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It is given to certain people, for example some MP's, in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other places which are members of the Commonwealth.
It is sometimes given in other places, as well.
Examples of this are The Right Honourable David Cameron PC MP, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper PC MP, former Prime Minister of Canada, and The Right Honourable John Key MP, former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
In the present-day United Kingdom, the term is given to members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
In effect, these are present or past members of Parliament who have served as cabinet ministers in a government.
Styles (manners of address)
was a  after Daiei and before Tenbun.
This period started in August 1528 and ended July 1532.
Events of the Kyōroku era
1528 (Kyōroku 1): Fire damaged Yakushi-ji in Nara.
1528 (Kyōroku 1): Konoe Tanye became Minister of the Left (sadaijin).
1529 (Kyōroku 2): Neo-Confucian scholar Wang Yangming died.
1530 (Kyōroku 3, 7th month): Kiyusho Hisatsune died at the age of 63.
He had held the office of Chancellor (kampaku).
1531 (Kyōroku 4): The Kamakura shogunate office of Governor (shugo) was ended.
1532 (Kyōroku 5): Followers of the Ikko sect were driven out of Kyoto; and they settled in Osaka.
Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in Britain) is the act of hunting ducks, geese, or other waterfowl for food and sport.
In many western countries, waterfowl hunting is illegal, and duck hunting is mostly an outdoor sporting activity.
Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or same hunting seasons, and are hunted the same.
Thus it is possible to hunt different species of waterfowl in the same trip.
Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they eat, or, more often, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines.
In Greek Mythology, Ambrosia is the food of the gods or demigods.
It gives them immortality.
The National Assembly (), is the legislature of the government in Azerbaijan.
It is in the capital Baku.
The unicameral National Assembly has 125 members who are directly elected in general elections by the people for a five-year term and can be re-elected without any limit.
Previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituencies and 25 members were elected by proportional representation.
However during the latest election, all 125 members were elected from single-member constituencies.
The National Assembly is headed by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan assisted by the First Deputy Speaker and two deputy speakers.
Ogtay Asadov is the current speaker of the National Assembly, Ziyafet Asgarov is the First Deputy Speaker and, Bahar Muradova and Valeh Alasgarov are deputy speakers.
Speakers of the National Assembly (Supreme Soviet to 1991, National Council 1991–1992) of Azerbaijan
Elmira Gafarova February 5, 1991–March 5, 1992.
Yagub Mammadov March 5, 1992–May 18, 1992
Isa Gambar May 18, 1992–June 13, 1993
Heydar Aliyev June 24, 1993–November 5, 1993
Rasul Guliyev November 1993–November 24, 1995
Rasul Guliyev November 24, 1995–September 11, 1996
Murtuz Alasgarov October 16, 1996–November 24, 2000
Murtuz Alasgarov November 24, 2000–2005
Ogtay Asadov - December 2, 2005–November 29, 2010
Ogtay Asadov - November 29, 2010–March 10,2020
Sahiba Gafarova-March 10,2020–today
Parliamentary Committees
Legal Policies and State Structuring Committee
Defense and Security Committee
Economimic Policies Committee
Committee on Natural Resources, Energy and Ecology
Committee on Agrarian Policies
Social Policies Committee
Committee on Regional Issues
Committee on Science and Education
Committee on Cultural Issues
International and Interparliamentary Relations Committee
The parliament publishes its own newspaper Azərbaycan qəzeti (Azerbaijan newspaper) which is sold around the country.
National Assembly of Azerbaijan Website
Sikhye (also spelled shikhye or shikeh) is a Korean traditional rice beverage which is fermented for some periods.
It is usually served as a dessert with its sweet taste.
The main ingredients of Sikhye is liquids, cooked rices.
When we drink Sikhye, we can see that there are some residue of cooked rice.
Sikhye is also called 'Dansul' and 'Gamju.'
Both of these names mean "sweet wine."
These days, Sikhye is also served in cans at Korean markets so that it can be easily enjoyed by people.
The Vilac company is the most famous company which produce Sikhye in South Korea.
Sikhye is made by malt water and cooked rice, etc.
The malt water soak in boiled rice until grains of rice appear on the surface.
And the liquid is poured out, drained, and boiled with sugar and ginger.
After this, it is cooled down and kept in the jar.
Regional Variations
There are some regional variations of Sikhye.
These include 'Andong Sikhye' and other varieties of Sikhye like 'Jinju sikhye,' 'Gangwon-do sikhye,' and 'Gyeongsang-do sikhye.'
Andong Sikhye is a little bit different from the ordinary style of Sikhye.
It uses radishes, carrots, and powdered red pepper to make it somewhat hot.
And then, it is fermented for several days.
The important thing is the crunchy texture of the radishes.
It should be kept through the long fermentation process of Sikhye.
Sikhye with a soft texture of the radish is regarded as an inferior product.
Andong Sikhye is good for digesting because it has lactobacillus in it.
Sikhye has a lot of effects.
First, it helps the function of digestion.
Sikhye is one of the fermented foods which can help internal organs' movement and this movement of internal organs helps a digestion.
Second, Sikhye contains a lot of fibers and these fibers work in body to accelerate a digestion as the main element.
Third, it is helpful for chronic constipation and prevention of colorectal cancer and arteriosclerosis.
Moreover, Sikhye is good for relieveing hangover.
Lastly, According to Sasang typology in Oriental culture, Sikhye helps people who have cold constitution to be warmer.
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Play therapy is a kind of therapy counseling with playing activities which makes children overcome their psychological difficulties by themselves and helps them to achieve optimum level of development.
Young children are usually hard to express their emotion, needs, and thoughts by language, but it can be possible through their play activities.
So, play can be children's language to show their state.
Also, they can release stress, and have self-confidence by playing freely what they want and getting good words from therapists.
For therapists, they should know about human development including child development.
Also, they need to know to apply different kinds of playing activities for children.
But, the most important thing is to have good relationship with the children.
There are many kinds of play therapy.
There are psychoanalytic play therapy, children-based play therapy, filial play therapy, cognitive behavioral play therapy, developmental play therapy, Adlerian play therapy, sand play, and group play therapy.
Those kinds of play therapy can be used successfully for the children between 4 and 6 years old.
A crowd (of people, from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle commoners":
A criminal gang
In American English, organised crime; slang for mafia
Mobbing, human bullying behaviour
Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
Tropical Storm Claudette was a very destructive tropical storm in late July 1979.
The storm cut across Puerto Rico, killing one.
She then struck eastern Texas and left behind incredible flooding that caused almost $400 million in damage.
Claudette was the first of three destructive tropical cyclones in 1979 Atlantic season.
20th century in Missouri
20th century in Kentucky
Tropical Storm Hermine (also known as Tropical Depression 11-E in the eastern Pacific) was an unusual basin crossing tropical cyclone.
The storm struck near Salina Cruz, Mexico before weakening into a low pressure system.
It moved north, became Tropical Storm Hermine, intensified and then struck northeastern Mexico.
Hermine continued north into Texas and Oklahoma, where it then fizzled out.
From Guatemala to Oklahoma, the cyclone killed over 100 people and caused $740 million in damage, 240 million in the United States.
Despite the devastation, the name Hermine wasn't retired.
2010s in Oklahoma
Vox is a Japanese owned company that makes musical equipment.
They are known for their guitar amplifiers, organs, bass guitars and electric guitars.
The company was first created in Kent, England.
It was sold to the Japanese company Korg in 1992.
An actor who performs in a theatrical production, movie, or television program.
These actors as a group are called the cast.
Anyone who works at any of the Disney theme parks.
These include the Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California  and the Walt Disney World Resort.
The use of this term comes from Walt Disney's use of theatrical terms when referring to park operations.
Anyone who works at Chuck E. Cheese's, inspired by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts term.
Most television series have a "regular cast" or "main cast".
These are the actors who are regularly on the show each week.
They are commonly called just "regulars" or "main characters".
Programs will often need other actors to play smaller roles in the series.
These are called "guest stars".
A guest star may only be used for a single episode or they may be used for more than one.
This often happens if the character's story goes on for more than one episode.
Often, a character will be used for many episodes, but over a long period of time not for episodes shown one after the other.
These are called "recurring characters" and are characters that are not "regulars", they are not part of the main cast, but are used many times during the series.
The word cast comes from the Old English word ' casten ' or ' kasta '(c.1230).
The Old English means to throw in, to consider, plot, imagine, and design.
This led to its meaning when referring to a "group of actors in a play" (c.1631).
Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods or services from a seller in real-time, without an intermediary service, over the Internet.
It is a form of electronic commerce.
An online shop, eshop, e-store, Internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping center.
The process is called business-to-consumer (B2C) online shopping.
When a business buys from another business, it is called business-to-business (B2B) online shopping.
In 1991 the Worldwide Web opened for commercial use.
In 1994 other advances took place, such as online banking and the opening of an online pizza shop by Pizza Hut.
During that same year, Netscape introduced Secure Sockets Layer encryption of data transferred online, which has become essential for secure online shopping.
Also, in 1994, the German company Intershop introduced its first online shopping system.
In 1995, Amazon launched its online shopping site, and in 1996, eBay appeared.
A good online store is a website that is easy to navigate and browse for possible purchases.
It has a product catalog that customers can use to browse the search criteria (usually a type, price, material, age, etc.),
and information about the products, the sellers, and the service center.
Online stores may also discuss business conditions and a Complaints Procedure.
If a shopper finds a product to purchase, clicking "send" will add the item to the shopping cart.
The shopping cart collects all items to be purchased.
Once a shopper is satisfied with their selections, the shopper makes a binding order and payment using a credit card or other financial arrangement.
Therefore, implementing usability testing is highly important for an online store to avoid the reduce of overall performances of the online store
In chemistry, a substrate is the chemical species being observed, which reacts with a reagent.
What this word means depends on its context.
In particular, in biochemistry, an enzyme substrate is the material upon which an enzyme acts.
An ovipositor is the long hollow tube on the rear of female insects (and some other animals).
Through this tube they lay eggs.
The ovipositor is formed by the union of three pairs of rear appendages.
In many species it is a piercing organ which allows the insect to put its eggs into a specific place.
In some species of wasp, the female drills through tree bark with her ovipositor and lays eggs in the bodies of grubs eating under the bark.
Chrudim lies in the center of Eastern Bohemia is located 11 km south from Pardubice and 110 km east from Prague.
Nearby, 3 km distant, is Slatiňany known for its horse breeding.
Archeological research shows the first people lived in the area in the later stone age (500-3500 BC).
Slavs came in the 7th century AD.
The first written record about Chrudim comes from 1055 AD and makes it officially one of the oldest settlements in eastern Bohemia.
In the 13th century Chrudim was established and fortified as a town by the king Přemysl Otakar II.
Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary is the dominant building on the main Josef Ressel Square.
Its building was started maybe in the 13th century.
Old Town Hall was built in the 15th century.
It is one of the oldest buildings in the city and is on the northern side of the main square.
Mydlář House in Břetislavova street was built in the 16th century.
It now contains the Puppet Museum.
Prague Column of Christ’s Transfiguration from 1732 is in the center of the main Jossef Ressel Square.
Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd (cca 1460 - 1520), humanist, writer, lawyer, Dean of Charles University at Prague.
Jan Mydlář (1572 - 1664), famous executioner.
Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek (1783 – 1844), actor, theatre director of ancestor nowadays National Theatre in Prague.
Josef Ressel (1793 - 1857), inventor of the ship propeller.
A school and Josef Ressel Square in Chrudim are named after him.
His statue is in front of the District Museum.
Petr Průcha (1982 - ), hockey player for New York Rangers, SKA Saint Petersburg.
Dušan Salfický (1972 - ), hockey goaltender.
Chrudim has one of the biggest urban conservation areas, over 52 hectares.
It contains the historical center of the city.
Chrudim is known for its culture, with many famous actors, musicians and other people.
You can find several important museums there.
Museum of Puppets in the Mydlář House has one of the biggest collections of puppets in the world.
In Chrudim Regional Museum is Kabinet ex libris, where you can admire a huge collection of books.
The recently rebuilt museum of baroque statues has nearby gardens.
Athens of East Bohemia is a festival of classical music in late April.
Puppet festival in Chrudim is a festival of puppet acting at the beginning of summer.
Salavators pilgrimage are attractions held in august.
FK Era-Pack Chrudim is a famous seven times champion in futsal.
HC Chrudim, former 1st league hockey club.
MFK Chrudim, former 2nd league football club.
Ede — Netherlands
Svidník — Slovakia
Oleśnica — Poland
Cherkasy - Ukraine
History of town Chrudim
Chrudim - virtual show
, also known as Tembun or Temmon, was a  after Kyōroku and before Kōji.
This period started in July 1532 and ended in October 1555.
Events of the Tenbun era
1536 (Tenbun 5, 26th day of the 2nd month): Go-Nara was formally established as emperor.
1542 (Tenbun 11, 25th day of the 8th month): Imagawa Yoshimoto of Suruga Province lost battle with army of Oda Nobuhide.
1543 (Tenbun 12, 25th day of the 8th month):  Portuguese ship landed at Tanegashima bringing the first gun into Japan.
1543 (Tenbun 13, 7th month): Flooding in Kyoto and nearby areas.
1546 (Tenbun 15, 20th day of the 12th month):  Ashikaga Yoshiteru became 13th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.
1547 (Tenbun 11): Joseon and "Treaty of Tenbun" limited trade to Korean port of Pusan.
15 August 1549 (Tenbun 18, 22nd day of the 7th month):  Jesuit Catholic priest Francis Xavier arrived in Japan
1551 (Tenbun 20): The first mechanical clock was brought to Japan by Xavier; and he gave it to Ouichi Yoshitaka.
Nuremberg Zoo () is a zoo in the southeast of Nuremberg, Germany.
The zoo covers .
It has about 300 species of animals and is one of the largest European zoos.
Map of the zoo
Projekt Delphinlagune
Polar bear baby Flocke
Kim Wilson (born January 6, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American blues singer and harp player.
He is best known as the harp player and singer of The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
He started with the blues in the late 1960s whenhe was a senior at High school.
Wilson was tutored by people like Muddy Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Albert Collins, George "Harmonica" Smith, Luther Tucker and Pee Wee Crayton.
He was influenced by harmonica players like Little Walter, James Cotton, Big Walter Horton, Slim Harpo and Lazy Lester.
1974 he went to Austin, Texas where he and the guitarist Jimmie Vaughan formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
They became the house band at the blues club, Antone's.
There they were the backing band of almost every blues act which came to Austin.
In the 1980s they had two hits with "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up."
In the early 1990s he started a solo career but still played with the Thunderbirds.
He is doing more than 200 concerts in a year playing in blues clubs and at Festivals around the world.
1993  Tigerman  Antone's
1994  That's Life  Discovery
1997  Will the Circle Be Unbroken  Black Magic
1997  My Blues  Blue Collar Records
2001  Smokin' Joint  M.C. Records
2003  Lookin' for Trouble  Mc
With The Fabulous Thunderbirds
1979  The Fabulous Thunderbirds  Chrysalis Records
1980  What's the Word  Benchmark
1981  Butt Rockin'''  Benchmark
1982  T-Bird Rhythm  Benchmark
1986  Tuff Enuff  Epic Associated
1987  Hot Number  Epic Associated
1989  Powerful Stuff  Epic Associated
1991  Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk  Epic Associated
1995  Roll of the Dice  Private Music
1996  Different Tacos  Country Town
1997  High Water  Windham Hill Records
2001  Live  CMC International
2005  Painted On  Tone-Cool/Artemis
2011  Girls Go Wild''
Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama movie.
It stars Amanda Seyfried, Chris Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, and Franco Nero.
This was the final movie directed by Gary Winick before he died of brain cancer.
The movie was released in North America and other countries on May 14, 2010.
This movie was inspired by the 2006 non-fiction book, Letters to Juliet, by Lise Friedman and Ceil Friedman.
When Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young American, travels to Verona, Italy — the romantic city where Romeo first met Juliet — she meets a group of volunteers who respond to letters written to Juliet.
Sophie finds and answers a letter that has been lost for 50 years, and is stunned when its author Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) arrives in Italy with her handsome but overprotective grandson (Christopher Egan) to find the fiance she left decades before.
Enchanted by Claire's quest, Sophie joins them on an adventure through the beautiful hills of Tuscany searching for Claire's long lost Lorenzo.
The journey will change their lives forever, as they discover it's never too late to find true love.
Soundtrack Lists
"You Got Me" – Colbie Caillat
"Chianti Country"
"Verona" – Andy Georges
"Un Giorno Così" – 883
"Per Avere Te" – Franco Morselli
"Quando, Quando, Quando" – Laura Jane (as Lisa Jane) and Chris Mann
"Variations On A Theme By Mozart" – from The Magic Flute, Opus 9
"Sospesa" – Malika Ayane and Pacifico
"Per Dimenticare" – Zero Assoluto
"Sono Bugiarda (I'm A liar)" – Caterina Caselli
"Guarda Che Luna" – Fred Buscaglione
"Love Story" – Taylor Swift
"What If" – Colbie Caillat
Hall was born in Kyoto in 1916.
He lived in Japan until he was a teenager.
According to his wife, "Being brought up in Japan and by missionaries, he was a very straight-arrow kind of person.
There is this kind of missionary feeling, that you must make something of this [life], not just throw it away."
At Amherst College, he was awarded a degree in 1939.
He returned to Japan an instructor in English at Doshisha University in Kyoto until 1941.
Hall earned his Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures from Harvard University in 1950.
At Harvard, he became one of the first graduate students to study under Edwin O. Reischauer.
His earliest book was Tanuma Okitsugu, 1718-1787.
Among other interests, his research focused on the Kamakura period in the history of Japan.
He taught at Yale University until he retired in 1983.
Yale's John W. Hall Lecture Series in Japanese Studies was established in his memory.
Japanese History; a Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials (1954)
Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719–1788, Forerunner of Modern Japan (1955)
Government and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700; a Study Based on Bizen Province (1960)
Japanese History: New Dimensions of Approach and Understanding (1961)
Twelve Doors to Japan (1965) with Richard K. Beardsley
Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan (1968) with Marius Jansen
Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times (1970)
Japan in the Muromachi Age  (1977) with Toyoda Takeshi
The Cambridge history of Japan  (1988-  )
Order of the Sacred Treasure
Japan Foundation Award, 1976
John Whitney, 1916-  at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and a descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure.
The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979.
"Zork" was originally MIT hacker slang for an unfinished program.
The creators named the completed game Dungeon, but changed it back to Zork after receiving a trademark violation notice from the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons.
Zork has also been adapted to a book series.
Three of the original Zork programmers joined with others to found Infocom in 1979.
That company adapted Zork into Zork I-III, a trilogy of games for most popular small computers of the era.
Personal Software published what would become the first part of the trilogy under the name Zork when it was first released in 1980, but Infocom later handled the distribution of that game and their later games.
Part of the reason for splitting Zork into three different games was that, at the time, micros did not have enough memory and disk storage to handle the entirety of the original game.
In the process, more content was added to Zork to make each game stand on its own.
A version of Zork I was issued as a hidden 'easter egg' in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
It has exactly the same text and rules as the original.
Zork is set in "the ruins of an ancient empire lying far underground".
The player is a nameless adventurer "who is venturing into this dangerous land in search of wealth and adventure".
The goal is to return from the "Great Underground Empire" alive with the treasures, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master.
The dungeons are stocked with many novel creatures, objects and locations, among them grues, zorkmids, and Flood Control Dam #3—all of which are referenced by subsequent Infocom text adventures.
FrobozzCo International is a fictional monopoly from the game.
FrobozzCo products are littered throughout all Zork games, often with humorous effect.
Zork series
The original Zork Trilogy
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980, Infocom)
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981, Infocom)
Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982, Infocom)
Later additions to the series
The Enchanter trilogy:
Enchanter (1983, Infocom)
Sorcerer (1984, Infocom)
Spellbreaker (1985, Infocom)
Games that take place somewhere in the Zork universe:
Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (1985, Infocom)
The Zork Quest series:
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle (1988, Infocom, interactive computer comic book)
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom (1989, Infocom, interactive computer comic book)
The Zork Anthology comprises the original Zork Trilogy plus:
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor (1987, Infocom)
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988, Infocom, text with some graphics)
Return to Zork (1993, Infocom/Activision, graphical)
The Philosopher's Stone (Activision, unfinished text prequel to Zork Nemesis)
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands (1996, Activision, graphical)
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997, written by Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank (original Infocom implementors) and released by Activision to promote the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor)
Zork Grand Inquisitor (1997, Activision, graphical)
Legends of Zork, an online, browser-based spin-off
69105, a number that became somewhat of an in-joke in several Infocom games
The Lurking Horror, another Infocom IF, that references Zork.
Grue, the infamous Zork monster
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, the winner of the 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition, is strongly influenced by the Zork universe and includes many elements.
Montfort, Nick.
Twisty Little Passages.''
Play Zork online  at THCNET's interactive 404 error page.
Play Zork I online  at Infocom, the place where it all started.
Download and play the original mainframe version of Zork, as well as a 1982 map of the Zork universe.
Zork I, II, III and The Undiscovered Underground  Download Zork I, II and III for Win, DOS or Mac (no Z-interpreter needed), and The Undiscovered Underground (Z-machine interpreters included).
Includes "The New Zork Times"
Infocom-IF.org, Infocom history, authors, etc.;
often updated with any news from Activision; also downloads of games ready for Z-Machine interpreters like frotz.
Article at The Dot Eaters , featuring an extensive history of the Zork games and Infocom
The History Of Zork – Article
The Zork trilogy on Iron Realms.
Retroist Zork Podcast
Battles of Napoleon is a 1988 computer wargame by Chuck Kroegel and David Landrey released by Strategic Simulations, Inc.. It was released for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and DOS.
Computer Gaming World gave it a glowing review, calling it "the game that can keep you satisfied, even addicted, for many years to come."
The magazine later awarded it as "Wargame of the Year".
The neusis is a geometric construction method that was used by ancient Greek mathematicians.
At that time, people did not have good rules to measure distances.
They did not know algebra.
So, they studied geometry by moving fixed length sticks around on a piece of paper.
Geometric construction
The neusis construction (from Greek νεῦσις from νεύειν neuein "incline towards"; plural: νεύσεις neuseis) fits a line element of given length (a) in between two given lines (l and m), in such a way that the line element, or its extension, passes through a given point P. That is, one end of the line element has to lie on l, the other end on m, while the line element is "inclined" towards P.
A neusis construction might be performed by means of a 'Neusis Ruler': a marked ruler that is rotatable around the point P (this may be done by putting a pin into the point P and then pressing the ruler against the pin).
In the figure, one end of the ruler is marked with a yellow eye with crosshairs: this is the origin of the scale division on the ruler.
A second marking on the ruler (the blue eye) indicates the distance a from the origin.
The yellow eye is moved along line l, until the blue eye coincides with line m. The position of the line element thus found is shown in the figure as a dark blue bar.
Point P is called the pole of the neusis, line l the directrix, or guiding line, and line m the catch line.
Length a is called the diastema (διάστημα; Greek for "distance").
Use of the neusis
Neuseis have been important because they sometimes provide a means to solve geometric problems that are not solvable by means of compass and straightedge alone.
Examples are the trisection of any angle in three equal parts, or the construction of a regular heptagon.
Mathematicians such as Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC) freely used neuseis.
Slowly, the Greeks stopped using it.
Decline in use
T. L. Heath, the historian of mathematics, thought that the Greek mathematician Oenopides (ca.
440 BC) was the first to put compass and straightedge constructions above neuseis.
Hippocrates of Chios (ca.
430 BC) may have spread the idea that mathematicians should avoid neuseis whenever possible.
He came from the same island as Oenopides, and who was—as far as we know—the first to write a systematically ordered geometry textbook.
One hundred years after him, Euclid also said bad things about neuseis in his very influential textbook, The Elements.
The next attack on the neusis came when, from the fourth century BC, Plato's idealism gained ground.
Under its influence, a hierarchy of three classes of geometrical constructions was developed.
Descending from the "abstract and noble" to the "mechanical and earthly", the three groups were:
constructions with straight lines and circles only (compass and straightedge);
constructions that in addition to this use conic sections (ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas);
constructions that needed yet other means of construction, for example neuseis.
In the end, the Greek mathematicians thought that using a neusis was acceptable only when the two other, higher groups of constructions did not offer a solution.
Neusis became a kind of last resort that was invoked only when all other, more respectable, methods had failed.
Using neusis where other construction methods might have been used, was branded by the late Greek mathematician Pappus of Alexandria (ca.
325 AD) as "a not inconsiderable error".
Angle trisection
Doubling the cube
R. Boeker, 'Neusis', in: Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, G. Wissowa red. (
1894–), Supplement 9 (1962) 415–461.–In German.
The most comprehensive survey; however, the author sometimes has rather curious opinions.
T. L. Heath, A history of Greek Mathematics (2 volumes; Oxford 1921).
H. G. Zeuthen, Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Altertum [= The Theory of Conic Sections in Antiquity] (Copenhagen 1886; reprinted Hildesheim 1966).
MathWorld page
Angle Trisection by Paper Folding
Eishō (Heian period) (永承), Japanese era from 1046 to 1053
Eishō (Muromachi period) (永正), Japanese era from 1504 to 1521
Empress Eishō (英照), empress consort of Emperor Kōmei of Japan
The acute accent ( ´ ) is a mark in many written languages.
It is usually added above a vowel to show how to say it.
Acute accents are sometimes added to consonants too.
Sometimes, the acute accent changes the sound of the whole word by giving it stress in a sentence.
This accent is part of many modern languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets.
The acute accent is one of many similar marks called diacritics.
The acute accent was first used in Ancient Greece.
It told the speaker when to say a syllable with a high pitch.
Another early accent mark was the apex.
In Latin the apex marked long vowels.
The acute accent is mainly used to tell readers about the sound of vowels in words.
Sometimes it is very important to the meaning because it shows the difference between two similar words.
For example, resume may mean to start again, but résumé is a summary of someone's work and school experience.
Some languages use the accent to show the same changes in sounds, but others use it differently.
The acute accent may show:
the vowel is stressed;
the vowel height of some stressed vowels in many Romance languages;
long vowels;
the tone in languages such as Vietnamese or Mandarin Chinese written in pinyin;
or, the pitch, or high accent, in dictionaries or language learning textbooks.
Expanding the alphabet
Some languages use the accent to actually make new letters.
Both Faroese and Icelandic add the acute accent to all of their vowels to make new letters.
These letters, á, í, ó, ú and ý (plus é in Icelandic) are separate letters with different pronunciations.
In Turkmen, the letter  is a consonant: .
French words in other languages
Many languages have borrowed words from French.
Many Norwegian words which came from French keep an acute accent.
Some examples are: allé, kafé, idé, komité.
Swedish examples include café and resumé (noun).
Examples in English include: attaché, canapé, cliché, communiqué, café, décor, fiancé, passé, toupée and touché.
However, sometimes writers forget or choose not to use the accent mark.
Writing other languages in English
Some languages such as Arabic, Persian, or Japanese do not use alphabets.
Some writers use the acute accent to tell how the words should sound when words from these languages are written in English.
This is more common in older books and less common today.
The ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 character encodings included á, é, í, ó, ú, ý.
They also had how letters and accents looked when they were written as capital letters.
Unicode has many more letters with the acute accent.
To make an accented letter in a Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.),
users hold the  key and press the apostrophe  key once.
Then, let the  key go, and press the letter they want.
Macintosh OS X
On Apple Macintosh computers, users press option-e and then the vowel.
Vowels can also be capitalised.
For example, users make á by pressing option-e and then 'a'.
Pressing Option-e and then Shift-a makes Á.
On Wikipedia, users make these symbols by clicking on a link in a box.
Some other websites work the same way.
Circumflex accent
Grave accent
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Diacritics Project – All you need to design a font with correct accents
Keyboard Help – Learn how to create world language accent marks and other diacriticals on a computer
It reminds of the romantic legend of Usha and Anirudha.
The legend revolves around Banasura, the great Asura king of ancient Tezpur, his beautiful daughter Usha and her friend Chitralekha.
The princess saw a handsome prince in her dreams and fell in love with him.
Chitralekha, a talented artist, not only painted his portrait from Usha's description but recognised him to be Aniruddha, the grandson of Lord Krishna and ruler of Dwarka.
Using her magical powers, Chitralekha spirited Aniruddha away to the princess' boudoir where the two married each other according to Gandharva rites, without the knowledge of the king.
When Banasura learnt of the clandestine romance, he imprisoned Aniruddha, which led to the arrival of Lord Krishna to rescue his grandson.
A fierce battle followed and the entire city was drenched in human blood, hence the name Sonitpur or Tezpur, i.e. ‘the city of blood’ .
Pre-British Era
Sir Edward A. Gait ( 1897) had made reference to the nine line inscription of Harjjar Varma in his ‘’A History of Assam.’’
The inscription is the first recorded history of Assam and dates back to 829 A.D. The inscription was found engraved on a massive
Salastambha dynasty ruled Kamrupa from seventh to Tenth century A.D. The accurate boundary of their kingdom is debatable.
But the erstwhile Darrang was certainly a part of the kingdom.
They shifted their capital from Pragjyotishpur to Haruppeswara, or Hatappeswara- the present day Tezpur.
The famous King of the dynasty Harjjar Varma, besides other things had excavated a large pond in 70 acres of land, later came to be known as Hajara Pukhuri ( Harjjara Pukhuri ).Pal dynasty ruled Haruppeswara till the 12th century.
The most famous ruler of the Pal dynasty was Brahmapal.
After the Pal dynasty’’ the royal dominance of the Koch Kings in the west and the Ahoms in the east started growing.
During the 14th and 15th century a large part of the western bank of Brahmaputra from Singri in the west and Sootea in the east was ruled by the Bara-Bhuyans.
The great saint poet Sri Sri Shankardeva belonged to Bara-Bhuyan family, who settled at Rowta in Darrang District.
The Ahom King Suhungmung alias Dihingia Raja occupied the territories of the Bara-Bhuyans on the north in 1505 A.D.The Koch King Biswa Sinha rose to power in 1515 A.D. King Naranarayana who ascended the thorne in about 1540 A. D. divided his Kingdom into two parts.
He had given the eastern part to the son of his brother Chilarai and the western part of the kingdom to his own son Lakshminarayana.
But soon after their ascension as kings, fatricidal war broke out and Lakshminarayana sought refuge with the Mughals which eventually led to invasion of Kamrup by the Mughals.
Balinarayana, one of the brothers of Pariksitnarayana fled away to Gorgaon to seek the help of the Ahom king Swargadew Pratapsingha.
Pratapsingha christened Balinarayana as Dharmanarayana, made him the king of Darrang and declared war against the Mughals (1616-1637 A.D.).
The Ahoms defeated the mighty Mughals in the Bharali war and re-occupied Darrang from the Mughals.
King Dharmanarayana made supreme sacrifice in Singari war in 1638.
His son Sundarnarayana ascended the throne and became the king of Darrang.(excluding Tezpur).
On the other hand, the Ahoms ruled the eastern part of Darrang ( present Sonitpur) through Kalia Bhomora Borphukan, stationed at Kaliabor.
The Ahom Kings resettled many people in the southern part of Brahmaputra.
British Period
The British annexed the then Assam into the Indian British Empire in 1826.
After1826 the Lower Assam and the Central Assam (Darrang, Nagaon and Raha) were made one division which extended up to Biswanath.
The division was placed under one Administrative Officer designated as the Principal Assistant to the Commissioner.
The Upper Assam portion was left to the native rulers with supervisory control under a British political agent with political headquarters at Biswanath.
Captain Neufville was the political agent for Upper Assam.
Darrang Division was administered till 1833 from Guwahati.
Darrang was converted into a district and Mangaldai was made the district Headquarter in 1833.
But due to various reasons the British shifted the head quarter to Tezpur in 1835.
The district comprised of two sub-divisions, Tezpur sadar sub-division and Mangaldoi sub-division with head quarter at Mangaldoi.
The District of Darrang was divided in to six Revenue Circles under one Sub-Deputy Collector in each Circle.
There was one Transferred area in the district at Charduar.
An Asst.
Political Officer was posted at Charduar under the Deputy Commissioner who acted as Political Officer.
Tezpur was a small township then.
The British developed Tezpur as a small garrison township.
Later, tea gardens were set-up throughout the district.
The old steamarghat at Jahajghat, the Dak-Bungalow, the then Chummery compound at present Don-Bosco School campus, the Planters Club of Tezpur (Stations Club), the Jahajghat Railway Station, the Church of Ephiphany etc.
and many tea gardens are some of the examples of the contributions of the British.
Freedom Struggle
There is no specific information about the alignment of the people of the district in the earlier struggle for liberation waged by the princely and upper class people in Upper Assam from 1828 to 1857.
But, with the spread of western education during the last part of the 19th century a new awakening surcharged the patriots of the land.
The Tezpur Ryot Sabha sent Kali Krishna Barkakoti to as its delegate to the National Congress in 1885.
It had played an active role in early period of the freedom struggle.
On 10th September 1942, at Gohpur a young girl led a procession of unarmed villagers under Congress flag.
She was Kanaklata Barua – a girl from Barangabari village.
As soon as Kanaklata unfurled the flag she and her companion Mukunda Kakati were gunned down by the armed Police.
The saga of her heroic sacrifice is still remembered with pride.
Post-Independence
The administration set up by the British continued even after Independence.
Darrang district with head quarter at Tezpur continued as an important district of Assam.
Towards 1961, Tezpur started to become a center of Trade and Commerce.
A year later, in 1962, war broke out with China.
The Chinese Army advanced up-to Sessa near Bhalukpung.
People started fleeing from their homes.
The war had left a bitter experience in the minds of the people of the district.
In 1983, Darrang district was bifurcated.
Tezpur sadar sub-division was named as Sonitpur district with an outlying Sub-Division at Biswanath Chariali.
Mangaldoi sub-division was named as Darrang district.
Two major events in the field of communication and education can be cited as landmarks in post-independence history of the district.
The first one being the construction of Kalia Bhomora Bridge and its inauguration on 14th April,1987, by Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.
The second one is the establishment of a Central University at Napaam named as Tezpur University.
In the cultural front one can very well name the trio of Assamese culture who were born in the district.
The post independence era had seen their talents flourishing which had not only enriched the cultural horizon of the district but has also contributed to formation of a composite Assamese culture.
was a  after Tenbun and before Eiroku.
This period started in October 1555 and ended in February 1558.
Events of the Kōji era
1555 (Kōji 1, 1st month): A border war between daimyos of Aki Province and Suō Province.
1555 (Kōji 1, 11th month):  Mōri Motonari won the , also known as the "Battle of Miyajima"
1555 (Kōji 1): Battle of Kawanakajima.
1556 (Kōji 2): The Ōmori silver mine controlled by the Mori clan.
27 September 1557 (Kōji 3, 5th day of the 9th month): Emperor Go-Nara died at age 62.
Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) is a name for political changes in Czechoslovakia between November 17 and December 29, 1989.
It ended with the fall of the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and start of the democratization process.
The name Velvet was chosen for its softness.
After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia ended the Prague Spring in August 1968, censorship began again and the Communist Party expelled a lot of its members.
This event during the 1970s is known as Normalization.
Despite these events, the economic situation in Czechoslovakia was better than in other countries of Eastern Bloc (for example in Poland or Hungary).
The Velvet Revolution started at an official event for 50th anniversary of the closing of Czechoslovakian universities on November 17, 1939 by the Nazis in Prague.
This event continued after its official end and was violently ended by state police on the street "Národní třída".
In following days people organized meetings for protest against the actions of state police.
750-800 thousand people were at one of the biggest protests on November 25.
On November 19, the Civic Forum, the political movement which led the dialogue with the communist government, was created in The Drama Club in Prague.
The same day, the movement "Public Against Violence" was created in Bratislava.
On November 27 a general strike took place.
On this day there was a protest at Wenceslas Square with 300,000 people.
Its main slogan was "Konec vlády jedné strany" - End of one-part government.
Václav Havel was named as president of Czechoslovakia on December 29, 1989.
He was the first non-communist president of Czechoslovakia since 1948.
Velvet Revolution on totalita.cz Detailed day-to-day history with key documents quoted (in Czech language only).
In the footsteps of November 17 - Czech.cz
Infocom was a software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction.
They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone.
It is also credited for creating the DOS game series Zork.
The company bought by Activision in 1986.
Titles and authors
The Zork series:
The original Zork Trilogy (Marc Blank & Dave Lebling):
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)
The Enchanter Trilogy:
Enchanter (1983, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling)
Sorcerer (1984, Steve Meretzky)
Spellbreaker (1985, Dave Lebling)
Mini Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1987, Marc Blank & Dave Lebling, free cut-down, single load tape version of game, covermounted on UK's ZZAP!64 magazine)
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor (1987, Brian Moriarty)
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988, Steve Meretzky)
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997, Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank)
The Planetfall series:
Planetfall (1983, Steve Meretzky)
Stationfall (1987, Steve Meretzky)
Deadline (1982, Marc Blank)
Starcross (1982, Dave Lebling)
Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare (1983, Michael Berlyn)
Infidel (1983, Michael Berlyn)
The Witness (1983, Stu Galley)
Cutthroats (1984, Michael Berlyn & Jerry Wolper)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984, Steve Meretzky & Douglas Adams)
Seastalker (1984, Stu Galley & Jim Lawrence)
Suspect (1984, Dave Lebling)
A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985, Steve Meretzky)
Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (1985, Brian Moriarty)
Ballyhoo (1986, Jeff O'Neill)
Hollywood Hijinx (1986, "Hollywood" Dave Anderson)
Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986, Steve Meretzky)
Moonmist (1986, Stu Galley & Jim Lawrence)
Trinity (1986, Brian Moriarty)
Border Zone (1987, Marc Blank)
Bureaucracy (1987, Infocom & Douglas Adams)
The Lurking Horror (1987, Dave Lebling)
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (1987, Jeff O'Neill)
Plundered Hearts (1987, Amy Briggs)
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1988, Bob Bates)
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989, Bob Bates)
James Clavell's Shogun (1989, Dave Lebling)
Journey (1989, Marc Blank)
Graphic Adventures
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X! (
1992, Steve Meretzky)
Return to Zork (1993, Doug Barnett)
Zork: Nemesis (1996)
Zork Grand Inquisitor (1997)
BattleTech Games
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (1988, developed by Westwood Studios)
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge (1991, developed by Westwood Studios)
Other Games
Fooblitzky (1985, Marc Blank, Mike Berlyn, Poh Lim & Paula Maxwell)
Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth (1988, Scott Schmitz, Ken Updike & Amy Briggs)
Mines of Titan (1988, Louis Castle & Brett Sperry)
Tombs & Treasure (1989, developed by Nihon Falcom)
Circuit's Edge (1989, developed by Westwood Studios)
Infocomics
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen (1988, Steve Meretzky)
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams (1988, Amy Briggs)
ZorkQuest: Assault on Egreth Castle (1988, Elizabeth Langosy)
ZorkQuest II: The Crystal of Doom (1988, Elizabeth Langosy)
The Zork Trilogy (1986; contained Zork I, Zork II & Zork III)
The Enchanter Trilogy (1986; contained Enchanter, Sorcerer & Spellbreaker)
The Lost Treasures of Infocom (1991; contained 20 of Infocom's interactive fiction games)
The Lost Treasures of Infocom II (1992; contained 11 interactive fiction games)
The Zork Anthology (1994; contained Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork & Zork Zero)
The Mystery Collection  (1995; contained Deadline, Lurking Horror, Moonmist, Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, Suspect and The Witness.
Zork Zero and Planetfall were a bonus in some packages)
The Adventure Collection (1995; contained Border Zone, Plundered Hearts, Cutthroats, Trinity and Infidel)
The Comedy Collection (1995; contained Bureaucracy, Hollywood Hijinx and Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It)
The Fantasy Collection (1995; contained Spellbreaker, Enchanter, Sorcerer, Seastalker and Wishbringer)
The Science Fiction Collection (1995; contained Suspended, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Starcross, Stationfall and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom (1996; contained 33 Infocom games plus six winners of the SPAG Interactive Fiction Contest not affiliated with Infocom)
Zork Special Edition (1997; contained Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Planetfall)
Zork Classics: Interactive Fiction (2000)
The Zork Legacy Collection (2002; contained The Zork Anthology, Return to Zork, and Zork Nemesis)
Gemology or gemmology is the science of dealing with natural and artificial gems and gemstones.
It is considered a geoscience and a branch of mineralogy.
Some jewelers are trained gemologists and are qualified to identify and evaluate gems.
Didcot Power Station refers to a combined coal and oil power plant (Didcot A Power Station) and a natural-gas power plant (Didcot B Power Station) that supply the National Grid.
They are right next to one another in the civil parish of Sutton Courtenay, next to the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), in the UK.
The combined power stations feature a chimney which is one of the taller structures in the United Kingdom, and six hyperbolic cooling towers, which can be seen from much of the surrounding area.