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A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence from the University of California, Berkeley in 1930.
It accelerates charged particles by whirling them in a circle.
The first cyclotrons were the size of a hand.
Some modern circular accelerators use a circle as wide as a city.
Cyclotrons use perpendicular magnetic field to bend electrons and particles through into a semicircular path by an applied electric field.
The applied electric field accelerates electrons between the "D" electrodes(also called "dees") of the magnetic field region.
The accelerating electric field reverses just at the time the electrons finish their half circle, so that it accelerates them across the gap.
With a higher speed, they move in a larger semicircle.
After repeating this process several times, they come out the exit port at a high speed.
Cyclotron Frequency
A moving charge in a cyclotron will move in a circular path under the influence of a constant magnetic field.
If the time to complete one orbit is calculated:
It is found that the period is independent of the radius.
Therefore if a square wave is applied at angular frequency qB/m, the charge will spiral outward, increasing in speed.
When a square wave of angular frequency ω=qB/m is applied between the two sides of the magnetic poles, the charge will be boosted again at just the right time to accelerate it across the gap.
Thus the constant cyclotron frequency can continue to accelerate the charge (so long as it is not relativistic).
Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) wrote stories for children in the German language.
Her most famous book was Heidi.
She was born Johanna Heusser in Hirzel, Switzerland.
Her father was a doctor and her mother was a poet.
She lived with her extended family: her grandmother, two aunties, and two cousins as well as her mother, father, two brothers and three sisters.
This large household inspired her when she wrote Gritli's Children.
She spent several summers around Chur in Graubünden when she was young.
This setting was later used in her novels.
Her only education was her village school in Hirzel.
She wrote poetry as a child.
She married Bernhard Spyri, an employee , when she was 25.
They met when they were children.
They lived in Zurich, Switzerland and had only one child, a son, Berhard Diethelm Spyri, in 1855.
In Zurich, they were friends with the musician Richard Wagner and poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.
Both her husband and son died of tuberculosis in 1884.
Her first stories were very popular, so she wrote another story about another orphan, Heidi.
She published the first part of Heidi anonymously in 1881.
It became popular, so she wrote the second part in 1882 using her own name.
She became very famous, but preferred a quiet, private life.
She wrote more than forty stories for children in German.
Most of these stories have been translated into English.
Heidi is still her most popular book, with new editions still published today.
Volvo S60 is a car produced by Volvo from 2000 to the present day.
It entered its second generation in 2010.
Volvo S60 III (2019)
Production will begin in late 2018 in Ridgeville, South Carolina.
A 2.3 million square foot plant will build approximately 60,000 vehicles per year for the US and export markets.
The capacity can go up to 100,000 vehicles per year if demand requires it.
The plant is the sixth Volvo, which joins two European sites, two Chinese and one Malaysian.
It is expected that about 2,000 workers staff the plant.
In April 2017, the construction company completed the construction of the complex's hull.
The third-generation S60 will have the hybrid powertrain and will be one of the five new electric models launched in 2019 with the second generation V60 and a fully electric sports coupe.
The third generation of S60 and V60 will also be available as Polestar models.
A 2.3 million square foot factory will build approximately 60,000 vehicles per year for the US and export markets.
The capacity can reach 100,000 vehicles per year if demand so demands.
The plant is Volvo's sixth, linking two European sites, two Chinese and one Malaysian.
It is expected that about 2,000 workers of the plant.
The third generation of the S60 will have the hybrid powertrain and will be one of five new electric models launched in 2019 with the second generation of the V60 and a fully electric sports coupe.
The third generation of the S60 and V60 will also be available as models.
S560
Volkswagen Lupo was a car made by Volkswagen from 1998 through 2005.
The SEAT Arosa was a badge-engineered version of the Lupo.
1.4 16V 55 kW (75 hp) and 74 kW (100 hp)
1.4 FSI 77 kW (105 hp)
1.6 GTI 92 kW (125 hp)
1.2 TDI 3L 45 kW (61 hp)
Guitar World is a music magazine.
A new issue is made every month.
Articles in the magazine are usually about guitar players.
The magazine has interviews, reviews, and information on how to play songs on guitar or bass guitar.
The magazine started in July 1980.
Johnny Winter was on the first front cover.
Guitar World website
Volkswagen Jetta is a car produced by Volkswagen since 1979.
It is currently in its sixth Generation.
The Third Generation Jetta was called the Vento, the Fourth one Bora.
June Tabor wanted to sing after she heard an Anne Briggs record called Hazards of Love in 1965. "
I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a fortnight and drove my mother mad.
I learned the songs on that EP (extended play record) note for note, twiddle for twiddle.
That's how I started singing.
If I hadn't heard her I'd have probably done something entirely different."
She went to St Hugh's College, Oxford University.
In 1968 she was on the TV show University Challenge, as captain of the college team.
She joined the Heritage Society at Oxford University.
She sang with a group called "Mistral".
One of her first recordings was in 1972 on a collection called Stagfolk Live.
She became famous in 1976 when she made the album Silly Sisters with Maddy Prior.
She also made her first solo album, Airs and Graces in 1976.
She recorded again with Prior, this time using the name Silly Sisters for their act together.
In 1977 guitar player Martin Simpson worked with her in the recording studio for three albums.
He moved to America in 1987.
(Simpson has come back from America to be a guest player on her albums in the 2000s.)
After he left, she worked with piano player Huw Warren.
Tabor stopped singing after many years as a performer.
She worked as a librarian
With her husband David Taylor she ran a restaurant called "Passepartout" in Penrith, Cumbria, England.
She returned to performing in the 1990s.
In 1990, June Tabor made an album with the folk-rock band The Oyster Band called Freedom and Rain.
She went on tour with the Oyster Band.
A live recording from the tour was made into an album by the Rykodisc label in 1991.
In 1992 singer Elvis Costello  wrote "All this Useless Beauty" just for Tabor.
She recorded the song on Angel Tiger.
Costello didn't record it himself until 1996, on his album All This Useless Beauty.
In 1983 June Tabor sang the title song for the BBC TV series "Spyship".
In 1997 she was on Ken Russell's TV show, "In Search of English Folk Song"  shown on Channel 4.
Tim Winton, author of the 2001 novel Dirt Music, made a selection of music to go with his novel.
The CD Dirt Music (2001) includes "He Fades Away" by June Tabor, a sad song about the death of a miner.
The song was on her 1994 CD Against the Streams.
In 2002, at the  "Passchendale Peace Concert"  in Flanders, Tabor shared the stage with Coope Boyes and Simpson.
On 30th June 2006 BBC Radio 3 broadcast "Night Waves" to remember the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
It was broadcast live, with World War I songs sung by June Tabor.
Over the years she has worked in various styles including jazz and art song.
She usually has a very plain and simple sound with a sad feeling to it.
Her 2003 album An Echo of Hooves went back to the traditional ballad style.
Many people said it was a great album.
Allmusic said it was "A stunning jewel in a remarkable career, and one of the best things Tabor’s ever released."
Always (2005) is a boxed set of four CDs, with songs from her whole career.
It has many rare recordings.
Work with other people
On 24th October 2003 Tabor appeared on Later With Jools Holland (BBC TV), singing "Hughie Graeme".
This was later put on a DVD of the series.
Folk Britannia was the name of a concert at the Barbican centre, and a TV mini-series (February 2006, repeated in October).
She sang "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" at the Barbican, under the heading "Daughters of Albion".
Tabor sang one song on Ashley Hutchings' album Street Cries (2001).
She also sang on a collection of folk musicians singing songs by the Beatles - Rubber Folk (2006).
She sang Lennon's "In My Life" a cappella (with out any instruments).
The way June treats songs is different.
For example she often sings traditional songs with just a piano.
On the album Singing The Storm (2000) she sings with Savourna Stevenson's harp, and Danny Thompson's bass.
In May 2004 she performed as part of "The Big Session" and sang Love Will Tear Us Apart as a duet with John Jones of The Oyster Band.
In 1992, The Wire voted her song "Queen Among the Heather" one of the "Top 50 Rhythms of all Time".
She also has a sense of humour and fun.
This can be seen in her work with Les Barker's The Mrs Ackroyd Band which performs his funny songs.
Tabor has sung on three of their albums.
In 1990 on the album Oranges and Lemmings she sang "The Trains of Waterloo", a funny version of the folk song "The Plains of Waterloo" in a duet with Martin Carthy.
In 1994  on Gnus and Roses she sang "The January June", which made fun of her sad and serious singing style.
In 2003  on the album Yelp!
she sang "There's a hole in my bodhran", to the tune of "There's a Hole in my Bucket".
She sang two songs on Beat The Retreat, a tribute to Richard Thompson.
Silly Sisters (1976)
No More to the Dance (1988) (as The Silly Sisters)
Airs and Graces (1976) (including And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda)
Ashes and Diamonds (1977)
A Cut Above (1980)
Abyssinians (1983)
The Peel Sessions (1986)
Aqaba (1988)
Some Other Time (1989)
Angel Tiger (1992)
Against the Streams (1994)
Aleyn (album) (1997)
On Air (1998)
A Quiet Eye (1999)
Rosa Mundi (2001)
An Echo of Hooves (2003)
Always (2005)
At the Wood's Heart (2005)
Apples (2007)
Ashore (2011)
Freedom and Rain (1990)
Ragged Kingdom (2011)
Oranges and Lemmings (1990)
Gnus and Roses (1994)
Yelp! (
Anthology (1993)
The Definitive Collection (2003)
In 2004 she was named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
The official June Tabor web site
June Tabor page on the Ecto Guide
The Mrs Ackroyd Band web site
In Search of English Folk Song
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson,  (17 February 18645 February 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author.
He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life.
He wrote about life in the country and outback areas of Australia.
Much of his work was about the area around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood.
Paterson's famous poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".
Three movies have been made about The Man from Snowy River: The Man from Snowy River (1982), Return to Snowy River (1988), and The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (2003).
Australian poets
Water hyacinths are flowering plants in the genus Eichhornia.
There are seven species.
It belongs to the family Pontederiaceae of the order Commelinales.
The water hyacinth is one of the fastest growing water plants.
It was introduced to the USA in 1884.
Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), also known as stinking nightshade, is a plant of the family Solanaceae that originated in Eurasia, but it is now found everywhere.
It is poisonous and should not be eaten.
Viola odorata is a species of violets (genus Viola).
The plant has also been introduced to North America and Australia.
It is commonly known as Sweet Violet, English Violet, Common Violet, or Garden Violet.
The herb is known as Banafsa, Banafsha or Banaksa in India.
In India, it is commonly used as remedy to cure sore throat and tonsilitis.
Whitwell is a small village with a population of about 500 on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England.
It is close to the town of Ventnor and the village of Niton.
The village includes a church, public house and garage.
Before to 2004 there was also a post office and village shop, but this has now closed.
Public transport is provided by Southern Vectis, the local bus company on route 6.
Villages on the Isle of Wight
Clifton Beach, on the Arabian Sea, is a beach in Clifton, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, one of the neighborhoods of Saddar Town, Karachi.
A gated residential area called Seaview Apartments is close to a section of Clifton beach known as Seaview beach or simply Seaview.
Farther ahead is Darakhshan Villas which has residential townhouses.
In this very area new CINEPLEX cinema houses were constructed for the entertainment starved people of Karachi, particularly for the people who live in DHA and Clifton.
This has happened after around three decades of cinema decline in Pakistan.
Hollywood films are released here along with or soon after the international releases of these films.
These cinemas are more expensive and are family cinemas meaning that no males or group of males are allowed to watch movies here without being accompanied by families, females or children.
Other beaches close to the city include Sandspit, Hawke's Bay, and Paradise Point - a sandstone rock promontory with a natural arch, but Clifton Beach is the most popular picnic destination in Karachi.
Beaches of Pakistan
The plant commonly flowers from May through June.
It is often found in the mildly disturbed soil of grasslands and open forests.
The plant has a strong, sweet scent, similar to chrysanthemums.
Cape Monze (aka Cape Mount) is a beach on the Arabian Sea.
It is near the Hub River and Gadani Beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
He was born in Melbourne, Brady was involved in the early days of television.
He left school at the age of 18 and started working as a booth announcer at Channel Nine in 1958.
He appeared with Graham Kennedy on In Melbourne Tonight.
He stayed at Channel 9 until 1971 when he worked for a travel agent in Beaumaris.
In the 1970s, Brady hosted several television shows including Moneymakers, Casino Ten, Password, Get the Message, and Everybody’s Talking.
In 1986, he moved to the Gold Coast and hosted a radio show on Easy Listening 97 Tweed Heads.
He came back to Melbourne in 1990 and began a long-lasting partnership with Bruce Mansfield hosting Remember When and Nightline on 3AW.
Bruce and Phil Website
St. Helens is a small village and civil parish on the eastern side of the Isle of Wight.
Jeremy Irons – movie actor and Academy Award and double-Emmy winner
Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, "adventuress" best known as a mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé
Hamstead is a village on the Isle of Wight.
It is located about three miles east of Yarmouth, in the northwest of the island.
Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ,  Öbür mongul; ; occasionally romanized to Nei Mongol) is the Mongol autonomous region of the People's Republic of China and lies in the north of the country.
Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia.
It is the third-largest subdivision of China spanning almost 300 million acres or 12% of China's land area.
It has a population of about 24 million.
The capital is Hohhot.
The majority of the population in the region are Han Chinese, with a large Mongol minority.
The official languages are Standard Mandarin and Mongolian, the latter written in the classical alphabet.
In Chinese, the region is known as "Inner Mongolia", where the terms of "Inner/Outer" come from Manchu dorgi/tulergi.
Inner Mongolia is distinct from Outer Mongolia, which was a term used by the Republic of China and previous governments to refer to what is now the independent state of Mongolia plus the Republic of Tuva in Russia.
In Mongolian, the region is known as öbör mongγol where öbör can mean south, inner, front, bosom, breast.
Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, about 80% of the population.
Mongols are the second largest ethnic group, about 17% of the population.
There are more Mongols living in Inner Mongolia than in the independent nation of Outer Mongolia.
Dazhao Temple is a Lamaist temple built in 1580.
Dazhao Temple is known for three sites: a statue of Buddha made from silver, elaborate carvings of dragons, and murals.
Xiaozhao Temple, also known as Chongfu temple, is a Lamaist temple built in 1697 and favoured by the Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi.
Xilituzhao Temple is the largest Lamaist temple in the Höhhot area, and once the center of power of Lamaism in the region.
Zhaojun Tomb is the tomb of Wang Zhaojun, a Han Dynasty palace lady-in-waiting who became the consort of a Xiongnu ruler.
The Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the cenotaph of Genghis Khan, is located in Ordos City.
Bashang Grasslands, on the border close to Beijing, is a popular retreat for urban residents wanting to get a taste of grasslands life.
The Arshihaty Stone Forest/Hexigten UNESCO Geo Park, has magnificent granite rock formations formed from natural erosion.
Xiangshawan, or "singing sands gorge," is located in the Gobi Desert and contains numerous tourist attractions including sand sledding and camel rides.
Five-pagoda Temple in the capital of Inner Mongolia Hohhot.
It is also called Jingangzuo Dagoba, used to be one building of the Cideng Temple.
Inner Mongolia Government website
Li Narangoa: The Commercialization of a Tamed Ethnicity
Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center
Yafford is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight.
It is nine kilometres from Newport in the southwest of the island.
Hamlets in England
Yaverland is a village on the Isle of Wight, just north of Sandown.
It has about 200 houses, no shops and one post box.
About 1/3 of a mile away from the village, behind Culver Down, is the Yaverland Manor and Church.
Newport is the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England.
Newport has a population of 23,957 according to the 2001 census.
The town is slightly to the north of the centre of the island, at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows northward to the Solent, and on which the town has a quay.
Princess Elizabeth of England, daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, is buried here at St. Thomas's Church
Kelly Sotherton, English heptathlete
Darren Mew (*1979) – breaststroke swimmer, born in Newport
Towns on the Isle of Wight
Gatcombe is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight.
It is four kilometres from Newport in the centre of the island.
St. Olave's Church is a Gatcombe church dedicated in 1292, serving as chapel to Gatcombe Manor.
The Gatcombe parish was established in 1560.
Godshill is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight.
About 2,800 people lived there in 1998.
It is located between Newport and Ventnor in the southeast of the island.
There are pubs called the "Griffin"- featuring a large maze, and "The Taverners".
Easton is a village on the Isle of Wight.
It is close to Totland in the west of the island.
Arreton is a village and civil parish in the central eastern part of the Isle of Wight, England.
It is about 3 miles south east of Newport.
Alverstone is a village 3 kilometres from the east coast of the Isle of Wight, near Sandown.
When Richard Webster became Chief Justice of England in 1900, he chose the title Lord Alverstone because it was the title he was permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favorite locales.
Adgestone is a small hamlet on the Isle of Wight.
It is close to Brading in the east of the island.
The ancient 'Kynges Towne' of Brading is the main town of the civil parish of the same name, which used to cover about a tenth of the Isle of Wight but now includes the town itself and Adgestone, Morton, Nunwell and other outlying areas between Ryde, St Helen's, Bembridge, Sandown and Arreton.
Mr. T, whose real name is Laurence Tureaud (born May 21, 1952) is an American actor.
He is famous for playing Sgt.
Bosco "B. A." Baracus in The A-Team and James "Clubber" Lang in Rocky III.
Mr. T has a popular catch phrase, "I Pity the Fool", which lead to the name of a reality television series he appeared on.
He also had a comic series called Mr T and the T-force.
Mr. T is known for having a mohawk hairstyle and wearing a lot of gold jewelry.
Tureaud was born in Chicago.
Before he became an actor, he was a bodyguard.
Tureaud made his neighbors in a Chicago suburb called Lake Forest angry.
He cut down more than a hundred oak trees on his estate.
This is now called "The Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre".
He gave up almost all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
He said, "As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property...I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold.
I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold."
Céline Marie Claudette Dion,    (; born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian singer.
She was born in the town of Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada.
She is the youngest of 14 children.
Her parents were television personality Thérèse Dion (1927–2020) and businessman Adhémar Dion (1923–2003).
When she was 12 years old, her brother sent a recording to a manager named René Angélil.
With his help, she released her first album in 1981, and her first English album in 1990.
In 2007, she performed a show with Elvis Presley, which was arranged on the computer with old images from Elvis shows.
It had been arranged for the TV show American Idol.
Dion first had international recognition in the 1980s.
She won both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest where she represented Switzerland.
She has sold the most albums in the world for a female artist.
For that, she received a special World Music Award in 2004.
She has also sold the most French albums with 7 million copies.
Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time.
On December 30, 1994, Dion married her manager René Angélil.
They have three sons: René-Charles Angélil (born on January 25, 2001), and twins Eddy Angélil and Nelson Angélil (born on October 23, 2010).
René died on January 14, 2016 from cancer.
Her older brother, Daniel, died from cancer two days later, on what would have been Angélil's 74th birthday.
In 2018, Dion released the song "Ashes", which appears on the soundtrack to the film Deadpool 2, starring fellow Canadian Ryan Reynolds.
1981: La voix du bon Dieu
1981: Céline Dion chante Noël
1982: Tellement j'ai d'amour...
1983: Les chemins de ma maison
1983: Chants et contes de Noël
1984: Mélanie
1985: C'est pour toi
1987: Incognito
1991: Dion chante Plamondon
1995: D'eux
1998: S'il suffisait d'aimer
2003: 1 fille & 4 types
2007: D'elles
2012: Sans attendre
1990: Unison
1992: Celine Dion
1993: The Colour of My Love
1996: Falling into You
1997: Let's Talk About Love
1998: These Are Special Times
2002: A New Day Has Come
2003: One Heart
2004: Miracle
2007: Taking Chances
2013: Loved Me Back to Life
CelineDion.com – Official website operated by Sony Music Canada (English, French).
Celine Dion YouTube Channel
Celine Dion at WN
[ Celine Dion] at Allmusic
Celine Dion  at Billboard.com
FAO Goodwill Ambassador website
Cowes is an English seaport town on the Isle of Wight, an island south of Southampton.
Cowes is on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east Bank.
The western town is sometimes referred to as West Cowes where distinction is needed - such as at the two differing ferry landings.
Dr Thomas Arnold - Headmaster of Rugby School
Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort
Jeremy Irons - film actor and Oscar and double-Emmy winner
Lord Mountbatten of Burma (in childhood), later last Viceroy of India at Kent House, East Cowes
Cliff Michelmore - BBC television and radio presenter/producer
Mark King - Bassist and Lead singer of Jazz/Funk Fusion band Level 42
Albert Ketelbey - Composer, Conductor and Pianist
Kenneth Kendall - Journalist and Broadcaster
Celia Imrie - Actress
Adamsville is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.
As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 4,965.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 4,845.
Alabaster is a city and southern suburb of Birmingham in Shelby County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 22,619.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 27,517.
Alabaster is located at  (33.231162, -86.823829).
The city has a total area of 20.6 square miles (53.2 km²).
20.5 square miles (53.0 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.24%) is water.
Shelby County, which is the geographical center of Alabama, was created on 7 February 1818 by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly.
The county was named for Isaac Shelby.
He was a hero of the King's Mountain Battle during the American Revolutionary War.
Alabama gained statehood on 14 December 1819.
Many of the first settlers came from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Many came to this region after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.
The 1820 census records say that Shelby County contained 2,492 people at that time, 2,044 whites and 448 Africans.
U.S. Highway 31 was a two-lane highway at that time.
Because it was the main artery from Birmingham to Montgomery, the highway played an important part in the growth of the community.
George L. Scott, Sr.
was an Alabaster pioneer.
He owned and operated Alabaster Lime Co. His shipping point, which was named after him, was known as “Scott Rock”.
Later, houses were built for his employees to live in.
These houses became a community.
It got its name from alabaster, a white chalky mineral.
The First Bank of Alabaster opened in 1952.
Its president was George L. Scott, Jr. He later became the first mayor of Alabaster.
The first attempt in 1952 to incorporate Alabaster failed.
In January 1953 the petition was filed again.
On 23 February 1953, Alabaster was officially incorporated.
There were 427 people living there.
Other Alabaster pioneers were Kenton B. Nickerson and William J. Maxwell.
In 1955, the Alabaster Water and Gas Board was formed.
Alabaster merged with the adjoining city of Siluria, Alabama April 27, 1971.
Alabaster's Official city website
Alexander City is a city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 15,008.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 14,957.
Aliceville is a city in Pickens County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 2,567.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,465.
Walter Jones, left tackle for the Seattle Seahawks
Simmie Knox, portrait artist
Ashville is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States.
The population was 2,260 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town.
The city is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Pell City.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,429.
Anniston is a city in, and county seat of, Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States.
According to 2019 Census estimates, the city had a population of 21,287.
Chemical cleanup
In 2002, an investigation by 60 minutes showed Anniston was among the most toxic cities in the country.
The main source of local contamination was a Monsanto chemical factory, which was closed.
Notable Residents and Former Residents
Francis T. Anderson, Civil War general.
Michael Biehn, actor
Anne Braden, Civil Rights activist
June Burn, author
Red Byron, NASCAR driver
Asa Earl Carter, Segregationist, speech writer, and author of The Education of Little Tree
Quinton Caver, American NFL football player
B. B. Comer, Governor of Alabama.
Michael Curry, NBA player
Cow Cow Davenport, Boogie-woogie pianist
Eric Davis, NFL corner back.
William Levi Dawson, (b. 23 September 1899), composer of Negro Folk Symphony.
Bobby Edwards, country singer
Kevin Greene, retired American NFL football player
Audrey Marie Hilley, famous for poisoning her husband and trying to poison her daughter.
Thomas Kilby, Governor of Alabama.
Perry Lentz, author and professor of English
Lucky Millinder, Rhythm and blues and swing band leader and singer.
Will Owsley, singer-songwriter.
John L. Pennington, Newspaper publisher, governor of Dakota Territory.
Patrick J. Que Smith, Grammy winning songwriter
Shannon Spruill, professional wrestler
David Satcher, former Surgeon General
Vaughn Stewart, former NFL football player.
Andalusia is a city in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 8,794.
The 2007 U.S. Census estimated the city had a population of 8,705.
It is the home of the World Championship Domino Tournament.
WAAO-FM 103.7  (Country)
WSTF 91.5 FM (Religious)
Andalusia Star-News (daily)
Public education is provided by Andalusia City School System.
which consists of Andalusia Elementary School, Andalusia Middle School, and Andalusia High School.
Charles Brooks, editorial cartoonist
Robert Horry, NBA player
Nico Johnson, NFL player for Kansas City Chiefs, won 3 BCS National Championships while playing football for The University of Alabama.
Alexa Jones, Miss Alabama 2005 and Miss America 2006 second runner-up
Frank Tipler, cosmologist
Charles "Bubba" Bailey, the police officer from Hamish and Andy's Caravan of Courage USA
Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials shrubs, and biennals that are commonly called foxgloves.
The genus is native to Europe, western and central Asia, and northwestern Africa.
Melbourne Central Shopping Center is a shopping center (or mall) in Melbourne, Australia.
It contains hundreds of different stores.
Martin Carthy MBE, is an English folk singer and guitarist.
He was one of the first performers in the renewed interest in British folk music in the 1960s.
He has inspired other musicians such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Richard Thompson.
He is seen as one of the most important people in English folk music.
Martin Carthy was born in Hatfield on May 21, 1941.
He grew up in Hampstead, North London.
After he left school he had a number of jobs.
He worked behind the scenes at the open air theatre at Regent's Park as a prompter (helping actors who forgot their words).
He later worked as an assistant stage manager (ASM) on a tour of The Merry Widow.
He then worked at Theatre in the Round in Scarborough.
He then sang in coffee bars.
He became a resident (regular act) at The Troubadour Folk Club in Earls Court in the early 1960s.
He joined Redd Sullivan's "Thameside Four" in 1961.
He is a famous solo performer of traditional songs.
He has a very special individual style of guitar playing on his old Martin Guitar.
He uses different ways of tuning his guitar.
He has a strongly percussive (drum like) picking style that brings out the melody.
His first album, Martin Carthy, was released in 1965.
It had Dave Swarbrick playing fiddle playing on some songs, although he was not named on the album cover.
Carthy's way of playing the traditional song Scarborough Fair was used by Paul Simon on the Simon and Garfunkel album Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme in 1966.
Simon did not admit that he had used Carthy's version.
Working with others
Carthy has also worked with many other musicians.
He has sung with The Watersons since 1972.
He been a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span at two different times.
He was a member of the famous Albion Country Band 1973 line-up.
This had members from the band Fairport Convention and John Kirkpatrick.
This group recorded the original and important album Battle of the Field.
Carthy was part of the new and different band Brass Monkey which mixed brass instruments, Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.
For many years Carthy has enjoyed a creating music with fiddle player Dave Swarbrick.
He has also worked with his partner  Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza Carthy in a group called Waterson:Carthy.
In June 1998 he was made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
He was named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002 and again in 2005.
In 2005 he also won the award for Best Traditional Track for 'Famous Flower of Serving Men'.
In the 2007 Folk Awards Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won "Best duo".
Original / Studio albums (solo or with Dave Swarbrick)
Martin Carthy (1965) with Dave Swarbrick
Martin Carthy's Second Album (1966) with Dave Swarbrick
Byker Hill (1967) with Dave Swarbrick
But Two Came By (1968) with Dave Swarbrick
Prince Heathen (1969) with Dave Swarbrick
Because It's There (1971)
Crown of Horn (1971)
Out of the Cut (1971)
Sweet Wivelsfield (1971)
Shearwater (1972 reissue with extra tracks 2005)
Landfall (1972)
Right of Passage (1988)
Life and Limb (1990) with Dave Swarbrick
Skin and Bone (1992) with Dave Swarbrick
Signs of Life (1998)
Waiting for Angels (2004)
Straws in the Wind (2006) with Dave Swarbrick
Collections and live albums
Selections (1969) New Zealand and Australia only
This Is... Martin Carthy: The Bonny Black Hare and other songs (1971) with Dave Swarbrick
Selections (1971) with Dave Swarbrick
Round Up (circa early 1970s) with Dave Swarbrick
Brigg Fair (circa early 1970s) with Dave Swarbrick
Tales of Long Ago (circa early 1970s) with Dave Swarbrick
The Collection (1993)
Rigs of the Time (1993)
The Kershaw Sessions (1994)
A Collection (1999)
Both Ears and the Tail (2000, live recording from 1966) with Dave Swarbrick
The Carthy Chronicles (2001) 4x CD 83 track box set
Martin Carthy at Ruskin Mill (2005)
Releases on other formats
No Songs (7" vinyl EP 1967) with Dave Swarbrick
"The Bonny Lass of Angelsey" b/w "Palaces of Gold" (7" vinyl single 1976)
100 Not Out (Longform video 1992) with Dave Swarbrick
British Fingerstyle Guitar (Longform video 1993 reissued on DVD 2006)
Guitar Maestros (DVD 2006)
As a member of the group Steeleye Span
Please to See the King (1971)
Ten Man Mop (1971)
Storm Force Ten (1977)
Live at Last! (
The Journey (1999)
As a member of The Watersons and/or Waterson:Carthy
The Watersons: For Pence and Spicy Ale (1975)
The Watersons: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (1977)
The Watersons: Green Fields (1981)
Waterson:Carthy: Waterson:Carthy (1994)
Waterson:Carthy: Common Tongue (1996)
Waterson:Carthy: Broken Ground (1999)
Waterson:Carthy: A Dark Light (2002)
The Watersons: The Definitive Collection (2003)
Waterson:Carthy: Fishes & Fine Yellow Sand (2004)
The Watersons: Mighty River of Song (2004) 4x CD & 1x DVD box set of Watersons and related recordings
The Watersons: A Yorkshire Christmas (2005)
Waterson:Carthy: The Definitive Collection (2005)
Waterson:Carthy: Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man (2006)
As a member of the group Brass Monkey
Brass Monkey (1984)
See How It Runs (1986)
The Complete Brass Monkey (1993) compilation of the previous two albums
Sound and Rumour (1999)
Going and Staying (2001)
Flame of Fire (2004)
The Definitive Collection (2005)
As a member of group Blue Murder
No One Stands Alone (2002)
Other important recordings
Thamesiders & Davy Graham (1963)  7" EP
Three City Four: Three City Four (1965)
Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy & Diz Disley: Rags Reel & Airs (1966)
Various Artists: Bright Phoebus: Songs by Lal & Mike Waterson (1972)
Albion Country Band: Battle Of The Field (1976)
John Kirkpatrick: Plain Capers (1976)
Albion Country Band: Larkrise To Candleford (1980)
Band of Hope: Rhythm And Reds (1994)
Wood, Wilson, Carthy: Wood, Wilson, Carthy (1998)
Dave Swarbrick: Swarb! (
2003) 4CD box set career retrospective with numerous Carthy tracks
4 Martins: Guitar Nights (2003) released on CD and DVD
Waterson:Carthy Official Website
Martin Carthy biography on the Waterson:Carthy website
Reinhard Zierke's unofficial website
John Crosby's 1993 Martin Carthy biography on Reinhard Zierke's website
BBC Folk database
discography on Slipcue e-zine
Atmore is a city in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 7,676.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 7,530.
The city was named for Mr. C.P. Atmore.
Attalla is a city in Etowah County, Alabama, United States.
According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 6,474.
Notable Past Residents
Carnell "Cadillac" Williams (born April 21, 1982), Tampa Bay Buccaneers player
Betty Kelley (born  September 16, 1944), member of Motown girl group Martha and The Vandellas
York is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 2,854.
New Hope is a small town in Madison County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
As of the 2000 census, the population is 2,539.
It was incorporated in 1832 under the name of Vienna.
The original town was completely burned by the Union Army on December 15, 1864, during the American Civil War.
Uniontown is a city in Perry County, Alabama in the United States of America.
As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 1,636.
Notable Residents and Natives
Tony Cox, actor, born in Uniontown on March 31, 1958.
Eugene Lipscomb, football player, born in Uniontown on August 9, 1931
Erwin Dudley, professional basketball player
Union Springs is a city in and the county seat of Bullock County, Alabama, United States.
The population was 3,670 at the 2000 census.
Winton M. Blount - United States Postmaster General (1969-1972)
John Warren Branscomb - Methodist bishop.
John Henrik Clarke - Significant Pan-Africanist.
Eddie Kendricks - Co-founder of The Temptations. (
Family moved when he was young)
Vestavia Hills is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama.
It is a suburb of the city of Birmingham.
Spencer Bachus - U. S. Representative for the 6th District of Alabama (R)
Pat Du Pre - Former top 20 professional tennis player; collegiate star at Stanford
Chris Hammond - Major League Baseball Pitcher (Reds, Marlins, Braves, Yankees, A's, Padres)
Eli Gold -  Nationally known Sportscaster
Michael Papajohn - Hollywood Actor, Producer & Stuntman
Richard Scrushy - founder and former CEO of the physical rehabilitation healthcare company HealthSouth
Jeff Sessions - U. S. Senator from Alabama (R)
Don Siegelman - Former Governor of Alabama (D)
Bart Starr - American football quarterback
Jabo Waggoner - Alabama State Senator, Senate Minority Leader (R)
George B. Ward - former mayor of Birmingham
Vernon is a city in Lamar County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 2,143.
Dan Penn, songwriter, born in Vernon.
Mitch Lucas, Christian evangelist/missionary, raised in Vernon.
Troy Hankins, successful Alaskan businessman and entrepreneur born and raised in Vernon.
Terry Moore, born in Vernon, major league baseball player
Guy Morton, born in Vernon, major league baseball player
Reuben Houston "Rube" Burrow—The most wanted outlaw of the late 1880s, he committed a series of train robberies along with his younger brother James Buchanan "Jim" Burrow.
Valley is a city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States.
According to 2019 census, there are 9,141 people living there.
Valley is located in the southeastern Chambers County at 32°48'40.993" North, 85°10'40.577" West (32.811387, -85.177938).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it has a total area of , all land.
Valley has a larger Micropolitan Statistical Area known as the "Greater Valley Area" consisting of the three largest cities of Chambers County: Valley, Lanett, and LaFayette.
It's climate usually has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Valley has a humid subtropical climate.
It is often abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
As of the census of 2010, there were 9,524 people, 3,878 households, and 2,561 families living in the city.
Its population density was 864 people per square mile (333.4/km).
There were 5,025 housing units at an average density of 457 per square mile (176/km).
Average income
The median income for a household in the city was $31,501, and the median income for a family was $40,013.
Males had a median income of $36,345 versus $29,905 for females.
The per capita income for the city was $15,928.
About 18.2% of families and 20.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.4% of those under age 18 and 12.9% of those age 65 or over.
Valley is served by the Columbus, Georgia Television Designated Market Area (DMA).
Jennifer Chandler, won a gold medal in diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Josh Evans, former NFL player
Lemanski Hall, former NFL player
John Copeland, former NFL player
Bill McGhee, former player for the Philadelphia Athletics
Marcus Pollard, former NFL player
Mike Potts, former pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
K. Lee Scott, Christian composer
Jylan Ware, NFL player
Drew Ferguson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd congressional district
Matt Foster, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox
Valley Grande is a city in Dallas County, Alabama, United States, just north of Selma.
Incorporated in early 2003, Valley Grande is governed by a mayor-council form of government.
Northport is a city in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates the population is 21,216.
The Meadows Mall is a mall in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Its address is 4300 Meadows Lane.
With 140 stores inside, the mall building is two stories high.
Within the mall is a food court, and four department stores: Dillard's, Sears, JCPenney, and Macy's.
The mall is slightly larger than Boulevard Mall, which contains 149 stores.
Jacksonville is a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 12,548.
Jackson is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States.
The population was 5,419 at the 2000 census.
Irondale is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a suburb of Birmingham.
At the 2000 census the population was 9,813.
The book (later a movie) Fried Green Tomatoes, by Irondale native Fannie Flagg, is loosely based around the town and the landmark Irondale Cafe, known as The WhistleStop Cafe in the book & Film.
Winfield is a city in Fayette and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Alabama.
The population was 4,717 at the 2010 census, the second largest city in Marion County.
W. Eugene Davis, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Johnny Micheal Spann, an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the first American killed in combat after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
Jimmy Miles, award winning Country musician
Wetumpka is a city in Elmore County, Alabama, United States.
According to 2000 US census, there are 5,726 people living there.
The city is the county seat of Elmore County.
It is the third fastest growing county in the state.
Together with Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, and Tallassee the city is considered part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Area, or River Region.
There are approximately 346,578 people living in the region.
Big Fish (2003)
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Joe McInnes, businessman and state official
Jim Rogers, author
William Edgar Weldon, businessman and political leader
Weaver is a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 2,619.
Warrior is a city in Jefferson and Blount County in the U.S. state of Alabama.
At the 2000 census the population was 3,169.
Jacksonville, Georgia
Jacksonville, Indiana
Jacksonville, Maryland
Jacksonville, Missouri
Jacksonville, New York
Jacksonville, Oregon
Jacksonville, Pennsylvania
Jacksonville (Lehigh County), Pennsylvania
Jacksonville, Vermont
Jacksonville, West Virginia
Floyd, Virginia, originally named Jacksonville
Jacksonville College, a public two-year junior college in Jacksonville, Texas
Jacksonville State University, a public four-year collegiate level institution in Jacksonville, Alabama
Jacksonville University, a private four-year collegiate level institution in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, the working title of the Ryan Adams album released as Jacksonville City Nights
"Jacksonville", a song by Sufjan Stevens from his album Illinois (album)
Why I Am Not a Christian is an essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
It describes the reasons why Russell does not believe in God and doubts religion.
At first, a talk given March 6, 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, at the South London Branch of the National Secular Society.
It was published that year as a pamphlet and was later published, with other essays, in the book, Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects ().
Related works by other authors
Why I Am Not a Muslim, by Ibn Warraq, is also critical of the religion in which the author was brought up — in this case, Islam.
The author mentions Why I Am Not a Christian towards the end of the first chapter, stating that many of its arguments also apply to Islam.
Why I Am Not a Hindu, a 1996 book in a similar vein by Kancha Ilaiah, an activist opposed to the Indian caste system.
Why I Am Still a Christian is a book by Catholic theologian Hans Küng, published in 1987.
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Moapa Valley is a 40-mile valley and region in the American State of Nevada.
Within the valley are four towns: Overton, Logandale, Moapa, and Glendale, Nevada.
Logandale and Overton are so close to each other that it is hard to tell them apart without a sign.
Moapa Valley was formed by the Muddy River, which flows through it.
Valleys of the United States
The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America.
The passenger pigeon, or, wild pigeon was a species of bird, Ectopistes migratorius, that was once common in North America.
It lived in enormous migratory flocks — sometimes containing more than two billion birds — that could stretch one mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long across the sky, sometimes taking several hours to pass.
Some estimate that there were three billion to five billion passenger pigeons in the United States when Europeans arrived in North America.
Others argue that the species had not been common in the Pre-Columbian period, but their numbers grew when devastation of the American Indian population by European diseases led to reduced competition for food.
The species went from being one of the most usual birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century.
At the time, passenger pigeons had one of the largest groups or flocks of any animal, second only to the Rocky Mountain locust.
Some reduction in numbers happened because of habitat loss when the Europeans started settling further inland.
The primary factor emerged when pigeon meat was commercialized as a cheap food for slaves and the poor in the 19th century, resulting in hunting on a massive scale.
There was a slow decline in their numbers between about 1800 and 1870, followed by a catastrophic decline between 1870 and 1890.
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the 18th century, the passenger pigeon in Europe was known to the French as tourtre; but, in New France, the North American bird was called tourte.
In modern French, the bird is known as the pigeon migrateur.
In Algonquian languages, it was called amimi by the Lenape and omiimii by the Ojibwe.
The term passenger pigeon in English derives from the French word passager, meaning to pass by.
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (; January 23, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a Soviet Russian movie director and movie theorist.
He was known mostly for his silent movies Strike, The Battleship Potemkin and October.
He was also known for his historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible.
His work had a major impact on early movie directors because of his creative use of and writings about montage.
Eisenstein was born in Riga, Latvia but his family moved a lot in his early years.
Eisenstein continued to move often during his life.
Eisenstein's father Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was of German-Jewish  and Swedish descent and his mother, Julia Ivanovna Konetskaya, was from a Russian Orthodox family.