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1917 
 July 27 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
Tallinn 
 The largest of these lakes is called Lake Ülemiste, and most Tallinnites get their drinking water from this lake.
Tallinn 
 Tallinn first appeared on a map in 1154, when the cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, calling the city Qlwn, added it to his map of the world.
Tallinn 
 After being conquered by the Danes, the city was known as Reval until Estonia became an independent nation in the 1920s.
Tallinn 
 As a result, in the Middle Ages Tallinn was an important stop on the trade routes between Europe and Russia.
Tallinn 
 In March 1944 Tallinn was bombed by Soviet Air Force, killing 436 civilians and totally destroying 5073 buildings.
Lombardy 
 Lombardy (/ˈlɒmbərdi, ˈlʌm-/ LOM-bər-dee, LUM-; Italian: Lombardia [lombarˈdiːa]; Lombard: Lombardia, Western Lombard: [lũbɐ̞rˈdiːɑ], Eastern Lombard: [lombɐ̞rˈdiːɑ, -ˈdeːɑ]) is a region in the northern part of Italy.
Lombardy 
 In the north of Lombardy there are very high mountains, (40% of the territory is mountains) the highest mountains are almost 4.000 meters in the Bernina Range.
Lombardy 
 The most important rivers are the Adda river, the Mincio and the Ticino river, all of them end in the Po river.
Lombardy 
 There are also a lot of lakes, the largest are the lake Maggiore, the Lake of Varese, the lake Como, and the lake Garda.
Vladimir Nabokov 
 His most famous book is Lolita, but others have also become famous, such as Pnin, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor.
Vladimir Nabokov 
 Two years later, his father was shot and killed by mistake, because he had blocked the person the gunman was trying to murder.
Vladimir Nabokov 
 As a child he had read books by entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian which he found in the attic of his family's country home in Vyra.
Vladimir Nabokov 
 The genus Nabokovia was named after him in honor of this work, as were a number of butterfly and moth species (e.g. many species in the genera Madeleinea and Pseudolucia have names alluding to Nabokov or names from his novels).
Vladimir Nabokov 
 In 1967, Nabokov commented: "The pleasures and rewards of literary inspiration are nothing beside the rapture of discovering a new organ under the microscope or an undescribed species on a mountainside in Iran or Peru.
Vladimir Nabokov 
 It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all".
George Washington Carver 
 George Washington Carver (c. January 1860 – January 5, 1943) was an American educator, botanist (someone who works with plants), and inventor.
George Washington Carver 
 Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families.
George Washington Carver 
 He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life.
George Washington Carver 
 The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts.
George Washington Carver 
 He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin.
Julian calendar 
 The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar.
Julian calendar 
 It was the main calendar in most of the world, until Pope Gregory  replaced that with the Gregorian calendar in 4 October 1582.
Julian calendar 
 During the 20th and 21st centuries, the date according to the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian date.
Julian calendar 
 There is a simple cycle of three common years followed by a leap year and this pattern repeats forever.
Julian calendar 
 With the simple cycle, the length of the Julian year is exactly 365.25 days (365 days and 6 hours), but the actual time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun once is closer to 365.2422 days (about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds).
Julian calendar 
 This difference is about 365.25 - 365.2422 = 0.0078 days (11 minutes and 14 seconds) each year, although Greek astronomers knew that.
Julian calendar 
 This made the seasons get out of track, since the real first day of spring in western Europe (the equinox - day and night the same length) was happening earlier and earlier before the traditional 21 March as the centuries went by.
Julian calendar 
 The first step of the reform was to realign the 25 December with the Winter solstice by making 46 BCE (708 AUC) 445 days long.
Julian calendar 
 In ordinary Roman calendar, the common year had 355 days and the leap year (one year after the common year) had 378 days.
Julian calendar 
 Julius Caesar added 67 more days by adding two extra months (those are called Prior and Posterior in letters of Cicero) between November and December.
Gregorian calendar 
 It replaced the previous Julian calendar because the Julian calendar had an error: it added a leap year (with an extra day every four years) with no exceptions.
Gregorian calendar 
 The length of the Julian year was exactly 365.25 days (365 days and 6 hours), but the actual time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun once is closer to 365.2425 days (about 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes).
Gregorian calendar 
 For example as the centuries went by, the equinox (when day and night are the same length) was happening earlier and earlier than its traditional date, March 21.
Gregorian calendar 
 But it mattered a lot to the Christian church because the date of Easter is calculated from the equinox being on 21 March.
Gregorian calendar 
 The change was that there would be no February 29 for every year that ends in 00 - unless it could be divided by 400.
Gregorian calendar 
 So the year 2000 was a leap year, because it could be divided by 400, but 1700, 1800, and 1900 would be common years, with no February 29.
Gregorian calendar 
 The official change took place the following October, when Thursday, 4th was followed by Friday, 15th.
Gregorian calendar 
 Spain, Portugal, and Italy started to use the new calendar on Friday, October 15, 1582, following Julian Thursday, October 4, 1582.
Gregorian calendar 
 In Europe's Protestant countries, people feared that the new calendar was an attempt by the Catholic Church to silence their movement.
Gregorian calendar 
 Since the Great Schism, Europe's Eastern Orthodox churches also ignored the Pope's decision and many continue to use the Julian calendar even today.
Gregorian calendar 
 The England and the rest of the British Empire (including what is now the USA and Canada) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
Gregorian calendar 
 Because 1600 was a leap year in both calendars but the Julian calendar had a leap year in 1700 but the Gregorian calendar did not, this meant that eleven days needed to be skipped.
Gregorian calendar 
 Christmas Day is the same as the Catholic and Protestant churches, but the date of Easter continues to be worked out differently.
Gregorian calendar 
 The Russian Orthodox Church, as well as some other Eastern Orthodox Churches such as Georgian and Serbian, did not want this change, so Russian Christmas Day is about two weeks after the rest of Europe.
Gregorian calendar 
 Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar's way of working out leap years on January 1, 1873, but the months have numbers instead of names.
Gregorian calendar 
 Japan also starts year one with each new reign, but uses reign names not the name an emperor might be best known by in the west.
Gregorian calendar 
 For example, the reign names Meiji year 1=1868, Taisho 1=1912, Showa (Emperor Hirohito) 1=1926, Heisei (Emperor Akihito) 1=1989, and so on.
Gregorian calendar 
 The "Western calendar" (西暦, seireki) using western year numbers, is also widely accepted by civilians and to a lesser extent by government agencies.
Gregorian calendar 
 This is because Britain did not start a new year until March 25, so for a few months it was one year in Britain and the next year in other countries.
Gregorian calendar 
 The letters OS (for Old Style) and NS (for New Style) were used to help determine the year being used.
Gregorian calendar 
 In the old calendar, the year started on March 25, this was the Quarter Day when rents and taxes fell due.
Gregorian calendar 
 People sometimes use the term N.S. or New Style to mean the Gregorian calendar, with Old Style (or O.S.) meaning the Julian calendar.
Southern hemisphere 
 A very small part of Asia, one-third of Africa, 90 percent of South America, and all of Australia and Antarctica are in this hemisphere.
Sufism 
 Others believe that Sufism is trying to live as the Islamic prophet Muhammad did, to be closer to God.
Sufism 
 Additionally, the Muslim conquests had brought large numbers of Christian monks and hermits, especially in Syria and Egypt, under Muslim rule.
Sufism 
 They believed in a deeply spiritual and mystical (even 'Platonic')  way of life and many of their ways became part of early Sufism.
Sufism 
 Important contributions in writing are attributed to Uwais al-Qarni, Harrm bin Hian, Hasan Basri and Sayid ibn al-Mussib, who are regarded as among the first Sufis in the earliest generations of Islam.
Sufism 
 Sufism already had a long history when some teachers began to set up formal schools or orders (Tarika or Tariqah)  in the early Middle Ages.
Sufism 
 Almost all existing Sufi orders today trace their roots and chain of transmission (silsila) back to Muhammad, via one of these orders.
Sufism 
 The main idea in Sufism is that people can have 'personal knowledge' or oneness with God in their lives.
Sufism 
 Apart from saying Sufi prayers, that vary according to different orders, you should be humble, considerate, and only act in order to control your desires.
Sufism 
 After fanaa is achieved, the you are reborn to live with, in, through and for God, (baqaa, permanency).
Sufism 
 This is the state where you have achieved the divine love of God, and come ever closer to a unity with God.
Sufism 
 A person who has crossed the various Sufi 'stages' and achieved this sort of mystic union with Allah, is called a Wali (a saint or friend of God) and the state is termed Wilayat (friendship/union).
Sufism 
 In Sufism there exist many different orders (tarikas), that were founded from the 12th and 13th centuries until today/contemporary times.
Sufism 
 Some of the major, notable Sufis in history, from the 'classical age' of Sufism,  include:<ref>The classical reference volume which gives the biographies of most of the great early Sufi saints is Sheikh Farid-ud-din Attar's, Tazkirat al-Aulia'''' (A Mention/Remembrance of the Saints), English translation by Prof AJ Arberry, n.d.;
Sufism 
 the online version is available at http://www.maktabah.org/biography/sufi-saints/392-tazkirat-al-aulia-by-fariduddin-attar.html, Maktabah Islamic E-Librray site, Retrieved 2.10.2012</ref>
Sufism 
 Modern practitioners, who have achieved the degree of sheikh (Master/Preceptor) and are accounted to have a high spiritual status, are still found in various places.
Sufism 
 Sufi practices are usually defined within the basic tenets of Islam, the Sharia (or Shariah)  although some orders include singing and dancing in the love of God, something some Muslims frown on.
Sufism 
 Hence some Muslims of a more orthodox mind-set believe that any actions outside the scope of Sharia, or Sufi activities practised by non-Muslims are 'wrong'.
Sufism 
 For a non-Muslim the most important ideas in Sufism are love for fellow human beings (which reflects one's love of God) and living ones life in such a way where all actions are against the self.
Sufism 
 In terms of discipleship and training, almost all the major Sufi orders are themselves quite willing to take students who are not Muslims.
Sufism 
 There are some Muslim schools of thought, such as the Wahhabi for example,  who oppose Sufism because they feel it obliterates the difference between God and man and bypasses the common method of salvation as prescribed by their interpretations of Sharia.
Sufism 
 Although there are non-Islamic versions of Sufism too (generally defined as 'Universal Sufism') puritanical and rigid people in Islam tend to view them with considerable hatred and anger.
Sufism 
 As a result, we often see a great deal of misunderstanding and conflict regarding Sufism and Sufic practices.
Sufism 
 Historically speaking, orthodox Islam, especially fundamentalist groups like the Wahhabi and Salafi have been the most intolerant and violent against what they think of as 'Deviant Sufism'.
Sufism 
 In the past centuries, severe persecution has been carried out by them against the Kharijites, the Ismaili Shia cult (sometimes termed the 'Assassins'), the Ahmadiyya movement and several other groups and individuals with Sufi-like mystical tendencies and practices.
Sufism 
 During the time of the later Mughal Empire in India, even the early gurus of Sikhism were persecuted by orthodox Islamic mullahs (theologians) since they had chosen to incorporate some of the ideas and poetic verses of the Sufi saint Baba Farid into their holy scriptures.
Sufism 
 In more recent times, over the last two decades, considerable persecution has been made of the spiritual reformer and sage Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi and his followers in Pakistan.
Sufism 
 He was opposed and threatened and forced to flee the country and his books banned there, and anyone publicly supporting him is liable to immediate arrest.
Sufism 
 This happened in spite of the famous Amman Message, a joint declaration made by over 200 of the most noted moderate Islamic scholars in a conference in Amman, Jordan, in 2005, stressing that Sufism is very much 'part' of Islam.
Sufism 
 Chopra, R. M., "SUFISM" (Origin, Growth, Eclipse, Resurgence), 2016, Anuradha Prakashan, New Delhi, .
Dove 
 They usually make nests of sticks, and their two white eggs are incubated by both the male and the female parent.
Dove 
 Pigeons and doves are distributed everywhere on Earth, except for the driest areas of the Sahara Desert, Antarctica and its surrounding islands and the high Arctic.
Dove 
 They are in eastern Polynesia and the Chatham Islands in the Pacific, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Réunion in the Indian Ocean, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dove 
 Species live in savannas, grasslands, deserts, temperate woodlands and forests, mangrove forests, and even the barren sands and gravels of atolls.
Dove 
 This species lives in Britain and Ireland, northern Africa, across Europe, Arabia, Central Asia, India, the Himalayas and up into China and Mongolia.
Dove 
 The range of the species increased dramatically after it was domesticated, because the species went feral in cities around the world.
Dove 
 It lives in cities across most of North America, South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Dove 
 The species is not the only pigeon to have increased its range due to the actions of man; several other species have become established outside of their natural range after escaping captivity.
Dove 
 The dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire are two famous flightless birds on the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar.
Dove 
 In the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, doves were used as symbols for the Canaanite mother goddess Asherah, the Phoenician goddess Tanit, and the Roman goddesses Venus and Fortunata.
Dove 
 The Christian symbol of a dove with an olive branch in its beak represents peace and comes from Genesis 8:6 - 12, also John 1:32–34.
Dove 
 The Chaldean myth the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim releases a dove and raven to find land; however, the dove merely circles and returns.
Dove 
 Only then does Utnapishtim send forth the raven, which does not return, and Utnapishtim concludes the raven has found land.
Dove 
 According to the Tanakh, doves are kosher, and they are the only birds that may be used for a korban (offering).
Dove 
 Rock pigeons were originally domesticated as a food species, and many breeds were developed for their meat-bearing qualities.
Dove 
 Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management has recipes for roast pigeon and pigeon pie, a popular, inexpensive food in Victorian industrial Britain.
Antonio Prohias 
 The running gag is of two incompent spies-one in black clothing-one in white clothing-who consisity try to outdo each other in comic mayhem.
Antonio Prohias 
 Although one comic only identies their countries as Black/White  another one tells their nationalities are given in an International border cartoon in which the Black Spy from the "East" tries to sneak over to the "West" [Guarded by the "White Spy.
Antonio Prohias 
 "]-although a later cartoon identies their countries as "Black SpyLand" (and presumedly "White Spyland")  Likewise the Spys parents  and their Children are cloathed as Black/white Miniature copies of their fathers Even in childhood and old age the two spys began their mayhem against one another-although their feuding goes back to Caveman times and the Roman Empire In the Spy Vs Spy World even innocenet human bystanders  toys  and the Spys animals are cloathed in Black/White They even have their own Spy Cemeteries [ID only as Agent Number but no names]; and Fan Clubs; their newspapers are called "Spy News" The Spys weopons could be anything-from antique Biplanes to Jets Each spy would be attached to either their own embassy or their respective Spy Hq-a running gag is that each spy would try to steal secrets from the enemy spy embassy  On occasion Prohias would introduce a variation in which one Spy would embaress -but not kill-the enemy spy Other variations-more than One spy of the same color vs enemy Spy; and occasionally the introduction of a third Spy..the femme fatalee female "Grey Spy" would always trick the two love struck bumblers to their doom.
Chancellor 
 In the United Kingdom, the Chancellor means the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the person in charge of the country's finances (taxes and spending).
Chancellor 
 For example, Daijō-daijin or Chancellor of the Realm was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods.
MUD 
 In terms of computer games, a MUD (short for Multi-User Dungeon, Multi-User Dimension or Multi-User Domain) is a multiplayer online game that is usually completely text-based.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822–July 23, 1885), born Hiram Ulysses Grant, was an American general who helped the Union Army of the United States win the American Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 When Grant arrived at West Point and discovered that the academy had him registered under the wrong name as "Ulysses S. Grant".
Ulysses S. Grant 
 He was told that it didn't matter what he or his parents thought his name was, the official government application said his name was "Ulysses S." and that application could not be changed.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 He became the top general in the Union Army from 1864 to 1865, and fought several battles against Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Since he was able to do well fighting in the American Civil War, he gained popularity which helped him to become the candidate for president of the Republican party.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Even though he was a respected general and supported civil rights for African Americans, historians criticize his presidency because he appointed his friends into high political positions and tolerated their corruption (even though Grant himself was innocent).
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Grant was the youngest president, only 46 years old, and the first to have both his parents attend his inauguration.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 He was also the first elected because of African American voters, who could vote then, although there was a big fight about it, which ended with many Black voters losing the right to vote.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 In his election, he won about 500,000 votes from African Americans, while the majority of white voters supported the Democratic candidate, who was called Horatio Seymour.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Grant supported the right of Black men to vote because of this, but also because he thought it was right.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Very soon into Grant's second term the Panic of 1873 started a depression in the United States that spread to Europe.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 The bribes had taken place before Grant was president, but the news came out during his presidency making it seem even more corrupt.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Grant's Secretary of the Treasury had to resign after being caught in a fraud scheme involving taxpayer kickbacks.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Grant had appointed an army friend John MacDonald as an Internal Revenue Service supervisor for the St. Louis area.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 In return for bribes, whisky distillers paid taxes only on a small portion of the whiskey they produced.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Each time he sent inspectors on a raid to check out suspected cheaters, their records were always in good order.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Meanwhile, Grant accepted expensive gifts from MacDonald not suspecting he was running a fraud scheme.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 At his trial, witnesses lied and even President Grant wrote a letter stating Babcock was of good character.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 As a result, Babcock was exonerated of the charges, but the scandal prevented him from going back to his job in Washington.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Nobody had been elected three times before and it was seen as wrong by many because George Washington had refused to.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Grant never became president again, however, and only one man has been elected three or more times, Franklin Roosevelt.
Ulysses S. Grant 
 Despite the problems during his second term, Grant was immensely popular, much like a modern-day movie star, and wrote a book about his life that sold millions of copies.
Grenada 
 Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea that received its independence from the United Kingdom in 1974.
Yateley 
 Other local towns and villages include Eversley, Finchampstead, Hartley Wintney, Blackwater, Camberley, Sandhurst, Crowthorne, Farnborough and Fleet.
Yateley 
 Yateley mainly serves as a dormitory town for workers in London, Reading, Guildford, Farnborough and Camberley.
Yateley 
 There are two secondary schools in the town, Yateley School and Frogmore School, and many infant and primary schools.
Stratford-upon-Avon 
 It lies on the River Avon, 22 miles (35 km) south east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km) south west of the county town, Warwick.
Pune 
 Pune is known for its educational facilities, having more than hundred educational institutes and nine universities.
Pune 
 There are many historic places like Shaniwar Wada, Lal Mahal and many museums like the Aga Khan Palace, Raja Kelkar Museum, and the National War museum.
Pune 
 Students not only from other cities and States come here to study, but international students from various countries are also found here.
Beer (Devon) 
 It is famous for underground quarries started by the Romans which have supplied stone for many of England's Historic buildings.
Beer (Devon) 
 Fishing was also a large industry with smuggling connections and the ladies of Beer made the lace for Queen Victoria's wedding dress.
Fly 
 These flies do a precise and fast calculation to avoid a specific threat and they are doing it using a brain that is as small as a grain of salt".... "And they can fly like an ace at birth.
Fly 
 The only other order of insects bearing two true, functional wings plus any form of halteres are the Strepsiptera, a small order of insects.
Fly 
 In contrast to the flies, the Strepsiptera evolved their halteres from their front wings and their flight wings are their rear wings.
Fly 
 The presence of a single pair of wings distinguishes true flies from other insects with "fly" in their name, such as mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, stoneflies, whiteflies, fireflies,   sawflies, caddisflies, butterflies or scorpionflies.
Fly 
 Some true flies have become secondarily wingless, including some that live in social insect colonies.
Dhikr 
 It is often performed by the Sufis in congregation, and each Sufi order has its special kind of Dhikr.