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Ned Nickerson, Nancy's boyfriend, first appears in the book, The Clue in the Diary.
Bess, George, and Ned all appear in the computer games and Helen Corning is never mentioned.
The Book Series
The books were originally written in the 1930s.
Through the years, the books have been changed slightly.
There are currently 54 books documenting the teen's fictional mysteries.
Secret of the Old Clock (1930)
Hidden Staircase (1930)
Bungalow Mystery (1930)
Mystery at Lilac Inn, the (1930)
Secret of Shadow Ranch, the (1931)
Secret of Red Gate Farm, the (1931)
Nancy's Mysterious Letter (1932)
Clue in the Diary, the (1932)
Sign of the Twisted Candles, the (1933)
Password to Larkspur Lane, the (1933)
Clue of the Broken Locket, the (1934)
Message in the Hollow Oak, the (1935)
Mystery of the Ivory Charm, the (1936)
Whispering Statue, the (1937)
Haunted Bridge, the (1937)
Clue of the Tapping Heels, the (1939)
Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk (1940)
Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, the (1941)
Quest of the Missing Map, the (1942)
Clue in the Jewel Box, the (1943)
Secret in the Old Attic, the (1944)
Clue in the Crumbling Wall, the (1945)
Mystery of the Tolling Bell, the (1946)
Clue in the Old Album, the (1947)
Ghost of Blackwood Hall, the (1948)
Clue of the Leaning Chimney, the (1949)
Secret of the Wooden Lady, the (1950)
Clue of the Black Keys, the (1951)
Mystery at the Ski Jump, the (1952)
Clue of the Velvet Mask, the (1953)
Ringmaster's Secret, the (1953)
Scarlet Slipper Mystery, the (1954)
Witch Tree Symbol, the (1955)
Hidden Window Mystery, the (1956)
Haunted Showboat, the (1957)
Secret of the Golden Pavilion, the (1959)
Clue in the Old Stagecoach, the (1960)
Mystery of the Fire Dragon, the (1961)
Clue of the Dancing Puppet, the (1962)
Moonstone Castle Mystery, the (1963)
Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes, the (1964)
Phantom of Pine Hill, the (1965)
Mystery of the 99 Steps, the (1966)
Clue in the Crossword Cipher, the (1967)
Spider Sapphire Mystery, the (1968)
Invisible Intruder, the (1969)
Mysterious Mannequin, the (1970)
Crooked Bannister, the (1971)
Secret of Mirror Bay, the (1972)
Double Jinx Mystery, the (1973)
Mystery of the Glowing Eye, the (1974)
Secret of the Forgotten City, the (1975)
Phantom of Venice, the (1975)
Sky Phantom, the (1976)
Strange Message in the Parchment, the (1977)
Mystery of Crocodile Island (1978)
Thirteenth Pearl, the (1979)
Nancy Drew Games
These are the Nancy Drew Games that were made by Her Interactive.
The games are rated "E" (Everyone) by the ESRB.
Secrets Can Kill (1998)
Stay Tuned for Danger (1999)
Message in a Haunted Mansion (2000)
Treasure in the Royal Tower (2001)
The Final Scene (2001)
Secret of the Scarlet Hand (2002)
Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake (2002)
The Haunted Carousel (2003)
Danger on Deception Island (2003)The Secret of Shadow Ranch (2004)Curse of Blackmoor Manor (2004)Secret of the Old Clock (2005)Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon (2005)Danger By Design (2006)The Creature of Kapu Cave (2006)White Wolf of Icicle Creek (2007)Legend of the Crystal Skull (2007)The Phantom of Venice (2008)The Haunting of Castle Malloy (2008)Ransom of the Seven Ships (2009)Warnings at Waverly Academy (2009)Trail of the Twister (2010)Shadow at the Water's Edge (2010)Secrets Can Kill (Remastered) (2010)The Captive Curse (2011)Alibi In Ashes (2011)Tomb of the Lost Queen (2012)The Deadly Device (2012)The Ghost of Thornton Hall (2013)The Silent Spy (2013)The Shattered Medallion (2014)Labyrinth of Lies (2014)Sea of Darkness (2015)Midnight in Salem (Spring 2019, tentatively)
Film and Television Versions
There have been various film and television versions made about Nancy Drew.
In June 2007, Nancy Drew was released.
It was rated PG and starred Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew and Nick Palatas as Nancy's brother Greg Drew.
In 2002, Nancy Drew was released as a made-for-TV movie.
It starred Maggie Lawson as Drew.
In 1996, a TV series titled Nancy Drew came out.
It was made in France and ran for 13 episodes.
From 1977 to 1979, the television series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' ran.
For season one and part of season two, Nancy Drew was played by Pamela Sue Martin and, for the other part of season two, by Janet Louise Johnson.
Her Interactive  - Official site of the one who makes the computer games
Internet Book List  - List of published Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Arthur Abraham (born Avetik Abrahamyan on 20 February 1980 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a professional boxer.
He was the IBF middleweight champion from 2005 to 2009.
He won the vacant title on December 10, 2005, in Leipzig, Germany, beating Kingsley Ikeke, by a fifth-round knockout.
Titles in boxing
Amateur career
1997 International Light Welterweight German Champion
2000, 2001 and 2002 Senior Light Middleweight Armenian Champion
Major World Titles:
IBF Middleweight Champion (160 lbs)
Regional/International Titles:
WBA Inter-Continental Middleweight Champion (160 lbs)
WBF Intercontinental Middleweight Champion (160 lbs)
WBO European Super Middleweight Champion (168 lbs)
Arthur Abraham's Myspace Page
Arthur Abraham's career record
Armenian boxers
People from Yerevan
The International Boxing Federation, or IBF, is one of many organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC, WBO, and a dozen or so others.
Sports organizations
Vic Darchinyan (, born January 7, 1976, in Vanadzor, Armenia) is the former IBF flyweight champion.
He is a left-handed boxer who currently trains under Billy Hussein, brother of boxers Nedal and Hussein Hussein.
He was previously trained by former three-division world champion Jeff Fenech in Sydney, Australia.
Vic Darchinyan's career record
Australian boxers
Atenism was one of the earliest monotheistic religions.
It was the worship of the light emanating from the sun god (or rather sun disk), Aten.
It was started by the 18 dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten.
It lasted 20 years, until Akhenaten's death.
Tutankhamun, Akhenaten's son, restored the traditional Egyptian religion.
Today modern day groups have attempted to revive Atenism as a worldwide religion, most notably Akhetaten Fellowship.
Akhetaten Fellowship Homepage @ www.atenism.org
Akhetaten Fellowship Forums @ www.atenism.net
The early religions in Armenia are not that well known.
According to De Morgan there are signs which indicate that the Armenians, as their other Aryan relatives, were initially nature worshipers and that this faith in time was transformed to the worship of national gods, of which many were the equivalents of the gods in the Roman, Greek and Persian cultures.
Georg Brandes described the Armenian gods in his book: “When Armenia accepted Christianity, it was not only the temples which were destroyed, but also the songs and poems about the old gods and heroes that the people sang.
We have only rare segments of these songs and poems, segments which bear witness of a great spiritual wealth and the power of creation of this people and these alone are sufficient reason enough for recreating the temples of the old Armenian gods.
These gods were neither the Asian heavenly demons nor the precious and the delicate Greek gods, but something that reflected the characteristics of the Armenian people which they have been polishing through the ages, namely ambitious, wise and good-hearted.”
Steak is a slice off a larger piece of meat, usually beef.
In North America, steaks are usually grilled.
They are also often pan fried or baked.
The most tender (softest) cuts of the animal are usually used for steak.
This also means that steaks have a high price.
The pieces of meat used for steaks are usually cut across the muscle fiber, not along it.
This makes them look more tender.
A restaurant that mainly makes steaks is known as a steakhouse.
A well-known side dish to steak is prawns or a cooked lobster tail.
This combination is often called surf and turf or reef and beef (the words "surf" and "reef" refer to the seafood and "turf" and "beef" refer to the steak).
Special steak knives are used to cut steak.
A steak knife is sharper than most table knives and is usually serrated.
Fish is not the only side dish for steak.
Other common side dishes are baked potatoes, dinner rolls, salad, and corn on the cob.
In France, steaks are often served with french fries.
This combination is known as steak fries or steak-frites.
They do not come with vegetables, but sometimes a salad is served with them.
Steaks are seasoned with salt and black pepper.
Some additional seasonings are garlic, rosemary, and other herbs and spices.
Marinades are also an option depending on the cut.
Butter can also be used for basting steaks for a milky flavor.
Often, steaks are served with a special sauce called "steak sauce", but sometimes steaks are served with a spicy sauce called horseradish.
Cuts of steak
Rib eye
Skirt steak
Degrees of cooking
Meat that is cooked less will appear to be more tender and soft.
The usual degrees of cooking for steaks (and some other meats) are:
Raw/Uncooked - for example in tartare.
Rare - cooked very quickly, mostly red inside.
Medium Rare - cooked quickly, mostly pink inside with some red.
Medium - moderately cooked, mostly pink inside, but no red.
Medium-Well - Mostly cooked, with some pink remaining inside.
Well-done- thoroughly cooked.
No pink remains inside, may be blackened on the outside.
An example of a jet engine is a full balloon that is not held closed.
It will release the air and push the balloon forward.
Turbojet engines are used on airplanes.
Turbojet engines have a gas compressor, a kind of fan, at the front that takes in air.
The engine burns fuel to make the air expand, and it blows a big wind out the back.
On the way out, the hot air turns another fan (a gas turbine) which turns the rod that turns the fan at the front to make it go.
Another kind of a jet engine is a rocket engine.
Ramjet and pulse jet engines are rarer kinds of jet engine.
Jet Engine at Citizendium
Dawn Fraser  (born 4 September 1937) is an Australian champion swimmer.
She is one of only two swimmers to win the same Olympic event three different times.
She was born in Balmain, New South Wales.
In 1988, Fraser was elected to the parliament of New South Wales.
She served until 1991.
Australian Olympic Committee Profile
Dawn Fraser's world records
Australian of the Year Award winners
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC.
NBC News makes MSNBC channel, Today Show and news programmes.
Current shows
Weekend Today
Meet the Press with Chuck Todd
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
Meet the Press (1947–present)
Today (1952–present)
Today 3rd Hour (2018–present)
NBC Nightly News (1970–present)
Weekend Today (1987–present)
Dateline NBC (1992–present)
Early Today (1999–present)
Today with Hoda & Jenna (2019–present)
Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2016–present)
Former programming
Weekend (1974–79)
Ask NBC News (197?-1983)
NBC News Overnight (1982–83)
NBC News at Sunrise (1983–99)
Real Life with Jane Pauley (1990–91)
Expose with Tom Brokaw (1991)
NBC Nightside (1991–98)
Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric (1993–94)
NBC News At This Hour (1975–1990s; previously branded as NBC News Update, NBC News Capsule and NBC News Digest)
Later Today (1999–2000)
Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda (2008–2019)
Rock Center with Brian Williams (2011–13)
Today's Take (2012–2017)
NBC News website
Current television shows
CBS News Sunday Morning
Face the Nation with Margaret Breenan
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
CBS Evening News with Norah O’ Donnell
CBS Evening News with Russ Mitchell
Up to the Minute
CBS News website
The Masters Tournament is one of four major championships in men's professional golf and the first of the four to be played each year.
The final round of the Masters is always scheduled for the second Sunday in April.
Unlike the other major championships, the Masters is held every year at the same location, Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA.
The NFL Europa was a European American football league that ran from 1991 to 2007 under the control of the National Football League.
It started off as the World League of American Football and had 3 teams in Europe, 6 in the USA and one in Canada.
After 2 years the league was put on hold, so there were no 1993 or 1994 seasons.
The league came back in 1995 with the 3 original European teams plus 3 new ones.
In 1998 the name of the league was changed to NFL Europe and then in 2007 it became NFL Europa.
After the 2007 season it was decided to stop the league.
This was a developmental league of the NFL.
The |Berlin Thunder were the leagues best team, winning 42 games and 3 World Bowls
Past World Bowl Games
Note: Roman Numerals were not officially used by NFL Europa until World Bowl IX.
Prior to 2001, the games were billed as World Bowl 2000, World Bowl '99 etc.
The Ennead was the grouping of nine deities, most often appearing in Egyptian mythology.
As a three of threes, the number nine became associated with great power.
The ancient peoples thought that groupings of nine gods were very important.
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Heliopolis was one of the oldest cities of Egypt.
Its name also refers (in European languages) to a modern suburb of Cairo.
The ancient city stood five miles east of the Nile north of the apex of the river delta.
The modern city of Heliopolis is in a different place.
In ancient times it was the main city of sun-worship.
Akhenaten (first known as Amenhotep IV) was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
His reign is dated as 1353–1336 BC or 1351–1334 BC.
In the fifth year of his reign, he changed his name from Amenhotep IV, meaning "Amun is satisfied".
He did this because he left Egypt's traditional polytheism.
He founded a monotheistic worship of the Egyptian sun god, Aten.
He destroyed the temples of Amun.
His new religion was called Atenism.
It was the first known attempt at monotheism in the world.
Naturally, this made enemies of the many priests of the old religion.
This culture shift away from traditional religion was not widely accepted.
This helps to explain why after his death, his monuments were dismantled, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs.
Traditional religious practice was gradually restored, notably under his close successor Tutankhamun, who changed his name from Tutankhaten early in his reign.
However, it was Horemheb who destroyed all the works of Akhenaten.
Its rediscovery and Flinders Petrie's early excavations sparked great public interest in the pharaoh and his queen Nefertiti.
The interest comes from his connection with Tutankhamun, the unique style and high quality of the pictorial arts he patronized, and interest in the religion he attempted to establish.
Bartonella rochalimae is a recently discovered strain of gram-negative bacteria.
It is a member of the Bartonella genus.
The bacteria was found by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also helped with the discovery.
The bacterium was first found in a 43-year-old American woman.
She was in Peru when she became very sick.
She had a high fever, anemia and insomnia.
The illness was thought to be Bartonella bacilliformis, a similar bacteria that causes Oroya fever.
The scientists later discovered that a new species of bacteria had caused the illness.
They gave the patient some antibiotics.
Her condition later improved.
The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 7, 2007.
A tipi (also called tepee or teepee) is a kind of tent.
It is cone-shaped.
They were made by Native Americans of the Great Plains who frequently moved from place to place, following buffalo or other animals Native Americans hunted.
Tepees are made from long poles, and are covered with material.
Long ago the material was animal skin or tree bark.
Today, they are made from cloth.
They generally had an 'ears' flap.
The doorway would face towards the rising sun.
Tipis would contain paintings.
Karen Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer who was most popular in the 70s.
She is known as the singer of the group the Carpenters.
Karen had anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder of extreme weight loss dieting.
This was a little-known illness at the time.
Although she had begun recovery with a doctor-supervised program and regained 30 lbs (14 kg), permanent damage to her body had been sustained from the years of extreme weight-loss dieting and she died at the age of 32.
The cause of her death was heart failure, from complications related to her illness which caused her to believe mistakenly that she needed to lose weight.
Karen Carpenter was born at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut on March 2, 1950 to Agnes Reuwer Tatum and Harold Bertram Carpenter.
She played baseball a lot, and said that she liked being the pitcher.
She had a brother, named Richard Carpenter.
While Karen played baseball with her friends, Richard usually played the piano.
Her parents, Agnes and Harold Carpenter, decided that they wanted to move to Downey, California, a city near Hollywood.
They moved in 1963.
In Downey, Karen attended Downey High School.
She was a good student, but did not like gym.
In order to get out of gym, she asked to be in the marching band instead.
When she got into the marching band, the director gave her the glockenspiel, an instrument that sounds somewhat like a xylophone.
Karen did not like the glockenspiel and asked her band director if she could play the drums instead.
Seeing Karen's natural talent for rhythm, the director approved.
From then on, she practiced drumming on pots and pans before her parents finally bought her a drum set.
Her brother formed the Richard Carpenter Trio in 1965.
Karen played the drums.
Richard played the piano, and a friend named Wes Jacobs played the electric bass.
They played jazz music at clubs in Hollywood.
They entered the Battle of the Bands contest at the Hollywood Bowl in 1966.
The Richard Carpenter Trio played "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Iced Tea," a song composed by Richard Carpenter.
They won the Battle of the Bands that year.
Afterwards, they signed with RCA Records, but the RCA thought their music would not sell, so RCA let them go.
The Richard Carpenter Trio made one last TV appearance on "Your All American College Show" in 1968, where they played "Dancing in the Street."
Karen had a great drum solo.
They won the "Your All American College Show" contest, too.
In 1967, Richard and Karen formed another group called Spectrum.
Spectrum focused on making big harmonies, and the public did not like their music.
Both the Richard Carpenter Trio and Spectrum disbanded in 1968.
After five years of going nowhere, Richard and Karen Carpenter wanted to sign with a record label, but were constantly rejected.
Joe Osborn, a bass player, had recording studio and let Richard and Karen record demo tapes.
They sent in those demo tapes to a man named Herb Alpert.
Herb Alpert appreciated Richard and Karen's music, and agreed to sign the two to his record label, A&M Records.
In April 1969, Richard and Karen Carpenter signed to A&M Records as "Carpenters."
They released their first album that year as well.
It was called "Offering."
It did not have any popular songs on there, except for a song called "Ticket to Ride."
When they released it as a single, the public's reaction was somewhat less than great.
Too many people were accustomed to the Beatles' version.
The next year, Herb Alpert recommended a song called "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
After being given the music, Richard Carpenter worked on arranging it to invent their own sound.
This song was their first major hit.
It went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Later that year, the Carpenters recorded another song, called "We've Only Just Begun."
It was originally for a commercial for a bank called "Crocker Bank", but Richard saw potential in it.
He again began working on the arrangement and the song was released.
Ultimately, "We've Only Just Begun" released it as a single, went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Throughout their career, Karen and Richard continued to be successful and release great singles.
All of them placed in the top 20 until 1977.
In 1977, both singles released only peaked at #32 and #35.
Their last top 20 released in 1981 "Touch Me When We're Dancing" peaked at #16.
This was seen as a successful "come back" for the Carpenters however Karen would pass away just two years later.
Karen also recorded her first and only solo album entitled "Karen Carpenter" in 1979-1980 while her brother Richard took time off to recover from an addiction to prescription sleeping pills.
The album was not released during Karen's lifetime and would remain the A&M vaults until 1996 when Richard Carpenter finally felt the time was right to release it.
Karen dedicated her solo to her brother "Dedicated to my brother Richard... With all my heart..." Karen's fans have had a mixed reaction to her solo album but the majority believe the album was strong enough to be released at the time that it was recorded and would have had few strong hits for the singer.
However Karen choose to shelve the album after it was negatively received by the powers that be at A&M Records and her brother.
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder.
It is a physiological disorder that is characterized by undereating, due to an inaccurate body image.
Victims of this disorder are typically perfectionists that have trouble showing their emotions.
Karen Carpenter's eating disorder started in 1967, when the group "Spectrum" was still playing.
Because she was moderately overweight, her doctor advised her to lose weight.
Her doctor then suggested a diet called the "Stillman Diet."
She drank 8 cups of water everyday and avoided high calorie foods.
Karen lost about 25 pounds from the Stillman Diet.
After she became successful, she decided that she needed to lose more weight.
In 1975, she lost so much weight that she became ill.
At one time, she was only 80 pounds and 5'4" tall (five feet, four inches).
A woman her height should be between 124 and 138 pounds.
Becoming aware of her illness, she decided to gain weight.
In 1982, she was the healthiest she'd been, but her heart failed.
It's been proven that she had been abusing laxatives and thyroid pills.
She may have also abused syrup of ipecac to induce vomiting, but that has not been proven.
On February 4, 1983, Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32 from heart failure.
With the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter had a lot of records.
Here is a list of them.
The italicized words are the names of the records, and the things in the (parentheses) are the years that the records were released.
Ticket to Ride (1969)
The Singles: 1969-1973 (1974)
Voice of the Heart (1983 - after Karen's death)
Richard and Karen Carpenter - official website
Deaths from anorexia
Musicians from New Haven, Connecticut
Luke the Evangelist is said to be the man who wrote the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
Irenaeus, Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome say that he was a friend of Saint Paul and a doctor, and that he accompanied Paul on some of his travels.
These people also say that he was of Greek origin, from Antioch in Syria.
Modern-day scholars think that the person that wrote the two books was not the same that accompanied Paul.
Paul had a theology that was special, and slightly different from that of other writers of the New Testament.
The two books written by Luke never refer to this theology.
Also, the name of Paul's companion is never linked to writing the two books.
The Acts of the Apostles often tell things about Paul which Paul does not tell himself in his letters.
Luke wrote about the Three Wise Men who visited Jesus in the Bible.
Luke never said there were 3 wise men, only wise men from the east.
Walid Eido (in Arabic: وليد عيدو) (Beirut, 1942 - Beirut, June 13, 2007) was a Lebanese man who worked for the Lebanese Parliament, a government building in Beirut.
He died with his son on June 13, 2007, with eight other people, when a bomb blew up just outside a famous amusement park.
This was at the waterside of north Beirut.
His early life
Walid Eido was Sunni Muslim.
He was born in the Bachoura area of Beirut.
He finished his studies at the Lebanese University in 1966.
In the late 1990s, he worked for the Lebanese law of north Lebanon, but, in the year 2000, he quit to go into political life with Mr. Rafic Hariri and to be in the Lebanese parliament.
Later on, he worked for the Lebanese Parliament.
He used to belong to Al-Murabitun militant group at the time of the Lebanese civil war, he left the Murabitun when this group starts to expand and take bad members in.
Eido was married with three sons named Khaled, Zaher and Mazen.
Eido was a good swimmer and the bomb exploded outside his favorite Beirut beach resort, Sporting Club.
Lebanese politicians
is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan on the island of Honshū.
The capital is Toyama.
Toyama is known for its great mountains and rich fishery. ,
and mass product of tulip industry are also famous.
Chūbu-Sangaku National Park
Takase taisha, Keta jinja, and Oyama jinja are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Toyama Prefecture website
Fouad Siniora (in Arabic: فؤاد السنيورة, Fu'ād As-Sanyūrah) was the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
He served as Prime Minister since July 19, 2005, after Najib Mikati left office.
His term ended on November 9, 2009.
He was succeed by Saad Hariri.
He was also acting President from November 2007 to May 2008.
Fouad Siniora is a Sunni Muslim, who was born in Sidon in 1943.
He finished his studies at the American University of Beirut.
Then, he worked for Citibank, and in the 1970s, he became a teacher at the American University of Beirut.
Later, he worked for the Central Bank.
In 1982, he started to work for the late Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.
He became part of Hariri's business.
Siniora was Minister of Finance in Lebanon after the civil war ended.
Presidents of Lebanon
Prime Ministers of Lebanon
Hassan Nasrallah (in ; born 30 August 1960) is the leader of the Islamist party in Lebanon called Hezbollah.
He is also a Shi'a Muslim cleric.
Some countries, like the United States and Britain, consider him to be a terrorist due to his attacks on Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah was born in Bourj Hammoud, east Beirut.
He was among ten children in his family.
He went to Al Najah school, and then a public school in Sin el-Fil, Beirut.
The civil war in 1975 caused his family to move to their old home in Bassouriyeh.
There, he finished his secondary education at the public school in Tyre.
He then joined the Amal Movement, a militant group that represents the Shi'a Muslims in Lebanon.
Sidon, or Saida (, Saydā; , , Zaydo'wn), is the third biggest city in Lebanon.
It is in the southern part of Lebanon at the waterside of the Mediterranean Sea.
The name "Sidon" means a fishery.
Sidon was one of the most important cities of Phoenicia.
From here, a great trading empire of the Mediterranean area was made.
It was known for people who were good in making glass and purple cloth dyes.
Glass making was a very important business in Sidon during in Phoenician times.
People also made purple cloth dye.
Cities in Lebanon
A chisel is a sharp and straight tool often used with a hammer to shape wood or other surfaces.
Chisels are used by artists to make statues and figures out of stone, marble, or wood.
Construction workers use chisels to change the shape of wood and stone so that they can build with them.
Sometimes chisels are used to break things so that they can be moved more easily.
Parallel (geometry), as in "parallel lines"
Circle of latitude, an imaginary east-west line circling a globe, e.g. the 38th parallel
Parallelism (grammar), a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
Parallel study, a type of clinical study
Parallel circuits, as opposed to series
Parallel import, also known as a "grey market product"
Parallel transport, in mathematics using vectors and smooth curves
Parallel key, the minor (or major) key of a major (or minor) key with the same tonic
Harmonic parallelism, also known as "harmonic planing" or "parallel voice leading"
Parallel fifths, also known as "consecutive fifths", involve the concurrence of successive intervals of a perfect fifth between two voices in parallel motion -- a harmonization generally forbidden in modern musical theory
Parallel (manga) (ぱられる) is a shōnen manga by Toshihiko Kobayashi
Parallel 9, A British children's television show
Parallel evolution
Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb of Chicago.
It is west of the city in the same county.
About 52,000 people live there.
Ernest Hemingway was born there.
Betty White was born there too.
Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked there for a while.
Some of his most famous houses and buildings were built there.
Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan.
He died of tuberculosis in East Hampton, New York.
His son Ring Lardner Jr was a screenwriter who was banned from Hollywood in the 1950s for his Communist beliefs.
He later won an Academy Award for writing the film MASH.
Björk was born Björk Guðmundsdóttir on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
She is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, actress, record producer and DJ.
Her career started with singing Tina Charles' 1976 hit song "I Love to Love" in a school recital, and a recording of her singing the song was sent to the RÚV radio station.
The recording was nationally broadcast, after that, Björk was offered a recording contract.
Her self-titled début album, Björk, was recorded and released in Iceland in December 1977.
Before embarking on a solo career in 1993, Björk was the lead singer of alternative rock band The Sugarcubes, which is called as "Iceland's biggest rock band".
Since then, she has received consistent critical praise for her innovative vocal and compositional approaches, musical experimentation, and art direction, and is recognized as one of the best singer-songwriters of her generation.
Her albums reached the top 20 in the Billboard 200 chart.
Björk has won five BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, 21 Icelandic Music Awards and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in recognition of her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
She has also been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, one Academy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
She was included in Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in the movie Dancer in the Dark.
She has a son and a daughter, Sindri and Isadòra.
She lives in New York City, but also owns a home in Reykjavík.
Björk was in the 2013 television documentary When Björk Met Attenborough with Sir David Attenborough.
Discography (albums by Björk)
Björk (1977) - Her first album, most songs are a mixture of covers translated into Icelandic.
Gling-Gló (1990) - A jazz album where she sings mostly in Icelandic.
The only album that was made by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar.
Debut (1993)
Telegram (1996) - Remixes from Post.
Homogenic (1997)
Selmasongs (2000) - Soundtrack album of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.
Vespertine (2001)
Greatest Hits (2002) - Collection of the best tracks of Björk chosen by audience.
Family Tree (2002) - Mini compact disc boxset of rare and unreleased works.
Live Box (2003) - Collection of music from each album's live shows.
Medúlla (2004)
Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) - Music from her movie with her former husband Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint 9.
Surrounded (2006) - Dual Disc boxset of most of her old music, remastered in Surround Sound.
Volta (2007)
Biophilia (2011)
Bastards (2012) - Remixes from Biophilia.
Vulnicura (2015)
Vulnicura Strings (2015) - Acoustic, instrumental version of Vulnicura.
Vulnicura Live (2016) - Live concert version of Vulnicura.
Utopia (2017)
Icelandic movie actors
Trip hop musicians
6th century BC
7th century BC
For these years and earlier, see List of decades.
A volumetric flask (vol flask for short) is a type of laboratory glassware.
It is used to hold and measure accurate amounts of liquid.
It is shaped like a Florence flask, but has a flatter bottom.
A volumetric flask has a tall, narrow neck with a stopper that can be used to close the opening at the top.
There is a line on the neck to show how much to fill the flask.
Volumetric flasks are made in many sizes, from a few milliliters to liters.
They are often used to make liquid solutions.
The neck is narrow to make measurements more exact when making a solution.
A Florence flask (also known as a boiling flask) is a type of flask.
It is a piece of laboratory glassware.
It can hold chemical solutions.
The flask has a round body with a long neck.
The flask usually come in volumes of 1 liter.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally called the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, is a non-profit group based in the United States.
Its members are the "big six" major Hollywood studios: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (The Walt Disney Company), Sony Pictures (Sony), Paramount Pictures (Viacom -- which bought DreamWorks in February 2006), Universal Studios (Comcast), and Warner Bros. (WarnerMedia).
It also represents Netflix streaming platform movies.
The organization produces the well-known voluntary film rating system.
On January 22, 2019, Netflix became the first streaming service to become a member of the MPAA.
Movie organizations
1922 establishments in the United States
Long Beach is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast.
It borders Orange County on its southeast edge.
It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles.
It is a part of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
São Carlos is a Brazilian city in the state of São Paulo.
In 2017, it had 246,088 people living in it.
It is about 230 km (143 miles) away from the city of São Paulo and has an area of 1,137 km² (441 mi²).
51st state refers to a place or territory that is not one of the 50 states of the United States, but people think about making it the 51st state.
It is sometimes a joke term in American politics, and sometimes a realistic one.
It is usually said about the possibility of Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories becoming part of the United States.
When used to refer to other countries, it is a joke, usually about Canada.
There have been attempts by people in the United States to get Canada to join them (like in the Articles of Confederation), but Canada has never accepted these offers.
It is also sometimes used to refer to countries that seem to be controlled by the United States.
Before the year 1959 when Alaska and Hawaii became states, the sentence "the 49th state" was used.
Places in the United States that are not states right now, but might become the 51st state include the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands.
Besides admitting a new state, another type of proposal has been to form a 51st (or even 52nd) state by dividing a current state, such as the most-populous state (and third-largest state, geographically) of California into two or even three states, or Texas (the second-most populous) into four or five states.
Some regions of the U.S. that include land that is now in two different states and might become a new state include the "State of Jefferson" (Northmost California plus the southern counties of Oregon) and the "State of Lincoln" (Eastmost Washington State plus the northern panhandle of Idaho.
A move has also been proposed to separate the westmost one-fourth of Nebraska from that state, but to add that to Wyoming (the least-populous state), rather than to create an entirely new state.
This region is actually much closer to Cheyenne, Wyoming, the capital city, than it is to its current capital of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Guyana has also seen political movements favoring and advocating for it to become an American associated territory with eventual statehood as its goal.
Several Canadian Provinces as well as the whole of Canada have had political parties and movements advocating American statehood making their North American location a natural candidate and ideal prospect.
States of the United States
Mogadishu () is the capital city of the African country of Somalia.
It is located in the coastal Banadir region on the Somali Sea.
The city has been an important port for the region for many centuries.
Estimates of the city's population are between 1.5 and 3 million people.
Mogadishu has had many years of fighting between militias.
This is because the government of Somalia fell in 1991.
Trade between the people in the Mogadishu area with other areas along the Somali Sea coast of Africa started as early as the 1st century.
Muslim traders from the Arabian Peninsula came to the area during the 10th century.
Because of trade with them, Islam spread through Somalia.
The Portuguese tried to take control of the city, but failed.
In 1871 Barghash bin Said, the sultan of Zanzibar, controlled the city.
In 1892, Ali bin Said let Italy use the city.
Italy bought the city in 1905.
They made Mogadiscio (Italian for Mogadishu) the capital of Italian Somaliland.
The Italians took control of the area around the city in 1919 after minor resistance.
Italian Mogadiscio  from a small village of 1,000 inhabitants in the 1890s to a modern capital in 1940 of nearly 100,000 persons (of whom more than 1/3 were Italians), that was second only to Asmara in Eritrea for development inside the Italian Empire.
British forces that were in Kenya during World War II captured Mogadishu on February 26, 1941.
The British ruled until they gave Italy control of the city again in 1952.
Somalia became independent in 1960 with Mogadishu as its capital.
Rebel forces entered and took the city in 1990.
They forced President Mohamed Siad Barre to resign and leave the country in January 1991.
He went to Lagos, Nigeria.
Some of the rebels said that Ali Mahdi Muhammad was the new president.
Others said that Mohamed Farrah Aidid was president.
A group of United States Marines landed near Mogadishu on December 9, 1992.
They were the first part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces during Operation Restore Hope to go to the country.
Mogadishu is a commercial and financial center for Somalia.
The economy got better after the Somali Civil War but there are still problems.
Because there is no government, there is free trade without taxes or regulatory costs.
This makes businesses not cost as much as it does in other places.
Businesses have hired armed militias to have security.
This is causing less violence in the city.
The main industries of the city include making food and beverages as well as textiles.
The main textile is cotton.
The main market many different types of goods from food to electronic items.
Mogadishu has the most port traffic of any port in Somalia.
It is still a major seaport.
However, there is much piracy around Somalia's coastal areas.
This makes trade risky.
Notable Mogadishans
Badbaado refugee camp (large refugee camp outside Mogadishu)
Italian Mogadishu
GlobalSecurity.org page on the city's history
BBC News Mogadishu photo gallery
Maps of Mogadishu in 1894, 1915, 1934, 1975, 1987
Mogadishu at Google Maps
Cities in Somalia
Club guide
The list of clubs in the league has changed over time.
In 2016, the J1 teams are:
Split-season era (2015–present)
League Format
The regular season is split into two stages.
In each stage, each team plays one match against every other team.
As in almost all association football leagues worldwide, teams receive 3 points in the standings for a win, 1 point for a draw, and none for a loss, and teams are ranked by points earned.
After the second stage of the regular season, an overall table is calculated.
The champions of each stage of the regular season, plus any team finishing in the top three of the overall table, advance to a championship playoff.
The team that finishes on top of the overall table receives a place in the championship final, while the other teams play off for the other spot in the final.
List of J. League players
J-League at NHK.or.jp
1993 establishments in Asia
1990s establishments in Japan
This article is about a late 19th-century revolution.
For a late 20th-century event, also called "Philippine Revolution", see EDSA Revolution of 1986 revolution of the philippine.
The Philippine Revolution (1896–1898) was an armed conflict between the Spanish colonial regime and the Katipunan.
The goal of the revolution was for the Philippines to gain independence from Spain.
History of the Philippines
Victoria (sometimes called Port Victoria) is the capital city of the Republic of Seychelles.
It is on the north-eastern side of Mahé island, which the main island of the archipelago.
The city was first created as the capital of the British colonial government.
Victoria has a population of 24,970 people (2002).
About one third of the population of the Seychelles lives in the city.
Victoria is served by the Seychelles International Airport
The main exports of Victoria are vanilla, coconuts, coconut oil, corn, tortoise shell, soap, and guano.
The harbour is a short distance east of the town.
Tuna fishing and canning are a major local industry.
Things to see in the city include a clocktower built similar to Little Ben in London, England.
It is a small version of Big Ben.
Other things include the Courthouse, the Victoria Botanical Gardens, the Victoria National Museum of History, the Victoria Natural History Museum and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke Market.
Roe is the ripe eggs of fish and certain marine animals, for example sea urchins, shrimp and scallop.
It is a type of seafood.
Roe is used in many different foods.
It can be used cooked or raw.
Soft roe or white roe is not roe.
It is the seminal fluid of fish.
Many different types of roe are used in Japanese cuisine.
The following are used raw in sushi:
Ikura (いくら) - Salmon roe.
Large reddish-orange eggs.
Salmon eggs are also used as bait when fishing.
People who fish may find this strange when served Ikura for the first time.
Kazunoko () - Herring roe, yellow or pinkish.
It has a firm, rubbery texture and look.
It is usually pickled.
The roe is in a single mass.
This makes it look like a piece of fish.
Mentaiko () - Alaska pollock roe which is spiced with powdered red pepper.
Mentaiko is usually pink to dark red.
Tarako (たらこ) - Salted Alaska pollock roe.
It is sometimes grilled.
Tobiko () - Flying fish roe.
It is very crunchy and reddish orange in color.
Uni (うに, ) - Sea urchin roe is soft.
Color ranges from orange to light yellow.
Humans eat the roe either raw or briefly cooked.
Sea urchin roe is a popular food in Korean cuisine.
It is called "uni" in Japanese sushi cuisine.
It is also a food in Chile, called an "erizo".
Karasumi (カラスミ, ) - It is mainly found in Nagasaki.
Along with salt-pickled sea urchin roe and Konowata, it is one of the three chinmi of Japan .
It is made by removing the salt from salt pickled mullet roe and drying it by the sunlight.
India (Kerala and West Bengal) and Bangladesh
Roe from the Hilsa fish is a delicacy in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
The roe is usually deep-fried.
Other ways of cooking it such as mashed roe where the roe crushed along with oil, onion & pepper, or curry of roe could also be found.
In the state of Kerala, roe is deep fried in coconut oil and is a delicacy.
Among the tribal populace, deeply-roasted roe in open fire (much like marshmallows) is a delicacy.
In this region, the roe of rohu is also delicacy.
It is eaten fried or put inside a fried pointed gourd to make potoler dolma.
In the Caspian provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran, several types of roe are used.
Called Ashpal or Ashbal, roe can be eaten grilled, cured, salted, or mixed with other things.
If salted or cured, it is eaten as a condiment.
If used fresh, it is usually grilled, steamed, or mixed with eggs and fried to make a custard-like dish called "Ashpal Kuku".
Roe from Kutum (also known as Caspian White Fish or Rutilus Frisii Kutum), Roach (called "Kuli" in Gileki), Bream (called "Kulmeh" in Gileki), and Caspian Salmon are liked very much.
Roe from Carp is less common and Barbel roe is also used at times.
Lumpfish (stenbider) roe is used in Danish cuisine.
It is served on top of halved or sliced hard-boiled eggs, on top of piles of shrimp, or with other fish or seafood.
Another commonly eaten roe is that from the cod (torsk).
Tarama is carp roe used to make taramosalata.
Taramosolata is a Greek and Turkish food that is made of tarama mixed with lemon juice, bread crumbs, onions, and olive oil.
Other food is dipped into it and eaten.
Bottarga is the salted and dried roe pouch of Gray Mullet.
It is used as a topping and with pasta.
Smoked and salted cod roe paste is very popular in Sweden.
The most famous brand is Kalles Kaviar.
The paste is commonly served as sandwich topping.
Roe eaten in the United Kingdom is usually soft roe instead of hard roe.
Herring roe is sold in many British supermarkets but it is not very popular.
Battered cod roe can also be bought within many fish and chip shops, mainly around the London area.
The television licence (sometimes called the TV licence or the television tax) is a small tax that people pay to watch television.
It is used to pay, or part-pay, for the local public broadcaster, such as the BBC in the United Kingdom.
It mainly exists in Europe, East Asia and parts of Africa.
The licence fee varies in size from a few euros to around 350 euros per year in Iceland.
In return for paying the licence, the broadcaster does have few or no adverts.
In the past, before television was well known, people used to have a radio licence, which is a roughly the same as television licence, but for radio.
Some countries still have the radio licence together with the television licence.
Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia (; ) is the capital city and largest city  of the island country of Cyprus.
Niscosia is on the Pedieos (Kanlidere) river in the centre of the island.
The city is the seat of government as well as the main business centre for Cyprus.
Nicosia is capital of the administrative district (Nicosia District).
Nicosia is the only divided capital city in the world.
It has a northern (Turkish) section and a southern (Cypriot) section.
These sections are divided by the "Green Line".
It is a demilitarized zone created by the United Nations.
Nicosia (southern part) is the capital of the Republic of Cyprus while northern part is capital of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a de facto state only recognized by Turkey.
Nicosia has many shops, restaurants and entertainment.
The city is a trade center.
It manufactures textiles, leather, pottery, plastic, and other items.
Copper mines are nearby.
The University of Cyprus (UCY) is in Nicosia.
Nicosia has a hot semi-arid climate (BSh in the Koeppen climate classification).
Nicosia was a city-state known as Ledra or Ledrae in ancient times.
The king of Ledra was Onasagoras in 672 BC.
The city was rebuilt by Lefkos, son of Ptolemy I around 300 BC.
Ledra in Hellenic and Roman times was a small, unimportant town, also known as Lefkothea.
It got its first Christian bishop, Trifillios, in 348.
The city became the island's capital around the 10th century.
It had grown in importance because of threats to the coastal cities Paphos and Salamis.
These threats made many people leave the coast of the island and move to Lefkosia in the center of the island.
The city became a Venetian possession in 1489.
It was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1571.
During this time, the city grew culturally.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, many palaces, churches and monasteries were built.
About 20,000 people living in the city died because of the Ottoman attack of 1570.
Many disasters happened in the city during the 19th century.
Cholera hit the city in 1835.
Fire destroyed large parts of Nicosia in 1857.
The British Empire took control of the island in 1878.
Nicosia was the capital of the new British colony.
In early 1974, a coup d'état instigated by the Greek junta overthrew the legal government and took control.
Shortly afterwards Turkey invaded the island occupying a large part, with excuse that Turkish Cypriot people's safety was threatened.
Because of this, Cyprus and the city of Nicosia are divided since.
Cyprus with its legal government is part of the European Union.