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He decided to wear something that would protect his hands so that they would not be damaged more.
He got laughed and mocked at by his teammates because of his glove.
In 1875, five years later, first baseman Charlie Waitt wore a glove for protection.
His teammates also laughed at him.
When baseball star Albert Spalding started to use baseball gloves for protection, more baseball players started to do what he did also because of his fame.
Soon, all baseball players started to wear baseball gloves.
In 1920, Bill Doak, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, asked that a web be placed between the first finger and the thumb of the glove for more protection.
This was because more baseball players started to have more cuts and bruises because baseballs  were thrown harder.
This design was soon added to baseball gloves, and webbed gloves were starting to be used by all baseball players.
In the 1940s, gloves would lace the fingers together for more control using the glove.
The most recent idea added to baseball gloves was making the pocket of the glove deeper and finally making small baskets in the glove so that pitchers can hide their pitching grip.
Baseball helmets
Baseball helmets are hard hats that baseball batters wear to protect their heads from a baseball being hit or thrown at them.
Roger Bresnahan made the first batting helmet after getting hit in the head one game.
Then, more players started wearing helmets.
Finally, players had to wear them from the 1970s.
Usually, the design is like the regular home cap.
The same helmets are used on the road even if the soft road cap is different.
Today's uniforms
Baseball uniforms have changed over time.
However, many parts of baseball uniforms from many years ago are still being used today.
For example, very few major league baseball players wear matching colored shoes and shoes that are completely black, although they did in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Baseball numbers on backs and fronts of uniforms  are still on backs and fronts of baseball uniforms today, and have been since 1932.
Often, a team will have a home uniform, an away uniform, a "Sunday game" uniform, uniforms that are worn only during batting practice, and uniforms worn only on special events.
Also recently, throwback uniforms have become more popular.
Current Major League Baseball uniforms have to follow rules, such as no advertisements on uniforms and that all players must wear their number on the back of the uniform.
Marc Okkonen, Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century: The Official Major League Baseball Guide, 1991.
History of the baseball uniform at the Baseball Hall of Fame
ESPN: A pain in the butt(on) – history and potential nuisances of the baseball jersey
Examples of different baseball caps
History of baseball
Guerrero is a state in south Mexico.
About 3,100,000 people live there.
Its capital is called Chilpancingo.
Coahuila is a state in north Mexico.
About 2,500,000 people live there.
Its capital is called  Saltillo.
A durian is a big fruit with a strong smell and a hard shell with sharp thorns.
Its flavour is loved by some people, especially in Southeast Asia, where people name it "King of Fruits".
Many hotels and public transportation systems do not let people carry durians because of the strong smell, which many people find unpleasant.
Durian is a tropical fruit.
It grows only in humid, hot places.
The flesh is used for many dishes in Southeast Asian cuisines.
The seeds can also be eaten when cooked.
Hidalgo is a state in central Mexico.
About 2,350,000 people live there.
Its capital is called Pachuca.
Getdeb is an Ubuntu software portal with ready-to-install applications in Ubuntu's default .deb package format.
Getdeb.net was created by João Pinto to make it easy for Ubuntu users to install the latest versions of Free/Open Source applications quickly and easily.
deb (file format)
SuperDeb
Ubuntu Homepage
The Los Angeles Angels are a Major League Baseball team.
They are based in Anaheim, California.
They are a member of the West Division of Major League Baseball's American League.
The "Angels" name is from the city that they came from: Los Angeles. "
Los Angeles" is Spanish for "The Angels".
They were previously known as the California Angels, the Anaheim Angels,  and the Los Angles Angels of Anaheim.
They have won one World Series championship, which they won in 2002.
The Angels began playing in 1961.
They were named for a former minor league baseball team called the Los Angeles Angels.
The minor league Angels moved to another city when the Los Angeles Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958.
The Angels' home stadium is called Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
It has been their home ballpark since 1966.
From 1962 to 1965, they played in Chavez Ravine Stadium.
During their first season (1961), they played in Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.
That Wrigley Field was built by the same people that owned the much more famous Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Los Angeles Angels Baseball-Reference.com
Angels Strike Force
List of archive formats
Debminer
Debian FAQ: Basics of the Debian package management system
Article on what to do with .deb files
deb (file format), a software package format used by the Debian project
A debutante
Deborah, a name
Eugene Debs, a politician
Nabakrishna Deb, a nobleman
Dynamic energy budget
Debrecen International Airport
The second album by Souad Massi
The Y chromosome is a chromosome that decides the sex in most mammals, including humans.
It contains the gene SRY, which triggers testis development, so making an animal male or female.
Genetic Genealogy: About the use of mtDNA and Y chromosome analysis in ancestry testing
Human Genome Project Information — Human Chromosome Y Launchpad
On Topic  — The Y Chromosome - From the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Nature — focus on the Y chomosome
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) — Use of Novel Mechanism Preserves Y Chromosome Genes
Ysearch.org - Public Y-DNA database
Y Chromosome Consortium (YCC)
Ćevapčići (plural form of Ćevapčić)  or Ćevapi () is a skinless meat sausage.
They originally were made in the Balkans.
it’s from Bosnia and Herzegovina and it can be found in the countries of what was Yugoslavia.
The Czech Republic, Bulgaria and the Italian provinces of Trieste and Gorizia.
Ćevapčići are served on a plate or in a flatbread (lepinja or somun).
Chopped onions, sour cream, kaymak, ajvar, cottage cheese, and similar sauces are often added.
Macedonian ќебапчиња/ḱebapčinja; from Skopje are made of equal parts of beef and pork, minced together, seasoned, grilled and served on a plate with fries and fresh minced onions, accompanied with sour cream and spices.
It can also be served in a thin bun called lepinja, similar to the Turkish Pide.
The traditional, and preferred, way of grilling ćevapčići is to use glowing coals beneath a grill.
The expressions ćevapčići or Kebapi are both common in parts of North Macedonia, whereas in Skopje, the capital, from where ćevapčići spread all over the world, ćevapčići is the only traditional expression.
Although ćevapčići is a formal diminutive, ćevapčići from Leskovac are longer (10–12 cm) than Bosnian ćevapi (5–8 cm).
The Leskovac recipe was the one that became popular in Belgrade during the 19th century and then spread all over Yugoslavia, Europe and United States.
Bosnian ćevapi from the Baščaršija district of Sarajevo and Banja Luka is probably the most famous ćevapi.
Travnik and Tuzla are known for their ćevapi made of beef stewed with spices.
This dish is very popular in some parts of what was formerly Yugoslavia as well.
The stew is poured on lepinja or somun flatbread with a few chunks of.
Banja Luka is known for ćevapi which are multiple rolls (usually four) joined together.
Bosnian ćevapi are made from two types of minced beef meat, hand mixed and formed with a funnel.
Once they are formed, ćevapi are grilled.
Bulgarian ḱebapi (ќебапи) are made of both pork and beef.
A serving usually consists of 5-10 pieces, served with white bread, minced red pepper, salt and onions.
The word comes from the Arabic , sometimes with the South Slavic diminutive ending -čići (, ćevapčići/ćevapi; , ḱebapi; , Croatian, Bosnian: ; ).
For more on the word's history, see the etymology section of kebab.
An essay on ćevapi in BH Dani  (in Bosnian)
Branislav Nušić (1864-1938) on ćevapčići-culture in Belgrade and former Yugoslavia
Recipe for ćevapi
Croatian culture
Serbian culture
Slovenian culture
Louise Farrenc (born Paris, 31 May 1804;  died 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.
She was very well-known during her lifetime, but her best compositions are not very well known.
This is because the way to become a famous composer in France in the 19th century was by writing operas, but Farrenc never wrote operas.
Her best compositions are chamber music.
Her name when she was born was Jeanne-Louise Dumont.
Her father was a successful sculptor.
She was very young when she started to learn the piano.
Her teacher had been a pupil of Muzio Clementi.
Soon she was having piano lessons with famous teachers such as Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
She loved composing, so her parents let her study composition with Anton Reicha at the Paris Conservatoire.
At that time women were not allowed to go to composition classes at the Conservatoire, so she probably had her lessons privately.
She met a flautist (flute player) called Aristide Farrenc.
He was ten years older than she was.
They often performed together and they married in 1821.
She stopped her studies and travelled with her husband around France giving concerts.
He soon grew tired of the concert life and decided to open a publishing house in Paris, which was called Éditions Farrenc.
It became one of France’s most important music publishers for nearly 40 years.
Farrenc returned to her studies with Reicha.
Then she started giving many concerts and became famous.
She was so successful that in 1842 she was made Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatoire.
She stayed in that job for 30 years.
Although it was a very good job she was paid less than the male teachers.
When her nonet was performed it made her famous.
Joseph Joachim was one of the performers.
After this success she was paid the same salary as the male professors.
Several other chamber works were very successful, but after her death people forgot about them.
At first, during the 1820s and 1830s, she just wrote for piano.
Several music critics, including Schumann, thought they were very good.
In the 1830s, she wrote chamber music and orchestral music.
Her chamber music includes most of her best compositions.
64 Studio is a free Linux distribution based on Debian made for creative users on x86-64 and legacy 32-bit hardware architectures.
It is made to serve as an all-in-one solution for audio and video recording, editing, and other forms of media production.
Since 64 Studio is distributed with a free software license, anyone with a 64-bit computer can install it on their computer (in place of or alongside the well-known Windows operating system).
An alternative installer is available for systems with 32-bit processors.
Differences with Debian
The major differences between this distribution and basic Debian is a custom kernel with realtime patches applied, some pre-configuration and a custom package selection designed to meet the needs of creative desktop users.
Other packages may also be modified to some extent, as are the basic GNOME desktop themes.
The project released the first beta of 64 Studio, version 0.9.0 code-named 'Toe Rag', on the August 1, 2006.
The release was named in honour of the all-analogue Toe Rag Studios in London, England.
After eighteen months of development, the project made its first stable release available for free download on 2006-11-29.
It is named Olympic in recognition of the work of Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer at
The second stable release, version 2.0 codename 'Electric', was announced on 27th July 2007.
This latest release is named after Electrical Audio, the studio founded by sound engineer Steve Albini in Chicago, USA.
Ubuntu Studio - a multimedia production-oriented distribution based on Ubuntu
64 studio summary
Laa, a town in Austria
Lebanese American Association
Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs
Other groups, including the Library Association of Alberta, and the Livestock Auctioneers Association
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or the Los Angeles Angels
LAA, Logistics Association of Australia, The Association of Logistics and Supply Chain Professionals.
The ICAO airline designator for Libyan Airlines, Libya
Los Angeles Airways
The FAA location identifier and IATA airport code for Lamar Municipal Airport in Lamar, Colorado.
AbulÉdu is a French Linux distribution made for classrooms.
It is based on Debian and it includes the Linux Terminal Server Project and a large number of educational applications.
Official site (in French)
Utah State University (USU) is a public university in Logan, Utah, United States.
The university was started in 1888.
Utah State University website
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is a popular peer-reviewed general medical journal.
It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group in London.
There is an online version.
BMJ Online
Daily News and Analysis (DNA) is an English language newspaper published from Mumbai.
It was launched on July 30, 2005.
DNA is Mumbai's fastest growing newspaper.
The newspaper has a liberal outlook.
2000s establishments in India
Baltix GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution aimed to be a complete, user-friendly operating system for Lithuanian and Latvian people, based on Debian and Ubuntu.
Supported languages include Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, English, Norwegian and others near and around the Baltic region.
The main language is Lithuanian.
Additional software
Educational software for kids and adults, including GCompris, TuxPaint, Atomix, etc.
Interesting and funny games, including Pingus, Chess, PlanetPenguin Racer
Vector graphic, CAD and diagram drawing software, including Inkscape, QCAD and Dia
Support for most video and audio formats, including DVD, DivX, AVI, MPEG, Xvid, Theora, Ogg Vorbis, MP3
Lightweight Desktop Environment - LXDE + PCManFM (older versions had IceWM as lightweight Window Manager)
Possibility to run lots of software, compiled for MS Windows OS (through Wine compatibility layer)
Clipart, CAD and office documents templates
Lots of other packages, which are useful for Lithuanians and other Baltic people, including
universal dictionary software OpenDict
various spelling and hyphenation dictionaries, etc.
Baltix can run directly from its live-usb, without installation to a computer's permanent storage (hard disk, solid state drive, etc.),
but also can be installed into a computer's Linux or Windows partition(s).
Baltix Goals
Easy and right away ready for majority of Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian home/office users (no need to install additional software for multimedia support or office work, e.g. spelling dictionaries or templates)
Possibility to run software, compiled for most popular operating systems, like Windows
Possibility to work comfortably on older computers (starting from 64 MB RAM and 200 MHz CPU), little resources consuming desktop environment is included (currently LXDE)
Comfortable for computer manufacturers (Baltix 0.8.x, 1.x and 20.04) has a noninteractive automatic installation (autoinstall) feature - OS can be installed into computer in about 10 minutes without user intervention.
Developers project
The Times of India is an English language newspaper published in India.
On November 3, 1838 the newspaper was founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, and, in 1861, it was renamed The Times of India.
The newspaper has a conservative outlook.
With about 2.6 million copies sold each weekday, The Times of India is the bestselling newspaper in the world.
The second bestselling newspaper in the world, USA Today, sells about 2.25 million copies each weekday.
Times of India epaper
English-language newspapers published in India
Hindustan Times is an English language newspaper published in India.
It has simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Kolkata.
The newspaper has a centrist outlook.
Download epaper Hindustan Times
The Statesman is an English language newspaper published in India.
It is published simultaneously from Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneshwar.
A Live CD, Live DVD, or Live Distro is a special way of creating a computer operating system so that it is able to run without installing anything on the computer first.
This special operating system is used when the computer is booting up, and runs all its programs off the object it is put on.
The name of the operating system usually has something to do with the object, such as "Live CD" for CDs, "Live DVD" for DVDs, or "Live USB" for USB flash drives.
"Distro" is short for Distribution, and is used because different types of Linux operating systems are called Linux Distributions, and Linux Distros were the first operating systems to be made into Live CDs.
A "Live Distro" is used to refer to all different kinds of these special operating systems, instead of just the ones on a certain object.
The word "live" is used to describe the special way that the operating system is set up so that it can run on a computer without needing to install anything first.
The first Linux-based Live CD was Yggdrasil Linux (it stopped being made in 1995), but it did not work well because back then CD drives could not read CDs fast enough.
in 2003, a Live CD based on Debian called Knoppix was released.
Many people liked to use Knoppix, both as an operating system, and as a way of fixing a computer.
Many more people have started using Live CDs since then, because of programs like Linux Live scripts and remastersys which make it very easy to make your own personalized Live CD.
remastersys, a simple tool to create a customized ubuntu Live CD/DVD
FreeBSD LiveCD
Linux Live scripts
Build your own Custom Live CD
Bootable CDROM HowTo
LiveDistro.org: Extensive build/remaster howtos, tools and release announcements.
Guide: Howto remaster a sidux live CD
The Live CD List links & information on over 300 Live CDs
Long list of LiveCDs at the Knoppix Wiki
The magic of live CDs  Article published on Free Software Magazine about LiveDistros
Live CD News
Live CD Build Scripts
Pondering Live CDs - A BSD perspective on the concept of Live CDs
Darknet 10 Best Security Live CD Distros for pen-test, forensics, and recovery
The Deccan Herald is an English language newspaper published in Karnataka.
The newspaper started in 1948.
1940s establishments in India
Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands.
It is best known for its professional football (soccer) section.
Eredivisie: 24
Winners: 1928–29, 1934–35, 1950–51, 1962–63, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18
KNVB Cup: 9
Winners: 1949–50, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1995–96, 2004–05, 2011–12
Johan Cruyff Shield: 11
Winners: 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2016 (Record)
Winners: 1987–88
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League: 1
Winners: 1977–78
BeatrIX is a GNU/Linux,live CD-based Linux distribution started by Steven Watsky, it was designed to look very simple, in order to be as easy to use as possible to new users.
A new BeatrIX desktop has just four icons (e-mail, instant messaging, word processing and web browser).
Hence, anyone who has some computer experience will be able to use BeatrIX.
BeatrIX is a small operating system, taking up only 200MB.
The liveCD fits into 80 mm discs that can store up to 184 MB of data.
BeatrIX uses Linux 2.6.7 and GNOME 2.8 as its GUI desktop.
It has productivity tools such as OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, Mozilla Firefox (version 1.0) web browser, Gaim (version 1.0), etc.
BeatrIX has been discontinued since 2005 due to Steven Watsky's lapse in health.
Another distro called BeaFanatIX is using the code of BeatrIX and continuing development.
Softpedia BeatrIX Linux
BeaFanatIX home page
Download BeatriX
DeMuDi (Debian Multimedia Distribution) was a Linux distribution based on Debian with improvements for music, sound and video production.
DeMuDi website
Debian Multimedia Project
Dreamlinux was a Linux distribution, a collection of computer programs that is designed for the use of the Linux operating system on a computer.
The Dreamlinux distribution was made in Brazil, and is based on Debian, another commonly-used Linux distribution.
Dreamlinux can be used in Portuguese.
Methods of booting
Using a compact disc called a live CD, the computer user can start up (or boot) the operating system straight from the disc without installing anything on the computer.
The user can boot Dreamlinux in the same way from an external flash drive containing the programs, connected to the computer through a USB port.
The user can install the programs in Dreamlinux on a computer's internal hard drive and run them from there.
Most operating systems have a graphical user interface, or GUI, which allows the user to interact with the programs using a graphical display.
The GUI which Dreamlinux uses looks similar to the one used by Apple's Mac OS X operating system, with a toolbar in the center.
The user can also download the "Engage" theme, which gives the toolbar some animated aspects.
Official Dreamlinux site
Official English forum
The Cluniac (Clunian) Reform was a series of changes within medieval monasticism.
The reforms focused on restoring the traditional life in the monasteries.
Monasteries should encourage the production of artworks.
They should also care for the poor.
The reform is named after the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy.
It started in the Benedictine order there.
The reform was largely carried out by Saint Odo.
It spread through France (Burgundy, Provence, Auvergne, Poitou), England and much of Italy and Spain.
The reform was stated, because there was corruption in the Benedictine order.
People thought this corruption came because people that were not priests and that came from outside the monasteries interfered with them.
A Benetictine monastery needed land.
This land was given by a Feudal lord.
By giving the land, the lord would become the patron of the monastery.
However, he would often demand the right to interfere in the business of the monastery.
The Cluny reform was an attempt to change this practice.
A more independent abbot would have better success at enforcing the Rule of the order, it was thought.
William of Aquitaine formed the first Cluny monastery in 910 with the novel stipulation that the monastery would report directly to the pope rather than to a local lord.
This meant essentially that the monastery would be independent, since the pope's authority was largely theoretical at that distance.
During its height (about 950–c.1130) the Cluniac movement was one of the largest religious forces in Europe.
Among the most notable reform supporters were Pope Urban II, Lambert of Hersfeld and Abbot Richard of Saint Vannes at Verdun.
The Cluniacs were supporters of the  Peace of God concept, as well as pilgrimages to the Holy Lands.
Southern, R.W., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, London: Penguin Books, 1970.
Elive is a Linux distribution based on Debian 10 Buster both for legacy (old) and new hardware.
Elive uses the desktop environment Enlightenment.
Elive is a Linux Distribution with a Live CD and Persistent USB Image that allows the user to try Elive before installing it on the system and not lose any work.
Elive has access to online repositories of Debian (Buster for beta, Wheezy for old stable) and uses its own repositories with more than 2500 packages that includes own specific software for Elive, extra software, or packages that replaces the default ones provided by Debian, improving the overall system and integrity.
Elive comes with a complete set of included software to fit any needs for example free programs as: LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC media player, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Skype, Virtual box, Shotwell,...
Elive old stable has 3D effects without need of an accelerated graphic card (though is suggested), thanks tot he integration between E17 and Compiz (Ecomorph).
The Beta version supports the newest linux kernel and is available both for i686 and amd64 architectures, though it drops the support to E17 (not compatible with the latest Debian Stable release) in favor of E16, which, despite being older, is way more stable and well supported by modern distributions.
It is fairly easy to upgrade to E23, which is considered the future Desktop Environment of this OS.
(old) stable, the version 3.0.3, which is based on Debian Wheezy and E17.
It works with anything from i586 (Pentium) architecture and above.
Despite the old software and repositories, this version is still widely used and appreciated due to the incredible 3d graphical effects that make using it a joy and a graphics experience.
Beta, which is divided into a 32 and a 64 bit release.
The 64 bit release brings all the perks of a 64 bits build, among theme better modern hardware support and better software experience (like Steam working perfectly).
Apart from this, there is essentially no difference apart the ram consumption.
The beta version uses the latest Linux Kernel and is based upon Debian 10 Buster.
E17 is too old now so E16 is the new default environment.
The basic configuration includes Cairo Dock and conky, plus a compositor allowing transparency.
300 MHz CPU (Pentium Pro and above, due to the limit of I686 architecture)
256 MB of RAM
At least 5 GB of disk space (for full installation and swap space)
VGA graphics card capable of 640x480 resolution
1000 MHz (Athlon 1100 like)
512 Mb of RAM
At least 10 GB of disk space (for full installation and swap space)
VGA graphics card capable of hardware acceleration
The basic setup to get a daily usable device could be a Pentium 4 HT (or equivalent), 2gb ram, 30gb 7200 rpm sata hard disk and a graphic acceleration capable graphics card; the previous recommended requirements would still give a snappy  system, but they would not meet modern web browsing requirements (so the experience with Firefox or Chromium may not be the best), which is out of the os control: for that reason Elive also ships some low resources browsers like Netsurf and Links2, though they are unable to visualize every website correctly.
Enlightenment (window manager)
Elive home page
Linux Magazine article on Elive
DistroWatch.com Feature
Softpedia.com Review
Distrocenter.linux.com Review
Tuxmachines.org Review
Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends or simply Thomas the Tank Engine; later called Thomas & Friends: Big World!
Big Adventures!)
is a British children's television series.
It was first broadcast on BBC One and ITV in October 1984.
It is based on The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry and his son, Christopher.
The main character is Thomas the Tank Engine, a tank engine that is painted blue.
The show takes place on the made-up island of Sodor.
There are two main railways there.
One of them is run by Sir Topham Hatt.
The other one is a different size.
Thomas runs on the main one (the one that is run by Sir Topham Hatt).
The show is mainly about the machines and people who populate the fictional Island of Sodor.
Since 1984, the show has had seven main characters:
Edward the Blue Engine
Henry the Green Engine
James the Red Engine
Percy the Small Engine
|+ Former voices
| Martin Sherman
| US
| Thomas (Hero of the Rails - Series 18), Percy (Hero of the Rails - Series 18), Diesel (King of the Railway - Series 18), and some children (Toby and Bash)
| rowspan="3"| Ben Small
| UK
| Thomas (Hero of the Rails - Series 18), Toby (Hero of the Rails - Series 18), and Ferdinand (Misty Island Rescue - Series 16)
| Stanley (Series 15 - 18) and Charlie (Series 16 - 18)
| UK/US
| Rheneas (Blue Mountain Mystery - Series 18), Flynn (Series 17, only), Troublesome Trucks (Series 16 - 18) and Owen (Blue Mountain Mystery - Series 18)
| Michael Brandon
| Diesel (Series 13 - Blue Mountain Mystery), Mr. Bubbles (Series 13 - 15), and The Knapford Stationmaster (Series 13 only)
| rowspan="2"| Rupert Degas| UK
| Butch (Series 15 only)
| Diesel 10 (Misty Island Rescue; original cut only), Dart (Series 15 - 16), Flynn (Series 15 - 16), and Bertie (Series 15 - 16)
Narrators
Ringo Starr (UK/US Series 1–2) (1984–90)
George Carlin (US Series 1–4) (1984–96)
Michael Angelis (UK Series 3–16/US Series 6-7) (1991–2012)
(Series 1-6 - Fullscreen)
(Series 7-16 - Widescreen)
(US Series 6-7 - Widescreen)
Alec Baldwin (US Series 5–6) (1998–2003)
(Series 5 - Fullscreen)
(Series 6 - Widescreen)
Michael Brandon (US Series 7–16/re-dubbed six episodes, Series 6) (2003–12)
(Series 6-16 - Widescreen)
Pierce Brosnan (UK/US "guest narrator" for DVD special The Great Discovery) (2008)
(Widescreen)
Mark Moraghan''' (UK/US Series 17–21/re-dubbed Series 13-15) (2013–17)
Series 6-8 were rerun on CITV while Series 9-11 were rerun on CBeebies
1980s television series debuts
1984 television series debuts
1990s television series debuts
2000s television series debuts
2010s television series debuts
Channel 5 (UK) television programmes
Feather Linux, created by Robert Sullivan, is a Knoppix-based Linux distribution which  fits in under 128 MB (while older versions were made to fit within 64 MB).
It boots from either a CD or a USB Flash Drive, into a Fluxbox desktop environment.
It has a wide range of desktop and rescue software, and can load entirely into RAM  or be installed to a hard drive.
Feather Linux contains many GTK+ applications, such as AbiWord and Pidgin.
Feather linux has tried to include software that people would frequently be using on their desktop.
With its most recent release being on 2005-07-04, Feather Linux is now not under development.
This distribution is partly inspired by Damn Small Linux.
Trutnov is a city in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.
Rose window is a word used to describe a round window design, which  is similar to the many petals of a rose.
Most often the term is used to describe the round windows of some churches, especially those built in Gothic style.
Ageing or aging is the many changes that happen in an individual over time.
In living things, ageing includes most physical and psychological changes which happen after adulthood.
Senescence is the biological process which leads to ageing.
There have been many attempts to answer the question: why do animals (especially humans) age?
In another way, ageing starts when the likelihood of death increases.
Actuarial tables show the likelihood of death at each stage of life.
These tables are used by insurance companies to assess the rates of insurance on life policies and pensions.
It turns out that we are least likely to die when we are young adults.
For girls this is as early as 14.
The reason suggested by biologists (such as Peter Medawar and George C. Williams) is that this is the time most significant for reproduction, or was in mankind's past.
The assumption is that the peak age of reproduction in mankind's history was lower than today.
A gene can be expressed at various stages of life.
Any allele of a gene which interfered with reproduction would have less chance of passing on to the next generation.
The number of such genes in the population would automatically be reduced.
Thus natural selection would virtually eliminate any inherited effect which reduced fertility.
However, later in life, inherited defects would have little or no effect on the population as a whole.
In fact, during life our cells collect damage to their DNA which is random, but causes us to become gradually less fit as we age.
And we have some cell types which never, or rarely, divide during adult life.
Muscle cells and most neurons never divide in adult life.
Obviously, they collect damage, and not just to the DNA.
Also, we inherit various genetic conditions which have effect later in life, like Huntington's chorea.
The twin effects of delayed heredity and buildup of damage is what makes us age.
Protists do not age: they divide, and the next generation is just as good as the last.
Why do even our dividing cells collect damage?
The answer to that question is not known, but may be connected to a a cell division phenomenon.
Physical attractiveness means the different characteristics of someone's physical appearance that different people consider to be beautiful in other humans.
Physical attractiveness can also include sexual attractiveness, ideas about beauty, proportions, muscular development, and appearance.
Physical attractiveness means different things to different people and to different human cultures.
There is no single definition of physical attractiveness.
In men, physical attractiveness may include slim waist and height.
Female physical attractiveness might include youth, waist-hip ratio, mid upper arm circumference, body mass proportion and facial symmetry.
A souvenir (from French, for memory), memento or keepsake is an object a traveler brings home for the memories created during a trip.
It can be a postcard, statue, magnet or little things that represent the place.
Often bought as a gift for family or friends to share the memory with them.
Online gift shops
A committee or jury used to decide some matter, such as in a court
Control panel (engineering), a flat area with controls and indicators.
Commonly found in aircraft but may be on the operation of any machinery
Panel painting, in art, either one element of a multi-element piece of art, such as a triptych, a piece of sequential art such as a graphic novel or comic strip, or a wooden panel used to paint a picture on
breaker panel, a flat area with electrical circuit breakers
panel data, a longitudinal statistical study in which one group of individuals are interviewed at intervals over a given period of time
Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image
A flat or sculptured area that is part of a larger structure such as a piece of furniture or one element of a multi-panel screen.
Panel (computer software), a widget or a control panel
Panel Switch, a type of electromechanical telephone switching system made by the Bell System in the 1920s
Structural insulated panel, a building system for construction
The Panel, an Australian talk show
The Panel (Ireland), an Irish talk show
A committee in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong that does specific areas, known elsewhere as select committee or standing committee
Jammu is a city in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is on the banks of the Tawi River which is a tributary of the Chenab River.
The Dogri language is spoken here among Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs.
Jammu is called ‘city of temples’ because the Hindu temples are in huge numbers there.
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna is also called Stephansdom
St. Stephan's Cathedral  is a baroque Cathedral.
It was finished in 1688 in Passau, Germany.
It is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Passau and the main church of his diocese.
Binomial expansion uses an expression to make a series.
It uses a bracket expression like .
There are three binomial expansions.
The formulas
| 1st (Plus)
|2nd (Minus)
|3rd (Plus-Minus)
Using Pascal's triangle
If  is an integer (), we use Pascal's triangle.
To expand :
find row 2 of Pascal's triangle (1, 2, 1)
expand  and  so the  power goes down by 1 each time from  to 0 and the  power goes up by 1 each time from 0 up to
times the numbers from Pascal's triangle with the right terms.
where  is the number at row  and position  in Pascal's triangle.
Pashto (Pushto or Pakhto) is the official language of Afghanistan.
It is spoken by the Pashtuns living in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
It is the provincial language in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Pashto belongs to the Indo-European languages family.
It has two main dialects, western dialect and eastern dialect.
The small difference between these two dialects is in the use of sounds.
The Place of Pashto among the Iranic Languages and the Problem of the Constitution of Pashtun Linguistic and Ethnic Unity."
Paṣto Quarterly 1.4 (1978): 43-55.
Shina (also known as Tshina) is a Dardic language spoken by a some people in Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan.
Languages of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Boudry is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is situated at the town of Boudry.
According 1996 estimates, it has a population of 82,690.
Departments of Burkina Faso
Its capital is situated at the town of Kogho.
According 1996 estimates, it has a population of 15,524.
Méguet is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is situated at the town of Méguet.
According to 1996 estimates, it has a population of 34,668.
Mogtédo is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
According 1996 estimates, it has a population of 44,668.
Salogo is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is the town of Salogo.
According 2006 estimates, it has a population of 21,405.
Leh is a city in the Leh District of Ladakh.
It was the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh.
Leh is at an altitude of , at a distance from the right bank of the Indus River.
The town is still dominated by the now ruined Leh Palace, former home of the royal family of Ladakh.
The palace resembles a mini version of the Potala Palace in Tibet.
Leh and other places of Ladakh are renowned for Buddhist culture and monasteries.
The wonders of this land include golden statue of Buddha, high class paintings, ancient manuscripts and the monasteries.
The famous moasteries include Hemis, Aalchi, Chuglamsar, Mulbekh, Shey, Spitak, and Thiksey.
The mosque of Leh was built by prince Namgyal Singe in 1594.
The mosque is a fine model of Turkish and Iranian architecture.
The first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, Sultan Sadruddin was a Ladakhi.
His real name was Gialpo, (Prince) Renchan.
He came down to Kashmir Valley in the reign of Raja Sahdev and acquired a place in the courtiers of the army Chief Ram Chandra.
By and by he succeeded in rising to the throne in 1324.
He married Ram Chandra's daughter Kotarani who later on proved to be a courageous and enterprising lady.
King Renchan embraced Islam at the hands of a Muslim saint and preacher Abdur Rehman, Bulbul Shah and adopted the name of Sultan Saruddin for himself.
He died in 1327 after ruling the country far a short period of 3 years.
A Mughal chieftain Haider Douglat attempted to invade Kashmir for the first time in 1542 through Ladakh.
In June 1715, two Italian priests Epo Lito and Emanuel Khariray reached Leh from Rome via Srinagar.
There is a small community of Christians in Leh now.
In the past, Leh has been an important centre for trade between India and the states of Turkestan.
A road leads to Central Asian countries from here through the Karakoram Pass.
Zam is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is situated at the town of Zam.
According to 1996 estimates, it has a population of 39,259.
Zorgho is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is situated at the town of Zorgho.
According 1996 estimates, it has a population of 49,648.
Srinagar (, ) is a city in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is situated on the banks of the Jhelum River, in Northern Indian occupied Kashmir region.
It is the largest city and the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Zoungou is a department or commune of Ganzourgou Province in Burkina Faso.
Its capital is situated at the town of Zoungou.
According 1996 estimates, it has a population of 29,753.
Ganzourgou is a province of Burkina Faso.
The province is divided into 8 departments:
Anantnag (Kashmiri: اننتناگ /Anaṁtnāg/, meaning abode of springs and lakes), is a city and a municipality located in the Anantnag District in the union territory  of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
About 180,000 people live in Anantnag.
Anantnag is the third largest city of the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir by population and largest according to area.
It is also regarded as the commercial and financial capital of the Valley of Kashmir.
It is the largest business and trading center of the valley.
Pakistan's official national religion is Islam, and about 97% of the people in Pakistan follow Islam.
But there are people of many other religions living in Pakistan.
Christians are the largest minority group in Pakistan.
They live all over the country.
Pakistani Christians belong to many ethnic groups and speak many languages.
There are many different churches, and many different types of churches, in most cities in Pakistan.
Although Pakistani Christians do not only do one type of job, they have often done a lot of work in areas like health care, education, railways and the police force.
They are also starting to do a lot of work in the civil and defence services.
These are people (and children of people) who followed the Hindu religion during the days when Pakistan and India were together.
In those days, they were part of the lowest caste.
They were called "untouchable," and had to do work that no one else would do.
In a "caste system," there are different groups of people who are thought of as more or less important than each other.
People would become a member of their caste when they were born, because their parents were part of that group.
The lowest caste was thought of as the least important of all.
In Pakistan today, the law says that people are not allowed to treat this group badly.
But people still do treat them badly, and make them do jobs that do not pay much money.
Now some of these low-caste people are going to school and getting better jobs.
The Hindus of Pakistan are mostly found in Sindh, where they do a lot of farming.
In the larger cities (like the city of Karachi), Hindus do a lot of buying and selling.
They celebrate the Hindu holy days with all their traditional colour.
The Ahmadis follow the things Mirza Ghulam Ahmad taught at the end of the 1800s.
Their doctrine (religious beliefs) is very close to Islam on most points.
However, the Ahmadis do not believe that Mohammad was God's last Prophet.
The Ahmadis do not call themselves non-Muslim.
Only in the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan written by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto after the secession of East Pakistan they were declared non-Muslim.
Ahmadis are mainly of Punjabi origin (from the Punjab area of India and Pakistan).
They do all kinds of Humanitarian work not only in Pakistan, but all over the world.
The Parsis or (Zoroastrians) are a very small minority who live mostly in Pakistan's larger cities.
Almost all of them work in business.
Some of Pakistan's most successful shipping businessmen are Parsis.
The richer members of this community are well-known for their philanthropic activities (giving money to people or organizations, with the goal of helping them or doing good).
There are very few Buddhists in Pakistan.
However, their ancestors' culture made a difference in Pakistan.
Many ancient Buddhist temples, schools, and cities have been found by archaeologists in Pakistan.
Creston is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Iowa, United States.
The population was 7,597 at the 2000 census.
Fate (in Czech: Osud), is an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček.
Janáček wrote this opera between 1903 and 1905.
His daughter Olga had died shortly before he began to compose it.
He had also just finished his opera Jenůfa which has a tragic ending for the young girl in the story.
The young lady who wrote the libretto (words) for Janáček had been one of his daughter’s close friends.
She wrote using the name Tálská.
Janáček thought the opera had autobiographical ideas.
He also wanted a change from writing about simple, country people as he had done in Jenůfa, so the people in the story of Fate belong to the upper classes, the rich people of society.
The story of the opera is quite strange and unbelievable.
It has often been criticized for not being logical.
The story consists of lots of little scenes which make the story jump about.
The language of the libretto is very deliberately old-fashioned.
Czech people who have worked with this opera have often felt that this formal language has made it hard for audiences to understand.
Some people have felt that when the opera is sung in other languages it is sometimes better because the language sounds more real.
In Act I Gentlemen, students and young girls are walking about in a health resort.
The men are interested in a girl called Míla.
Míla sees a young man called Živný in the crowd.
Živný is a composer.
He and Míla used to be lovers.
She tells Živný that it was her mother who made them split up so that she could marry someone rich.
Her mother had made her move away from Prague to give birth to the child in the country.
The two lovers now want to forget their unhappy past and live together with their little son Doubek.
Act II takes place several years later.
They have been living together happily.
Míla’s mother lives with them but has gone mad.
While the lovers read the story of an opera which seems to tell of their own lives, the mother screams and Živný tears up the music of the opera.
The mother grabs her daughter and throws herself and Míla down the steep staircase.
Act III takes place in a music conservatory eleven years later.
Živný’s students, one of whom is their son Doubek, are singing music from an opera that Živný has composed.
Živný himself is like the hero of his opera.
The last part of the opera has not yet been composed.
The students act out a scene from Doubek’s childhood and make fun of it.
Živný talks about his opera.
A storm comes up and he is killed by lightning.
His opera will never be finished.
Dwarf Allosaur is a bone from a theropod dinosaur that lived in Australia about 106 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.
It may be related to Allosaurus but is smaller and lived 30 million years after all other allosaurs had gone extinct.
As it is known only from a single bone nothing more can be said.
It is only known from an ankle bone, making it impossible to figure out its genus.
The bone may have belonged to Australovenator.
Walking with Dinosaurs - Fact File: Dwarf allosaur
Dinosaurs of Australia
A social network is a website or service where people talk to, connect with another people.
Social Network Service can connect people with the same interests (like football, schools, dogs) and friends.
Most Social Networks will let you create a profile page with your pictures and information about yourself.
The most popular websites like Facebook and Twitter are helping to speed up the process of communication.
Phone and mail services are slowly becoming less popular thanks to a quick and easy way of sharing messages through such networks.
A social network is used for people to get to know each other more and create new friends/connections.
Social networks are also used to share things with other people.
Many Social Networks are available on phones and smartphones.
Some companies are blocking access to such websites due to concerns over employees spending too much time on them.
List of popular social networks
A spa town, or simply spa, is a town that many people go to for health reasons.
There is usually a spring there, or several springs.
The water that comes from these springs is good for curing many illnesses.
When people go to a spa town to get better we say that they go to "take the waters".
The word "spa" comes from the Belgian town Spa.
In continental Europe a spa was called a ville d'eau (town of water).
The term spa is used for towns or resorts which offer hydrotherapy (making people better with water).
This can include cold water or mineral water treatments and hot spring baths.
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is a commune of the Ardèche département in the southern part of France.
Ain is a department in the east of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
It is named after the river Ain.
Its prefecture is Bourg-en-Bresse.
Ain is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Bourg-en-Bresse as is capital.
It was formed with four former provinces: Bresse, Bugey, Dombes, Pays de Gex and part of the province of Franc-Lyonnais.
The department was called départment of Bresse but in 1791 was changed to its present name: départment de l'Ain.
In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the nine districts were changed into four arrondissements: Bourg, Belley, Nantua and Trévoux.