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Agustín Ross Cultural Centre 
 Ross also built several chalets, terraces, embankments, stone walls, a balcony in front of the beach and several large houses with imported building materials and furniture from France and England.
Agustín Ross Cultural Centre 
 In 1935, the Ross successors ceded to the Illustrious Municipality of Pichilemu all the Ross constructions (streets, avenues, squares, seven hectares of forests, the park in front of the hotel, the perrons and the terraces) under condition that the municipality hold them for recreation and public access.
Agustín Ross Cultural Centre 
 After the 2010 Pichilemu earthquake, the Cultural Centre suffered structural damage, but Roberto Córdova, Mayor of Pichilemu, said that it was repairable.
Australia national rugby union team 
 The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies are the national rugby union side of Australia.
Australia national rugby union team 
 The first Australian teams played against the British Lions at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 24 June 1899.
Australia national rugby union team 
 They needed a name and someone suggested the "Rabbits", but the team did not like it and chose the "Wallabies" instead.
Australia national rugby union team 
 Until the 1980s, only teams playing overseas were called the Wallabies; when they played in Australia they were called Internationals.
Sparrow 
 Some authorities place other genera in the sparrow group: Petronia, the rock sparrows; Carpospiza, the pale rockfinch; and Montifringilla, the snowfinches.
Sparrow 
 However, people traveled to Australia, North America and South America, and now sparrows are seen there too.
Sparrow 
 In Australia, there are no sparrows in Western Australia, as they have not been able to travel across the deserts that separate that state from the eastern states.
Sparrow 
 It was imported by several people, including Eugene Schieffelin, who was a wealthy New York City admirer of Shakespeare.
Sparrow 
 The hedge sparrow (also known as the dunnock or accentor) Prunella modularis is also not a true sparrow.
Sparrow 
 Birdwatchers call then all LBJs (little brown jobs) because they are usually so difficult to tell apart.
Sparrow 
 Holes in cliffs and banks, or tree hollows, are also used.p52–57 A sparrow sometimes digs out its own nests in sandy banks or rotten branches.
Sparrow 
 More often it uses the nests of other birds, such swallows' nests in banks and cliffs, and old tree nest holes.
Sparrow 
 This puts the sparrows in competition with bluebirds and other North American cavity nesters so the native bird population declines.
Sparrow 
 The number of house sparrows in the United Kingdom has gone down, perhaps because their hedgerow habitat has shrunk.
Couch 
 In homes, couches are normally found in the family room, living room, den, sitting room or the lounge.
Couch 
 The term 'couch' is used in North America, Australia, New Zealand, whilst the term 'sofa' is generally used in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Couch 
 The word originated in Middle English from the Old French noun couche, which derived from the verb meaning 'to lie down'.
Couch 
 Some late 18th-century kinds of couches had an arm running partly down one side, and this type continued to be made in England.
Couch 
 Because the couch is usually set in front of the TV, it is the main place where people usually sit and watch it.
Couch 
 Couch came from the word couche, which means, "a bed, lair," or from the word coucher, which means "to lie down."
Couch 
 The most common types of couches in homes are the "love seats" for two, or the "sofa" for more than two.
Couch 
 Couches are usually bought in a set together with cushions, which give them a bouncey and decorative comfortable touch.
Couch 
 Most couches should be deep cleaned once or twice a year, but fabric furniture can sometimes need a little more, including vacuuming once a month and treating spills and stains as soon as they happen.
Porridge 
 Before the industrial revolution, men and women doing hard work needed more calories per day than they need today.
Fresnel lens 
 Before Fresnel,  Buffon and Condorcet proposed a similar design, as a way to make large burning lenses.
Fresnel lens 
 The design allows the construction of lenses of large aperture and short focal length without the weight and volume of material that would be required in conventional lens design.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Giacomo Meyerbeer  (born near Berlin, 5 September 1791; died Paris,  2 May 1864) was a famous German-born opera composer.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Her father had been important in Germany’s struggle to be free of the French in 1812 when Napoleon was trying to conquer much of Europe.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Giacomo’s mother did a lot of good work trying to help people who were wounded during the Napoleonic wars.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Some of the visitors were from the royal Prussian court,  including the future King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 He became friends, in Paris, with the librettist  Eugène Scribe who had a lot of influence in the French theatre.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Meyerbeer made changes to Il crociato in Egitto and turned it into a grand opera for the Opéra in Paris.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 In 1828 Daniel Auber, a famous French composer of the time, had composed a very popular opera called  La muette de Portici.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Meyerbeer realized he could not become really popular by turning his Italian operas into French grand opera, so he took his comic opera Robert le Diable and changed it into a grand opera.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 He was given many honours: the Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur, the title of Prussian Hof Kapellmeister (Director of Music at the Royal Court), and was made a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and a member of the French Institute.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 There he met Wagner who asked him for financial help to stage his operas Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Meyerbeer lent him money, but stopped giving him money when he heard that Wagner was secretly criticizing him.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 His opera  Les Huguenots had at first been forbidden in Germany, but now it was allowed to be performed.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 As court composer he wrote a grand opera called Ein Feldschlag in Schlesien (A  Battle in Silesia), but it never became internationally famous.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 He wrote several works together with Scribe, whom Meyerbeer described as the best living librettist, and who was one of his closest friends.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Napoleon III said he wanted the opera to be ready by the winter of 1862-63, but it was not ready until 1864.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 The work was being rehearsed for its first performance when Meyerbeer suddenly died, without having had the chance to revise it, the way he revised most of his other pieces.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Meyerbeer’s body was taken to Berlin where it was buried in the Jewish cemetery in a vault that belonged to his family.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 He enjoyed working with different singers, among them Velluti, who was the last of the great operatic castrati.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 He took great trouble to give his singers rests during the opera so that they would still be in good voice for the climax of the story.
Giacomo Meyerbeer 
 Meyerbeer’s operas were very popular in the middle of the 19th century, but by the end of the century they had gone out of fashion.
Grand opera 
 The term "Grand Opera" has often been used to describe the Paris Opéra from the late 1820s to around 1850, and sometimes to describe the Paris Opéra itself.
Grand opera 
 During the 1830s and 1840s Giacomo Meyerbeer was thought to be the greatest composer of Grand Opera.
Lake Lucerne 
 Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata gets its name because, in 1832, a music critic Ludwig Rellstab said it was like the moonlight shining on Lake Lucerne.
Die Feen 
 The fairy tale atmosphere in the story is also an idea that he uses in his later operas which deal with fantasy stories.
Rienzi 
 It was composed between 1838 and 1840  It was first performed at the Hofoper, Dresden on 20 October 1842.
Rienzi 
 The story of the opera is set in Rome and is based on the life of Cola di Rienzi (1313–1354), a medieval Italian populist figure who manages to trick the nobles and their followers.
Rienzi 
 At first he is very popular, but then he has to use force against the nobles, and the Church turns against him.
Chess tournament 
 This is an invention of the chess world and, like chess clocks, has been adopted by a number of other two-person sports.
Chess tournament 
 Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.
Chess tournament 
 Currently, FIDE holds candidates tournaments every two years to determine challenger to the world champion.
Chess tournament 
 There are three unofficial world chess champions: Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy and Johannes Zukertort, stemming from first strong international tournament in London in 1851, won by Anderssen.
The Flying Dutchman 
 It is his fate  that he has keep sailing the sea, without ever going on to land, until Judgment Day.
The Flying Dutchman 
 It is very different from the previous opera Rienzi which is still quite similar to operas that other composers were writing.
The Flying Dutchman 
 Wagner uses a number of leitmotifs: musical ideas associated with particular characters and themes in the story.
The Flying Dutchman 
 We hear the famous leitmotif of the ocean and then those of the Dutchman and of Senta, the girl he falls in love with.
Tannhäuser 
 Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (En: Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is a three-act opera with words and music by Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser 
 By 1861, the opera had been performed many times in Germany when Wagner was asked to revise the work for the Paris Opéra.
Tannhäuser 
 Meanwhile, the opera opened the second season of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in November 1884.
Tannhäuser 
 Wagner was in Paris completing The Flying Dutchman when he began thinking about writing another opera.
Tannhäuser 
 His Venus said, "You are a genius, but you write such eccentric stuff that it is impossible to sing."
Tannhäuser 
 This so the Jockey Club had time to finish dinner and arrive at the Opéra just in time to ogle the dancers.
Tannhäuser 
 Though there are several set pieces in the opera, the opera is closer to Wagner's vision of complete independence from such set pieces.
Tannhäuser 
 Tannhäuser is on the threshold of the leitmotif, and the diminishing of the sound power of the orchestra in favor of the sung word.
Tannhäuser 
 In 1391, and again at the beginning of the 15th century, tales were in circulation about a paradise within a German mountain and a traveler who idles with a Sybil before heading to Rome for the Pope's forgiveness.
Tannhäuser 
 The "Song of Tannhäuser" of 1515 combines moralizing with the adventures of an historical Minnesinger named Danhuser,  Tanhuser, or Tannenhauser.
Tannhäuser 
 Wagner was an insatiable reader, always on the alert for material that could be adapted to an opera.
Tannhäuser 
 For Tannhäuser, he combined elements not only from traditional tales but material from C. J. L. Lukas's Essay (1838) on the character of Tannhäuser and Ludwig Tieck's Faithful Eckart (1799).
Tannhäuser 
 Wagner was familiar with the song contest through E. T. A. Hoffmann's Serapion Brothers, Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque's drama The Singers Dispute in the Wartburg (1828), and Wagensil's Nuremberg Chronicle.''
Tannhäuser 
 The story is about the struggle between sacred love and profane love, and redemption (salvation) through love.
Tannhäuser 
 The story is based on the historical character of Tannhäuser, about whom very little is known except the myths about him.
Tannhäuser 
 Half of the opera takes place in a historical setting, and half takes place in the mythological Venusberg.
Tannhäuser 
 Secondly, they regarded Wagner's Elisabeth with scorn: Wagner had made the character an amalgamation of several historical women.
Tannhäuser 
 Cuts to the original were made almost immediately because the singers were not capable of understanding and thus acting their roles.
New York State Route 199 
 In between, NY 199 crosses over the Hudson River over a bridge and passes through the communities of Red Hook and Pine Plains.
Kennedy Center Honors 
 1985 – Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, and Beverly Sills
Kennedy Center Honors 
 1991 – Roy Acuff, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Fayard & Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck, and Robert Shaw
Kennedy Center Honors 
 1992 – Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Taylor
Kennedy Center Honors 
 2008 – Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp, and Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey
Kennedy Center Honors 
 2012 — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant), David Letterman and Natalia Makarova
Kennedy Center Honors 
 2016 – Martha Argerich, Eagles (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh), Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, and James Taylor
Kennedy Center Honors 
 2018 – Cher, Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, and the creators of Hamilton: An American Musical (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler)
Kennedy Center Honors 
 2019 – Earth, Wind & Fire (Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson and Maurice White), Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt, Sesame Street (Lloyd Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney), and Michael Tilson Thomas
Cypripedioideae 
 The pouch traps insects so that they must climb up past the modified stamens, where they get or give pollen, fertilizing the flower.
Cypripedioideae 
 Some people think this subfamily should be different from the Orchidaceae as a family Cypripediaceae.
Cypripedioideae 
 Because of this, the bee is stuck for a while, wiggling and squirming, getting pollen all over itself.
Cypripedioideae 
 The bee finally finds a small opening near the top of the orchid, and it gets out so that it can get trapped inside another lady slipper, where it will give that pollen to the other lady slipper's stigma.
Cypripedioideae 
 The lady's slipper is also known in the United States of America as the moccasin flower, because it looks like a shoe or moccasin.
Pandita Ramabai 
 Pandita Ramabai (23 April 1858, Karnataka – 5 April 1922) was an Indian Christian who tried to change many things in India.
Pandita Ramabai 
 Born in the home of an important scholar named Brahmin, Pandita Ramabai had more freedom than many Indian women.
Pandita Ramabai 
 Shortly after her "true conversion", Pandita Ramabai began a faith mission for the girls and widows of India.
Pandita Ramabai 
 Helping this many people during a time of great famine was very hard, but Pandita wrote in her autobiography,
Pandita Ramabai 
 Every day, Pandita Ramabai and her helpers taught the women to read and write, showed them cleanliness, and helped them prepare for a job.
Pandita Ramabai 
 She established a Christian High school at Gulbarga, (now at Karnataka) and her daughter Manorama was the principal.
Triathlon 
 A triathlon is a sport that consists of three different events one after another without resting in between.
Triathlon 
 One of the hardest and most famous triathlons is the Ironman Triathlon, which involves swimming two miles, biking a hundred miles, and then running a marathon.
Continuous function 
 A mathematical function is called continuous if, roughly said, a small change in the input only causes a small change in the output.
Continuous function 
 Functions defined on the real numbers, with one input and one output variable, will show as an uninterrupted line (or curve).
Continuous function 
 Karl Weierstraß gave another definition of continuity: Imagine a function f, defined on the real numbers.
Continuous function 
 If the function is continuous at , then for every value of  no matter how small it is, there is a value of , so that , means that .
Continuous function 
 We can put this another way, given a point close to  (called x), the absolute value of the difference between the two values of the function can be made increasingly small, if the point x is close enough to .
Continuous function 
 If you ever need to lift your finger or pencil to keep following the function, then you know it is not continuous.
Continuous function 
 This is because, by lifting your finger, you have "jumped" from one section of the function to another.
Peter Falk 
 He appeared in a number of Broadway plays including: The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Passion of Josef D, Diary of a Scoundrel, and Saint Joan.
Peter Falk 
 Falk won four Emmy Awards playing the police detective Columbo, and one for The Dick Powell Theatre.
Peter Falk 
 Falk also received two Academy Award nominations for the films Murder Inc. and Pocketful of Miracles.
Claude Choules 
 Claude Choules (3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was a British-Australian World War I veteran who served in the Royal Navy.
Claude Choules 
 Born in Wyre Piddle, son of Harry & Madeline (née Winn), near Pershore, Worcestershire, Choules joined the Royal Navy as a young man in 1916, and served aboard the Naval Training Ship HMS Circe at Plymouth.
Claude Choules 
 While serving aboard her, Choules witnessed the surrender of the German Imperial Navy at the Firth of Forth in 1918, ten days after the Armistice, and was also to witness the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow.
Claude Choules 
 During World War II, Choules was the Acting Torpedo Officer of Fremantle and also the Chief Demolition Officer on the western side of the Australian continent.
Claude Choules 
 He was tasked with sabotaging Fremantle harbors and related oil storage tanks in the event of a Japanese invasion.
Florence Green 
 She was the last surviving veteran of World War I. Green was born in London and moved to King's Lynn in 1920 after her marriage to Walter, a railway worker who died in 1970.
Florence Green 
 She was West Norfolk's oldest resident, the second oldest person in Norfolk and one of the 30 oldest people in Britain.
Florence Green 
 Florence Green died in her sleep two weeks before her 111th birthday in a care home in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
John Babcock 
 John Henry Foster "Jack" Babcock (July 23, 1900 – February 18, 2010) was the last living Canadian veteran who fought in the First World War.
John Babcock 
 Born on July 23, 1900, Mr. John "Jack" Babcock grew up on a farm near Kingston, Ontario as part of a family of 13 children.
John Babcock 
 Despite this devastating loss, Mr. Babcock went on to bravely serve his country in the First World War before moving to the United States where he settled in Spokane, Washington.
John Babcock 
 He was 15 years old when he joined the 146th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sydenham (near Kingston), Ontario.
John Babcock 
 He was transferred to reserve battalions and ended up with the Boys Battalion in 1917, waiting until he turned 18 to go to the front lines.
John Babcock 
 Mr. Babcock would later move to the United States, where he served in the United States Army from 1921 to 1924.
John Babcock 
 Mr. Babcock read voraciously and, in recent years, completed his high school degree via correspondence courses.
John Babcock 
 In April 2008, the Minister of Veterans Affairs awarded Mr. Babcock a Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation.
John Babcock 
 Later that year, a small ceremony was held in May at Mr. Babcock's home, where his Canadian citizenship was reinstated.
John Babcock 
 Another accolade came in September 2008 when the Royal Canadian Regiment Association honored Mr. Babcock with the honorary title of regimental patriarch.
Frank Buckles 
 Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles'; 1 February 1901 – 27 February 2011) was the last living American veteran who fought in World War I.
Frank Buckles 
 He enlisted in the U.S. Army at the beginning of America's involvement in World War I in April 1917.
Frank Buckles 
 I gave them my solemn word that I was 18, but I’d left my birth certificate back home in the family Bible.
Frank Buckles 
 Before being accepted into the United States Army, he was turned down by the Marine Corps due to his slight weight.
Frank Buckles 
 In 1917, Buckles was sent to Europe on the RMS Carpathia, which had rescued RMS Titanic survivors five years earlier.
Frank Buckles 
 During the war Buckles served in England and France, driving ambulances and motorcycles for the Army's 1st Fort Riley Casualty Detachment.
Frank Buckles 
 Following his discharge in 1919, he attended the dedication of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, in honor of those Americans who died in World War I. While there, he met General John "Black Jack" Pershing, commander of all U.S. forces in France during the war.
Frank Buckles 
 He was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and spent the next three and a half years in the Los Baños prison camp.
Frank Buckles 
 He became malnourished, with a weight below 100 lb, and developed beriberi, yet led his fellow inmates in calisthenics.
Józef Kowalski 
 Józef Kowalski (2 February 1900 – 7 December 2013) was the last Polish veteran who served just after the First World War.
Stanley Lucas 
 Lucas was a breeder of Devon cattle and Devon longwool sheep and started a dairy farm in the early 1940s.
Stanley Lucas 
 In 1948 he moved to live with his family at Poughill, where he continued to live after Ivy's death in 1963.
Stanley Lucas 
 His daughter said, "He has worked hard in his working life and was a teetotaller and non-smoker and since he has been elderly has been well cared for".
Michelle Keegan 
 She is best known for playing Tina McIntyre in the long-running ITV soap opera, Coronation Street from 2008 to 2014.
David Jason 
 Sir David John White OBE (born 2 February 1940), known professionally as by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and television producer.
David Jason 
 He is best known for his roles as Del Boy in the BBC and GOLD comedy series sitcom Only Fools and Horses and Detective Insepctor Jack Frost in A Touch Of Frost, Granville in Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, as well as voicing Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Williows and the title character of DangerMouse and Count Duckula; His last original was Del Boy was in 2014 and Frost in 2010.
David Jason 
 Jason was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993, and knighted in 2005, both for services to drama.
David Jason 
 He won the British Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2003.
David Jason 
 Jason lived with his long term girlfriend, actress Myfanwy Talog, for eighteen years until her death from breast cancer in 1995.
David Jason 
 His hit comedy show, Only Fools and Horses won many of these awards, and was also nominated many times.
David Jason 
 Porterhouse Blue, The Second Quest, All the King's Men and A Bit of a Do have won David Jason one award each.
Karl Malden 
 He is perhaps best known for his role on television in the series The Streets of San Francisco during the 1970s.
John Campbell Ross 
 John Campbell Ross (11 March 1899 - 3 June 2009) was the last living Australian World War I veteran.
John Campbell Ross 
 Born in Newtown, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Ross served as a wireless operator in the First Australian Imperial Force, enlisting in January 1918, but never left Australia or saw active service.
John Campbell Ross 
 He later went on to serve in the Second World War as a corporal with the 20th Battalion, Volunteer Defence Corps.
John Campbell Ross 
 He is survived by a son, Robert, a daughter, Peggy Ashburn, four grandchildren- Janette, Heather, Kay, and John - and nine great-grand children.
John Campbell Ross 
 On 11 November 1998, Jack Ross had been awarded the 80th Anniversary Armistice Medal to mark the end of World War I. Jack also had been awarded the Centenary Medal for doing his share to the Australian society in the 100 years since the federation.