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Independent Women Part I 
 "Independent Women (Part I)" is an R&B song written by American singer-songwriter Beyoncé Knowles, Sam Barnes, Jen-Claude Olivier, and Cory Rooney for Destiny's Child's third studio album, Survivor (2001), only considered as a bonus track.
Independent Women Part I 
 It was produced by Knowles, Rooney, and Poke & Tone and first appeared on the soundtrack to the film Charlie's Angels.
Independent Women Part I 
 Released as both the soundtrack's and album's first single in fall 2000, the song held the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for eleven consecutive weeks from November 2000 to February 2001.
Independent Women Part I 
 Although, for the United Kingdom, it was released on the same day, with both Part I and Part II counting as the song release.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Also in this city are NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command at the Redstone Arsenal.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its "America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010" list.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The area was purchased by Leroy Pope, who imposed the name Twickenham on the area to honour the home village of his kinsman Alexander Pope.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The streets were built from the northeast to southwest direction based on the Big Spring (see images below).
Huntsville, Alabama 
 However, due to anti-English feeling during the War of 1812, the town name was changed to Huntsville to honour John Hunt, who had been forced to move to other land south of the new city.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The city's sesquicentennial anniversary was held in 1955 and the bicentennial was celebrated in 2005.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The capital was then moved to another temporary location, Cahawba, until the legislature selected Montgomery as the permanent location.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Huntsville firstly opposed secession from the Union in 1861, but provided many men for the state's defense.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The Fourth Alabama Infantry, which contained two Huntsville companies, were the first Alabama troops to fight in the war.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 After the Civil War, Huntsville became a center for cotton textile mills, such as Lincoln, Dallas and Merrimack.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 It included everything the mill workers needed (schools, churches, grocery stores, theatres, and hardware stores, all within walking distance of the mill).
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Huntsville was chosen as the location of Huntsville Arsenal, with chemical and munitions manufacturing plants.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The Arsenal was almost closed in 1949 when it was no longer needed, but it saw new life when Major General Holger Toftoy with support from Senator John Sparkman convinced the U.S. Army to choose Huntsville as the location for its missile research program.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 In 1950, General Toftoy brought German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his team to Redstone Arsenal to develop what would eventually become the United States' space program.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 On September 8, 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicated the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Since the 1950s, when the German scientists headed by Wernher von Braun, brought to the United States at the end of World War II through Operation Paperclip, managed to develop rockets for the U.S. Army.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Their work included designing a rocket, that carried the first U.S. satellite and astronauts into space.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The Saturn V, used by the Apollo program manned Moon missions, was developed at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Huntsville continues to play an important role in the United States' Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 Huntsville's economy was nearly crippled and growth came to a near standstill in the 1970s following the closure of the Apollo program.
Huntsville, Alabama 
 The emergence of the Space Shuttle and the ever-expanding field of missile defense in the 1980s helped give Huntsville a resurgence that has continued into the 21st century.
Burlington, Vermont 
 Howard Dean, Current Chairman of the Democratic Party, former presidential candidate in 2004, and former Governor of Vermont.
Burlington, Vermont 
 Bernie Sanders, current United States senator of Vermont, former Mayor of Burlington, and 2016 United States presidential election candidate.
Burlington, Vermont 
 Although there is no formal twinning agreement, Burlington takes part in the annual Burlington International Games with
Auburn, Alabama 
 In the mid-1840s, different academies for boys and girls were founded in addition to the primary school.
Auburn, Alabama 
 In 1856, the state legislature allowed to build a Methodist college, the East Alabama Male College in Auburn.
Auburn, Alabama 
 In 1892, the college became the first four-year college in Alabama where women are allowed to study.
Auburn, Alabama 
 SIAA Conference championships won by the Auburn college’s football team brought attention and support to Auburn.
Auburn, Alabama 
 Because of this increase of students, Auburn began a period of growth that lasted through the 1950s and 1960s.
Auburn, Alabama 
 A series of budget cuts made it clear that Auburn's economic concentration on Auburn University put the city in a bad position.
Auburn, Alabama 
 A series of reports in the 1980s and 1990s made the Auburn public school system among the top in the state.
Auburn, Alabama 
 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of  in 2000, of which,  of it is land and  of it (1.11%) is water.
Auburn, Alabama 
 Although because of Auburn’s topography, elevation ranges from  above sea level to  above sea level.
Auburn, Alabama 
 Auburn has a council-manager government led by an eight-member city council, a mayor, and an appointed city manager.
Auburn, Alabama 
 It passes laws, regulates and appoints citizens to the city's various boards, including the Auburn City Board of Education.
Wilmington, Delaware 
 Wilmington is the largest city in the state Delaware, United States, and the county seat of New Castle County.
Wilmington, Delaware 
 Wilmington has an area of about  and is  above sea level, at the place where the Christina River and Brandywine Creek meet.
52 Europa 
 Europa is the seventh biggest asteroid by volume and the sixth biggest by mass (after Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea, and Interamnia) and contains somewhat less than 2% of the mass of the entire main belt.
52 Europa 
 Lightcurve data for Europa has been very hard to interpret, so much so for a long time its period of rotation was in dispute (5 and a half, or 11 hours?)
52 Europa 
 It has now been determined that Europa is a prograde rotator, but the exact direction in which its pole points remains unclear.
52 Europa 
 The most detailed analysis indicates that it points either towards about ecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (70°, 55°) or (40°, 255°) with a 10° uncertainty [2].
52 Europa 
 It has been found that the star CV Aquarii found in 1934, was actually an incorrect misidentification of 52 Europa .
52 Europa 
 Photometry and models of selected main belt asteroids I. 52 Europa, 115 Thyra, and 382 Dodona, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.
52 Europa 
 6) Hebe, (10) Hygiea, (15) Eunomia, (52) Europa, (88) Thisbe, (444) Gyptis, (511) Davida and (704) Interamnia , Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.
52 Europa 
 S.R. Sawyer A High-Resolution CCD Spectroscopic Survey of Low-Albedo Main Belt Asteroids, PhD thesis, The University of Texas (1991).
52 Europa 
 P. Schmeer and M.L. Hazen CV Aquarii identified with (52) Europa , Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Vol.
52 Europa 
 V. Zappalà, M. di Martino and S. Cacciatori On the ambiguity of rotational periods of asteroids - The peculiar case of 52 Europa, Icarus, Vol.
Three Jewels 
 The Three Jewels, also called the Three Treasures, the Three Refuges, or the Triple Gem, are the three things that Buddhists give themselves to, and in return look toward for guidance, in the process known as taking refuge.
Three Jewels 
 Buddha, which means The Enlightened or Awakened One, who, depending on one's interpretation, can mean the Historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, or the Buddha nature or ideal within all beings;
Three Jewels 
 Sangha, which means The Community, The Community of those great people who have attained Enlightenment, so that those people (Sangha) will help you to attain Enlightenment.
Dharma (Buddhism) 
 "Dharma" usually refers not just to the sayings of the Buddha but to the later traditions of the various schools of Buddhism which expanded upon the Buddha's teachings.
Dharma (Buddhism) 
 Tradition says that the Buddha gave 84,000 different teachings to various types of people based on their needs.
Dharma (Buddhism) 
 may be seen as the truth which is beyond worldly things, so the word may refer to the ultimate reality, "truth", "phenomena", or "the way things are".
Dharma (Buddhism) 
 The Dharma is one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism of which followers of Buddhism seek refuge in (what one relies on for his/her lasting happiness).
Dharma (Buddhism) 
 The three jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha (mind's perfection of enlightenment), the Dharma (teachings and methods), and the Sangha (awakened beings who provide guidance and support).
Saas Fee 
 Saas-Fee is the main village in the Saastal or the Saas Valley and is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Ratification 
 Therefore some countries can only ratify a treaty if it is confirmed by the legislature of the country, or by a referendum (a vote of the people).
Ratification 
 To make sure that the treaty was acceptable to the ruler the treaty would not take effect until it was ratified by the ruler.
Ratification 
 So although President Woodrow Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles which ended the First World War with Germany and set up the League of Nations the treaty never took effect for the USA because the US Senate never gave its "advice and consent" (agreed) to the treaty.
Ratification 
 In the United Kingdom the government ratifies treaties, it does not need the agreement of the House of Commons.
Ratification 
 For example before Britain entered the European Union in 1973 the European Communities Act had to be passed to  make the changes to the law that were needed.
New Orleans Pelicans 
 The team started playing in the NBA in 1988 as the Charlotte Hornets playing in Charlotte, North Carolina.
New Orleans Pelicans 
 During the 2005 - 2006 and 2006 - 2007 seasons, the team was moved to Oklahoma City because of the damage caused in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans Pelicans 
 After the 2012-2013 season, on April 18, 2013, the team changed its name to the "New Orleans Pelicans", and their team colors became red, blue, and gold.
New Orleans Pelicans 
 Michael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, brought the Hornets name back to Charlotte by renaming the Bobcats for the 2014-2015 season.
List of WWE personnel 
 WWE personnel consists of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, ring announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, producers, road agents, creative writers, and various other positions.
List of WWE personnel 
 Personnel on the main roster appear on specific brands such as Raw and SmackDown Live while they can also appear on WWE's primary weekly television programming such as Main Event, Superstars, Total Divas as well as pay-per-views, and at live events.
List of WWE personnel 
 Personnel from the NXT division appear on the television series of the same name, which airs online in the U.S. and on TV in select countries, and at live events.
List of WWE personnel 
 If someone is inactive for any reason, due to injury, suspension, not appearing in more than 30 days, or otherwise, that information is noted.
List of WWE personnel 
 In addition to their corporate positions, they also appear on-air as authority figures and wrestlers across all brands.
List of WWE personnel 
 Note: NXT UK and 205 Live—while distinct brands—are also considered part of NXT, thus wrestlers may appear on all three brands.
List of WWE personnel 
 Note: 205 Live and NXT UK—while distinct brands—are also considered part of NXT, thus wrestlers may appear on all three brands.
List of WWE personnel 
 The following list features wrestlers and other personnel - promoted as free agents - who make limited or part-time appearances (such as Hall of Famers or legends), and thus aren't bound to any one brand, as well as newly-signed and undrafted personnel who are awaiting brand assignment.
List of WWE personnel 
 This group includes presenters, ringside commentators, ring announcers, backstage interviewers, pre-show hosts, and analysts.
List of WWE personnel 
 Select former or retired WWE wrestlers not currently on the main roster (sometimes billed as "WWE Legends") and other celebrities and personalities have contracts to make periodic appearances—either on WWE TV or for promotional events—serving as "ambassadors" (public representatives/spokespeople) for the company.
List of WWE personnel 
 Note: as NXT and 205 Live are based at the Performance Center, PC coaches and trainers also work as producers for the brands.
The Queen Vic 
 The Queen Vic (full name The Queen Victoria) is a fictional pub in the British television show EastEnders.
Charlotte Hornets 
 Charlotte Hornets is the name of several past and present sports teams in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Charlotte Hornets 
 The Charlotte Hornets (NBA), an NBA (basketball) team that played as the Charlotte Bobcats from 2004 to 2014
Charlotte Hornets 
 The Charlotte Hornets, another NBA team that played under that name from 1988 until moving to New Orleans in 2002; known since 2013 as the New Orleans Pelicans
Charlotte Hornets 
 The Charlotte Hornets, an American football team that played in 1974 and 1975 in the now-defunct World Football League
National Rugby League 
 The NRL is very popular in Australia but only in the states of New South Wales and Queensland and there is also one team in Victoria.
Alison Krauss 
 She is famous for being the leader of the band Alison Krauss & Union Station, and has produced albums for artists like Nickel Creek, Reba McEntire, and Alan Jackson.
Dolly Parton 
 Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American, Grammy Award-winning country music singer/songwriter, composer, author, and actress.
Dolly Parton 
 She has become one of the most successful female country artists in history, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female country artist) and 41 top-10 country albums (a record for any country artist).
Dolly Parton 
 She is known for her top-three single "Here You Come Again" and the number-one hits "9 to 5" and "Islands in the Stream" (a duet with singer Kenny Rogers).
Dolly Parton 
 Her 1967 song "Dumb Blonde" was heard by country singer Porter Wagoner, and he asked Parton to be a part of his television show.
Dolly Parton 
 Her single "Jolene" reached number one in 1974, becoming a solo artist, though still performed and recorded with Wagoner.
Dolly Parton 
 In the fifty-four years since her debut, Parton has become one of the most famous country artists in the world.
Vince Gill 
 Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Vince Gill 
 Dark as a Dungeon (2002) song with The Chieftains on the album Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
Vince Gill 
 Let's Heal with Altan- (2005) song from Hands Across the Water - A Benefit for the Children of the Tsunami
1259 
 The Oxford Parliament, led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, leads to the acceptance by King Henry III of England of the Provisions of Oxford.
1259 
 September – The Empire of Nicaea defeats the Principality of Achaea at the Battle of Pelagonia, ensuring the eventual reconquest of Constantinople in 1261.
1259 
 December 4 – The kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1259 
 The famous frescoes of the Boyana Church in Bulgaria are completed (the church and its murals are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
1259 
 The German cities of Lübeck, Wismar, and Rostock enter into a pact to defend against pirates of the Baltic Sea, laying the groundwork for the Hanseatic League.
1259 
 August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song Dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Khagan, Mongke Khan dies in the nearby hills.
1259 
 Persian, Chinese, and Mongol records have different accounts of how he died, including succumbing to an arrow wound received by a Chinese archer in the siege, dysentery, and even cholera epidemic.
1259 
 His death sparks a succession crisis in the Mongol Empire, while his brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai soon convene their own kuriltai to elect themselves as the next Khan of Khans, opening the path to a four year long civil war from 1260 to 1264.
1259 
 While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo wrote in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou was manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.
1258 
 No one is sure where, but it may have been in a tropical location like El Chichón, Mexico or Quilotoa, Ecuador.
1258 
 Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in France; lunar eclipses in England; severe winter in Europe; a "harsh" spring in Northern Iceland; famine in England, Western Germany, France, and Northern Italy; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and South-East Turkey.
1258 
 King Henry III of England is forced by seven powerful barons to accept the Provisions of Oxford, effectively ending the absolute monarchy in England by requiring the calling of a parliament.
1258 
 Civil unrest in northern Italy starts the medieval musical form of Geisslerlieder, songs of repentance sung by wandering bands of Flagellants.
1258 
 Clement of Dunblane,13th-century Dominican friar who was the first member of the Dominican Order in Britain to become a bishop
1257 
 Robert de Sorbon founds the Collège de Sorbonne at Paris, giving a formal college (and still-common name) to the already existing University of Paris in France.
1257 
 Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for a week straight while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.
1257 
 King Henry III of England orders the production of an twenty pence English coin of pure gold, the first high-denomination coin minted in England and the first to use gold.
1257 
 Unfortunately for King Henry, the bullion value of the coins was about 20% higher than the nominal face value, leading to poor circulation as coins were melted down by individuals for their gold content.
1257 
 The second Genoese War breaks out between Genoa and Venice in Outremer known as the War of Saint Sabas.
1257 
 The city of Kraków is rebuilt by Boleslaus V of Poland after being nearly destroyed in the Tatar invasions in 1241.
1256 
 May 4 – Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae constituting the Augustinian monastic order at Lecceto Monastery.
1256 
 Theodore II Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor (in exile in the Empire of Nicaea), successfully concludes a military campaign started a year earlier to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians.
1256 
 October – Mongol commander Baiju (operating under Hulagu Khan's command) leads his forces in a victory over Kay Ka'us II of the Sultanate of Rüm, thereby capturing Anatolia.
1256 
 December 15 – Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran.
1256 
 Hulagu Khan establishes the Ilkhanate dynasty of Persia, which will become one of four main divisions of the Mongol Empire.
1255 
 August – The final Cathar stronghold in southern France falls, eliminating the last refuge of the heretical Cathars after the Roman Catholic Church engaged in a program to crush the sect, starting in 1209 with the Albigensian Crusade.
1255 
 The death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln prompts persecution of Jews in England on accusations of blood libel.
1255 
 A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys in 1274/1275 and 1279/1280.
1255 
 May – William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus from his missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia, his efforts having been unsuccessful.
1255 
 Theodore II Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor (in exile in the Empire of Nicaea), conducts a military campaign to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians.
1255 
 Hulagu Khan is dispatched by his brother Möngke Khan to destroy the remaining Muslim states in southwestern Asia.
Glen Phillips 
 He is best known as the singer and songwriter of 1990s alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Jon Brion 
 Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.
Jon Brion 
 His mother was a jazz singer, his father a band director at Yale, his brother is an arranger and sister a violinist.
Jon Brion 
 They recorded some demo tracks in makeshift apartment studios, and worked out their arrangements at Yale University Campus.
Jon Brion 
 They enlisted the talents of bassist Don "Riff" Fertman to form The Bats (unlike the New Zealand band of the same name).
Bruce Molsky 
 Bruce Molsky (born in Manhattan, New York in 1955) is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer.
Bruce Molsky 
 He teaches the fiddle at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, as part of its American Roots program.
Béla Fleck 
 Deviation (Rounder Records, 1984) [billed as Bela Fleck with the New Grass Revival—sometimes considered a solo album]
Tift Merritt 
 In addition to Austin City Limits, Merritt has been on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Elliott Smith 
 Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Sugar Hill Records 
 Some of the artists who have released albums with the label are Nickel Creek, Allison Moorer, Sam Bush and Dolly Parton.
1251 
 April – The first Shepherds' Crusade, a domestic French uprising in response to events in Egypt during the Seventh Crusade, occurs.
1251 
 December 26 – King Alexander III of Scotland marries Margaret, daughter of King Henry III of England, precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs.
1251 
 Andrew de Longjumeau, dispatched two years earlier by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to the Mongols, meets the king in Palestine, with reports from the Mongols and Tartary; his mission is considered a failure.
1251 
 The earliest known manuscript of The Proverbs of Alfred, a collection of sayings of England's Alfred the Great, is written.
1251 
 Carving of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, is completed.
1240 
 Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina, beginning the Mali Empire.
1240 
 July 15 – Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
1224 
 Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquers Latgallians and the stronghold of Tartu from Ugaunian and Russian troops.
1220 
 The German Hohenstaufen dynasty which had ruled Sicily since 1194, adopts Palermo as its principal seat
1220 
 1155-1227), who laid waste to many civilizations and created an empire that stretched from China to the Caspian Sea.
Middle way 
 In particular, the Buddha advises against taking a either an overly hard path or an overly easy path.