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Similar monuments can be found at the military airfield Wietzenbruch near Celle and at Rhein-Main Air Base
Tegel was developed into west Berlin's principal airport, and by 2007 had been joined by a redeveloped Berlin-Schoenefeld in Brandenburg.
As a result of these two airports Tempelhof has been closed, whilst Gatow no longer serves as an airport and now hosts the Museum of the German Luftwaffe.
During the 1970s and 1980s Schoenefeld had had its own crossing points through the Berlin Wall for western citizens.
RAF Gatow
Gail Halvorsen (also known as "Uncle Wiggle Wings the Candy Bomber")
The Big Lift, a 1950 movie about the airlift from an American point of view.
Bob Clarke (Historian)
Robert E. Griffin and D. M. Giangreco, Airbridge to Berlin : The Berlin Crisis of 1948, Its Origins and Aftermath, Presidio Press, 1988.
Launius, Roger D. and Coy F. Cross II MAC and the Legacy of the Berlin Airlift.
Scott Air Force Base IL: Office of History, Military Airlift Command, 1989.
- A PBS site on the context and history of the Berlin Airlift.
Operation Plainfare
Luftbruecke: Allied Culture in the Heart of Berlin
Agreement to divide Berlin
Memorandum for the President: The Situation in Germany, July 23, 1948
Berlin Airlift: Logistics, Humanitarian Aid, and Strategic Success
Royal Engineers Museum  Royal Engineers and the Cold War (Berlin Airlift)
Spanish architects
Francisco Herrera (1576-1656) was a distinguished Spanish painter, born at Seville.
He was the founder of the Seville school.
1576 births
1656 deaths
The lancelets, or Cephalochordata, are a group of primitive chordates which were formerly called Amphioxus.
It includes Pikaia.
Lancelets are the modern survivors of an ancient chordate lineage, with a fossil record dating back to the Cambrian period.
The lancelets are usually said to be the sister group of the craniates.
They are a small group of about 30 species in two genera.
Lancelets are usually found buried in sand in shallow parts of temperate or tropical seas.
In Asia, they are harvested commercially as food for humans and domesticated animals.
They are an important object of study in zoology as they give indications about the origin of vertebrates.
Lancelets serve as an intriguing comparison point for tracing how vertebrates have evolved and adapted.
Although lancelets split from vertebrates more than 520 million years ago, their genomes hold clues about evolution, particularly how vertebrates have employed old genes for new functions.
They are regarded as similar to the archetypal vertebrate form.
The genome of the Florida lancelet (Branchiostoma floridae) has been sequenced. "
Most authors regard amphioxus as the closest relative of the Vertebrata on the basis of 10–15 [morphological] features that are not seen in tunicates".
Chordates
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)  for North America
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Regional Internet registry
Rhode Island Red, a breed of chicken
The Royal Irish Regiment
Life, and accusations of witchcraft
Göldin was born into a poor family and worked as a  servant.
Her first child died shortly after being born, and Göldin was accused (and sentenced) for killing it.
She later worked for a physician from Glarus, Jakob Tschudi, who was one of the richest and most influential people in the Canton of Glarus.
When she worked there, small needles were found in the milk for one of the daughters of Tschudi.
Additionally, Tschudi's relatives claimed that the daughter had spewn nails on several occasions.
For this reason, Göldin was accused of bewitching Tchudi's daughter.
Under torture, she confessed that she had used the powers of the Devil.
On 13 June 1782, she was sentenced to die by the sword, but the verdict did not mention witchcraft.
The execution followed soon afterwards.
After the execution, the paper trail was destroyed.
Despite these efforts, the case created an uproar in other parts of Switzerland and in Germany because the public saw Göldin as an innocent victim.
What may have happened
Walter Hauser, a journalist, looked at sources that were not known to date.
He thinks Göldin might have had an affair with her master, Johann Jakob Tschudin.
During this affair, he might possibly have raped her.
Adulterers were seen as unfit to hold a public office, at the time.
For this reason, Tschudi may have decided to do away with Göldi.
He initiated the trial for witchcraft, which ended in her execution.
Film about her life
Gertrud Pinkus made a film about Anna Göldin's life, in 1992.
It is called Anna Göldin - Letzte Hexe.
In it Cornelia Kempers plays Anna Göldin.
Was she a witch, after all?
In March 2007, both the government and the Church of Glarus refused to say Anna Göldin had been innocent, 225 years after her execution.
They said that in the minds of the people of Glarus, this rehabilitation had already taken place.
On 20th September 2007, the Swiss parliament decided that in Anna Göldin's case, justice was wrong.
Fritz Schiesser, as representative for Glarus in the Swiss parliament, called for Anna Göldin's exoneration.
A museum is  open in Glarus dedicated to her.
Looking for Anna Gödlin
What is the Neue Zürcher Zeitung today published a description on the 9th of February, 1782.
In it, the authorities of Glarus offered a reward to whoever captured Anna Göldin, and bring it to them:
„Löblicher Stand Glarus, evangelischer Religion, anerbietet sich hiermit demjenigen, welcher nachbeschriebene Anna Göldin entdecken, und der Justitz einbringen wird, Einhundert Kronenthaler Belohnung zu bezahlen; womit auch alle Hohe und Höhere Obrigkeiten und Dero nachgesezte Amtsleuth ersucht werden, zu Gefangennehmung dieser Person all mögliche Hülfe zu leisten; zumahlen solche in hier eine ungeheure That, vermittelst geheimer und fast unbegreiflicher Beibringung einer Menge Guffen [Nadeln] und anderen Gezeug gegen ein unschuldiges acht Jahr altes Kind verübet hat.
Anna Göldin, aus der Gemeind Sennwald, der Landvogthey hohen Sax und Forstek zugehörig, Zürchergebiets, ohngefähr 40.
Jahr alt, dicker und grosser Leibsstatur, vollkommnen und rothlechten Angesichts, schwarzer Haaren und Augbraunen, hat graue etwas ungesunde Augen, welche meistens rothlecht aussehen, ihr Anschauen ist niedergeschlagen, und redet ihre Sennwälder Aussprach, tragt eine modenfarbne Jüppen, eine blaue und eine gestrichelte Schos, darunter eine blaue Schlingen- oder Schnäbeli-Gestalt, ein Damastenen grauen Tschopen, weis castorin Strümpf, ein schwarze Kappen, darunter ein weisses Häubli, und tragt ein schwarzes Seidenbettli.
Datum, den 25.
Jenner St. v. 1782.
Kanzley Glarus evangelischer Religion.“
Most honorable estate of Glarus, of protestant (evangelical) religion will offer to pay 100 Kronenthaler as a reward to the person who discovers Anna Göldin, described below, and who delivers her to justice.
This is also a call to all the authorities to help capture this person in any way they can, especially since that person has done an uncanny deed, with the help of a great many secret needles against an innocent eight-year-old child.
Anna Göldin, from Sennwald, belonging to the county  of ... in the influence of Zürich, about 40 years old, of a big and fat corpulence, of a red complexion, black-haired,  of grey, sometimes uncanny eyes, she is depressing to look at, she has the dialect of Sennwald.
She is wearing a modic shirt, a skirt, a blue dotted skirt, ... a black and white cape, ...Dated: 25.1.1782References
(All sources are in German)
August Ludwig von Schlözer: Abermaliger JustizMord in der Schweiz.
In: Stats-Anzeigen.
Band 2.
Göttingen 1782.
Seiten 273–277
Kaspar Freuler: Anna Göldi, die Geschichte der letzten Hexe.
Büchergilde Gutenberg, Zürich 1945
Eveline Hasler: Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe.
Benziger, Zürich und Köln 1982 –  (Taschenbuchausgabe: dtv, München 1985 – )
Elisabeth Korrodi-Aebli: Auf den Spuren der letzten Hexe.
Lizenziatsarbeit.
Zürich 1996
Walter Hauser: Der Justizmord an Anna Göldi.
Neue Recherchen zum letzten Hexenprozess in Europa.''
Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2007 –
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (often shortened to NZZ) is a Swiss daily newspaper.
It is based in Zürich.
It is one of the oldest newspapers that is still published today.
It was first published (as Zürcher Zeitung) on January 12, 1780.
Politically, the paper holds liberal values.
Other newspapers which are still published, and have a similar age, are the Wiener Zeitung (published since 1703) and the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung (published since 1705).
Webpage of the Newspaper (mostly German, some content is also available in English.
Swiss newspapers
KOffice is a free office suite for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
All its components have been released under free software/open source licenses.
The latest version of KOffice is 1.6.3, which was released on June 7, 2007.
KOffice components
KOffice website
Senna candolleana or Golden Senna associates with Lithrea and Porlieria chilensis in Central Chile Matorral or forms pure stands.,.
Traditionally Senna, a genus including 250 species, was classified as Cassia.
Near 200 species appear in South America, fourteen of them in Chile .
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a telecommunications protocol used in computer networking
Atmosphere, a unit of pressure
Storm Gabrielle was a tropical storm that moved over eastern North Carolina before turning out to the sea.
It was the seventh named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
Gabrielle formed as a subtropical cyclone on September 8 about 385 miles (625 km) southeast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
Wind shear affected the storm for much of its existence, although a brief decrease in the shear allowed the system to strengthen into a tropical storm.
On September 9, Gabrielle made landfall on the coast of North Carolina.
Turning to the northeast, the storm quickly weakened and died out on September 11.
The storm dropped heavy rainfall near its actual landfall location but little precipitation in other areas.
Total damage was minor, and there were no reported deaths then.
A dying cold front moved off the coast of Georgia on September 2 and left behind clouds and showers that moved slowly east.
These began to organize, and by late on September 4, the
thunderstorms had gotten bigger east of the system's center.
On September 5, a Hurricane Hunters aircraft reported that the system had not yet become a tropical or subtropical cyclone.
A trough caused some wind shear, which stopped the storm from gaining  strength.
However, the area soon became better for the storm to strengthen.
The storm started to develop, about halfway between North Carolina and Bermuda.
The storm began to turn slowly toward the west-northwest.
On September 7, its center became slightly stronger.
On September 8, the storm was named Subtropical Storm Gabrielle by the National Hurricane Center.
At this time, Gabrielle was about 385 miles (625 km) southeast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
After becoming a subtropical cyclone, Gabrielle was in an area with cooler air to the north, dry air to the south and west, some wind shear, and cooler water temperatures along the storm's path.
These conditions made it so the storm could not strengthen much.
However, a curved line of thunderstorms formed in the storm's northern and western sections, and the circulation became better organized.
Later, the rainbands died out, leaving the center of the low pressure system far away from the area of thunderstorms.
To be a strong tropical cyclone, the center and the thunderstorms need to be located over each other.
Soon, the storm began to gain more strength, and it was renamed to Tropical Storm Gabrielle on September 7 while located about 185 miles (300 km) southeast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
Wind shear slowly went down as the storm passed over the Gulf Stream, allowing strong thunderstorms to quickly form near the center, and at about 15:45 UTC, Tropical Storm Gabrielle hit the coast of North Carolina.
It had winds possibly as strong as 60 mph (95 km/h) at time.
The storm turned to the north and north-northeast, and re-entered the ocean on September 10.
Gabrielle weakened to a tropical depression, and still kept scattered thunderstorms near it as it tracked along the northern part of the Gulf Stream.
By midday on September 11, Gabrielle died out to the south of Canada.
By early the next day, the remnants of Gabrielle were absorbed by another cold front.
Gabrielle became a subtropical ststorm came close to land, the storm watch for areas south of Cape Fear, North Carolina was taken away.
At the same time, a tropical storm warning was declared from Surf City, North CaGuard patrol boat was sent offshore for search and rescue.
Sailors were told to be very careful in the storm.
However, the storm passed well to the south with little effect.
rolina to the North Carolina – Virginia state border.
A tropical storm watch was also issued for parts of the Delmarva Peninsula and Chesapeake Bay.orm was expected to be minor, no evacuations were ordered.
On Ocracoke Island, boats were taken out to prepare for Gabrielle.
The threat of the storm made it so a fishing contest was canceled at Atlantic Beach.
At first, forecasters, or weather men, were not sure where Gabrielle would go.
They said it was possible for the storm to hit areas as far north as New York.
Big waves and rip currents were predicted, so the Coast Gorm.
Then, the National Hurricane Center sent out a tropical storm watch from Edisto Beach, South Carolina to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina, including the Pamlico Sound.
As the uard helped to prepare for the storm in the Northeastern United States.
On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a jet airplane flew along the coastline, giving storm advisories to offshore boats.
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Before the storm arrived, the National Park Service closed visitor centers and campgrounds along the Outer Banks.
For about 12 hours, the ferry between Hatteras and Ocracoke was closed down.
The governor of North Carolina put rescue teams on standby.
Some people were told to tighten down loose objects, and to stay inside when the storm passed over.
Because the tropical stt
Big waves from Gabrielle along the coast of Florida caused a surfer to drown.
Around 200 others had to be rescued from the rough seas.
People at New Smyrna Beach, Florida said waves reached .
By September 9, the outer rainbands of the cyclone began hitting southeastern North Carolina.
Constant high winds occurred along coast, reaching 44 miles per hour (71 km/h) at Frisco.
Wind gusts were sometimes stronger; a gust of 61 miles per hour (98 km/h) was recorded at Ocracoke.
Along the coast of North Carolina, waves were  high.
Rip currents caused many swimmers to be rescued by lifeguards.
There was not much rain from the storm in most areas, but near the storm's center, 9.03 inches (229 mm) of rain fell.
Where the most rain fell, some flooding formed.
This prevented farmers from harvesting their crops.
Much of North Carolina was considered to beft part of North Carolina Highway 12 on Hatteras Island closed for three hours because of flooding.
Other streets in Mores called "Gabrielle", it was the fourth time that the name was used for a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean.
The name was used previously in 1989, 1995, and 2001.
Because Tropical Storm Gabrielle was not bad, the name Gabrielle was not retired and was later used for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.head City and Beaufort were closed.
A few buildings in the area h in a drought, so people hoped Gabrielle would bring needed water.
However, in most locations, no rain occurred.
The storm lead minor damage from the flooding.
In Carteret County, the flood waters did $5,000 in damage.
Storm surge from Gabrielle was small, at just  above normal at Hatteras Island.
Overall damage in the state was minor and no people died.
When the storm wa
NHC's advisory archive on Tropical Storm Gabrielle.
A donkey vote is when someone puts numbers on an election ballot paper in the same order that the candidates are listed.
For example, if a ballot paper had J. Smith on the top line, M. Doe on the middle line and N. Citizen on the bottom line, and the voter put a 1 beside J. Smith, a 2 beside M. Doe and a 3 beside N. Citizen, that would be called a donkey vote.
Donkey votes are counted in election results because a person could have wanted to vote in that way, the votes are formal, a number is placed in all boxes.
Preferential voting
Marià José María Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó (June 11, 1838 - November 21, 1874), was a Spanish painter.
His brief career encompass both the Romantic fascination with orientalist themes, but also moved towards a prescient loosening brush-stroke and color.
He was born at Reus, a town near Taragon in the province of Catalonia in Spain.
His father died when he was an infant, his mother by age 12, thus Mariano was raised by his grandfather, a cabinetmaker, raised him.
His grandfather taught him to make wax figurines.
At the age of 9, at a public competition in his town a local patron, Domingo Soberano, encouraged further study.
At the age of 14 years he moved to Barcelona with his grandfather.
A sculptor, Domingo Talarn, secured him a pension of to allow him to attend the Academy of Barcelona.
There he studied for four years under Claudio Lorenzale, and in March of 1857 he gained a scholarship that entitled him to two years of studies in Rome starting in 1858.
There he studied drawing and grand manner styles.
In 1859, he was called by the Spanish government to depict the campaigns of the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859)|Spanish-Moroccan War.
The expedition lasted for only about six months, and he returned to Spain in the summer of 1860.
No Doubt was a third wave ska and alternative rock band from Anaheim, California, United States.
There are four members in the band currently: Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Adrian Young and Tom Dumont.
Eric Stefani and John Spence (now dead) were former members.
No Doubt was formed in 1986.
Their most successful album was Tragic Kingdom, which spawned many singles, including "Don't Speak", which was at number-one for sixteen weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay Chart.
The band is currently on an hiatus and performed their last shows in 2015.
Tony, Tom & Adrian has formed a band called "Dream Car" while Gwen Stefani continues to puruse he career as a soloartist.
No Doubt formed in 1986 in Anaheim, California, but with the name "Apple Core", and with members Gwen Stefani, her brother Eric Stefani, and their friend John Spence.
They played several concerts under that name.
During one of the concerts, Tony Kanal was there.
He was impressed with the band, and became their bassist.
He later began dating Gwen (which lasted for seven years.)
However, Spence committed suicide in December 1987.
The rest of the band was shocked, and broke up, but reformed a few weeks later because they thought that's what Spence would have wanted.
They soon got Tom Dumont as a new guitarist.
He was formerly in a band called Rising with his sister.
One year later, the band hired Adrian Young as a drummer.
When he joined, he said he had been playing the drums for five years, even though he had only been playing for two months.
The band released their first album, No Doubt, in 1992.
One single was released from it, "Trapped in a Box".
In 1995 they released their second album, The Beacon Street Collection.
It got better reviews than No Doubt and two singles were released from it.
On October 10, 1995 Tragic Kingdom was released.
It was their first album to chart, and it was very successful.
It has sold over sixteen million copies.
On April 11, 2000 Return of Saturn was released on Interscope.
Four singles were released from it.
The band's fifth album Rock Steady was released December 11, 2001.
On 25 November 2003 The Singles 1992-2003 was released.
No Doubt made a new song for it, a cover of "It's My Life" by Talk Talk.
It was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2005 Grammy Awards.
Everything in Time (B-sides, Rarities, Remixes) was released October 12 2004.
Between 2004 and 2008 the band's members did things separate from the band.
Singer Gwen Stefani released a solo album, Love.
In 2012 the band released their first studio album in over ten years, Push and Shove.
Two singles were released from the album, "Settle Down" and "Looking Hot".
1992 - No Doubt
1995 - The Beacon Street Collection
1995 - Tragic Kingdom
2000 - Return of Saturn
2001 - Rock Steady
2012 - Push and Shove
2003 - The Singles 1992-2003
2003 - Boom Box
2004 - Everything in Time
2010 - Icon
Live videos
1997 - Live in the Tragic Kingdom
2002 - Rock Steady Live
2004 - The Videos 1992-2003
Matchbox Twenty (or MB20, MBT, matchbox twenty, originally spelled Matchbox 20) is an alternative rock band from Orlando, Florida, United States.
The members of the band are Rob Thomas (vocals, piano), Kyle Cook (guitar), Brian Yale (bass), Paul Doucette (guitar) and Ryan MacMillian (drums).
Matt Beck is a live member, playing several instruments in their shows.
Adam Gaynor was formerly with the band.
He left it in 2005.
Their three studio albums have been popular worldwide, and they have sold more than 29 million copies.
They are Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season and More Than You Think You Are.
They released recently an album with new material and their biggest hits, called Exile on Mainstream.
Formation (1995)
Rob Thomas, Brian Yale, and Paul Doucette were part of the band Tabitha's Secret, which was based in Orlando, Florida, with fellow members Jay Stanley and John Goff, before splitting to start a new band (what was to become Matchbox Twenty).
After recruiting Adam Gaynor from Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and Kyle Cook from the Atlanta Institute of Music, the band named themselves Matchbox 20 and won a recording contract with Atlantic Records.
Yourself or Someone Like You (1996–2000)
Matchbox Twenty released their debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You, in 1996.
While their first single, "Long Day", was a rock radio-only success, the album soon spawned several Top 40 singles throughout 1997 and 1998, including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", and "Back 2 Good". "
Push" and "3 A.M." did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the rule in effect prior to 1998 that required a song to be released as a single in order to appear on the Hot 100. "
Real World" and "Back 2 Good" proved to be the band's first entries into the Billboard Hot 100, after the rule was terminated.
The album eventually sold more than 12 million copies in the U.S. alone, achieving a diamond certification.
In 1998, Matchbox Twenty recorded a live version of their single, "3 A.M." for release on the charity album Live in the X Lounge, benefiting United Cerebral Palsy research.
The band was sued by New Yorker Frank Torres for using his image without his permission on the cover of Yourself or Someone Like You.
Torres had been walking down the street when he was asked by a photographer to pose for a picture.
Before recording their second album, Rob Thomas collaborated with Itaal Shur on a song called "Smooth" for Carlos Santana's comeback album, Supernatural.
Thomas was supposed to act only as a songwriter for "Smooth", but Carlos Santana had him sing for it after hearing the song's demo. "
Smooth" was the album's lead single and became a hit in 1999.
Thomas won three Grammy Awards for writing and performing on "Smooth": Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Popular Music Collaboration with Vocals.
Mad Season (2000–02)
During 2000, Matchbox 20 renamed themselves to Matchbox Twenty and released their second album, Mad Season.
The album, on the strength of several successful singles, including "Bent" (which peaked No.
1 on the Hot 100 chart) and "If You're Gone", was certified 4x platinum in the United States.
The video for "Bent" made fun of singer Thomas' increased fame from "Smooth" by showing the other band members assaulting him.
The next two singles, "Mad Season" and "Last Beautiful Girl" were not as successful.
More Than You Think You Are (2002–03)
For their third album, More Than You Think You Are, the band revived more of a rock sound.
Thomas shared the songwriting efforts with the other band members on several songs.
The album again spawned successful singles "Disease" (written with Mick Jagger), "Unwell", and "Bright Lights".
The album was not as successful commercially as the previous two, and received mixed reviews from critics.
However, the album had an enormous radio presence for well over a year.
During 2003, the band released EP, consisting of six songs.
The EP had never before released live and acoustic versions of previously released songs like "Push" and "If You're Gone", as well as a new track, "Suffer Me".
In May 2004, the band released a live DVD, Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty, filmed in Atlanta and featuring 20 songs, including all of their previous successful singles.
First hiatus and Gaynor's departure (2004–07)
In February 2005, rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor officially left the group, which had been on hiatus to allow other members to pursue side projects.
Rob Thomas released a solo album, …Something to Be, which debuted at No.
1 on the Billboard 200.
The album featured four successful singles: "Lonely No More", "This Is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever the Same", and "Streetcorner Symphony".
In January 2007, Rob Thomas released a single, "Little Wonders", which he wrote for the Disney movie Meet the Robinsons.
Exile on Mainstream (2007–08)
The group reunited and began performing during 2007, with the release of their 'retrospective' album Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007. "
How Far We've Come" was the first single from the new album, which was followed by the second single, "These Hard Times". "
Exile on Mainstream" included four other new songs and a complete collection of all eleven of their previously released singles.
The album was also released in the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format, which included two video interviews discussing the six new songs and eleven greatest hits, plus extras including a photo gallery, U-MYX (to remix "How Far We've Come"), buddy icons and  wallpapers. "
How Far We've Come" was released on the band's MySpace page in July 2007, with the video released on September 6, 2007.
Matchbox Twenty toured during early 2008 with Alanis Morissette and opener Mutemath.
The band began their US tour on January 25, 2008, in Hollywood, FL, and concluded in Las Vegas, NV, on March 18, 2008 before heading to Australia and New Zealand, where the Australian band Thirsty Merc was the supporting act.
Following Australia, Matchbox Twenty visited the UK for the first time in five years to play six concerts in Cardiff, Wembley, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Matchbox Twenty performed at the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup award ceremony.
Second hiatus (2008–10)
When the band finished touring later during 2008, Rob Thomas began work on his second solo album, Cradlesong.
He stated in an interview to Billboard that he expected that the other members of the band might begin work on Matchbox Twenty's next album without him.
At the concert at Mohegan Sun Casino on December 18, 2009, Rob Thomas said that he was not frequently playing Matchbox Twenty songs at his 2009 tour stops because the band was planning to tour together in 2010.
Second return and North (2011–present)
At the Taste of Chicago on July 2, 2010, Thomas said that Matchbox Twenty would be recording in the fall for their fourth studio album.
On September 4, 2010, while on VH1's Top 20 Music Video Countdown, Thomas stated that Matchbox Twenty was planning to start working on their next studio album in mid-September and that he was 80% sure that the album would be released sometime in 2011.
Rob Thomas posted on Twitter that he was "heading out next week to start writing the new mb20 record" on September 13, 2010.
It was stated on Matchbox Twenty's web site that the next show they will do together is on January 1, 2011 in Oklahoma.
According to Paul Doucette, the new Matchbox Twenty album will likely be completed in the beginning of 2012.
He explained, "That's the same question I was asking.
We don't know -- the beginning of next year, we hope.
It's a real important record for us.
We haven't done anything in a long time.
The older we get, the more we realize and appreciate the good fortune we have to do what we do at this level.
Realistically, how many more times do we get?
So we're going to really make this record the one we want it to be."
Matchbox Twenty played a one-off live show in Temecula, California on July 9, 2011, but no new material was played.
During the show Rob Thomas stated the show was a "love letter to our fans."
North was released on September 4, 2012.
The album's first single, "She's So Mean," was released on June 12, 2012.
In 2012, the band embarked on a worldwide tour, the North Tour, to promote the album.
The tour continued as the 2013 Summer Tour, when they co-headlined with the Goo Goo Dolls.
Albany is a city on the south coast of Western Australia.
In 2006, there were 25,196 people living in Albany.
The city centre is in between two hills, Mount Melville and Mount Clarence.
Albany is built on King George Sound, named by Captain Vancouver in 1791.
Major Edmund Lockyer started the first settlement here on 21 January 1827.
The Governor of Western Australia, James Stirling, named the city Albany in 1832 after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the second son of King George III.
Kalgoorlie is a city in Western Australia.
It is 600 kilometres east of Perth.
It is the largest urban centre in the Goldfield-Esperance region, with an population of 30,000.
It was founded in the 1890s in response to the gold rush at the time.
Joondalup is a suburb and regional city in Perth, Western Australia.
It was established in the 1980s.
In 2001, the suburb had a population of 6,927.
The suburb was named after Lake Joondalup which is located on the eastern side of the suburb.
In relation to the other establishments in Perth, Joondalup is a relatively new settlement, as it was undeveloped until the 1960s.
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Mandurah is a city south of Perth, Western Australia.
It has a population of 65,000.
It is the fastest-growing regional city in Australia.
Mandurah connected with the new Mandurah railway line late in 2007 strengthening the transport connection with Perth.
The foreshore of the city is home to many marine animals.
Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia, behind Perth and Mandurah, with a population of 54,967.
It is 175 kilometres south of the Perth CBD.
It was founded in 1836.
Bunbury is connected to Perth via transport by the Transwa Australind passenger train.
Rockingham is a coastal suburb in the city of Perth, Western Australia.
It in 2006 it had a population of 13,000.
Esperance is a town in Western Australia.
Around 16,400 people live in Esperance.
Started in 1896, Esperance is found near the south-east coast of the state.
It is halfway between Albany, Western Australia and the South Australian border.
Esperance's main industries are tourism, fishing and agriculture.
The Mandurah railway line is a suburban railway line in Perth, Australia.
It was opened around Christmas in 2007.
The line is a major transport route in Perth, connecting with the four other main Transperth railway lines: Joondalup, Midland, Fremantle and Armadale.
Transperth is the brand of the public transport system in Perth, Western Australia.
Transperth was launched in 1986.
It supplies public bus, train and ferry services.
Train services run on five lines that spread over the Perth metropolitan area.
The lines are named Joondalup, Midland, Fremantle, Armadale, and Mandurah.
The Mandurah was opened late in 2007.
All trains are operated using electricity.
A new line to the Perth Airport via the Bayswater railway station is being constructed which is expected to be completed in mid-2021.
Bus services run throughout the metropolitan area.
A circular bus route is the CircleRoute
Ferry services operate across the Swan River between the Perth CBD and South Perth.
The ferry is popular for people to go to the zoo located in South Perth.
Passengers can take rides by buying cash tickets or using the ticket system known as SmartRider.
The Joondalup line is a major public transport railway line in Perth, Western Australia.
It runs through Perth's northern suburbs.
The line was established in 1992 where is extended north to Joondalup.
In 1993, it was extended to Currambine and farther extended in 2004 to Clarkson.
A new station was completed in 2005 at Greenwood.
The line will be later connected with the new Mandurah railway line late in 2007, allowing passengers to ride in the same train to Mandurah without changing at Perth station to transfer between trains.
The Armadale railway line is a major public transport route in Perth.
It runs through the metropolitan area's south-eastern suburbs, connecting between Perth and Armadale.
A spur line connects the Armadale after Cannington to Thornlie.
Silverchair was a rock band from Newcastle, Australia.
The band's members were Daniel Johns, Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies, and were only around 12 and 13 when they founded the band.
Silverchair is the only artist to score five number-one albums in the Australian Charts.
Their studio albums are Frogstomp, Freak Show, Neon Ballroom, Diorama and Young Modern.
The band has released many singles, their number-one singles being "Tomorrow", "Freak" and "Straight Lines".
Musical groups established in 1992
Musical groups from New South Wales
1992 establishments in Australia
Avet Terterian (from the Soviet Composers Web page)
Description of Symphonies 3 and 6, Review of Melodiya CD
"Colonel" Robert "Bob" Denard (April 7, 1929 in Bordeaux - October 14, 2007), also known as Gilbert Bourgeaud and Saïd Mustapha Mahdjoub, was a French mercenary.
He was one of the most famous mercenaries after World War II.
During his time in the French Navy Denard fought in Indochina and in Algeria, and spent some time in jail.
He subsequently served as a policeman in French Morocco.
Afterwards he became a mercenary and fought in African countries like Congo, Angola, Rhodesia, Gabon and especially in the Comoros.
He was married seven times and was the father of eight children.
He practiced polygamy after his conversion to Islam.
People from Bordeaux
Police officers
Eutheria was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880.
Members of Eutheria are now found on all continents and in all oceans.
The terms 'Eutheria and 'Placental' do not mean quite the same thing.
A few early eutherians in the Lower Cretaceous were not placentals.
Eomaia is the earliest example.
All living Eutherians are placental mammals.
This means that a Eutherian fetus is fed during gestation by a placenta.
The offspring of Eutherians are carried in the mother's uterus until fully developed.
Monotremes, for example, lay eggs which protect the young until they are fully developed.
Marsupials give birth to young who are not completely developed.
Their young then move to a special pouch in the mother's body to continue their development.
The earliest known eutherian species is the extinct Eomaia scansoria from the Lower Cretaceous in China.
Mammal for classification.
Tito Ernesto Beltrán (born July 1 1965) is a Chilean tenor.
Tito Beltrán was born in Punta Arenas, Chile.
Beltrán left Chile in 1986 to study in Sweden where he lived until he moved back to Chile in the early 2010s.
He has performed at many opera houses around the world.
He also performs at different scenes and TV-shows in Sweden.
Since February 2007 he has been performing at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
This is where he sings in the operas La Traviata and Tosca.
In October 2008, Beltrán was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for rape and sexual abuse.
He got conditional liberty in February 2010.
Tito Beltran Opera Singer  Official site
Tito Beltran - Nessun Dorma  BBC Review
Opera singers
Cetartiodactyla is the taxonomical superorder which includes whales (and dolphins) and even-toed ungulates.
The name was created by merging the name for the two orders, Cetacea and Artiodactyla, into a single word.
Cetartiodactyla is used because it is thought that whales evolved from the artiodactyls.
Because of this, their closest living land relative may be the hippopotamus.
Leonardo is a male given name.
Many people have this name.
The name is Germanic in origin.
It means "Strong as a lion."
Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian football player (b. 1969)
Leonardo Augusto Vieira Moreira, Brazilian football player (b. 1986)
Leonardo Cimino, American actor
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, scientist, mathemetician, inventor and sculptor.
Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathemetician.
Better known as Fibonacci.
Also known as Leonardo Pisano and Leonardo of Pisa.
Leonardo Ponzio, Argentine footballer
Leonardo Santiago, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983).
Commonly just referred to just as Leonardo.
Tetrapods (Greek tetrapoda = four feet) are vertebrate tetrapodomorph land animals.
The basic tetrapod plan is four legs and feet.
This kind of locomotion is quadrupedal.
Amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals are all tetrapods.
Even though snakes do not have limbs, they are tetrapods because they evolved from animals with four limbs.
The earliest tetrapods evolved from the Sarcopterygii, or lobe-finned fish, into air-breathing amphibians, perhaps in the Upper Devonian period.
This means the transition took place in fish, before the land was the main habitat.
This is typical of transitional fossils undergoing mosaic evolution.
Fishapods
These tracks are from the Middle Devonian of Poland, dated to nearly 400 million years ago.
The footprints were made in the mud of a tropical lagoon, and no animal of that time could have made the tracks except a tetrapod.
The find strongly suggests that the animals were fish, not amphibia, when the transition to limbs occurred.
The term fishapod is becoming used.
They would have been derived from lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii), but of a genus whose body fossil has not yet been found.
The Polish team suggest the fish > tetrapod transition might have taken place as early as the Lower Devonian.
The earliest tetrapods lived entirely in water.
They could not live on land.
Earlier, it was believed that fish had first moved onto land – either looking for food (like modern mudskippers) or to find water when the pond they lived in dried out.
It was believed that they later evolved legs, lungs, and other body parts to live better on land.
There is much to suggest that these are the kind of environments in which the tetrapods evolved.
Also, because fossils of early tetrapods are found widely in the Old Red Sandstone continent, they must have spread by following the coastal lines.
This means they could not have lived only in freshwater.
Still, they may have spent brief periods out of water and would have used their legs to paw their way through the mud.
The earliest confirmed terrestrial forms are known from the early Carboniferous deposits, some 20 million years later.
Tetrapods adapted to terrestrial environments over time and spent longer periods away from the water.
They also spent more of their juvenile stage on land before returning to the water for the rest of their life.
It is also possible that the adults started to spend some time on land  to bask in the sun, close to the water's edge.
The first true tetrapods that were adapted to moving on land were small.
Only later did they increase in size.
This, noted in the early 1950s by Alfred Romer, is Romer's gap.
The gap still hides details of the transition from fish to tetrapod, but not so much as before.
So far, only two fossil sites from the Tournasian (earliest Carboniferous) are known.
One is Horton Bluff Formation at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia.
Much of this material has not yet been scientifically described.
The only other place a Tournasian tetrapod was found is near Dumbarton in the West of Scotland.
The articulated (connected) skeleton of Pederpes was found there.
Now comes news of new finds from this formation in five places in the Scottish Borders.
The paper describes  five new Tournaisian tetrapods, with information about their habitat.
"Our analysis shows that the Tournaisian included a rich and diverse assemblage of taxa, which included close relatives of some Devonian forms on the tetrapod stem and basal members of the amphibian stem".
"Although an extinction event at the end of the Devonian saw the demise of many archaic fish groups, our studies provide new perspectives on the recovery and diversification of surviving groups that went on to found the basis of modern vertebrate diversity".
Apparently, the split between the amphibians and the amniotes came soon after the extinction event as the tetrapods began to recover. "
This accords with most molecular dates for the split, which place it at an average of 355  my ago, a date only 4 myr after the end-Devonian".
The cleidoic egg
Whereas amphibia lay their eggs in water, all other tetrapods (the amniotes) lay cleidoic eggs.
These eggs are like private little ponds, protecting and nourishing the embryo until it grows into a hatchling.
This was a key evolutionary 'invention', which allowed the amniotes to invade the land.
Once the amniotes were truly land animals, there followed a huge adaptive radiation.
This was one of the most significant advances in vertebrate evolution.
Stem tetrapods
Land-dwelling stem tetrapods
Descendants of fishapods which at first lived an amphibious life-style.
The amniotes and later amphibia are their descendants.
Features: able to support their body on land for long periods; had five fingers and toes (pentadactyl limb) in contrast to their fishapod ancestors.
Have not yet developed the characteristic features of the main tetrapod groups.
Stem tetrapods evolved into:
Amphibia > present-day Lissamphibia
Early fossils of stem tetraopds
Pederpes, an early Mississippian tetrapod, 359–345 million years ago (mya).
Westlothiana, from 350mya, either an early amniote or a sister group to the amniotes
Casineria, from 340 mya, a basal amniote.
Protoclepsydrops, from the middle Pennsylvanian, 314 mya, probable earliest synapsid
Hylonomus, from 312 mya, early anapsid sauropsid
Paleothyris, 312–304 mya, another early anapsid sauropsid
Archaeothyris, from 306 mya, an early synapsid
Petrolacosaurus, from 302 mya, the first diapsid sauropsid
The tetrapod clade
The tetrapod clade separated from fish in the Devonian.
The amniotes were the earliest to lay cleidoic eggs.
The Synapsids (> mammals) and the Sauropsids (> reptiles) are sister clades, and in particular, reptiles did not give rise to mammals.
Simple example cladogram.
Warm-bloodedness evolved somewhere in thesynapsid–mammal transition.
Warm-bloodedness must also have evolved at one of these points – an example of convergent evolution.
Living tetrapods
There are three main groups of living ("crown group") tetrapods.
Each group also includes many extinct groups:
Amphibia  frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians
Sauropsida  birds and modern reptiles
Synapsida  mammals
Snakes and other legless reptiles are tetrapods because they are evolved from ancestors who had four limbs.
This is also true for caecilians and aquatic mammals.
[[Image:Pederpes22small.jpg|thumb|200px|Pederpes finneyae]]
Class Sarcopterygii
Subclass Tetrapodomorpha
Eusthenopteron
Panderichthys
Superclass Tetrapoda
Class Amphibia
(Subclass Labyrinthodontia)
Subclass Lepospondyli
Subclass Temnospondyli
Subclass Lissamphibia  frogs, salamanders
Class Amniota
Class Sauropsida  Reptiles
Class Aves  Birds
Class Synapsida  Mammal-like reptiles
Class Mammalia  Mammals
Tetrapodomorpha: a cladistic account of the group
"Tetrapod"?
What is a tetrapod?
Tetrapod cladograms  - similar to genealogical family trees
Tetrapod environments of the Upper Devonian
A voivodeship, also spelled voivodship, voivodina or vojvodina (Romanian: voievodat, Polish: województwo, Serbian: vojvodina (војводина), vojvodstvo (војводство) or vojvodovina (војводовина), Hungarian: vajdaság, Lithuanian: vaivadija, Latin Palatinatus in Poland), is a geographical administrative division dating to medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a voivod (voivode, wojewoda).
The voivod (literal translation: "the one who leads the warriors", is the same as to Dux Exercituum / Herzog) was originally the military commander next to the ruler.
The President of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the president of Poland.
The president directly elected by the people to serve a term of five years.
He can be reelected only once.
His rights and responsibilities are determined by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
In agreement with the current Constitution, the President of the Republic of Poland is the head of state, the supreme representative of Poland and the guarantor of the continuity of government and is prevented from holding office for more than two consecutive terms.
This means that the President heads the executive authority, is appointed to represent Polish interests on the international arena, ensures the observance of the Constitution, and is responsible for the security of the state.
The President calls elections to the Sejm and the Polish Senate.
He has a right to dissolve the parliament when it fails to form a Council of Ministers or pass the budget act.
He can (with the Senate's consent) call a national referendum in matters important for the state, requiring the decision of all the citizens.
id:Presiden Polandia
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (; 4 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a Polish national hero, general and a leader of the Kościuszko Uprising (which bears his name) against the Russian Empire.
Tadeusz was born in February 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna, Polesie. (
courrently located in Belarus) He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army on the side of Washington.
Because of his service he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1783, and became a legitimate citizen of the United States that same year.
He died in Solothurn, Switzerland on October 15, 1817 due to a stroke.
Polish military people
Wesley "Wes" Archer (born November 26, 1961) is a television animation director.
He was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on The Simpsons' Tracey Ullman shorts and subsequently directed a number of Simpsons episodes before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill for many years.
Archer's college animation movie, "Jac Mac and Rad Boy, Go!"
has long been a cult classic after receiving repeated airplay on USA Network's Night Flight in the 1980s.
He studied at the movie Graphics/Experimental Animation Program at CalArts.
About Was Archer
David Silverman (born 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator and writer.
He is best known for directing many episodes of the animated television series The Simpsons, where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons Tracey Ullman shorts.
David Silverman 2007 Video interview with InterviewingHollywood.com
An interview with David Silverman
APB Speaker page info
The Simpsons Archive interview
Video interview, Treehouse Of Horror XVII
writers from New York City
Bill Kopp (born April 17, 1962 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American animator and voice actor.
He performed the "Whammy" on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck and the title character on Nelvana's Eek!
He was an animator for The Simpsons' shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show, but left after the first season.
He created The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show and Mad Jack the Pirate.
He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
Klasky-Csupo, Inc. (pronounced "Class-key Chew-po", although commonly mistaken as "Class-key Ka-zoo-po") is a multimedia entertainment production company.
It was founded in 1981 by the artist/producer Arlene Klasky and the animator Gábor Csupó in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Rugrats Movie - Friday, October 1, 1999
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Friday, June 19, 1998
The Wild Thornberrys Movie - Friday, December 20, 2002
The Klasky Csupo Home Page
K-C's Cooltoons Home Page
Global Tantrum (K-C Mature Animation)
Nickelodeon Wiki article