. It was called New World Baroque. It was a style that Latin American artists took from the European model. Carpentier also brought the Surrealist theory to Latin American literature. Carpentier had parts of Latin American political history, music, social injustice and art in his writings. His writing influenced younger Latin American and Cuban writers like Lisandro Otero, Leonardo Padura and Fernando Velazquez Medina.
Carpentier died of cancer in Paris in 1980. He was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery.
Major works
Carpentier's major works include:
Ecue-yamba-o! (1933)
La musica en Cuba (1946) (The Music of Cuba), an ethno-musicological study of Cuba starting from the sixteenth century, the arrival of European explorers, till the present day of publication, the mid twentieth century.
El reino de este mundo (1949) (The Kingdom of this World)
Los pasos perdidos (1953) (The Lost Steps)
El acoso (1956) (Manhunt)
Guerra del tiempo (1958) (War of Time)
El siglo de las luces (1962) (Explosion in a Cathedral)
El Recurso del metodo (1974) (Reasons of State)
Concierto barroco (1974) (Concierto barroco; English: Baroque Concert), based on the 1709 meeting of Vivaldi, Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, with cameo appearances by Wagner and Stravinsky, and fictional characters from the new world who inspire the Venetian composer's opera, Motezuma.
La consagracion de la primavera (1978) (The Rite of Spring; Le Sacre du Printemps, ballet by Igor Stravinsky)
El arpa y la sombra (1978) (The Harp and the Shadow) dealing with Columbus.
1904 births
1980 deaths
Cuban communists
Musicologists
Novelists
Writers from Havana
Writers from Paris
People from Lausanne
Evil Dead (2013 movie)

The Evil Dead is a 2013 American horror movie. It is about five friends who stay at a remote cabin. This movie was at first rated NC-17, but changes were made so the movie would get an R rating from the MPAA. Evil Dead was also rated "18" by the BBFC (UK) and rated "R" in Australia. This movie got positive reviews by the critics.
It is a remake of 1981 movie Evil Dead.
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2013 horror movies
American horror movies
Supernatural horror movies
2010s English-language movies
American movie remakes
Höðr

Hodr (also written Hodhr, Hothr, Hothur, Hoder, Hodur, Hodor, Hodr) is the blind twin brother of Baldr and son of Odin and Frigg in Norse mythology.
He is shown as having his eyes closed or covering them completely. Hodr is associated as the god of winter and the cold as well as being the god of darkness, unlike his brother Baldr, who is god of light. The only source of information of him thus far is when he is seen as being manipulated and tricked by Loki, and therefore accidentally killing his brother Baldr by throwing a shaft of mistletoe and piercing him in the heart. Hodr's sworn enemy is Vali, who is born to avenge his brother's death by killing Hodr. It was said that after Ragnarok, Hodr and Baldr shall survive to rule alongside each other.
Norse gods and goddesses
Jordan Cox (rugby league)

Jordan Cox (27 May 1992 - 30 April 2020) was an English rugby league footballer. He was born in Hull, England. He last played for Doncaster. He had also played in the Super League for: the Hull Kingston Rovers, the Huddersfield Giants and the Warrington Wolves.
He had also appeared for Newcastle Thunder, Halifax and the Sheffield Eagles outside of the Super League.
Cox died on 30 April 2020 in Hull at the age of 27.
References
1992 births
2020 deaths
English rugby union players
Château-Guibert

Chateau-Guibert is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendee department in the west of France.
Communes in Vendee
Cyber high school

Cyber high school is a high school on the internet. It teaches students over the Internet. It means that a high school student has the option of receiving their education at home.
Locations
In the United States, 38 states have some form of cyber high school, according to CBS News. These schools often include giving a computer, internet connection, textbooks and cyber high school software.
Teachers
Cyber high school teachers are sometimes able to work from home, depending upon the state's cyber curriculum. If the state is against the idea then the tutor has to go at a special location to be able to teach.
Purpose
Cyber high school appeals to all students but works especially well for those students with needs that can not be met in a traditional classroom, such as students who are ill, homebound students, students who travel, or special education students.
References
High schools
Denkendorf, Bavaria

Denkendorf is a municipality in the district of Eichstatt in Bavaria in Germany.
References
Eichstatt (district)
Lorna Thomas

Lorna Thomas (1 December 1917 - 17 September 2014) was an Australian female cricket player and team coach. She played from 1936 until 1949. She also coached from 1963 until 1978. She played for Australia against England, New Zealand and many other countries. She later coached Australia with success.
Thomas was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970s.
Thomas died from natural causes on 17 September 2014 in Sydney, aged 97.
References
Other websites
Lorna Thomas scrapbook (1936-1949) at the State Library of New South Wales
Lorna Thomas at ESPNcricinfo
1917 births
2014 deaths
Australian cricketers
Coaches
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Sportspeople from Sydney
El Capitan

El Capitan (; The Captain or The Chief), also known as El Cap, is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park. It is on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is about from base to top along its tallest face. Many rock climbers go up the mountain
A person first climbed El Capitan in 1958.
References
Geological formations
Landforms of California
Mariposa County, California
Julia Letlow

Julia Janelle Letlow (nee Barnhill; born March 16, 1981) is an American politician and academic administrator. She is the United States representative of Louisiana's 5th congressional district since April 14, 2021.
Letlow's husband, Luke Letlow, was elected to the United States House of Representatives for in the 2020 elections, but died from COVID-19 before taking office.
References
1981 births
Living people
United States representatives from Louisiana
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Rui Jordão

Rui Manuel Trindade Jordao (; 9 August 1952 - 18 October 2019) was a Portuguese footballer. He played with Benfica and Sporting for most of his career. He won the Silver Ball award twice, once with each team.
Jordao represented the Portugal national team for 16 years from 1972 through 1989.
Jordao died on 18 October, 2019 while at a hospital in Cascais, Portugal due to heart disease at the age of 67.
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1952 births
2019 deaths
Disease-related deaths in Portugal
Deaths from heart disease
Portuguese footballers
Portugal at UEFA Euro 1984
HTTP 404

The 404 or Not Found is an HTTP error message meaning the web server could be contacted, but the file or webpage trying to be accessed could not be found. It appears when the URL clicked on was moved or renamed, or does not exist (as a result of deletion, for example).
Internet
Ignaz Pleyel

Ignace Joseph Pleyel (French: [plejel]; German: ['plaIl]; 18 June 1757 - 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-French composer and piano builder.
Life
Pleyel was born in Ruppersthal in Austria in a family of a schoolmaster Martin Pleyl. In 1772 he became a student of Joseph Haydn.
In 1783 Pleyel moved to Strasbourg to work with Franz Xaver Richter, the maitre de chapelle at the Strasbourg Cathedral. In 1788 Pleyel married Francoise-Gabrielle Lefebvre and had four children with her. In 1797 he started a business as a music publisher ("Maison Pleyel") in Paris. The company published about 4,000 works during 39 years.
Pleyel composed more than 40 symphonies, 70 string quartets, several operas, piano solo pieces and chamber music. He also was a founder of a piano firm Pleyel et Cie that was continued by Pleyel's son Camille. The firm provided pianos for Frederic Chopin. The composer was very fond of Pleyel's instruments. In 2009 a replica of the 1830 model of Pleyel's piano was built. Now it is in the collection of Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw. It was also used in the 1st International Chopin Piano Competition on Period Instruments.
References
Other websites
Website of the Ignaz Pleyel Museum (in German)
Pleyel Pianos - The Piano in Polish Collections
Free scores by Ignaz Pleyel at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Pleyel in the grand piano - Photo Archive
Paul McNulty copy of Pleyel piano from 1830
1752 births
1826 deaths
Piano makers
Lee Eul-yong

Lee Eul-Yong (born 8 September 1975) is a South Korean professional athlete. He is best known as an association football player. He was a member of the Korean national team.
Club career statistics
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|1998||rowspan="5"|Bucheon SK||rowspan="5"|K-League||14||3||||||19||0||colspan="2"|-||33||3
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|1999||17||1||||||8||0||colspan="2"|-||25||1
|-
|2000||27||5||||||10||0||colspan="2"|-||37||5
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|2001||26||2||||||0||0||colspan="2"|-||26||2
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|2002||6||0||||||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0
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|2002/03||Trabzonspor||Super Lig||19||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||21||0
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|2003||Anyang LG Cheetahs||K-League||17||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||17||0
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|2004||Seoul||K-League||10||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0
|-
|2004/05||rowspan="2"|Trabzonspor||rowspan="2"|Super Lig||26||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0||32||0
|-
|2005/06||29||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||2||0||34||1
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|2006||rowspan="3"|Seoul||rowspan="3"|K-League||14||0||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0
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|2007||22||0||2||0||8||1||colspan="2"|-||32||1
|-
|2008||21||0||0||0||9||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
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|2009||rowspan="2"|Gangwon||rowspan="2"|K-League||22||0||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||25||0
|-
|2009||||||||||||||||||||
196||11||6||0||56||1||colspan="2"|-||258||12
74||1||8||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0||87||1
270||12||14||0||56||1||5||0||345||13
|}
International career statistics
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|1999||1||0
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|2000||1||0
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|2001||7||0
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|2002||16||1
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|2003||12||1
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|2004||6||0
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|2005||1||0
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|2006||7||1
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References
1975 births
Living people
South Korean footballers
South Korean football managers
Grosne

Grosne is a commune. It is found in the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Territoire de Belfort department in the northeast of France.
References
Communes in Territoire de Belfort
Fowler, Indiana

Fowler is a town in Benton County, Indiana, in the United States
References
Towns in Indiana
County seats in Indiana
Newburyport, Massachusetts

Newburyport is a small city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston. The population was 17,416 at the 2010 census.
References
Cities in Massachusetts
Chef Aid

"Chef Aid" is the fourteenth episode in the second season of the American animated television series South Park. It is the 27th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 7, 1998. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote the episode and Parker directed it. In the episode, Eric Cartman and Stan Marsh try to help Chef. A music company sues Chef, so the boys hold a music festival to raise money. They invite all the famous musicians Chef has known and helped in his life.
Plot
Chef believes Alannis Morisette has stolen a song he wrote, "Stinky Britches." He calls the record company and asks them to put his name on the song. But then the record company sues Chef for harassment. They hire Johnnie Cochran as their lawyer. Cochran uses his "Chewbacca defense." That means he talks to the jury about the Star Wars character Chewbacca. This confuses them, and Cochran wins. The judge says Chef must pay a lot of money or else go to prison.
Stan Marsh, Kyle Bravlofski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick try to help Chef by selling candy bars. Instead, they end up talking to famous musicians whom Chef has helped in the past. Elton John says Chef helped him make better lyrics for his songs. Ozzy Ozbourne says Chef inspired his bat performance.
Johnny Cochran sees how much people love Chef and agrees to be Chef's lawyer. He uses the Chewbacca defense again and he wins. The record company puts Chef's name on the song.
Album
The crew made an album Chef Aid: The South Park Album. It has full versions of the songs made for the episode. Not all of the songs were in the episode.
References
Other websites
IMDB
1998 television episodes
South Park (season 2) episodes
Ottery St Mary

Ottery St Mary is a town and civil parish in East Devon, Devon, England. At the 2001 census, the parish, which includes the villages of Metcombe, Fairmile, Alfington, Tipton St John, Wiggaton, and (until 2017) West Hill, had a population of 7,692.
References
Sources
Whitham, J. (1984). Ottery St Mary. Camelot Press. .
Civil parishes in Devon
Towns in Devon
East Devon
Video projector

A video projector takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other inconsistencies through manual settings. Video projectors are widely used for conference room presentations, classroom training, and home theatre applications.
A video projector may also be built into a cabinet with a rear-projection screen to form a single unified display device, now popular for "home theater" applications.
Common display resolutions for a portable projector include SVGA (800x600 pixels), XGA (1024x768 pixels), and 720p (1280x720 pixels).
The cost of a device is not only determined by its resolution, but also by its light output, acoustic noise output, contrast, and other characteristics.
Obsolete technologies
Eidophor oil-film projectors
Telaria oil-film projectors
ILA (Image Light Amplifier) light valves.
Major manufacturers
Hewlett-Packard
Sharp
Sony
References
LCD VS. DLP in Projectors SaveOnProjectors.com
Machines
Output devices
Larvik

Larvik is a city and municipality in Norway. The municipality lies within the county Vestfold og Telemark. It has a population of 47,440.
History
Kaupang in Skiringssal is an archaeological site where the remains of an ancient town was discovered. It is now known as the oldest known merchant town in Norway.
Farris is a brand of mineral water produced in Larvik, and is Norway's oldest bottled-water.
Bibliography
References
Cities in Norway
Municipalities of Norway
Samy Badibanga

Samy Badibanga Ntita (born 12 September 1962) is a Congolese politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from November 2016 to May 2017.
References
1962 births
Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Living people
Chen Zhongshi

Chen Zhongshi (; 3 August 1942 - 29 April 2016) was a Chinese author. He started writing in 1965. His best known work is White Deer Plain which was published in 1993. He won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997.
In 1966, Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party. He was interested in writing and soon began to work on a writing career. In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association.
Chen died in Xi'an, Shaanxi from oral cancer on 29 April 2016, aged 73.
Related pages
List of Chinese writers
References
1942 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in China
Deaths from oral cancer
Chinese writers
Elizabethtown, New York

Elizabethtown is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,163 at the 2010 census. The county seat of Essex County is the hamlet of Elizabethtown.
References
Towns in New York (state)
Wakefield, New Hampshire

Wakefield is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, 5,201 people lived there.
Other websites
Gafney Library
Greater Wakefield Chamber of Commerce
Towns in New Hampshire
Coronel Suárez

Coronel Suarez is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Coronel Suarez Partido.
History
The Partido was created in 1882 and the city was founded in 1883. It was named after Manuel Isidoro Suarez, a colonel of Argentine army who fought in the Battle of Junin in 1824.
Towns in Argentina
1882 establishments
1880s establishments in Argentina
Cardinal Richelieu

Armand Jean du Plessis, better known as Cardinal Richelieu (9 September 1585-4 December 1642) was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. His full name was Armand Jean du Plessis. He was later created the Duke of Richelieu and duke of Fronsac.
In order to keep the diocese of Lucon, Armand Jean needed to become a monk. He joined the Grande Chartreuse, the main monastery of the Carthusian order. This monastery is in the Isere departement, near Grenoble. As a comparison, Lucon is near La Roche-sur-Yon.
He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607. For this he obtained a dispensation of the pope; at age 21, he was too young to become a bishop. He later entered politics and became a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Church and the state. He became a cardinal in 1622. He became King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; then Jules Cardinal Mazarin became chief minister.
The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister". As a result, he is sometimes said to be the world's first Prime Minister. He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions. By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strongly centralized state. His chief foreign policy objective was to check the power of the Austro-Spanish Habsburg dynasty; although a Roman Catholic cardinal, he did not hesitate to make alliances with Protestant rulers. With these alliances, he tried to achieve this goal. His tenure was marked by the Thirty Years' War that engulfed Europe.
As an advocate for Samuel de Champlain and of the keeping of Quebec, he founded the Compagnie des Cent-Associes and saw the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye return Quebec to French rule under de Champlain, after the settlement had been captured by the Kirkes in 1629. This in part allowed the colony to eventually develop into the heartland of French-speaking culture in North America.
Richelieu was also famous for his patronage of the arts; most notably, he founded the Academie francaise, the learned society responsible for matters of the French language. Richelieu is also known by the sobriquet l'Eminence rouge ("the Red Eminence"), from the red shade of a cardinal's vestments and the style "eminence" as a cardinal.
1585 births
1642 deaths
French cardinals
French nobility
French politicians
Dukes and duchesses
Mu Columbae

Mu Columbae (also known as m Col or m Columbae) is a main sequence star in the constellation of Columba. It is one of the few O-class stars that are visible to the naked eye. The star is known to be located about 1,300 light years from the Solar System (with an error margin of a few hundred light years).
This is a relatively fast rotating star that completes a full revolution about every 1.5 days. (Compare this to the Sun, which at only 22% of this star's diameter rotates only once every 25.4 days.) This rate of rotation is fairly usual for stars of this class.
Based on measurements of proper motion and radial velocity, astronomers know that this star and AE Aurigae are moving away from each other at a relative velocity of over 200 km/s. Their common point of origin connects with Iota Orionis in the Trapezium cluster, some two and half million years in the past. The most likely scenario that could have created these runaway stars is a collision between two binary star systems, with the stars being ejected along different trajectories radial to the point of intersection.
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Stars
Battle of Fallen Timbers

The Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794) was the last battle of the Northwest Indian War. The battle was between the Native Americans of the Northwest Indian Confederacy and the United States. British were allied with the Natives. The battle was in northeastern Ohio. There had been a tornado. The tornado ripped down trees. That is where the name Fallen Timbers comes from. General Anthony Wayne led the United States. General Charles Scott supported Wayne with the Kentucky Militia. Blue Jacket was the Shawnee Chief and military leader. Egushawa was chief and
military leader of the Ottawas. The battle only lasted about one hour. The Natives lost against the United States. Natives had to give up their lands in the Northwest Territory in the Treaty of Greenville and Jay's Treaty (1795).
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History of Native Americans
1790s in the United States
Battles involving the United States
Vehicle Assembly Building

The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is an iconic industrial building at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. It's designed to assemble pre-made rocket stages, spacecraft and related parts vertically onto a mobile launch platform. The Saturn V, Space Shuttle and Ares-I rockets have been assembled in the VAB, and the upcoming Space Launch System in late 2020.
Construction began in 1963, and was completed in 1966. It is 160 metres (525 feet) tall (716 feet (218.2 m) long and 518 feet (157.9 m) wide), made from aproximately 100,000 tons of steel, and contains 3,665,000 m3 of internal volume.
The VAB has four large assembly areas called high bays, with one huge central aisle where the rocket parts are loaded in.
The Launch Control Center is adjascent to the side of the building, with a walkway connecting both buildings. The NASA logo and American flags are the largest painted facades in the world.
1966 establishments
Apollo program
Buildings and structures in Florida
National Register of Historic Places
Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician. He was born in New York City.
Schuller died on June 21, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts from leukemia, aged 89.
References
Other websites
Pro Arte biography of Gunther Schuller
GM Recordings Gunther Schuller's recording label
Art of the States: Gunther Schuller Phantasmata (1989)
http://arts.endow.gov/av/video/2008jazzpanel/index.html
Extensive Gunther Schuller interview
Two interviews with Gunther Schuller by Bruce Duffie (May 8, 1981 & October 15, 1988)
1925 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
American historians
American composers
American conductors
American jazz musicians
Musicians from New York City
Writers from New York City
Bro Goth agan Tasow

"Bro Goth Agan Tasow" (; "Old Land of Our Fathers") is the anthem of Cornwall. It uses the same tune as the Welsh anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", as well as the Breton anthem, "Bro Gozh ma Zadou".
Lyrics
References
British anthems
Cornwall
Baume-les-Dames

Baume-les-Dames is a commune. It is in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region in eastern France. In 2015, 5,241 people lived there.
Related pages
Communes of the Doubs department
Communes in Doubs
Cato Street conspiracy

The Cato Street conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. Cato Street was their meeting-place, near Edgware Road in London.
The police had an informer. The plotters fell into a police trap. 13 were arrested, and one policeman was killed. Five conspirators were executed, and five others were transported to Australia.
How widespread the Cato Street conspiracy was is uncertain. It was a time of unrest; rumours abounded. Chase notes that, "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably shoemakers, were prepared to lend support, while unrest and awareness of a planned rising were widespread in the industrial north and on Clydeside".
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1820
Punishments
Politics of the United Kingdom
1820s in the United Kingdom
Allison, Iowa

Allison is a city in Iowa in the United States. It was named for U.S. Senator William Boyd Allison.
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Cities in Iowa
County seats in Iowa
Probability

Probability is a part of applied mathematics. It has to do with chance, the study of things that might happen or might not happen.
For example, using probability, one can show that by throwing a coin up in the air and letting it land, half of the time it will land with one side facing up, and half of the time with the other side facing up. Many coins have a picture of the face of a famous person on one side, and something else on the other side. Often people call the side with the face "heads", and the other side "tails".
The probability (p) of an event E, written , is always between zero (impossible) and one (certain).
If we roll a die (plural: dice), then the chance that it will land on 1 is 1/6 (because there are 6 numbers on a die). Similarly, the chance it will land on 2 is also 1/6. The chance it will land on any number between 1 and 6 is 1, because every time we roll the die, it will always land on a number between 1 and 6.
Probability can be figured out using mathematics. For example, if one rolls six dice, the chance of them getting a number more than ten is not obvious, but can be figured out using math and science.
One of the most interesting things about chance is that to figure out the probability that two things will both happen, one usually multiply their two probabilities together. For example, suppose that one wants to know the probability of rolling two dice and getting a certain combination (it could be two 6s or a 3 then a 5, just any two). The possibility of getting a 3 is one in six (), and the possibility of getting a 5 is also one in six, so the chances of getting a 3 then a 5 is x= 1/36. If that number is expressed as somewhere between 0 and 1, it equals 0.027...7, which is fairly low. The possibility of getting a 3, then a 5, and then a 2 would be xx= 1/216 or 0.00463, which is a much lower probability.
Ideas of probability
People like Jacob Bernoulli, Pierre-Simon Laplace, or Christiaan Huygens used the word probability, as described above. Other people thought about frequencies; the notion of probability is usually called frequency probability.
Related pages
List of mathematics topics
Probability density function
Probability distribution
Probability space
Probability theory
Random
Random variable
Stochastic process
References
Probability theory
List of People's Television Network stations and channels

These are the channels of the People's Television Network in the Philippines.
PTV stations nationwide
Analog
VHF
UHF
Digital
Digital affiliate stations
References
Related lists
People's Television Network
Philippine television-related lists
Tropical Storm Allison (1989)

Tropical Storm Allison is a storm that struck Texas and west central Louisiana during June 1989. It was responsible for $500 million in damage and eleven deaths. The storm formed from a westward moving tropical wave merged with the remnants of Pacific Hurricane Cosme. Despite the damage, the name Allison was not retired. However, in June 2001, another Tropical Storm Allison caused major damage in the same areas, causing the name Allison to be retired.
Atlantic tropical storms
Hurricanes in Texas
1989 in Texas
1980s in Louisiana
Hurricanes in Louisiana
1980s in weather
Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess that is a personification of motherhood, or of fertility. Sometimes, they are called mother earth or earth mother. This concept is usually coupled with a sky father, or father sky. Very often, the mother goddess is also the mother of other deities.
Gods and goddesses
Cynthiana, Kentucky

Cynthiana is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Cities in Kentucky
County seats in Kentucky
Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic (born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player.
Djokovic has won a record 23 Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023 Australian Open, the 2016, 2021 and 2023 French Open, the 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships as well as the 2011, 2015, and 2018 US Open. He is the first player since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam tournaments at the same time. He is the third player after Roy Emerson and Rod Laver to win each Grand Slam tournament at least two times, and the first to win each at least three times.
Djokovic was ranked No. 1 in the world for the first time on 4 July 2011. His longest streak at No. 1 was 122 weeks, from 7 July 2014 until 6 November 2016. On 8 March 2021 he reached 311 total weeks at No. 1, which broke the ATP record by Roger Federer. As of 2023, his record is 388 weeks.
He won the ATP Tour Finals in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2022, and helped Serbia win the Davis Cup in 2010. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He has won a record 38 Masters 1000 series titles, and a single season record six Masters 1000 titles in 2015.
Many tennis critics and former and current players consider Djokovic to be among the greatest tennis players of all time. Djokovic was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2019.
Grand slam record
This table shows Djokovic's performance in each Grand Slam tournament in singles.
References
Other websites
Djokovic's official site
Djokovic at ATP site
1987 births
Living people
Australian Open champions
Male tennis players
Serbian Olympic bronze medalists
Serbian tennis players
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
World No. 1 tennis players
Goumois

Goumois was a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into the municipality of Saignelegier.
Former municipalities of Jura
Tonight (Big Bang EP)

Tonight is the 4th extended play of South Korean band, Big Bang. It is released under YG Entertainment.
Tracklist
Other websites
Official site
YG Entertainment
Big Bang Japan Official site
2011 albums
Niagara Movement

The Niagara Movement, was a civil rights group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. It was led by W. E. B. Du Bois. The movement opposed the Atlanta Compromise by Booker T. Washington.
Civil rights organizations based in the United States
J. F. R. Jacob

Jacob Farj Rafael Jacob (14 June 1923 - 13 January 2016) was an Indian Army Lieutenant General. He was best known for the role he played in India's victory in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Liberation of Bangladesh. Jacob, then a Major General, served as the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army's Eastern Command during the war. He also served in World War II and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was the Governor of Goa and Punjab. He was also the administrator of Chandigarh between November 1999 and November 2003.
Jacob was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India. His family were Baghdadi Jews from Iraq.
Jacob died from pneumonia on 13 January 2016 in New Delhi, aged 92.
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1923 births
2016 deaths
Asian Jews
Autobiographers
Indian generals
Governors of Punjab, India
Administrators of Chandigarh
Governors of Goa
Jewish military people
Jewish politicians
Jewish writers
Writers from Kolkata
Rebreuve-sur-Canche

Rebreuve-sur-Canche is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Boussay, Loire-Atlantique

Boussay is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Communes in Loire-Atlantique
Hangul

Hangeul () (formerly Hangul hangul) is the alphabet (or alphabetic syllabary) used for the Korean language.
It was made by Sejong the Great, the 4th King of the Joseon Dynasty in 1443. It is still being used now. When Hangeul was spreading, King Sejong published Hunminjeong'eum Haeryebon (hunminjeongeum haeryebon). It was picked as the 'Memory of the World' by UNESCO in 1997.
In this book, the design ideas of Hangeul and information about its use were written down in detail. The book Hunminjeong'eum Haeryebon states the two design ideas of Hangeul. The first one is that the consonants of Hangeul look like vocal organs. The second one is that the vowels of Hangeul are based on Cheonji'in (ceonjiin). Cheonji'in refers to the three elements of philosophy which are sky (ceon), earth (ji) and human (in). Because of these ideas, Hangeul is well known for being easy to learn.
Although it was only used by the lower classes at first, Hangeul became the official writing script of Korea in the late 19th century. Today it is the most used writing system of both North Korea and South Korea. North Korea abolished the use of Hanja, and today North Koreans write only in Hangeul. In South Korea, people write mostly in Hangeul, but sometimes Hanja is still used.
Vowels
Vowels are letters like A, E, O and so on
There are 21 letters for vowels in Hangul.
10 simple ones, aeoiyayeo and oueuyoyu.
11 more complicated combinations: aeyaeeye and wawaeoeweowewiyi.
Meaning:
{|
|-----
| a || eo || i || ya || width="40" | yeo || o || u || eu
| yo || width="40" | yu || ae || yae
| e || width="40" | ye || wa || wae || oe || weo
| we || wi
yi
|-----
| a || eo || i || ya || yeo || o || u || eu
| yo || yu || ae || yae || e || ye || wa || wae || oe || wo
| we || wi
eui
|-----
|}
Those with two small lines are pronounced with an extra "y" first.
Consonants
Consonants are letters like B, G, L, M, N, S and so on.There are 14 simple consonants: gndrmbsjcktphThey can be written two next to each other. Meaning:
The consonants the Korean language uses written in Latin letters are:
B, D, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W, Y.
Blocks
The consonants and vowels are combined into blocks of syllables. A syllable means one vowel and a few consonants, like "han" and "geul".
The blocks look like these examples: seoul hangeul pyeongyang
Examples
References
Other websites
Alphabets
Korea
1443 establishments
15th-century establishments in Asia
Korean language
Max Wright

George Edward Maxwell "Max" Wright (August 2, 1943 - June 26, 2019) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Willie Tanner on the television comedy series ALF.
Wright was born on August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. He was married to Linda Wright from 1965 until her death in 2017. They had two children, Ben and Daisy.
In January 2000, Wright was arrested for drunken driving in Los Angeles, California. Wright had another DUI arrest in 2003.
In 1995, he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He was remission until the cancer returned in early 2019. Wright died on June 26, 2019 at his home in Englewood, New Jersey from the disease at the age of 75.
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Other websites
1943 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from lymphoma
Cancer deaths in New Jersey
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Detroit
Emperor Montoku

was the 55th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
His reign started in 850 and ended in 858.
Traditional narrative
Before he became the monarch, this prince's personal name (imina) was . He was also known as Tamura-no-mikado or Tamura-tei.
He was the eldest son of Emperor Ninmyo.
Montoku had six Imperial consorts and 29 Imperial sons.
Events of Montoku's life
Before he became the monarch, he was Crown Prince for 8 years.
6 May 850 (Kasho 3, 21st day of the 3rd month): In the 17th year of Ninmyo-tenno 's reign (Ren Ming Tian Huang 17Nian ), the emperor died. His eldest son received the succession (senso).
850 (Kasho 3, 4th month): Emperor Montoku formally acceded to the throne (sokui). This was confirmed in ceremonies.
850 (Kasho 3, 5th month): The widow of Emperor Saga, who was the mother of Emperor Ninmyo and the grandmother of Emperor Montoku, died.
850 (Kasho 3, 11th month): The emperor named Korehito-shinno, the 4th son of Emperor Montoku as his heir. This 9-month-old baby was also the grandson of Fujiwara no Yoshifusa who was Minister of the Right (udaijin).
855 (Saiko 2, 1st month): The Emishi organized a rebellion. In response, a force of 1,000 men and provisions were sent to the north.
855 (Saiko 2, 5th month): The head of the great statute of Buddha in the Todai-ji fell off.
7 October 858 (Ten'an 2, 27th day of the 8th month): Montoku died at the age of 32.
After his death
According to the Imperial Household Agency, the mausoleum (misasagi) of Montoku is in Kyoto. The emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine at this location. The site is formally named Tamura no misasagi.
Eras of reign
The years of Montoku's reign are identified by more than one era name or nengo.
Kasho (848-851)
Ninju (851-854)
Saiko (854-857)
Ten'an (857-859)
Related pages
Emperor of Japan
List of emperors of Japan
Japanese imperial family tree
References
Other websites
Emperors of Japan
827 births
858 deaths
Marles-sur-Canche

Marles-sur-Canche is a commune. It is in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais