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Plassey is the anglicised version of Palashi.
The battle was between Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company.
The troubles between Siraj-ud-daulah and the British led to the Battle of Plassey.
First, the British had strengthened the fortification around the Fort William without telling the Nawab.
Secondly, they abused the trade privileges granted to them by the Mughal rulers, which caused heavy loss of customs duties for the government.
Third, they gave shelter to some of his officers, for example Krishnadas, son of Rajballav, who fled Dhaka after misappropriating government funds.
Hence, when the East India Company started further enhancement of military preparedness at Fort William in Calcutta, Siraj asked them to stop.
The Company did not stop, so Siraj-ud Daulah retaliated and captured Kolkata (Shortly renamed as Alinagar) from the British in June 1756.
The Nawab gathered his forces together and took Fort William.
The British sent more soldiers under Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson from Madras to Bengal.
The British retook control of Calcutta.
Clive then took control of the French fort of Chandernagar.
The battle was fought during the Seven Years' War (1756–63).
The French East India Company sent a small group to fight against the British.
Siraj-ud-Daulah had more soldiers and chose to fight at Plassey.
The British were worried about having fewer soldiers.
They formed a conspiracy with Siraj-ud-Daulah's demoted army leader Mir Jafar as well as others such as Yar Lutuf Khan and Rai Durlabh.
Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh and Yar Lutuf Khan brought their soldiers near Plassey but did not actually join the battle.
Siraj-ud-Daulah's army was beaten by about 3,000 soldiers of Col.
Robert Clive, and Siraj-ud-daulah fled from the battlefield.
This is thought to be one of the most important battles for the control of the Indian subcontinent by the colonial powers.
The British now had influence over the Nawab.
They also got a lot of revenue from trade.
The British used this revenue to increase their military power.
They pushed the other European colonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia.
This was a sign of the expansion the British Empire in Asia.
As a reward for his treachery, Mir Jafar was made the Nawab of Bengal.
Former Nawab Mutsheed Kiki  Khan directed all landowners of Bangla, Bihar and odisa
Plassey
José Luis Álvarez Enparantza (27 September 1929 – 14 January 2012) was a Basque linguist, politician and writer.
When writing he used the pseudonym Txillardegi.
He was born in Donostia, which is called San Sebastian in Spanish.
Even though he did not learn the Basque language until he was 17, he came to be seen as one of the most influential figures in Basque nationalism and culture in the second half of the 20th century.
Together with some friends he started ETA in 1959, and became responsible for their social and cultural activities.
He also was a founding member of Herri Batasuna, the Basque nationalist party.
As a linguist, he helped shape the structure and orthography of Standard Basque.
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was a British director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
He directed Women in Love and The Devils.
Russell was a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother 2007.
Arkady Ivani Ter-Tadevosyan (; ; May 22, 1939 – March 31, 2021) was an Armenian military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
He is best known as the commander of the operation to capture the town of Shushi in May 1992.
He has the rank of major general in the Armenian Army.
He attended a military academy in Saint Petersburg and served in the Soviet Army.
"Tadevosyan, Arkady" entry in the Encyclopedia of Karabakh Liberation War: 1988-1994.
Yerevan, 2004.
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne CBE (5 April 1929 - 26 December 2001) was a British actor.
He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire and raised in South Africa.
He is best known for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby in sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister.
He played the title role as George III in The Madness of King George.
He was gay; his long-term partner, until his death, was screenwriter Trevor Bentham.
Hawthorne had pancreatic cancer and died of a heart attack in Radwell, Hertfordshire.
Sillod is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
It is in the district of Aurangabad.
As of the 2001 Indian census, Sillod had a population of 43,859.
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century.
He was known for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.
Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father, Eliel Saarinen.
Saarinen emigrated to the United States of America in 1923 at the age of thirteen.
He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
He took courses in sculpture and furniture design there.
He had a close relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames.
He became good friends with Florence Knoll (née Schust).
Beginning in September 1929, he studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France.
He then studied at the Yale School of Architecture until 1934.
Later, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year and returned for a year to his native Finland.
He returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy.
He became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1940.
Saarinen was recruited by his friend, who was also an architect, to join the military service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Saarinen was assigned to draw illustrations for bomb disassembly manuals and to provide designs for the Situation Room in the White House.
Saarinen worked full time for the OSS until 1944.
After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen founded his own architect's office, "Eero Saarinen and Associates".
Eero Saarinen died of a brain tumor in 1961 at the age of 51.
He died because of a brain tumor in 1961 when he was 51......
He married the sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen.
They divorced in 1954.
He had two children from his first marriage, Eric and Susan.
Saarinen then married Aline Bernstein Louchheim (March 25, 1914 – July 13, 1972), an art critic at The New York Times.
They had a son, Eames, named after his collaborator Charles Eames.
Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize.
The "Tulip Chair", like all other Saarinen chairs, was taken into production by the Knoll furniture company, founded by Hans Knoll, who married Saarinen family friend Florence (Schust) Knoll.
During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the "Grasshopper" lounge chair and ottoman (1946), the "Womb" chair and ottoman (1948), the "Womb" settee (1950), side and arm chairs (1948–1950), and his most famous "Tulip" or "Pedestal" group (1956), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool.
All of these designs were highly successful except for the "Grasshopper" lounge chair, which, although in production through 1965, was not a big success.
While Saarinen was still working for his father, he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis.
His arch not completed until the 1960s.
The competition award was mistakenly sent to his father.
The first major work by Saarinen, in collaboration with his father, was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
It follows the rationalist design Miesian style: incorporating steel and glass, but with the added accent of panels in two shades of blue.
The GM technical center was constructed in 1956, with Saarinen using models.
These models allowed him to share his ideas with others, and gather input from other professionals.
With the success of the scheme, Saarinen was then invited by other major American corporations to design their new headquarters: these included John Deere, IBM, and CBS.
Despite their rationality, however, the interiors usually contained more dramatic sweeping staircases, as well as furniture designed by Saarinen, such as the Pedestal Series.
In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar.
Saarinen designed an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles College at Yale University.
He served on the jury for the Sydney Opera House commission and was crucial in the selection of the  design by Jørn Utzon.
Saarinen's architectural firm was called "Eero Saarinen and Associates".
He was the principal partner from 1950 until his death in 1961.
The firm was initially known as "Saarinen, Swansen and Associates", headed by Eliel Saarinen and Robert Swansen from the late 1930s until Eliel's death in 1950.
The firm was located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan until 1961 when the practice was moved to Hamden, Connecticut.
Under Eero Saarinen, the firm carried out many of its most important works, including the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch) in St. Louis, Missouri, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport that he worked on with Charles J. Parise, and the main terminal of Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C.. Many of these projects use catenary curves in their structural designs.
Saarinen designed one of the best-known thin-shell concrete structures in America, the Kresge Auditorium (MIT).
Another thin-shell structure that he created is the Ingalls Rink (Yale University), which has suspension cables connected to a single concrete backbone and is nicknamed "the whale."
He is known for the TWA Flight Center, which represents the culmination of his previous designs and demonstrates his expressionism and the technical marvel in concrete shells.
Eero worked with his father, mother and sister designing elements of the Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, including the Cranbrook School, Kingswood School, the Cranbrook Art Academy and the Cranbrook Science Institute.
Eero's leaded glass designs are a prominent feature of these buildings throughout the campus.
Saarinen died while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor at the age of 51.
His widow, Aline, died of the same disease.
His partners, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, completed his ten remaining projects, including the St. Louis Arch.
Afterwards, the name of the firm was changed to "Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, and Associates", or Roche-Dinkeloo.
Eero Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1952.
He is also a winner of the AIA Gold Medal.
Saarinen is now considered one of the masters of American 20th Century architecture.
There has been more interest in Saarinen's work in recent years, including a major exhibition and several books.
This is partly due to the Roche and Dinkeloo office having donated their Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's work seems to fit in with present-day concerns about pluralism of styles.
He was criticized in his own time—most vociferously by critic Vincent Scully—for having no identifiable style; one explanation for this is that Saarinen adapted his modernist vision to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same.
Remodelling of the Swedish Theatre, Helsinki (with Jarl Eklund)
Concordia Senior College campus, now Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana
The Law School at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
The Miller House, Columbus, Indiana.
Berkshire Music Center, Opera Shed Tanglewood, Massachusetts.
TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport
Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel at MIT
Bell Labs Holmdel Complex in Holmdel, New Jersey
Case Study House #9, the John Entenza House (collaboration with Charles Eames)
CBS Building (Black Rock) New York
Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, New York
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan
US Embassies in Oslo and London
North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana
Law School and Woodward Court dormitory (demolished 2002) at the University of Chicago
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York; designed in collaboration with his father Eliel Saarinen
Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink (affectionately known as "The Whale") at Yale University
Noyes House dormitory at Vassar College.
Its lounge is affectionately called the Jetsons lounge because of its curved architecture.
Hill College House at the University of Pennsylvania.
Originally a women's dormitory, the building was made with a "drawbridge" to symbolically keep men out.
IBM Pavilion, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York
IBM Rochester, a plant in Rochester, Minnesota
John Deere World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois
The "Tulip chair", popularized by its use on the original Star Trek television series (1966–69).
The "Womb" chair
North Campus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Earl V. Moore Building, housing the University of Michigan School of Music
East Terminal at Ellinikon International Airport, Athens Greece, posthum finished.
Milwaukee County War Memorial Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Medbury, Fitch and Harvey Ingham Halls, Quadrangle Dormitories ("The Quads"), Hubbell Dining Hall, and Oreon E. Scott Chapel at Drake University in Des Moines, IA* Firestone Baars Chapel at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Eero Saarinen structures
Thin-shell structureTensile architecture
List of notable brain tumor patients
A&E with Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.
D.,(2000).
America's Castles: Newspaper Moguls, Pittock Mansion, Cranbrook House & Gardens, The American Swedish Institute.
A&E Television Network.
An exhibition of Saarinen's work, Eero Saarinen: Realizing American Utopia, has been organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture and the Museum of Finnish Architecture.
The exhibition will tour in Europe and the USA from 2006 to 2010.
The exhibition is accompanied by the book Eero Saarinen.
Shaping the Future.
In 1973, the Aline and Eero Saarinen papers were donated to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, by Charles Alan, Aline Saarinen's brother and executor of her estate.
In 2006, these primary source documents on the couple were digitized in their entirely and posted online on the Archives' website.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Crow_Island_School.html
Eero Saarinen letter to Florence Knoll Bassett, 1935-1936, Florence Knoll Bassett papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Lines of Authority  Time Magazine retrospective article
Eero Saarinen - Design Dictionary Illustrated article about Eero Saarinen
Saarinen rising: A much-maligned modernist finally gets his due
Great buildings online entry
Earl V. Moore Building School building designed by Eero Saarinen
860 photos of 19 buildings designed by Saarinen from the Balthazar Korab Collection at the Library of Congress
Saarinen's Village: The Concordia Campus Through Time
Digital image database at the Yale University Library, contains 1296 images and drawings from Saarinen's archives
Finding aid to the Eero Saarinen Collection at Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future  The 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the Museum of Finnish Architecture
Saarinen Tulip Chair
Eero Saarinen: Realizing American Utopia
Eero Saarinen Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum
http://www.nbm.org/about-us/publications-news/blueprints/eero-saarinen.html
, also called  was an old province of Japan in the area of Iwate Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
The history of this province started in 1868 and ended in 1872.
Maps of Japan and Mutsu Province were reformed in the 1870s.
1872 disestablishments
, also known as Michinoku,was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures on the island of Honshū.
709 (Wadō 2, 3rd month):  Fighting against Imperial authority.
712 (Wadō 5), Mutsu was separated from Dewa Province.
801 (Enryaku 20): Mutsu was conquered by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.
869 (Jōgan 10, 5th month): An earthquake and tsunami caused more than 1,000 deaths.
1051 (Eishō 6): In Michinoku, the Nine Years War (1051–1062) begins.
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi is named governor of Mutsu and he is given the title chinjufu shōgun..
Tsutsukowake jinja and Shiogama jinja were the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Mutsu.
"Dr. Jay" redirects here.
It is an incorrect name, or misspelling, of Dr. J.  For the American rapper and music producer who does not deejay, see Dr. Dre.
For the fictional character "Doc Jay", see Full Metal Jacket.
Julius Winfield Erving II (born February 22, 1950) is a retired American basketball player.
He went to Roosevelt High school.
He is best known by the nickname Dr. J.  Other nicknames include The Doctor and J. W. Erving.
Erving helped create the modern style of basketball.
Jumping and playing above the rim of the basket became a more important part of the game.
Erving was the best known player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) when it joined with the NBA in 1976.
He won three championships and four Most Valuable Player Awards.
He scored the most points in the league three times.
He did it while playing with the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.
He is the fifth-highest scorer in professional basketball history.
He scored 30,026 points (NBA and ABA combined).
He was the only player to have been voted Most Valuable Player in both the ABA and the NBA.
Erving was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time team.
In 1993, he was added into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Many think that Erving is one of the best basketball players ever.
He was well known for slam dunking from the free throw line.
He was one of the best dunkers of all time.
His best known dunk was the "slam" dunk.
Since then, this move has become a regular term in basketball and is felt by most the be a basic part of the game.
He is also credited with making the "cross-over" dribble and the "no look" pass a part of the game.
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five is an Annie Award-winning American animated short.
The movie is a semi-sequel (or spin-off) to the animated movie Kung Fu Panda.
It is a part of the original movie's deluxe DVD release.
It was later broadcast on NBC on February 26, 2009.
The short is now available as a separate DVD as of March 24, 2009.
Also, ever since it was released, the short received positive reviews and won the Annie Award for best animated short.
Kung Fu Panda - Official Website
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (also shortened to Secrets of the Masters) is a 2011 computer-animated short movie from DreamWorks Animation.
It was released on December 13, 2011 with the Kung Fu Panda 2 DVD and Blu-ray.
Secrets of the Masters won in 2012 an Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production.
Stephen John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television producer.
He was born in Middleton, Lancashire and raised in Alkrington.
He lives in East Sussex.
He performs stand-up comedy, parody and satire.
He has played roles in sitcoms and movies.
His best known character is Alan Partridge.
Chortle
Crow Island School is an elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois.
Several architects worked together to design the building.
Eero Saarinen worked with the architectural firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will.
The building was finished in 1940.
It is different from many other schools because of its design and its ideas about education.
Now, kindergarten through fourth grade students go to this school.
The first jungle gym is here.
It used to be at the Horace Mann School, but that school building was taken down in 1940.
People who ran the school moved this special playground equipment to the Crow Island School then.
The building won the Twenty-five Year Award in 1971.
The school was named a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
List of awards
Buildings and structures in the United States
Schools in Illinois
The Río Grande, or Río Bravo (del Norte), is a river in the United States and Mexico.
The name "Río Grande" means "great river" in Spanish.
The source of the Río Grande is in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.
It flows through the U.S. states of Colorado and New Mexico, and Texas, and forms the border between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.
The Río Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
Biasing in electronics is using specific voltages and/or currents at points of an electronic circuit to set an appropriate operating point.
The operating point of a device, also known as bias point, is the point that shows the direct current (DC), collector-emitter voltage (VCE), and the collector current (IC) with no input signal.
The term is normally used with transistors.
William George Bunter (a.k.a.
Billy Bunter, the "Fat Owl of the Remove"), is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards.
He featured originally in stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys weekly story paper The Magnet first published in 1908, and has since appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.
Friardale Collection of Charles Hamilton material: Novels, story papers, etc.
The Magnet 1908-1940 Original Greyfriars stories: facsimile editions of The Magnet
Collecting Books and Magazines Detailed article
Greyfriars, The Magnet & Billy Bunter  Facts and Figures
Greyfriars Index Detailed listing of Hamilton's work
The Friars Club  Enthusiasts’ Club
The Magnet Detailed site about The Magnet
Bunterzone  Enthusiasts’ site
Index of Boys Weeklies
Dorota Rabczewska, nicknamed Doda or Doda Elektroda, (born February 15, 1984, in Ciechanów, Poland) is a famous Polish singer with one of the largest number of awards in Poland.
She was first known as a member of the Polish rock band Virgin.
After the group disbanded she continued with a solo career releasing an album in 2007 called Diamond Bitch and another album The Seven Temptations which was released in 2011.
She was featured on CNN, as the tenth most famous Pole in history.
In 2011 Polish magazine Viva!
put her among ten most influential women in Poland.
Snowstar Records is an independent Dutch record label based in Utrecht.
The label was founded in 2003 by Cedric Muyres.
Snowstar is specialised in Indie, singer/songwriter and folk.
Since 2003 Snowstar Records  is active in the alternative pop music scene.
Initially as a punk rock label operating from Limburg, but the focus shifted to indie, singer/songwriter, folk and americana.
Since 2008 the label is based in Utrecht.
With the release of I Am Oak, On Claws in 2010 the label obtained a high brand awareness.
Rest of the World / abroad
Artist list
I Am Oak
LUIK
The Secret Love Parade
Bart van der Lee
Lost Bear
The Akutan Zero, also known as Koga's Zero and the Aleutian Zero, was a type 0 model 21 Mitsubishi A6M Zero Japanese fighter plane.
This type of airplane was the Imperial Japanese Navy's most common fighter plane during World War 2.
It crashed on Akutan Island, Alaska Territory, during June 1942.
It was the first flyable Zero that the United States got during the war.
The Americans fixed the plane and test pilots flew it to find out how it worked.
American tacticians were able to find ways to defeat the Zero.
Tadayoshi Koga was the pilot.
He was a 19-year-old flight petty officer first class.
He launched from the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō as part of a June 4 1942 raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Small gun fire cut the oil line in the plane.
Without oil, the plane crashed and killed the pilot.
The plane did not break apart in the crash.
The pilots of other Zero planes flying with Koga thought that he might be alive.
Because of this, they did not try to destroy his plane.
The Americans got the plane in July.
The Akutan Zero was very important to the American war effort.
Some said it may have been "one of the greatest prizes of the Pacific war".
Japanese historian Masatake Okumiya thought that losing the Akutan Zero to the Americans was similar to Japan losing the Battle of Midway.
He said it made Japan lose the war sooner.
On the other hand, John Lundstrom is among those who do not agree with "the contention that it took dissection of Koga's Zero to create tactics that beat the fabled airplane".
The Akutan Zero was destroyed in a training accident in 1945.
Parts of the plane are kept in several museums in the United States.
Okumiya, Masatake, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin Caidin.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1956.
Rearden, Jim. "
Koga's Zero—An Enemy Plane That Saved American Lives" .
Invention and Technology Magazine.
Volume 13, Issue 2, Fall 1997.
Retrieved on 2008-12-09.
Bill Thies's website
Zeros over China, 1941–1942.
Ben Schapiro.
The Warbird's Forum, May 2008—An article describing the capture and repair of Gerhard Neumann's Zero in China in 1941.
War Prize: The Capture Of The First Japanese Zero Fighter In 1941.
j-aircraft.com, December 3, 1999.
A second article describing the capture and repair of Gerhard Neumann's Zero.
Article on Yoshimitsu Maeda's crashed Zero
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (37th United States Congress, Sess.
126, ) was a federal law.
The act banned men having more than one wife at the same time (bigamy).
It also limited the amount of property that a church and non-profit could own in any territory of the United States to $50,000.
Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont sponsored it.
President Abraham Lincoln signed it on July 8, 1862.
The act wanted to stop the Mormon practice of plural marriage and the property dominance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Territory.
The measure had no funds allocated for enforcement.
Lincoln chose not to enforce this law.
Instead, Lincoln gave Brigham Young tacit permission to ignore the Morrill Act in exchange for not becoming involved with the Civil War.
General Patrick Edward Connor, commanding officer of the federal forces garrisoned at Fort Douglas, Utah beginning in 1862 was explicitly instructed not to confront the Mormons over this or any other issue.
In 1878 the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that religious duty was not a suitable defense for breaking this law.
Many Mormons went into hiding.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act was amended in 1882 by the Edmunds Act, and then again in 1887 by the Edmunds–Tucker Act.
By 1904, the LDS church disavowed bigamy.
is an old province of Japan in the area of Shiga Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
In the Kamakura period, Hōjō Tokimasa was made daimyo of Ōmi in 1200 (Shōji 2).
In the Sengoku Period, the northern part of the province was the fief of Ishida Mitsunari.
After the Battle of Sekigahara, Ōmi was controlled by the Ii clan who built the castle and town of Hikone.
The road passed through Ōmi.
The maps of Japan and Ōmi Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Takebe taisha was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Ōmi.
Enryaku-ji is one of the most important Buddhist centers.
The monastery is on Mount Hiei (Hieizan).
is an old province in the area of Fukushima Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
The maps of Japan and Iashiro Province were reformed in the 1870s.
is an old province in the area of western Fukushima Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
The history of the province started in 718 and ended in 722 or 724.
The province was established in 718.
The area of the province reverted to Mutsu some time between 722 and 724.
Grover is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street.
He calls himself lovable, cute and furry.
He is a monster who rarely uses contractions when speaking or singing.
Grover was first performed by Frank Oz.
He provided the character's voice regularly from his earliest appearances until 2001.
Eric Jacobson began performing Grover in 1998.
He has performed the character regularly since 2002, although Oz still performs him some times.
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Mr. Johnson is a character in Sesame Street.
He is a fat Anything Muppet who has become increasingly frustrated over the years with the service Grover provides (however, in the earlier skits, the situation was reversed, Mr. Johnson was calm, but Grover was the one who would get exasperated).
Mr. Johnson was mainly performed by Jerry Nelson, and is mostly seen as a customer at Charlie's Restaurant.
Mr. Johnson is always called "Sir" politely by Grover.
Rudolph was the oldest of two boys who were born to Plumie and Rethie Rudolph.
As he got older, he began to help in the general store that his father owned.
When he graduated from high school, he went to Paducah, Kentucky with his uncle.
In 1933, Rudolph's uncle bought a doughnut shop and recipe for yeast-raised donuts.
He bought them from a French federal employee named Joe La-beau.
This all happened during the middle of the great depression, so they moved to Nashville, Tennessee to see if they could get better business there and secure their financial future.
Haemocyanin (or hemocyanin) is a protein which transports oxygen in the bodies of some invertebrates.
Their active centre has two copper atoms which reversibly bind a single oxygen molecule (O2).
Unlike the hemoglobin in red blood cells found in vertebrates, hemocyanins are not bound to blood cells.
The molecules are carried in the haemolymph.
Hemocyanins are found only in the Mollusca and Arthropoda.
However, the molecule is used only in a few insects.
This is because insects evolved another system: the direct transfer of oxygen to tissues by a system of tubes called trachea.
This delivers oxygen direct to the wing muscles and other organs.
Cirrina is one of the two suborders of octopus.
Cirrina is also known as the finned, deep sea octopus.
They have two fins on the head and a small internal shell.
The paddle shaped fins help the Cirrina swim through the ocean.
A hectocotylus is a modified arm used to by male cephalopods to put sperm on females.
Linear programming or Linear optimisation is a field of mathematics that deals with finding optimal values or solutions that can be described with linear equations and inequalities.
Very often this involves finding the minimal or maximal values, given some conditions, or constraints.
Linear programming is often used for problems where no exact solution is known, for example for planning traffic flows.
Linear programming is one of the main methods used in Operations research.
Linear optimization is a special case of Convex optimization.
It forms the basis for several methods of solving problems of Integer programming.
In many cases, the solutions of linear programs can be mapped to Polyhedra, which allows solving and modelling certain problems geometrically.
In the case of linear programming, the word programming should be seen as planning; George Dantzig coined the term in the 1940s, long before computers were used to solve such problems.
Looking at the information theory complexity, linear programming problems are simple, and can be solved efficiently using algorithms such as the interior point method.
In many cases, the Simplex algorithm developed by Dantzig has proven to be very fast, even though its complexity is exponential, in the worst case.
Xtranormal is a website that hosts text-to-speech based computer animated videoclips, featuring  animated three-dimensional characters speaking in monotone computer voices.
Users who log into the site may create videos by scripting the dialog and choosing from a menu of camera angles and predesigned characters and scenes.
Xtranormal videos may also be created through an interface on the Youtube web site, and Xtranormal's animation software, called State, may be downloaded free and run offline.
Xtranormal launched in June 2010, after four years of earlier software development.
Although it was originally intended as a way for filmmakers to quickly produce storyboards, its emphasis shifted towards satires of workplace misbehavior after one of its videos, about a cellphone salesman, went viral.
In 2010, the short movie Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman by director J. Roland Kelly, animated entirely with Xtranormal, premiered at the Little Rock Film Festival and was shown at The Rome International Film Festival in Rome, Georgia.
Xtranormal videos form a recurring feature on the late night Fox talk show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, and have been featured as part of a GEICO advertising campaign.
On July 31, 2013, Xtranormal was shut down officially.
She is the daughter of Ron Frankel and Mary Lou Gauthier.
Frankel is best known being the voice of Fern in Arthur, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, Teri in later episodes of What's with Andy?,
Loulou in Wimzie's House, and Flora in the Cinélume's English dub of Winx Club.
She is also known for her alter-ego as burlesque performer Miss Sugarpuss.
Animation Voice Work
Penelope Truehart - Fred's Head TV series (2008)
Roo - Winnie the Pooh
Ezekiel Zick - Monster Allergy
Flora - Winx Club (English dub by original producer)
Fern - Arthur (1996) and Postcards from Buster (2004)
Sagwa and Chung-nee - Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
Third Driver and Mrs. Harcourt - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Female Villager #11 - The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Lina's House Alarm - Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000)
Woman #2 - Toy Story 2 (1999)
Belinda - Mona The Vampire (1999-2003) and The Story of Us (1999)
Female Mosquito - A Bug's Life (1998)
Loulou - Wimzie's House (1995-1996)
Teri - What's with Andy? (
2003-2007)
Julie - Caillou
Dewitt - Will and Dewitt
Check-out Girl/Marcie - X-Chromosome (1999)
Rita the Fox - Jungledyret Hugo (Danish movie series) (English dub)
Vladanna - Still Life (computer game) (2005)
was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
The province had borders with Kazusa  Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north.
Shimōsa was part of a larger territory known as .
Fusa which was divided into Kazusa and Shimōsa during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654).
The maps of Japan and Shimōsa Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Katori jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Shimōsa.
He became famous with his show The Office.
Gervais was born and raised in Reading, Berkshire, England.
He was half of 1980s New Wave duo Seona Dancing.
He is known for television series including The 11 O'Clock Show, The Office, Meet Ricky Gervais, Extras, An Idiot Abroad, Life's Too Short and Derek.
He wrote a children's book, Flanimals.
He has performed stand-up shows Animals, Politics, Fame and Science.
He has starred in movies: Ghost Town, The Invention of Lying and Cemetery Junction.
He has won seven BAFTA awards and two Emmy awards.
He lives between Hampstead, England, and New York City with his partner, producer and author Jane Fallon.
Gervais has said that they aren't going to get married because "there's no point in us having an actual ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God".
They have also chosen not to have children.
Pino Presti (pseudonym of Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta, is an Italian bass player, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer, born 23 August 1943, in Milan.
He is a 5th-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate.
Presti, son of an accomplished violinist, Arturo Prestipino Giarritta, has been studying music since the age of 6.
He was seventeen years old when he first entered the music business.
Presti started as a bass guitar player, than gradually began as an arranger, a composer, an orchestra conductor and a producer.
Among his collaborations in different genres of music like jazz, pop, funk, soul, we can find great names such as Mina (the most famous Italian pop singer), Gerry Mulligan, Ástor Piazzolla (the bassline in the famous composition "Libertango" belongs to him), Quincy Jones, Wilson Pickett, Shirley Bassey, Maynard Ferguson, Franco Cerri, Stéphane Grappelli, Aldemaro Romero and many others.
He is considered one of the most important Italian arrangers/conductors.
Discography (selected)
1st Round  -  Atlantic Records (1976)
Maja Andina -  Saar Records (1990)
A La Costa Sud -  Edizioni Curci (2009)
Café Ipanema 2011  - Rambling Records (2011)
Shirley Bunnie Foy (60th Anniversary)  - MAP Golden Jazz (2013)
Deep Colors - MAP/ Paper Moon (2014)
"Rimani ancora/Oh!
Jenny" - Durium (1964)
"In un posto fuori dal mondo/Messaggio d'amore" - Belldisc (1969)
"Karin/No sabe" - Dischi Ricordi (1970)
"Smile/L'estate di Laura" - Atlantic Records (1975)
"Funky Bump/C.so Buenos Ayres" - Atlantic Records (1976)
"Shitân Disco Shitân" - Barclay (1977)
"Sundown" - Durium (1978)
"You Know The Way part I/You Know The Way part II" - Baby Records (1979)
"You Know The Way" - Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM - Emergency Records (1980)
"Money (That What I Want)" - Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM - Baby Records (1980)
"To Miami/Mama's Away" - Cetra Records (1980)
"Dancing Nights/And I Love Her" - Polydor Records (1983)
"Ya No Puedo Vivir (The Bush Remixes)" - Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM - Blow Up Disco (1991)
"Once Again Now" - Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM - Soul Xpression (1992)
"Divine" - Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM - Level One (2001)
"Feel Like a Woman" - CD Single - Self (2005)
"Jazz Carnival" - CD Single - Map (2015)
"Funky Bump" (Unreleased Original Extended Version)/"Funky Bump" (Original 7" Version) – Best Record Italy (2015)
"You Know The Way" (Disco Version by Tee Scott) - Best Record Italy (2016)
"To Africa / Soul Makossa" (EP) - Best Record Italy (2017)
"Pino Presti Featuring Roxy Robinson: You know Why" (EP) – Best Record Italy (2018)
As performer, arranger, conductor on other artists' albums
Mina - Artist: Mina - PDU (1971)
Cinquemilaquarantatre - Artist: Mina - PDU (1972)
Altro - Artist: Mina - PDU (1972)
Del mio meglio n. 2 - Artist: Mina - PDU (1973)
Frutta e verdura - Artist: Mina - PDU (1973)
Amanti di valore - Artist: Mina - PDU (1973)
Mina (1974 album) - Artist: Mina - PDU (1974)
Baby Gate (album) - Artist: Mina  - PDU (1974)
Aulehla & Zappa - Artist: Aulehla & Zappa - PDU (1974)
Del mio meglio n. 3  - Artist:  Mina - PDU (1975)
La Mina - Artist: Mina - PDU (1975)
Singolare - Artist: Mina - PDU (1976)
Del mio meglio n. 4 - Artist: Mina - PDU (1977)
Mina con Bignè - Artist: Mina - PDU (1977)
Minantologia - Artist: Mina - PDU (1977)
You Know Why - Artist:  Roxy Robinson - OUT (1977)
Di tanto in tanto - Artist: Mina - PDU (1978)
Mina Live '78 - Artist: Mina - PDU (1978)
In Due - Artist: Wess and Dori Ghezzi - Durium (1979)
Filipponio - Artist: Filipponio - Cetra Records (1980)
Del mio meglio n. 6 Live - Artist: Mina - PDU (1981)
Il Flauto d' oro - Artist: Severino Gazzelloni - PDU (1983)
All'arrembaggio - Artist: Filipponio - Spice7 (1984)
Del mio meglio n. 8 - Artist: Mina - PDU (1985)
Del mio meglio n. 9 - Artist: Mina - PDU (1987)
Oggi ti amo di più - Artist: Mina - PDU (1988)
Ridi pagliaccio - Artist: Mina - PDU (1988)
Mazzini canta Battisti - Artist: Mina - PDU (1994)
Mina Studio Collection - Artist: Mina - PDU (1998)
Mina Love Collection - Artist: Mina - PDU (2000)
Colección Latina - Artist: Mina - PDU (2001)
The Platinum Collection - Artist: Mina - PDU (2004)
Platinum Collection 2 - Artist: Mina - PDU (2006)
The Best of Platinum Collection - Artist: Mina - EMI Records (20O7)
Je suis Mina - Artist: Mina -  EMI Records (2011)
Yo soy Mina - Artist: Mina -  EMI Records (2011)
I am Mina - Artist: Mina -  EMI Records (2011)
The Collection 3.0 – Artist: Mina – Warner Music (2015)
Tutte le migliori – Artist: Mina – Clan/PDU (2017)
Paradiso (Lucio Battisti Songbook) – Artist: Mina – PDU (2018)
As performer
12 Bacchette per una chitarra - Artist: Franco Cerri - gta (1966)
Dedicato a mio padre - Artist: Mina - PDU (1967)
This Is My Life (La vita) - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
Mina alla Bussola dal vivo - Artist: Mina - PDU (1968)
Love and more Love - Artist: Puccio Roelens - Vedette Records (1969)
L'orchestra di Augusto Martelli dal vivo - Artist: Augusto Martelli - PDU (1969)
Quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore - Artist: Mina - PDU (1970)
Del mio meglio - Artist: Mina - PDU (1971)
La Onda Máxima  - Artist: Aldemaro Romero - Antor (1972)
Black Sound From White People  - Artist: Augusto Martelli - Fontana (1972)
Fratelli La Bionda s.r.l. -
Artist: La Bionda - Dischi Ricordi (1972)
Metti una sera Cerri - Artist: Franco Cerri - Jazz Italiano-Music (1973)
Dal mio lontano - Artist: Renato Pareti - Ducale (1973)
Libertango - Artist: Ástor Piazzolla - Carosello (1974)
Summit-Reunion Cumbre - Artist: Gerry Mulligan, Ástor Piazzolla - erre-t-v (1974)
Lumière / Suite Troileana - Artist: Astor Piazzolla - Carosello (1976)
Gerry Mulligan meets Enrico Intra - Artist: Gerry Mulligan, Enrico Intra - Produttori Associati (1976)
Onda Nueva Instrumental - Artist: Aldemaro Romero - Velvet Música (1976)
Silence and Other Sounds - Artist: Roxy Robinson - ONE (1977)
Dissonanza-Consonanza - Artist: Enrico Intra - Musica Jazz (1999)
Circle - Artist: Pérez Prado (re-edit) - Schema (2013)
Escandalo - Artist: Pérez Prado - (re-edit) - Schema (2014)
Love Child - Artist: Pérez Prado / Don Alfio - (re-edit) - Schema (2014)
As performer, arranger, conductor on other artists' singles
"Grande grande grande" - Artist: Mina - PDU (1971)
"Domenica sera" - Artist:  Mina - PDU (1973)
"E poi" - Artist: Mina - PDU (1973)
"Lamento d'amore" - Artist: Mina  - PDU (1973)
"La scala buia" - Artist: Mina -  PDU (1974)
"L'importante è finire" - Artist: Mina -  PDU (1975)
"Nuda" - Artist: Mina -  PDU  (1976)
"Città Vuota (It's a Lonely Town)" - Artist: Mina -  PDU (1978)
"Dentro" - Artist: Beba Loncar  - CBS Records (1978)
"Momento" - Artist: Wess & Dori Ghezzi -  Durium (1979)
"Pazzo non amore mio/L'Unica" - Artist: Filipponio -  Cetra Records (1979)
"Regina del futuro/Noia" - Artist: Marisa Sacchetto - F1 Team (1981)
"Quale appuntamento" - Artist: Eleonora Giorgi - Dischi Ricordi  (1981)
"Che vale per me/Eccomi" - Artist: Eartha Kitt - RCA (1968)
"La vita/Without A Word" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"Domani domani/Pronto sono io"  - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"Yes/To Give"  - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"E' giorno/If You Go Away" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"Chi si vuole bene come noi/Epirops" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"Com'è piccolo il mondo/Manchi solo tu" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1968)
"Concerto d'autunno/You Are My Way Of Life" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1969)
"Ora che sei qui/Something" - Artist: Shirley Bassey - United Artists (1970)
"Non preoccuparti/Adesso ricomincerei" - Artist: Lara Saint Paul, arranger-conductor Quincy Jones - Polydor (1973)
"Cara Fatina/Lettera a Pinocchio" - Artist: Tony Renis, arranger-conductor Quincy Jones - ref : CDI (2001)
1964 : Questo & Quello (Rai Uno) - Bassist, Singer (Hosted by Giorgio Gaber)
1965/1966 : Le Nostre Serate (Rai Due) - Bassist, Singer (Hosted by Giorgio Gaber)
1969 : Sanremo Festival (Rai Uno) - Bassist with Wilson Pickett
1977 : Auditorio A (Rai Due) - Composer, Arranger, Conductor   (Guest appearance by Maynard Ferguson)
1980 : C'era due volte (Rai Due) - Composer, Arranger, Conductor  (Guest appearances by Peter Tosh)
1983 : Il Cappello sulle ventitré (Rai Due) - Composer, Arranger, Conductor (Hosted by Gino Paoli)
Presti has trained in Shotokan karate and Goshindo under master Hiroshi Shirai  from 1967 to 1985.
He has also trainded on several occasions under other famous Japanese masters such as Taiji Kase, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Keinosuke Enoeda, Takeshi Naito, Hideo Ochi.
Presti holds a fifth degree black belt obtained n Rome, in 1987.
Mina, storia di un Mito raccontato, di Nino Romano,  Rusconi pub.,
Autori Vari (a cura di Gino Castaldo), Dizionario della canzone italiana,  Curcio pub.,
Mina, Mito e Mistero, di Nino Romano,  Sperling & Kupfer pub.,
Mina, i mille volti di una voce, di Romy Padoano, Arnoldo Mondadori pub.,
Divina Mina, di Dora Giannetti, Zelig pub.,
The Jazz Discography, by Tom Lord), The Thomas Lord pub.,
2009 (Musician list)
The Gerry Mulligan Collection, by Craig Hanley,  Barnes & Noble pub.
Knight Library's Jazz Collection, by Douglas Room, UO Libraries pub.
Franco Califano.
Non escludo il ritorno, by  Salvatore Coccoluto, Imprimatur pub. -
Interview with Pino Presti  , 2014
La Storia dalla Disco Music, by Andrea Angeli Bufalini / Giovanni Savastano, Hoepli pub.,
Mina, Una Voce Universale, by Luca Cerchiari, Mondadori, , 2020
21st-century Italian composers
Entertainers from Milan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.
Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others.
Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups.
Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.
1950:  The Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Gerry Mulligan with the Chubby Jackson Big Band - The big band sides are from 1950, the band led by bassist Jackson included Howard McGhee, Zoot Sims, and trombonist J. J. Johnson.
The quartet sides, with Chet Baker were recorded at two sessions in 1952.
1951:  Historically Speaking
1951: Mulligan Plays Mulligan - Mulligan's first session as leader
1953: The Original Quartet With Chet Baker -2-CD collection of the recordings of the pianoless quartet with Chico Hamilton for Pacific Jazz
1953:  Konitz Meets Mulligan (with Chet Baker)
1954: Gerry Mulligan quartet: Pleyel Concert - (2 CD, with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb.),
Red Mitchell (b), Frank Isola (d)
1956:  At Storyville ( Quartet, live in Boston, Mulligan plays piano on some tracks,
1957:  Reunion with Chet Baker
1957: Mulligan Meets Monk (with Thelonious Monk as co-leader)
1957:  Blues in Time (Quartet with Paul Desmond Verve records, released on CD as Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet)
1957: Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi (with Stan Getz (t.sax), Lou Levy (p), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d).
1958: Jazz Giants '58 (Verve)
1958:  What Is There to Say?
1959:  Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (with Ben Webster (t.sax), Jimmy Rowles (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Mel Lewis (d).
1960:  Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (with a big band driven by drummer Mel Lewis)
1962: Live at the Olympia Paris
1962: The Gerry Mulligan Quartets -  Complete Studio Rec.
with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb & p) /Chet Baker (trp), Bill Crow/Henry Grimes (b), Gus Johnson/Dave Bailey (d).
1963: Jeru (with Tommy Flanagan, Ben Tucker, Dave Bailey)
1963: The Great Gerry Mulligan (Crown Records)
1963: Night Lights (with trumpeter Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb), Jim Hall (g).
1964: Feelin' Good (Limelight Records)
1964: Complete Studio Recordings- The Gerry Mulligan Sextet with  Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall (g), Bill Crow (b), Dave Bailey (d).
1965: If You Can't Beat 'Em,Join 'Em, (Limelight Series)
1970: Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (with the Dave Brubeck Trio)
1971: Age of Steam Gerry Mulligan and his Orchestra
1974: Summit with Ástor Piazzolla (bnd), Angel Pocho Gatti (p), Giuseppe Prestipino (Pino Presti) (elb), Tullio De Piscopo (d), Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (1st violin) and Strings Orchestra.
1974: Gerry Muligan/Chet Baker: Carnegie Hall Concert (with Chet Baker (trp), Ed Byrne (trb), Bob James (p), John Scofield (g), Ron Carter (b), Harvey Mason (d), Dave Samuels (vb).
1976: Gerry Mulligan meets Enrico Intra  with Enrico Intra (p), Giancarlo Barigozzi (f), Sergio Farina (g), Pino Presti (b),  Tullio De Piscopo (d)
1990: Lonesome Boulevard1992: Re-Birth of the Cool1993: Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG (live, with pianist Billy Taylor at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) in Pittsburgh)
1993:  Paraiso with Brazilian singer Jane Duboc
1995:  Dragonfly'' The final recordings
Cedar (scientific name Cedrus) is a genus of cone-bearing trees in the plant family Pinaceae.
They are native to the mountains of the western Himalaya and the Mediterranean region.
They are found at heights of  in the Himalaya and  in the Mediterranean.