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Later, she became the protector of kings.
Her worship was already established by the Predynastic Period, but did change somewhat as time progressed.
She began as the local goddess of Per-Wadjet (Buto) but soon became a patron goddess of Lower Egypt.
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Buto or Butos or Butosos, was the later, Greek name for an ancient Egyptian city  95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt.
It is the modern Kem Kasir.
Buto originally was two cities, Pe and Dep, which merged into one city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet.
The goddess Wadjet was its local goddess, often represented as a cobra, and she was considered the patron deity of Lower Egypt.
The city was an important site in Ancient Egypt since more than ten thousand years.
Archaeological evidence shows that Upper Egyptian culture replaced the Buto-culture at the delta when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified.
A scribe is an ancient occupation.
A scribe's job involved reading and writing, especially during the Renaissance.
Being a scribe meant writing letters, and historical records for  kings, nobility, and temples.
It was an important job when few people could read and write.
Later, it changed into being secretaries, clerks: public servants, journalists, accountants and lawyers.
Today, there are no scribes, but there are still authors and writers.
Egyptian scribes
The Ancient Egyptian scribe was an important job.
Ancient Egypt also had its painters and artisans who decorated tombs, buildings, furniture, statues, and other relics with pictures and hieroglyphics.
In Ancient Egypt, only males could be scribes.
This was so in many civilisations, because most official positions were exclusively male.
The scribes had to be able to write not only the hieroglyphs, but also the hieratic (priestly) script, and they had to know arithmetic.
They used a type of paper called papyrus, made from reeds, and wrote with reed pens and ink.
Ascension is a Christian holiday.
The word "ascension" means "going up".
According to the story told in the Bible, Jesus ascended (went up) to heaven.
This was seen by his apostles.
The holiday is celebrated forty days after his resurrection.
The story tells that Jesus' body went to heaven, and that in heaven he sits at the right-hand side of God the Father.
Ascension Day is officially celebrated on a Thursday.
However, not all countries hold the feast on this day.
It is one of the ecumenical feasts.
All Christians celebrate this feast, much like Easter and Pentecost.
It is a very important feast in the calendar of the Christian Church.
The Eastern churches
The Eastern Orthodox Church calculates the date of Easter differently, so the Eastern Orthodox celebration of Ascension will usually be after the western observance (either one week, or four weeks, or five weeks later; but occasionally on the same day).
The earliest possible date for the feast is May 13 (of the western calendar), and the latest possible date is June 16.
Some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, however, observe Ascension on the same date as the Western Churches.
Texts in the Bible
The Epistle to the Romans is a book from the Bible which was written about the year 56 or 57.
In it, Paul describes Christ as in heaven and in the abyss.
This seems to be the earliest Christian reference to Jesus in heaven.
One of the most important texts about the Ascension is in the Acts of the Apostles .
According to the two-source hypothesis it is also the earliest.
There Jesus is taken up bodily into heaven forty days after his resurrection.
The text says that the apostles saw this happening.
Before going into heaven, Jesus gave a speech called the Great Commission, in which he said that he would return.
In the Gospel of Luke, the Ascension takes place on Easter Sunday evening.
The Gospel of John (c. 90-100) talks about Jesus returning to the Father.
In 1 Peter (c. 90-110), Jesus has ascended to heaven and is at God's right side.
Ephesians (c. 90-100) refers to Jesus ascending higher than all the heavens.
First Timothy (c. 90-140) describes Jesus as taken up in glory.
The traditional ending in the Book of Mark (see Mark 16) includes a short version of what Luke had said about the resurrection.
It describes Jesus as being taken up into heaven and sitting at God's right hand.
The way that Christ's Ascension is described is similar to the general description of his welcome in heaven, a description that comes from Hebrew scripture.
The picture of Jesus rising bodily into the heavens fits in with the old traditional idea that heaven was above the earth.
Other texts about the ascension
There are texts that are not in the Bible that also speak about ascension, for example Pistis Sophia.
In his text Against Heresies, Irenaeus tells about the Gnostic view that the Ascension happened eighteen months after the Resurrection.
The apocryphal text known as the Apocryphon of James describes the teachings of Jesus to James and Peter 550 days after the resurrection, but before the ascension.
This text suggests an even longer period.
The recently discovered Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas, like the canonical Gospel of Matthew, does not mention the Ascension.
The feast of the Ascension has been celebrated for many centuries.
Although we do not have anything in writing about it before the beginning of the fifth century, St. Augustine says that it is of Apostolic origin, and he speaks of it in a way that shows that all Christians celebrated it long before his time (he lived from 354 to 430).
Christ's ascension is mentioned in the original Nicene Creed.
This text has been important to Christians ever since it was made in 325.
It is included in the Mass. It is also mentioned in the Apostles' Creed.
It is important for Christian belief because it shows that Jesus' humanity was taken into Heaven.
Ascension Day is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year.
There is plenty of evidence that shows that the feast dates back at least to the later 300s.
The canonical story of Jesus ascending bodily into the clouds is different from the gnostic tradition, by which Jesus was said to transcend the bodily world and return to his home in the spirit world.
It also contrasts with Docetic beliefs, by which matter is basically evil and Jesus was said to have been pure spirit.
Scholars of the historical Jesus think that New Testament accounts of Jesus' resurrection were stories that were invented by the apostolic-era Christian community.
Some describe the Ascension as a convenient way to disagree with ongoing appearance claims in the Christian community.
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The Ascension of the Lord  S. V. Bulgakov, Manual for Church Servers (theology and symbolism of the Feast)
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Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem Detailed description, history and photos
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Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and at the time of her death at age 122 years, 164 days the verified oldest person in history as well as the only person who has surpassed 120 years of age, although her claimed age is possibly disputed.
She was active during her life, lived on her own until she was almost 110, and talked a lot until months before her death.
Calment still rode her bike at the age of 100 in 1975.
Once, she fell off and developed a brief period of amnesia.
She recovered sometime later.
In 1888, when she was 13, Calment met Vincent van Gogh while he visited her uncle's shop to buy canvas.
During her later years in the 1990s, she could not hear very well.
In 1995 at the age of 120 years, she became the subject of her own documentary, 120 Years with Jeanne Calment.
She died in Arles.
A study by Russian researcher Nikolay Zak has disputed Jeanne Calment's claimed age with a hypothesis that Jeanne's daughter Yvonne, born 1898 and claimed to have died of pneumonia in 1934, usurped Jeanne's identity upon Jeanne's death in 1934.
In that scenario, Jeanne Calment would have died already in 1934 and Yvonne Calment in 1997, claiming to be her mother and aged 122 but in fact she was aged 99.
However, to prove if the hypothesis is true, a DNA/blood test is required.
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François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French movie director, producer, writer, actor and critic.
He was very popular in the 1960s for such noted movies as The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, The Wild Child and others.
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Leif Eriksson or Ericsson, Erickson, and Ericksson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer.
He was the first known European to travel to North America.
Erikson was probably born in Iceland and grew up in Greenland.
His father was Erik the Red, who had created colonies in Greenland.
Eriksson is said to have visited North America long before anyone else in Europe did.
According to Icelandic sagas (stories) he started a Viking settlement in Vinland.
Many scholars think this was Newfoundland in Canada.
After landing in North America and when he was going back to Greenland, he rescued a man in his crew who had sunk.
From that moment on, he was called “Leif the Lucky”.
He generally believed to be the first European to reach the North American continent nearly four centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.
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Sir Thomas More or Saint Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), was an English writer, lawyer, and statesman.
He held many important jobs including Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor and advisor to the King Henry VIII.
He also invented the word "utopia", which means: "an ideal place to live".
This is described in the book he wrote called Utopia.
When King Henry left the Roman Catholic Church because the Pope would not give him a divorce from his first wife, he started The Church of England.
More was a devout Catholic, so he did not accept the King as head of the Church.
Because of this, he was arrested and executed for treason.
He was thought of as a martyr and made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1935.
His feast day is on 22 June and he is the patron of lawyers and politicians.
A play and movie called A Man For All Seasons is based on his life.
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Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine general and politician.
He served as President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, ruling with Eva and again from 1973 to 1974 with his wife Isabel, who was his vice president.
In Argentina, he and his second wife Eva or Evita are considered icons by many people, especially members of Peronist party, which he started and is still popular today.
He was elected in 1946.
In 1955 he was overthrown and force to leave the country.
In 1973, he returned and ran for President again with his third wife Isabel as Vice-President and was elected.
He died in Buenos Aires less than a year after being elected.
His widow, Isabel took his place, which made the first woman to be the head of a country's government in the Western hemisphere.
He was very popular among the working class because he was the first politician in a long time to care about the Argentine people.
He required businesses to pay decent wages and safe conditions.
He also did other social reforms, but also was pretty controlling.
He controlled what could be said over the radio and sent people opposing him to jail.
He also controlled unions and businesses, so although they had power, the government had last word.
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Kosher  is the name that Jews give to the laws about the kind of food that they may eat.
Their holy books specify certain kinds of food that are all right to eat, and that other kinds should not be eaten.
The Kosher laws say that products classified as meat must not be eaten in the same meal with dairy products.
Fish, fruit, and vegetables are considered neutral, called pareve (pronounced "PAR-veh"), and may be eaten with either meat or dairy meals.
Jews who "keep kosher" have separate utensils for meat and dairy foods, and wait a number of hours after eating one type of food before eating the other type.
The meat of some animals may not be eaten at all.
Animals whose meat may be eaten must be killed in a special, careful way by a religiously trained slaughterer.
Meat that is not fit to eat is called treif (pronounced TRAYf).
Basic rules of Kashrut
Types of meat and drink
Land animals that chew their cud and have a completely split (cloven) hoof may be eaten .
This includes livestock like cattle and sheep, but not pigs (which do not chew their cud) or camels (which do not have completely split hooves).
Animals that eat meat (carnivores and omnivores) may not be eaten.
This also means that birds of prey may not be eaten.
Specific birds (from a list) may not be eaten.
This includes ostrich for example.
Fish must have fins and scales.
Fish without scales (like eels), invertebrates like lobster and shrimp, and shellfish (like mussels) are forbidden.
No amphibians or reptiles may be eaten.
Examples of these are frogs.
Most insects may not be eaten, with some exceptions like locusts.
Wine must be specially made by Jews in order to be Kosher.
Preparing food
The animals need to be killed in a special way.
The kosher slaughterer has religious training for this work.
An animal that dies by natural means, or is killed by another animal or a hunter, may not be eaten.
Meat from a sick animal  may not be eaten.
No blood may be eaten.
All blood needs to be drained from the meat (by soaking and salting it).
In eggs, not even eggs with just a spot of blood can be eaten.
Foods made in a factory: manufacturers sometimes label products that have got certification by adding graphical symbols to the label.
These symbols are known as hechsherim.
A kosher kitchen has separate sets of dishes: one for meat foods, another for dairy foods.
Food may not be cooked during the Sabbath, which in Judaism is called Shabbat.
Halal, similar rules in Islam
Cartagena (pronounced  in Spanish; the usual English pronunciation is  or ), also known as Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena of the West Indies), is a large city seaport on the northern coast of Colombia.
It is the  capital of the Bolívar Department.
As of 2005, it has a population of roughly 895,400.
It was founded in 1533 by Don Pedro de Heredia, and named after the port of Cartagena in Spain's Murcia region.
It  was a major centre of early Spanish settlement in the Americas, and continues to be an economic hub as well as a popular tourist destination.
An old map of the city from 1735
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Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress.
Greta Gustafson was born in Stockholm, she studied at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in her native city, while working as a fashion model.
She became a star in Sweden when Mauritz Stiller cast her in the 1924 silent movie The Atonement of Gösta Berling.
Soon after, she came to the attention of Louis B. Mayer and went to Hollywood in 1925.
Soon, she established herself as one of the world's most popular movie stars.
Some of her most notable movies include; Mata Hari (1931), Queen Christina (1933), Camille (1936), Conquest (1937) and Ninotchka (1939).
She retired from movies in 1941 and  became an American citizen on 9 February 1951.
In 1984 she became breast Cancer .
So, she lived as a semi-recluse in New York City until her death (April 15; 1990) there from renal failure and pneumonia.
Silent movie actors
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931  11 January 2015) was a Swedish actress.
She was born in Malmö, Skåne.
She was best known for her role in the movie La Dolce Vita (1960), which was directed by Federico Fellini.
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One of the earliest shows to be broadcast on Ted Turner's WTBS station was World Championship Wrestling, airing at 6:05 in the afternoon.
Wrestling had aired on the channel since 1972.
World Championship Wrestling was taped in Atlanta, Georgia, at WTBS' studios at 1050 Techwood Drive until 1989, when the taping location was moved to the Center Stage Theater, in Atlanta.
In 1988, Turner started the company World Championship Wrestling, named after the show.
The show was then called WCW Saturday Night in 1992.
WCW grew bigger with wrestlers such as Ric Flair, Sting, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, The Steiner Brothers, Vader and Ron Simmons.
In 1995, a Monday night show was added called WCW Monday Nitro to compete with the World Wrestling Federation and it's flagship show Raw in what became known as the Monday Night Wars winning until 1998.
Ted Turner lost control of his networks TBS and TNT in October 1996.
He still was in charge of day-to-day operations of the Turner channels and WCW, but Time Warner had majority ownership over it, so basically any major decisions had to be approved by them.
WCW began to decline in 1998 and got significantly worse after an event called the Fingerpoke of Doom on the first Nitro of 1999.
In January 2001, AOL merged with Time Warner and Ted Turner was forced out of TNT, TBS and WCW.
The new owners decided not to show wrestling anymore.
Turner still supported wrestling, but Time Warner didn't and in the end WCW was bought out by the World Wrestling Federation who shut it down.
The video library and copyrights were bought by WWE on March 23, 2001.
WWE Classics On Demand continues to show episodes of the original World Championship Wrestling program.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television series.
It is a sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996 for six seasons.
It is set in Bel Air, Los Angeles, and stars Will Smith as the "Fresh Prince".
At the beginning he lives with his mother in poverty in Philadelphia.
In the first episode he moves to Bel Air to live with his rich aunt, uncle and cousins.
It was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
The show was also successful outside of the United States, and was on the UK channel BBC2 from 1991 to 2004.
The Nation of Domination (NoD) was a professional wrestling stable (a group of wrestlers who work together) in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
The group was based on the Nation of Islam.
It was created in the WWF by Faarooq.
There were usually no more than four or five members of the NoD at any one time but as members left or became injured, other wrestlers would replace them.
Members of the NoD included Rocky Maivia (The Rock), Crush, Savio Vega, D'Lo Brown, Ahmed Johnson, Kama Mustafa, Mark Henry and Owen Hart.
The NoD separated in October of 1998.
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The Potomac River is a river in the eastern United States.
It is 665 kilometers long.
It forms part of the borders between Maryland, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
The Potomac flows to the Chesapeake Bay.
It has two sources.
The North Branch starts at Fairfax Stone in West Virginia, and the South Branch starts in Highland County, Virginia.
The North Branch and the South Branch meet in Hampshire County, West Virginia, and make the Potomac River.
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Greenbrier County is a county in the state of West Virginia, in the United States.
About 34,400 people were living in Greenbrier County as of 2000.
As of 2000, Greenbrier County had an area of 1,024 square miles.
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1780s establishments in the United States
was the 71st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
His reign started in 1068 and ended in 1073.
This 11th century sovereign was named after Emperor Sanjō and go- (後), translates literally as "later."
He is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Sanjō".
The Japanese word "go" has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Sanjō, the second," or as "Sanjo II."
Traditional narrative
His personal name (imina) was .
He was the second son of Emperor Go-Suzaku, and his mother was Empress Sadako, the third daughter of Emperor Sanjō.
This made him the first Emperor in 170 years whose mother was not of the Fujiwara family.
Events of Go-Sanjō's life
22 May 1068 (Jiryaku 4, 19th day of the 4th month): In the 4th year of Emperor Go-Reizei's reign, he died at age 44; and the succession (senso) was received by a his son.
Soon after, Emperor Go-Sanjo accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers  (sokui).
This was confirmed in ceremonies.
1069 (Enkyū 1): Go-Sanjō ordered the creation of a government land records office.
1070 (Enkyū 2):  Go-Sanjō ordered a preliminary system of laws and a bureaucracy for regulating silk.
1072 (Enkyū 4): Go-Sanjō was interested in strengthening the finances of the Imperial Household.
18 January 1072 (Enkyū 4, 8th day of the 12th month): In the 6th year of Emperor Go-Sanjō's reign, the emperor abdicated; and the succession (senso) was received by his son.
Soon after, Emperor Shirakawa accepted his new role in the monarchy (sokui).
11 May 11 (Enkyū 5, 21st day of the 4th month): Go-Sanjō became a Buddhist priest.
15 June 1073 (Enkyū 5, 7th day of the 5th month): Former-Emperor Go-Sanjō died at the age of 40.
Era names
The Japanese era names (nengō) of his reign were
Jiryaku (1065-1069)
Enkyū (1069-1074)
was the 1st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Jimmu is known as the  founder of the Imperial dynasty.
There are no certain dates for this emperor's life or reign.
The names and sequence of the early emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kammu, who was the 50th monarch of the Yamato dynasty.
Traditional history
Jimmu is almost certainly a legend.
His name and genealogy are recorded in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki.
Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu.
Events of Jimmu's life
The absence of information about Jimmu does not mean that he did or did not exist.
There is very little data about the rulers of Japan before the reign of Emperor Bidatsu
The traditional story is that Jimmu came from Kyushu to Yamato Province on the island of Honshu.
The story explains that he followed a three legged crow.
He established his reign at Kashihara near Osaka.
The actual site of his grave is not known.
According to the Imperial Household Agency, the emperor is venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) in Kashihara at Nara.
The mausoleum is located a short distance from Kashihara Shrine.
In 1872, the Meiji government declared that February 11, 660 BC was the exact date on which the reign of Jimmu began.
This was identified as the start of the Japanese nation.
This mythical date was commemorated as the holiday Kigensetsu ("Era Day").
This national holiday was celebrated from 1872 to 1948.
The Kigensetsu events in 1940 were special.
They celebrated what was believed to be 2,600 years since the start of Emperor Jimmu's reign.
There has been a similar Japanese national holiday since February 11, 1966.
It is called National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinen no hi).
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A posthumous name is an honorary name given to someone after their death.
This type of name was common with naming royalty in the countries of Japan and China.
They were also sometimes used in Vietnam and Korea.
This idea was created during the Zhou Dynasty in China.
The first person to be named in this way was Ji Chang, named by his son.
His son, Ji Fa of Zhou, called his father the "Civil King".
This meant that he found his father to be good and sympathetic to the people he ruled.
These sort of names were not used during the Qin Dynasty.
During that time, these names were not thought to show respect.
Posthumous names were used again during the Han Dynasty.
Chinese emperors
Chinese posthumous names, for rulers, end in one or both symbols for "emperor", Huángdì.
This can be shortened to Dì.
These names were sometimes very long.
They can be good names or bad.
Good names are called respectful names (or zūn hào in Chinese).
Some of these names are:
"pitiful", for those who were often sad during their rule.
"lamentable", for those who lose their spouse's and pass away at an early age.
"civil", for those who had sympathised with their people.
This is one of the most honorable names.
"majestic", for those who showed virtue to the people.
Japanese emperors
The posthumous names of Japanese emperors are called teigō.
Some names are given a long time after their death.
Others are given right after the emperor had died.
Some also put together two previous emperors' or empresses' names, like Empress Meishō.
The empresses before her were called Gemmei and Genshō.
So her name became Meishō.
Posthumous names in China
You Can't Do That on Television (YCDTOTV) is a Canadian children's television program that aired on Nickelodeon in the USA.
It was created by Roger Price and produced from 1979 until 1990.
It mostly featured child actors in a sketch comedy format, acting out short scenes based on a theme that served as the topic for the episode.
Connecting scenes based on the theme would often serve to create a story arc that lasted the length of the episode.
became known for its iconic green slime that was originally used in this show.
The series is known also because future pop recording artist Alanis Morissette was in it as a cast member at some time.
In 2002, and again in 2004, YCDTOTV cast members reunited alongside fans of the show at SlimeCon, a fan-produced convention in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
YCDTOTV was a children's comedy show.
Some people see it as a nostalgic cult classic.
During the 2004 event, a Top Secret reunion special had its premiere.
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Medellín (pronounced  or , Spanish:  or ) is the capital city in the Metropolitan Area of Medellín of the Antioquia Department, Colombia.
It was founded in 1616 by Francisco Herrera Campuzano.
As of 2014, the municipality of Medellín had a population of about 2.45 million inhabitants.
This makes it the second most populated city in Colombia after Bogotá, which is the capital city of Colombia.
Medellín also is the core of the Valle de Aburrá (Aburrá Valley) metropolitan area.
This is the second largest metropolitan area in Colombia, with more than 3.8 million inhabitants, and a leading and productive industrial and urban center.
The city's major problem is unemployment.
Many other Colombian cities also have this problem.
People from Antioquia and especially from Medellín are called Paisas although the Paisas are people from the departments of Antioquia, Risaralda, Caldas and Quindío.
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Nouakchott () is the capital city of the African county of Mauritania.
It is the largest city in that country and one of the largest cities on the Sahara Desert.
The city is the administrative and economic centre of Mauritania.
The Arabic name is said to mean "The place of winds" in the language of the Berber people.
The population of Nouakchott is about 881,000 people.
It is hard to know exactly how many people live in the city because many of them are nomadic.
They find a good place to live, set up their tent for a short time and then move to somewhere else.
Nouakchott has a deep-sea port.
It was opened in 1986.
The port is mainly used for imports.
The city also features an international airport.
The city is home to the Université de Nouakchott.
It is the only university in Mauritania.
Things to see in Nouakchott include Nouakchott Museum, several markets including Nouakchott Silver Market, and the beaches.
Nouakchott has very little history.
It was a tiny fishing town until 1958.
It is possible that the Berber Muslim Almoravids came from the area.
The city was selected as the capital city for its mild climate and its location near the center of the country.
Mauritania was part of the larger French colony of French West Africa.
During that time, Saint-Louis, in Senegal was the capital.
In 1957, this small port town was chosen to be the capital of the new country.
A building program was begun to grow its population to 15,000.
In 1962, Nouakchott became the capital of an independent country.
The city has much growth.
Because of the north African drought since the beginning of the 1970s many people have moved to the city.
Nouakchott is located on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara Desert.
The city is very spread out.
It has only a few tall buildings.
Nouakchott is built around a large tree-lined street, Avenue Abd an-Nasir.
This street runs northeast through the city center from the airport.
Other major streets are named (in French) for notable Mauritanian people, or international people of the 1960s: Avenue de Gaulle, Avenue Kennedy, and Avenue Lumumba, for example.
Temperatures range between 33°C (92°F) and 13 °C (56 °F).
The average rainfall is 178mm (7in) a year.
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He was born in the Greek colony of Patara, in Asia Minor.
Myra is near Antalya, in modern-day Turkey.
He is the patron saint of very many groups, including thieves and murderers.
So far as is known, what he did in that respect was to protect the falsely accused.
His parents were relatively well-off.
Nicholas is said to have distributed his fortune among the poor.
This is relatively well documented.
Less documented deeds of his include saving children from drowning.
Nicholas saved young girls from being made prostitutes (because their fathers did not have the money for a dowry).
He helped seamen in a storm and saved a child that was abducted.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Nicholas of Myra is a very prominent figure.
Very often, the third large icon on the Iconostasis in Orthodox churches is devoted to him.
The other two are usually devoted to Jesus, and to Mary with the child.
The Cantata by Benjamin Britten
The modern composer Benjamin Britten composed a cantata for orchestra and choir about the life of St. Nicholas.
It is very popular and often performed.
In modern times
He is the Saint behind the legendary character of Santa Claus.
He is the patron Saint of Children, of Seafarers and merchants.
The Hanseatic League chose him as their patron saint.
Over 400 churches and several thousands all over the world are named after Nicholas of Myra.
He is also the patron saint of both Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands and Moscow, capital of Russia.
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The Home Box Office (HBO) is an American cable television network.
HBO show movies made for theaters as well as television.
The also show many original television programs, including  The Sopranos,  Six Feet Under, Crashbox and Big Love.
Other popular series include Oz, True Blood, Carnivàle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, Entourage, and Deadwood.
HBO is owned by WarnerMedia (formerly TimeWarner).
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Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness
Comedy Bites
Official HBO site
HBO Europe
1972 establishments in New York (state)
The Electric Company was an educational American children's television series.
It was produced by the Children's Television Workshop (1971-1977)/Sesame Workshop (2006 and 2009-2011) for PBS in the United States.
PBS broadcast 930 episodes over nine seasons from 1971 to 1977, 2006, and 2009 to 2011.
CTW (1971-1977)/Sesame Workshop (2006/2009-2011) produced the show at Reeves Teletape Studios (1971-1977)/Kaufman Astoria Studios (2006/2009-2011) Second Stage in Manhattan.
The Electric Company used sketch comedy and other devices to create an entertaining program to help children of elementary-school age get better at reading skills.
It was meant for children who had "graduated" from CTW's main program, Sesame Street.
Season 1 is released in October 25, 1971 - April 21, 1972;  season 2 is released in October 23, 1972 - April 20, 1973; season 3 is released in October 22, 1973 - April 19, 1974, season 4 is released in October 21, 1974 - April 18, 1975, season 5 is released in October 20, 1975 - April 16, 1976, season 6 is released in October 18, 1976 - April 15, 1977, season 7 is released in 2006 and January 19 - October 1,  2009, season 8 is released in January 25 - May 7, 2010, and season 9 is released in February 7 - March 28, 2011.
June Angela as Julie (1971-1977 and 2009) was a long-running cast member of the 1971-1977 rock band named The Short Circus.
In 2006, the 1977 departed 1975-1977 cast were or was replaced by the 2009-2011 cast playing the Ruiz family and their friends in their gang.
In the comic book, season 10 is released in 2012.
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Sing Out (performed by The Short Circus) (season 2, episode 130 (1973))
Buddy and Kelly (performed by Buddy and Kelly from or in The Short Circus) (season 3, episode 1 (1973))
Broccoli (performed by Buddy and Kelly) (season 3, episode 98 (1974))
Words (performed by Mark and Valerie the Librarian) (season 4, episode 1 (1974))
Knock Knock Rock (performed by The Short Circus) (season 5, episode 35 (1975))
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1977 disestablishments in the United States
1977 television series endings
A model is a person who has the job of using their body to pose for art, or to show fashion items, such as clothes or jewellery.
Models often appear in advertising on television and in print media, for example newspapers and magazines, or on the web.
The first person described to work as a fashion model was Parisian shopgirl, Marie Vernet Worth.
She was a 'house' model in 1852, for her fashion designer husband at the haute couture House of Worth.
Commercial models
There are many different types of models.
Some models only use certain parts of their bodies.
For example, a hand model is a person who only uses their hands.
A hand model would be used to display certain items, for example rings and watches.
These models are mostly used for advertisements.
Fashion models are used to sell clothing or cosmetics.
People who make clothing will often use fashion models to wear the clothing they make at fashion shows.
The models will walk up and down a raised section of floor called the catwalk or runway to show the clothing to other people.
Some exclusive 'fashion houses' also use models to show off their dresses to clients.
This idea was invented by Charles Worth.
Photographers use models for advertising, editorial and personal portfolio work.
Work can involve news, fine art, fashion, fitness and glamour.
Some photographers may ask models to express different moods or feeling for pictures.
Models can be all shapes and sizes, both men and women.
Models do not have to be size zero, though most are young, good-looking females.
There are specialist models for feet, hands and face, all of which may be photographed for various reasons.
Some models are plus-size models and are of a larger build.
A supermodel is a highly paid model who usually has a worldwide reputation.
The term supermodel began being used in the 1980s.
Supermodels usually work for top fashion designers and famous clothing brands.
They have multimillion-dollar contracts.
They also have endorsements and campaigns.
They have branded themselves as household names and are recognized worldwide.
Art models
Models are frequently used during art classes, but are also employed by professional artists.
The most common types of art created using models are figure drawing and painting, sculpture and photography.
Although commercial motives dominate over aesthetics in advertising, its 'artwork' commonly employs models.
Throughout the history of Western art, drawing the human figure from life was considered the best way to develop the skill of drawing.
In the art school classroom setting, there are no real limitations on who the model can be.
In some cases, the model may pose with various props, one or more other models, animals etc.,
against real or artificial background, in natural or artificial light and so on.
Models for life drawing classes are often nude, apart from visually non-obstructive personal items such as small jewellery and sometimes eyeglasses.
This may be referred to as being 'undraped' or 'disrobed'.
Models are given work by an agency: the agency takes a percentage of the fee.
Models are contacted directly by advertising agencies, photographers and others.
The models set their own fee.
Jacques Rougeau Jr. (born June 13, 1960 in Saint-Sulpice, Quebec) is a French-Canadian retired professional wrestler.
He is best known for his time working with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1980s and 1990s.
He first teamed with his brother Raymond Rougeau as The Fabulous Rougeaus.
He would later have a singles career and wrestled under the ring name The Mountie.
He later formed The Quebecers with Pierre.
Rougeau also wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1996 until 1998 where he teamed with Carl Ouellet as The Amazing French Canadians.
Central States Wrestling
NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1 time) (with Bruce Reed)
Continental Wrestling Association
AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
Southeastern Championship Wrestling
NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division) (1 time)
Lutte Internationale (Montreal)
Canadian International Tag Team Championship (4 times) (with Raymond Rougeau)
He was ranked #41 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the "PWI 500" in 1992.
He was ranked #222 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.
He was ranked #83 of the 100 best tag teams of the PWI Years with Pierre Ouellet in 2003.
WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
WWF Tag Team Championship (3 times) (with Quebecer Pierre)
Sportspeople from Quebec
Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975) was an African-American professional boxer.
He was the heavyweight boxing champion from September 27, 1950, when he outpointed Joe Louis in 15 rounds in New York City, to July 18, 1951, when he was knocked out by Jersey Joe Walcott in 7 rounds in Pittsburgh.
As an amateur, Charles was undefeated and in 1939 won the national AAU Middleweight Championship.
Charles turned professional in 1940, but his career was interrupted while he served in the United States military during World War II.
Charles won the World Heavyweight Championship in 1950 and retired from boxing in 1959 with a record of 96 wins, 25 losses, and 1 draw.
Ring Magazine named Charles Fighter of the Year in 1949 and 1950.
In 1976, Cincinnati honored Charles by renaming a street Ezzard Charles Drive and in 1990 he was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
In 2009, Boxing Magazine designated Charles the greatest light heavyweight boxer of all time.
The religion of ancient Egypt lasted throughout their civilization.
After about three thousand years, the Egyptian people turned to Coptic Christianity and Islam.
These religions were brought by influences from outside.
Christianity spread across Egypt in the third and fourth centuries AD.
After the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century, most Egyptians were converted to Islam by the 10th century.
At the beginning, there were five different religious groups of people in Egypt.
Each groups had different beliefs, and were based in different places.
During the history of Egypt, the beliefs changed with the leader.
When someone rose in power, their belief system rose as well.
The new beliefs would combined with the beliefs that were already there.
This happened even after the end of the ancient Egyptian civilization as it is known today.
An example of this might be the New Kingdom.
During its time, the gods Ra and Amun, became Amun-Ra.
Joining to create one god is usually referred to as syncretism.
History of the gods
The Egyptians believed that in the beginning, the universe was filled with the dark waters of chaos.
The first god, Re-Atum, came from the water.
Re-Atum spat and this created the gods Shu (god of air) and Tefnut (goddess of moisture).
The world was created when Shu and Tefnut gave birth to two children: Nut (goddess of the sky) and Geb (god of the Earth).
Humans were created when Shu and Tefnut went walking in the darkness and got lost.
Re-Atum sent his eye to find them.
After finding them, his tears of joy turned into people.
Nut and Geb had sex.
When Shu heard about this, he did not want them to be together.
He became the air between the sky and ground.
He also said that the pregnant Nut could not give birth.
Nut begged Thoth to help.
Thoth gambled with the moon-god Khonsu.
He won five more days to be added to the 360-day year.
Nut had one child on each of these days: Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus-the-Elder.
Osiris was the king of Egypt.
His brother, Seth, murdered him and became the king.
After killing him, Seth tore the body of Osiris into pieces.
Isis rescued the pieces.
She wanted to bury the pieces under the temple.
After Seth became king, he was fought by Horus, Osiris's son.
Seth lost and was sent to the desert.
Seth became the god of horrible storms.
Osiris was mummified by Anubis and became God of the dead.
Horus became the new king.
In ancient Egypt, it was believed that the pharaohs were Horus's descendants.
The ancient Greeks believed that Egyptian gods and goddesses were the descendants of their gods and goddesses.
In ancient Greek Mythology, when the titan Typhon was set free, all of the Greek gods (except for Hermes and Zeus) fled to Egypt.
In Greece, many of the gods made themselves turn into animals to hide themselves from Typhon.
Egypt had a developed view of the afterlife with rituals for preparing the body and soul for a peaceful life after death.
Beliefs about the soul and afterlife focused mainly on preserving the body.
This was because they believed that the ka (a part of a person's soul that was depicted as a bird with a persons head) was still living in the body after death and it was important for the ka to be reunited with the ba, the spirit or soul to form the akh.
This meant that embalming and mummification were done, in order to preserve the person's identity in the afterlife.
Originally the dead were buried in reed coffins in the hot sand, which caused the remains to dry quickly, and then were buried.
Later, they started constructing wooden tombs, and the long process of mummification was developed by the Egyptians around the 4th Dynasty.
All soft tissues were removed, and the cavities washed and packed with natron, then the outer body was buried in natron as well.
The heart was the only organ left within the body as it was believed the heart had to be weighed in the underworld to see if the person was worthy of a peaceful afterlife.
The other organs were placed in 'canopic jars' which had seals depicting the heads of the Gods that guarded the intestines: Imsety,an Egyptian man who guards the liver, Hapi, a baboon who guards the lungs, Duamutef, a jackal who guards the stomach and Qebehsenuef, a falcon who guards the intestines.
After coming out of the natron, the bodies were coated inside and out with resin to preserve them, then wrapped with linen bandages, embedded with religious amulets and talismans.
In the case of royalty, this was usually then placed inside a series of nested coffins.
The outer layer of the coffins was a stone sarcophagus.
Other creatures were also mummified, sometimes thought to be pets of Egyptian families, but more likely they represented the gods.
They left the heart in place because they thought it was the home of the soul.
The Book of the Dead was a series of almost two hundred spells represented as texts, songs and pictures written on papyrus.
They were individually customized for the dead.
They were buried along with the dead to make their passage into the underworld easier.
After working their way through lakes of fire, spitting cobras, demon jackals and giant bugs their soul is led into a hall of judgment in Duat by Anubis (god of mummification) and the deceased's heart, which was the record of the morality of the owner, is weighed against a single feather representing Ma'at (the concept of truth, and order).
A heart that weighed less than the feather was considered a pure heart.
This resulted in a good outcome.
A heart heavy with guilt and sin from one's life weighed more than the feather, and so the heart would be eaten by Ammit (Eater of Hearts)–part crocodile, part lion, and part hippopotamus.
If the outcome was good, the dead are taken to Osiris, god of the afterlife, in Aaru, but the if the out come was bad, the demon Ammit destroyed their heart which killed the soul.
The person would then be placed in a special place with food just out of reach of their hands.
If they ever got the food, demons would put them into a hole to make it harder for them.
The Greeks wrote a myth about a King who was forced to do the same thing but he was imprisoned in a lake.
Whenever he bent his head to have some water, the lake would drain away only to bring the water back when he stopped trying.
There was also food above his head on a tree and whenever he reached out for it the branch would move away.
The monotheistic period
A short time of monotheism (Atenism) happened when Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) was pharaoh.
He focused the religion on the Egyptian sun god Aten.
The Aten is usually shown as a sun disk with rays coming out of all sides.
Akhenaten built a new capital at Amarna with temples for The Aten.
Akhenaten's religion only lasted until his death.
The old religion was quickly restored by Tutankhamun, Akhenaten's son by his wife Kiya.
While most historians say this period is monotheistic, some researchers do not.
They say that people worshipped the royal family as gods who got their divine power from the Aten.
In one picture, Akhenaten is shown with his wife Nefertiti with three of their 6 daughters sitting under the beams of the Aten.
This point of view is mostly ignored by the historians.
Some researchers say that Akhenaten or some of his viziers were Moses or Joseph (Bible) from the Bible.
After the fall of the Amarna dynasty, the original Egyptin pantheon was the main religion, until the development Coptic Christianity and later Islam, even though the Egyptians continued to have relations with the other monotheistic cultures (the Hebrews).
Egyptian mythology put up surprisingly little resistance to the spread of Christianity.
This is sometimes explained by saying that Jesus was originally a syncretism based mainly on Horus, with Isis and her worship becoming Mary.
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