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The Bulls are a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
They were named the Bulls in reference to the Chicago Union Stockyards, which was once a major business in Chicago.
The current head coach is Billy Donovan.
Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls from 1984 until 1993 and from 1995 until 1998, leading the team to six NBA championships.
In the 21st Century, Derrick Rose was the star of the Bulls until his injuries prevented him to play.
Barry Bonds (born July 24, 1964, in Riverside, California) is an American Major League Baseball player.
Barry Bonds was a left fielder for the Pirates (1986-1992) and Giants (1993-2007)He holds the Major League Baseball career home run record with 762 home runs.
He is not signed with any team and is currently not playing baseball.
He played his debut on May 30, 1986, for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Baseball players from California
Pittsburgh Pirates players
San Francisco Giants players
William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a retired American basketball player.
Russell played for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He won 11 championships; 11 is the most anyone has ever won in American basketball history.
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII is a third-person shooter roleplaying video game.
It is a sequel to Final Fantasy VII.
Three years after the what happened in Final Fantasy VII, a group of powerful SOLDIERs that nobody had seen before appear, stopping the peace enjoyed by the people of world.
The members of this mysterious group are the ones who were trapped under the ruins of Midgar for three years- the Deepground SOLDIERs.
The Deepground SOLDIERs want to call forth the final WEAPON, Omega, before it is supposed to be.
But to do that, the DGS need Vincent Valentine to lead the way to Omega.
Vincent Valentine is chased by many members of the mysterious group.
An chain of events leads Vincent to the truth about his past and forces him to be the leader again in a battle for the planet itself and all those living in it.
Reeve Tuesti, who used to be the Head of Urban Development at Shinra (and the remote controller of Cait Sith), is now the leader of the World Regenesis Organization, which looks after the planet and stops people from hurting it any more.
Yuffie Kisaragi is another member of the organization, and several other characters from the original game provide the World Regenesis Organization with more help.
The game begins with a Full Motion Video showing the attack on the town of Kalm by Deepground soldiers.
Vincent stops the attack, but encounters Azul and Shelke.
Azul and Shelke are members of the Tsviets, Deepground's elite force of supersoldiers.
A diving suit is a type of protective clothing worn by scuba divers when they swim underwater in oceans, lakes, and rivers.
Diving suits help insulate the diver from the cold temperature of the water.
There are several types of diving suits, including wetsuits and dry suits.
A kilt is a ceremonial article of clothing worn in Scotland.
It is made of a thick, woven fabric with a tartan (checkered) pattern.
It resembles a pleated skirt except that it is worn by men.
It is still worn during ceremonies by some Scottish and Canadian military units and by people who play the bagpipes (a Scottish wind instrument).
It is also quite commonly worn by men at weddings.
A straitjacket is a type of clothing used to restrain patients in mental health hospitals and psychiatric wards of hospitals.
A straitjacket has straps that restrain a person's arms and hands.
Hospitals put straitjackets on people who have mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or paranoia, to keep them from hurting themselves, other patients, or hospital staff.
A spacesuit is the specialised covering of protective clothing worn by astronauts when they travel into outer space occasional cases such as extravehicular activity (EVA) or into the upper atmosphere.
Spacesuits are completely sealed, so that an astronaut can survive in the harsh, cold, and airless environment of space.
Spacesuits have their own heating and cooling systems and a radio communication system.
Spacesuits also provide a supply of fresh air for the astronauts to breathe and create a normal atmospheric pressure.
Spacesuits cover the entire body, and they have gloves for the hands and a helmet for the head, including a clear visor for the face.
Astronauts wear spacesuits when they fly in the space shuttle, rockets, or space stations.
For Extravehicular activity they wear a heavier, more complex kind of spacesuit.
Parts of Space suit
Weasels are the genus Mustela, part of the Mustelidae family.
The genus includes the weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets and minks.
Weasels are small, active predators, long and slender with short legs.
Their body shape is adapted to going down burrows after prey such as rabbits.
There are 17 species, and they live all over the world except for Antarctica and Australasia.
Weasels vary in length from 173 to 217 mm (6.8 to 8.5 in).
They have red or brown upper coats, white underneath.
Their tails may be from 34 to 52 mm (1.3 to 2.0 in) long.
Biologically, despite looking a bit like cats, they are actually more related to  dogs.
Weasel riding on woodpecker.
A passport is a travel document that says that the person who owns it is a citizen of the country on the passport.
A passport asks that the person carrying it be allowed to enter and pass through other countries.
They also allow a person to re-enter their country.
Passports are given by national governments.
Passports usually have a person's picture, signature, date of birth, nationality and country of birth.
Many countries are now issuing passports with biometric properties.
This helps confirm that the person carrying a passport is the real owner.
These countries have passports that use biometrics: Malaysia, Australia, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Singapore, Thailand, India and the Republic of Korea .Many more countries are switching over to biometric passports because it can easily confirm the authenticity of the holder's identity.
Passports are used so a stamp can be placed in it to prove that the identity of the holder has been confirmed with the immigration officials in the country of travel.
In 1920, the International Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets made a law that said passports must be issued in French and at least one other language.
Now, many countries issue passports in English and the language(s) of the issuing country.
Lloyd, Martin (2003).
The Passport: The History of Man's Most Travelled Document.
Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. .
Salter, Mark B. (2003). "
Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations."
Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Torpey, John (2000). "
The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State."
The University of Nottingham is a university in the city of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom.
It has four different sites in the United Kingdom.
It also has a site in China and a site in Malaysia.
It was named the 'University of the Year' in 2006 by the London newspaper, The Times.
The University of Nottingham is ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 100 universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education - Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings.
Nottingham University is the fifth largest university in the UK.
It is a member of:
the Russell Group,
Universitas 21,
the Association of Commonwealth Universities,
and the European University Association.
University of Nottingham website
1798 establishments
18th-century establishments in England
Metastasis is what happens when cancer spreads from its original place to another part of the body.
Cancer cells spread from the original site to other places in the body by traveling through the bloodstream.
When the cancer cells stick to a new place in the body, they grow and form another tumor there.
Metastasis makes cures more difficult, or in many cases impossible.
The dingo (plural: dingoes or dingos) is a mammal found in Australia and South-East Asia.
Dingos are similar to domestic dogs.
Dingoes were brought to Australia from South-East Asia about 4000 years ago.
They are not found in Tasmania as the sea levels cut the island off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago.
Most dingos in the wild are no longer purebreed dingos.
Their scientific name, Canis lupus (wolf) dingo, changed recently from Canis familiaris (dog) dingo.
This was to show it is related to the white footed wolf which lives in Asia.
Dingoes are usually between 117 cm to 124 cm in length.
Their tail is about 30 cm in length.
They usually weigh between 10 kg and 20 kg.
The colour of their fur is usually yellow-ginger, but can sometimes include tan, black, white or sandy colours.
They live for about 14 years.
Dingos live in packs of between 3 and 12, but they can be seen alone as well.
The leaders are the alpha male and the alpha female and are usually the only pair to breed.
Young dingos are called "cubs".
The breeding season is in March and April.
After a gestation of 63 days, the adult females usually give birth to 4-5 cubs in a litter.
Mothers will regurgitate food for the cubs to eat.
They become independent of their mother after four to eight months of age.
Dingos are carnivores and eat other animals such as kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, rabbits, rodents, lizards, sheep, calves, poultry and carrion.
It believed to have hunted several animal species to extinction including some species of bandicoots and rat kangaroos.
They often hunt in packs.
Managing dingos
While some people keep dingos as pets, they are regarded as a pest by farmers.
They are controlled by trapping, shooting, poisoning (with Sodium monofluoroacetate), and fences.
The dingo fence which runs through South Australia, and then along the New South Wales border through to central Queensland is the world's longest fence.
Dingos are protected in national parks and reserves.
It is illegal to have a dingo as a pet in South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania.
In Victoria and the Northern Territory you have to have a special permit to keep a dingo.
The dingo can be a dangerous animal and have attacked people at times.
On April 30, 2001, a nine-year-old boy was attacked and killed on Fraser Island by a dingo.
A dingo is believed to have killed a baby, Azaria Chamberlain, at Uluru in August, 1980.
This became a world famous case when her mother was sent to jail for murdering the baby.
She was later found innocent and released.
Evil Angels, a book about Azaria by John Bryson, was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep.
Mammals of Australia
The Silk Road was a group of trade routes that went across Asia to the Mediterranean Sea.
This let China trade with the Middle East and the Mediterranean world.
It was called the Silk Road because silk was traded along it.
At the time, silk was only made in China, and it was a valuable material.
The Silk Road not only earned China a lot of money, but all along the route cities prospered and markets flourished.
Cities like Samarkand and Bukhara were built largely on the trade from the silk route.
Trade on the Silk Road played a big part in the growth of the ancient cultures of China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, and Rome, and helped to make the beginning of today's world.
The term Silk Road is English for the German word "Seidenstraße".
The first person who called it that was a German geographer in 1877.
General trading
Of course, many other things were also traded, even ideas.
Because the traders came from many places, different ideas were brought to China, and China's ideas were taken to other places.
Some of the other things traded were porcelain and other types of pottery, food, wine, and spices.
Chess pieces from northern India were brought to China and Persia.
Paper arrived in the west from China.
Metals and jewels were certainly transported, and very likely slaves also.
Probably no trader went the whole way along.
Goods would be traded on at every stopping-point.
Deals might be needed to get past difficult places.
The Silk Road first traveled west from northern China.
Then the part of the Silk Road on land split into two branches.
One branch went north of the Tibetan Plateau, and the other branch went south of it.
After the two parts rejoined, it went in an almost straight line west through mountains via Tabriz in north Iran and the north tip of the Syrian Desert to the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine).
From there Mediterranean trading ships took routes to Italy, and land routes went north through Byzantine Empire or south to North Africa.
The sea route was also called the "Silk Road".
It ran from South China, to the Philippines, Brunei, Siam, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, and Iran.
In Europe it went between Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Balkans, and Italy.
Past the Mediterranean Sea, it continued to Portugal and Sweden.
Asian trades
The Buddhist religion and the Greco-Buddhist culture started to move east on the Silk Road, reaching China from around the second century BC.
Trading also helped make many arts and crafts, brought different religions, and food to China.
Chinese people helped build the Silk Road.
They bought and sold with other people, and built up their culture.
The Silk Road brought other cultures into Central Asia and China.
It also helped the rise of the Mongol Empire, the largest land empire ever.
The Roman Empire, which bought a lot of Chinese goods, began to fall from power in the West around the 5th century.
In Central Asia, Islam expanded starting in the 7th century.
This brought a stop to Chinese growth westwards at the Battle of Talas in 751 AD.
More growth of the Islamic Turks in Central Asia from the 10th century stopped trade in that part of the world.
The history of the Silk Road by Oliver Wild
Introduction of the Silk Road from a Turkish tour guide
Old World Traditional Trade Routes Project
Photos of Silk Road China Sights
Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology.
She was known as the goddess of the moon.
As goddess of life and magic, Isis protected women and children, and healed the sick.
Closely linked to the throne, she was one of the greatest goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
Her symbols were the ankh, her wings, and her throne headdress.
She was the sister and wife of Osiris.
Isis and Osiris had a son named Horus.
The Egyptian name was recorded as  or .
It meant '(She of the Throne)'.
However, the true Egyptian pronunciation is not known because their writing system left out vowels.
Based on recent studies, the reconstructed pronunciation of her name is * (ooh-saht).
Later, the name in Coptic dialects was "Ēse" or "Ēsi".
To make it easier to say, Egyptologists choose to say the word as "ee-set".
Sometimes they may also say "ee-sa".
This is because the last "t" in her name was a feminine (female) suffix which is known to have been dropped in speech in the last stages of the Egyptian language.
Isis was perhaps the most important goddess of all Egyptian mythology.
During the course of Egyptian history, Isis assumed the attributes and functions of virtually every other important goddess in the land.
Her most important functions, however, were those of motherhood, marital devotion, healing the sick, and the working of magical spells and charms.
She was believed to be the most powerful magician in the universe, because she had learned the Secret Name of Ra from the god himself.
Isis was the sister and wife of Osiris, sister of Set, and twin sister of Nephthys.
She was the mother of Horus the Child (Harpocrates), and was the protective goddess of Horus's son Amset, protector of the liver of the deceased.
Her cult seems to have originally centered, like her husband's, at Abydos near the Delta in the North (Lower Egypt).
She was adopted into the family of Ra early in Egyptian history by the priests of Heliopolis.
From the New Kingdom onwards (c. 1500 BC) her worship no longer had any particular identifiable center, and she became more or less universally worshiped, as her husband was.
Isis had great powers such as: healing, protection, and magic.
She could even cast spells on Ra.
An example of her powers is when Isis brought Osiris back to life for one night.
The powers were only strong enough to bring Osiris back for a single night.
Isis is shown with a sun disk on her head.
She also had a throne on her head to symbolize she was a queen.
Sometimes Isis is called the egg of the goose because Geb is the father of Isis and goose represents him.
Worship of Isis
Many Egyptian gods and goddesses started in one place, and all through their history had their own city where they were worshipped, and many big cities and towns are known as the hometowns of their god or goddess.
However, no local cities where Isis was worshipped have been found; all through her early history there are no known temples to her.
Worship of Isis did not start until as late as the 30th dynasty; until that time Isis was worshiped in temples of other gods or goddesses.
However, even in the 30th dynasty Isis was worshiped together with Horus and Osiris.
Temples to Isis became common in the Roman times.
There was a temple built to her at Philae.
By this time, temples to Isis began to spread outside of Egypt.
In many places her followers took over the worship to the Semitic goddess Astarte, because of the similarity of names.
In the Hellenistic era, she also became the goddess who protected sailors.
In all parts of the Graeco-Roman world, Isis became one of the most important figures of the "mystery religions", and many classical writers sometimes wrote about her temples, and followers.
Temples to Isis were built in Iraq, Greece, Rome, even as far north as England where the remains of a temple were found at Hadrian's Wall.
At Philae, she was worshiped until the 6th century, after the rise of Christianity.
The fall of her temples is usually said to mark the end of ancient Egypt.
Little information on Egyptian priests of Isis has been found, but we know that there were both priests and priestesses of her followers all through her history.
By the Graeco-Roman era, many of them were healers, and were said to have many other powers, including explaining dreams and the power to control the weather by braiding or combing their hair.
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In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is the god of life, death, the flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife.
He was the brother and husband of Isis.
They had a son named Horus.
Osiris was murdered by his brother Set because Osiris was the pharaoh, which Set wanted to be.
Osiris was killed when Set tricked him into getting into a box, then poured lead onto the box to close it so Osiris could not get out of it.
However, Isis brought Osiris back to life for one night.
After Horus was old enough, he defeated Set and became the pharaoh.
Osiris' mother was the goddess Nut, father Geb, sister Nephthys, and sister as well as wife Isis.
Osiris and Dionysus
By the Hellenic era, Greek awareness of Osiris had grown, and attempts had been made to merge Greek philosophy, such as Platonism, and the cult of Osiris (especially the myth of his resurrection), resulting in a new mystery religion.
Gradually, this became more popular, and was exported to other parts of the Greek sphere of influence.
However, these mystery religions valued the change in wisdom, personality, and knowledge of truth, rather than the exact details of the accepted myths on which their teachings were overlayed.
Thus in each region that it was exported to, the myth was changed to be about a similar local god, resulting in a series of gods, who had originally been quite distinct, but who were now synonymous with Osiris.
These gods became known as Osiris-Dionysus.
Why Egypt loved Osiris
Egyptian civilization loved Osiris because he was a wise and gentle king.
He taught them law and order and led them away from savage practices like cannibalism and human sacrifice.
Osiris also taught them the art of agriculture and the appropriate rites for worshipping the gods.
When he was done civilizing the people in Egypt, he left the country to his wife Isis and made peace in many other places.
When he finished his job he then returned to Egypt.
Osiris was the god of the Underworld.
He was also one of the Nine Gods.
One of his duties as Lord of the Dead was to do the very last judgment of the Dead, and after that to protect people from the dangers of the Underworld.
The transition between life and death must have been a great experience, but still perilous .
Osiris was shown in the form of a mummified pharaoh.
He wore a white atef crown with feathers on the side, and held a crook and flail; tools of a pharaoh.
Osiris had green skin, symbolizing rebirth to the Egyptians.
ISO 3166-2:BR is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Brazil.
It covers 1 Federal District and 26 states.
ISO Brazil
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a group of advisors to the British Monarch.
A lot of its most important work is done by two committees,
The Cabinet.
All cabinet ministers are made Privy Councillors (or Privy Counsellors), as are other important politicians, such as the leaders of the big political parties.
The most senior judges in England and Wales sit on this committee
Some laws need to be made by the "Queen-in-Council", that is at a meeting of the Queen and the Privy Council.
Some jobs are filled by the Queen in Council too.
For example, when the Queen appoints a new Bishop or Lord Lieutenant she announces her choice at a meeting of the Privy Council.
Meetings of the Privy Council
Once someone is made a member of the Privy Council they are a member for life, but only members of the government are asked to meetings, except for special occasions such as when a new monarch takes the "Accession Oath", a promise to do their best, at a meeting when the Privy Council called the Accession Council
In the past some kings and queens were bored by long meetings of the Privy Council, so they made everyone stand instead of sitting comfortably.
The tradition carries on today.
Privy Council Terms
Sometimes the Prime Minister shares information with other politicians on Privy Council Terms.
This means that the information must stay secret.
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
The Law Lords, and retired Law Lords, also form the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
It is the final court of appeal from British colonies an dependent territories, and some commonwealth realms.
These countries call it an appeal to The Queen in Council.
The Commonwealth Realms
Cook Islands and Niue (Associated States of New Zealand)
St. Christopher and Nevis
The Overseas dependent Territories
The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (in Cyprus)
The Pitcairn Islands
Saint Helena and dependencies (Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha)
Republics in the Commonwealth
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Commonwealth of Dominica
From the Court of Appeal of Brunei the only appeal is to the Sultan of Brunei.
The Queen and the Sultan have agreed that the cases are heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council who then advise the Sultan, directly.
Domestic Jurisdiction
from Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man;
from the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons;
against some plans of the Church Commissioners.
about "devolution issues", (the powers of the Scottish Parliament, or the Northern Ireland or Welsh Assemblies) if
A Law Officer refers a Bill, directly to the committee.
there is an appeal from certain superior courts of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Devolution issues can be referred to the Judicial Committee by -
certain appellate courts, including the House of Lords, and
any court or tribunal, if required to do so by the appropriate Law Officer.
A Law Officer refers "devolution issues" that are not about current bills.
Appeals from the Church of England's Court of Arches  of Canterbury and the Chancery Court of York.
Appeals from Prize Courts,which hear the value of ships and their cargo.
Disputes under the House of Commons Disqualification Act, about whether someone is allowed to be a Member of Parliament
Appeals from the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports.
The committee must also report to the Queen about anything she ask.
For example, investigating which members of the House of Lords supported the enemy in World War I.
A patrician was a member of the upper class in the two social classes in ancient Rome.
They were rich and powerful.
The other class was the plebeian class.
Kurt Raaflaub, ed.
Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
Gary Forsythe, 2005, A Critical History of Early Rome.
Kenny Zeng, 2007, A History Of Ancient and Early Rome
www.bartleby.com/65/pa/patricia.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/patricians.html
W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band.
The band was formed in 1982 in Los Angeles, California by Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards.
Blackie Lawless - Vocals, guitar and bass guitar
Doug Blair - Guitar
Mike Duda - Bass guitar
Mike Dupke - Drums
Glenn Soderling
Stet Howland
Rik Fox
Tony Richards
Johnny Rod
Chris Holmes
Randy Piper
Steve Riley
Patrick Johansson
Darrell Roberts
The Crimson Idol
Kill Fuck Die
Dying For The World
The Neon God: Part 2 - The Demise
Live...In The Raw
Double Live Assassins
Live...Animal (EP)
The Official W.A.S.P. Nation Website
WASP Arena Of Pleasure Fan Site
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting on April 16, 2007, which took place at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a college in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.
Seung-Hui Cho, a senior English major at Virginia Tech, who had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder and selective mutism killed 32 people before killing himself.
The killings occurred in two separate attacks on the campus.
The first at around 7:15 a.m., when two students were shot and killed at  West Ambler Johnston Hall, a co-ed residence hall that houses 894 students.
More than two and a half hours later, 31 others, including Cho, were shot and killed across Norris Hall, which houses the Engineering Science and Mechanics program among others, where three main doors had been chained.
Victims were found in different locations around the building.
Among the victims the most notable was that of Professor and Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu who died while shielding his students from the gunman.
Librescu was killed after being shot five times.
The number of people that died was more than any other mass shooting in modern U.S. history up until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Before then, the deadliest campus shooting in United States history was in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire, killing 16 people before he was gunned down by police.
In the Columbine High attack in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves.
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia), known as Shakira, is a two-time Grammy Award-winning and 10 Latin Grammy Award-winning Colombian-Lebanese singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and occasional actress, first season of the coach The Voice.
Shakira is also a philanthropist.
She has created the NGO's Pies Descalzos Foundation in Colombia, and the Barefoot Foundation in the US, to help children world-wide.
She is also known for having made a song named "Timor" based on fighting in East Timor between gangs (groups of criminals with guns), security forces (small personal armies), and the government.
The first single from Shakira's tenth album was released in January 2014.
Shakira was released on 21 March 2014.
In 1991 Shakira's first album Magia was released.
Her second album Pies Descalzos was released in 1993.
In 2001 she released her first English album Laundry Service.
The album's first single "Whenever, Wherever" was the best selling single of 2001.
In 2005 she released her second English album Oral Fixation, Vol.2.
In 2009 She Wolf was released.
The first single "She Wolf" reached number four in the UK Singles Chart.
On 14 January 2014 Shakira released a single with Rihanna, "Can't Remember to Forget You".
Shakira's first language is Spanish.
She also speaks Portuguese and English.
In addition she can speak some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic.
Accordingly, she records songs in both English and Spanish, as well as having covered Francis Cabrel's song Je l'aime à mourir in French and Fairuz's Aatini Al Nay in Arabic as an homage to her home country of Lebanon.
On 22 January 2013 Shakira gave birth to son Milan Piqué Mebarak.
In July 2018, Shakira came back to Lebanon with her family.
She visited her grandmother's village of Tannourine where she was granted a square in her name.
A statue of the pop-star is set to be built soon in the mentioned village.
She also visited her father's hometown, Zahle.
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Joe Louis (born Joseph Louis Barrow, May 13, 1914 - April 12, 1981) was an American boxer.
He was the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949.
Louis won the title from James Braddock.
He made a record twenty-five title defenses before giving up the title in 1949.
Perhaps his most famous fight was his one-round knockout of Max Schmeling, the German former heavyweight champion, in 1938.
Schmeling had given Louis his only loss up to that point, and was widely seen at that time as a representative of Nazi Germany.
The buildup to the fight was wrapped up in the politics of the United States versus Nazi Germany.
When World War II began, Louis signed up for the U.S. Army.
While in the army, he boxed 100 exhibition bouts.
Louis died of a heart attack in Paradise, Nevada on April 12, 1981.
Brown Bomber, a hero to many
Disease-related deaths in Nevada
Larry Holmes (born on November 3, 1949) was an American boxer.
He held the world heavyweight championship from 1978 to 1985.
Holmes fought out of Easton, Pennsylvania.
He was nicknamed the "Easton Assassin."
Holmes won the vacant World Boxing Council championship from Ken Norton in 1979.
He defended that title, and later the International Boxing Federation title, twenty times.
Some notable fighters he beat in defense of his championship were Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Gerry Cooney, and Tim Witherspoon.
He lost his championship to Michael Spinks in 1985.
Holmes later fought Mike Tyson and then Evander Holyfield to try and win back the championship.
Tyson knocked him out in the fourth round and Holyfield beat him by a twelve-round decision.
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Skiing is either sportive or recreational activity using skis for sliding over snow.
Skis are used with special boots connected to them with a binding.
There are two different types of skiing: downhill skiing and cross country skiing.
Downhill skiing
Downhill skiing is a sport.
Skiers ski down a trail (also called a "run") on the side of a mountain or hill.
Each trail is marked with a sign that shows how difficult that particular run will be.
Three different colors are used to rate the difficulty of the trail.
They are: green, blue, and black.
Green trails are easiest, blue trails are more difficult, and black trails are rated most difficult.
The colors which represent a trail will also be seen in a shape.
Green circles are the easiest trail.
They have a very shallow slope, and the runs are very smooth.
They are very wide, and are easily accessed.
They are used by beginner skiers to learn.
Blue square trails are more difficult.
The trail will go down a steeper part of the mountain.
Sometimes, the trails are narrower, and they may be bumpy.
These are advised for beginner skiers wishing to improve.
Red trails are more difficult.
The trail is often longer and steeper and sometimes are less smooth than other runs.
These are advised for more advanced skiers.
Red trails are rare.
Different ski resorts call them different things, such as double blue square trails.
Black diamonds are very difficult trails on the mountain.
They are often covered in ice or large bumps designed often to challenge skiers.
These are advised for very good skiers only.
Double black diamonds are for expert skiers only.
They may have unmarked obstacles and may be very thin runs.
They sometimes have to be accessed by hiking up to them, being too steep, rocky, or unused to put in a lift.
Rarely, there are extreme terrain trails, represented by two black diamonds, one with an E and the other with an X in the center.
These are almost always accessed by hiking, and are for expert, extremely experienced skiers ONLY.
There are also terrain parks for skiers who want to person stunts and tricks.
It consist of tubes, flip courses, and obstacles.
Cross country skiing is a sport of endurance.
Skiers ski anywhere where there is snow.
This is usually through a scenic forest or town.
Alpine skiing is a contest of speed.
Racers go through the course with red and blue gates and go down to the goal as fast as they can.
There are four disciplines in alpine skiing: downhill, super giant slalom, giant slalom and slalom.
Ski gate
A ski gate is two sticks on a skiing race course that a skier needs to pass between.
Ski gates are used in alpine skiing in downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super-G races.
Downhill races have not many ski gates so skiers can be safe when they are going very fast.
If a skier does not go between a ski gate, the judges say they are removed from the race.
First in the 1980s and now a lot of the time, ski gates have hinges near the snow.
Some ski gates have flags at the top of the stick.
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The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup.
It was held in England from 11-30 July.
England was chosen as hosts by FIFA to celebrate 100 years of football in England.
England won the final beating West Germany 4-2.
This was England's first (and so far only) World Cup win.
England also became the first host to win since Italy won it in 1934.
Later Germany, Argentina and France won it at their homes.
None participated
None qualified
(hosts)
Portugal 5-3 Korea DPR
England 1-0 Argentina
West Germany 4-0 Uruguay
Soviet Union 2-1 Hungary
West Germany 2-1 Soviet Union
England 2-1 Portugal
Portugal 2-1 Soviet Union
England 4-2 West Germany
Details at RSSSF
1960s in England
Princess Taiping was a princess of Tang dynasty China.
She was the daughter of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian.
She became an important figure during her mother's rule as Empress in the second Zhou dynasty 690-705 AD.
Princess Taiping supported saving the Tang dynasty and the Li family.
After the death of Empress Wu Zetian in 705, Princess Taiping joined with her nephew Li Longji (later Emperor Xuanzong) to get power for the Tang dynasty again.
In 710, she and Li Longji stopped Empress Wei's plan to gain power.
Relationship with Li Longji
Princess Taiping was also known for her beauty.
In the Chinese history (mishi/秘史), it has been said that, after losing two marriages, Princess Taiping loved Li Longji.
Mishi said that Emperor Xuanzong told of his love for his aunt in his autobiography.
Li Longji confessed that he had fallen in love with Princess Taiping at first sight.
He thought of her as a goddess-like figure.
However, the truth is still unknown.
Horus was the Egyptian god of the Sky.
He was the son of Isis and Osiris.
After fighting his uncle, Set (Osiris and Isis' brother) he became the king of Egypt.
During this fight, he lost his eye.
The Eye of Horus became one of the most important symbols in ancient Egypt and Egyptian civilization.
When Horus lost his eye, his eye set out on a journey of its own.
When the other Gods tried to catch the eye, his eye began to cry.
These tears became the first people of Egypt in Egyptian belief.
The Eye of Horus, also known as wadjet eye, wedjat eye or udjat eye, is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power, and good health.
The Eye of Horus is similar to the Eye of Ra, which belongs to a different god, Ra, but represents many of the same concepts.
According to Egyptian myth, Horus lost his left eye in a struggle with Set.
The eye was magically restored by Hathor, and this restoration came to symbolize the process of making whole and healing.
For this reason, the symbol was often used in amulets.
Horus, was worshiped all over Egypt, especially in Pe, Bendet and Khem.
There were many falcon gods before Horus, but eventually Horus represented all of them.
He was worshiped until the end of the Pre-Dynastic period.
In Upper Egypt (south), in the town of Edfu, was Ptolemaic, a temple for Horus.
In Kom Ombo, there was another temple for Horus called the Kom Ombo temple.
Horus was a good friend of Sobek.
He was also worshipped as a guide to the pharaohs.
Horus was considered handsome and usually appeared as a falcon or a falcon headed man, although sometimes he appeared as a falcon headed crocodile.
Sometimes he would take the form of a celestial falcon with his left eye the moon and his right eye the sun, his speckled breast feathers the stars, the down sweep of his wings creating the winds.
He is sometimes shown with a copper knife.
In addition, he normally wore the double crown to signify his rule over all of Egypt and to relate with the Pharaoh.
Horus was the god of the sky and also the God of war.
The pharaoh ruling at any given time of Egypt was always the living image of Horus.
When he died, that pharaoh became Osiris, the god of the dead and the father of Horus.
The new pharaoh became Horus.
His purpose was to protect the pharaoh.
He was a protector god, who was a god who fought evil.
He represented justice and righteousness.
He fought with Seth to avenge his father, Osiris, who was killed by Seth.
When Horus defeated Seth, he conquered his father, Osiris', throne, and became protector.
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In Egyptian mythology, Set' (also spelled Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh, Seth) was a god of the desert (including desert storms), thunder, evil, pain and suffering.
The word 'Seth' was first said as 'Set'.
Because of changes in the Egyptian language over the 3,000 years that Seth was worshiped, the 't' in Set was pronounced so similarly from 'th' that the Greeks wrote it as Seth during the Ptolemaic period.
Set was originally responsible for protecting Ra during his journey in the afterlife, personally slaying the great serpent Apep.
Late period Set killed his brother Osiris, who had succeeded Ra as pharaoh, out of jealousy.
Horus (Osiris and Isis' son) eventually defeated Set and claimed the throne.
Set had three siblings: his brother Osiris and his sisters Isis and Nephthys (who was also his wife).
He also had a nephew Horus.
Nephthys married Set and Isis married Osiris.
Set and Nephthys had a son named Anubis.
His father and mother were Geb and Nut respectively.
His color is red which represented evil in Egypt.
He also possessed people when he wanted to.
Set's consort was Nephthys.
Set also had foreign wives Anat and Astarte.
Set was unified with the key of trouble and death towards Ancient Egypt which made him deadly.
Set is often shown as a mysterious and unknown creature called the Set Animal.
The Set Animal had a curved snout, square ears, dog-like body, forked tail, red eyes and red hair.
Set could control this animal and would use it to destroy his enemies.
Shaka Sankofa aka Gary Graham born Gary Lee Graham (September 5, 1963 - June 22, 2000).
Sankofa was put to death for the murder of fifty-three year-old Bobby Lambert in Houston, Texas on May 13, 1981.
The murder happened when Sankofa was seventeen.
Sankofa was found guilty of shooting Lambert in the parking lot of a Houston supermarket.
He told police that he had done ten robberies that week, but did not kill Lambert.
The government believed he has done as many as 22 robberies which had happened in that area during that time.
One of these included Graham using a shotgun to rob a man who Graham gave a ride to when the man's car stopped working on the highway.
During that robbery, the man tried to escape and was shot by Graham but he did live.
While there was no physical evidence to link Graham to the murder, one woman was in the parking lot at the time and saw him do it.
She said she heard the gunshot and turned on the lights of her car.
She saw Graham as he started running and followed him out of the parking lot with her car.
There were several other people inside the store but none of them saw the shooting.
Sankofa's supporters brought his case international attention, aruging that his conviction was based on the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder
and she was 30 feet away from the murder scene.
The jury did not hear testimony from six other apparent eyewitnesses who believed that Sankofa was not the killer.
Sankofa put to death after many legal tries by his lawyers to stop it.
These including an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
By a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court refused to stop the execution.
Sankofa's lawyers also filed a civil suit saying the execution was against his civil rights.
District Court Judge James Nowlin rejected that claim.
Many people believe that Sankofa did not kill Lambert.
They believe that his lawyers did not do a good job because they thought he was guilty.
Sankofa was put to death on an evidence of one person alone.
None of the people that saw the man in the store and said this man was 6 inches shorter and thinner than Sankofa were used in the court case.
Sankofa's lawyer at the time of his execution believed that the only person who saw the crime was not to be trusted because of how the police dealt with how she identified him.
A gun found with Graham when he was arrested a week later was not the murder weapon.
Most controversial of all is the fact that weapon used to kill Lambert did not produce any Gary Graham's fingerprints.
Some groups still claim he did not do this crime.
Sankofa's supporters brought his case international attention.
They also say that it is against international law to put someone to death for a crime they did before they became an adult of 18 years of age.
CNN transcript  of an interview with Sankofa and others about the murder.
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Juliusz Slowacki (September 4, 1809 - April 3, 1849) was a Polish poet.
He was born on August 23, 1809, according to the Old Calendar.
September 4 is often given as his birthday but the calculation between days was wrong by one day.
Slowacki is thought of as being as good a poet as most of the famous Polish writers.
These include Mickiewicz, Norwid, Reymont (author of Chlopi), Wybicki, Krasinski and Sienkiewicz.
He is buried in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow.
This is the same crypt as Mickiewicz.
He is considred third most important Polish poet.
Slowacki was first buried on April 5 1849 in Paris's famous Montmartre cemetery.
Because he was not popular at the time, only about 30 people went to his funeral.
In 1927, General Joseph Pilsudski ordered his body be dug up.
It was taken back to Poland and honorably reburied on June 28 1927 in Krakow in the famous Wawel crypt for Polish nobles.
He was buried with full military honors as a Polish hero.
Pilsudski said: "Time to forget Slowacki is over, as long as there is Polish language, Slowacki will live on forever!"
Polish poets
Mistreat is a pro-white hard rock/Oi!/Rock Against Communism band from Kouvola, Finland.
The band was formed in 1988.
Current line-up
Muke (quitar, vocals)
Pete (bass)
Miika (quitar)
Atte (drums)
Mistreat-EP (1990)
Faith And Fury (1995)
The Flame From The North (1997)
Waffenbruder (1997)
Battle Cry (2000)
Ultimate Mistreat (2001)
Beer Bottles & Hockey Sticks (with Bound for Glory, 2001)
Best Of... (2002)
Unfinished Business (2003)
Never Forgive - Never Forget (2005)
Greatest Hits (2014)
Heartless Bastards (2018)
The Rough - The Rare & The Rock-O-Rama Recordings (2019)
A red dwarf is a kind of star.
Red dwarf stars are smaller than half the size of the Sun.
They are also cooler than most stars.
Red dwarfs burn their fuel slowly, so they shine with less light than hot stars.
Red dwarf stars are the most common in our galaxy, at least near our sun.
However, since red dwarf stars are cool and small, none can be found with the naked eye.
The closest star to the Earth is named Proxima Centauri.
The Latin word proxima means "nearest to".
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf.
Life and death
Red dwarfs can live trillions of years, much longer than brighter stars.
A red dwarf dies when it burns all of its fuel.
To start with, the fuel is the chemical element hydrogen.
At present, no red dwarf star is known which has gone beyond this stage.
Red dwarfs are small stars that are around 0.2 solar mass (the sun is equal to 1 solar mass).
This is small for a star but is still 60,000 times the mass of the Earth.
They are formed in nebulas, as all stars are, and originally they were protostars.
They start their nuclear fusion about 100,000 years after being formed.
This gives them their red glow.
These stars burn at less than 4,000°K.
Grand Ayatollah  (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای ayatollah Seyyed `Ali Ḥoseyni Khamene'i) (born 19 April 1939) also known as Seyyed Ali Khamene'i, is the current Supreme Leader of Iran.
He was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989.
Iranian clerics
Iranian Muslims
The Roman Catholic Church has the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the Western World.
It is older than the common and European civil law traditions.
What began with rules ("canons") adopted by the Apostles themselves at the Council of Jerusalem in the First Century led to a highly complex and original legal system that included norms of the New Testament, of the Hebrew (Old Testament), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions with thousands of years of human experience.
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The Episcopal Church (2006) Constitution and Canons , together with the Rules of Order for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, otherwise known as The Episcopal Church, New York : Church Publishing, Inc.
Robinson, O.F.,Fergus, T.D. and Gordon, W.M. (2000) European Legal History, 3rd ed.,
Code of Canon Law (1983) : non-official but approved IntraText edition with concordance in English (only the Latin version is official), hosted by the Vatican
Code of Canons of Oriental Churches, IntraText Digital Library
Code of Canon Law, IntraText Digital Library, organized in a Table of Contents outline format for easy search: Does not contain 1998 code updates
Catholic Encyclopedia: Canon Law : outdated, but useful