the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
May 31 – Start of several days of anti-government protests in Istanbul, Turkey.
May 31 – A tornado in central Oklahoma kills 9 people and is the widest ever measured.
The 2013 Stockholm riots erupt in Stockholm, Sweden.
early June – After heavy rain in May, widespread flooding occurs in Central Europe, affecting parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
19 people in total are known to have died, most of them in the Czech Republic.
June 5 - Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
June 8 - Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is re-hospitalized for a lung infection in Pretoria.
June 9 - In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Edward Snowden says that he leaked information about surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency.
June 9 - US President Barack Obama meets for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
June 9 - Rafael Nadal sets a record in singles tennis when he wins the French Open title for the 8th time.
This is a record for any Grand Slam tournament.
June 12 - The government of Greece takes the national broadcaster off air.
June 14 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran.
June 14 onwards - Major flooding occurs in the northern Indian states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, killing at least 1,000 people and leaving many people missing.
Parts of Nepal and western Tibet also experience heavy rainfall.
June 15 to June 30 - The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup is held in Brazil, while there are major protests against corruption in the country.
June 19 - A haze spreads across Southeast Asia, mainly affecting Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, causing major fog and disruption.
Illegal forest fires on Sumatra are blamed.
June 23 - Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow.
June 23 - Nelson Mandela's health is said to be in a "critical" state.
June 25 - Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, hands power to his son, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
June 27 - Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, after Julia Gillard loses a vote of confidence within the Australian Labor Party.
July 1 - Croatia becomes the 28th member country of the European Union.
July 1 - Lithuania starts its six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
July 3 - During mass protests across the country, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a coup d'état.
July 3 - King Albert II of Belgium announces that he will leave the throne on July 21.
July 6 - A 73-car unmanned freight train carrying crude oil crashes into the centre of the town of Lac-Megantic, southern Quebec, Canada, and explodes, killing at least 24 people.
from July 6 - Floods affect parts of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in south-central China, killing at least 58 people and leaving 175 missing.
July 11 - The government of Luxembourg, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, is brought down by a scandal over its state security agency.
New elections are set for October.
July 12 - A train crash occurs at a station in Bretigny-sur-Orge, south of Paris, France, killing six people.
July 15 - Scientists report the discovery of another moon around the planet Neptune.
The moon is called S/2004 N 1.
July 16 - At a school in Bihar state, northern India, 23 children die after eating school meals poisoned with insecticide.
July 18 - Detroit, Michigan, files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
July 21 - Albert II of Belgium leaves the throne after almost 20 years as king.
His son becomes King Philippe of Belgium, and is the 7th King of the Belgians.
July 21 - Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France.
July 22 - Two earthquakes in Gansu province, People's Republic of China, kill at least 89 people.
July 22 - Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge.
He is third in line to become King of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms.
July 24 - A train with 218 passengers on board crashes in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, northwest Spain, killing at least 79 people and injuring at least 130.
It was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast.
July 25 - Tunisian opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi is shot dead, causing widespread protests.
July 26 - 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro pleads guilty to all charges, and is sentenced to life in prison on August 1.
July 28 - A coach crash near Avellino, close to Naples, Italy, kills 39 people.
July 29 - United States Secretary of State John Kerry hosts a peace conference between Palestine and Israel in Washington, D.C. to make peace between the two nations.
It was the first peace conference between Palestine and Israel in over three years.
July 31 - An election is held in Zimbabwe, with President Robert Mugabe claiming victory, though there are reports of irregularities.
August 1 - A court in Italy confirms the prison sentence against Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
August 1 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia.
August 3 - Hassan Rouhani becomes President of Iran.
August 4 - American embassies in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa are closed due to a threat from Al-Qaeda.
These embassies will be closed throughout the month of August.
August 5 - The first laboratory-grown beef burger is eaten in London.
August 10 - Dozens of people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad.
August 14 - Egypt declares a national state of emergency as hundreds of pro-Mohamed Morsi demonstrators are killed by security forces.
August 14 - Carmelo Flores Laura of Bolivia might become the world's oldest living person in history if his documents prove that he is in fact 123 years old, after his baptism certificate is released.
It is hard to prove as birth certificates did not exist in Bolivia until 1940.
August 15 - A new species of mammal is found in northwestern South America.
Scientists name the new species Olinguito.
August 15 - Horacio Cartes becomes President of Paraguay.
August 21 - A suspected chemical gas attack occurs in Syria.
August 26 - UN weapons inspectors start taking samples at the scene of a suspected chemical gas attack on Syria.
August 28 - The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech "I Have A Dream" is celebrated across the United States.
A ceremony is held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter attend the celebration.
August 29 - The majority of MPs in the British House of Commons votes against military action in Syria.
September 1 - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is released after a three-month stay.
September 3 - Ariel Castro, the man responsible for 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio commits suicide in his prison cell in Cleveland, Ohio.
September 4 - The United States Congress approves for a forced military strike on Syria to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power.
September 6 - NASA's unmanned LADEE space probe is launched to the Moon.
September 7 - Parliamentary election in Australia: The coalition led by the Liberal Party of Australia, under Tony Abbott, defeats the Australian Labor Party under Kevin Rudd.
September 7 - Tokyo is announced as the city which will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, beating competition from Istanbul and Madrid.
September 8 - Mamnoon Hussain becomes President of Pakistan.
September 9 - Parliamentary election in Norway: The Centre-Right Venstre Party wins the most seats in parliament.
September 10 - Thomas Bach is elected to replace Jacques Rogge as the head of the International Olympic Committee.
September 12 - Colorado is hit by major flooding.
September 15 - Mexico is struck by Hurricane Ingrid on the east coast, and Hurricane Manuel on the west coast, causing massive flooding, and killing at least 67 people.
September 16 - A lone gunman armed with a shotgun, Aaron Alexis, killed twelve people and injured fourteen others in a mass shooting at Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred around 8:20 a.m. in Building 197.
Alexis was subsequently killed by police.
September 18 - Tony Abbott becomes the 28th Prime Minister of Australia.
September 21 - At least 62 people are killed in a terrorist attack and siege on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
September 22 - A bomb attack on a church in Peshawar kills at least 70 people.
September 22 - Elections are held for the German Bundestag.
Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU coalition comes close to an overall majority, while the FDP is voted out of the Bundestag.
September 24 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in southern Pakistan kills over 400 people.
September 29 - An election to the Austrian parliament is held.
The coalition led by Chancellor Werner Faymann narrowly wins.
October 1 - The United States Government temporarily shuts down over failure to agree on a budget.
October 3 - A boat travelling from North Africa, carrying migrants from the East African countries of Eritrea and Somalia, catches fire off the coast of Italy's Mediterranean Sea island of Lampedusa, killing over 360 people.
October 3 - The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth.
October 8 - Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of the United Kingdom win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on finding the Higgs boson particle.
October 10 - Delegates from some 140 countries and territories signed Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.
October 11 - The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 11 - A boat travelling from North Africa, carrying migrants, gets into difficulty off Lampedusa, killing over 30 people, in the second such incident there in the space of a week.
mid-October - Bush fires affect large parts of New South Wales, Australia.
October 16 - Erna Solberg becomes Prime Minister of Norway, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg.
October 16 - The United States Government reopens after the shutdown.
October 20 - An election is held in Luxembourg.
October 27 - Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One world championship, becoming the youngest driver to achieve this four times in-a-row.
October 28 - The St Jude Storm, also referred to as "Christian", "Carmen" and "Simone", hits the southern UK, northern France, the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark and southern Sweden, killing at least 15 people and disrupting transport services.
Denmark records its highest-ever wind speed during the storm.
October 29 - A new underground rail link is opened across the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
November 3 – Hybrid (total/annular) solar eclipse.
November 5 - Bill de Blasio wins the 2013 New York City mayoral election in a landslide.
He becomes the first New York City Democratic mayor in over two decades.
He is expected to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor on January 1, 2014.
November 8 - Typhoon Haiyan strikes the Philippines with some of the strongest typhoon winds recorded, destroying many towns and cities, and killing thousands of people.
November 10 - Spanish motorcycle racer Marc Marquez becomes the youngest Moto GP world champion, at age 20.
November 12 - One World Trade Center is announced as having become the tallest building in the United States.
November 12 - Three Studies with Lucian Freud, a series of paintings by Francis Bacon, becomes the most expensive work of art sold at auction, selling for 142.4 million US Dollars.
November 16 - Sachin Tendulkar, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, retires from playing after his last test match.
November 21 - A supermarket collapse in Riga, Latvia, kills over 50 people.
November 22 - 50th anniversary of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy is honored across the United States and parts of Ireland.
November 24 - Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.
November 28 - Three unpublished books by J. D. Salinger is leaked online to the public.
November 29 - A helicopter crash into the Clutha pub in Glasgow, Scotland, kills 10 people.
Throughout December - Anti-government protests in Thailand and Ukraine.
December 1 - A train crash in New York City's The Bronx area, on the banks of the Hudson River, kills 4 people and injures over 60.
December 4 - Xavier Bettel becomes Prime Minister of Luxembourg, ending Jean-Claude Juncker's almost-19-year period in office.
December 6 - The groups for the 2014 FIFA World Cup are drawn.
December 7 - Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.
December 10 - A public memorial service is held for Nelson Mandela in a football stadium in Johannesburg where he had made his last public appearance.
December 14 - Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.
December 15 - The funeral of Nelson Mandela takes place.
December 15 - Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile.
She previously held this position from 2006 to 2010.
December 23 - Heavy winds and rain cause destruction across Northern Europe.
Meanwhile, snowstorms cut electricity from millions of homes in the Northeastern US and southeastern Canada.
December 29 - A bomb attack on a train station in Volgograd, southern Russia, kills at least 16 people.
A similar attack on a bus in the same city kills at least 15 people a day later.
December 29 - Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher is severely injured in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
December 31 – Australia's last analogue Television signal was turned off.
Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel
Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
Literature – Alice Munro
Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs
Physiology or Medicine – James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof
January 6 - Epiphany or Twelfth Night, important in some countries' Christmas celebrations.
January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Churches
February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
February 10 - Chinese New Year - Year of the Snake
February 12 - Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity)
February 13 - Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity), start of Lent
March 20 – March Equinox, also known as Ostara.
March 24 - Palm Sunday (Western Christianity)
March 28 - Maundy Thursday (Western Christianity)
March 29 - Good Friday (Western Christianity)
March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity)
April 1 - Easter Monday (Western Christianity)
May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity)
May 9 - Feast of the Ascension (Western Christianity)
May 19 - Pentecost (Western Christianity)
May 30 - Corpus Christi (Western Christianity)
June 21 – June solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha, in the Northern Hemisphere.
July 9 - Beginning of Ramadan, a month of fasting in the Islamic calendar.
August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
August 7 - Eid-al-Fitr, end of Ramadan
August 15 - Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholicism)
September 4 - Rosh Hashanah, new year festival in Judaism.
September 14 - Yom Kippur (Judaism)
September 16 - Onam (Hinduism), celebrated in Kerala.
September 22 – September Equinox, also known as Mabon.
November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
November 1 - All Saints Day (Roman Catholicism)
November 2 - All Souls Day (Roman Catholicism)
November 3 - Divali (Hinduism)
November 27 - Hanukkah (Judaism)
December 1 - First Sunday of Advent (Western Christianity)
December 21 – December solstice, also known as Yule in the Northern Hemisphere.
December 24 - Christmas Eve (Western Christianity)
December 26 - Boxing Day/Saint Stephen's Day/Second Day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
In fiction and popular culture
X-Men: The X-Men try to overthrow the dystopian rule of the robot Sentinels in the Days of Future Past storyline (1980).
In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes (Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013."
Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006)
Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2007), Flashbacks to this year occur.
Escape From LA (1996)
The Postman (1997)
In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.
The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.
BBC Drama Spooks: Code 9 is set in this year.
The anime version of Death Note ends in this year, when the main character, Light Yagami, dies from a heart attack after being shot multiple times.
Mathematical interest
The date will comprise four distinct digits, for the first time since 1987.
The date will comprise of four consecutive digits, for the first time since 1980.
July 22 - Prince George of Cambridge, 3rd in-line to the British throne
Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy.
The capital is Potenza.
The population was about 597,768 in 2004.
The region is very mountainous.
Because of this, communication in the area was very difficult until modern times.
This has also caused Basilicata to be one of the least developed areas of Italy.
Basilicata borders the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto at its lowest elevations.
The highest point in the area is Monte Pollino at 2233m (7325ft).
The area also includes a dead volcano, Monte Vulture.
The region has an area of .
Basilicata also used to be one of the poorest regions in Italy.
It has become richer over the past couple of years because of the discovery of oil.
Official Site  (IT)
Campania is a region of the south of Italy.
The capital is Napoli.
The population in 2004 was about 5,701,931.
Province of Naples Capital
Official site (IT)
Emilia-Romagna (Emilian: Emégglia-Rumâgna, Emîlia-Rumâgna, Romagnol: Emélia-Rumâgna) is one of the twenty regions of Italy, in northeast Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
The capital is Bologna.
The region is in Northern Italy with an area of .
It is bordered to the north by the Veneto and Lombardy regions, to the northwest by the Piedmont and Liguria regions, to the west by the Tuscany, to the south by the Marche region and the republic of San Marino, and the Adriatic Sea to the east.
The highest mountain in the region is Monte Cimone, in the northern Apennines, with an altitude of .
Emilia, with the provinces Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and part of Bologna.
Romagna, with the provinces Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna, Rimini and part of Bologna.
Emilia-Romagna Region Official site
Vasil Levski is a Bulgarian hero.
He was born in Karlovo, Bulgaria in 1837.
His real name is Vasil Ivanov Kuncev and Levski was his nickname.
His father's name was Ivan Kuncev.
Vasil Levski struggled for independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.
He was executed in 1873.
Bulgarian people
CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) was an Operating System for computers used in the 1970s and early 1980.
Originally, it supported up to 64 kb of main memory.
It was command-line based, and came before MS-DOS.
Batter (baseball)
Batter (linuxoid)
Batsman (cricket), sometimes called a batter
To hit or strike a person, as in committing the crime of battery
To hit or strike a person, as in committing the tort of battery, a common-law offense
Batter head, on a drum, the head that is struck
Sana'a or Sanˤā' (, romanized as Ṣanʻāʼ or Sanaa), is the capital city of Yemen and the center of Sana'a Governorate.
It had a population of 1,747,627 (as of 2004).
In the 2010s it became a battlefield in the Civil War and the government moved to Aden.
Cities in Yemen
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (born Astrid  Ericsson; November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a famous Swedish writer.
She wrote many books for children.
She had a son named Lars.
Astrid Lindgren grew up in Näs, near Vimmerby, Småland, and many of her books are based on her family and childhood memories.
However, Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, was invented for her daughter Karin, who was, at the time, ill and had to stay in the bed.
Lindgren was the daughter of Samuel August Ericsson and Hanna Johnsson.
She had two sisters.
Her brother, Gunnar Ericsson, was a member of the Swedish parliament.
She finished the school and  took a job with the a local newspaper in Vimmerby.
When she became pregnant with the chief editor's child in 1926, he proposed marriage.
She did not accept, and moved to Stockholm, learning to become a typist and stenographer.
There she gave birth to her son Lars in Copenhagen and left him with another family to care for him.
Although poorly paid, she saved whatever she could and travelled as often as possible to Copenhagen to be with Lars; often just over a weekend, spending most of her time on the train back and forth.
Eventually, she managed to bring Lars home, leaving him in the care of her parents until she could afford to raise him in Stockholm.
In 1931 she married her boss, Sture Lindgren (1898-1952).
Three years later, in 1934, Lindgren gave birth to her second child, Karin, who later became a translator.
The family moved in 1941 to an apartment on Dalagatan, with a view over Vasaparken, where Astrid lived until her death.
In 1976, they had a scandal in Sweden when Lindgren's had to pay taxes 102% of her income.
This is known as the "Pomperipossa effect" from a story, which she published in Expressen   on 3 March 1976.
Astrid Lindgren was well known both for her support for children's and animal rights, and for her opposition to corporal punishment.
In 1994, she received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), "...For her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature."
The Pippi Longstocking series (Pippi Långstrump)
The Six Bullerby Children (Barnen i Bullerbyn)
Mio, my Mio (also known as Mio, my Son) (Mio, min Mio)
Madicken
Emil of Lönneberga
The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta)
Ronia the Robber's Daughter (Ronja rövardotter)
^ John-Henri, Holmberg (1997/1999), "Scandinavia", in Clute, John, and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, pp.
841 .
Swedish children's writers
Cantabria is a region in the north of Spain.
It has 563,000 people living in it.
In Cantabria most people speak Spanish.
The people of Cantabria have autonomy in Spain, which means they have their own local government and much control over their region.
The capital is Santander.
This city is on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea and is very popular with tourists.
Cantabria belongs to the Green Spain, the name given to the strip of land between the Cantabrian Sea and the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain.
Many different examples of prehistoric cave art have been found, suggesting the Cantabrian culture is at least 15,000 years old.
Cave art is the best known feature of the Cantabrian life.
The latest round of systematic cave explorations began in the early 1970s.
Now new art can be discovered every year.
Some of the cave art is engraved, and others are painted.
Much of the cave art is of animals.
There are often pictures of red deer found from this area of Spain.
There are also other unusual symbols that can be found.
This attracts much interest and many tourists to this culture.
The Cantabrian life revolves mainly around art, tourism, and fishing.
Rich deposits of coal, iron, and zinc are also mined in the Cantabrian Mountains.
Tourism is a very large part of the Cantabrian life, and their economic success.
Cantabria is known for a rainy and cool climate.
The region is also greener than southern Spain and is very mountainous.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), is the publicly-owned organisation in charge of flying (Aviation) in the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1972, doing the tasks previously done by the Department of Transport.
Rules about aviation (policy)
Licencing of both personnel and machinery
Pricing of certain services (Air Traffic Control, Landing fees, etc.)
Some other duties have passed to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), such as type certification.
CAA-UK is part of the rulemaking group of the EASA.
Aviation authorities
Organisations based in the United Kingdom
Transport in the United Kingdom
Apulia (; ; ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy, in southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
The capital is Bari.
Apulia is in Southern Italy.
There are 4,077,166 people living in the region, for a density of .
Environmental League Puglia
Belluno (, , ) is a comune and city in the Veneto region, in Northeast Italy.
Belluno is the capital of the province of the same name.
The city is about  north of Venice.
The town is near the confluence of the Piave river with the small river Ardo.
To the north of the town is the Schiara, a group of mountains.
To the south, the foothills of the Alps separate Belluno from the plain of the Veneto.
The most northern part of the comune is in the "Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park" ().
The comune of Belluno has an area of  and its altitude is .
Belluno borders with the following comuniː Alpago, Limana, Longarone, Ponte nelle Alpi, Sedico, Sospirolo, Vittorio Veneto (in the Treviso province).
Frazioni
The following frazioni (hamlets) are part of Belluno: Anconetta, Antole, Bes, Bolzano, Caleipo, Castion, Castoi, Cet, Cirvoi, Col di Salce, Faverga, Fiammoi, Giamosa, Giazzoi, Gioz, Levego, Madeago, Mares, Mier, Nevegàl, Nogarè, Orzes, Rivamaor, Safforze, Sagrogna, Sala, Salce, San Fermo, San Pietro in Campo, Sois, Sopracroda, Sossai, Tisoi, Veneggia, Vezzano, Vignole, Visome.
, there are 35,870 persons living in the comune, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².
Cervia, Italy
Bend, Oregon, United States
People from or related to Belluno
Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734), painter
Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732), sculptor
Marco Ricci (1676–1730), painter
Pope Gregory XVI (1765–1846)
Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866), painter
Pope John Paul I (1912-1978)
Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza (b. 1922), human geneticist
Belluno official website
Adorable Belluno
Cities in Veneto
Vicenza is a comune and city in the Veneto region, in Northeast Italy.
Vicenza is the capital of the province of the same name.
The city is about  west of Venice, the capital of the region, and  east of Milan.
Vicenza is a cosmopolitan city, with a rich history and culture, and many museums, art galleries, piazzas, villas, churches and elegant Renaissance palazzi.
With the "Palladian Villas of the Veneto" in the surrounding area, and his renowned Teatro Olimpico (Olympic Theater), Vicenza has been listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.
Vicenza is at the confluence of the Bacchiglione river with its tributary Retrone.
The comune of Vicenza has an area of  to the north of the Berici Hills.
Its average altitude is .
The southern part of the city is flat with an elevation of  above sea level.
The historical centre is among the meanders of the Bacchiglione river and of its tributaries with an elevation of  above sea level.
To the south there is also an area with hills belonging to the Berici Hills with a top elevation of  above sea level
Vicenza borders with the following comuniː Altavilla Vicentina, Arcugnano, Bolzano Vicentino, Caldogno, Costabissara, Creazzo, Dueville, Longare, Monteviale, Monticello Conte Otto, Quinto Vicentino and Torri di Quartesolo.
The following frazioni (hamlets) are part of Vicenza: Anconetta, Bertesina, Bertesinella, Bugano, Campedello, Casale, Debba, Longara, Maddalene, Ospedaletto, Polegge, San Pietro Intrigogna, Santa Croce Bigolina, Tormeno.
The average temperature for the year in Vicenza is .
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Vicenza is .
The month with the most precipitation on average is November with  of precipitation.
, there are 112,953 persons living in the comune, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².
Pforzheim, Germany
Vicenza official website
Consorzio di Promozione Turistica Vicenza è
Rovigo is an Italian city.
It has a population of about 50,883 inhabitants.
It has about 71,989 inhabitants.
It is the capital of Abruzzo.
It is on a hill in the valley of the Aterno river.
It is circled by the Apennine Mountains.
The Financial Times, an important newspaper, wrote that L'Aquila is "the most handsome city of Abruzzo".
It is a very old town, full of beautiful buildings and churches.
Emperor Frederick II founded this town.
He told the people of 99 villages to move in the new town.
Frederick's son, Conrad IV of Germany finished the town in 1254.
When Conrad died, his brother Manfred destroyed the town in 1259.
Charles I of Anjou, king of Sicily, built it again soon.
It became soon the second city of the Kingdom of Naples.
The city of L'Aquila had much power because the 99 original villages helped it.
Each village owned a borough (a small part of the town) and the borough was a part of the mother-village.
That is also why the number 99 is so important in the history of L'Aquila.
The people also built a very peculiar monument, the Fountain of the 99 Spouts (Fontana delle 99 Cannelle).
The city was an important market for the countryside.
The saffron (a very important spice) was grown in fields around town; shepherds had millions of sheep near L'Aquila.
On 29 August 1294, the hermit Pietro del Morrone became pope Celestine V. The ceremony was in the church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio.
To thank the town, Celestine V decided that every year on that day every Christian who went to L'Aquila would be pardoned for his sins (bad actions).
This is called Perdonanza, and it still happens every year on August 28 and 29.
The Perdonanza is similar to the Jubilee Year, but arrived earlier.
The Perdonanza made the town more rich.
But after a long time the plague (a dangerous illness) struck L'Aquila in 1348 and 1363.
An earthquake struck it in 1349.
Saint Bernardino of Siena visited L'Aquila two times.
The first time he came to preach to King René of Naples.
In 1444 he died in the city.
In the 16th century, the Spanish viceroy Philibert van Oranje destroyed L'Aquila again.
After this, he built a Castle.
Another occurred in 2009.
The city is the home of L'Aquila Rugby.
This team won the Italian championship five times.
- Rottweil
- York
- Cuenca
- Hobart
- Zielona Gora
- Bernalda
- Bistriţa
- Baalbeck
A portal for L'Aquila
Inside Abruzzo: Insider Tips Uncovered
n the Land of Bears and Castles, The Financial Times (29 June 2007)
newsgroup <italia.laquila.discussioni>
L'Aquila Rugby
L'Aquila Tourism  Places of interest in L'Aquila
Turistical and historical informations about L'Aquila, Abruzzo
Chieti is a city and comune in Southern Italy,  east by northeast of Rome.
It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region.
Chieti is in the central eastern part of the Abruzzo, at an average altitude of  above sea level.
It is on a hill that separates the watersheds of the Aterno-Pescara river (to the north) and of the Alentro stream (to the south).
The comune has an area of .
Chieti alta is the oldest part of the city and includes the historical centre that is on the hill.
Chieti Scalo is the newest part of the city and is in the valley to the north of the hill, on the right side of the Aterno-Pescara river.
The comune is surrounded by the comuni Bucchianico, Casalincontrada, Cepagatti (PE), Francavilla al Mare, Manoppello (PE), Pescara (PE), Ripa Teatina, Rosciano (PE), San Giovanni Teatino and Torrevecchia Teatina.
The following frazioni (hamlets) are part of Chietiː Bascelli, Brecciarola, Buonconsiglio-Fontanella, Carabba, Chieti Scalo, Colle Marcone, Crocifisso, De Laurentis Vallelunga, Fonte Cruciani, Iachini, La Torre, San Martino, San Salvatore, Levante, Tricalle, Sant'Anna, Santa Barbara, Santa Filomena, Selvaiezzi, Vacrone Cascini, Vacrone Colle San Paolo, Vacrone Villa Cisterna, Vallepara, Villa Obletter, Villa Reale.
The people from Chieti are called Chietini but also Teatini after the old name of the city ().
, there are 51,330 persons living in the comune, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².
Chieti official website
Pescara is an Italian city in Abruzzo of 123,400 inhabitants.
In 1957, the only Pescara Formula One Grand Prix was held, and won by British driver, Stirling Moss.
It was the longest ever Formula One track, using over  of local roads.
It was first used for motor car racing in 1924, and closed in 1961.
Cryptozoology is the study of animals that people think might exist, but can't be proved to exist.
It also is the study of animals many scientists think are extinct, but which people sometimes report.
Those who study or look for such animals are called cryptozoologists.
Some people call the unproven creatures cryptids.
John Wall was the first person to use this word in 1983.
De-Loys monkey (Ameranthopoides loysi), also known as Didi or Vasitri
The Mongolian Death Worm is a strange snake-like animal that lives in the Gobi Desert.
Scientists do not know if it really exists or not.
People who report seeing it say it is like a red, fat worm around 2 – 4 feet long.
People who live in Mongolia call it allghoi khorkhoi.
These people also say the creature spits yellow poison that will kill you as soon as it touches you and it can produce electricity so powerful that it could kill large animals.
Ankylosaurus (Ankylosaurus magniventris) was a type of armoured dinosaur.
It was the largest of its type, with a maximum length of 9 metres (30 feet).
The body was broad and low-slung and covered in armour.
Carnivores, attacking from above, would find no weak points, and the animal could defend itself by using its clubbed tail.
Ankylosaurus was a herbivore, or plant-eater.
It probably ate ferns and cycads, which were common low-growing plants.
The most obvious feature of Ankylosaurus is its armour, consisting of massive knobs and plates of bone, known as osteoderms or bony scutes, embedded in the skin.
Osteoderms are also found in the skin of crocodiles, armadillos and some lizards.
The bone was probably overlain by a tough, horny layer of keratin.
These osteoderms ranged greatly in size, from wide, flat plates to small, round nodules.
The plates were aligned in regular horizontal rows down the animal's neck, back, and hips, with the many smaller nodules protecting the areas between the large plates.
Smaller plates may have been arranged on the limbs and tail.
Compared to the slightly more ancient ankylosaurid Euoplocephalus, the plates of Ankylosaurus were smooth in texture, without the high keels found on the armor of the contemporaneous nodosaurid Edmontonia.
A row of flat, triangular spikes may have protruded laterally along each side of the tail.
Tough, rounded scales protected the top of the skull, while four large pyramidal horns projected outwards from its rear corners.
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Matera is a town in the area of Basilicata, in the southern part of Italy.
It is the capital of the province of Matera.
On October 17, 2014, Matera was declared Italian host of European Capital of Culture for 2019
Settlements in Basilicata
Potenza () is an Italian city in south of Italy, in the region Basilicata.
It is the capital of Basilicata and also the center of Potenza province.
It has 70,000 inhabitants.
The Kara Sea (Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре) is part of the Arctic Ocean.
It lies north of Siberia.
The Kara Sea is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya.
It is roughly 1,450 kilometres long and 970 kilometres wide.
It has an area of around 880,000 km² and an average depth of 110 m.
Its main ports are Novy Port and Dikson and it is important as a fishing ground although the sea is ice-bound for all but two months of the year.
Significant discoveries of petroleum and natural gas, an extension of the West Siberian Oil Basin, have been made but have not yet been developed.
There is concern about the levels of nuclear waste the former Soviet Union dumped in the sea which included six nuclear submarine reactors and ten nuclear reactors, and the effect this will have on the marine environment.
An International Atomic Energy Agency appraisal showed that releases are low and localised.
International Atomic Energy Agency:Radiological Conditions of the Western Kara Sea
Seas of the Arctic Ocean
The Prototheria is a former subclass of mammals, now no longer in use.
The name comes from Greek prōtos means 'first', and thēr, 'beast'.
The only surviving animals in this subclass are the Monotremes.
There are two other subclasses, the  Metatheria  and  the Eutheria.
Metatheria contains the marsupials.
All the other mammals are Eutherian.
The term is not listed in Benton's 4th ed (2015), so it is now a dead term.
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and print-maker.
He was born in Adalsbruk.
He was an expressionist who painted 1789 known paintings.
He is well known for his treatment of emotion such as fear.
His way of seeing things had a large influence on the expressionism of the 20th century.
People saw this treatment as being intense.
During his life, he had success as a painter: He became famous outside Norway, and his paintings got high prices.
The National Gallery (Norway) used much money to buy paintings by Munch.
He painted a large murals in the aula (main room) of Norway's (then) only university.
He had four brothers and sisters.
He had followed his mother and sister by being the best artists in their family.
While Edvard was still young, his mother and one of his sisters died.
But it was when he was thirteen that he really came to like art.
The first paintings he did were simple objects like medicine bottles and other objects.
Later on, he drew oil paintings.
He went to technical college in 1879 where he learnt how to draw paintings with perspective.
However, in 1880, the following year he left the school to become a painter.
He went to the Royal School of Art and Design.
This is where he learnt sculpturing and naturalistic painting.
This is where he drew his first important portrait of himself and his father.
Munch was ill very often.
Many scientists think that he suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression).
He died at his house in Oslo.
The Scream (1893; originally called Despair).
This is Munch's best-known painting, and is one of the best known images in the world.
It is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life.
In the series Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death and melancholy.
As with many of his works, he made several versions of the painting.
One version was stolen from the Munch-museum in Oslo, Norway, on 22 August 2004, but on 31 August 2006 Norwegian police found it together with another picture that was stolen at the same time, Madonna.
The Frieze of Life themes  come back throughout Munch's work.
These themes can be seen in paintings such as The Sick Child (1886, portrait of his deceased sister Sophie), (1893–1894), Ashes (1894), and The Bridge.
The last-named shows limp figures.
Those figures have faces with no features, or they have no faces at all.
Threatening shapes of heavy trees and houses are above the figures.
Munch portrayed women either as frail, innocent sufferers or as lurid, life-devouring vampires.
Munch analysts say this reflects his sexual anxieties.
1885-86: The Sick Child
1892: Evening on Karl Johan
1893: The Scream
1894: Ashes
1894–1895: Madonna
1895: Puberty
1895: Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette
1895: Death in the Sickroom
1899–1900: The Dance of Life
1899–1900: The Dead Mother
1903: Village in Moonlight
1940–1942: Self Portrait: Between Clock and Bed
Other paintings
Biography from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Munch Museum
Gallery Munch - Løten
Munch at artcyclopedia
Catalogue raisonné of Edvard Munch's paintings.
Interpol's page  about the stolen works of art
Rothenberg A. Bipolar illness, creativity, and treatment.
Psychiatr Q. 2001 Summer;72(2):131-47.
Edvard Munch in Germany
Norwegian painters
Sex education is telling people about sexual intercourse.
Usually, parents tell their children when they reach puberty.
This usually includes things like how to make babies, how to protect against unwanted pregnancies, and how not to get any of the sexually transmitted diseases there are.
In many cultures speaking about sex or sexual education is a taboo.
Some level of sex education is also done in school; in many places, the government passed laws that say that sex education must be done in school.
Some parts of sex education vary by culture, e.g. the moral and ethic aspects.
SIECUS Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
The bedroom is a room in a home where people sleep.
A bedroom mainly has a bed and drawers to hold clothes in.
Many bedrooms also have closets.
Some houses have more than one bedroom, and the biggest one is called a master bedroom.
Master bedrooms also have bathrooms attached to them called an ensuite.
Marche is one of the twenty regions of Italy, in Central Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
The capital is the city of Ancona.
Marche is the 15th largest region in Italy, with a total area of .
Metauro,
Tronto,
Potenza,
Chienti,
Esino,
The Nera river is  long but is a tributary of the Tiber and flows mainly in the Lazio region.
Blog in English just about Le Marche Italy
Umbria is one of the twenty regions of Italy, in center Italy.
It is the one of the smallest Italian region.
Its capital is Perugia.
The region is located in Central Italy with an area of .
It is bordered by Marche to the east and northeast, Tuscany to the west and northwest, and Lazio to the south and southwest.
Other important rivers are the Nera, Paglia, Topino, Chiascio and Nestore.
Valle d'Aosta (Val d'Aosta or Val d'Aoste) is a mountainous region in the northwest.
In the English language it is usually called the  Aosta Valley.
The region has two official name: Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta (in Italian) and Région Autonome Vallée d'Aoste (in French).
The capital is Aosta.
The valley goes up towards Mont Blanc.
It is the route out of Italy to the North-West.
It was used by Roman armies, and the proof is in the archaeological artefacts found in Aosta.
The town has been both French and Italian over the past few centuries, and the street names in Aosta are in both languages.
It is the smallest region in Italy, with an area of , and a population of about 126,883.
It is the only Italian region which has no provinces.
The regional government has taken all the administrative functions of a province.
The region is divided into 74 comuni.
The Valle d'Aosta is a small valley, the valley of the Dora Baltea river, with some smaller side valleys.
It is in the middle of the Alps, surrounded by four of the tallest mountains throughout Italy and Europe:
Mont Blanc; height:  (), the highest mountain in the Alps.
Matterhorn (German), Monte Cervino (Italian) or Mont Cervin (French); height:  ()
Monte Rosa; height:  (), the second highest mountain in the Alps.
Gran Paradiso; height:  ().
In the Valle d'Aosta, a region with many mountains and close to the borders with other countries, the mountain passes are very important.
Even though now there some tunnels, the passes are important.
They add a historical and geographical perspective which is important to tourism and tradition.
The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard; Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo), between Savoie, France and the Valle d'Aosta;
The Great St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Grand Saint-Bernard; Italian: Colle del Gran San Bernardo), between Valais, Switzerland and the Valle d'Aosta;.
The valleys were made by glaciers moving at a time when the entire region was covered by them.
Currently, glaciers occupy only the highest peaks.
The Dora Baltea () river flows along the whole Valle d'Aosta, from the northwest to the southeast; it is  long and is a tributary of the Po river.
Mountain communities
The 74 comuni - with the exception of Aosta - of the Valle d'Aosta are organized in mountain communities (, ).
There are eight mountain communities:
Comuni with higher populations
The 10 comuni of the Valle d'Aosta with the higher populations (January 2017) are:
A person from the Valle d'Aosta is called a Valdotian (, ).
Italian and French are the region's official languages and are used for the regional government's acts and laws, though Italian is much more widely spoken in everyday life.
Of the population of the valley 96% speaks Italian as either a first or second language.
Of the population 70% speaks French as either first or second language.
School education is given equally in both Italian and French.
The regional language is a dialect of Franco-Provençal called Valdôtain (locally, patois).
It is spoken as native tongue and as second language by about 58% of the population, according to a poll taken by the  Fondation Émile Chanoux  in 2002.
The residents of the villages of Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Gressoney-La-Trinité and Issime, in the Lys Valley, speak two dialects of Walser German origin called Titsch and Töitschu respectively.
Website of the Aosta Valley Regional Authority
Image Vallée - Aosta Valley's landscape photo gallery
Weather forecast and map of the Aosta Valley
Société de la Flore Valdôtaine
Patois en Vallée d'Aoste
Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco in Italian) is a mountain in the Alps.
Its height is 4810.90 metres.
When Mount Elbrus (5,642 m) in the Caucasus is left out, Mont Blanc is often considered the highest point in Europe.
Mountains of France
Mountains of Italy
Shiite Crescent is used as political and geo-political term to describe the different countries whose majority is Shia or who had a strong Shia minority in the population.
Is often used to describe the potential of a cooperation of these countries in the Middle East policy.
The nations where Shi'a Muslims form a dominant majority are Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Iran, Bahrain and Iraq.
The shape of these countries put together resembles a crescent or half moon.
Large minorities also exist in Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, UAE, and Syria.
Ferhad Ibrahim: Iran und die arabische Welt , in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Nr.
9, Bonn 2004, S. 39-47. (
German)
Vali Nasr:  When the Shiites Rise  in: Foreign Affairs July/August 2006 pp.
58– 74.
Asher Susser: Aufgang des schiitischen Halbmonds, in: Internationale Politik,  Nr.
9, 61.
Jahr, (2006),  pp.
68-S.74 (German)
Le Monde diplomatique: Die Schiiten und ihr Kampf um Gott (German)
Deutsche Welle: Die Hisbollah in der arabischen Misstrauensfalle (German)
Brockhaus: Ulrich Ladurner: Machtpoker am Persischen Golf  (German)
Der Tagesspiegel: Der schiitische Halbmond (German)
Xizang Autonomous Region, also called the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Its capital is Lhasa.
English speakers often call this region Tibet, but Tibet can also mean any place where the Tibetan culture is local to.
Tibet's main religion is Buddhism.
Their traditions make it a place of interest to many people.
The local monks are sometimes said to have special, superhuman abilities.
The writings of Tibetan monks are sometimes shared with outsiders, and are known for their insight.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead contains rituals for the dead and dying, somewhat similar to the Catholic last rites.
Some Tibetans practice a religion called Bon.
People who study Bon disagree where Bon came from, how old it is, and if it can be called a kind of Buddhism.
The religious leader of Tibet's Buddhists is called the Dalai Lama.
He was forced to leave the country when the Chinese Army took over.
The Dalai Lama presently lives in exile in India, but often visits other countries.
Many monks and other religious people also were forced to leave the country, and many of them started Buddhist and Bon centers in cities around the world.
Tibet formed from communities living along the Yarlung Tsangpo, the longest river in Tibet.
Namri Songtsen united these communities under one king around 600 CE, with the city of Lhasa becoming capital.
His son Songtsen Gampo took control of land beyond Lhasa and the Yarlung Tsangpo and started the Tibetan Empire.
Tibetan writers say that Buddhists came to Tibet for the first time while Songtsen Gampo was king.
Trisong Detsen, king from 755 to 794 CE, gave a lot of support to Buddhism.
He helped build a monastery at Samye, which became very important.
During Trisong Detsen's time as king, the Tibetan Empire had control over large areas of land.
Tibet's borders touched Central Asia and Afghanistan at the west, Bangladesh at the south, and China at the east.