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In 1851 the Zollverein decided to use metric units for trade between the various states.
In 1871, most of the states in the German Confederation were joined together to form the German Empire.
The German Empire continued to use the metric system.
In the same year, Italy was also formed from a large number of small states.
Italy also decided to use the metric system rather than choosing one of the old systems of measurement.
By 1875  many European and Latin American counties were already using the metric system.
These countries included France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Columbia.
Between 1875 and 1914 many more countries including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Paraguay, Philippines and Vietnam started to use the metric system.
In 1917, during the Bolshevik Revolution, the USSR (now Russia) adopted the metric system.
By the start of the Second World War most non-English speaking countries had adopted the metric system.
In 1866, after most of the South American countries started to use the metric system, the United States passed a law that allowed people to use either the metric system or United States customary units for trade.
Before 1893 the yard was defined as the length of the "standard yard" which was kept by the United States Treasury.
The pound was defined as being the mass of the "standard pound".
In 1893 the United States Congress passed the Mendenhall Order.
This order defined the yard as being exactly  metres and the pound as being exactly 0.4535924277 kilogram.
The order only changed the definitions of the pound and the yard.
It had no other effect on people's lives.
In 1975 the Metric Conversion Act started a formal metrication process.
Metrication was to be voluntary.
It was to be coordinated by the U.S. Metric Board.
In 1988 the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act said that metric units had to be used for all federal projects.
The Act did not apply to state projects.
Some states demanded that metric units be used but other states did not.
Some industries changed to using metric units but others did not.
Soft drinks are sold in metric quantities.
Milk is sold in customary units.
Metric units are widely used in the design of motor cars.
Aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner were designed using mainly customary units.
Some people in the United States want to complete the change-over to the metric system.
They say that it will make things easier for everybody.
Other people say that it will cost too much money.
Some people want to use the metric system because it will make it easier to export goods.
Other people say that metrication can only work if all fifty states metricate at the same time.
This will not happen unless the Federal Government takes the lead.
In 1897 the United Kingdom passed a law allowing people to use either the metric system or Imperial units for trade.
By the late 1960s three quarters of British exports were to countries that used the metric system.
However people in the United Kingdom still used imperial units.
The Metrication Board was set up in 1969 to help Britain change to the metric system.
Each company had to pay their own expenses.
Some companies saved a lot of money by changing to the metric system because they could make the same goods for export as they made for sales in the United Kingdom.
For example, almost all motor cars use metric-sized nuts and bolts.
Other companies lost money because they had to make many changes but did not have any benefit from the changes.
When the Metrication Board was closed down in 1981 most of government and industry had changed to the metric system but a lot of everyday things like road signs had not been changed.
A survey taken in 2013 showed that metric units and imperial units were both widely used by British people in their private lives.
International System of Units, describes more advanced aspects of the metric system
The movie is the sequel to Piranha 3D. It stars Ving Rhames and Christopher Lloyd.
Ving Rhames: Deputy Fallon
Christopher Lloyd: Carl Goodman
Paul Scheer: Andrew
Danielle Panebaker: Owner of the park
Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979), better known by his name and stage name Matisyahu, is a Jewish-American singer.
He combines elements of reggae, rap, beatbox, alternative rock and Hasidic themes in his music.
Matisyahu was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in White Plains, New York.
He was raised in a reconstructionist Jewish home.
In his teenage years, he began to rebel and started to take drugs; later on he began a journey of self-exploration.
Matisyahu married his first wife, Tahlia, in August 2004, and they have three sons.
In 2014 the couple divorced.
In 2019 he got married again.
He has stated that he is vegan.
Matisyahu's most famous songs are "King Without a Crown", "Jerusalem", and "One Day".
He has collaborated with Akon, The Crystal Method, and Infected Mushroom.
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and composer.
He is  known for his distinct voice, electric instrumentation, and occasionally surreal lyrics.
His work often includes elements of the blues, jazz, and musical theatre.
Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore is the second-largest civil airport in Pakistan, serving the capital of Punjab province.
It has both international and domestic air traffic.
It was first called the  Lahore International Airport, but it was renamed in 2003 for Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal.
He was the Islamic poet-philosopher who was a major supporter for the creation of the state of Pakistan.
The airport has parking for 20 aircraft, and the airport terminal can handle up to five million passengers a year.
Allama Iqbal International Airport website
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was a large mammal species of rhinoceros, now extinct.
It was widespread throughout the tundra of northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch, about 1.8 million years ago until about 10,000 years ago (the end of the last ice age).
Recently, the earliest known woolly rhino fossil was discovered from 3.6 million years in the Himalayas on the cold Tibetan plateau.
It lived there during a period of general climate warmth around the earth.
It is believed that they migrated from there to other parts when the ice age developed.
It was well adapted to the cold; it had thick, shaggy fur, small ears, short legs, and a massive body (all to lessen heat loss).
Fossils of this early rhino have been found, in addition to well-preserved corpses, which were found in frozen gravel in Siberia.
Stone Age humans hunted woolly rhinos; they drew pictures of the rhinos on cave walls 30,000 years ago, giving us even more information about these large mammals.
The woolly mammoth also called mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), is a species of mammoth.
They were large elephants which lived during the ice ages.
The animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia.
The best preserved carcasses were found in Siberia.
They are perhaps the most well known species of mammoth.
The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who hunted them.
Their bones and tusks were used as tools, and dwellings.
Mammoths were also hunted for food.
The species disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago), with a dwarfed race still living on Wrangel Island until about 1700 BC.
Cave paintings of the woolly mammoth have been found in caves in France and Spain.
Woolly mammoths are closely related to the Asian Elephant.
Rival or rivals may refer to:
Literature, music, and media
"Rival" (Pearl Jam song), song on Pearl Jam'''s 2000's album Binaural "Rival" (song), the second opening theme song of the Pocket Monsters series
"Rivals" (DS9 episode), the eleventh episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "The Rivals" (The O.C. episode), the 17th episode of the FOX television series, The O.C. The Rival, comic book villain, enemy of The Flash
The Rivals, play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Rivals (film), a 1925 film starring Oliver Hardy
Sonic Rivals'', video game
Rivals in sports
Rivals.com, a network of United States-based sports Web sites which focus especially on college sports and also recruiting
College rivalry
Monocular rivalry and Binocular rivalry in vision.
Sibling rivalry (brothers and sisters)
The Rivals (band), an English punk band
The Rivals (mountain), a mountain on the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd
Rivals, Kentucky
Renewable energy in Pakistan is mostly solar and wind power.
It is a relatively underdeveloped sector.
In recent years, environmental groups and the authorities explored renewable energy resources for energy production.
New renewable energy projects were designed to address the energy crises and power shortages affecting the country.
Welfare is an idea from economics and Social Security.
The idea is that everyone should have a minimal living standard.
People who cannot reach this standard will be supported, usually by the state.
Using welfare, everyone has their basic needs covered.
This idea is different from the idea of charity.
Certain goods are subsidized by the state.
In that way, in many countries the price of goods people need daily, such as bread or rice may be fixed by the state.
A voucher is similar to a subsidy, except that it may only be used in a certain way.
An example of this might be the cafeteria at the university; certain students get their meals cheaper, because they have a voucher.
The cafeteria then exchanges the voucher, and will be paid the difference.
It is also possible to pay money directly: people will then get a monthly amount of money.
They can spend this money on anything, without restriction.
Some countries need to have proof you applied for a job to receive welfare.
Social worker
In politics, an Independent is someone who is not a member of any political party.
Independents can have a centrist opinion on what they want to do when they are elected, or they may have extreme opinions that are very different from what other parties have.
Also, there are some politicians who may choose to contest an election by themselves as an Independent candidate even if they used to be a member of a political party, because they do not want to follow their party's political ideology.
Some Independents may create their own political party just to take part in an election.
RNE (Spanish: "Radio Nacional de España") (English: "Spain's National Radio") is a Spanish public radio broadcaster.
Since 1973 it's integrated on the RTVE group.
Now, RNE is made up of 6 radio channels:
Radio Nacional (national radio) - a general radio channel.
Radio clásica (classical radio) - plays classical music
Radio 3 - alternative music and culture
Ràdio 4 - generalist radio channel on Catalan
Radio 5 - information radio channel
Radio exterior (exterior radio): outside Spain's radio service
The Cleveland Barons were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1976–78.
They had been the California Golden Seals, which had played in Oakland since 1967.
The franchise was then moved to Cleveland.
After only two seasons, the team joined with the Minnesota North Stars.
1978 disestablishments in the United States
The Colorado Rockies were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
They played in Denver, Colorado, from 1976 to 1982.
They had been the Kansas City Scouts, a 1974 expansion team, until the franchise was moved to Denver.
In 1982 the franchise again moved to East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1982 and was renamed the New Jersey Devils.
The NHL did not return to Denver until 1995, when the Quebec Nordiques moved to become the Colorado Avalanche.
Results on hockeydb.com
The Hamilton Tigers were a professional ice hockey team, and a member of the National Hockey League (NHL).
They were based in Hamilton, Ontario, and played from 1920–1925.
The Tigers were formed from the sale of the Quebec Bulldogs NHL franchise.
After years of struggling, the team finished first in the league in the 1924-25 NHL season.
However, after a players' strike at the end of the season the team broke up.
The Montreal Maroons (officially the Montreal Professional Hockey Club) was a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
They played in the NHL from 1924 to 1938, winning the Stanley Cup in 1926 and 1935.
1938 disestablishments
The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954.
The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League (NHL) and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934.
The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club (Ottawa HC), was known by several nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907 and the Senators dating from 1908.
1883 establishments
The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1925–26 to 1929–30.
The nickname comes from the baseball team also based in the city.
For the 1930–31 season the team moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and played one season as the Philadelphia Quakers.
The St. Louis Eagles were a professional ice hockey team and a former member of the National Hockey League (NHL) based in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Eagles lasted for only one year, playing in the 1934–35 NHL season.
In Christian theology, reconciliation is the process of repairing one's relationship with God.
This comes after atonement.
It is a part of salvation.
Reconciliation is the end of the estrangement, caused by original sin, between God and his people.
John Calvin describes reconciliation as the peace between humanity and God that results from atoning for religious sin.
Safi Airways Co. () is an Afghan airline.
The airline Safi Airways - IATA-Code 4Q - was started in 2006 by Rahim Safi, an Afghan Businessman.
This private airline has its head office in the Safi Airline Center in Shahr-e-Naw, Kabul and an administrative office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Slovak Extraliga is the top level ice hockey league in Slovakia.
It was founded in 1993, the same year that Slovakia became and independent country.
1994 HC Dukla Trenčín
1995 HC Košice
1996 HC Košice
1997 HC Dukla Trenčín
1998 HC Slovan Bratislava
1999 HC Košice
2000 HC Slovan Bratislava
2002 HC Slovan Bratislava
2003 HC Slovan Bratislava
2004 HC Dukla Trenčín
2005 HC Slovan Bratislava
2007 HC Slovan Bratislava
2008 HC Slovan Bratislava
2009 HC Košice
2010 HC Košice
2011 HC Košice
History of Slovak ice hockey
The Swedish Hockey League (SHL),  is a professional ice hockey league in the country of Sweden.
It was founded in 1975 as the Swedish Elite League , and is the top level of ice hockey in Sweden.
The name was changed in June 2013.
Swedish national champions
1976 - Brynäs IF
1977 - Brynäs IF
1978 - Skellefteå AIK
1979 - Modo AIK
1980 - Brynäs IF
1981 - Färjestads BK
1982 - AIK
1983 - Djurgårdens IF
1984 - AIK
1985 - Södertälje SK
1986 - Färjestads BK
1987 - IF Björklöven
1988 - Färjestads BK
1989 - Djurgårdens IF
1990 - Djurgårdens IF
1991 - Djurgårdens IF
1992 - Malmö IF
1993 - Brynäs IF
1994 - Malmö IF
1995 - HV71
1996 - Luleå HF
1997 - Färjestads BK
1998 - Färjestads BK
1999 - Brynäs IF
2000 - Djurgårdens IF
2001 - Djurgårdens IF
2002 - Färjestads BK
2003 - Västra Frölunda HC
2004 - HV71
2005 - Frölunda HC
2006 - Färjestads BK
2007 - Modo Hockey
2008 - HV71
2009 - Färjestads BK
2010 - HV71
2011 - Färjestads BK
2012 - Brynäs IF
2013 - Skellefteå AIK
2014 - Skellefteå AIK
2015 - Växjö Lakers HC
2016 - Frölunda HC
2017 - HV71
2018 - Växjö Lakers HC
2019 - Frölunda HC
2020 - Cancelled because of the Corona pandemic
2021 - Växjö Lakers HC
Official Swedish Hockey League website
Ice hockey in Sweden
1970s establishments in Sweden
Victorious (stylized as VICTORiOUS) is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider that originally aired on Nickelodeon from March 27, 2010, to February 2, 2013.
The show revolves around aspiring singer Tori Vega (portrayed by Victoria Justice), a teenager who attends a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts High School, after taking her older sister Trina's (Daniella Monet) place in a showcase while getting into screwball situations on a daily basis.
On her first day at Hollywood Arts, she meets Andre Harris (Leon Thomas III), Robbie Shapiro (Matt Bennett), Rex Powers (Robbie's puppet), Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies), Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande), and Beck Oliver (Avan Jogia).
The series follows Tori Vega, a teenage girl who is accepted into Hollywood Arts, a performing arts high school for talented teens.
The show follows Tori and her friends as she finds her place within Hollywood Arts, completing school projects that usually involve musical and theatrical performances, and overcoming unusual and absurd challenges.
Other students at Hollywood Arts (and the students who make up Tori's group of friends) include the musical prodigy Andre Harris, the socially awkward Robbie Shapiro and his ventriloquist dummy Rex, the sweet but dim-witted red-head Cat Valentine, the sarcastic and mean Jade West (who serves as Tori's frenemy), Jade's handsome down-to-earth boyfriend Beck Oliver, and Tori's untalented and self-absorbed older sister Trina.
Other characters include Erwin Sikowitz, the performing-arts teacher for Hollywood Arts; Lane Alexander, the school's guidance counselor; and Sinjin Van Cleef, an odd and often unsettling classmate that handles audiovisual.
Victoria Justice as Tori Vega
Leon Thomas III as Andre Harris
Matt Bennett as Robbie Shapiro
Elizabeth Gillies as Jade West
Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine
Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver
Daniella Monet as Trina Vega
Tori Vega - the main character of the series.
She goes to school at Hollywood Arts, a high school for talented teens.
She first discovered her talent after she takes her older sister Trina's place in a big showcase at the school.
Tori's best friend is Andre Harris, and her is frenemy is Jade West.
Andre Harris - a musical prodigy who is Tori's best friend.
He helps Tori out a lot.
He takes music very seriously.
Robbie Shapiro - a nerdy boy who carries a puppet named Rex Powers.
Jade West - a Gothic girl who is Tori's frenemy.
She is often the villain of the series.
Her boyfriend is Beck Oliver.
Cat Valentine - a sweet and innocent girl who is also very naive.
Her hair is dyed the color red because it is the color of her favorite snack, a red velvet cupcake.
When she feels offended, she will say "What's that supposed to mean?!"
Andre nicknames her "Little Red", because she is little and has red hair.
She is also the only character who is a good friend to Trina, because the other characters (especially Tori because they are sisters) usually get annoyed by Trina.
Beck Oliver - Jade's boyfriend, who is well-liked by the other characters.
He keeps things together in tough situations.
Trina Vega - Tori's big sister, who was always the star of the Vega house.
She acts like a diva as she believes that stardom is her destiny, but the truth is that she does not have much talent.
Her attitude is that she is a celebrity, but she really has the talent of a much lower grade.
Rex Powers - Robbie's puppet.
He is often sarcastic, unlike Robbie.
Victorious at Nick.com
The Samani dynasty ( Sāmāniyān), also called the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999) was a Tajik state and empire in Central Asia and Greater Iran.
It is named after its founder Saman Khuda, who converted to Sunni Islam.
He had been born a member of the Zoroastrian nobility.
It was the first Persian empire in Greater Iran and Central Asia after the Sassanid Persian empire collapsed because of the Arab conquest.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore is the head of the government of the Republic of Singapore.
The President of Singapore chooses as Prime Minister a Member of Parliament (MP) who, he thinks, will have the highest chance of being supported by a majority of MPs.
The first time there was a Prime Minister was in 1959 and it was chosen by the Governor of Singapore and later the Yang di-Pertuan Negara (head of state), when Singapore could have the power to govern as the State of Singapore inside the British Empire.
The title of Prime Minister did not change after Singapore merged with the Federation of Malaya, Sarawak and British North Borneo, while Singapore was a state in the Federation of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965, and after independence in 1965.
Lee Kuan Yew was the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990 and retired on 26 November 1990.
Goh Chok Tong took over Lee Kuan Yew, while Lee Kuan Yew  was given the job of Senior Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
Goh Chok Tong retired on 12 August 2004 and was replaced by Lee Kuan Yew's son Lee Hsien Loong.
Goh was given the job of Senior Minister, and the older Lee the job of Minister Mentor.
List of prime ministers of Singapore
List of deputy prime ministers
The Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) is the second highest position and the second most senior Cabinet Minister in Singapore.
The DPM will sometimes become the Acting Prime Minister when the Prime Minister is temporarily not in Singapore.
Since the mid-1980s, Singapore has usually had two Deputy Prime Ministers at one time.
The Rhipidistia are lobe-finned fish, and include the ancestors of the tetrapods.
The Rhipidistia are a subgroup of Sarcopterygii which includes the lungfish (Dipnoi) and the tetrapodomorphs.
Dipnomorpha
†Porolepiformes
†Powichthys
Osteolepidida
†Tristichopteridae
Elpistostegalia
†Panderichthys
palaeos.com page
Taxonomicon page
Elisheva or Elisheba was a wife of the priest Aaron.
They are mentioned in the Bible.
Aaron was a brother of the prophet Moses.
The Moose Jaw Warriors is a Canadian professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1984.
They currently play in the Western Hockey League.
They play their home games in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan at the Mosaic Place.
They have reached the WHL finals once in 2006 but were swept in 4 games by the Vancouver Giants.
They were originally known as the Winnipeg Warriors until relocating to Moose Jaw in 1984.
Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
Ice hockey tournaments have been played at the Olympic Games since 1920.
The men's tournament was first played at the 1920 Summer Olympics, but was moved to the Winter Olympics in 1924.
The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Canada holds the record for the most Gold medals, with 11.
List of Olympic medalists  on IIHF.com
The Ice Hockey World Championships are a yearly ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
The World Championships were first officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European Championships, the predecessor to the World Championships, were first held in 1910.
The tournament held at the 1920 Summer Olympics is recognized as the first Ice Hockey World Championship.
Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the World Championship for that year.
The first World Championship that was held as an individual event was in 1930.
List of World Championship medalists on IIHF.com
Tangier, also Tangiers (Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵏⵊⴰ Tanja, archaic Berber name: Tingi, Arabic: طنجة Ṭanja) is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 (2008 census).
It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel.
It is the capital of the Tangier-Tetouan Region and of the Tangier-Asilah prefecture of Morocco near the Spanish border.
The history of Tangier is very rich due to the historical presence of many civilizations and cultures starting from the 5th century BC.
Between the period of being a Phoenician town to the independence era around the 1950s, Tangier was a place—and, sometimes a refuge—for many cultures.
However, it was not until 1923 that Tangier was attributed an international status by foreign colonial powers, thus becoming a destination for many Europeans, Americans and Indians alike.
The city is currently undergoing rapid development and modernization.
Projects include new 5-star hotels along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Centre, a new airport terminal and a new soccer stadium.
Tangier's economy is also set to benefit greatly from the new Tanger-Med port.
Official site of The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies
Travel article with photos
Tangier photo gallery
Navigating Tangier’s Labyrinth – slideshow by The New York Times
Société Tunisienne de l'Air, or Tunisair () is the flag carrier airline of Tunisia.
Formed in 1948, it operates scheduled international services to European, African and Middle Eastern destinations.
Its main base is Tunis-Carthage International Airport.
The airline's head office is in Tunis, near Tunis Airport.
Tunisair quotes on the Tunis Stock Exchange
20th-century establishments in  Tunisia
Senior Minister (, used to be called 内阁资政／內閣資政 before 12 August 2004, ) is a political office in the Prime Minister's Office.
The job of Senior Minister in the political system of Singapore is taken by a prime minister or senior cabinet minister when he or she retires from that office, but still can help the government with their long experience.
However, some opposition critics say that the job of senior minister shows no respect for the political opposition in Singapore and the reliance of Singapore on a dominant-party system.
The last Senior Ministers of Singapore were Goh Chok Tong, the second Prime Minister of Singapore and S Jayakumar, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.
This job has been held by Goh since August 12, 2004, and used to be held by Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, from November 28, 1990, until August 12, 2004, and S. Rajaratnam, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, from 1985 to 1988.
After Goh Chok Tong became Senior Minister, a new ministerial job, the Minister Mentor, was created and given to Lee Kuan Yew.
On 26 March 2009, Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong announced that the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (DPM) S. Jayakumar would let go of his job as the DPM and become Senior Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
List of Senior Ministers of Singapore
Edifício Altino Arantes  is a skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil.
It is 161 meters (528 feet) tall and has 36 floors.
It was built in 1947.
The incidents of Spalato were a group of violent fights -related to antiitalianism- that happened in Spalato between 1918 and 1920 and that resulted in the murder of the Italian military ship "Puglia" captain, Tommaso Gulli (and a sailor named Aldo Rossi).
He was hit on July 11, 1920 and was dead the next morning.
These battles belong to a centuries long struggle for the control of the Adriatic eastern coast between Slavs (mainly Croats and Slovenians) and Italians.
A struggle that hugely increased during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when the Italian irredentism and the Yugoslavian nationalism at the end of the XIX century created a bloody confrontation in the Adriatic area.
Indeed, during the second half of the XIX century in Spalato there was the struggle between the "Autonomist Party" pro-Italians and the "National Party" pro-Slavs: the last Italian major was Antonio Bajamonti in 1882 and since then the city had experienced a process of Croatization.
Bajamonti, the most prominent Dalmatian Italian in History, once remarked:
Italians of Spalato
This census data had understated the number of Italians in the city area and this mistake seems to be confirmed by a series of subsequent events.
Indeed, following the Treaty of Rapallo, the Italians of Dalmatia could opt for the acquisition of Italian citizenship instead of the Yugoslavian one, while maintaining residence: despite a violent campaign of intimidation on the part of Yugoslavia, over 900 families of Italian speaking "Spalatini" had exercised the option to be Italians.
Furthermore, in 1927 was carried out a Census of Italians living outside Italy: in Spalato and surrounding area were counted 3,337 Italian citizens.
After the Austrian defeat, in the first half of November 1918 Italian troops occupied the Dalmatian territories assigned to Italy by the 1915 Pact of London.
Spalato (the city was officially called "Split" only after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference) was not one of those areas, but the Italians sent some ships and occupied the city as agreed with the Allies.
The Yugoslavian nationalists, who controlled the city with their "National Guard", soon showed huge hostility toward the Italian troops, fearing they could remain forever in the city.
Even the arrival of slav refugees from the London Pact Italian-occupied areas increased the tensions: those refugees were responsible for most of the incidents in the next 2 years.
On November 9, 1918 two French destroyer entered the port of Spalato.
The Italians - mostly concentrated within the old city - exposed on the windows of their homes the Italian tricolor and went to the harbor to celebrate the Triple Entente.
But the reaction of the Yugoslavian National Guard was immediate: they entered by force in the apartments, tore down the flags, beat some of those present and damaged the furniture.
Meanwhile, the Austrian commander of a ship already docked at the port (and now with Yugoslavian flag) ordered with the megaphone to remove the flags, threatening to open fire.
This was the first of a long series of incidents, which also saw the creation of a classic pattern of propaganda that would be found very often in the next months: the Croatian newspapers - and especially the most extreme of them, Novo Doba, denounced the "Italian provocation".
The Italians, however, created a complaint report and forwarded it to the Allies.
In the following days the municipal Croatian authorities of Spalato were forced to submit a formal apology for the incident.
But other incidents and demonstrations against Italy and the Dalmatian Italians happened in other cities, like Trau and the "Castelli".
The worst happened on December 23 when groups of fanatical Slavs destroyed the offices of the main Italian institutions in Spalato (the "Fascio Nazionale", the "Gabinetto di Lettura" and the "Società Operaia") and hit many dozens of Italians on the streets, while destroying a lot of Italian-owned shops.
The same happened on January 6, 1919 in Trau.
On February 24, while an "Allies Commission for the Adriatic" (made of US admiral Albert P. Niblack, French admiral Jean-Etienne-Charles-Marcel Ratyè, British admiral Edward Burton Kiddle and Italian admiral Umberto Cagni) was visiting Spalato, a huge group of Slavs -in order to show that they were the majority in Spalato and rejected the Italians- attacked the Italian sailors of the "Puglia": the captain Giulio Menini was hit together with some Italians walking on the nearby streets, and again were damaged some shops owned by the Italian community.
The Croatian authorities were forced to do another apology and until summer there were only minor incidents.
But on September 12 Gabriele D'Annunzio occupied Fiume (actual "Rijeka") and later went even to Zara.
As a consequence the Italian count Fanfogna organized a similar tentative of occupation in Trau.
and the Slavs of Spalato feared something similar was going to happen in their city: tensions arose and other incidents against the Italians happened in Spalato in November (the "Caffe Nani" was destroyed and many Italian owned shop were damaged.)
The murder of Captain Tommaso Gulli
On July 27 another attack against the Italians of Spalato was done and a group of officials of the "Puglia" found refuge in a place near the docks: captain Gulli ordered a boat to rescue them, but it was blocked by some Slavs and was forced to fire "alarm shots" in the sky to get help.<ref>G.Menini, Passione adriatica.
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Soon Gulli went to the rescue with a MAS, but approaching the docks found a huge crowd of nationalist Slavs.
Shots were fired to the Italians and for the first time they returned fire.
A hand granade was thrown to the Mas and hit the sailor Aldo Rossi and others.
Another shot hit captain Gulli, while the Italians killed a man on the docks, whose name was Matej Mis.
Anyway, many versions about what happened were done in the next days, by the Yugoslavians and by the Italians.
Actually they are only one hundred in Croatian Split, with their association called Comunitá italiana di Spalato.
Dalbello M.C.; Razza antonello.
Per una storia delle comunità italiane della Dalmazia.
Fondazione Culturale Maria ed Eugenio Dario Rustia Traine.
Trieste, 2004.
Lederer, Ivo.
La Jugoslavia dalla conferenza di pace al trattato di Rapallo 1919-1920.
Il Saggiatore.
Milano, 1964.
Menini, Giulio.
Passione adriatica.
Ricordi di Dalmazia 1918-1920.
Zanichelli.
Bologna, 1925.
Monzali, Luciano.
Antonio Tacconi e la comunità italiana di Spalato.
Editore Scuola Dalmata dei SS.
Giorgio e Trifone.
Venezia, 2007.
Italiani di Dalmazia.
1914-1924 Le Lettere Firenze, 2007.
Salza, Silvio.
La marina italiana nella grande guerra (Vol.
Vallecchi.
Firenze, 1942.
Tacconi, Ildebrando.
La grande esclusa: Spalato cinquanta anni fa'' (in "Per la Dalmazia con amore e con angoscia").
Editore Del Bianco, Udine, 1994
History of Dalmatia
Antonio Bajamonti
Gli incidenti di Spalato 1, in Prassi italiana di diritto internazionale, 1426/3 (in Italian)
L'incidente di Spalato 2, in Prassi italiana di diritto internazionale, 1416/3 (in Italian)
L'incidente di Spalato e reazione a Trieste, in Prassi italiana di diritto internazionale, 1356/3 (in Italian)
Italian Navy: Torpediniera "Puglia"
Regular decagon
All sides of a regular decagon are the same length.
Each corner is 144°.
All corners added together equal 1440°.
An alternative formula is  where d is the distance between parallel sides, or the height when the decagon stands on one side as base.
By simple trigonometry .
The side of a regular decagon inscribed in a unit circle is , where ϕ is the golden ratio, .
Dissection of regular decagon
For the regular decagon, m=5, and it can be divided into 10 rhombs, with examples shown below.
This decomposition can be seen as 10 of 80 faces in a Petrie polygon projection plane of the 5-cube.
A dissection is based on 10 of 30 faces of the rhombic triacontahedron.
The list A006245 defines the number of solutions as 62, with 2 orientations for the first symmetric form, and 10 orientations for the other 6.
Skew decagon
A skew decagon is a skew polygon with 10 vertices and edges but not existing on the same plane.
The interior of such an decagon is not generally defined.
A skew zig-zag decagon has vertices alternating between two parallel planes.
In 3-dimensions it will be a zig-zag skew decagon and can be seen in the vertices and side edges of a pentagonal antiprism, pentagrammic antiprism, and pentagrammic crossed-antiprism with the same D5d, [2+,10] symmetry, order 20.
These can also be seen in these 4 convex polyhedra with icosahedral symmetry.
The polygons on the perimeter of these projections are regular skew decagons.
Decagonal number and centered decagonal number, figurate numbers modeled on the decagon
Decagram, a star polygon with the same vertex positions as the regular decagon
Definition and properties of a decagon With interactive animation
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough" (also known as just "To a Mouse") is a poem written by Robert Burns.
The poem was written in Scots in 1785. "
To a Mouse" is about a young man who accidentally overturns the soil of a mouse’s nest.
John Steinbeck named his novella Of Mice and Men after a line in the seventh stanza of the poem.
This line is: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go often askew").
The poem
1780s works
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers is an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers have six members in the band; the current band members are Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair, Scott Thurston and Steve Ferrone.
The band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999.
The band have won many Grammy Awards and were also the recipients of 2006's Billboard Century Award.
Tom Petty – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
Mike Campbell – lead guitar, mandolin
Scott Thurston – rhythm guitar, harmonica, synthesizers, backing vocals
Ron Blair – bass, backing vocals
Benmont Tench - piano, organ, synthesizers, backing vocals
Steve Ferrone - drums
Stan Lynch - drums, backing vocals (1976–1994)
Howie Epstein - bass, backing vocals, mandolin (1982–2002)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976)
You're Gonna Get It! (
Damn the Torpedoes (1979)
Hard Promises (1981)
Long After Dark (1982)
Southern Accents (1985)
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987)
Into the Great Wide Open (1991)
Wildflowers (1994)
Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)
Echo (1999)
The Last DJ (2002)
Mojo (2010)
The Echiura, or spoon worms, are a small group of marine animals.
They are often considered to be a group of annelids, although they lack the segmented structure found in other members of that group, and so may also be treated as a separate phylum.
Most researchers believe them to be basal among the bilateria, slightly more derived than the Cnidaria.
Recent results suggest that they (along with Xenoturbella) may lie near the base of the deuterostomes.
An ongoing collaborative research project has "the researchers ... confident that they can reach an agreement about where acoels fit in evolutionary history".
"The results show that the two groups constitute a newly classified phylum... which the authors name the ’Xenacoelomorpha’.
The xenacoelomorph phylum joins the three known phyla of deuterostomes: vertebrates (including humans), echinoderms (e.g. starfish) and hemichordates (acorn worms)".
Acoels are almost entirely marine, living between grains of sediment, swimming as plankton, or crawling on algae.
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a NCAA conference that plays in NCAA Division I. The conference is headquartered in Newport News, Virginia and features universities and colleges from the Eastern and Midwestern United States.
The A-10 was founded by eight Eastern schools in 1975 as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League, and began play in 1976.
It first played only men's basketball, but added other sports in 1977 and became the Eastern Athletic Association.
Despite its official names, the conference was more often called the Eastern 8.
By 1982, the conference had 10 schools, and it became the Atlantic 10.
Although the conference has had "10" in its name since 1982, it has not had 10 members since Penn State left for the second and final time in 1991.
Since then, the A-10 has had anywhere from 8 to 16 full members (schools that play most of their sports in the conference).
From 1997 to 2006, the A-10 ran a football league, but it dropped the sport when the Colonial Athletic Association began a football league.
Fourteen schools are full members.
Most of the members are private schools; seven are run by the Catholic Church.
The A-10 will add one member in July 2022.
Ten schools were once full members of the A-10, but are no longer in the conference.
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on his performance against other players.
They are used by all national chess organisations, and by FIDE, the International Chess Federation.
In these systems a higher number indicates a stronger player.
In general, a player's rating goes up if he performs better than expected and down if he performs worse than expected.
The Elo rating system is used by FIDE and by many countries.
The first modern rating system was used by the Correspondence Chess League of America in 1939.
Soviet player Andrey Khachatoruv proposed a similar system in 1946.
The first one that made an impact on international chess was the Ingo system in 1948.
The USCF (United States Chess Federation) adopted the Harkness system in 1950.
Shortly after, the British Chess Federation started using a system devised by Sir Richard Clarke, a statistician and senior civil servant.
The USCF switched to the Elo rating system in 1960, which was adopted by FIDE in 1970.
The underlying principle
The principle which lies behind a grade is this.
The grade is a prediction of how well a player will perform against other players of different grades.
If the player does better than predicted, his grade goes up; if he does worse, his grade goes down.
An arithmetic calculation shows by how much the player's grade changes.
Today, all results are fed into a computer database, and computer software does all the calculations.
Then the list is published as a 'grading list'.
1933 – The Correspondence Chess League of America (now ICCF U.S.A.) is the first national organization to use a numerical rating system.
1942 – Chess Review uses the Harkness system, an improvement of the ICCF system.
1946 – The USSR Chess Federation uses a non-numerical system to classify players.
This is a national system of master titles.
1948 – The Ingo system is published and used by the West German Chess Federation.
1950 – The USCF starts using the Harkness system and publishes its first rating list in the November issue of Chess Life.
Reuben Fine is first with a rating of 2817 and Sammy Reshevsky is second with 2770.
1959 – The USCF names Arpad Elo the head of a committee to examine all rating systems and make recommendations.
1961 – Elo develops his system and it is used by the USCF.
It is published in the June 1961 issue of Chess Life
1970 – FIDE starts using the Elo system.
Bobby Fischer is at the top of the list.
1978 – Elo's book (The rating of chessplayers, past and present) on his rating system is published.
2001 – the Glicko rating system is published.
2005 – Chessmetrics is published by Jeff Sonas.
The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) is also known as the Eastern white pelican, white pelican, or old world white pelican.
They are the second largest birds in the pelican family, with only the Dalmatian pelican larger than them.
The pelican breeds in southeastern Europe, south Asia, and Africa.
They are most common in Africa, as 80% of the 90,000 breeding pairs mate there.
However, because of climate change and humans using the wetlands they live in, some populations of great white pelicans are declining.
Lipases are essential for the digestion, transport and processing of lipids in the diet.
Fats, oils and triglycerides are present in most (perhaps all) living organisms.
Genes coding for lipases are even present in certain viruses.
Josip Nikolai Peruzović (14 October 1947 – 29 July 2018) better known by his ring name, Nikolai Volkoff, was a Yugoslavian professional wrestler who was best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Federation.
Although the character he played was portrayed as Russian, He actually came from Croatia and has a mixed background that was not entirely Russian.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 by Jim Ross.
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Ivan Koloff
NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Chris Markoff
Mid-South Wrestling
Mid-South North American Championship (one time)
Northeast Championship Wrestling (Tom Janette)
NCW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (one time) - with Boris Volkoff
He was ranked as #136 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
He was ranked as #96 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with the Iron Sheik in 2003.
UWA Heavyweight Championship (one time)
World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment
WWF Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Iron Sheik
WWWF International Tag Team Championship (three times) - with Geto Mongol (two) and Johnny De Fazio (one)
Slammy Award for Most Ignominious (1986)
Slammy Award for Best Personal Hygiene (1987) (with Boris Zhukov and Slick)
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
WWA World Tag Team Championship (two times) - with Angelo Poffo (one) and Boris Volkoff (one)
World Wrestling Association (Larry Sharpe)
WWA Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Nikolai Volkoff's WWE Hall of Fame profile
The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.
It separates the oral cavity (mouth) from the nasal cavity.
The hard palate is formed before birth.
If the fusion is not complete, it is called a cleft palate.
This is a birth or congenital defect.
As the roof of the mouth was once considered the seat of the sense of taste, palate can also refer to this sense itself, as in the phrase "a discriminating palate".
By further extension, the flavour of a food (particularly beer or wine) may be called its palate.
Mariner 4 was a NASA spacecraft.
It was the fourth spacecraft in the Mariner program.
It was sent on a Mars flyby mission.
It was the first successful mission to Mars.
The spacecraft was launched on November 28, 1964 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Mariner 4 reached Mars after an eight-month journey.
The spacecraft became the first spacecraft to take close-up photographs of another planet.
The spacecraft also had other instruments to study the atmosphere of Mars.
The total cost of the Mariner 4 mission is estimated at $83.2 million.
Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Mariner series of spacecraft (Mariners 1 through 10) was approximately $554 million.
Photographs that Mariner 4 took
Mariner 04
Mario Lemieux, OC, (born October 5, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player.
He is considered to be one of the best players of all time.
He played 17 seasons as a forward with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League from 1984-2006.
He currently co-owns both the Pittsburgh Penguins and their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997.
He was also inducted into the Canada's Walk of Fame in 2004.
Laval Voisins players
Gordie Howe, OC (March 31, 1928 – June 10, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
He played for the Detroit Red Wings and the Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League, and the Houston Aeros and the New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association.
Howe was often known as Mr. Hockey, and was considered to be one of the best hockey players ever.
He was born in Floral, Saskatchewan.
On October 26, 2014, Howe suffered a serious stroke.
On December 2, 2014, Howe had another stroke and was taken to a hospital and was placed in ICU.
He died on June 10, 2016 at his son's home in Sylvania, Ohio from complications of the stroke he suffered a year ago, aged 88.
The Soviet Championship League was the top level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union from 1946-1992.
1992 - Dynamo Moscow
1991 - Dynamo Moscow
1990 - Dynamo Moscow
1989 - CSKA Moscow
1988 - CSKA Moscow
1987 - CSKA Moscow
1986 - CSKA Moscow
1985 - CSKA Moscow
1984 - CSKA Moscow
1983 - CSKA Moscow
1982 - CSKA Moscow
1981 - CSKA Moscow
1980 - CSKA Moscow
1979 - CSKA Moscow
1978 - CSKA Moscow
1977 - CSKA Moscow
1976 - HC Spartak Moscow
1975 - CSKA Moscow
1974 - Krylia Sovetov Moscow
1973 - CSKA Moscow
1972 - CSKA Moscow
1971 - CSKA Moscow
1970 - CSKA Moscow
1969 - HC Spartak Moscow
1968 - CSKA Moscow
1967 - HC Spartak Moscow
1966 - CSKA Moscow
1965 - CSKA Moscow
1964 - CSKA Moscow
1963 - CSKA Moscow
1962 - HC Spartak Moscow
1961 - CSKA Moscow
1960 - CSKA Moscow
1959 - CSKA Moscow
1958 - CSKA Moscow
1957 - Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1956 - CSKA Moscow
1955 - CSKA Moscow
1954 - Dynamo Moscow
1953 - VVS Moscow
1952 - VVS Moscow
1951 - VVS Moscow
1950 - CSKA Moscow
1949 - CSKA Moscow
1948 - CSKA Moscow
1947 - Dynamo Moscow
The Russian Superleague was the top level ice hockey league in Russia from 1992 to 2008.
It was known as the International Hockey League from 1992 to 1996.
Russian Super League champions
2008—Salavat Yulaev Ufa
2007—Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2006—Ak Bars Kazan
2005—Dynamo Moscow
2004—Avangard Omsk
2003—Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
2002—Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
2001—Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2000—Dynamo Moscow
1999—Metallurg Magnitogorsk
1998—Ak Bars Kazan (Cup of Russia—Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
1997—Torpedo Yaroslavl
International Hockey League champions
1996—Lada Togliatti
1995—Dynamo Moscow
1994—Lada Togliatti
1993—Dynamo Moscow
The Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League was the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia from 1930 until the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
It was replaced by the Slovak Extraliga in Slovakia, and the Czech Extraliga in the Czech Republic.