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For example, the U.S. Army's Delta Force was founded due in large part to Charles Beckwith, a U.S. Army special operations officer, serving as an exchange officer with the SAS.
He felt that the U.S. Army was vulnerable in not having a unit comparable to the SAS.
1941 establishments in Europe
1940s establishments in the United Kingdom
Kookaburra makes and sells cricket supplies which are used by amateurs and professionals.
They are one of the leading brands and are famous for their colourful and artistic designs.
It is the leading manufacturer of cricket equipment in the world.
Its balls are used the most in international cricket matches.
Cricket in Oceania
Lancashire is a ceremonial county in the North West of England.
Its two cities are Lancaster and Preston.
Before 1974, Liverpool and Manchester were part of administrative county of Lancashire.
The county has developed a fierce rivalry with Yorkshire, the next county east.
This comes from rivalry in sport, such as in cricket, and comes from the War of the Roses.
A big attraction in Lancashire is Blackpool, an English seaside resort, which has a theme park called Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
It has the second largest rollercoaster in Europe ("The Big One") and Blackpool Tower, a tower which was made to look like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Lancashire has market towns (like Chorley) and small villages (like Bretherton, Croston and Eccleston).
It is just south of an area of outstanding natural beauty called the Lake District.
Lancashire also has a lot of pleasant countryside such as White Coppice and the Rivington Moors.
A famous food from Lancashire is "Lancashire Hot pot" which is made of meat, onion or other vegetables and potatoes.
It is often found on many pub menus in the county and in other places in Britain.
The people of Lancashire are known for their friendly nature.
Humour is also an important part of Lancashire life.
The Church of England is the leading Christian church in England.
It is the church established by law: its formal head is the English monarch (Elizabeth II).
It is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
Its headquarters are at Church House, Westminster, in London.
Catholic because it views itself as a part of the universal church of Jesus Christ in unbroken continuity with the early apostolic church.
This is expressed in its emphasis on the teachings of the early Church Fathers, as in the Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed and Athanasian Creed.
Reformed because it has been shaped by the doctrinal ideas of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, in particular by the Thirty-Nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer.
The Church of England became independent under King Henry VIII in 1534.
Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon, but asked the Pope to annul the marriage (say that it was a mistake and that Henry and Catherine were never really married).
He wanted to annul the marriage because he wanted a male heir to his throne and Catherine could not produce one.
When the annulment was refused, Henry VIII used his position as King to break the Church away from the Roman Catholic Church.
This established the independence of the Church of England, sometimes called the Anglican (English) Church.
Methodism broke away from the church in the 18th century.
The Oxford Movement brought some Catholic beliefs and practices back into the church in the 19th century.
Under his son, King Edward VI, more Protestant forms of worship were adopted.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer started more changes.
A new pattern of worship was set out in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 and 1552).
These were based on the older liturgy but influenced by Protestant principles.
CofE website
Tense is the form of a verb that shows the time something happened, or is going to happen.
There are three main tenses:
Present tense: things that are true when the words are spoken or written.
Example: She goes to school.
In this sentence, goes shows that it is a present tense.
It suggests that she regularly goes to school.
Example: She is going to school.
This says she is now going to school.
Past tense: things that were true before the words were spoken or written.
Example: She went to school.
In this sentence, went shows that it is a past tense.
Future tense: things that will be true after the words are spoken or written.
Example: She will go to school.
In this sentence, will shows that it is a future tense.
Tense can be shown by changing the spelling of a verb.
For example, be can become am, is, and are in present tense, and was and were in past tense.
In English, future tense is shown by adding will before the verb.
For example, be becomes will be in future tense.
Note:These tenses can be subdivided further (see below).
There are also different kinds of tense within each main tense.
They are formed by adding "helping words" or "auxiliary words", such as be and have, before the verb.
For example, "I give", "I have given", "I am giving", and "I have been giving" are all in present tense, but have different meanings.
This is called aspect.
Other languages have different ways of showing tense.
For example, Latin usually shows tense by changing the verb, like English.
However, Chinese and Indonesian show tense by adding new words, instead of changing the verb.
It was built in the style of the Eiffel Tower.
Building started in 1891 and finished in 1894.
It cost £45000 (around US$70000), is 518 ft tall and weighs 2586 tons.
It is mainly made from steel and cast iron.
It is one of the main tourist attractions in Blackpool.
These include the tower itself, the Golden Mile, which is a row of arcades, the Irish Sea and beach, and Pleasure Beach Blackpool (a theme park).
The oldest part of the building is the old aquarium which was part of Dr Cockers' Menagarie and Aquarium since the 1870s.
It was kept open to earn money while the tower building was built around it.
Since Merlin Entertainments started running the tower, the building has been repaired and new attractions have been added.
The aquarium was removed to make way for a new attraction.
1894 establishments in the United Kingdom
Monuments and memorials in England
A theme park or amusement park is a place with attractions made up of rides, such as roller coasters and water rides.
They usually contain a selection of different types of rides, along with shops, restaurants and other entertainment outlets.
Theme parks can be enjoyed by adults, teenagers and children.
The period from the 1950s through the 1970s brought about a core era for growth in the contemporary theme park industry, as a strong American middle class was being established and personal transportation became a common good.
The baby boom following the second World War guaranteed a large number of families seeking to spend time together, and expanding labor rights allow for more free time to do just that.
Finally, long-distance travel options and new forms of transportation, such as passenger air travel, grew in importance, making new destinations accessible.
This mix of ideal economic conditions, combined with innovations during the time period, formed a perfect foundation on which to build the modern theme park concept to be developed.
A similar “perfect storm” unfolded in Europe, with new innovations and attractions reshaping pleasure gardens and driving new experiences.
Unique offerings were key to transporting families to worlds of imagination and wonder, but also to attracting audiences from further away.
The sheer concept of theme parks was born out of a combination of three early traditions: traveling fairs, pleasure gardens, and world fair exhibits.
Slowly the three came together and formed the modern amusement park, inviting all age groups.
Back in the day, the decision of going to a theme park was equivalent to an out of city trip, where people dressed the part.
Men wore suits and ties, and women were always spotted in heels, as opposed to now, when people have ditched all that for comfortable clothes and sneakers.
Today, enjoying amusement park rides seems like a hop, skip, and jump situation.
Acrobatics, juggling acts and freak shows have gradually evolved to puppet shows and arcade games.
The evolution of theme parks has been progressive – wooden roller coasters have turned into steel ones, with more safety elements added to all rides.
Famous parks
Disneyland Park, Anaheim, California, USA
Walt Disney World Resort theme parks, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
Universal Studios Florida, Florida, USA
Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California, USA
Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, California, USA
Legoland, Denmark, UK, USA and Germany
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Alton Towers, Alton, Staffordshire, England
Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany
Gardaland, Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy
Disneyland Park, Paris, France
Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Fuji-Q Highland, Yamanashi, Japan
Kings Island, Mason, Ohio, USA
Dreampark and Wonderland, Egypt
Efteling, Netherlands
Warner Bros. World, Abu Dhabi, UAE
The window of the World, Shenzhen, China
Adlabs imagica , Maharashtra, India
Tokyo Disneyland , Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Disneysea , Tokyo, Japan
Schlitterbahn Water Park
Kookaburras are birds of the genus Dacelo and are native to Australia and New Guinea.
An adult kookaburra is generally 28–42 centimetres from the head to the tip of the tail.
Genus Dacelo
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) – Native to eastern mainland Australia, introduced to Tasmania, Flinders Island, Kangaroo Island and Western Australia.
Some were also introduced to New Zealand between 1866 and 1880; but only those that were freed by Sir George Grey on Kawau Island are still there today.
Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) – Native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.
Spangled Kookaburra (Dacelo tyro) – Found only on the Aru Islands and Trans Fly savanna and grasslands of southern New Guinea.
Rufous-bellied Kookaburra (Dacelo gaudichaud) – Widely distributed through forests of lowland New Guinea and has also been seen on Saibai Island in Queensland.
Kookaburras usually live in family groups.
Young kookaburras help their parents to hunt and care for the smaller children.
Kookaburras are well known for their loud call, which sounds a bit like human laughter.
Kookaburras use their calling to show others what is their land.
Birds of Australia
Birds of Oceania
Poll tax is a system of taxing.
It is also called head tax.
It is based on the idea that everyone pays the same amount of tax.
This is regardless of how much they earn.
In the last few years of Margaret Thatcher's reign as British Prime minister, she received heavy opposition and mass riots were held when she tried to have poll tax used as the tax system.
The Canadian dollar is the national currency of Canada.
It has been used since 1858.
The Canadian dollar is also used in Saint Pierre and Miquelon along with the Euro.
Currency of North America
Economy of Canada
1858 establishments
1850s establishments in Canada
A person or company who does printing
computer printer, a computer peripheral that reproduces text and/or picture, usually on paper
optical printer, a device to copy and/or modify images on motion picture film
Bonn (Latin: Bonna) is a city near Cologne.
It is in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bonn was founded on an old Roman settlement.
Today it has about 327,000 inhabitants.
Following World War II Bonn was in the British occupation zone.
In 1949 Bonn was chosen as the provisional capital of West Germany.
Bonn was the choice of Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and the first Chancellor of West Germany after World War II, who came from that area.
Frankfurt am Main had most of the needed facilities already, so using Bonn meant spending about 95 Million DM to building new roads and building.
However, Frankfurt am Main had been an important city during the war, and choosing Bonn was to symbolise a new start for the new Germany.
Because of its relatively small size for a capital city, Bonn was sometimes jokingly called the Bundesdorf (Federal Village).
Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 until 1990 it.
The Bundestag voted to move to Berlin on 20 June 1991, after a heated debate.
The Federal President had already decided to make Schloß Bellevue in Berlin his main official residence.
The extra building work needed meant it was 1999 before the government's move was completed.
Beethoven's birthplace is located at Bonngasse.
Next to the market place is the Old Town Hall, built in 1737 in Rococo style, under the rule of Clemens August of Bavaria.
It's used for receptions of guests of the town, and as a bureau for the mayor.
Close by is the Kurfürstliches Schloss, which has been built as a residence of the prince-elector, and nowadays is the main building of the University of Bonn.
The Poppelsdorfer Allee, an alley flanked by chestnut trees, connects the Kurfürstliches Schloss with the Poppelsdorfer Schloss, a palace that was built as a resort to prince-electors in the first half of the 18th century.
This axis is interrupted by a railway line and Bonn Central Station, a building erected in 1883/84.
The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg (180 m), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower (162.5 m) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen (114.7 m) which nowadays is the new location of the UN-Campus.
Bonn Minster
Doppelkirche (Double Church) Schwarzrheindorf built in 1151
Old Cemetery Bonn, one of the best known ones in Germany
Castles and residences
Godesburg fortress ruins
Modern buildings
Bundesviertel (federal quarter) with lots of government structures including
Post Tower, the tallest building in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, housing the headquarters of the Deutsche Post AG
Deutsche Telekom headquarters
T-Mobile headquarters
Maritim Bonn, 5 star hotel and convention centre
Schürmann-Bau, headquarters of Deutsche Welle
Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament
Museum Mile with
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) showing the Guggenheim Collection in 2006-2007
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn Museum of Modern Art)
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Museum Koenig where the Parlamentarischer Rat first met
Beethoven House, birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ägyptisches Museum (Egyptian Museum)
Akademisches Kunstmuseum (Academic Museum of Art)
Arithmeum, research institute for discrete mathematics including a museum
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (Rhinish Regional Museum Bonn)
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn) is one of the largest universities in Germany
Bonn Universities are located mainly in downtown Bonn, but some buildings are spread throughout the city.
As such Bonn is known as the city of Universities.
Aloisiuskolleg, a Jesuit private school in Bad Godesberg
Botanischer Garten (Botanical Garden), where Titan arum reached a world record
Rheinaue (Bonn), a leisure park on the banks of the Rhine
Rhine promenade and the Alter Zoll (Old Toll Station)
In the very south of the city on the border to Wachtberg and Rhineland-Palatinate is the extinct volcano Rodderberg
Oxford, since 1947
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, since 1983
Potsdam, since 1988
Budafok, District XII of Budapest since 1991
Opole, (officially since 1997; contacts were established 1954)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
district of Bad Godesberg
Saint-Cloud,
Frascati,
district of Beuel
district of Hardtberg
Islamabad-Rawalpindi
Official timeline
"The Museum Mile"
Germany's Museum of Art in Bonn
The CAF Champions League is a football competition between the best club teams in Africa.
The teams are selected because of good performances in matches.
Football competitions in Africa
CONMEBOL Libertadores or Copa Libertadores (Libertadores Cup) is a football competition between the best club teams in South America.
The teams are qualified based on how well they did in the national tournament.
The last year winner has assured participation.
The tournament is run by Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL).
Copa Libertadores is played annually.
It usually happens between the months of February and November (South American summer and spring).
Its winner is qualified for the annual FIFA Club World Cup.
Libertadores starts in January with the worst classified team of each country playing for to be a part of the "Main Draw".
In February, the Main Draw begins.
It is made up of 8 groups with 4 clubs in each group.
Each team plays 6 games.
They play three home games and three away games.
The top 2 clubs in every group advance to the next round.
A total of 16 clubs play in the playoffs.
The better qualified clubs in the Main Draw take advantage of playing the second game of each round of the playoffs at home.
Libertadores goes on with clubs playing home and away, round after round till the Finals.
Unlike European club competitions, the Copa Libertadores, in the past, did not use extra time or away goals to decide a tie.
Starting with the 2005 event, CONMEBOL began to use the away goals rule, with the extra time used only in the final matches.
Football competitions in South America
A longbow is a type of bow.
It may not have been as powerful as a crossbow but it could shoot more arrows per minute.
Also, the basic equipment cost little, and could be easily mass produced.
Metal-tipped arrows could pierce all but the best plate armour.
Archers (longbowmen) would usually have a second weapon, often a battle-axe, for close-quarter fighting.
It was made from a single piece of hard wearing, flexible wood (often yew).
Yew was cut during the winter when there was no sap.
The flat side of the bow facing the target was flexible sapwood while the belly (facing the archer) was round and made of strong heartwood (from the center of a tree).
The devastating hail of the longbowmen (at a rate of six per minute) was often very demoralizing.
In the British Isles the weapon was first recorded as being used by the Welsh.
In AD 633 Offrid, son of Edwin, king of Northumbria, was killed by an arrow shot from a Welsh longbow.
This was during a battle between the Welsh and the Mercians — more than five centuries before any record of its use in England.
Despite this, the weapon is more commonly known as the "English longbow" than the "Welsh longbow".
In the Middle Ages the English and Welsh were famous for their very powerful Welsh longbows.
They were used to great effect in the civil wars of the period and against the French in the Hundred Years' War (with notable success at the battles of Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356) and Agincourt (1415).
A longbow has practical advantages compared to a modern recurve or compound bow; it is usually lighter, quicker to prepare for shooting, and shoots more quietly.
However, other things being equal, the modern bow will shoot a faster arrow more accurately than the longbow.
The African Union (AU) is an supranational organization consisting of fifty-five African member countries.
Founded in Durban on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a replacement to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the African Economic Community (AEC).
The current Chairperson of the African Union is President of Senegal Macky Sall since February 5, 2022.
The AU, in the future, aims to have a single currency and a single integrated defense force, as well as other institutions of state, including a cabinet for the AU Head of State.
The purpose of the organization is to help secure the continent's democracy, human rights, and a sustainable economy, especially by bringing an end to conflict between African nations and creating an effective common market.
2002 establishments
2000s establishments in Africa
The Bastille was a prison in Paris, France.
It was destroyed during the French Revolution on 14 July 1789.
It was attacked by rebels from the "third estate" (the people).
This event is considered the beginning of the French Revolution.
Today in France, the 14 July, Fête Nationale, or Bastille Day, is a national holiday.
The Bastille was built during the Hundred Years' War.
It was called the Bastion de Saint-Antoine.
At first it was just the Saint-Antoine gate, but from 1370–1383, this gate was made bigger and became a fortress.
It defended the east end of Paris and the Hôtel Saint-Pol royal palace.
After the war, it was turned into a prison.
Louis XIII(13) was the first king to send prisoners there.
The Bastille was built in a rectangle shape, 70 meters (220 ft) long and 30 meters (90 ft) wide.
It had eight towers and walls 25 meters (80 ft) high, with a wide moat going around the outside.
There were two courtyards inside and houses against the walls.
Pairs of towers on the east and west sides had gates through which the rue Saint-Antoine passed.
In the 1400s, these were blocked up, and a new city gate was built to the north on the present day rue de la Bastille.
A bastion on the eastern side was built later.
The walls and towers were of the same height and width and joined by a broad path.
Soldiers on the wall could move quickly to any part of the fortress without having to climb down inside the towers.
It also meant that there was enough room for placing artillery.
A similar design can be seen today at Château de Tarascon.
Storming the Bastille
As a prison, the Bastille held common criminals such as forgers and thieves, as well as people put in prison for religious reasons, such as the Huguenots.
Some had been put in prison for printing or writing things against the government or the King.
People of high rank were sometimes held there too.
The prison, which could only hold about 50 prisoners, was not as bad most of the prisons in Paris.
But secrecy about the prison and its prisoners gave it an evil reputation.
The people of Paris attacked the Bastille on 14 July 1789, following several days of protests.
They wanted the gunpowder and weapons that were kept at the prison.
They were not attacking the Bastille to free the seven prisoners inside.
The prison was guarded by about 80 invalides (old soldiers) led by Governor Bernard-René de Launay.
There was also an extra group of 32 grenadiers from one of the Swiss mercenary regiments brought to Paris by the King shortly before 14 July.
A crowd of around 8,000 men and women were outside the Bastille by mid-morning.
They wanted the guards to give up the prison, remove the artillery guns, and give them the gunpowder and weapons.
Two people chosen to represent those outside were invited into the fortress to talk with the Governor.
At about 1:00pm, the crowd broke into the undefended outer courtyard and the chains on the drawbridge to the inner courtyard were cut.
There was some gunfire, but by mid-afternoon the crowd was supported by mutinous Gardes Françaises of the Royal Army and two cannons.
De Launay ordered his guards to stop shooting and he gave up the fortress.
The crowd swept into the Bastille at about 5.30pm.
The crowd took the weapons, gunpowder, and freed the seven prisoners.
They had to break down the doors because the keys had already been taken and shown in the streets.
Even though they had surrendered, the Governor and some of the guards of the Bastille were killed.
Their heads were cut off, stuck onto long poles, and marched through the streets.
Pulling down the Bastille
The propaganda value of the Bastille was quickly seen by Pierre-François Palloy, "Patriote Palloy".
He got together a group of men to begin pulling down the fortress by the next day.
People paid him to view the site and he sold off pieces as souvenirs.
By November, 1789, the Bastille was largely pulled down.
The cut stones of the fortress were used to build the Pont de la Concorde (Paris).
The area today
The site of the Bastille is now called the Place de la Bastille.
It is home to the Opéra Bastille.
The large moat behind the fort has been turned into a marina for boats, the Bassin de l'Arsenal.
To the north, a covered canal, the Canal Saint Martin, goes under the road along the edge of the site.
The remains of one tower of the fort were found during digging for the Paris Métro (rail mass-transit system) in 1899.
These were moved to a park, the Square Henri-Galli, a few hundred meters away.
The outline of the fort is also marked on the streets and sidewalks with special paving stones.
A cafe and some other businesses are now on the site of the fort, and the rue Saint Antoine passes directly over it as it opens onto the roundabout of the Bastille.
Today, the French celebrate the 14th July by
Having military and civilian parades
Having military air shows
Musical performances
Communal meals
Spectacular firework displays
Comte de Rochefort (The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After)
Alexandre Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
M. Thénardier (Les Misérables)
Several works about the Man with the iron mask
Satellite view of the Place de la Bastille place today.
Remains of the Bastille - photo of the remains of one tower, with a short description
À bas la Bastille!:
how the Encyclopædia Britannica has written about the Bastille since 1768.
1789 disestablishments
18th-century disestablishments in Europe
The Freecycle Network (TFN) is a global network of people who share and regive items.
They organise their network through the Internet.
Freecycle is a place for people to meet.
There are just two things people can do there.
The first thing is this:  A person can ask the other people for an item.
If someone has it, they can tell the person who wants it.
The second thing is this: A person can give away an item.
Sometimes many people want the item, and the donator has to choose just one person.
Freecycle Group Finder
Slashdot is a website where people can read news.
Most people who go to Slashdot like computers.
Other people go, too.
On the Slashdot website, people can comment on the news.
Often this leads to interesting discussions with many points of view.
Slashdot has been a website for ten years.
It has lots of things to talk about.
Some of the things are: computers, the Internet, video games, and politics.
Many people like Slashdot because you can share ideas.
People who like computers and the Internet can read the ideas to learn.
Anyone can go to Slashdot and read it and do not need to give money.
People from every country go.
It has many ideas which are never the same.
This theory of elasticity says the extension of a spring is proportional to the load applied to it.
Many materials obey this law as long as the load does not exceed the material's elastic limit.
Materials for which Hooke's law is useful are known as linear-elastic or "Hookean" materials.
The spring equation
The length of a spring always changes by the same amount when it is pushed or pulled.
The equation for this is:
F is how much (push or pull) is on the spring
k is a constant, the stiffness of the spring.
x is how far the spring was pushed or pulled
This equation only works on a linear spring.
A linear spring is a spring that is only being pushed or pulled in one direction, such as left or right or up or down.
Elastic potential energy is the energy saved in an object that is stretched, compressed (compression is pressing objects together), twisted or bent.
For example, an arrow gets the elastic potential energy from the bow.
When it leaves the bow, the potential energy turns into kinetic energy.
Which means:
U is the elastic potential energy.
k is the spring constant.
x is the distance pushed or pulled.
A railfan is a person who likes railways and trains.
Railfans like to take pictures of trains.
They also like to watch trains.
Some railfans make models of railways.
These are called model railways.
Some railfans like to study the history of railways.
Some railfans collect things having to do with trains.
Railfans may carry a radio scanner when they are watching trains, so they can listen to the railway workers talk.
Some railfans work for a railway, or have family members who worked for a railway.
Most railfans like to ride trains.
There are many magazines for people who like trains.
Railfans enjoy reading books and magazines about trains.
Time is an American news magazine.
It was founded in 1923.
It is printed every week in the United States.
It is published by Time Inc. It has articles on politics and current events.
It is read by more people than any other news magazine.
There is also a magazine called Time For Kids, aimed at children.
That magazine is eight pages long and contains more images and shorter articles than the regular Time magazine.
Weekly magazines
Magazines published in New York City
Cable television is a way of letting people watch television without having to get signals from an antenna.
The television signals are brought to the television through a coaxial cable or optical fiber, people usually have to pay to subscribe to get cable television.
With cable television, people can watch many television channels carrying many television shows.
Usually some of these are television stations and others are cable channels, made for the cable companies.
Cable TV is provided by many carriers, usually a place is served by only one or two cable companies.
Some of those carriers in the United States are: AT&T U-Verse, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Verizon.
Another method of subscription television is by Satellite television, especially in places where cable TV is not available.
Home Box Office
Television technology
An antenna or aerial is a metal device made to send or receive radio waves.
Many electronic devices like radio, television, radar, wireless LAN, cell phone, and GPS need antennas to do their job.
Antennas work both in air and outer space.
The word 'antenna' is from Guglielmo Marconi's test with wireless equipment in 1895.
For the test, he used a 2.5 meter long pole antenna with a tent pole called ' l'antenna centrale ' in Italian.
So his antenna was simply called ' l'antenna '.
After that, the word 'antenna' became popular among people and had the meaning it has today.
The plural of antenna is either antennas or antennae (U.S. and Canada tends to use antennas more than other places).
Types of antennas
Each one is made to work for a specific frequency range.
The antenna's length or size usually depends on the wavelength (1/frequency) it uses.
Different kinds of antenna have different purposes.
For example, the isotropic radiator is an imaginary antenna that sends signals equally in all directions.
The dipole antenna is simply two wires with one end of each wire connected to the radio and the other end standing free in space.
It sends or receives signals in all directions except where the wires are pointing.
Some antennas are more directional.
Horn is used where high gain is needed, the wavelength is short.
Satellite television and radio telescopes mostly use dish antennas.
Radio antennas
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American writer.
He lived in the U.S. state of California but also spent a lot of time in Hawaii and Alaska.
His most famous book was The Call of the Wild.
The Call of the Wild is about a dog named Buck who is taken to Alaska to work with a pack of dogs pulling a sled.
This book took place during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Many people bought The Call of the Wild and Jack London became a famous writer.
He also wrote other books about dogs and wolves.
Another one of his famous books is White Fang.
Jack London was also a hobo at one time.
He wrote a book about this called The Road.
Jack London had political beliefs.
He was a socialist.
One of his famous books is The Iron Heel, which is the story of the government using force against the socialist movement.
He also spent some time at sea and making a living as an "oyster pirate".
He wrote many books about sailing and boats.
One of his best-known books about life at sea was The Sea Wolf.
He married Charmian London born Kittredge (second wife).
She was an athletic woman and an intellectual companion that broke the mold of Victorian womanhood—though they grew apart when she turned to socialite circles.
His feminism was matched by models of sensitive "virility" and he sorted out the master-slave model of government in order to find alternatives.[3] He was on the vanguard of animal welfare and attempted a model pig farm, and experimented with early ecological agriculture, but Wolf House (his dream home) burnt to the ground in what could have been arson.[4] He died in a state of depression.
Reesman 2009, p. 23.
Saiz, Peter Ralph, "Political Tyranny and the Master-Slave Paradigm in Selected Sea-Tales of Herman Melville and Jack London", PhD thesis Purdue University 2003.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3113867/ Cf.
also, Huebert, David, "Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American literature", PhD thesis University of Western Ontario 2018.
http://santarosahistory.com/wordpress/2016/11/the-case-for-arson-at-wolf-house/. Cf.
Fresneau-Woodward, Servanne, "Nature animale et paysages naturels dans l'oeuvre de Jack London" Doctorat, Université de Paris X https://www.theses.fr/1987PA100174
Writers from Alaska
1916 deaths
Jerk is the change in the acceleration of an object.
Mathematically, jerk is the derivative, or the rate of change of acceleration by time.
Jerk is also called jolt (in British English), surge, or lurch.
Jerk is a vector and there is no word for its scalar value.
The jerk is measured in metres per second cubed ().
Yank can be thought as a force in terms of jerk.
Force is mass times acceleration.
Similarly, Yank is mass times jerk.
It is also the derivative of the force.
However, when an object is moving near the speed of light, a force is often written as the derivative of momentum.
In this case, Yank is the rate of change of the derivative of momentum.
Its use
Jerk is used in engineering, particularly in making roller coasters.
Weak objects such as people can be damaged by high acceleration or high jerk.
Also, jerk must be thought in the process of making any product.
Sudden change in acceleration means very large jerk.
Extent of exposure to jerk is often a good predictor of the rate of deterioration of tools while in normal use; it corresponds better to the appearance of metal fatigue among other modes of failure.
physical quantity
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
The equation of current is:
is the current flowing
is the change in electric charge
is the change in time
The SI unit of electric current is the ampere (A).
This is equal to one coulomb of charge in one second.
The source of current
In conducting materials, some electrons are very loosely bound to the atoms of the material.
When large amounts of these atoms come together, there is a sort of electron cloud that "hovers" near the atoms of the material.
If you examine a cross-section of the piece of conducting material, the electrons will move very quickly through it.
This motion is caused by temperature, and electrons flowing in one direction tend to equal the electrons flowing from the other direction, so this is not what causes current to flow.
Electrons flow from one atom to another, a process has been compared to the passing of water buckets from one person to another in a bucket brigade.
When an electric field is put on the wire, the electrons respond almost instantly by drifting slightly in the opposite direction of the field.
They gain energy from the field, which is lost very quickly when they bump into other electrons in the material.
As long as the field is in place, however, the electrons will gain back that energy that they lost, and the process will continue.
This "jolt" that electrons receive from the electric field is the source of current, not the overall flow of electrons themselves.
From this discussion, we can see two things that current is not:
It is not an actual "flow" of electrons in the everyday sense of the word:  If we examine the speed given to the electrons by the field, it is usually very small, on the order of millimeters per second.
It would take half an hour for electrons to cross a 10-foot (3 m) room at this rate.
Since a light bulb flips on almost immediately after hitting the switch, something else must be at work.
It is also not a "domino effect", although this analogy is closer than the flow.
Since electrons are so tiny, even when they are moving very quickly they are not being propelled by great force.
Current in circuits
When current is flowing in a wire circuit, it accelerates when there is no resistance in the circuit.
Resistors are used to increase resistance in the circuit so it slows down the current.
The relationship between resistance, current, and voltage (another part of the circuit) is shown by Ohm's law.
Inbreeding is a term in genetics, meaning the crossing (mating) of closely related animals or plants.
Self-fertilisation in plants is the most extreme kind of inbreeding.
It is quite widespread in plants which carry both male and female flowers on the same plant.
Inbreeding is the opposite of outcrossing, which is the mating of unrelated members of the same species.
The combination of inbreeding and outcrossing is a standard method of artificial selection.
For human beings, inbreeding is destructive, and almost all cultures have an incest taboo.
For example, many prohibit marriage between first cousins, and most prohibit it for closer family members.
Loss of genetic variation
Loss of genetic variation means that many gene loci that were heterozygous are now homozygous.
The result of both genes at a locus being mutant can be serious.
The most intense form of inbreeding is the self-fertilisation in an hermaphrodite, in which the proportion of heterozygotes is halved in each generation.p139 Aa x Aa (100%) gives 1 AA: 2 Aa; 1 aa (50%), and so on.
A similar effect takes twice as long with brother-sister mating, and longer still with mating in very small isolated groups.
The latter situation is famous because Sewall Wright did his calculations for just such groups, and he called the process genetic drift.
Genetic drift and inbreeding are closely related concepts.
The degree of inbreeding can be measured in various ways.
A simple test for mammals is the exchange of skin grafts.
If the grafts are not rejected, the animals must be nearly identical genetically.
Skin grafts can be successfully exchanged between rats in standard laboratory strains, and between cheetahs caught in the wild.
Why is it that inbreeding brings about a loss of viability?
There are two answers, and both seem to be true.
The first is that a group with little genetic variation is vulnerable to environmental challenges: infections, sudden climate events, predators.
Small groups are vulnerable to chance events in any case, but with no heritable variability they are even more vulnerable.
The second explanation is genetic.
Some of the homozygous genes will be deleterious recessives which would normally be shielded by a dominant allele.
Also, there are some loci where the heterozygote is inherently fitter than either homozygote.
If so, inbreeding will automatically cause a loss of vigour.p103
Many plant species do self-pollination in the wild, but the great majority have occasional outcrossing.
This provides them with sufficient variety for their survival.
Cambridge is a city in England.
It is  north of London.
The city is famous for its university, the University of Cambridge, which is thought to be one of the best universities in the world.
The university has a hospital (Addenbrooke's Hospital), laboratory (Cavendish Laboratory), chapel (King's College Chapel) and library (Cambridge University Library).
There is also a Central Library in Cambridge, on the first floor of the Grand Arcade, St Andrew's Street.
There are 108,863 people living in Cambridge, of which 22,153 are students.
There are lots of smaller towns and villages around Cambridge.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book written by Mark Twain, published in 1884.
It is a sequel to his earlier book, Tom Sawyer.
After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck was adopted by the widow Douglas who wants to “civilize” him and so he joined Tom’s band of robbers.
One day, Huck’s father Pap, a violent drunkard, appears in St. Petersburg.
When a new judge arrives, Pap gains custody of his son and moves to a cabin on the other side of the river.
Huck is kept locked but fakes his own death and hides on Jackson’s Island, a small island on the river.
There he meets Miss Watson’s black slave Jim who ran away.
When they find a raft, they decide to go to a free state.
After a storm, a house is floating down the river and they enter it and grab what they can.
Inside, there is a dead man shot in the back and Jim prevents Huck from seeing the dead man’s face.
Huck dresses as a girl and returns to town because he wants to hear what’s going on in town.
A woman tells that Jim is considered to be Huck’s murderer.
Moreover, she is suspicious about Huck’s true sex and reveals that he is a boy.
Huck returns to the island and together with Jim he flees downriver.
After some time on the river, they are separated by a passing steaming boat and Huck meets the Grangerfords, a rich family.
He befriends with Buck Grangerford who is about his age.
The Grangerfords are in a 30-year feud against the Shepherdsons, another rich family along the Mississippi.
When a conflict breaks out, all Grangerford males are killed.
Huck can escape and reunites with Jim.
Together they float further downriver.
Later, they rescue two con men who join the boys on their journey.
They pull several scams along the river.
Once, they pretend to be a dead man’s brothers and escape after their true identities are revealed.
Later, the elder one sells Jim.
Huck finds out that Jim is now owned by the Phelps.
He decides to free him and pretends to be the Phelps’ nephew Tom Sawyer.
When the real Tom arrives, he plays along.
Jim is held in a shed and Tom has a risky escape plan.
As they carry out their plan, Tom is shot in the leg.
While Huck gets help, Jim remains with Tom.
When they return to the farm, Jim is recaptured while Tom is unconscious.
When Tom awakes, he reveals that Jim had been free for weeks after his owner died two months ago.
He did not tell Huck because he wanted a risky plan to rescue Jim.
Furthermore, Tom’s Aunt Polly arrives and reveals Huck’s and Tom’s real identities.
Moreover, Jim tells that Pap was the dead man on the floating house.
Finally, Huck decides to go West.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn received often good reviews, but the novel was controversial from the beginning.
When the American edition came out in 1885 some libraries banned it.
Today, many people feel that the book attacks racism and shows that it is bad.
Others criticize the book because it shows things like slavery, and uses words like "nigger".
They also think that, although Jim is not meant to be a bad character, he has some stereotypes of that time.
Bad boy books
Books by Mark Twain
1884 books
Snooker is a cue sport played by two players.
It is popular in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and parts of Asia.
The players use long thin sticks called cues to strike a white ball (the cue ball).
The cue ball must always be hit first when attempting a shot at the target ball.
Each target ball must be aimed or 'potted' into one of the pockets in order.
A red ball followed by a colour then a red ball again.
This happens until only the coloured balls are left.
The colours then have to be potted in the following order: yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.
The player who scores more points wins the game or 'frame'.
A match consists of an agreed number of frames.
Big events in snooker are the World Snooker Championship, UK Championship and the Masters.
Professional players play on the World Snooker Tour.
The best-known snooker players are the six-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry and the current world champion Judd Trump.
Other former world champions are for example Joe Davis (fifteen wins), his brother Fred Davis, John Pulman (each eight wins) and six-time world champions Ray Reardon and Steve Davis.
Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
From her youth, she began to sing: she did singing competitions, castings and shows.
Her career began in 1994 with the release of her first album Age Ain't Nothing But A Number.
She continued going to the High School of the Performing Arts after this.
In 1996, Aaliyah's second album, One in a Million.
Aaliyah always wanted to act and she got the leading role in Romeo Must Die (2000).
Then she starred in Queen of the Damned in 2002.
In 2001, she returned to music with her third album called Aaliyah, She put a lot into it, as a singer and as an executive producer.
She worked on it with her uncle.
She died on August 25, 2001 in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
She was going to be in the movie The Matrix Reloaded, but the filmmakers had to use another person after she died.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York.
She was of African American descent, with Native American heritage from her grandmother.
Her father was of Jamaican heritage.
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Aaliyah was enrolled in voice lessons by her mother, and she would perform at weddings, church choir and charity events.
When she was five years old, her family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she was raised along with her older brother, Rashad.
She attended a Catholic school, Gesu Elementary, where she received a part in the stage play named Annie in first grade.
From then on, she was determined to become an entertainer.
Aaliyah's mother was a vocalist.
Her uncle, Barry Hankerson, was an entertainment lawyer who had been married to Gladys Knight.
As a child, Aaliyah traveled with Knight and worked with an agent in New York to audition for commercials and television programs, including Family Matters; she went on to appear on Star Search at the age of ten.
She then auditioned for several record labels and appeared in concerts alongside Knight at age 11.
Aaliyah attended the Detroit High School for the Performing Arts, where she majored in drama and graduated in 1997.
Aaliyah began her acting career that same year.
After Hankerson signed a distribution deal with Jive Records, he signed Aaliyah to his label named Blackground Records when Aaliyah was 12 years old.
She released her debut album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number in 1994.
Rumors circulated that she and her mentor R. Kelly were not only romantically involved, but had also married.
Aaliyah admitted to a friendship with R. Kelly, which had developed while recording Age Ain't Nothing but a Number.
She said they would go out together and watch a movie or eat somewhere when they went on breaks from recording the album and said they were "rather close".
She dismissed the rumors about her relationship with him as people taking it "the wrong way."
Jamie Foster Brown wrote about R. Kelly's recollection of the time he had spent working with Aaliyah, writing, "R. Kelly told me that he and Aaliyah got together and it was just magic."
Brown reported hearing Aaliyah being a frequent guest at R. Kelly's home and walking his dog 12 Play.
Along with this, he heard that she was pregnant.
There were complaints about Aaliyah being in the studio recording with a bunch of older men.
Aaliyah went on to admit that she had lied about her age in court documents and filed suit in Cook County to have the records erased since she was not old enough at the time (being fifteen when the marriage took place) to get married without having the go-ahead by her parents.
Reports indicate that Aaliyah had a crush on R. Kelly at some point, but after the marriage was ended, she ceased professional and personal contact with him.
Jomo Hankerson later said that Aaliyah was treated bad over the marriage and that she had a hard time getting her second album to have a producer because of what had happened between her and R. Kelly.
With the exception of Sean Combs, he said, there were not too many producers seeking to work with her because people were upset with her, which he did not understand given her age at the time.
After the marriage ended, she stopped answering questions about R. Kelly and would often change the subject whenever it was brought up.
This was noted by several organizations that did interviews with her.
Aaliyah indicated that she would never again work with R. Kelly during an interview with Christopher John Farley, who went on to write a biography of the singer titled Aaliyah: More Than a Woman.