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Ender's Game series books. Numbers in brackets are years of first publication. Quotations show a short story. Question marks show a work that has been said to come out but not yet published.
The **Ender's Game series** (sometimes called **Enderverse**) is a series of books written by Orson Scott Card. There are 2 major series of the Ender's Game series: the Ender series and the Shadow series.

Ender series
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The Ender series includes the books *Ender's Game*, *Speaker for the Dead*, *Xenocide*, and *Children of the Mind*. "Ender's Game" used to be a short story, but the author expanded it to make the novel *Ender's Game*.

Shadow series
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The Shadow series (also called the "Bean Quartet") starts with *Ender's Shadow*, followed by 4 other books about the lives of the people Ender left behind. *Ender's Shadow* occurs at the same time and place (Battle School) as *Ender's Game* does, but instead in the view of Bean rather than Ender. *Shadow of the Hegemon*, *Shadow Puppets*, and *Shadow of the Giant* are stories about world dominance on Earth after the Bugger War in which the children at Battle School and Ender's older brother, Peter Wiggin, are main characters. *Shadows in Flight*, a sequel to *Shadow of the Giant*, is planned to come out; however, it will start after *Children of the Mind*, not *Shadow of the Giant*, and will combine the two Ender's Game series: the Ender series and the Shadow series. *Shadows* *in* *Flight* has recently been renamed to *Shadows* *Alive*.

Stories in the series
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There are 11 stories in the Ender's Game series. According to Orson Scott Card, the author, you do not have to read the books in any required order, except that Xenocide should be read right before Children of the Mind.

The books can be read in the order they were written/published in or by date times in the novels.

### Publication date

1. *Ender's Game*
2. *Speaker for the Dead*
3. *Xenocide*
4. *Children of the Mind*
5. *Ender's Shadow*
6. *Shadow of the Hegemon*
7. *Shadow Puppets*
8. *Shadow of the Giant*
9. "First Meetings" (short story)
10. *A War of Gifts: An Ender Story*
11. *Ender in Exile*
12. Shadows in Flight
13. The Last Shadow

### Dates in series

1. "First Meetings" (short story)
2. *Ender's Game*
3. *A War of Gifts: An Ender Story* (the same time as *Ender's Game* is happening)
4. *Ender's Shadow* (*Ender's Game* as seen by Bean)
5. *Ender in Exile* (begins at the end of *Ender's Game* and ends after *Giant* leading into *Speaker*)
6. *Shadow of the Hegemon*
7. *Shadow Puppets*
8. *Shadow of the Giant*
9. *Speaker for the Dead*
10. *Xenocide*
11. *Children of the Mind*
A kind of wallet: inside view.
Wrist wallet
A **wallet** is a small flat container, mostly of leather or fabric, that a person uses to hold cash, credit cards, identification cards, etc. Most men usually keep their wallets in their pockets, while women usually keep them in larger bags called purses.

Wallets, particularly in Europe, where larger coins are prevalent, contain also a coin purse compartments. Some wallets have built-in clasps or bands to keep them closed. 

As European banknotes, such as Euros and Pounds, are typically larger than American banknotes in size, they do not fit in some smaller American wallets.

A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, program, or service that stores public and/or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition to this basic function, a cryptocurrency wallet most often also offers provides encryption and/or the use of a digital signature.


Wikimedia Commons has media related to ***Wallets***.

Other websites
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* Collection of Unique Wallet Designs
* Some images for wallet design
* Wallet stealing
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For other uses, see Archery (disambiguation).
"Archer" redirects here. For the animated TV show, see *Archer* (2009 TV series). For other uses, see Archer (disambiguation).
In Target Archery, the object is to hit targets to score points. These arrows score as an X (inner 10) and a 9.
**Archery** is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called an *archer*, and one who enjoys or is an expert at archery is sometimes called an toxophilite.

History
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Safe archery techniques while aiming an arrow
Female archer in Benin.
The earliest evidence of archery dates back more than 9,000 years. The bow probably was used in hunting first and later adopted as a tool of warfare. It was one of the earliest forms of artillery. 

Classical civilizations, notably the Persians, Macedonians, Nubians, Greeks, Parthians, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans, had large numbers of archers in their armies. Archers in chariots were especially important in armies of ancient Egypt. Arrows were very destructive against massed formations, and the use of archers helped win battles. 

One of the primary sub-genres of archery is mounted archery. Japanese Samurai, North American tribes, Turkish nomadic groups, Persian armies and more honed the skill of hunting and warfare through mounted archery. The army of the Mongol Empire was mostly archers on horseback.

Though archery fell out of practical use, it never fully went away as a sport. As early as the 1480s in Britain, societies like the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers were having archery competitions.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to ***Archery***.

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for:

 ***archery***.

* Archery Interchange UK The UK's largest online archery community.
* The Great Northwood Bowmen Archived 2021-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Medieval Longbow Archery and re-enactment Society, re-enacting the 15th century, based in London.
* Bowhunting Basics
* Archery Information Archived 2007-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
* Archery Pictures
Solids mostly expand in response to heating and contract on cooling. This response to temperature change is expressed as its **coefficient of thermal expansion**.

The **coefficient of thermal expansion** is used:

* in linear thermal expansion
* in area thermal expansion
* in volumetric thermal expansion

These characteristics are closely related. The volumetric thermal expansion coefficient can be measured for all substances of condensed matter (liquids and solid state). The linear thermal expansion can only be measured in the solid state and is common in engineering applications.

Thermal expansion coefficients for some common materials
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The expansion and contraction of material must be considered when designing large structures, when using tape or chain to measure distances for land surveys, when designing molds for casting hot material, and in other engineering applications when large changes in dimension due to temperature are expected. The range for α is from 10-7 for hard solids to 10-3 for organic liquids. α varies with the temperature and some materials have a very high variation. Some values for common materials, given in parts per million per Celsius degree: (NOTE: This can also be in kelvins as the changes in temperature are a 1:1 ratio)
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| coefficient of linear thermal expansion *α* |
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| material | α in 10-6/K at 20 °C |
| Mercury | 60 |
| BCB | 42 |
| Lead | 29 |
| Aluminum | 23 |
| Brass | 19 |
| Stainless steel | 17.3 |
| Copper | 17 |
| Gold | 14 |
| Nickel | 13 |
| Concrete | 12 |
| Iron or Steel | 11.1 |
| Carbon steel | 10.8 |
| Platinum | 9 |
| Glass | 8.5 |
| GaAs | 5.8 |
| Indium Phosphide | 4.6 |
| Tungsten | 4.5 |
| Glass, Pyrex | 3.3 |
| Silicon | 3 |
| Invar | 1.2 |
| Diamond | 1 |
| Quartz, fused | 0.59 |

Applications
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For applications using the thermal expansion property, see bi-metal and mercury thermometer

Thermal expansion is also used in mechanical applications to fit parts over one another, e.g. a bushing can be fitted over a shaft by making its inner diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the shaft, then heating it until it fits over the shaft, and allowing it to cool after it has been pushed over the shaft, thus achieving a 'shrink fit'

There exist some alloys with a very small CTE, used in applications that demand very small changes in physical dimension over a range of temperatures. One of these is Invar 36, with a coefficient in the 0.6x10-6 range. These alloys are useful in aerospace applications where wide temperature swings may occur.

Other websites
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* MatWeb: Free database of engineering properties for over 64,000 materials
* Clemson University Physics Lab: Linear Thermal Expansion Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
* USA NIST Website - Temperature and Dimensional Measurement workshop
* Hyperphysics: Thermal expansion
**Wolves in the Walls** is a 2003 picture book by writer Neil Gaiman and illustrator Dave McKean. A surreal tale of wolves that lived within the walls and then took over the house and temporarily forced its inhabitants out. The book gained great popularity, was translated into foreign languages, and a successful children's musical was staged based on it. The design of the book is interesting because McKean used various techniques to create illustrations: both ordinary drawings and computer graphics and photographs.

According to Gaiman, the plot of the book was suggested to him by his daughter, who, at the age of four, had a terrible dream about wolves living in the walls.

The book was translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and other languages. The Russian translation of the book by Maxim Nemtsov was published in 2014 by Livebook.

Plot
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One evening, the girl Lucy hears strange noises coming from the walls in the house. She believes that wolves live in the walls and talks about it to her mother (who fills jars with homemade jam), her father (who plays the tuba), her younger brother (who plays video games). All of them, however, do not believe Lucy: mother says that they are mice, father that they are rats, and brother that they are bats. In addition, they are all sure that "when wolves crawl out of the walls, that’s all!".

However, the next day, wolves do break out of the walls and take over the house, while Lucy and her family huddle in the garden. They discuss where they should live now - at the North Pole, in the Sahara desert, in outer space? Lucy, having forgotten her favorite pig toy in the room, sneaks into the house inside the walls and takes it.

The next evening, the family is still hesitant to enter the house, but Lucy invites everyone to go and spend the night there by walking inside the walls. The family does just that, seeing what the wolves are doing in the house (they watch TV at full volume, eat jam, throwing leftovers everywhere, dance). Unable to stand it, Lucy and her family take chair legs and chase away the wolves, who are horrified that people have come out of the wall.

The family moves back into their home, cleaning up the mess. But after a while, Lucy begins to think that elephants have now settled behind the wall.

Adaptaitions
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In 2006, "The Wolves in the Walls" was adapted for the stage as a musical called "The Wolves in the Walls: Musical Pandemonium." It had music by Nick Powell, with some lyrics contributed by Neil Gaiman. The stage adaptation was co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable Theatre. It premiered at the Tramway in Glasgow in March 2006 and then toured the UK for the rest of the year. The production won the TMA Best Show for Children and Young People award in 2006. In October 2007, it was staged off Broadway at the New Victory Theater in New York for a two-week run, and it was well received by audiences and critics.
***Warcraft: Lord of the Clans*** is a novel written by writer Christie Golden. It is based on Blizzard Entertainment and was published in 2004. It is the second book in series of Warcraft.

The story was originally meant to be used for game but the project was canceled. The story itself wasn´t bad idea and role of main character was significant for games like Warcraft III or World of Warcraft. So the writer had to remake the story to form of book. She had only six weeks to do that.

Main story
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Story is about son of orc Warchief. It started when he was a little baby. One day he and his parents were attacked by human soldiers in forest. Warchief and his wife were killed and one of humans took little orc baby with him to their base. The human was Aedelas Blackmoore and he named the baby Thrall which means slave to humans.
Blackmoore wasn´t sorry for him, he just wanted to use him as a source of power. His plan was to use Thrall as a Warchief and control through him orcs to serve Blackmoore.

Thrall and some other orcs were prisoned and learned to handle every weapon and how to use battle tactics effectively. They also tought Thrall basics of reading and writing. But he wanted to escape human base and find someone of his kind. One day his only human friend Taretha helped him. She set the base in fire and gave Thrall a chance to escape. Which he managed. After some time he found orc clan led by Grom Hellscream. When he learned some basic informations about orcs from Grom he headed to find his original clan, Frostwolf clan. There he met their shaman Drek´thar and Warchief Doomhammer. Drek´thar learned Thrall ancient ways of shamanism and Doomhammer told him about his parent´s death.

When Thrall managed art of shamanism, he raised together with Doomhammer an army against humans. Orcs won but Doomhammer died. In his last moments he granted Thrall the title of Warchief. Thrall decided to attack human base, home of Aedelas Blackmoore. He wanted to rescue imprisoned orcs there. They attacked and they succeeded in taking base. But only Blackmoore remained alive. Thrall went to his house, and when he entered he saw Blackmoore standing over dead body of Taretha. Angry Thrall killed blackmoore without any mercy. At the end he crushed base using his shamanistic powers and he informed other orc clans that they have new leader.
**Burmese Days** is a novel by George Orwell. It was his first novel. It was published in 1934. The book is about colonialism and racism in Burma.

Background
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George Orwell worked as a policeman in Burma for five years. He thought the way people were treated in parts of the British Empire was unfair and he used some of his own experiences as ideas. For example, he based the fictional town of Kyauktada on the real town of Katha, where he worked.

Orwell finished writing the book in 1933 and it was published the year after. He had it published in the United States because of concerns that the characters were described too much like actual people in Orwell's life and made them look bad.

Plot
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In Burma, a man called John Flory lives on his own. He is unhappy with his life and misses his home in England but he has been in Burma so long, he does not feel like he can return home. Flory does not like the other English people in the town. He thinks they treat the local people very cruelly. Flory's best friend is an Indian doctor called Veraswami and some people make fun of him for being friendly with someone who is not white.

A young lady called Elizabeth moves to the town and Flory plans to marry her. He hopes that if he does, he might be able to become happy. At the same time, an important Burmese man in the town called U Po Kyin makes a plan to have more power and this effects Flory and Veraswami.

Flory kills himself.

U Po Kyin believe that he can wipe out the negative karma of his evil actions by giving money to build pagodas. However, he dies of a stroke before the first pagoda can be built. His wife has a dream where he is reborn as a snake or frog.

Characters
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* **John Flory**, called James Flory in some copies of the book, is the main character. In the novel, he is just "Flory."
* **Elizabeth Lackersteen** is an English girl and Flory's love interest.
* **Mr. Lackersteen** is Elizabeth's uncle.
* **Mrs. Lackersteen** is Elizabeth's aunt and Mr. Lackersteen's wife.
* **Dr. Veraswami** is an Indian doctor and Flory's friend.
* **U Po Kyin** is a corrupt Burmese magistrate. He is described as ugly and fat.
* **Ma Hla May** is Flory's Burmese mistress.
* **Ko S'la** is Flory's servant. He feels sorry for Flory, who is unmarried and has no kids while he is married and has 5 kids.
* **Lieutenant Verrall** is a military officer posted in town. He is everything Flory is not: young, rich, and handsome. He looks down on everyone.
* **Mr. Macgregor** is Deputy Commissioner.
* **Ellis** is an Englishman who manages a timber company in Upper Burma. He is very racist.
* **Francis and Samuel:** Francis and Samuel are clerks. They are both Eurasian.
Minimum human intervention is required to control many large facilities such as this electrical generating station.
Cartoon from the 1936 Summer Olympics looks forward to the year 2000. Television technology lets spectators watch events at home while radio carries their promptings and applause to loudspeakers in the stadium. It appeared in the Olympia-Sonderheft of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung.
**My butt cheeks itch.**

In the context of engineering, **automation** is when a device or a machine is changed in such a way that it can fulfill the task it was designed for without the need of human interaction. Very often, this means that the machine is fitted with an additional system which takes control of its functions. For example, a centrifugal governor controls a steam engine.

Benefits of automation are that the output of the machine or device are more uniform, and that product quality is improved. A system that is not fully automated needs human interaction is needed: Many of the tasks involved are repetitive and boring. In general, machines are also designed so that humans no longer need to lift heavy weights or do dangerous things. With automation, human intervention is limited or absent.

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* A common windmill, the position of the wheel is fixedA common windmill, the position of the wheel is fixed
* Windmill where the wheel can readjust itself, to capture the wind. An additional gear is needed for rotating the wheel (which can be automated).Windmill where the wheel can readjust itself, to capture the wind. An additional gear is needed for rotating the wheel (which can be automated).
The Indian cobra, *Naja naja*, shown here with its hood expanded, is often regarded as the archetypal cobra
**Cobra** is a name of a snake and a girl cobra is called. In English it is the common name for various venomous snakes. Most of those species are in the family Elapidae, and most of them can spread their neck ribs to form a flattened, widened hood.

The name "cobra" is short for *cobra de capelo* or *cobra-de-capelo*, which is Portuguese for "snake with hood", or "hood-snake".

Cobras usually live in tropical and desert regions of Asia and Africa. When feeling threatened, cobras can tilt back and flatten their heads into their warning posture. The rest of the time their heads are symmetrical and they look much like any other snakes.

**Cobra** may refer to:

* The genus ***Naja***, the typical or "true" cobras (they raise the front part of the body and flatten their neck in a warning signal when alarmed). They are a group of elapids found in Africa and Asia. They include over 270 species, including *Naja nivea*, the Cape cobra, a medium-sized, highly venomous cobra which lives in biomes across southern Africa; Cleopatra's "asp" (the Egyptian cobra, *Naja haje*); and the Asiatic spectacled cobra *Naja naja*; and the monocled cobra, *Naja kaouthia*.
* Spitting cobras, a subset of *Naja* species which squirt venom from their fangs in self-defence.

Most so-called, and all "true", species of cobras belong to the family Elapidae
**Endocrinology** studies the working of the endocrine system and hormones.

It is the science of the endocrine system and hormones in a wide range of animals. Endocrinology is also a medical specialty. This means that when a doctor finishes studying medicine in general, they can choose endocrinology as the part of medicine they work in.

The endocrine system consists of several glands in different parts of the body. They secrete hormones directly into the blood. Hormones have many different functions and modes of action.

Hormones are active in metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sleep, digestion, respiration, excretion, mood, stress, lactation, movement, reproduction, and perception. Another field is behavioral endocrinology.

Medical aspects
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Medical understanding of hormones began in the 19th century with Graves' disease, caused by a swelling of the thyroid gland. Since the mid-19th century many medical conditions have been found caused by hormone imbalance, that is, too much or too little of a hormone.

An endocrinologist can help people who have diseases related to their endocrine system. Diseases that an endocrinologist would treat include:

* diabetes mellitus
* hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism
* Cushing's syndrome

These are just examples; there are many other endocrine diseases.

An endocrinologist can find out if a person has one of these diseases by doing tests. They can test a person's blood to find out if they have too much or too little of a hormone. An example of this is Type 1 diabetes. People who have Type 1 diabetes do not have enough of a hormone called insulin. Endocrinologists usually do not treat patients directly, but give advice to physicians about what how patients might be helped.

Endocrine disorders fall into three groups:

1. too little hormone: hormone deficiency
2. too much of a hormone: hormone excess
3. tumours (benign or malignant) of endocrine glands

Most medical applications concern the lack of balance between hormones, and sometimes the complete lack of a necessary hormone. For example, most forms of hyperthyroidism are associated with an excess of thyroid hormone and a low level of thyroid stimulating hormone.

### Helping transgender people

Endocrinologists can advise on hormone treatment for transgender persons. A transgender person might want their body to look different so that they look more like their chosen gender. For example, a transgender woman might want less facial hair so that she looks less like a man to other people.

Related pages
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The main pages which explain endocrinology are:

* Endocrine system
* Hormone
John Kreese is a fictional character played by Martin Kove in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid and is the villain of that movie.

Role in the Karate Kid
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Sensei John Kreese is a karate teacher at a dojo called Cobra Kai and was trained in martial arts when he was a soldier in the Vietnam War. Kreese tells his students to hate mercy. He also tells them to start cheating in the karate tournament at the end of the movie.

Role in The Karate Kid Part Two
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Sensei Kreese is in the first scene of the movie The Karate Kid Part II and is angry with Johnny Lawrence because he didn’t win so he attacks Johnny. Then Mister Miyagi fights Kreese to rescue Johnny. Kreese then fights Mr. Miyagi and loses and Mr. Miyagi can kill him but doesn’t.

Role in Karate Kid Part Three
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In The Karate Kid Part III, Kreese goes to his friend Terry Silver to come up with a plan to get revenge against Daniel LaRusso and Mister Miyagi.

Sifu Li
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Sifu Li from the remake of The Karate Kid was based on Kreese but did kung fu instead of karate.

Cobra Kai
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John Kreese is in the show Cobra Kai and is the main villain.
***Silverwing*** is a best-selling novel, written by Kenneth Oppel and published in Simon & Schuster. It follows the journey for a group of silver-haired bats. The tone and artistic honor for bestsellers were compared to *Watership Down*. The four novels became part of the series. The first book was adapted into an animated television miniseries on Teletoon and Jetix. It was also released on DVD.

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The series has four novels for the series, including the original one, *Sunwing*, *Firewing* and *Darkwing*.

Long ago, the rest of the animals banished the bats for not taking sides in the great war. Years later, the bats often roam outside at night to avoid the sun (the backstory inspired by Aesop's fable). When Shade breaks the law for the colony, the owls destroy their home, forcing the bats to migrate. Shade befriends Marina and learns an echo projection from Zephyr. Shade and Marina meet Goth and Throbb, two cannibal bats (Vampyrum spectrum) who were captured from South America and escaped from the laboratory. After Shade and Marina reunite with the colony, the bats resolve conflicts with the animals. After finding Cassiel, the owls allow the bats to roam outside anytime. Shade's son, Griffin, travels to the underworld, along with his friend Luna. After Shade sacrifices himself to foil the plan of Cama Zotz (a bat god opposing Nocturna), Griffin and Luna return home.

Characters
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**Shade Silverwing**: A silver-haired bat who uses echo projection.

**Marina Brightwing**: A red bat living in the island.

**Chinook**: The son of Plato and Isis.

**Frieda**: A wise bat making decisions and having a silver band. She later dies in *Sunwing*.

**Ariel**: Shade's mother and Cassiel's mate.

**Goth**: One of the cannibal bats living in the jungle and the servant of Cama Zotz and Nocturna, the goddesses of bats.

**Throbb**: Goth's brother-in-law who is killed by a thunderstorm in the novel.

Other websites
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* *Silverwing* on IMDb
Glishorn with municipalities Brig-Glis and Naters
**Brig** is the capital of the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

History
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The historic town of 5,000 people is part of the **Brig-Glis** municipality. The name 'Brig' comes from *Briva*, or "bridge." Its medieval name was *Briga dives*. It is a small town in the Swiss canton of the Valais, at the foot of the northern slope of the Simplon Pass, on the right bank of the Saltine stream, and a little above its junction with the Rhone. Its older houses look very Italian. Its buildings were built during the 17th century, because of a single member of the local Stockalper family.

Location
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Brig is close to the Swiss-Italian borders. The language used when talking between one another is a unique German dialect, used only in this canton. Brig is popular among winter sport athletes, since it is surrounded by many Alp summits. The town itself is close to Rhone river. Due to the height, the temperatures in winter often remain below zero, resulting in frost. During the summer season, heat can be intense.

The place of meeting in the town is the train station, which links it to other Swiss cities.

Economy
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The wealth of Brig is because of the Simplon Pass. The opening of the carriage road across the Simplon (1807) and of the tunnel beneath the pass (1906), as well as the fact that above Brig is the steeper and less fertile portion of the Upper Valais (then much frequented by tourists), greatly increased the importance and size of the town.

Other websites
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 Media related to Brig-Glis at Wikimedia Commons

* Brig-Glis municipal website (in German)
***The Legacy of Heorot*** is a science fiction novel written in 1987 by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes.

This is the first book in the *Heorot* series. It is about a human space colony at the star Tau Ceti.

Plot Summary
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Hundreds of years in the future, people travel to the star Tau Ceti. It takes 100 years to fly there. To live that long the people go to sleep and freeze each other. When they get there they unfreeze, but some people do not wake up. Some people wake up but are not as smart as they were.

They land on the fourth planet from the sun and build a town on a big island. Everything is peaceful until they are attacked by a large animal. The animal is like a cross between a frog and an alligator. It is big but also *very* fast and smart. They call it a Grendel. The Grendel kills several people but then it is killed.

The people get very scared and build fences, land mines, and guns. After a while they get less scared and think that the Grendel they killed was the only one. They build boats and get brave. Then another bigger Grendel kills some of the people in the boats. The People trap and kill this Grendel.

The People get really mad. They find out that Grendels have to stay near water because when a Grendel moves fast it makes a lot of heat. If it does not cool off it will die. They go all around the island and kill all the Grendels. This makes them very happy.

They feel safe and travel all around the island. They notice that the alien fish are big now. They think that without the Grendels around there will be lots of fish to eat. This makes them happy.

Everything is good until the fish get very big. When they get big enough they grow legs, breath air, and move very fast. The fish are *baby Grendels*. Now instead of a few big Grendels there are thousands of small ones.

Some people escape to the space ship. But, other stay to defend the town. They use the electric fences and land mines and guns to kill the little Grendels. After awhile the town gets too damaged to protect anymore. The people run away to a cave on a mountain. The Grendels follow them up a river and attack the cave. The people use kerosene to burn the Grendels. Also, they knock big rocks down onto them. After enough Grendels get killed, the other Grendels learn to run away instead of just attack. The people *win*.

Over time the people hunt down all the new Grendels and all the alien fish. Finally they are safe.
***No Longer at Ease*** is a novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service. He faces a conflict between his Western lifestyle and African culture and ends up taking a bribe.

Title
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The title of the novel comes from the poem The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot.

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,  

But no longer at ease here,  

With an alien people clutching their gods.  

I should be glad of another death.

Summary
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Obi Okonko is the grandson of Okonkwo, the main character of Achebe's first novel, *Things Fall Apart*. Obi is on trial for taking a bribe.

Some members of the Umuofia Progressive Union (UPU) collect money so that Obi can go to England to study law and help his people. However, he starts studying English instead of law. He meets Clara Okeke, who is studying to be a nurse, at a dance.

Obi returns to Nigeria. He now lives with a friend in Lagos and works for the government as part of the Scholarship Board, which is responsible for giving scholarships to students. A man offers a bribe on behalf of his sister, which Obi rejects. The girl herself visits Obi and tries to bribe him with sex for a scholarship, which he also rejects.

Obi is falling in love with Clara. However, he finds out that Clara is an *osu*, or outcast in Igbo society. Because of her status, he cannot marry her. His father reluctantly refuses to let him marry her because he is a Christian and wants to leave the "heathen" ways of precolonial Igbo society. His mother begs him to not marry Clara until after she dies. When Obi tells Clara this, she calls off the engagement and reveals that she is pregnant. Obi arranges for her to get an abortion. He gets more into debt because he needs to repay the UPU, fund his siblings' educations, and pay for the abortion. 

Obi becomes depressed when he finds out that his mother died. He does not go to her funeral. When he recovers, he reluctantly begins to take bribes and accepts that bribery is the way of his world.

At the end of the novel, Obi takes a bribe, which he promises to himself would be the last one he would take. This turns out to be a sting operation and he is arrested.

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*No Longer at Ease* takes place several decades after *Things Fall Apart*. At this point, the British are in full control of Nigeria. Obi finds that he is in the middle of a conflict between the African expectation of financially supporting his family and village and living a Western lifestyle.

Obi Okonkwo is the grandson of Okonkwo from *Things Fall Apart*. Both men speak their minds and are self-destructive. While Okonkwo is a man of action, Obi is a man who doesn't take much action because he uses thoughts and words more.
**The Yearling** is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was published in 1938.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939, when the award was called "Pulitzer Prize in the Novel." It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938. In that year it had 14 printings and sold more than 250,000 copies. It has been translated into many languages.

The book's title, *The Yearling*, comes from the word for a young deer that is about one year old.

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*The Yearling* tells the story of a boy named Jody Baxter. He lives in Florida in the years after the American Civil War. He is the only living child of poor parents who had six other children who died when they were very young.

One day while Jody and his father are searching for their lost farm animals, his father is bitten in the arm by a rattlesnake. Father shoots a female deer, in order to use its liver to pull out the snake's poison. Father's life is saved. But the dead deer had a fawn, a young deer. Jody's parents let him keep the young deer. The boy and the deer, named Flag, grow together closely.

These are difficult times for farm families in Florida. Jody learns about these troubles. Flag causes a problem when he eats the corn that the family is growing for their own food. Jody's father tells him to go into the woods and shoot Flag, but Jody can't do it. When Jody's mother shoots and only wounds the yearling, Jody is forced to kill Flag.

Jody leaves home in anger. He suffers from hunger, loneliness, and fear on his journey to find an old friend who lives in Boston. In the last chapter, back home with his father, he realizes that he has joined "the world o' men". He knows that the time of his boyhood is over.

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A film was made of the book and was released to theaters in 1946. Gregory Peck played Jody's father. Jane Wyman played Jody's mother. Jody, himself, was played by the young actor Claude Jarman Jr..

The story was turned into a Broadway musical in 1965, but it was not a success. It had only three performances.

A Japanese anime version was released in 1983.

In 1983 the film *Cross Creek* tells a story from the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of *The Yearling*. It is about the event that helped her to write the novel. The main actors were Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote and Dana Hill.
**Donovan** performing in Washington (2007)
**Donovan Phillips Leitch** (born 10 May 1946 in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-born pop singer and guitarist, who was popular in the 1960s. Early in his career he was compared to Bob Dylan, but he developed his own musical style, which included elements of jazz and Indian music. (Donovan and Dylan met during 1965, and became friends.)

Donovan's best-remembered songs include "Catch The Wind", "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman", "Happiness Runs", and "Hurdy Gurdy Man". He helped the Beatles with their song "Yellow Submarine", and two Beatles (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) sang on his song "Atlantis".

Donovan was one of the first pop musicians to denounce the use of drugs, after his own arrest for hashish possession in 1966, and his seeing friends begin to use "hard drugs" like heroin and speed (amphetamine). The liner notes to his 1967 album *A Gift From a Flower to a Garden* called upon young people to "stop the use of *all* drugs, and heed the quest to seek the Sun." (He later resumed occasional marijuana use, and drinking alcohol.)

After the 1960s, Donovan's music was not as popular as it had been, but it is remembered now as part of the flower power era. Many of his songs now appear in television commercials. He continued to make albums regularly through the 1980s, and sometimes in the 1990s. He also continued to tour, and some of his later albums are of live performances. He published an autobiography, *The Hurdy Gurdy Man*, in 2005.

Two of Donovan's children, Donovan Leitch and Ione Skye, are actors.

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The Calvin cycle.
The **Calvin cycle** (also known as the **Benson-Calvin cycle**) is the set of chemical reactions that take place in chloroplasts during photosynthesis. 

The cycle is light-independent because it takes place after the energy has been captured from sunlight. 

The Calvin cycle is named after Melvin C. Calvin, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for finding it in 1961. Calvin and his colleagues, Andrew Benson and James Bassham, did the work at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Using the radioactive carbon-14 isotope as a tracer, Calvin, Andrew Benson and their team mapped the complete route that carbon travels through a plant during photosynthesis. They traced the carbon-14 from soaking up its atmospheric carbon dioxide to its conversion into carbohydrates and other organic compounds. The single-celled algae *Chlorulla* was used to trace the carbon-14.

The Calvin group showed that sunlight acts on the chlorophyll in a plant to fuel the manufacture of organic compounds, not directly on carbon dioxide as previously believed.

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The steps in the cycle are as follows:

1. Grab: A five-carbon carbon catcher called RuBP (Ribulose bisphosphate) catches one molecule of carbon dioxide and forms a six-carbon molecule.

2. Split: the enzyme RuBisCO (with the energy of ATP and NADPH molecules) breaks the six-carbon molecule into two equal parts.

3. Leave: A trio of carbons leave and become sugar. The other trio moves on to the next step.

4. Switch: Using ATP and NADPH, the three carbon molecule is changed into a five carbon molecule.

5. The cycle starts over again.

### The product

The carbohydrate products of the Calvin cycle are three-carbon sugar phosphate molecules, or 'glucose triose phosphates' (G3P). Each step of the cycle has its own enzyme which speeds up the reaction.
***Miranda*** is a novel written by Antoni Lange in 1924. It is the last great work of Lange [*source?*] and his most famous book today. It is said that *Miranda* is an "occultic fiction" and a "romance ranked to a philosophical treaty". The novel is also known as a mix of dystopia and utopia. 
The novel was translated into English (in 1968), French, Spanish and Italian.

Explanation of the novel's title
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The novel's title refers to the character Miranda, from Shakespeare's play *The Tempest*. *Miranda* also has been influenced by work such as: *Men Like Gods* by Herbert George Wells; *The City of the Sun* by Tommaso Campanella; *Lenore* by Edgar Allan Poe,;*Genezis z Ducha* by Juliusz Słowacki; poems by Cyprian Kamil Norwid; writings of Friedrich Nietzsche (criticism of concept of the Übermensch); Arthur Schopenhauer; Plato; and Sanskrit epics of ancient India.

Plot summary
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The novel tells about a civilization of Brahmans who have powerful skills. They can speak with their minds, and levitate (float in the air). The Brahmans in the book think the most important things are anarchy, freedom, peace, and free love. Their country is led by the Ministry of Love, Ministry of Power and Ministry of Wisdom. The Brahmans use a strange chemical named Nivridium to keep their self-perfect idea. The story is the of a Polish emigrant named Jan Podobłoczny (Lange's own *parte-parole*) falling in love with a woman named Damayanti. The book ends in a tragedy. In the last chapter of the novel, Damayanti sacrifices her body in order to let her spirit fly to a greater level of though.

Miranda is a Scottish spiritual medium, who lives in Warsaw. She can talk with the soul of Damayanti and make a woman named Lenore appear. She meets Jan Podobłoczny when he is close to his death. In the moment when Damayanti dies, Miranda disappears.
**Vinnie Vincent** (born **Vincent John Cusano**; August 6, 1952) is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for being a former member of the band Kiss. He was also the leader of his own band, Vinnie Vincent Invasion.

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Vincent began his career in the early 1970s, playing guitar in local bands including Hunter and Treasure. In early 1980, Vinnie Vincent moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began composing songs for ABC TV series Happy Days. Vinnie Vincent shot to fame in 1982 replacing the guitarist Ace Frehley in the hard rock band Kiss. Was large the contribution to the band co-wrote the songs I Love It Loud, Killer, I Still Love You, of Album Creatures of the Night. For legal reasons Frehley appeared on the album cover and I Love It Loud video. In 1983, he recorded with Kiss the Album Lick It Up, where he co-wrote the themes Lick It Up, Exciter, Not for the Innocent, Young and Wasted, Gimme More, All Hell's Breakin' Loose, A Million to One, And on the 8th Day. After several tours with the group left the band in 1984, and was replaced by guitarist Mark St. John. In 1992 he returned to work with the band to co-write the lyrics of the album Revenge.

Vinnie Vincent Invasion
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In 1984 Vincent, formed the Glam metal band Vinnie Vincent Invasion, with Vinnie Vincent in guitar, Robert Fleischman vocal, Dana Strum in Bass, and Bobby Rock in Drums.
They recorded three albums Vinnie Vincent Invasion (1986), All Systems Go (1988), and the 1990 unreleased album Pyro Messiah aka Guitars From Hell. The band disbanded in 1989.

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In the decade of 1990, Vincent was dedicated to his solo career and recorded the album Euphoria, 1996, with vocalist Robert Fleischman. Also released the album in the collection Speedball Jamm (2001), which were recordings of Vinnie Vincent Invasion, recorded during rehearsals for the band in 1986.

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* Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion regarding 'Cusano V. Klein' 2001. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
* Vinnie Vincent Fan Forums
A military base in Warzone 2100, a real-time strategy game.
**Real-time strategy** (**RTS**) is a genre of computer and video games. In real-time strategy games, every player has an army to attack the other player(s). Every player has a military base and people or vehicles (these are called units). The player also has money to create new units or to build new buildings. These buildings can allow the player to do things, such as creating units or to use new technology. Usually, the player that destroys the base and the units of the other player(s) wins. In Esports, if the game has a time limit, the player with the higher points win.

In real-time strategy games, everything the player does, happens right away: there's no time between doing something (like telling a unit to move) and seeing it happen. This is different in turn-based strategy where the players take turns to do things. Under the RTS genre, there is a Real-Time Tactics sub-genre (battlefield focused). The *Total War (video game series)* is an example of RTT game.

God game vs. Simulation
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Most RTSs are God game, that is, the player does not control a single member or unit while playing, but controls all aspects of the game: direct the units, their tactics, improvements and attacks, and direct the planning and Construction of the base, its improvements and the quantity of resources and production.

While in simulation, the player controls a member of the faction, being a collector, soldier, spy, producer, diplomat or leader of the faction itself. Example is the Ark: Survival Evolved in its "Hunger Games" mode.

Examples of real-time strategy games
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* Age of Empires series
* Command & Conquer series
* StarCraft, Warcraft and Dota 2
* Total Annihilation
* Supremacy 1914
* Ark: Survival Evolved
* Empire Earth series
* Rise of Nations
* Stronghold (2001 video game)
* Clash Royale
* Pikmin 4
**Suzi Quatro** (born June 3, 1950) is an American rock musician, said by some people to be the "Godmother of Rock". She has sold more than 50 million records. She usually wore black leather clothes.

Quatro was born in Detroit, Michigan. She started playing bass guitar and formed a girl band, Pleasure Seekers, with her sisters when she was only 14 years old. She went to Britain in 1971 with record producer Mickie Most, who also worked with The Animals, Lulu, and Donovan. Her first hit single was "Can the Can" which went to number one on the sales charts in Europe and Australia. Other big hits were "Devil Gate Drive" (1974), "If You Can't Give Me Love" (1978) and "Stumblin' In" (1978).

She married guitar player, Len Tuckey, in 1976 but divorced him in 1992. She is now married to a German concert promoter, Rainer Haas. She has also acted on TV with guest roles in Happy Days, Minder, Absolutely Fabulous, and Midsomer Murders. She was the voice of Rio in the 2006 Bob the Builder movie, *Built To Be Wild*. She also had a weekly radio show on BBC2, called "Wake Up Little Suzi".