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The 2003 World Cup in South Africa was the first to sport a mascot, Dazzler the zebra.
An orange raccoon-like creature known as Mello was the mascot for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
Selection of hosts
England hosted the first three competitions.
The ICC decided that England should host the first tournament because it was ready to devote the resources required to organising the inaugural event.
India volunteered to host the third Cricket World Cup, but most ICC members believed England to be a more suitable venue because the longer period of daylight in England in June meant that a match could be completed in one day.
The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the first hosted outside England, held in Pakistan and India.
Previously, there was no tournament award, although Man of the Match awards have always been given for individual matches.
Winning the Man of the Match in the final is logically noteworthy, as this indicates the player deemed to have played the biggest part in the World Cup final.
The Man of the Match award in the final of the competition has been awarded to:
Main individual and team records
U/19 Cricket World Cup
Women's Cricket World Cup
Official ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 website
Official ICC website
ICC World Cup 2023 Full Details
Dicastillo is a village in Navarre.
There are 691 people in Dicastillo.
Festivals are held on August.
These festivals are celebrated on San Blas, 3rd of February, or on the Asparagu's day, which is in spring.
There is a music band called Banda Bizkarra, formed by 30 musicians.
Municipalities in Navarre
Plants and animals living in arid or periodically arid environments such as temporary streams or ponds may face desiccation, therefore physiological or behavioural adaptations are necessary to ensure survival.
In particular, insects occupy a wide range of ecologically diverse niches and so have a variety of strategies to avoid desiccation.
Desiccation resistance in insects is generally measured by the change in mass during dry conditions.
The overall mass difference between measurements before and after aridity exposure is attributed to body water loss.
Extreme cases
Cryptobiosis refers to the state of an organism that has no detectable metabolic activity, resulting from extreme and unfavorable environmental conditions.
Anhydrobiosis refers to the state of surviving the loss of (almost) all body water.
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer better known by his stage name, R. Kelly.
He produced Aaliyah's 1994 debut album Age Ain't Nothing But a Number.
In 1996, Kelly was nominated for a Grammy Award for writing Michael Jackson's song "You Are Not Alone".
He is also known for the hit songs, "Ignition", "I Believe I Can Fly" and the "Trapped in the Closet" series of songs.
He sold more albums than any other male R&B musician in the 1990s.
Kelly has been nominated for 24 Grammy Awards.
He has won three.
In 1989 Kelly started MGM (Musically Gifted Men) with his friend Marc McWilliams.
They released a single called "Why You Wanna Play Me".
In 1990 Kelly was signed by Jive Records.
In 1991 he was on the TV talent show Big Break.
He won the $100,000 prize.
Born into the 90's, Kelly's first album with Public Announcement, was released 1992.
In January 1993 he stopped making music with them.
He released his first solo single, "Sex Me", on August 6 1993.
In 1993 Kelly's first solo album, 12 Play was released.
The album's second single "Bump n' Grind" was Kelly's first No.1.
In 1995 R. Kelly was released.
It was Kelly's first No.1 album.
On November 26 1996 "I Believe I Can Fly", R.'''s first single, was released.
It won three Grammy Awards in 1998.
On May 20 1998 Sparkle released her first album, Sparkle.
Kelly wrote and produced the album and released it on his record label, Rockland.
Kelly sang in the first single from the album, "Be Careful".
Kelly's first double album, R., was released in November 1998.
It had 40 songs.
The album had a song with Celine Dion called "I'm Your Angel".
It was No.1.
It is his best-selling album yet.
It has sold over 12 million copies around the world.
Kelly wrote a ballad called "Cry" for Michael Jackson.
It was released on Jackson's last album, Invincible.TP-2.com was released 2000.
Its first single, "I Wish", was nominated for a Grammy.
On March 26 2002 Kelly's first album with Jay-Z, The Best of Both Worlds was released.
On September 2 2002 "The World's Greatest" was released as a single.
In 2001 it was in the film Ali.
Chocolate Factory was released 2003.
It went straight to number one in the Billboard 200.
The album's first single "Ignition" was Kelly's second UK No.1.
It was on the soundtrack of the 2003 movie Love Don't Cost a Thing.
The album got mostly good reviews.
Kelly wrote "One More Chance" for Michael Jackson's album Number Ones.
It reached No.5 in the UK Singles Chart.
August 24, 2004 Kelly released his second double album, Happy People/U Saved Me.
The first disc, Happy People, is eleven soul songs.
The second disc, U Saved Me, is ten gospel songs.
On October 26, 2004 Unfinished Business, Kellys second album with Jay-Z, was released.
Kelly released TP.3 Reloaded on July 5 2005.
It was his fourth number one album in the Billboard 200.
Double Up, his eighth album, was released in May 2007.
It was Kelly's fifth album to go straight to No.1 in the Billboard 200.
On June 3, 2009, Kelly released his first ever mixtape, The "Demo" Tape (Gangsta Grillz) presented by DJ Skee and DJ Drama.
It had eighteen songs.
Kelly's ninth album Untitled was released December 1 2009 in the US.
On September 13, 2010 Epic, a collection of Kelly's most 'epic' ballads, was released in Europe.
Kelly's tenth solo album Love Letter was released on December 14, 2010.
Kelly wrote and produced all of the songs.
The album has fourteen songs, and a cover of Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" hidden at the end.
Love Letter was nominated for Best R&B Album at the Grammy Awards.
The single "Radio Message" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
On July 19 2011 Kelly was rushed to hospital for throat surgery.
After this he didn't make music for a while.
On February 18, 2012 he performed "I Look to You" at Whitney Houston's memorial. "
I Look to You" is a song that he wrote for Houston.
Kelly's eleventh album Write Me Back was released June 25, 2012.
That summer his memoir Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me was published.
2013--present
On October 21 2013 Lady Gaga released the second single from her album Artpop, "Do What U Want".
Kelly sung on the song.
They performed the song on Saturday Night Live on November 16.
The Best Man Holiday started showing at movie theatres on November 15, 2013.
Kelly sung "Christmas, I'll Be Steppin'" on it.
Kelly's twelfth album Black Panties was released in the United States on December 10, 2013.
Two singles have been released from it, "Genius" and "My Story".
A video was release for "Cookie".
In 2014 Kelly will tour with Mary J Blige.
In 2014 the 34th episode of Trapped in the Closet will be released.
Trapped in the Closet: The Book will also be published.
Surviving R. Kelly
In January 2019, a widely viewed Lifetime docuseries titled Surviving R. Kelly detailed allegations of sexual abuse by multiple women, allegations Kelly denies.
Facing pressure from the public using the Mute R. Kelly hashtag, RCA Records dropped Kelly.
On February 22, 2019, Kelly was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
On July 11, 2019, Kelly was arrested on federal charges alleging sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
Kelly faces a total of 18 federal counts, including child pornography, kidnapping and forced labor, as of July 12, 2019.
In 1994 Kelly married Aaliyah.
Aaliyah was 15, but said that she was 18 so that the marriage would be legal.
Kelly married Andrea Kelly in 1996.
Kelly divorced her in 2009.
On February 3, 2002 a video with Kelly urinating on a 14-year-old girl appeared.
In 2008 Kelly was found not guilty of all the 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl that he was charged with.
R. Kelly's Official website
People from Olympia Fields, Illinois
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy movie directed by Joe Pytka, produced by Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, and Daniel Goldberg, and stars former basketball star Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes.
The movie won a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Song Written Specifically for Motion Picture or for Television for R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly".
The stand-alone sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy,  starring current NBA star LeBron James, was theatrically released on July 16, 2021.
Michael Jordan as a fictional version of himself
Bill Murray as himself
Wayne Knight as Stan Podolak
Thom Barry as James Jordan, Michael Jordan's father
Theresa Randle as Juanita Jordan
Kenn Michael as Adult Jeffrey Jordan
Faizon Love as Adult Marcus Jordan
Reagan Gomez-Preston as Adult Jasmine Jordan
Manner Washington as Jeffrey Jordan
Eric Gordon as Marcus Jordan
Penny Bae Bridges as Jasmine Jordan
Dan Castellaneta as a basketball fan
Patricia Heaton as a basketball fan
Trey Parker as a basketball fan
Matt Stone as a basketball fan
Noah Segan as a young boy
Julia McIlvaine as a young boy
Cedric Ceballos as himself
Vlade Divac as himself
Jeff Malone as himself
Anthony Miller as himself
A.C. Green as himself
Sharone Wright as himself
Alonzo Mourning as himself
Charles Barkley as himself
Muggsy Bogues as himself
Patrick Ewing as himself
Larry Johnson as himself
Shawn Bradley as himself
Larry Bird as himself
Billy West as Bugs Bunny / Elmer Fudd
Dee Bradley Baker as Daffy Duck / Tasmanian Devil
Danny DeVito as Swackhammer
Bob Bergen as Porky Pig / Tweety / Marvin the Martian
Bill Farmer as Sylvester the Cat / Foghorn Leghorn / Yosemite Sam
Maurice LaMarche as Pepe le Pew
Kath Soucie as Lola Bunny
Colleen Wainwright as Nerdluck Nawt, and Sniffles
Jocelyn Blue as Nerdluck Pound
June Melby as Nerdluck Bang
Charity James as Nerdluck Blanko
Catherine Reitman as Nerdluck Bupkus
T.K. Carter as Monstar Nawt
Darnell Suttles as Monstar Pound
Joey Camen as Monstar Bang
Steve Kehela as Announcer, and Monstar Blanko
Dorian Harewood as Monstar Bupkus
June Foray as Granny, and Witch Hazel
Frank Welker as Charles the Dog
Space Jam's Official website
1990s comedy movies
Basketball movies
Movies featuring the Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)
DeMarcus Cousins (born August 13, 1990 in Mobile, Alabama) is a professional basketball player.
The Kings chose Cousins with the fifth pick in the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft.
Cousins played basketball at the University of Kentucky with the Wildcats.
He was selected to the McDonald's All-American team selection in 2009.
He was selected to the Jordan Brand High School All-American team selection in 2009.
He was named the 2009–10 SEC Freshman of the Year.
He was named the Rookie of the Month in July of 2010.
New Orleans Pelicans players
This is an old and simple recipe, in Italy it is simply called Fettuccine al burro ().
The Italian restaurateur Alfredo Di Lelio doubled the amount of butter used.
Alfredo invented his recipe in 1908 in the “trattoria” run by his mother Angelina in Rome, Piazza Rosa.
This made it easier for his pregnant wife Ines to eat.
He then in 1914 started selling his variation at his restaurant Alfredo" in via della scrofa in Rome.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks ate in 1927 at Alfredo alla Scrofa on their honeymoon, and this helped make the restaurant, and Fettuccine alfredo, popular with tourists.
American version
In U.S. cuisine, cream is used as a sauce base.
it may be mixed with other ingredients such as broccoli, parsley, garlic, shrimp, or chicken.
Fettuccine Alfredo has now become ubiquitous in Italian-style restaurants in the United States and internationally, although in Italy this dish is not popular at all, as wrongly believed, and it is better known if called "Fettuccine al burro" instead of "Fettuccine Alfredo".
Fettuccine Alfredo is named for Alfredo di Lelio, an Italian restaurant owner.
He ran a restaurant in Rome in the first half of the 20th century.
In 1914, his wife, who was pregnant, was having difficulty eating so he adapted a meal of pasta and butter, pasta al burro, for her.
Later, he put the dish on the menu at his restaurant, the Alfredo alla Scrofa, and called his version Fettuccine Alfredo.
Hollywood celebrities Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks visited his restaurant on their honeymoon and eat the dish.
When they returned home, they talked often about the dish.
This caused the restaurant and the dish to become popular with American tourists.
In 1943, Di Lelio sold the restaurant but kept the right to the name and menu.
In 1950, Alfredo Di Lelio reopened a new  restaurant "Il Vero Alfredo" in Rome, Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30.
He worked there until his death in 1959. "
Il Vero Alfredo" is now managed by his nephews Alfredo and Ines, with the famous “gold cutlery”” (fork and spoon gold) donated in 1927 by two well-known American actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (in gratitude for the hospitality).
Knockout mice are important animal models for studying the role of genes which have been sequenced but whose functions are not yet known.
By causing a specific gene to be inactive in the mouse, and observing any differences from normal behaviour or condition, researchers can infer its probable function.
Mice are currently the most closely related laboratory animal species to humans for which the knockout technique can easily be applied.
They are widely used in knockout experiments, especially those genetic questions which relate to human physiology.
The Chinese water chestnut (or simply water chestnut) is a plant.
The corms of the plant are the water chestnuts and is a crispy white flesh and can be eaten raw, slightly boiled, grilled, pickled, or tinned.
This plant comes from China.
They are grown in flooded paddy fields.
The organisms, such as knockout mice, are used to learn about a gene that has been sequenced, but whose function is unknown or incompletely known.
Researchers draw inferences from the difference between the knockout organism and normal individuals.
Knockout is often abbreviated as KO.
Gene knock-in is the opposite term.
There a gene is switched on, or a working gene inserted.
Knockout is accomplished through a combination of techniques.
It starts in the test tube with a plasmid, or other DNA construct, and proceeding to cell culture.
Individual cells are genetically transformed with the DNA construct.
Often the goal is to create an animal that has the altered gene.
If so, embryonic stem cells are genetically transformed and inserted into early embryos.
Resulting animals with the genetic change in their germline cells can then often pass the gene knockout to future generations.
Stewart Haas Racing is a NASCAR racing team based in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
The team is co-owned by Tony Stewart and Gene Haas.
There are currently four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers on the team: Kevin Harvick, Aric Almirola, Clint Bowyer, and Kurt Busch.
Two Xfinity Series drivers drive for the team: Harvick and Chase Briscoe.
Temple Square is a National Historic Landmark and religious center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Temple Square contains the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Seagull Monument and two visitors' centers.
With 3 million to 5 million visitors a year, Temple Square is the most popular tourist attraction in Utah.
Official website - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Official Site - Temple Square at lds.org
It often contains a DNA insert, which contains the gene sequence encoding a protein of interest.
The DNA insert has been subcloned into a molecular biology vector.
A DNA construct may express wildtype protein, or prevent the expression of certain genes by expressing competitors or inhibitors.
It may express mutant proteins, such as deletion mutations or missense mutations.
A DNA construct is often used in molecular biology to analyze macromolecules such as proteins or RNA in more detail.
Molecular biology vectors
The main types of vectors are plasmids, bacteriophages and other viruses, and artificial chromosomes.
Common to all engineered vectors are an origin of replication, a multicloning site, and a selectable marker.
The vector itself is generally a DNA sequence that consists of an insert (transgene) and a larger sequence that serves as the 'backbone' of the vector.
The backbone will include bacterial resistance genes for growth in bacteria, and promoters for expression in the organism.
Insertion of a vector into the target cell is usually called transformation for bacterial cells, or transfection for eukaryotic cells.
Insertion of a viral vector is often called transduction.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a Canadian comedy television series created by Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Michael Donovan, Jack Kellum, Gerald Lunz and George Anthony.
In Canada reruns are shown on The Comedy Network and new episodes are shown on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes at cbc.ca
Bennett was born in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire, and his best known books were about life in this area.
He changed the names of the five towns in the district, but their names are easy to recognise.
When in London, Bennett liked to eat at the Savoy Hotel's Grill.
He often ate an omelette made with smoked haddock, and this has become known as the Omelette Arnold Bennett.
The Omelette Arnold Bennett has remained a Savoy standard dish ever since.
George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for his discoveries in vision.
He was born on November 18, 1906 in New York City and died on April 12, 1997 in Cambridge, Massachusettes, United States.
scientists from New York City
Passions was a television soap opera which aired starting July 5, 1999 until September 7, 2007 on NBC and on DirecTV from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008.
This show focused toward the romantic and paranormal issues of Harmony, a fictional New England town.
The storylines centered around multi racial families (the white Cranes and Bennetts, the black Russells, the Hispanic Lopez-Fitzgeralds).
It also focused on Tabitha Lenox, a town witch.
Gene targeting is a genetic technique for replacing an existing gene with a mutated (changed) one.
It can be done in lab mice or some other model organism.
Gene targeting can be permanent or conditional.
Conditions, for example, can be a specific time during development in the life of the organism or limited to a specific tissue.
To date, this method has been applied to a number of species including Drosophila melanogaster, tobacco, corn, human cells.
mice, and rats.
2007 Nobel prize
Method for mice
First a DNA construct is made, usually in bacteria.
The construct has the mutated gene or part of it, and a reporter gene, which may be a selectable marker.
Mutated DNA is put into a stem cell genome derived from an embryo.
To target genes in mice, the construct is inserted into mouse embryonic stem cells in tissue culture.
Cells with the correct insertion can be selected, because they carry a visible marker (such as a gene for white fur where the normal is brown).
The treated cells can be added a mouse's tissue by embryo injection.
Finally, chimeric mice where the modified cells make up the reproductive organs are selected for breeding.
After breeding to others of the same kind, the entire body of the offspring mice has the altered gene.
In practice, large numbers of the injected mice are mated, which produces a few white mice (this only occurs when there are white-type cells in the germ line).
Cross-breeding the white mice produces 50% of offspring which are homozygous for the marker, and so pure-bred for the experimental gene being inserted.
Tests on the mice with the gene insertion can now take place.
The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.
Along with the wagtails and longclaws, the pipits make up the family Motacillidae.
The genus is widespread, occurring across most of the world, except the driest deserts, rainforests and the mainland of Antarctica.
They are slender, often drab, ground-feeding insectivores of open country.
Like their relatives in the family, the pipits are monogamous and territorial.
Pipits are ground nesters, laying up to six speckled eggs.
The Potter Park Zoo is a zoo in Lansing, Michigan.
Potter Park Zoo is the oldest public zoo in Michigan.
The zoo is  in size.
The zoo has more than 160 species of animals.
The zoo is owned by the City of Lansing, and operated by Ingham County.
The zoo is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
Potter Park Zoo was dedicated on July 5, 1915.
The zoo officially opened in 1920.
The Bird and Reptile building opened in 1929.
In 1930 the Lion building opened.
The bighorn sheep exhibit (originally called Monkey Island) was constructed in 1936.
The aviary was constructed in 1941.
The barnyard and petting zoo opened in 1949.
In the 1950s, Potter Park Zoo had 138 mammals and 267 birds.
In the late 1960s, the zoo began a decline from municipal neglect.
In 1969 a columnist of the Lansing State Journal encouraged residents to raise money for the zoo.
A magellanic penguin exhibit opened in 1985.
In 1986 the zoo became a member of the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
In 1989 the zoo's Lion House was renovated and renamed the Feline and Primate Building.
In 2005 endangered tiger cubs were born at the zoo.
They were featured on NBC's Today Show.
In 2005 the River Otter and Arctic Fox exhibits opened.
In November 2006 Lansing transferred the operation and maintenance of the zoo to Ingham County.
In January 2009 the zoo announced plans to expand the eastern black rhinoceros exhibit.
In 2009 the Wings from Down Under aviary opened with more than 600 Australian birds.
In March 2010 Potter Park Zoo artificially inseminated a female snow leopard.
It is believed to be the first successful procedure without surgery or anesthesia.
A larger Eurasian Eagle-owl exhibit opened in September 2010.
Animals and exhibits
The Bird and Reptile House has rare flying creatures like Bali starlings, chestnut-fronted macaws, eastern screech owls, Eurasian eagle owls, green aracaries, Jambu fruit doves.
There are scaly species like chukwallas, inland bearded dragons, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, Gila monsters, water dragons, boa constrictors, green tree pythons, and more.
The Farmyard EdVentures is where children can pet and feed animals at the barnyard and petting zoo.
The petting zoo has goats, burros, reindeer, yaks, toy pigs, tortoises, and rabbits.
Gardens and a pond have ducks, geese, swans, and pelicans.
Other animals at the zoo are kangaroos, penguins, river otters, bongos, bald eagles, eastern timberwolves, red pandas, arctic foxes, and porcupines.
Potter Park Zoo at Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, made by someone who is anonymous.
Some authors or artists choose to keep their identity a secret; others cannot reveal their names for legal reasons.
In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by an anonymous author describing the use of national security letters by the FBI.
In this case, the author, who would have preferred to be named, could not reveal his or her identity because it was against the law.
Some anonymous works are not created by people who choose to be anonymous, but their creators are unknown (not by choice).
With some very old or ancient works, the creator's name may simply be lost over the course of history, or historians are not sure.
In such cases the author is often referred to as Anonymus, the Latin form of "anonymous".
In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."
The mass shooting happened on January 8, 2011.
Nineteen people were shot.
Six of the nineteen people died.
Another person was injured.
Giffords was shot through the head from a very short distance.
Her condition was said to be very bad just after the shooting.
The six killed included John Roll, a chief judge for the District of Arizona.
22 year old schizophrenic Jared Lee Loughner was arrested at the scene with five charges filed against him.
Loughner pleaded guilty to 19 crimes.
He never gave a reason for the shooting.
In November 2012, Loughner was sentenced to life in prison.
2010s murders in the United States
Mass murder in the 2010s
2010s mass shootings in the United States
Murder in 2011
2011 shooting
Nintendogs + Cats is a video game sequel of Nintendogs.
It was released in North America on March 26, 2011.
This game has a total of 3 versions.
It is made for the Nintendo 3DS.
Tremaine Aldon Neverson (born November 28, 1984 ), better known by his stage name Trey Songz.
Songz was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and raised in a military family,  He did not intend having a musical career as a child due to his shyness, saying "Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good."
He recognized his vocal abilities at the age of 14 in 1998 (jobs).
Some refer to him as 'The Prince of R&B'.
His 2010 album, Passion, Pain and Pleasure, entered the Billboard magazine charts at Number 2 in September 2010.
the song "Bottoms Up" from the album got into the Top Ten songs.
Step Up 3D - Soundtrack Appearance
I Gotta Make It - 2005
Trey Day- 2007
Ready - 2009
Passion, Pain and Pleasure - 2010
Chapter V - 2012
Trigga - 2014
Tremaine: The Album - 2017
Trey Songz website
Mad About You is an American situation comedy.
It began on NBC on September 23, 1992.
It ended on May 24, 1999.
It stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt.
They play a married couple living in New York City.
Near the end of the sitcom's run, the couple have a baby, Mabel.
1992 American television series debuts
Go Ask Alice is a controversial book from 1971.
The book is said to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs.
The diarist's name is never given in the book.
The title is from the lyrics to the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit".
Grace Slick wrote the song based on drug references in the classic novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
The story caused a sensation when published and remains in print as of 2011.
Revelations about the book's origin have caused much doubt as to its authenticity and factual accounts, and the publishers have listed it as a work of fiction since at least the mid-late 1980s.
Although it is still published under the byline "Anonymous", press interviews and copyright records suggest that it is largely or wholly the work of its purported editor, Beatrice Sparks.
Some of the days and dates referenced in the book put the timeline from 1968 until 1970.
The teenage girl is insecure and wants more friends.
She does this by taking drugs.
Because of this she gets all kind of problems and is not a 'real' child anymore.
A 15-year-old girl begins keeping a diary.
With a sensitive, observant style, she records her thoughts and concerns about issues such as crushes, weight loss, sexuality, social acceptance, and difficulty relating to her parents.
The diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a teaching position at a new college.
After the move the diarist feels like an outcast at the new school, with no friends.
She then meets Beth and they become best friends.
When Beth leaves for summer camp the diarist returns to her hometown to stay with her grandparents.
She reunites with an old school neighbor, Jill.
Jill is impressed by the diarist's move to a larger town, and invites her to a party.
At the party, bottles of sodas—some of which are labeled with LSD—were served.
The diarist was not known about LSD and has an intense and pleasure trip.
Over the following days the diarist continues friendships with the people from the party and willingly uses more drugs.
She loses her virginity while on LSD.
She worries she may be pregnant, and her grandfather has a small heart attack.
Gullets and lies were overwhelming her.
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina is the world's largest active archive of weather data.
The center became established in late 1951, and moved into a new facility  in early 1952.
The center collects data on climate change, science, and transportation.
A model organism is a non-human species that is studied over many years, building up a lot of knowledge about it in order to understand fundamental biological phenomena.
The hope is that discoveries made in the model will give insight into how other organisms work.
This strategy is made possible by the similarities of all living organisms.
They are similar because of their common descent and the conservation of metabolic and developmental pathways and genes  over the course of evolution.
Model organisms in genetics
Drosophila melanogaster was one of the first animals used for genetics.
Today it is one of the most widely used and genetically best-known of all eukaryotic organisms.
All organisms use common genetic systems; understanding  transcription and replication in fruit flies helps to understand these processes in other eukaryotes, including humans.
Studies of X-linked traits confirmed that genes are found on chromosomes.
Studies of linked traits led to the first maps of genetic loci on chromosomes.
The first maps of Drosophila chromosomes were done by Alfred Sturtevant.
Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most studied organisms in biological research, particularly in genetics and developmental biology.
Its complete genome was sequenced and first published in 2000.
Because great deal is known about its development from egg to larva to adult, it is a key model for developmental genetics, or evo-devo.
The hox genes, or homeobox, which control development in metazoa, were worked out first of all in Drosophila.
Escherischia coli
In 1946, Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum first described the phenomenon known as bacterial conjugation using Escherichia coli as a model bacterium.
E. coli was an integral part of the first experiments to understand phage genetics, and early researchers, such as Seymour Benzer, used E. coli and phage T4 to understand the topography of gene structure.
Before Benzer's research, it was not known whether the gene was a linear structure, or if it had a branching pattern.
E. coli was one of the first organisms to have its genome sequenced; the complete genome of E. coli K12 was published by Science in 1997.
The long-term evolution experiments using E. coli, begun by Richard Lenski in 1988, have allowed direct observation of major evolutionary shifts in the laboratory.
Other model organisms
Phage Lamda
Protists
Emiliana huxlei: coccolithophore alga, extensively studied as a model phytoplankton species
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Aspergillus nidulans
Neurospora crassa
Arabidopsis thalliana
Zea mays Maize
Pisum sativum, Pea
Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode
Tribolium castaneum, flour beetle
Mus musculus, the mouse
Rattus norvegicus, the Norwegian rat
John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873– February 25, 1934) was a Major League baseball player/manager from 1894-1932.
He was a player for the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Giants from 1894 until 1906.
McGraw died one year after he stopped managing for the Giants.
Prudential World Cups
The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at that time.
The 1975 tournament started on June 7.
The first three events were held in England and officially known as the Prudential Cup after the sponsors Prudential plc.
The matches consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team, played during the daytime in traditional form, with the players wearing cricket whites and using red cricket balls.
Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies (the six Test nations at the time), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.
One notable omission was South Africa, who were banned from international cricket due to apartheid.
The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.
The 1979 World Cup saw the introduction of the ICC Trophy competition to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup, with Sri Lanka and Canada qualifying.
West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts, England, by 92 runs in the final.
At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.
The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time.
By this time, Sri Lanka had become a Test-playing nation, and Zimbabwe qualified through the ICC Trophy.
A fielding circle was introduced,  away from the stumps.
Four fieldsmen needed to be inside it at all times.
India, an outsider quoted at 66-1 to win by bookmakers before the competition began, were crowned champions after upsetting the West Indies by 43 runs in the final.
The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.
The games were reduced from 60 to 50 overs per innings, the current standard, because of the shorter daylight hours in the Indian subcontinent compared with England's summer.
Australia won the championship by defeating England by 7 runs in the final, the closest margin in World Cup final history.
The 1992 World Cup, held in Australia and New Zealand, introduced many changes to the game, such as coloured clothing, white balls, day/night matches, and an alteration to the fielding restrictions.
The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott.
Pakistan overcame a dismal start to emerge as winners, defeating England by 22 runs in the final.
The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.
In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens (Calcutta) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after riots broke out in protest against the Indian performance.
Sri Lanka went on to win their maiden championship by defeating Australia by seven wickets in the final, which was held in Lahore.
Australian treble
In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands.
Australia qualified for the semi-finals after reaching their target in their Super 6 match against South Africa off the final over of the match.
They then proceeded to the final with a tied match in the semi-final (also against South Africa) where a mix-up between South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald saw Donald drop his bat and stranded mid-pitch to be run out.
In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs, with eight wickets in hand.
South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya hosted the 2003 World Cup.
The number of teams participating in the event increased from twelve to fourteen.
Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.
In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.
In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies.
The Cricket World Cup became the world tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.
Bangladesh progressed to the second round for the first time, after defeating India, and they later went on to defeat South Africa in the second round.
Ireland making their World Cup debut tied with Zimbabwe and defeated Pakistan to progress to the second round, where they went on to defeat Bangladesh Following their defeat to Ireland, the Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room.
The cause of death was heart failure, Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final by 53 runs (D/L), extending their undefeated run in the World Cup to 29 matches and winning three straight World Cups.
HuffPost (used to be called The Huffington Post) is an American news website and political blog.
It was founded in 2005 by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti.
The website prints news stories and columns (called blogs) by celebrities, politicians, academics, and other well known people who have been invited to write for them.
HuffPost has around 25 million visitors each month and is the most well known political blog in the world.
Der Spiegel calls The Huffington Post the most important source of information for millions of Americans.
On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million.
HuffPost has both staff writers, and other individuals they have invited to write for them, from politicians and celebrities to academics and policy experts, who contribute on a wide range of topics.
The term blog is used for columns written by both staff and invited columnists.
Denim is a very strong kind of cloth.
Denim has been used in the United States since the late 18th century.
The word comes from the name of a cloth called serge.
Serge was first made in the French town of Nîmes (de Nîmes)), by the André family.
First called serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim.
Denims are highly popular throughout India.
Before in celebrations, formal wear was obvious.
These days in many functions and even in workplaces, there is no shortage of people donning denims.
International brand skinny jeans available in Asia and the market sees introduction of new styles.
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Jeans vehicles
Between 1973 and 1975, Volkswagen made the Jeans Beetle, which had all-denim trim.
They did this again in some later models.
The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is a Mexican Formula One circuit near Mexico City.
It was named after racing driver Ricardo Rodríguez (the brother of Pedro Rodríguez, a Formula One driver).
It was finished in 1962 and held its first Formula One race there in the same year, though it did not count for the championship.
A year later, the Mexican Grand Prix started, and continued from 1963 to 1970, where F1 did not return until 1986, and left once again 1992.
The track still hosts various events, and even hosted the Nationwide Series from 2005 to 2008, before leaving once again.
Andromeda (mythology), a woman in trouble in Greek mythology
Andromeda (constellation), a group of stars
The Andromeda Galaxy
HMS Andromeda, one of several warships of the Royal Navy
Andromeda (play), play by Euripides
Andromeda (novel), by Ivan Yefremov
The Andromeda Nebula, Russian 1967 science fiction film based on Andromeda
Andromeda (TV series), science fiction TV series
Andromeda (English band), a 1960s psychedelic rock band from Britain
Andromeda (Swedish band), a 2000s progressive metal band from Sweden
Andromeda (Marvel Comics), character native of Atlantis in the Marvel comics universe
Laurel Gand codenamed Andromeda, character of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the DC comics universe
Andromeda Shun, character in the Saint Seiya universe
Andromeda is a constellation in the northern sky.
It is named after the princess Andromeda in Greek mythology.
It is sometimes called "Princess of Ethiopia" or "the Chained Woman" in English.
It has also been called Persea ("Perseus's wife") or Cepheis ("Cepheus's daughter").
The astronomer named Ptolemy listed Andromeda when he made a list of 48 constellations.
It is also one of the 88 constellations made by the International Astronomical Union.
The Andromeda Galaxy is inside Andromeda.
It is the closest spiral galaxy to Earth, at about 2.2 million light-years from Earth (estimates range up to 2.5 million light-years).
The brightest star in Andromeda is called Alpha Andromedae, which is a binary star.
Kathryn Dawn Lang, better known as k.d.
lang (born November 2, 1961), is a Canadian country and pop singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Her best known hit is "Constant Craving".
She has contributed songs to many movie soundtracks.
Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta.
She is openly lesbian and is an activist for LGBT rights.
The Premier of the Soviet Union was the head of government.
Most western countries use the term "Prime Minister".
In the former Soviet Union the job had many names:
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1917–1946)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991)
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1991)
Chairman of the Interstate Economic Committee of the USSR—Prime Minister of the Economic Community (1991)
List of Premiers
Loretta Lynn (born April 14, 1932 known as The First Known Lady of Country Music) is an American country music singer and songwriter born in Kentucky.
She became a part of the country music scene in Nashville during the 1960s; in 1967 she charted her first of 16 number 1 songs overall.
Certain country music radio stations would not play her songs, however, due to subject matter.
Despite that, she had become the "First Known Lady of Country Music" and continues being one of the most successful vocalists of all time.
She is named after film star Loretta Young.
Lynn's sisters are Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue, who are also country singers.
She was married to Oliver Lynn (August 26, 1926-August 22, 1996).
"Coal Miner's Daughter" (1970)
Loretta Lynn Sings (1963)
Before I'm Over You (1964)
Songs from My Heart.... (1965)
Blue Kentucky Girl (1965)
Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be  (1965)
Hymns (1965)
I Like 'Em Country (1966)
You Ain't Woman Enough (1966)
Country Christmas (1966)
Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (1967)
Singin' Again  (1967)
Singin' with Feelin' (1967)
Who Says God Is Dead! (
Fist City (1968)
Your Squaw Is on the Warpath (1969)
If We Put Our Heads Together  (1969)
Woman of the World/To Make a Man (1969)
Wings Upon Your Horns (1970)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1971)
We Only Make Believe  (1971)
I Wanna Be Free (1971)
You're Lookin' at Country (1971)
Lead Me On  (1972)
One's on the Way (1972)
God Bless America Again (1972)
Here I Am Again (1972)
Entertainer of the Year (1973)
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man  (1973)
Love Is the Foundation (1973)
Country Partners  (1974)
They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy (1974)
Back to the Country (1975)
Feelins'  (1975)
Home (1975)
When the Tingle Becomes a Chill (1976)
United Talent  (1976)
Somebody Somewhere (1976)
I Remember Patsy (1977)
Dynamic Duo  (1977)
Out of My Head and Back in My Bed (1978)
Honky Tonk Heroes  (1978)
We've Come a Long Way, Baby (1979)
Diamond Duet  (1979)
Loretta (1980)
Lookin' Good (1980)
Two's a Party  (1981)
I Lie (1981)
Making Love from Memory (1982)
Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You (1983)
Just a Woman (1985)
Who Was That Stranger (1988)
Making More Memories (1994)
All Time Gospel Favorites (1997)
Still Country (2000)
Van Lear Rose (2004)
Full Circle (2016)
White Christmas Blue (2016)
Wouldn't It Be Great (2018)
Still Woman Enough (2021)
A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet of microorganisms, mainly bacteria and archaea.
They were first described by Paracelsus (~1519),p1 but their full significance was not realised until the last quarter of the 20th century.
Microbial mats grow mostly on submerged or moist surfaces but a few survive in deserts.
They colonize environments ranging in temperature from –40 °C to +120 °C.
A few are endosymbionts of animals.
Although usually only a few centimetres thick, microbial mats create a wide range of internal chemical environments.
They consist of layers of microorganisms that can feed on or tolerate the chemicals at their level.
In moist conditions mats are held together by slimy substances (polysaccharides) secreted by the microorganisms.118; 1671-7 Some of the micro-organisms form tangled webs of filaments which make the mat tougher.
The best known physical forms are flat mats and stubby pillars called stromatolites, but there are also spherical forms.
Originally they may have depended on hydrothermal vents for energy and chemical "food".
The development of photosynthesis gradually liberated them from the 'hydrothermal ghetto' by proving a more widely-available energy source, sunlight, although initially the photosynthesizing mats still depended on the diffusion of chemicals emitted by hydrothermal vents.
The final and most significant stage of this liberation was the development of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, since the main chemical inputs for this are carbon dioxide and water.
As a result microbial mats began to produce the atmosphere we know today, in which free oxygen is a vital component.
At around the same time they may also have been the birthplace of the more complex eukaryote type of cell, of which all multicellular organisms are composed.
Microbial mats were abundant on the shallow seabed until the Cambrian substrate revolution, when animals living in shallow seas increased their burrowing capabilities and thus broke up the surfaces of mats and let oxygenated water into the deeper layers, poisoning the oxygen-intolerant micro-organisms that lived there.
Although this revolution drove mats off soft floors of shallow seas, they still flourish in many environments where burrowing is limited or impossible, including rocky seabeds and shores, hyper-saline and brackish lagoons, and are found on the floors of the deep oceans.
This language is very different from the standard Hindi spoken in India and the relationship between the two languages are similar to those between Dutch and Afrikaans.
The language is composed of the Eastern Hindi dialects (Bhojpuri and Awadhi) with numerous English and Fijian words.
It is spoken with a Pacific twang.
In recent times, due to the political upheaval  in Fiji, large numbers of Fiji Indians have migrated to Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada, taking the Fiji Hindi language with them.
Ethnologue - Fiji Hindi
Electronic money is money stored electronically, and spent by using a technical device, such as a smart card.
If it is stored on a card, its use may be secured by a PIN code.
In Japan, electronic money is commonly used to pay for train tickets.
JR East’s prepaid train ticket (Suica) and JR West’s IC Operating card (ICOCA).
Suica and ICOCA are plastic cards with a built-in IC chip.
Suica was originally introduced in 2001.
In addition, many types of electronic money are used in other train stations in Japan.
For example, Kitaca is electronic money in the Hokkaido area, Sugoca is used in the Kyusyu area, etc.
Most electronic money is also used to pay for goods at convenience stores in Japan.
money capability.
Recently, many people have been using these kinds of electronic money cards in Japan.
Note, that electronic money is always backed by real money.
For this reason, cryptocurrencies cannot be used as electronic money.
was a Japanese industrial designer.
is one of the most famous product designers in Japan.
He played a role in Japanese modern design developed from after World War 2 to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy.
He is both a representative of the wholly Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts.
He was born in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan, as the son of Soetsu Yanagi, who founded the "mingei" movement which celebrated Japanese folk crafts and the beauty of everyday objects.
Soetsu helped establish the Nihon Mingeikon, the Folk Crafts Museum of Japan.
Sori entered Tokyo Art School in 1934, where he studied both art and architecture.
He was influenced by Le Corbusier as well as by Charlotte Perriand when she worked in Japan in the early 1940s.
So, his interests moved from painting to buildings to design and objects.
After World War II, he designed many products: furniture, three-wheeled vehicles, Olympic cauldrons, pedestrian overpasses, etc.
One of the most famous pieces of furniture is his Butterfly Stool.
Announced in 1956, its' 2-piece form has been compared to a butterfly's open wings.
Alternately, the shape can be seen as the gateway of a Shinto shrine or even an antique samurai helmet.