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It is not known clearly why the albatrosses became extinct in the North Atlantic.
Some think that it was because the sea level rose at that time.
Some kind of albatrosses that live in the south have usually been trapped in the North Atlantic, and are forced to stay there for a long time.
Sometimes scientists may use the satellite when trying to learn about albatrosses.
They try to find out about the way albatrosses go across the ocean to find food with the satellites.
There is proof that the sea separates different kinds of species of the Albatross.
There is also proof of different pathways for the two sexes of the same kind of species.
A study of Tristan Albatrosses living on the Gough Island showed that males look for food on the west and the females go around the east.
The albatross eats cephalopods, fish, crustaceans and offal.
Sometimes, they may also eat carrion and or other kinds of zooplankton.
However, the importance of each food is different according to each species.
Some may like to eat only squids, or others might eat more krill or fish.
From the two albatross species that live in Hawaii, one of them, the Black-footed Albatross, eats mostly fish.
The other one, the Laysan Albatross, eats more squids instead.
Sometimes albatrosses may use the help of other animals to eat.
For example, some squids are too big to be caught alive by the albatross.
Instead, albatrosses eat squids that die after mating, or after they have been vomited by squid-eating whales (such as sperm whales and pilot whales).
Other species, like the Black-browed Albatross or the Grey-headed Albatross, eat smaller species of squid that sink after they die, and they do not scavenge a lot.
Also, sometimes the Waved Albatross has been seen stealing food from other birds.
Until now, it was thought that the albatrosses ate and found their food at the surface of the sea, this included dead squid and fish pushed to the surface by the waves, other animals that had eaten them, or death.
This was thought because some species do not dive deeper than a metre.
However, this theory was not true because some species have a mean (average) diving depth of almost 5 metres and can dive as deep as 12.5 metres.
They have now been seen to eat from the surface, diving to catch prey and sometimes also plunging from the air to snatch their prey.
Breeding and dancing
Albatrosses live together, and they usually nest on islands where no people live.
Many Buller's Albatrosses and Black-footed Albatrosses nest under trees in open forest.
Albatrosses usually come back to their own group after leaving for a while to find a mate.
This is one of their strongest instinct, and the study of Laysan Albatross showed that the normal distance between the place where it was hatched and the place where the bird made its own territory was 22m (72 ft).
Like most seabirds, albatrosses live much longer than other birds.
They also do not look for their mate for a long time, and do not have a lot of young.
Some kinds of albatrosses live up to 50 years.
The oldest albatross recorded was the Northern Royal Albatross that lived for 61 years.
When the albatrosses learn these kind of actions and dances, they also learn things such as pointing, calling, making noises with their bill, staring, and sometimes all of them put together.
When a bird first comes it will dance with many other albatrosses, but after a few years, the number of birds it will dance with will lessen until one of the birds are chosen.
After becoming a pair, they will never use that dance again.
Albatrosses have a hard time laying their children.
It takes a lot of time for an albatross to lay an egg and raise a chick.
The great albatrosses take over a year to raise a chick.
Albatrosses lay one egg, white with reddish brown spots.
But if the egg is taken by other predators or accidentally broken, the parents will not lay another egg for that whole year.
The larger eggs weigh from 200–510 g (7.1–18 oz).
Two albatrosses do not usually "divorce".
This sometimes may happen if several years passed without being able to lay a single egg.
All the albatrosses in the south live in large nests.
They make it with grass, soil, and sometimes penguin feathers.
The Waved Albatross, however, does not make a nest but instead moves its egg around the pair’s territory, as much as 50 m (160 ft).
This may sometimes make it lose the egg.
In all albatross species, both parents incubate the egg from between one day and three weeks.
Incubation lasts around 70 to 80 days.
This time may become more longer for the larger albatrosses.
When they do this, it takes a lot of energy, and the adult can lose as much as 83 g (2.9 oz) of body weight a day.
After hatching, the chick is taken care of and guarded for three weeks until it is large enough to take care of and fight for itself.
During this time the parents feed the chick small meals.
After the chick has grown a little older, it is fed in bigger meals by both parents.
The parents both take turns to go and find food, that are about 12% of their body weight (around 600 g (21 oz)).
They find food such as fresh squid, fish and krill.
Albatross chicks take a long time to fledge (learn how to fly).
In the case of more bigger albatrosses, it can take up to 280 days.
And even for the smaller albatrosses, it can take from 140 to 170 days.
Like many seabirds, albatross chicks later become even heavier than their mother and father.
When they are preparing their body for flying, they may also grow flight feathers, which makes them sometimes as heavy as their parents.
Between 15% and 65% of those who fledged survive to find their mate after.
Albatross chicks learn to fly on their own.
Their parents do not teach them, and instead they return to the nest even after their chick has left.
Albatrosses and humans
The name albatross came from the Arabic word al-câdous or al-ġaţţās.
This means a pelican, or can mean "the diver".
This word later became English, also mixed with the Portuguese word alcatraz, which means "gannet".
This is also where the name of the prison Alcatraz comes from.
The OED explains that the word alcatraz was at first supposed to be used for the frigatebird.
But perhaps the change of the word to albatross was because of the Latin word albus.
This means "white", which is opposite to the frigatebirds which are black.
In Portuguese, the word still presently used for the bird, albatroz, came from the English albatross.
They were once known as Goonie birds or Gooney birds, especially the albatrosses in the North Pacific.
In the southern hemisphere, most people still call the albatross mollymawk, which came from the word malle-mugge, an old Dutch.
The name Diomedea, given to the albatrosses by Linnaeus, is from the story about the Greek warrior Diomedes becoming a bird.
Albatrosses have been described as "the most legendary of all birds".
When people are sad or feel they are carrying a burden, they may use the expression 'to have an albatross around their neck'.
There is a myth that sailors do not shoot or eat albatrosses because they think it will bring bad luck, but in reality sailors regularly killed and ate them.
They were often thought of as the souls of lost sailors.
The Māori people used the wing bones of the albatross to carve tattoos into their skin at ceremonies.
Human threats
Even though they were legendary birds in many myths, albatrosses were still attacked by humans.
In the beginning, Polynesians and Aleut people hunted albatrosses.
As Europeans began to explore the world, they too began to hunt albatross.
They "fished" for them from boats and ate them or killed them for sport.
Of the 21 albatross species noted by the IUCN on their list, 19 are threatened, and the other two are very near to being threatened.
Two species are thought of as endangered.
This is mostly because albatrosses die while eating fishing bait.
In the Midway Islands there have been many airplane crashes because of collisions with Laysan Albatrosses, causing fatalities in both the albatross and human population.
Tall towers killed 3000 birds in between the years 1964-1965.
Because of this, the towers were taken down.
Recently, people have tried to stop human activity in the islands and this has helped lessen the number of birds dying.
Another threat to albatrosses are introduced species, like rats or feral cats (cats that live without being cared for by people), which attack the albatross or its chicks and eggs.
Albatrosses have lived on islands where there are few land mammals and they are not adapted to defend themselves against them.
Even animals such as mice can be dangerous.
For example, on Gough Island the chicks of Tristan Albatrosses are often attacked and eaten alive by house mice.
Sometimes albatrosses, as well as many other kinds of seabirds, are killed because they eat plastic.
The amount of plastic eaten in the seas has increased very quickly since the first record in the 1960s.
This is because of waste thrown overboard by ships and trash dumped in the ocean.
Sometimes litter on beaches has been washed into the sea by rivers.
It is impossible to digest plastic, and the undigested plastic stops other food from being digested.
This makes birds starve and die.
The plastic can even be vomited out and fed to the chicks by the parents.
Although plastic is not the main reason why albatrosses die, it is still a serious problem.
Scientists and people who try to help albatrosses are working with governments and fishermen to stop these threats.
They have come up with solutions such as fishing at night, dying the bait a blue color to hide it from the albatrosses, setting the bait under the water, and more.
For example, a study by some scientists and fishermen in New Zealand tested putting the fishing lines below the reach of certain kinds of albatross species.
The use of some of these ideas has been successful by stopping the number of Black-browed Albatross that died in the last 10 years.
Conservationists have also worked on taking away introduced species to protect the albatrosses.
One important step towards protecting albatrosses and other seabirds is the 2001 treaty known as the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, signed by thirteen countries, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, South Africa, France, Peru, Uruguay and the United Kingdom.
One of the Agreement's key activities is to provide expert advice on seabird bycatch mitigation to fisheries managers, both in domestic and high seas fisheries.
Great albatross (Diomedea)
Wandering Albatross  D. exulans
Antipodean Albatross D. (exulans) antipodensis
Amsterdam Albatross D. (exulans) amsterdamensis
Tristan Albatross D. (exulans) dabbenena
Northern Royal Albatross D. (epomorpha) sanfordi
Southern Royal Albatross D. epomophora
North Pacific albatrosses (Phoebastria)
Waved Albatross P. irrorata
Short-tailed Albatross P. albatrus
Black-footed Albatross P. nigripes
Laysan Albatross P. immutabilis
Mollymawks (Thalassarche)
Black-browed Albatross T. melanophris
Campbell Albatross T. (melanophris) impavida
Shy Albatross T. cauta
White-capped Albatross T. steadi
Chatham Albatross T. (cauta) eremita
Salvin's Albatross T. (cauta) salvini
Grey-headed Albatross T. chrysostoma
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross T. chlororhynchos
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross T. (chlororhynchos) carteri
Buller's Albatross T. bulleri
Sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria)
Sooty Albatross P. fusca
Light-mantled Albatross P. palpebrata.
HANZAB complete species list  (Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds.)
BirdLife International Save the Albatross campaign
The Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)
Albatross: Don Roberson's family page
Tracking Ocean Wanderers  The global distribution of albatrosses and petrels: Results from the Global Procellariiform Tracking Workshop, 1–5 September 2003, Gordon’s Bay, South Africa.
BirdLife International
Albatross videos  on the Internet Bird Collection
WWF albatross species profile
Chris Jordan's Midway Atoll albatross photographs
It is in the constellation of Centaurus.
In 1951, Harlow Shapley said that Proxima Centauri was a flare star.
Recorded photographs showed that the star became measurably brighter about 8% of the time, making it the most active flare star then found.
Red dwarfs are usually far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, that means without a telescope.
Proxima Centauri has an apparent magnitude of 11 while its absolute magnitude is a very dim 15.5.
Even from Alpha Centauri A or B, Proxima would only be seen as a 5th magnitude star.
Proxima Centauri has been the closest star to the Sun for about the last 32,000 years.
Barnard's Star will make its closest approach to the Sun around AD 11,700, when it approaches to within about 3.8 light-years.
However, at that time, it will not be the nearest star, since Proxima Centauri will then have moved even closer to the Sun.
Six stars will come closer to Earth in the next 45,000 years.
In 2016, a exoplanet was found by the European Southern Observatory around Proxima Centauri, Proxima Centauri b (or Proxima b).
It was found in the habitable zone, and was thought to be Earth-like, with an ESI of 0.87.
While being Earth-like, it may not be habitable on the surface, since Proxima Centauri gives off strong solar flares and high solar winds, which could strip away parts of the atmosphere of the planet, making it less habitable.
In October of 2016, scientists at France's CNRS research institute said that the planet may have oceans on its surface, and a thin atmosphere.
If this idea is true or not is not known.
Another planet, Proxima Centauri c, much farther out than b, was discovered in 2019.
It is seven times heavier (more massive) than Earth.
It is too cold to be habitable.
Because it showed up brighter than expected when photos of it were taken, it may have a ring system five times wider than that of Jupiter.
Photograph of Proxima Centauri
O Sistema Alpha Centauri (portuguese)
The San Jacinto Fault Zone is a series of faults that run through Southern California.
It is said to be a sister fault of the older, much more famous San Andreas Fault.
Some cities that are directly on the fault zone include San Bernardino, San Jacinto, and Hemet.
This fault could create a large earthquake that could greatly affect Greater Los Angeles.
The Dhammapāda is a Buddhist scripture which includes sayings by the Gautama Buddha himself.
A chant is a type of song.
It usually repeats, and is used in religious services around the world, as well as by many nonreligious groups.
Habenaria mossii is a species of plant in the Orchidaceae family.
It is naturally found in South Africa.
Its natural habitat is mild grassland.
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Habenaria mossii.
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Twenty-two is a number.
It comes between twenty-one and twenty-three, and is an even number.
It is divisible by 1, 2, 11, and 22.
Twenty-three is a natural number.
It comes between twenty-two and twenty-four, and is an odd number.
It is also the 9th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19.
Adelite is a rare mineral.
It is a calcium, magnesium, arsenate with chemical formula CaMgAsO4OH.
Adelite was named from the Greek word for indistinct.
It can be blueish-gray, green, gray, yellow, or light green in color.
It is made of crystals.
Adelite is not radioactive.
It is scratched easily with apatite.
The mineral was first described in 1891 in Värmland, Sweden.
It can be found in Flipistad, Sweden.
The Naked Brothers Band is a musical comedy television series that airs on Nickelodeon created by actress Polly Draper.
It stars her real-life sons Nat and Alex Wolff, real-life brothers that deal with fame and living their lives as rockstars.
The show is shot in the style of a documentary, which exaggerates the real musical experiences of the brothers', who self-write all of their own music.
The series started in January 2007 and ended in 2009.
The show began with the pilot episode The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, a low budget pretend documentary.
It also has another movie, Battle of the Bands.
The second season of the series will started in January 2008 after the premiere of the new NBB movie "Sidekicks".
The Matterhorn (in German; ,  or Le Cervin) is ranked, by height, 12th  mountain in the European Alps.
Its height is 4,478 metres.
The mountain is on the border between Switzerland and Italy, it towers over the Swiss village of Zermatt and the Italian village Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche.
The name of the mountain comes from the German words Matte, meaning valley or meadow, and Horn, which means peak.
Charles Gos, Le Cervin (Attinger, 1948)
Edward Whymper, Scrambles Amongst the Alps (1871)
Virtual ascent of the Hörnli Ridge with 360 degree panoramas
Alpinist Magazine  Mountain Profile - Issue 16
Matterhorn Webcams
Matterhorn on Summitpost
PeakWare info on Matterhorn
Matterhorn on 4000er.de
Walt Disney and Zermatt
Chronology of climbs - in German
Photo gallery dedicated to Matterhorn and surrounding nature
Jura is a department in the east of France in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
It is named after the Jura mountains.
Historically, Jura belonged to the Free County of Burgundy, known in French as the Franche-Comté.
Dole was the capital until the region was conquered by Louis XIV.
Louis XIV moved the capital to Besançon and Dole is now a sous-préfecture of Jura.
As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the southern 2/3 of Jura spoke a dialect of Arpitan language.
It continued to be spoken in rural areas into the 20th century.
Jura is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.
It was created from part of the former province of Free County.
The department was created with six districts: Dole, Lons-le-Saunier, Orgelet, Poligny, Saint-Claude and Salins; the capital was Lons-le-Saunier alternating with Dole, Poligny and Salins but from 1794 only Lons-le-Saunier remained as the capital.
In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the six districts were changed into four arrondissements: Lons-le-Saunier, Dole, Poligny and Saint-Claude.
On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Poligny was eliminated.
Jura is part of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
The department borders with 5 departments in two regions.
The Swiss canton of Vaud is to the southeast.
Haute-Saône (north)
Doubs (east)
Saône-et-Loire (west)
Côte-d'Or (northwest)
Ain (south)
The highest point in the department is Crêt Pela (),  high; it is also the highest mountain of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
The Crêt Pela mountain is in the Forêt du Massacre, Jura mountain range.
Many lakes can be found throughout the Jura department.
The largest natural lake in the department is the Lac De Chalain.
It is  long and  wide.
Lac de Vouglans was formed after the building of a hydro-electric dam; it is one of the largest man-made lakes in France.
The Ain river starts in the Jura department but it is the main river of the Ain department.
The Doubs also flows through a part of the department.
Many tributaries of both rivers flow, partially or completely, in the Jura department.
The climate of the Jura varies greatly by elevation.
The lower valleys are temperate and pleasant, but the high mountain valleys have bitterly cold winters.
Jura is managed by the Departmental Council of Jura in Lons-le-Saunier.
The department is part of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
There are 3 arrondissements (districts), 17 cantons and 509 communes (municipalities) in Jura.
Arbois (3901)
Authume (3902)
Bletterans (3903)
Champagnole (3904)
Dole-1 (3905)
Dole-2 (3906)
Lons-le-Saunier-1 (3907)
Lons-le-Saunier-2 (3908)
Moirans-en-Montagne (3909)
Mont-sous-Vaudrey (3910)
Morez (3911)
Poligny (3912)
Saint-Amour (3913)
Saint-Claude (3914)
Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux (3915)
Saint-Lupicin (3916)
Tavaux (3917)
Jura had a population, in 2014, of 260,681, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
The arrondissement of Lons-le-Saunier, with 126,071 inhabitants, is the arrondissement with more inhabitants.
Jura is a wine-growing region.
The Jura wines are very distinctive and unusual wines, such as vin jaune, which is made by a similar process to sherry.
It develops under a flor of yeast.
Tourism Information
Departments in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Fray is an eight-issue comic book series.
It is a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The series is written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon.
Fray tells the story of a Slayer named Melaka Fray.
She is the chosen one in a time where vampires (called "lurks") are common, and the difference between rich and poor people is even greater.
The series was published by Dark Horse Comics beginning in 2001.
In a short video promoting the charity Equality Now Joss Whedon said that "Fray is not done, Fray is coming back.
More than that, I will not say."
This was repeated in 2007's Comic Con where Joss said that he would "absolutely would be returning to that world."
The series was closely linked to the seventh season of Buffy.
It includes the Slayer's mystical scythe and her origins.
Melaka Fray also appears in the story "Tales" in the comic book Tales of the Slayers.
Melaka "Mel" Fray - A 19-year-old thief and Vampire Slayer.
Unlike other Slayers she has had no prophetic dreams of her destiny or of the Slayers before her.
She feels she is responsible for the death of her brother, and is now trying to figure out what is her destiny as the Slayer.
Urkonn - A demon who trains Mel as a Slayer instead of her actual Watcher.
In the end, he betrays her.
After defeating her brother, Mel discovers Urkonn's betrayal and kills him.
Loo - A mutated girl who is friends with Mel.
She is murdered by Urkonn to get Melaka to fight her brother.
Harth Fray - Mel's twin brother, who was attacked by a vampire during a theft with Mel.
To save his life, Harth drank the vampire's blood and became a vampire himself.
No other Slayer has had a twin.
Because he is the Slayers twin, Harth had the prophetic dreams and visions of past Slayers that Mel did not.
Erin Fray - Mel's older sister and a cop.
Erin blamed Mel for the death of their brother for a long time.
Icarus - The vampire that killed Harth four years ago.
He was killed by Erin right before the big battle.
Connections to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fray's scythe was used in the last three episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy Summers, also a vampire Slayer, found the scythe stuck in rock in Sunnydale.
The scythe was later used to create fully developed Slayers of the many Potential Slayers.
It has never been stated as to how the scythe travelled from Sunnydale, California to New York City through the centuries, or who had it during that time (or how they got it).
In Fray it is also explained that sometime in the twenty-first century, "a Slayer, possibly with some mystical allies, faced an apocalyptic army of demons.
And when it was done, they were gone.
All demons, all magicks, banished from this earthly dimension,".
The Slayer, whose fate is unknown, was the last to be called.
Discussing her connection to the Slayer line, Urkonn tells Melaka, "In your dreams, you're someone else.
A slave.
A princess.
A girl in school in a sunlit city."
The scar Fray has and her personality are similar to Buffy in the alternate universe created in season 3 episode "The Wish".
Article about the miniseries from Dark Horse Comics' official website
Joss Whedon's Fray  Unofficial Fansite
Melaka Fray at Wikia
Erik Satie (born Honfleur (France), 17 May 1866; died Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer.
He is mainly remembered today for the strange ways he behaved.
He often gave his music unusual titles such as Piece in the form of a pear.
His best known musical compositions are the three piano pieces which he called Gymnopédies.
The first of these pieces is a very famous piece of music: it is a simple tune over a gentle accompaniment.
Satie sometimes used unusual instruments such as sirens and typewriters.
Satie was more than just an unusual man.
He was very important in the development of music in France in the late 19th and early 20th century.
He was important because of the ideas he had, and many people were influenced by him.
Satie used ways of composing such as very chromatic music and Minimalism before many other people.
These ways of writing music became more common later in the century.
Satie was not a brilliant composer, but he was happy to compose well in a simple way.
He was also interested in other arts such as literature and painting and he was associated with the new ideas called esprit nouveau (new spirit) which was fashionable in France around the time of World War I.
He was born Alfred Eric Leslie Satie, but as a grown-up he always spelled his name “Erik”.
His father had been in the shipping business, but the family then moved to Paris.
He was still quite young when his mother died and he was sent back to his birthplace, Honfleur, to be brought up by his father’s parents.
However, his grandmother drowned, so he was sent back to Paris again where his father taught him.
His father had married again.
His new wife was a pianist and sent young Eric to have piano lessons at the Paris Conservatoire.
Satie hated his piano lessons.
His teacher said that he was the laziest pupil in the Conservatoire.
He was bad at sight-reading, but he continued with his lessons because this would make it possible for him to do just one year of military service instead of five.
In fact, he did less than a year in the army because he deliberately got himself ill with bronchitis.
While he was getting better he started to compose.
His father published a few songs he had written.
However, he did not get on well with his family and he left home in 1887.
The young Satie
Satie soon got to know many people in the famous cabaret Chat Noir.
He grew his hair long and wore a frock coat and a top hat.
He wrote a ballet which most people found shocking.
He became friends with Debussy who was one of the only people who understood the serious reasons for Satie’s unusual behaviour.
In 1890 he moved to new rooms on a top floor of a house so that people to whom he owed money could not get at him.
He tried to compose in a simple style and became interested in mystical religion and Gothic art.
He inherited a small amount of money with which he bought himself seven velvet suits which were all exactly the same: one for each day of the week.
He started a church called Église Métropolitaine d’Art de Jésus Conducteur (Metropolitan Church of Art of Conductor Jesus), but nobody belonged to the church except himself.
At the end of 1898 he moved to Arceuil, a suburb of Paris.
He stopped performing in public and earned money by playing the piano in cafés and pubs.
Every morning he walked the 10 kilometres into Paris, stopping on the way at cafés to drink or compose.
He wore a bowler hat, wing collar and always carried a rolled-up umbrella.
If it was raining he kept his umbrella underneath his coat to keep it dry.
He also carried a hammer in case anyone attacked him.
Late at night he walked home again or took the last train back.
His flat was a terrible mess.
In 1905, at the age of 39, he became a student again and studied music at the Schola Cantorum.
He wanted to become a better composer.
He learned how to write fugues.
He still liked to use parody in his music.
In 1911 Maurice Ravel played some of Satie’s piano pieces in public.
Suddenly people began to take notice of Satie.
They realized that he had been one of the first Impressionist composers.
Debussy conducted his Gymnopédies in his arrangement for orchestra.
Music critics started to write articles about Satie.
He was at last becoming famous.
He had some humorous piano pieces published.
He was earning some money from his compositions, so he was able to give up playing in cabarets.
He met Jean Cocteau who introduced him to Diaghilev for whom he wrote the music for Parade.
Some people loved it, some hated it, but people were taking notice of him.
He was asked to write more theatre music.
He was a very important influence on the six composers who were known as Les Six.
He was asked to write a symphonic drama which he called Socrate.
Many musicians think it is his best piece.
In the 1920s he wrote many articles for newspapers and journals and became associated with the art movement known as Dada.
His ballets Relâche and Mercure both shocked the audiences when they were first performed.
Relâche is an early example of what later became the theatre of alienation.
Satie drank a lot of alcohol and became ill.
He got cirrhosis of the liver and died in 1925.
When his friends entered his flat after he died, there was so much mess that they had to throw away two cartloads of rubbish before they could get at his papers and manuscripts.
Satie was involved with dance, theatre and cabaret for most of his life and that is what much of his music is written for.
He was always trying out new ideas in his music.
He was capable of writing in a late Romantic style with chromatic harmonies, but he also wrote in more modern styles, often using very simple ideas.
He was always more interested in beautiful melodies than in writing complicated rhythms.
His three Gymnopédies are still extremely popular.
They seem to come from an old-fashioned world where there is great simplicity.
His three Gnossiennes (1890) sound more Oriental, and Satie wrote some very strange remarks in the music.
His piano piece Vexations (1893) is a short piece with strange, chromatic chords, which the pianist is then supposed to play 840 times.
Uspud was an early example of what later became the “Theatre of the Absurd”.
The text was all written in lower-case letters: the first time this had ever been done.
He wrote many cabaret songs.
Later, after he had studied at the Schola Cantorum, he became famous, and then wrote lots of piano pieces with funny titles and strange comments (e.g. “like a nightingale with toothache”).
Parade has strange instruments such as typewriters.
Socrate was his most serious work.
After his death all the people he had insulted wrote about Satie that he was a bad composer.
As a result he was almost forgotten until the 1960s when John Cage became interested in his music and made it popular again.
Many Surrealist artists were often inspired by Satie’s music and ideas.
Particle size (general) provides general definitions of the particle size notion.
Particle size (grain size) provides specific details for particle size of soils, powders, gravel, etc.
Particle size distribution
Arachniodes is a genus of fern in family Dryopteridaceae.
It has the following species (but this list may not have all species):
Arachniodes squamulosa, R.C.Moran & B.Øllg.
Particle size, also called grain size, means the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks.
The term may also be used for other granular materials.
In some schemes "gravel" is anything larger than sand (>2.0 mm), and includes "granule", "pebble", "cobble", and "boulder" in the above table.
In this scheme, "pebble" covers the size range 4 to 64 mm (−2 to −6 φ).
W C Krumbein & L L Sloss, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, 2nd edition (Freeman, San Francisco, 1963).
J A Udden, Mechanical composition of clastic sediments, Bull.
25, 655-744 (1914).
C K Wentworth, A scale of grade and class terms for clastic sediments, J. Geology V. 30, 377-392 (1922).
Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of clay-sized particles of rock, generated by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size.
Because the material is very small, it is suspended in river water making the water appear cloudy.
If the river flows into a glacial lake, the lake may appear turquoise in color as a result.
Examples of this are Lake Louise, Canada and Gjende lake in Norway.
Agricultural use
Some agronomists believe that rock flour has a powerful effect in restoring trace minerals to soil.
An early experimeter was the German miller Julius Hensel, author of Bread from Stones, who reported successful results with steinmehl (stonemeal) in the 1890s.
His ideas were not taken up through technical limitations and, according to proponents of his method, opposition from the champions of conventional fertilisers.
On a Fad Diet of Rock Dust, How the Garden Does Grow Henry Homeyer, June 24, 2004, New York Times.
Remineralize the Earth - "non-profit organization incorporated to disseminate ideas and practice about soil remineralization".
Soil remineralization: a future market for aggregate industry fines , Robert J. Able, June 1995, Pit & Quarry.
Julius Hensel
Downloadable document on co-utilisation of mineral fines and composts
The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is the only species of North American marsupial.
It is sometimes called a possum, but that refers more correctly to a group of Australian marsupials.
An opossum is about the size of a house cat.
It has grizzled white and gray fur.
Adult opossums weigh about 2-6 kg (4-14 lbs).
They live alone, are active at night, and they are good climbers.
People can find this opossum in the eastern United States, and along the west coast from British Columbia and to Baja California.
They like to live in forests, brushy areas, and farmland.
A motor ship is a ship moved through water by an engine, usually a diesel engine.
The name of motor ships are often prefixed with MS or M/S.
Twenty-four is a number.
It comes between twenty-three and twenty-five, and is an even number.
It is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24.
24 is also the name of a popular television show in the United States.
Twenty-five is a number.
It comes between twenty-four and twenty-six, and is an odd number.
It is also the 5th square number, after 1, 4, 9, and 16.
Passo de Camaragibe is a municipality in Brazil.
It is on the northern coast of the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
About 13,544 people live there (2005).
Radlin is a town in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with about 17,673 people (2004).
Górnik Radlin - men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League (Polska Liga Siatkówki, PLS: Seria B in 2003/2004, Seria A in 2004/2005 season).
Larger objects are usually called stone, rock, a piece of something, etc.
The term particle indicates small size, usually less than centimeter.
Particle might be either solid, or liquid, or even gas.
Liquid particles are called droplets.
Gaseous particles are bubbles.
All of them can be characterised in terms of size.
Particle size of spherical object equals to its diameter.
But a typical material object is likely to be irregular in shape.
This causes ambiguity in definition of particle size.
Existing definitions are based on replacent of a given particle with imaginary sphere that has one of the properties identical with the particle.
Volume based particle size equals to the diameter of the sphere that has same volume as a given particle;
Weight based particle size equals to the diameter of the sphere that has same weight as a given particle;
Area based particle size equals to the diameter of the sphere that has the same surface area as a given particle;
Hydrodynamic particle size equals to the diameter of the sphere that has the same drag coefficient as a given particle;
Chichester is a small cathedral city in West Sussex, England, with a population of 23,731 (2001 Census).
It is quite near the sea, and near to a harbour for yachts.
Chartres, France
There are many buildings in the centre of Chichester which have interesting architecture.
The oldest building is Chichester Cathedral.
There are many beautiful houses in the Cathedral precincts.
In many parts of the city one can still see the old city walls, and it is possible to walk along the top in some places.
There is an old butter market dating from 1808.
A century later another storey was added on top.
Just to the north of Chichester is the Goodwood race course.
Many people go there in the summer to watch the horse races.
Goodwood is in the South Downs which is a beautiful area for walking.
Chichester is an old Roman town.
In the centre of Chichester are four main streets: North Street, South Street, East Street and West Street.
These four streets meet in the centre, where there is a small round building with a cross: the Chichester cross.
The four main streets form an area which is mostly pedestrianized.
Chichester Cathedral stands near the centre, between West Street and South Street.
Further to the north lies the area of Summersdale and the conservation area around Graylingwell Hospital.
South of Chichester is a canal which links the city to the sea.
Soon after it was built in the 19th century the railway came to Chichester so that the canal was not used for long.
The canal was left in a bad state for many years until, more recently, it was restored.
Some of it can be used by small boats, and there are reedbeds where birds can breed.
Chichester is a Fairtrade City.
Suppliers of Fairtrade are shown by a green dot in the web directory.
Because Chichester is so historic it has been divided into eight conservation areas.
People are very anxious that the town should not lose its historic character.
Every year in July, a three-week festival, the Chichester Festivities, takes place.
Then in August since 2007 there has been a week long I AM JOY Arts and Music festival held across different venues in the city.
The Chichester Festival Theatre has productions for most of the year.
It is one of the most famous theatres outside London.
Pallant House Gallery won the 2007 gallery of the year Gulbenkian Prize.
It has a lot of modern British art.
There is plenty of sport in Chichester.
Chichester R.F.C. are a central team and rugby club.
There is a large swimming pool with fitness rooms and sports hall.
There are tennis courts near the Festival Theatre.
Chichester has several schools, including Chichester High School for Boys, Chichester High School for Girls, Bishop Luffa School and Prebendal School which is linked to the Cathedral.
There is a University of Chichester which, until recently, was known as Bishop Otter College.
Several roads lead into Chichester.
The A27, which runs along the south coast, now bypasses the city.
There are rail links to London, Gatwick, Portsmouth, Southampton and Basingstoke.
Many years ago there was a small train which went to Midhurst, and even a tram to Selsey.
Nowadays busses go to these towns.
They depart from the central bus station near the railway station.
Chichester Web
Chichester Live Music
I AM JOY Arts Collective
The Joy Gallery
Pallant House Gallery
Settlements in West Sussex
Admontite is a mineral that is colorless in color and is made of crystals.
It is named for Admont, Austria, which is where they found the first example of it.
They found the first example of it in a gypsum deposit.
Gypsum and calcite both easily scratch this mineral, and it easily breaks as well.
Admontite is not radioactive.
Admontite is not edible.
Hydrology  is the study of movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the Earth.
A person who studies hydrology is called a hydrologist.
The central theme of hydrology is how the water circulates.
This is called the water cycle.
The most vivid illustration of it is the water evaporation from the ocean with the formation of clouds.
These clouds drift over the land and produce rain.
In geometry, a semicircle is a two-dimensional geometric shape that forms half of a circle.
Being half of a circle's 360° (360 degrees), the arc of a semicircle always measures 180°.
A triangle inscribed in a semicircle is always a right triangle.
Semicircle - Mathworld
Hurricane Camille was the third named storm and second hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season.
Camille was the second of three Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century, which it did near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the night of August 17, resulting in catastrophic damage.
The storm formed on August 14 and rapidly deepened.
It scraped the western edge of Cuba at Category 3 strength.
Camille strengthened further over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall with a pressure of 900 mbar (hPa), estimated sustained winds of 200;mph (305 km/h), and a peak storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m); by maximum sustained wind speeds, Camille was the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone recorded worldwide, and one of only four tropical cyclones worldwide ever to achieve wind speeds of 190 mph.
The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.42 billion (1969 USD, $9.14 billion 2005 USD) in damages.
Harrison County Library's Camille Page
Thirty Years After Hurricane Camille: Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost , Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Chantal Simonpietri, and Jennifer Oxelson, July 12, 1999.
"Roar Of The Heavens: Surving Hurricane Camille," Stefan Bechtel (Citadel Press, 2006)
Track of Camille's eye at landfall
Storm surge profile
Post-Storm Report on Camille
The story of Harbour Oaks Inn
Radar image of Camille
1960s in Cuba
20th century in Alabama
20th century in Mississippi
1960s in Louisiana
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was the strongest tropical cyclone during the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season.
The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it remains the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country.
After forming as a weak tropical storm east of the Bahamas on August 29, it slowly proceeded westward, became a hurricane on September 1, and underwent rapid intensification prior to striking the upper Florida Keys on September 2.
After landfall at its peak intensity, it continued northwest along the Florida west coast, and it weakened prior to landfall near Cedar Key on September 4.
The large and strong hurricane caused severe damage in the upper Florida Keys, and a storm surge about 18 to 20 feet affected the region.
The hurricane's strong winds destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and many World War I veteran workers were killed by the storm surge.
Portions of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad were severely damaged or destroyed.
In total, more than 400 people were killed.
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Excerpts from the Labor Day 1935 Hurricane Monthly Weather Review Article
Images of historic Florida Hurricanes (State Archives of Florida)
Florida Keys History Museum
Key West Memorial
Hurricanes history
Major Daniel C. Main killed in Hurricane
Monroe County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Florida Keys Memorial  at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
List of 56 victims
1935 in the United States
20th century in the Bahamas
20th century in Florida
20th century in Georgia (U.S. state)
20th century in South Carolina
1930s in North Carolina
20th century in Virginia
Vahan Hovhannesi Totovents (; September 1, 1889 - July 18, 1938) was an Armenian writer, poet and public activist.
Vahan Totovents was born in Mezire, Western Armenia (modern Turkey).
He studied in Armenia and Istanbul, then at Wisconsin University which he finished in 1915.
He was a volunteer in the Caucasian front during World War I, and served as the bodyguard and translator for the secretary of General Andranik Ozanian, about whom he wrote memoires and published them in 1920.
In Tbilisi Totovents edited the "Hayastan" paper, the official organ of Andranik.
Since 1922 he lived in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.
In 1938 he became a victim of Stalinism.
The works of Totovents were published from 1907.
He is the author of "Doctor Burbonian" (1918), "Death battalion" (1923), "New York" (1927), "Baku" (v. 1-3, 1930-34), "Jonathan, Son of Jeremiah" novels, stories and dramas.
He influenced to Armenian literature especially by his "Life on the Old Roman Road" autobiographical novel (1930, "A piece of sky" film by Henrik Malian) which "reflect the society, culture, and mores not only of the Armenians of his childhood but also of their neighbors in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire".
Vahan Totovents (1893-1938)  Présentation de ses mémoires sur le Général Antranik (in French)
Totovents at Amazon.com
Leonid Azkaldian was born on November 22, 1942, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.
In 1959, he graduated from Askanaz Mravyan school and in 1960, he was admitted into Physics Department of Moscow State University.
He later transferred and graduated with honors from the same department of Yerevan State University.
After graduation, he worked in many spheres in national economy of USSR.
Leonid Azkaldian was one of the creators of Karabakh movement and a military leader.
From February of 1990, he planned and organized the defense of several regions of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (a part of Azerbaijan).
In June, 1991, with Hovsep Hovsepyan co-founded and commanded the "Liberation army" military organization whose goal was to preserve the self-determination and defense of the local Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.
He was killed in 21 June, 1992 in the Tonashen village of Martakert region of occupied Nagorno-Karabakh.
After his death, he was awarded with the Order of the Combat Cross of the First Degree.
Central Time Zone Midwest minus OH, MI, most of Indiana (seasonal), and westernmost fringes of Plains states; plus South minus South Atlantic states, eastern KY, eastern TN, but western FL is included.
YPO Only 6 central states of the Midwest, plus KY
CERI  All of Midwest and South including MD, DE
NOAA Midwest minus OH, plus KY, CO, WY
HSUS  Midwest minus ND, SD, KS, plus KY
USGS  West North Central States, South Central United States, 4 eastern Mountain States
Adventure Camp Midwest plus South minus Atlantic states, AL, WV
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
The ICRC has a special job, based on the Geneva Conventions as well as other international law, to protect the victims of international and internal armed conflicts.
This includes people hurt in war, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants.
But the ICRC is a private organisation.
It is not controlled by any government, group of governments or international organisation
It is the oldest organisation within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and one of the most widely recognized organisations in the world.
It is also the most honoured.
The ICRC has won three Nobel Peace Prizes; in 1917, 1944, and 1963.
Swiss businessman Henry Dunant saw the Battle of Solferino, in the Austro-Sardinian War.
The battle only lasted one day, but about 40,000 soldiers on both sides were killed or were left severely hurt on the battlefield.
Dunant was shocked by the suffering of the wounded soldiers, and the lack of medical help.
He cancelled his trip to see Emperor Napoleon III and spent several days helping to treat and care for the wounded.
He wrote a book about what he saw, called A Memory of Solferino.
he published it with his own money in 1862, and sent copies of the book to leading political and military figures throughout Europe.
The book did not only describe what Dunant saw, but called for the setting up of national voluntary relief organisations to help nurse wounded soldiers in the case of war.
Dunant also called for international treaties to guarantee the neutrality and protection for the wounded and for medics and field hospitals.
The Geneva Society for Public Welfare set up a committee to try to organise an international conference about Dunant's idea.
The "Committee of the Five" met on 9 February 1863, the members were:
Henry Dunant;
Gustave Moynier, who was a lawyer and chairman of the Geneva Society for Public Welfare;
Louis Appia, a doctor who had worked as a military surgeon;
Théodore Maunoir, from the Geneva Hygiene and Health Commission; and
Guillaume Henri Dufour, a general of the Swiss Army.
31 people joined the committee at the conference: eighteen official delegates from national governments, six delegates from other non-governmental organisations, and seven non-official foreign delegates.
The official delegates came from:
National relief societies for wounded soldiers;
Neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers;
Volunteer forces for relief assistance on the battlefield;
More conferences to make these demands legally binding international treaties; and
The introduction of a protection symbol for medical personnel in the field.
They chose a white armband bearing a red cross.