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At four-and-a-half years old he was left to live on the streets of northern Italy for the next four years, living in various orphanages and roving through towns with groups of other homeless children.
He almost died of hunger.
His mother had been freed from Dachau and began a year-long search for him.
She finally found him in a hospital bed in Reggio Emilia, ill with a fever and living one bowl of chicory coffee and bread crust each day.
She took him to Rome, where he had his first bath in six years.
In 1946 his uncle, Edward Ramberg, an American physicist at RCA, sent his mother money to return to the United States.
Mario and his mother moved to Pennsylvania to live at a cooperative community which had been started by his uncle.
In 1960 Capecchi came to MIT as a graduate student to study physics and mathematics, but he soon became interested in molecular biology.
He moved to Harvard to join the laboratory of James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the shape of DNA.
Capecchi received his PhD in biophysics in 1967 from Harvard University.
In 1973 he joined the faculty at the University of Utah.
Since 1988 Capecchi has also been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He has taught for Duke University's Program in Genetics and Genomics.
Knockout mice
Mario Capecchi is known for his work in gene targeting of the mouse embryonic stem cells.
This helped him and others study how genes work.
The work includes cloning and genetic changing.
The work on gene targeting and knockout mice won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies.
Dr. Capecchi has also pursued a systematic analysis of the mouse Hox gene family.
This gene family is controls embryonic development in all multicellular animals (metazoa).
Selected honours
1996 – Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
1996 – German Molecular Bioanalytics Prize
1997 – Franklin Medal for Advancing Our Knowledge of the Physical Sciences
1998 – Baxter Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
2000 – Italian Premio Phoenix-Anni Verdi for Genetics Research Award
2001 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, co-winner with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies.
2001 – Spanish Jiménez-Diáz Prize
2001 – Pioneers of Progress Award
2001 – National Medal of Science
2002 – John Scott Medal Award
2002 – Massry Prize
2003 – Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
2002/3 – Wolf Prize in Medicine
2005 – March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.
2007 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, co-winner with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute biography
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics biography
University of Utah biography
Interviews with Mario Capecchi from Dolan DNA Learning Center's DNA Interactive
Capecchi animation from Dolan DNA Learning Center's DNA from the Beginning
American geneticists
A wizard, magician, sorceror or sorceress is a fictional or mythical person who uses magic.
This ability to use magic may be due to innate ability, training, or both.
Wizards are often depicted as having a special connection to supernatural beings, such as gods or fairies, or as such supernatural beings themselves.
Wizards have been portrayed as both evil and good.
Dumbledore (from the Harry Potter series) and Gandalf (from Tolkien's Middle Earth) are fictional examples of "good" wizards.
Voldemort and Saruman are corresponding examples of "evil" wizards.
Wizards are often depicted as old men with long, flowing beards, and wearing a large-brimmed hat, a thick cloak and holding a staff.
This may be due to descriptions of Odin the Wanderer, a god from Norse mythology who often disguised himself thus, in order to pass through the lands of men unnoticed.
Wizards, when they are named thus, are almost always portrayed as male, but some fictional or mythical female characters seem to play the same role, sometimes as a foil character to a male wizard or other character.
Notable examples include Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legends, and Circe from Greek mythology.
Nowadays, the term "wizard" is also used for someone whose accomplishments are due to unusual skill or creativity.
Thomas Edison, the noted American inventor, was nicknamed "the Wizard of Menlo Park."
Kaunas, also known by several other names, is the second biggest city in Lithuania and used to be a temporary capital.
Kaunas is found at the point where the two biggest Lithuanian rivers, the Nemunas and the Neris, meet.
It is also near the Kaunas Lagoon, the largest body of water in Lithuania.
In 1361, Kaunas was first mentioned in annals of the Teutonic Knights.
The knights were preparing to attack Kaunas Castle.
Warp drive (also called warp technology) is hypothetical technology created in science fiction.
It is a way of moving objects faster than the speed of light.
There are many examples of how this idea is used.
A well-known one is found in the Star Trek universe, where faster-than-light travel is needed to tell the story.
Current technology does not allow anything or anyone to go at, or faster than, the speed of light.
Unless the current theories are proven wrong, this will always be true.
However, warp technology as a fictional idea has been an interesting way of shaping the story line to let spaceships move at speeds greater than 186,000 miles per second (speed of light through a vacuum - the known limit of speed in the universe).
Warp technology, as the name implies, 'warps space' in effect bringing a destination closer by bending space rather than the traditional 'thruster' means of propelling a spacecraft at high speeds.
Warp technology allows ships to move at warp speed.
In the Star Trek universe, for example, the measurement of the speed that the spaceship is moving is called the warp factor.
However, thrusters and impulse power propel spaceships at sub-light speed.
Warp factor 1 is equal to the speed of light.
The speed ranges up to warp factor 9.99.
In some circumstances Star Trek spaceships can go faster than warp 10, although rare.
Most of that is pure science fiction, and no solid evidence has been produced of a true "warp drive" on a large scale.
In the field of Quantum Mechanics physicists have produced tiny wormholes, but they don't warp space time in the same way the "warp drive" concept does, rather they connect two separate points of spacetime through quantum entanglement.
Also, there seems to be a lack of clarity as to what a warp drive is because some argue with a warp drive we would travel at incredible speeds, however if the concept is to warp gravity and "fold" it in on itself then it's not speed that's traveled but rather distance that was removed.
He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, then part of Denmark but later part of Germany, and later studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss.
He spoke many languages and spent time in Italy and Ottoman Turkey before going to the United States in 1854.
He was involved in litigation in 1889 with his old assistant Charles A. Borst, and the "Great Star-Catalog Case" Peters v. Borst went before the Supreme Court of New York.
Peters died not long after the trial end.
After his death, the judgement was ultimately reversed on appeal and a new trial was ordered, but it never took place.
Soest (pronounced ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It is the capital of the Soest district.
Soest is along the Hellweg road, about 50 kilometres east of Dortmund and about 50 kilometres west of Paderborn.
Neighbouring places
Bad Sassendorf
Ense
Lippetal
Möhnesee
Welver
Due to the fertile soil the area around Soest was used long before 836 when the village is first mentioned in the Dagobertsche Schenkung, although the origin of this document is historically unknown.
But there is no doubt that Soest has been lived in for a long time; excavations in the last two decades have uncovered signs of people living in Soest more than 4000 years ago.
In the 11th and 12th century Soest grew a lot, making it one of the biggest cities in Westphalia with some 10,000 citizens.
It was also an important member of the Hanseatic League until 1609.
A self-confident Soest from 1444 to 1449 freed itself from the Bishop of Cologne, who controlled Westphalia (the so-called Soester Fehde).
Being no longer capital of Westphalia, the city aligned itself with the Duke of Cleves.
This was a Pyrrhic victory, however; the city had shown itself strong enough to defy the powerful Archbishop of Cologne, but lost much of its trade: the "freed" town was two-thirds surrounded by territories with other rulers.
When the last Duke of Cleves died in 1609 that dukedom was taken by Brandenburg and after a short siege Soest was added into it.
During and after the Thirty Years' War, Soest lossed a lot of people and influence; at the lowest point in 1756 it had only 3,600 citizens.
With the start of the Soest district in 1817 its influence slowly rose.
However, the industrialization of the Ruhr area did not reach Soest, which continued to be a small city.
From about 1953 to 1971 there was a big garrison of Canadian soldiers and their families stationed at Soest (with the Canadian camps just east of the city in Bad Sassendorf) as well as Werl and Hemer-Iserlohn and Deilinghofen to the south west.
There were also many Belgian Kasernes in Soest itself.
From 1971-1993 the old Canadian properties, such as the Married Quarters along Hiddingser Weg, south of the B-1, were used by British military and families.
Upon the closing out of Belgian and British army facilities many of these military facilities either became used for civilian purposes or were not used again/destroyed.
The old Married Quarters area was changed to civilian housing.
The old CANEX (formerly MLS) (the Canadian Army's food and clothing store for dependent families) was changed to a NAAFI under the British and was finally demolished in 2006.
St Patroclus's Cathedral
The Cathedral is a beautiful example of early medieval "Romanesque" architecture fashioned from the local greenish sandstone.
Its big squared bell tower or steeple can be seen for many kilometers, rising up out of the city centre of the old city and a landmark of the Soester Boerde.
The coat of arms shows a key, which is the symbol for Saint Peter, the patron of Cologne.
The coat was not changed even after Soest no longer fell within the jurisdiction of Cologne.
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Guérard, Seine-et-Marne, France
Herzberg, Brandenburg, Germany
Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands
Sárospatak, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary
Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
Strzelce Opolskie, Opole Voivodeship, Poland
Visby, Gotland, Sweden
Articles about "Aldegrever and the Protestant Reformation in Soest" / virtual exhibition "Iconoclastic Controversy and sensual pleasure - Heinrich Aldegrever"  with introductory texts and about 170 commented copperplate engravings
Soest Rural District
The history of Europe means all the time since the beginning of written records in the European continent up to the present day.
It is traditionally divided into ancient (before the fall of the Western Roman Empire) medieval, and modern (after the fall of Constantinople).
Europe's antiquity dates from the Minoan civilization, the Myceneans and later on Homer's Iliad in Ancient Greece of around 700 BC.
The Roman Republic was established in 509 BC, which was usurped by Octavian's new Roman Empire at its first century BC peak.
The Christian religion was adopted in the fourth century, and in the sixth was organized, within the Empire, by Emperor Justinian I (527–565) with five most important cities: Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire was followed by a decline of Western Europe.
The Byzantine Empire survived in the East.
A new schism within the church's authority in 1054 was added to the earlier division that had persisted since 451.
It was followed by Crusades from west to rescue the Holy Land from Muslim invasion.
Feudal society began to break down, as the Black Death spread.
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 showed the military weakness of the Christians in Eastern Europe.
It is often used as a starting point for modern history.
Western Christians completed the Reconquista and discovered a New World in 1492.
Europe awoke from the medieval period through rediscovery of classical learning, much of which had been kept alive in the Muslim world while the Western church had rejected much of it as paganry.
The Renaissance was followed by the Protestant Reformation, as priest Martin Luther attacked Papal authority.
The Thirty Years War, the Treaty of Westphalia and the Glorious Revolution prepared for expansion and enlightenment.
The Industrial Revolution, beginning in Great Britain, allowed masses of people, not just the rich, to escape for the first time from lives of being always poor and barely able to afford either food or shelter.
The early British Empire split as its colonies in America revolted to establish their own representative government.
Political change in continental Europe was spurred by the French Revolution, as people cried out for liberté, egalité, fraternité (liberty, equality, brotherhood).
The French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, conquered and reformed the social structure of the continent through war up to 1815, when he met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and was sent away into exile.
As more and more small property holders were granted the vote, especially in France and the UK, socialist and trade union activity developed and revolution gripped Europe in 1848.
After the Franco-Prussian War, Italy and Germany were formed, each from groups of smaller countries which spoke the same languages, in 1870 and 1871.
Conflict intensified across the globe, in a chase for empires, where powerful countries turned less powerful ones into colonies, until the outbreak, in 1914, of the biggest war that had ever been fought up to that point in time.
It was called the Great War but now most often called World War I or the First World War.
In the desperation of war, the Russian Revolution promised the people "peace, bread and land" and led to the end of the Russian Empire and its replacement by the formation of the Soviet Union.
The defeat of Germany came at the price of economic destruction, which was formally written into the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 where it was stated that the First World War had been entirely the fault of Germany and its allies and demanded that they pay back the entire amount the war had cost.
The Great Depression began in 1929, brought about in part by the economic problems caused by the attempt to force Germany to pay for the war and in part by trade restrictions.
Millions of people around the world lost their jobs.
Governments changed in many countries, some by elections and some by revolutions.
The governments soon fell into two main groups, those who believed in freedom and human rights and those who followed fascism.
These two deeply different views led to a Second World War, which most people who write history feel began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but soon spread to most of the countries in the world.
It took in wars which were already happening in other places, most notably the war between Japan and China.
After this war Socialism spread to Central and Eastern Europe, including the relatively new Eastern European countries of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and in Asia North Vietnam and North Korea, and, slightly later, to Cuba in the Carribean Sea very near to North America.
The conflict between the advocates of a capitalist and a socialist economy and political system led to the Cold War, a forty-year argument between the United States and the Soviet Union, two of the countries which had worked together to win the Second World War and the two which had come out of it with the most powerful military forces.
They led respectively a Western Bloc and an Eastern Bloc, dividing Europe.
Each side wanted to promote their type of government.
People across the world feared a nuclear war because of the tension, and Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was assumed to be a probable battleground.
Communism became less attractive when it became clear that it could promote economic growth less effectively than the capitalistic Western states and that it was not suited for a reform that allowed freedom of speech for everyone.
Therefore, the Soviet Union forced Hungary to give up its reform in 1956, it favoured the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and it stopped reform in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
When in 1988/89 the Soviet leader Gorbachev made clear that he would not force the countries of the East block to stick to Communism the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed (1991).
Europe: A History, by Norman Davies, published by Pimlico,
Illustrated History of Europe", by Frederic Delouche, published by Henry Holt & Co
European History, by various authors, online book on Wikibooks
Maps of Europe at Wikimedia
An Atlas of European History at Wikimedia
Official sports and disciplines
The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of peace treaties, the Treaty of Osnabrück and the Treaty of Münster, signed on May 15 and October 24 of 1648, which ended both the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
The treaties involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III Habsburg, the other German princes, Spain, France, Sweden and representatives of the Dutch Republic.
The Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed in 1659, ending the war between France and Spain, is also often considered part of the overall accord.
The peace negotiations were held in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, which lie about 50 km apart from each other, in the present day German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
Sweden had favoured Osnabrück due to its Protestant background, France chose Münster due to its Catholic background.
In any case two locations were required because Protestant and Catholic leaders refused to meet each other.
The Catholics used Münster, while the Protestants used Osnabrück.
The power which Ferdinand III had taken for himself against the  Holy Roman Empire's constitution was stripped.
That  meant that the rulers of the German states were again able to determine the religion of their lands.
All parties would now recognize the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, by which each prince would have the right to determine the religion of his own state, the options being Catholicism, Lutheranism, and now Calvinism.
Christians living in principalities where their denomination was not the established church were guaranteed the right to practice their faith in public during allotted hours and in private at their will.
Treaty Text
Treaty Text (Yale University)
Texts of the Westphalian Treaties
High Resolution Map of Germany after the Treaty of Westphalia
Peace Treaty of Osnabrück (Full Text)
Peace Treaty of Münster (Full Text)
Treaties
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Flanimals is a children's and adults' book written by comedian Ricky Gervais.
The book was illustrated by Rob Steen.
It has 35 different characters described as species of animal which form an imaginary world.
Pictures from the book in the BBC website
Flanimals on Ricky Gervais's site
Flanimals on Rob Steen's site
Faber and Faber  - UK publisher of all the 'Flanimals' books
Flanimals on MySpace
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus which runs on electricity.
It gets its power for the electric motors that drive the wheels from a pair of power lines above the street.
On the roof of the bus are two "trolley poles" from which electric current flows between the wires and the bus.
One wire is for the positive current and the other is for the negative (return) current.
Because trolleybuses do not usually have engines which burn diesel or other fossil fuels, they are much cleaner and quieter than "normal" buses.
They also do not use tracks, so they are more flexible than trams.
But as these buses often cannot run without power from the wires, their range is still limited compared to ordinary buses.
Trolleybuses cost more money to make than other types of buses, so there are not many companies that build this type of bus.
Some of these companies are:
VanHool
Škoda Electric
Van Hool is a Belgian company, which builds buses.
It was founded in 1947 by Bernard Van Hool.
They have got 15 different buses for the city.
9 of them have got a normal engine, 4 have got an engine that works with gas, and 2 buses have got an electric engine, they are called Trolleybus.
A 308
A 320
A 300
A 360
A 330
AG 300
AG 500
AGG 300
A 300 CNG (gas engine)
A 320 CNG (gas engine)
A 330 CNG (gas engine)
AG 300 CNG (gas engine)
A 300 T (Trolleybus)
AG 300 T (Trolleybus)
913 CL
915 CL
915 TL
T 911 Alicron
T 915 Alicron
T 915 Acron
T 917 Acron
T 917 Astron
T 916 Altano
T 917 Altano
T 918 Altano
TD 924 Astromega
TD 927 Astromega
Website of VanHool
Transport companies of Europe
Bus transport
Companies of Belgium
The Battle of Antietam was an important battle in the American Civil War.
It is also called the Battle of Sharpsburg by South historians.
The battle was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
It was also considered the bloodiest battle in the Civil war.
It was the first major battle in the Civil War that took place in the border states.
Both sides hoped a big victory for their side would make a short war.
About 22,720 soldiers were killed, wounded or were missing at Antietam.
There has never been another single-day battle in the history of the United States with so many American casualties.
However, there have been other battles that lasted for more than one day where more Americans fell.
For example, the later Battle of Gettysburg lasted three days and had an estimated 51,000 American casualties.
During the summer of 1862, the hopes of the North that the rebellion could be easily crushed were quickly fading.
In July, Major General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign to capture the Southern capital at Richmond, Virginia failed.
Near the end of August, the Second Battle of Bull Run was another Confederate victory.
The Union armies retreated back to Washington, D.C. only a few miles away.
In Tennessee and other western states, Confederate offensives were succeeding.
This was causing poor morale in the Union army.
After defeating the Union Army of Virginia at Bull Run, Lee led his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland beginning his Maryland Campaign.
He had several reasons for attacking the North.
First, it was harvest time in the Shenandoah Valley and Lee needed to turn the Union's attention away from his main sources of food for his army.
Secondly, he needed European support for the Confederacy.
A major win in the North could get the support they needed and also cause the border state of Maryland to secede.
It would demoralize the North and possibly get them to negotiate.
Lee thought the Union army needed time to rebuild and resupply and moving quickly he could  catch them unprepared.
In a bold move Lee divided his Army of Northern Virginia into five smaller armies or columns.
Three he sent with General "Stonewall" Jackson to attack and hold Harpers Ferry.
This way Jackson could control the Shenandoah Valley.
He sent his largest corps commanded by Lieutenant General James Longstreet to move towards Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Lee wrote Special Order 191 on September 9, which outlined each move by all his columns.
In a strange twist of fate, a copy of the order was wrapped around a bundle of cigars and dropped in a field on Best Farm.
Union soldiers of the 27th Indiana Regiment found the bundle with the order.
It was sent to General McClellan.
McClellan had remained in command of the Army of the Potomac even though he had failed to support Major General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
When Lee entered Maryland, in a rare exception to his usual slowness, McClellan moved more quickly to cut him off.
Having knowledge of Lee's plans gave McClellan an opportunity to destroy Lee's army while it was still weakened by Jackson's being sent to Harper's Ferry.
McClellan learned of Lee's plan on September 13.
He boasted "Here is a paper with which if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home."
He also sent a telegram to President Lincoln where he wrote, "I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch them in their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency."
But McClellan waited another 18 hours before acting.
This delay allowed Lee more time to collect all the elements of his army.
As Lee had moved into Maryland, he left detachments to guard two of the passes through South Mountain, Crampton's Gap and Turner's Gap.
These were the two most important routes through the 50-mile long South Mountain.
Had McClellan moved a little faster, he would have caught Lee's army scattered on the other side of the mountain.
At Frederick, Maryland the Union army caught up with Lee and the fighting began on South Mountain.
It was a natural formation that separated the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys from eastern Maryland.
Several battles were fought that day over possession of South Mountain.
The Confederates were driven back with a large number of casualties.
McClellan could have destroyed Lee's army but he again waited, giving Lee the time to regroup.
Three days later the two armies, led by Lee and McClellan, met again on September 17, 1862, between Antietam Creek and the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland.
The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, was not only the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, it was the single bloodiest day in American history.
The Confederate troops took up defensive positions behind Antietam Creek.
At this point, McClellan decided to attack.
At dawn on September 17, Union soldiers led by Major General Joseph Hooker attacked Lee's troops from their left.
As the two armies fought each other, the fighting spread across a local cornfield and around the Dunker Church.
The Union troops kept attacking the Confederates at the Sunken Road.
They were able to break through the center of the Confederate lines.
Late that afternoon, more Union soldiers, led by Major General Ambrose Burnside, came into the fight.
They captured a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and moved towards the Confederate troops' right side.
But as Burnside's soldiers attacked, more Confederate soldiers arrived.
Confederate Major General A.P. Hill had led his division of soldiers from Harpers Ferry to Antietam.
Once Hill's division arrived, they were able to counterattack (fight back against Burnside's soldiers).
This was a surprise to the Union troops, and the surprise worked well.
The Confederate troops drove Burnside's soldiers back and ended the battle.
Even though he had more soldiers, McClellan was not able to destroy Lee's army.
Lee was able to shift his troops to meet each of McClellan's attacks.
McClellan also did not call up his many reserve forces (soldiers on standby) which could have helped build on the Union's successes.
The next day both armies collected their wounded and buried their dead soldiers.
Then Lee withdrew his army back to Virginia.
McClellan did not go after Lee which frustrated President Lincoln.
Militarily the battle was a draw.
But because Lee's forces retreated from Maryland, Lincoln claimed victory.
He used the occasion to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam Staff ride guide, Center of Military History, United States Army.
Animated History of The Battle of Antietam
Lincoln and Lee at Antietam
Antietam National Battlefield Park
Antietam on the Web
USS Antietam
History of Antietam National Cemetery :including a descriptive list of all the loyal soldiers buried therein {published 1869}
Brotherswar.com The Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat article by Ted Alexander
1862 in the United States
19th century in Maryland
Haripur, Pakistan - main town in Haripur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Haripur District  - district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Haripur, Bardhaman- town in Asansol subdivision of Bardhaman District of West Bengal, India
is a 2001 anime movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
It was first released in Japan.
The movie was a success, and went on to win an Academy Award for animation.
Based on 153 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, it is the second-best animated movie, having a 97% rating on the site.
The movie occupies the rank of #60 on the IMDb Top 250 Movies list as of December 2008.
The Anime Critic gave it a 4 and 1/2 out of five stars.
Chihiro Ogino and her parents are trapped in a spirit world, when they arrive.
Chihiro meets a young apprentice named Haku, who tells him that she  must return to the human world.
Chihiro meets Yubaba, the owner of the bathhouse and Haku's master.
Yubaba allows Chihiro to stay by having her sign a contract, causing her name to change into Sen. After days of working and solving past memories, Chihiro returns to the normal world, after her parents reverted into humans.
Original soundtrack listing
Image album track listing
by Umi (3:54)
by Joe Hisaishi (4:25)
by Shizuru Otaka (3:55)
by Tsunehiko Kamijō (3:56)
by Joe Hisaishi (3:20)
by Monsieur Kamayatsu (3:41)
by Rieko Suzuki and Hiroshi Kondo (3:49)
by Joe Hisaishi (3:22)
by Rikki (3:33)
Spirited Away at Metacritic
Spirited Away at Rotten Tomatoes
Spirited Away at SparkNotes
Spirited Away at the Japanese Movie Database
Movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an Academy Award-winning English actress; she is also a fashion model.
She became famous after her roles in the Hollywood movies The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and has since continued appearing in major movie roles.
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300.
It was then known as the langue d'oïl.
This was different from the langue d'oc (Occitan language, also then called Provençal), whose territory bordered that of Old French to the south.
Deborah Sampson was a woman who dressed as a man, so that she could join the American soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
The Revolutionary War was a war between Great Britain and the thirteen original colonies.
Deborah Sampson came from a poor family.
She worked as an indentured servant from the age of eight to the age of eighteen.
She worked for no pay for a family, but that family let her study with and spend time with their sons.
Sampson wanted to serve in the war against the British, but the American Army would only take men.
She dressed as a man, and she got into the Continental Army.
She went by the name of Robert Shurtleff.
She later got married.
She worked as a teacher.
She also spoke in public about her experiences in the war.
During her time in war she went to extremes to keep her identity a secret.
She once got slashed in the head by an enemy, yet bandaged it up herself.
She also got shot in the leg twice.
But, in order to not let people find out who she was, she pulled the bullets out of her own leg.
In war, she collapsed from fever.
She went to the hospital because of it and this is where her peers and boss found out about her being a woman.
In books
Alma Bond and Lucy Freeman, America's First Woman Warrior: The Courage of Deborah Sampson
Susan Casey, “Women Heroes of the Revolution"
Samuel Willard Crompton, “Deborah Sampson"
Ann McGovern and Katherine Thompson, The Secret Soldier: The Story Of Deborah Sampson
Groundskeeper Willie is a fictional character in the long-running cartoon show The Simpsons.
Role in The Simpsons
Willie works at Springfield Elementary as the head janitor or groundskeeper.
He is portrayed as an angry Scotsman.
He shows some hate towards Principal Skinner and Bart Simpson.
He lives in a shack in the grounds of Springfield Elementary.
In philosophy, dialectic is an argument or debate between different people.
In Medieval Europe, dialectics (or logic) was one of the three beginning liberal arts all together known as the trivium; the other members were rhetorics and grammar.
The goal of the dialectical process (dialectic or dialectics) is to try to resolve the disagreement through rational talk, and the search for the truth in the matter.
1: Everything is made out of opposing forces/opposing sides.
2: Gradual changes lead to turning points, where one force overcomes the other.
3: Change moves in spirals not circles.
Hans Luther (10 March 1879 – 11 May 1962) was a German politician.
He was a Chancellor of Germany.
a law of July 1925 extended workmen's compensation coverage to all accidents from and to places of work, and vocational care was introduced that same month.
In addition, a decree of May 1925 established compensation for occupational diseases.<ref>
Luther was born in Berlin and started in politics by becoming a town councillor in Magdeburg.
From 1918 to 1922 he was mayor of Essen.
From January 1925 to May 1926 he was Chancellor.
During a brief period he was also acting President.
A crossover is a term in music.
It is when a piece of music appears on music charts for different types of music.
For example, a song might be on music charts for both pop music and country music.
A crossover (CUV) is a marketing term for a vehicle that is built on a car platform.
The term was first used in 1996 by Toyota for its new RAV4.
CUVs mix some of the features of SUVs and station wagons or hatchbacks.
They frequently use unibody construction typical of many cars.
A crossover usually uses a light-duty all-wheel drive.
Unlike SUVs (which are usually four-wheel drive), crossovers are generally capable of only light off-road use.
Examples of crossovers include Ford Explorer and Hyundai Santa Fe.
Crossovers have begun to replace minivans (a market that has been dwindling in the U.S. since 2005), as well as compact and mid-sized SUVs.
CUVs are often lighter than SUVs and therefore offer better fuel efficiency.
CUVs are lower to the ground than SUVs, are safer, and have better road handling.
CUVs are generally cheaper to produce.
SUV vs. Crossover: What?s the Difference?
Here Come the Crossovers
Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church.
Important members of the Catholic Church met in Trento three times between 13 December 1545 and 4 December 1563, in reaction to the  Protestant Reformation.
The council often could not meet when they wanted to, and sometimes could not meet at all, because of resistance from the popes and revolt against the emperor.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor wanted the council to meet, and Pope Paul III summoned the council in 1537, but the plans fell through.
In 1538, ideas for a council again failed.
The pope asked for the council to meet in 1542, but it did not actually meet until 1545.
The council was not active between 1547 and 1551.
It again met from 1551 to 1552, when it was suspended due to a revolt against the emperor.
Pope Paul IV (1555-59) strongly disliked Protestant ideas and the council could not start again until his succesor took office.
The council met for the last time from 1562-63.
The Council of Trent was part of the Counter-Reformation.
It would be over 300 years until the next Ecumenical Council.
Pope Paul III saw that the Protestant Reformation was getting bigger.
Before, a small number of priests were part of the reformation, but soon many princes, particularly in Germany, supported its ideas.
Therefore, Pope Paul III desired a council.
But the council could not meet until 1545 and met right before Martin Luther's death.
The council was moved to Bologna in March 1547 with the excuse of avoiding a plague; without any plans to meet again, 17 September 1549.
The council was reopened at Trento, 1 May 1551, by Pope Julius III (1550–55); broken up 1552, recalled by Pope Pius IV (1559–65) for the last time, 18 January  1562, when it continued until 4 December 1563.
Objects and general results
To stop the ideas and practice of Protestantism and to support the Catholic Church's ideas.
To change the parts of the church and actions of church leaders that damaged or hurt the Catholic Church's ideas and image.
The church's interpretation of the Bible was final.
Any Christian who did not agree with the interpretation was a heretic.
Also, the Bible and Church Tradition had equal authority.
The relationship of faith and works in salvation was defined, following disagreements over Martin Luther's doctrine of "justification by faith alone".
Catholic practices such as pilgrimages, the veneration of saints and relics, especially the Virgin Mary were strongly reaffirmed.
The selling and buying of false indulgences were banned.
The doctrinal decisions of the council are divided into decrees (decreta), which contain the positive statement of the conciliar dogmas, and into short canons (canones), which condemn the differing Protestant views with the concluding "anathema sit" ("let him be anathema").
List of dogmatic decrees
A Catholic View of the Council from the Catholic Encyclopedia
The text of the Council of Trent translated by J. Waterworth, 1848
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"Du gamla, du fria" (pron. [
dʉː ˈɡâmːla dʉː ˈfrîːa] "doo GAHM-lah doo FREE-ah"; en. '
Thou ancient, thou free'), originally titled "Sång till Norden" ('Song to the North'), is the Swedish title and incipit of a 19th-century patriotic song which serves as the de facto national anthem of Sweden – it is therefore unofficial.
The lyrics (words) were written by Swedish jurist and antiquarian Richard Dybeck in 1844, and its melody is based on a traditional folk tune which was later rearranged by Swedish composer and librarian Edvin Kallstenius nearly a century later.
Listen to this song
The Gospel of Matthew is a book of the Bible. (
Its full name is the Gospel According to Matthew, but it is often called the Gospel of Matthew or just Matthew).
It is one of the four gospels of the New Testament that tell the story of Jesus' life and teachings.
It is not thought to have been written by the apostle Matthew, who was one of Jesus' twelve apostles (see below).
The Gospel of Matthew is called one of the synoptic gospels because it has some of the same stories and language as the Gospels of Mark and Luke.
Matthew wrote the gospel mainly for the Jewish people, to show them that Jesus is really the Messiah.
Like the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Matthew tells many stories about Jesus' life.
Matthew's gospel also talks about Jewish scripture.
Early Christian tradition attributes the gospel to the apostle Matthew.
This is now rejected by modern scholars.
The Gospel of Mark is a book of the Bible.
It is the second book of the New Testament and comes after the Gospel of Matthew even though it may have been written before it.
The writer is believed to have been John Mark, a friend of Simon Peter, who was one of the Twelve apostles of Jesus.
The four gospels tell the story of the life of Jesus.
The word "gospel" means "good news".
The Gospel of Mark moves quickly, and the story shows how much Jesus worked during his short 3-year ministry.
Mark's gospel tells many things about Jesus which are also found in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke.
Matthew, Mark and Luke are called "Synoptic gospels" for this reason.
Most scholars date Mark AD 65-75.
It is thought to be the first of the gospels to be written.
Mark's gospel may have been written with Gentiles in mind.
It gives the meaning of some of Jesus' words in Greek that would have been known to Jews but not to other people.
Mark's leaves out many details in the other gospels, such as the stories about the birth of Jesus.
He includes many stories of Jesus doing miracles, more than any other Bible writer.
In telling about the arrest of Jesus to be crucified, the book mentions a young man who was almost caught by the guards, but who slipped out of his robe and got away.
Some think this young man was Mark himself, since there is no other reason to include such a small detail.
If it was Mark, means that Mark was a follower of Jesus who probably saw him crucified and come back to life after three days.
The last chapter of Mark has some verses after verse 8 that may not have been part of the original gospel, as they are missing is some early hand written copies of the book.
However, they give further information about what Jesus said after his resurrection.
These sayings  are similar to what the other gospels record.
The Gospel of Luke is a book of the Bible.
Like the other gospels, the Gospel of Luke tells the stories of the life and teachings of Jesus.
It is the third and longest book of the New Testament and comes after the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark.
The gospel is believed to be written by Luke, who was a friend of the Apostle Paul.
Luke was a doctor.
He wrote his gospel for a man he calls 'most excellent Theophilus' (1:3).
Luke wrote another book which is fifth in the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles which tells what Jesus' disciples did after his rise back to Heaven.
Unlike the gospel writers Matthew, Mark and John, Luke was probably not Jewish but was Greek.
He wrote the gospel mainly for non-Jewish people, (who were called Gentile by the Jews).
Luke wrote to prove that Jesus is the Son of God.
Luke's gospel contains many similar stories of Jesus.
He tells more about the Virgin birth of Jesus than the other gospel writers.
The Gospel of John is a book of the Bible.
It is one of the four "gospels" at the beginning of the New Testament.
The four gospels tell the life of Jesus.
The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament, after the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
In the gospel, it is says that the book was written by "the disciple whom Jesus loved".
It is believed that John the Apostle, the son of Zebedee, wrote the gospel.
He was probably the youngest of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.
John lived a long life and was imprisoned on the Island of Patmos in his old age.
He also wrote the last book of the New Testament, called the "Book of Revelation".
The Gospel of John tells many of the stories of Jesus' life that are in the other three gospels, but also contains a lot of different information.
The Gospel begins by calling Jesus "the Word" (the Communication of God).
It says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."
In John's Gospel, the writer shows that Jesus was part of God, who came to live among humanity so that they could "hear His voice" and have the power to become true "children of God".
According to the gospel, the accounts are written so that the reader "may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name". (
TNIV; John 20:31)
The book follows a pattern.
There are seven "signs" leading up to the raising from the dead of Lazarus (this anticipates the resurrection of Jesus), and seven "I am" sayings and discussions, leading up to Thomas saying that the risen Jesus is "my Lord and my God"
The phrase "born again" comes from the third chapter, and was the title of a book by Chuck Colson who was a lawyer for President Nixon but after being in jail became a prison reformer.
The phrase was used later for any person who had a dramatic change in their life.
Chapter 3, verse 16 is perhaps the best known verse in the entire New Testament.
"For God loved the world so much that He gave his only son (Jesus), so that whoever believed in Him, would not die but live forever".
This verse was searched on the internet by millions of people after Tim Tebow, an American football player wrote "Jn 3:16" on his face in an important football game.
Rotaru now lives in Ukraine.
She has made many albums over the years; some of the more famous ones are Ballade About Violins, Lavender (Lavanda), and I Still Love You.
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Soviet singers
The Epistle to the Romans or Letter to the Romans, is one of the letters written by the Apostle Paul to churches in different cities.
Here, the letter is addressed to the early church in Rome, Italy.
Paul wrote the letter to the Romans to explain a very important point in Christianity.
He proves, by quoting the Old Testament, that all humankind is guilty of sin before God.
People whom God calls righteous can only do so by trusting in God's ways, and not by their own effort.
Only by believing in Jesus, who is the Christ and who died for humanity for their sins, can people be saved.
Once this belief is had, the believer receives the Holy Spirit, who helps the believer live a new life.
Paul asks the Romans to observe Christian ethics and submit themselves to authorities.
Moe Szyslak is a fictional character on the long running TV show The Simpsons.
His voice is performed by Hank Azaria.
He is the bartender of Moe's Tavern.
He speaks with a rough voice.
Moe is the owner and only worker at Moe's Tavern.
On some occasions he has had temporary help.
The most notable of these occasions being in "Homer the Moe".
His two most loyal customers are Barney Gumble and Homer Simpson.
The Moe Szyslak File  at The Simpsons Archive
Paul wrote to the Corinthian church for a number of reasons.
He realizes the church at Corinth is divided and explains that although himself and a few disciples had helped start the church, the church was really headed by Christ Jesus Himself.
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow." (
TNIV)
He gives instructions for marriage, against worshipping worthless idols (idolatry), for spiritual gifts like prophecy.
Paul praises the superior way of love and urges the church to be united.
At the end, Paul states that the resurrection of Christ is true.
He supports it with testimonies from "more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters" and it is this very truth which makes certain the believers will have eternal life.
The Epistle to the Hebrews or Letter to the Hebrews is one of the letters of the New Testament.
Although it is believed by many to be written by the Apostle Paul, many others think it might have been written by one group of early Christians to a general group of Jews (also called Hebrews), or to a church with Jewish members.
The letter explains that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the perfect sacrifice for human sinners.
He is superior to angels and is our High priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus is the Messiah whose coming gives us the superior New Covenant, as compared to the Old Covenant of Abraham and
The writers state that if the Old Covenant was faultless, God would not have sent his Son to start a new one.
Alan is the son of the late Taiwanese stuntman-actor Blackie Ke.
For his father, he wrote two songs, each in one of his albums in the same number of track.
Wake Up and I Miss You, these two songs shows his relationship with his father, how much his father had changed him.
Before actually starting to receive the chance to release his first album he went through a lot of hard work.
First of all, he started from a guitar, up to writing songs and lyrics.
When he first entered Alpha Music, Jay Chou told him that he should know how to write his own songs, so that people would want to listen to his music, influenced by this Alan began writing his own songs.
Secondly, he wrote more than hundreds of songs just to make the world hear his voice.
For this purpose, Alan Kuo’s music director requires him to edit and edit his songs, every year, every month, every week, and every day.
He kept on working on his songs for perfection.
Finally, he edited his songs and made new songs in the 6 years of preparation, just for the best 12 songs for all the people anticipating for his music.
In the meantime, during the 6 years of hard work for his first album, his courage was being challenged, his father died of an accident, but it did not stop him.
In fact he continued going after his first album, trying to show us how hard he worked and especially to show his father in heaven.
As a result, on 8/19/2005, Alan Kuo’s first album came out with 12 songs that rocked the listeners, the music that shows you the 6 years of hard work and effort he gave on his music, Alan Kuo.
In 2007, Alan changed his Chinese name from 柯有倫 to 柯有綸.
It still has the same pronunciation though.
K.O 3an Guo
The Legend Of Wisely
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C-rock is short for Chinese rock music.
C-rock ( or ; literally "Chinese shaking and rolling music") can be performed in any dialect of Chinese language.
Some people consider C-rock a subgenre of C-pop.
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The first clear sign of Chinese rock was the 西北风 Xi Bei Feng (literally Northwest Wind).