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"1700 Years of Faithfulness: History of Armenia and its Churches" (Moscow, 2001, re-published in 2005)
"Cry from Ararat: Armin Wegner and Armenians' Genocide" (Moscow, 2005).
A cockatoo is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea.
Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes (parrots).
The name cockatoo comes from the Malay name for these birds, kaka(k)tua, via the Dutch kaketoe.
Cockatoos are recognisable by the showy crests and curved and strong bills.
Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail.
On average they are larger than other parrots; however, the Cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird.
Distribution and habitat
Cockatoos have a much more restricted range than the true parrots, occurring naturally only in Australasia.
Eleven of the 21 species exist in the wild only in Australia, while seven species occur only in the islands of the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Interestingly, no cockatoo species are found in Borneo (despite their presence on nearby Palawan and Sulawesi) or many Pacific islands, although fossil remains have been recorded from New Caledonia.
Three species occur in both New Guinea and Australia.
Some species have widespread distributions, with the Galah, for example, occurring over most of Australia, whereas other species have tiny distributions, confined to a small part of the continent, such as the Long-billed Black Cockatoo of Western Australia or to a small island group, such as the Tanimbar Corella, which is restricted to the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia.
Cockatoos occupy a wide range of habitats, from forests in subalpine zones to mangroves.
However, no species is found in all types of habitat.
The most widespread species, such as the Galah and Cockatiel, are open-country specialists that feed on grass seeds.
Other cockatoo species, such as the Glossy Black Cockatoo, inhabit woodlands, rainforests, shrublands and even forests with an alpine climate.
The Philippine Cockatoo inhabits mangroves.
Several species have adapted well to human modified habitats and are found in agricultural areas and even busy cities.
The cockatoos were first defined as a subfamily Cacatuinae within the parrot family Psittacidae by the English naturalist George Robert Gray in 1840, with Cacatua the first listed and type genus.
This group has alternately been considered as either a full family or a subfamily by different authorities.
The American ornithologist James Lee Peters in his 1937 Check-list of Birds of the World, Sibley and Monroe in 1990 maintained it as a subfamily, while parrot expert Joseph Forshaw classified it as a family in 1973.
Subsequent molecular studies indicate that the earliest offshoot from the original parrot ancestors were the New Zealand parrots of the family Strigopidae, and following this the cockatoos, now a well-defined group or clade, split off from the remaining parrots, which then radiated across the southern hemisphere and diversified into the many species of parrots, parakeets, macaws, lories, lorikeets, lovebirds and other true parrots of the family Psittacidae.
The fossil record of cockatoos is even more limited than that of parrots in general, with only one truly ancient cockatoo fossil known: a species of Cacatua, most probably subgenus Licmetis, found in Early Miocene (16–23 million years ago) deposits of Riversleigh, Australia.
Although fragmentary, the remains are similar to the Western Corella and the Galah.
Species and subspecies
Genus Nymphicus
Cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus (Kerr, 1792)
Genus Calyptorhynchus
Subgenus Calyptorhynchus – black-and-red cockatoos
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii (Latham, 1790)
Glossy Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) lathami (Temminck, 1807)
Subgenus Zanda – black-and-yellow/white cockatoos
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus (Zanda) funereus (Shaw, 1794)
Short-billed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus (Zanda) latirostris Carnaby, 1948
Long-billed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus (Zanda) baudinii Lear, 1832
Tribe Microglossini: One genus with one species, the black Palm Cockatoo.
Genus Probosciger
Palm Cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788)
Tribe Cacatuini: Four genera of white, pink and grey species.
Genus Callocephalon
Gang-gang Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum (Grant, 1803)
Genus Eolophus
Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817)
Genus Lophochroa
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (also Leadbeater's Cockatoo), Lophochroa leadbeateri (Vigors, 1831)
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri leadbeateri (Vigors, 1831)
Western Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri mollis (Mathews, 1912)
Genus Cacatua
Subgenus Cacatua – true white cockatoos
Yellow-crested Cockatoo (also Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo), Cacatua (Cacatua) sulphurea (Gmelin, 1788)
Abbott's Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) sulphurea abbotti (Oberholser, 1917)
Timor Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) sulphurea parvula (Bonaparte, 1850)
Citron-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) sulphurea citrinocristata (Fraser, 1844)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita (Latham, 1790)
Triton Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita triton Temminck, 1849
Eleonora Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita eleonora (Finsch, 1863)
Fitzroy Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita fitzroyi (Mathews, 1912)
Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita galerita (Latham, 1790)
Blue-eyed Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) ophthalmica Sclater, 1864
White Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) alba (Müller, 1776)
Salmon-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua (Cacatua) moluccensis (Gmelin, 1788)
Subgenus Licmetis – corellas
Long-billed Corella, Cacatua (Licmetis) tenuirostris (Kuhl, 1820)
Western Corella, Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator (Gould, 1841)
Muir's Corella, Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator pastinator (Gould, 1841)
Butler's Corella, Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator butleri Ford, J., 1987
Little Corella, Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea Gould, 1843
Tanimbar Corella (also Goffin's Cockatoo), Cacatua (Licmetis) goffiniana Roselaar and Michels, 2004
Solomons Cockatoo, Cacatua (Licmetis) ducorpsii Pucheran, 1853
Philippine Cockatoo, Cacatua (Licmetis) haematuropygia (Müller, 1776)
The cockatoos are mostly medium to large parrots with a heavy, compact body.
They range from  in length and  in weight.
However, one species, the Cockatiel, is considerably smaller and slimmer than the other species, being  long (including its long pointed tail feathers) and  in weight.
Cockatoos share many features with other parrots, including the characteristic curved beak shape and a zygodactyl foot, with the two middle toes forward and the two outer toes backward.
They differ however in a number of characteristics, including the presence of a gallbladder, some other anatomical details and their lack of the structures in the feathers which cause the bright blues and greens seen in true parrots.
Like other parrots, cockatoos have short legs and strong claws, and often use their strong bill as a third limb when climbing through branches.
They generally have long broad wings used in rapid flight, with speeds up to  being recorded for galahs.
The members of the genus Calyptorhynchus and larger white cockatoos, such as the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, have shorter, rounder wings and a more leisurely flight.
Cockatoos are active mainly during the day and require daylight to find their food.
They eat a range of mainly vegetable food items.
Seeds form a large part of the diet of all species; these are opened with their large and powerful bills.
The Galahs, corellas and some of the black cockatoos feed primarily on the ground; others feed mostly in trees.
Like most parrots, the cockatoos are made their nests in holes in trees, which they are unable to excavate themselves.
These hollows are formed from decay or destruction of wood by branches breaking off, fungi or insects such as termites or even woodpeckers where their ranges overlap.
In many places these holes are scarce and the source of competition, both with other members of the same species and with other species and types of animal.
In general, cockatoos choose hollows only a little larger than themselves, hence different-sized species nest in holes of corresponding (and different) sizes.
The female lays two white eggs on small pieces of wood.
The young, which is born naked and blind, is fed by the adults with partially digested food for about three months.
Status and conservation
According to the IUCN and BirdLife International, seven species of cockatoo are considered to be vulnerable or worse and one is considered to be near threatened.
Of these, two species—the Philippine Cockatoo (or Red-vented Cockatoo) and the Yellow-crested Cockatoo—are considered to be critically endangered.
The principal threats to cockatoos are habitat loss and the trade in wild animals.
All cockatoos nest in trees, and are vulnerable to their loss.
Also, many species have specific habitat requirements or live on small islands and have naturally small ranges, making them especially vulnerable.
Cockatoos are popular as pets and the capture and trade has threatened some species; between 1983 and 1990, 66,654 recorded Salmon-crested Cockatoos were exported from Indonesia, a figure that does not include the number of birds caught for the domestic trade or that were exported illegally.
The capture of many species has subsequently been banned but the trade continues illegally.
Not only are the rare species smuggled out of Indonesia but also common and rare cockatoos alike are smuggled out of Australia.
All species of cockatoo except the Cockatiel are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which restricts import and export of wild-caught parrots to special licensed purposes.
Five cockatoo species (including all subspecies)—the Tanimbar Corella (Cacatua goffiniana), Philippine Cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), Moluccan Cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis), Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) and Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus)—are protected on the CITES Appendix I list.
With the exception of the Cockatiel, all remaining cockatoo species are protected on the CITES Appendix II list.
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) - Cacatuinae (cockatoos and relatives)
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) - Cacatuidade (Cockatoo)
IOC World Bird List - Parrots
The P-39 Airacobra was a fighter aircraft made by Bell Aircraft.
It first flew in 1939, and was introduced in 1941.
While it had good weapons, it was known for being very unstable and could lose control easily.
It was fast but not very good above 5000 m (15,000 feet) as it lacked turbocharger.
The Soviet Union used it during World War II as a fighter interceptor as most air battles at the Eastern front were fought at low heights.
Very near the ground the Airacobra became extremely maneuverable and could out-turn any German airplane.
The Russians liked the plane, and they often removed the wing guns to make it even more maneuvreable.
Several Soviet pilots became fighter aces on P-39.
The main weapon of P-39, a 37 mm cannon, was so powerful that it could destroy almost any airplane on a single hit.
The pilot who scored the most aerial victories was Grigori Rechkalov of the Soviet Air Force.
He shot down 57 Germans with Airacobra.
His squadronmate Aleksandr Pokryshkin had 59 victories, of which 47 were with Airacobra.
The P-39 was different from most aircraft in World War II.
It had "tricycle" landing gear, doors that opened like a car (pilots would climb out of most fighters of the time) and the engine was behind the pilot.
The "Q" version could go 375 miles per hour (600 km/h), had four 12.7mm machine guns, and one 37mm cannon.
P-39
Air Canada is Canada's largest airline.
It flies from Canada to the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and some Caribbean countries.
Air Canada began on September 1, 1937.
It was first called Trans-Canada Air Lines.
The first flight was from Vancouver to Seattle.
The airline's name changed to Air Canada in 1964.
A large strike was launched by Air Canada pilots in September 1998.
Air Canada bought Canadian Airlines in 2000.
Since the early 2000s Air Canada has had many financial problems.
Air Canada has ordered the Boeing 737 MAX airplanes for the future.
It is still receiving more Embraers and Boeing 787s.
In the past, Air Canada had Airbus A340s, Boeing 727s, Boeing 737s, Boeing 747s, Douglas DC-8s, Douglas DC-9s and Embraer 170s.
1965 establishments in North America
Airlines of Canada
Actinolite is a mineral that can be green, green-black, gray-green, or black in color and is made of crystals.
It is common around the world.
The environment it lives in is in metamorphic rocks.
It is named after the Greek word aktinos (meaning "ray") because of the nature of Actinolite.
Actinole is not radioactive.
A buoy is a floating device that can have many uses.
It is usually anchored in a certain place.
The word is most commonly said () (as in buoyant),  but in American English it is often pronounced .
Navigational aids
Buoys are used by ships to navigate or sail safely from place to place.
They are used to mark a safe channel on a river, lake or harbour.
They are used to mark dangerous rocks and other items which ships have to keep clear of.
They can also be used to mark a shipwreck, pipelines or swimming areas.
The Gulf Coast region of the United States is made up of the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico.
The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States.
All Gulf States are in the Southern region of the United States.
A historical map from 1639 of the Gulf Coast
The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 10 to 18 counties in the state.
It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama and Georgia to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
While some definitions only include the counties west of the Apalachicola River, others include the eight counties east of the Apalachicola that are part of the Big Bend region.
Culturally and in terms of history and climate, the region is more closely tied to the Deep South than to peninsular Florida.
Around 1970, it was believed that the Loop Current exhibited an annual cycle in which the Loop feature extended farther to the north during the summer.
Further study over the past few decades, however, has shown that the extension to the north (and the shedding of eddies) does not have a significant annual cycle.
Sea surface level of both the Eddies and the Loop on September 21, 2005 was up to  higher than surrounding water, indicating a deep area of warm water beneath them.
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005 was a vividly worded release issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana warning of the devastation that the Gulf Coast of the United States could experience as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Partly due to this bulletin, people in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi, those most affected by the storm's impact, followed evacuation orders more closely, resulting in a reduced fatality number.
On the evening of August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near the Miami-Dade – Broward county line in southern Florida and weakened into a tropical storm as a result.
The next morning, after passing over the state, Tropical Storm Katrina moved into the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened back to hurricane strength, and from the influence of the warm waters from the Loop Current, began undergoing rapid deepening.
At 11:00 p.m. EDT August 26, approximately 56 hours before Katrina's landfall near Buras, Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center had predicted that the New Orleans metropolitan area could face a direct hit by the storm.
As New Orleans is located on the Mississippi River delta and much of the city is below sea level, a strong hurricane could have a devastating effect on the city.
Previous warnings, such as the one made by the Houston Chronicle in 2001, told of a disaster that "would strand 250,000 people or more, and probably kill one of 10 left behind as the city drowned under 20 feet of water" following a severe hurricane making landfall on the city.
The National Hurricane Center's director, Max Mayfield, mentioned that the Mississippi/Louisiana area has "the greatest potential for nightmare scenarios," and that this has been known for at least the three decades he has worked at the NHC.
Other publications, such as Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and The Times-Picayune predicted doomsday situations in which a sinking city would drown and its residents would be left homeless.
In 1965, Hurricane Betsy made landfall just south of New Orleans, causing widespread flooding in the city.
As a result, a system of levees was authorized by Congress to handle future storm events.
However, the protection given by this system was limited to hurricanes up to Category 3 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Three days before Katrina's second and third landfalls, the National Hurricane Center began predicting that the storm would make landfall as a major hurricane.
By the next morning, on August 27, the NHC gave out a hurricane watch that included the New Orleans metro area, which was upgraded to a hurricane warning by 10:00 p.m. CDT that same evening.
At this point, Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph (185 km/h) winds and about 335 miles (540 km) to the south-southeast of the Mississippi River's mouth.
That night, the storm underwent another period of rapid strengthening, strengthening to a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) by 10:00 am CDT on August 28.
At that time, the Weather Forecasting Office in Slidell, Louisiana issued an "urgent weather message" describing the destruction Katrina would likely cause in the region:
Bulletin text
In the following months after the storm, Congress appointed a two-party system committee to look into the response to Hurricane Katrina and the preparations before to its landfall.
The committee concluded that the forecasts given by the National Weather Service were timely, were not responsible for failures in other agencies, and were likely responsible for saving thousands of lives.
During an internal assessment by the National Weather Service, the 10:11 bulletin and its impact were examined.
The report called the bulletin "a significant moment for the NWS during Katrina," as its detailed and specific language did not have any previous precedent (though the message was based on a template designed by the Tampa Weather Office in 1990).
The strongly-worded statement persuaded people to evacuate, and was highlighted by national news media.
As a result, the level of detail was highlighted as an "innovative best practice" in the NWS assessment, which recommended issuing warnings with similar levels of detail in the future.
Cesc Fàbregas (born May 4, 1987) is a Spanish football player.
He plays as a midfielder for Monaco in the Ligue 1.
Fàbregas started playing football at Barcelona.
In 2003, when he was just 16 years old, he signed with Arsenal.
He was named as the new captain of Arsenal in November 2008, after William Gallas lost the captaincy.
He also plays for the Spanish national team since he was 19.
He signed for Chelsea FC in June 2014.
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This is a story about a kid named Keith who lives in London and his parents who own a fish and chip shop.
This parents for a long time have not had many customers.
Keith is dedicated to trying to make the store better and cheer up his parents so they won't be Misery Guts for the rest of their lives.
He tries everything including some crazy stunts.
The story continues in the hilarious sequel Worry Warts.
The book did not sell very well.
As of November 2007, the "Misery Guts/Worry Warts" combination was ranked #3,465,204 in books sold by Amazon.
A television series was made based on this book.
Misery Guts on Amazon.com
Brett Lee (born 8 November, 1976 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer.
He has played for the Australian national cricket team and New South Wales Blues.
He has taken more than 300 wickets.
Brett is a very fast bowler, one of the fastest the cricket world has known.
His fastest delivery was .
Lee won the Donald Bradman Young Player of the Year Award at the Allan Border Medal award ceremony in 2000 soon after his debut and has gone on to win many awards and a few tournaments.
Otters are animals that live near and around water.
They are a part of the animal family Mustelid.
A group of otters is called a "romp", because they play together and are energetic.
They live in nests called holts.
There are many different kinds of otters.
Some live near rivers, some in the sea (sea otters).
Otters live on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica.
Otters are long and slim animals that can be longer than a meter.
They have four short legs.
They usually stay on all four legs, but they can stand up as well but they are expert swimmers and spend a lot of time in water.
They have a thick fur coat that keeps them warm even in freezing water.
They have very soft, insulated underfur, which is protected by an outer layer of long guard hairs.
This traps a layer of air which keeps them dry and warm under water.
They keep the air topped up by blowing into the fur with their mouth.
Their fur is often brown at the top, and lighter underneath the Otter.
They eat meat and hunt for fish and small animals, so they have sharp claws and teeth that allow them to catch prey, then eat them.
They are great swimmers and divers; they can stay underwater for 8 minutes.
Their thick and long tail helps them steer while swimming underwater.
Also, their feet are webbed, which helps them swim.
On they ground, they can run very fast.
Otters are carnivores; they must eat a lot of meat to live, so they spend 3 to 5 hours every day fishing and hunting.
They can die of hunger more quickly than most animals.
They eat fish, crayfish, crabs, and frogs.
They will eat any small animals and birds they can catch.
Much of their food is found in water.
They dive in rivers, lakes and streams until they can find a suitable animal to eat, which they then chase.
Once they catch it, they bring it to the top of the water, where they eat it.
If the animal has a hard shell, otters can use a rock as a tool to break open the shell.
Otters are playful and energetic.
They can be seen sliding down hills and slopes, as well as chasing other otters for fun.
Some kinds of otters live in groups, while others are almost always alone.
Because they spent so much time in cold water, they have to groom their fur often to stop themselves from freezing.
Otters talk to other animals and otters with whistles, growls, chuckles and screams, as well as chirps, squeals, and some kinds of otters might even purr.
They also leave their scent on plants to mark their territory.
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are classified as marine mammals.
They live along the Pacific coast of North America.
Their historic range included shallow waters of the Bering Strait.
It also included Kamchatka, and as far south as Japan.
Sea otters have about 26,000 to 165,000 hairs per square centimeters of skin.
They have a rich fur for which humans hunted them almost to extinction.
They frequently carry a rock in a pouch under their forearm.
They use this to smash open shells.
This makes them one of the few animals that use tools.
They grow to  in length and weigh .
Although once near extinction, they have begun to spread again, from remnant populations in California and Alaska.
European otter
The European otter (Lutra lutra) was common as recently as the 1950s, but became rare because of DDT pesticides, habitat loss and water pollution.
Hunting of otters was also common.
They stayed relatively common in parts of Scotland and Ireland, but numbers in England reached a low point in the 1980s.
They are now recovering strongly.
Otters are now quite common, especially in the west of England.
Roadkill deaths are now happening more.
There are 13 types of otters in the world.
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The Kyiv Arsenal factory in Kyiv, Ukraine, which gave its name to the Kyiv Arsenal mutiny of 1918 (also known as the January Rebellion).
The Arsenal in the Moscow Kremlin.
L'Arsenal, now a quarter in Paris.
The Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.
The Warsaw Arsenal
The Woolwich Arsenal, London, UK.
The Venetian Arsenal, Venice, Italy.
Arsenal, Arkansas
Arsenal de l'Aéronautique, French military aircraft manufacturer
The Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States.
Several places called Arsenal Hill.
The Arsenal Oak in Augusta, Georgia, United States.
Arsenal Street in Hong Kong.
Arsenal F.C., from North London.
Arsenal de Sarandí, from Avellaneda, Argentina.
Arsenal L.F.C., a women's football club from London
FC Arsenal Kyiv, from Kyiv, Ukraine.
FC Arsenal Kharkiv, from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Berekum Arsenal, from Berekum, Ghana.
Arsenal FC, from Roatan, Honduras.
Arsenal Tula, from Tula, Russia.
Arsenal Wanderers, from Mauritius.
FK Arsenal, from Montenegro.
FK Arsenal, from Serbia.
Arsenal (Maseru), from Maseru, Lesotho.
Arsenal, a Ukrainian film from 1928.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery a British murder mystery film from 1939.
Your Arsenal, a 1992 album by Morrissey.
Arsenal of Megadeth, a compilation album by Megadeth.
In comic books, Arsenal is an alias of Roy Harper, the original Speedy (sidekick to Green Arrow).
The "Arsenal of Democracy" is a famous fireside chat by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.
"The Arsenal of Freedom", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Arsenal (band) is the name of a Belgian music band.
Arsenal (Chicago band), another band.
The Arsenal, an automobile manufactured in the late 1890s.
The Arsenal VG-33, a WW2 French fighter aircraft.
Kiev-Arsenal (photo camera) a Soviet brand of camera manufactured by the Arsenal Factory in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Arsenal Shipka, a Bulgarian submachinegun.
Arsenal Gear, a fictional weapon in the video game Metal Gear Solid 2
Arsenal tube station, a station on the London Underground in Highbury, named after Arsenal FC.
Woolwich Arsenal railway station, a mainline station in Woolwich, London, named after the Woolwich Arsenal.
Arsenalna (Kyiv Metro), a station on the Kyiv Metro
Arsenal Real Estate Funds, LLC
The Medal of Honor is the highest award given to members of the United States Military.
It is given to people who show a lot of bravery in wartime.
Because of this, many people who get the Medal of Honor die earning it.
It was first given in 1863 during the American Civil War.
Dakota L. Meyer, who is the youngest and most recent living recipient
Jacob Parrott, who was the first man to be awarded the medal in 1863
Mary Walker, who was the first and only woman awarded the medal.
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., who is the most recent person to receive the medal in 2012.
According to Medal of Honor recipient Retired Army Maj.
Gen. Patrick Brady who flew more than 2,500 combat missions over Vietnam and helped rescue more than 5,000 wounded, "it is harder to wear it than to earn it".
Congressional Medal of Honor Society website
Medal of Honor  at the United States Army Center of Military History
Orders, decorations, and medals of the United States
Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a set of protocols used for computer networks.
It is mostly used for Wide Area Networks (WAN).
It splits the data, and encodes it into packets of a fixed size.
Each packet can be routed differently, along virtual paths set up in the network.
ATM has been very successful in WANs, as well as in Local Area Networks (LAN).
Today, many ADSL implementations use ATM technology.
Standards like Ethernet (which is used for LANs) usually are quite simple.
When there is little traffic on the network they work well.
However, when there is a lot of traffic it is difficult to predict how an Ethernet network will behave.
For this reason, Ethernet cannot give any service guarantees.
It is not possible to say that an Ethernet packet will take a maximum delay, but after that time it is guaranteed to arrive.
ATM is more complex, but this complexity allows to give guarantees as to data rate, maximum delay, and jitter.
These are usually called Quality of Service.
Blood type or blood group is a medical term.
It describes the type of blood a person has.
It is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs).
Blood types predict whether a serious reaction will occur in a blood transfusion.
This reaction is called a "haemolytic reaction".
It may destroy red blood cells, and cause renal failure.
Shock is likely to occur, and death is a possibility.
There are a number of human blood group systems.
Of these systems, the ABO blood group system and the Rhesus blood group system are the most important.
In this system the presence or absence of the A-antigen, the B-antigen and the RhD-antigen are determined.
ABO system
The principle
The principle of the ABO system is that antigens – in this instance, sugars exposed on the surface of red blood cells – differ between individuals.
This first discovered by Karl Landsteiner.
People have immunological tolerance only for what occurs in their own bodies.
As a result, humans may produce antibodies against natural components in the bodies of other people, but not themselves.
So, people may produce antibodies against A and/or B antigens if they are not in their blood.
These antibodies clump red blood cells together if they carry the foreign antigens.
This harsh response can cause death when large amounts of such cells are encountered after a blood transfusion.
Because A and B antigens are chemically modified from a precursor form that is also present in type O individuals, people with type A and B antigens can accept blood from type O individuals.
Anti-A and anti-B antibodies are not present in the newborn.
They appear in the first years of life.
Anti-A and anti-B antibodies are usually too big to pass through the placenta to the foetal blood circulation.
In a laboratory, blood is tested for antigens.
When a certain antigen is found, there are also always antibodies found.
Antibodies attack (attach to) antigens that they do not recognise.
Group A (with the A-antigen)		has anti-B antibodies
Group B (with the B-antigen)		has anti-A antibodies
Group AB (with both A and B-antigens)	has no antibodies
Group O (with no antigens)		has anti-A and anti-B antibodies
The blood is thus tagged as being A positive, O negative for instance, where the letter refers to the ABO blood group and "positive" or "negative" refers to whether or not the RhD-antigen of the Rhesus blood group system was found.
It can also be written A+  and O-, respectively.
Group O have no antigens, but have anti-A and anti-B antibodies.
This means that they can only receive blood from other people in group O, but they can give to any ABO group.
Group A have anti-B antibodies, so they can only receive blood from people within group A or O. These two groups do not have the B-antigen.
They can donate blood to people from group A or AB.
Group B have anti-A antibodies, so they can only receive blood from people within group B or O. They can donate to groups B or AB.
Blood group AB have no antibodies, so they can receive blood from any blood group.
However, they can only donate blood to other people with blood group AB.
People with type O negative blood are often called universal donors because they can give blood to any other blood group.
People with type AB positive blood are called universal recipients because they can receive blood from any other blood group.
Rhesus factor
The Rh factor (Rh meaning Rhesus) is a feature of the second most common blood-group system in human-blood transfusion.
it is named after the Rhesus monkey where they were first discovered.
Rh is an inherited trait, which refers to a protein on the surface of an individual's red blood cells.
The Rh factor is separate from, and in addition to, ABO groups.
The Rh factor is either present on individual's red blood cells or it is not.
Rh positive means the factor is present.
Rh negative means it is not present.
In blood transfusions it is important that the blood donor and recipient have the same Rh factor and same blood group.
Trance music is a kind of electronic music.
It centers around a synthesizer and bass drum on each beat and melodies with themes.
Most trance music usually have 140 beats per minute.
Trance music is commonly played in clubs.
The genre takes insipiration from techno, house music, and other kinds of electronic music.
Trance refers to an altered state of consciousness as, for example, achieved by hypnosis.
Trance music is characterised by unusually long tracks of highly repetitious music.
Group dancing makes the effect stronger, as it does with some types of traditional African music.
The general idea has been many times used in religious ceremonies.
Nobody knows who introduced the term to electronic music.
Important sub-genres
Acid trance
Psychedelic trance - see Psychedelic music
Uplifting trance
Famous Trance DJs (selection)
DJ JamX
DJ Tiesto
Oliver Lieb
Pascal F.E.O.S.
Paul Van Dyk
Piet Blank
Spacekid
Cosmic Gate
Andrew Rayel
Famous Trance performers (selection)
B.B.E.
Blank & Jones
Dumonde
Genlog
Kai Tracid
Matt Darey
Nalin Inc.
M.I.K.E.
Sequential One
Timo Maas
Yves Deruyter
Hailiene
Acuminite is a colorless mineral made from crystals.
It is named for the Latin word "acuminis" (meaning "sharp point" or "spearhead") for the way the crystals are made.
It is easily found in Greenland in the Ivigtut cryolite deposit.
It is easily scratched with a copper penny.
Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) are remarkable animals.
They are found in most of Africa south of the Sahara and are widely distributed in East Africa.
They are the only pigs able to live in areas without water for several months of the year.
By tolerating a higher-than-normal body temperature, the warthog is perhaps able to conserve moisture inside its body that might otherwise be used for cooling. (
Camels and desert gazelles have developed a similar mechanism for survival in hot, arid environments.)
Warthogs are found in moist and arid savannas.
They avoid rainforest, deserts and high mountains.
Moraines which are found far off from existing glaciers were created during a past ice age.
The debris may have been taken off the valley floor as a glacier moved or fallen off the valley walls as a result of weathering.
Moraines may be made of silt like glacial flour to large boulders.
Moraines may be on the glacier’s surface or deposited as piles or sheets of debris where the glacier has melted.
Moraines may also develop when a glacier or iceberg reaches the sea and melts, dropping rocks that it has carried.
Easterbrook, D. J. (1999) Surface processes and landforms. (
Second Ed).
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Silty soil has much smaller particles than sandy soil, so it is smooth to the touch.
When moistened, it is soapy slick.
When rolled between the fingers, dirt is left on the skin.
Silty soil retains water longer, but it can’t hold on to as many nutrients as you’d want it to, though it’s fairly fertile.
Due to its moisture-retentive quality, silty soil is cold and drains poorly.
Grain size criteria
Silt particles range between a  and  mm (3.9 to 62.5 μm), larger than clay but smaller than a sand.
Silt is chemically distinct from clay, and unlike clay, grains of silt are about the same size in all dimensions.
Silt may occur as a soil or alternatively as suspended sediment in a water column of any surface water body.
It may also exist as deposition soil at the bottom of a water body after it is eroded elsewhere and transported by a stream or by a current.
Silt is easily transported in water and is fine enough to be carried long distances by air as 'dust'.
Thick deposits of silty material that result from wind deposition are often called loess (a German term) or limon (French).
Silt and clay contribute to  in water.
Silt is a type of soil or earth material.
Silt, Colorado, a town in the United States
Silt elimia, a type of gastropod
Silt (Mistle Thrush album)
Silt'e language, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia
A catalytic converter is a device in the exhaust pipe of a car, near its engine.
It is used to clean up the exhaust the car sends out into the atmosphere.
It works by using a catalyst material, usually made of Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium.
The catalytic converter converts carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, all of which make the air dirty and make people sick, into carbon dioxide, water, and Nitrogen, all of which are less harmful.
These chemicals, however, are still large contributors to global warming.
The US auto industry was investigated by the US Department of Justice for “conspiracy” for 15 years of colluding to withhold the technology between 1953 and 1969 while smog devastated urban centers’ air quality.
A catalytic converter reduces carbon monoxide by contacting it with oxygen, creating carbon dioxide, which is less harmful.
Because hydrocarbons are unburned fuel particles that are put into the catalytic converter, they burn up in the catalytic converter, making it very hot.
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Adamite is a mineral that can be either yellow, purple, green, pink, or yellowish-green in color and is made from crystals.
It is very easy to break and it can be scratched by a copper penny.
Adamite is not radioactive.
It is named for the French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881), who was the person who discovered it.
It is mainly found in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Adamite is also used for other commercial resources.
Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States.
It opened on July 4, 1974.
The park complex also contains the Hurricane Harbor water park.
In 2012, Six Flags combined Great Adventure Park with the Wild Safari Area to form a single 475-acre theme park.
As of 2018, the park contained 12 roller coasters.
Three are world-class rides: El Toro, Kingda Ka and Nitro.
Kingda Ka, with a top speed of 128 mph feels like taking off from an aircraft carrier.
At 458 feet tall guests say on a clear day you can see both the Philadelphia and New York City skylines.
Nitro, another fast roller coaster, offers a panoramic view of the New Jersey countryside.
El Toro is one of the tallest wooden roller coasters at 181 feet.
The park includes a Safari Off-Road Adventure that has over 1,200 animals.
It is the largest drive-through safari park in North America.
There are three areas just for children.
The Hurricane Harbor water park takes up 45 acres by itself.
Between the three areas there are over 200 rides and attractions.
Six Flags Great Adventure is open between spring break and late October.
Located halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, the park opened in 1974.
At first it was called The Enchanted Forest.
In 1976 it was renamed Great Adventure.
Six Flags bought it in 1977.
On August 17, 1981 a park employee fell to his death during a routine test of Rolling Thunder.
The investigation concluded he may not have used the safety bar.
On May 11, 1984 the Haunted Castle caught fire.
Eight teenagers were caught inside and died.
In 1987 a woman fell to her death from the Lightnin' Loops roller coaster.
Officials said she did not have her shoulder safety harness on.
She was 19 years old.
There have been no serious accidents since 2003 at Great Adventure.
Attractions timeline
Six Flags Great Adventure Official Website
Gadv.com Great Adventure Online
GreatAdventureHistory.com
Theme parks in the United States
Adamsite-(Y) is a mineral that can be white, pale pink, pale purple, or is colorless in color and is made of crystals.
It is named for Professor Frank Dawson Adams (1859-1942) of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec and is found in the Poudrette quarry in Quebec.
It's environment is in a pegmatite dike that is greatly heated.
It is barely radioactive, and is easily scratched with calcite and it also breaks easily.
Eighteen is a number.
It comes between seventeen and nineteen, and is an even number.
It is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 18.
The number 18 has many multiples such as: 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, and so on.
The prime factorization of 18 is 3x3x2 in expanded form, and 3^2x2 in factored form.
Nineteen is a number.
It comes between eighteen and twenty, and is an odd number.
It is also the 8th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17.
Twenty-one is a number.
It comes between twenty and twenty-two, and is an odd number.
It is divisible by 1, 3, 7, and 21.
Samuel Pepys  ( ; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English administrator at the Admiralty and Member of Parliament.
He is famous for his diary.
Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II, and later under James II.
Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration.
The detailed private diary that he kept from 1660–1669 was first published in the nineteenth century.
It is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.
It provides a combination of personal notes and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
Pepys was a key person in the fire of 1666.
Seeing that the wind was driving the fire westward, he ordered the boat to go to Whitehall, and became the first person to inform the King of the fire.
The King told him to go to the Lord Mayor, and tell him to start pulling houses down.
Pepys took a coach back to Old St Paul's Cathedral, before setting off on foot through the burning city.
He found the Lord Mayor, who said: "Lord!
what can I do?
I am spent: people will not obey me.
I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it."
At noon Pepys went home and 'had an extraordinary good dinner, and as merry, as at this time we could be'.
In the evening he and his wife watched the fire from the safety of Bankside: Pepys writes that 'it made me weep to see it'.
Returning home, Pepys met his clerk, Tom Hayter, who had lost everything.
Hearing news that the fire was advancing, Pepys started to pack up his possessions by moonlight.
A cart arrived at 4am on 3 September, and Pepys spent much of the day arranging the removal of his possessions.
Many of his valuables, including his diary, were sent to friend.
The next day, Pepys continued to arrange the removal of his possessions.
By this point, he believed that Seething Lane was in grave danger, and suggested calling men from Deptford to help pull down houses and defend the king's property.
He described the chaos in the city, and his curious attempt at saving his own goods:
On Wednesday, 5 September, Pepys – who had taken to sleeping on his office floor – was woken by his wife at 2am.
She told him that the fire had almost reached All Hallows-by-the-Tower, and that it was at the foot of Seething Lane.
He decided to send her and his gold – about £2350 – to Woolwich.
In the following days Pepys witnessed looting, disorder and disruption.
On 7 September he went to Paul's Wharf and saw the ruins of St Paul's Cathedral, of his old school and of his father's house.
Despite all this destruction, Pepys's house, office and diary had been saved.
Samuel Pepys' diary which provides a daily entry from the diary, as well as detailed background articles, plus annotations from readers.
Duncan Grey's pages on Pepys
Pepys library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, including an essay by Robert Latham.
The Samuel Pepys Club for those interested in Pepys
Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid.
His life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris from 1917 to 1923.
He was also a professor at the University of Murcia from 1925 to 1929, the University of Oxford from 1929 to 1931, and the University of Seville from 1932 to 1938.
Exiled, he was forced to establish himself in the United States to continue his postsecondary teaching.
He was a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College from 1941 to 1967.
He retired to Italy, where he married for the second time.
He later moved to the city of Málaga.
In 1977, he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for Spanish-language writers.
He died in Málaga in 1984, age 91.
The Jorge Guillén Foundation
Poetry of Jorge Guillén
Spanish poets
Albatrosses are large seabirds which belong to the biological family Diomedeidae.
They live in the region of the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean.
They are not found in the North Atlantic region, but their fossils have been found there, which shows that they used to live there.
There are four main species of albatross: Great Albatrosses, North Pacific Albatrosses, Mollymawks and Sooty Albatrosses.
These are divided into twenty-one species identified by the World Conservation Union (ICUN).
Great Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds.
All albatrosses are very good at flying, spending much of their life in the air.
They eat squid, fish and krill.
Albatrosses come ashore to make their nests, mostly on islands, and usually near the nests of other birds.
Nineteen of the twenty-one species of albatross are endangered.
This is partly because animals such as rats and cats attack their eggs, chicks, and sometimes adult birds as well.
Pollution of the oceans, such as plastic waste and oils spills, also kills albatrosses.
Sometimes there may be not enough fish to eat because of over-fishing.
The main reason why albatross are endangered is longline fishing which causes many albatross to get caught on hooks that have been baited to catch fish.
This causes the birds to drown.
Albatrosses are very large.
The bill is large, strong and sharp.
This bill is made of horny plates.
Along the sides are the two "tubes".
They are actually long nostrils.
The tubes of all albatrosses are on the sides of the bill.
They help the albatrosses develop their sense of smell a lot.
The feet have no last toe and the three other toes are all webbed.
Their legs are quite strong, and they can walk well on land, unlike other sea birds.
Albatrosses need to take salt out of their body because they drink ocean water.
All birds have a large gland at the top part of their bill, above their eyes.
This gland is sometimes useless to birds that do not need it.
However, albatrosses use them to help take out saltwater.
Scientists are not sure how it works exactly.
However, they know that it helps take out the salt.
It makes a liquid that makes the saltwater drip out of their nose.
The adult albatrosses usually have a dark upper-wing and back, and white undersides when they are getting ready to take flight.
Albatrosses take several years to get their full adult feathers.
The wings of the largest albatrosses (genus Diomedea) can be up to .
Albatrosses flying north from their family sometimes fly in a clockwise direction, and those flying south will fly the opposite.
The most energy used up in their journey is not when they travel a long way, but when they land, take-off, and hunt.
This helps the albatross fly more longer distances and find good food.
They can fly easily over wind and waves.
However, because their long wings do not have strong muscles or energy, they cannot flap while they fly.
Because of this, albatrosses in calm seas must stop and rest on the surface of the ocean until the wind begins to blow harder.
When taking-off, albatrosses need to run first to help the wing make lift.
Albatrosses are known for their clumsiness when landing.
Most albatrosses are found in the southern hemisphere from Antarctica to Australia, South Africa and South America.
However, the four North Pacific albatrosses live elsewhere.
Three of them are in the North Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan, California and Alaska.
The last one, the Waved Albatross, is in the Galapagos Islands and finds food in the coast of South America.