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They were produced by rock band All Insane Kids and are called "Hero" and "Caught In A Dream" (the latter being used as the theme of Bionicle 3).
Further down Bionicle's history, more songs were used to help advertise their sets, most of which were produced by Danish band Cryoshell, as well as songs by other artists, like "Crashed" by Daughtry and "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects.
Bionicle.com , Official Bionicle Website
BionicleStory.com , Bionicle.com subsite to feature storyline information
BZPower, Bionicle fan forum and news site
BIONICLEsector01, External Bionicle wiki
KanohiJournal , Bionicle fan emagazine
The first meaning  refers  Flowers ,Flower Goddess and plant life in an area or time period (especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life).
The corresponding term for animal life is fauna.
The second meaning refers to a book or other work which describes the plant species in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification.
The term flora comes from the Latin language.
Flora was the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology.
Plants are grouped into floras based on region, period, special environment, or climate.
Regions can be geographically distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland.
Floras can mean plant life of an historic era as in fossil flora.
Bacterial organisms are sometimes included in a flora    .
Other times, the terms bacterial flora and plant flora are used separately.
Floras (in the second sense)
Classic floras
Flora Londinensis, William Curtis.
England 1777- 1798
Flora Graeca, John Sibthorp. (
England) 1806 - 1840
Flora Danica, Simon Paulli.
Denmark, 1847.
Flora Jenensis, Heinrich Bernhard Rupp  Germany, 1718.
Flora Scorer, Paolo Di Canio.
Flora Suecica, Carolus Linnaeus.
Hortus indicus malabaricus, Hendrik van Rheede 1683–1703
Flora Javae, Carl Ludwig Blume and Joanne Baptista Fischer.
Modern floras
Britton, N. L., and Percy Wilson.
Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands — Volume V, Part 1: Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Pandanales to Thymeleales.
New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1924.
Central & South America
Flora de Chile
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Guatemala
Flora de Nicaragua
Flora of Peru
Flora of the Guianas
Flora of Panama
Flora del Paraguay
Flora of Suriname
Flora Mesoamericana (1994-ongoing) Introduction
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana
Flora Neotropica (1968-ongoing) Organising committee website .
Flora of North America
Kearney, Thomas H. Arizona Flora.
University of California Press, 1940.
Hickman, James C., editor.
The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California.
University of California Press, 1993.
Hultén, Eric.
Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants.
Stanford University Press, 1968.
Radford, Albert E. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Hitchcock, C. Leo, and Arthur Cronquist.
Flora of the Pacific Northwest.
University of Washington Press, 1973.
Chadde, Steve W., and Steve Chadde.
A Great Lakes Wetland Flora.
Pocketflora Press, 2002.
P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core.
Flora of West Virginia.
Seneca Books Inc., 1964.
Ann Fouler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block.
The Plants of Pennsylvania.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon.
Addison Brown.
An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada.
Dover Publications, 1913, 1970.
Flora of China
Flora of China in eFloras
Flora of Japan
Flora of Thailand
Florae Siamensis Enumeratio
Flora Malesiana
Flora of the Malay Peninsula
Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viêt-Nam
Indian region and Sri Lanka
Flora of Bhutan
Flora of the Presidency of Madras by J.S. Gamble (1915-36)
Flora of Nepal
Flora of the upper Gangetic plains by J. F. Duthie (1903-29)
Botany of Bihar and Orissa by H.H. Haines (1921-25)
Middle East and western Asia
M. Zohary (1966).
Flora Palaestina part 1.
M. Zohary (1972).
Flora Palaestina part 2.
N. Feinbrun (1978).
Flora Palaestina part 3.
N. Feinbrun (1986).
Flora Palaestina part 4.
A.  Danin, (2004).
Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina Area (Flora Palaestina part 5).
Flora of Australia series
Flora of New Zealand series:
Allan, H.H. 1961, reprinted 1982.
Flora of New Zealand.
Volume I: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons. .
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970, reprinted 1976.
Volume II: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae. .
Healy, A.J.; Edgar, E. 1980.
Flora of New Zealand Volume III.
Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons. .
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.;Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988.
Flora of New Zealand Volume IV: Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. .
Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2000.
Flora of New Zealand Volume V: Grasses. .
Volumes I-V: First electronic edition, Landcare Research, June 2004.
Transcribed by A.D. Wilton and I.M.L. Andres.
Galloway, D.J. 1985.
Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1986.
Flora of New Zealand: Desmids.
Volume I. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1988.
Volume II. .
Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A.;Racine, M.M. 1994.
Volume III. .
Sykes, W.R.; West, C.J.; Beever, J.E.; Fife, A.J. 2000.
Kermadec Islands Flora - Special Edition. .
Flora Vitiensis Nova, a New Flora of Fiji
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i, Warren L. Wagner and Derral R. Herbst (1991) + suppl.
Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Flore de la Polynésie Française (J. Florence, vol.
1 & 2, 1997 & 2004)
Morton O. 1994.
Marine Algae of Northern Ireland.
Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Stace, Clive Anthony, and Hilli Thompson (illustrator).
A New Flora of the British Isles.
Cambridge University Press, 1997. .
Beesley S. and J. Wilde.
Urban Flora of Belfast.
Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
Killick, John, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell.
Flora of Oxfordshire.
Pisces Publications, 1998. .
Bowen, Humphry.
The Flora of Dorset.
Pisces Publications, 2000. .
Flora Celtica Plants and people in Celtic Europe
Flora Europaea at the site of The Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh
Flora of Europe
Flora Iberica
Flora of Acores
Flora Danica
Flora of Romania
Africa and Madagascar
Flore du Gabon
Flore du Cameroun
Flora Zambesiaca
Flore du Rwanda
Flore de Madagascar et des Comores
Biome — a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities.
Vegetation — a general term for the plant life of a region.
eFloras — a collection of on-line floras
Chilebosque — checklist of Chilean native flora
Flora of NW Europe  with descriptions and a quiz to test your knowledge
Flora of Israel Online
Flora of Australia Online
Flora of New Zealand Series Online
Gut flora, the bacteria and other microorganisms in the intestines of a larger animal.
Flora (grape), a cross between Sémillon and Gewürztraminer.
Flora (margarine), the name used in the UK and Ireland for the Becel brand of margarine made by Unilever
Flora (mythology), a goddess in Roman mythology
Flora (Prague Metro), a station on Line A of the Prague Metro
8 Flora, an asteroid
FC Flora Tallinn, a football team in Estonia
Flora (Winx Club), a fictional character from the show The Winx Club
Flora, a painting by Titian
Flora Brovina, a Yugoslavian pediatrician, feminist, poet, and human rights activist
Flora Larsson (1904-2000), Commissioner in The Salvation Army, writer, mother of John Larsson,
Flora MacDonald, a Canadian politician
Flora MacDonald (Scottish Jacobite), a Jacobite who aided Bonnie Prince Charlie
Flora Robson, a British actress
Flora Sheldon, the grandmother of US President George H. W. Bush
Flora Stevenson, a Scottish educational reformer
Flora Tristan, a founder of modern feminism
Flora Twort, an English painter
Flora Purim, the singer on Chick Corea's early Return to Forever albums
Jim Flora, an American illustrator
Paul Flora, an Austrian painter and cartoonist
Snowden Flora, an American meteorologist and tornado researcher
Flora the Valentinian - a 2nd-century Valentinian
Flora, Norway
Flora, Apayao, The Philippines
Flora, Illinois, USA
Flora, Indiana, USA
Flora Township, Minnesota, USA
Flora, Mississippi, USA
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966 in Marseille) is a French football player turned actor.
He was one of Manchester United's greatest players.
Cantona has more than 140 appearances with Manchester United.
He ended his professional footballing career with the team.
Cantona had earlier played for Leeds United before moving to Manchester United in 1992.
He has also played for France national team from 1987 to 1994.
He retired from football in 1997 and became a film actor.
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|1984/85||5||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||5||2
|1985/86||7||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0||8||0
|1985/86||Martigues||Division 2||15||4||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||15||4
|1986/87||rowspan="2"|Auxerre||rowspan="2"|Division 1||36||13||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||36||13
|1987/88||32||8||5||1||colspan="2"|-||2||1||39||10
|1988/89||Olympique Marseille||Division 1||22||5||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||5
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|1989/90||Montpellier||Division 1||33||10||8||8||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||41||18
|1990/91||Olympique Marseille||Division 1||18||8||5||1||colspan="2"|-||3||1||26||10
|1991/92||Nîmes Olympique||Division 1||17||2||2||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||4
|1991/92||rowspan="2"|Leeds United||First Division||15||3||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||3
|1992/93||Premier League||13||6||0||0||1||0||5||1||19||7
|1992/93||rowspan="5"|Manchester United||rowspan="5"|Premier League||22||9||1||0||0||0||0||0||23||9
|1993/94||34||18||5||4||5||1||4||2||48||25
|1994/95||21||12||1||1||0||0||2||0||24||13
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|1987||3||1
|1989||4||3
|1990||7||6
|1991||4||2
|1992||9||2
|1993||7||5
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Actors from Marseille
Sportspeople from Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Twin towns are towns or cities in different countries which are paired to encourage human contact and cultural links.
In Europe, the pairs of towns are called twin towns, but other languages  say friendship towns or partner towns; in North America and Australasia, the towns are called sister cities.
Brother cities was the name of twinned cities in the old Soviet bloc.
Twin towns often (but not always) have similar populations, industries and other characteristics.
Sometimes, even larger areas enter into "twinning" agreements, such as that between the provinces of Hainan in China and Jeju in South Korea.
For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
Each twin city country is represented in a specific ward of the city and in each ward has a peace garden dedicated to that twin city.
Since 1989, the European Union has had a support scheme for town twinning.
In 2003 an annual budget of about 12 million euros was given to about 1,300 projects.
The first city in North America to establish a sister city relationship was Toledo, Ohio, United States, with Toledo, Spain in 1931.
In 1944, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  twinned with the Ukrainian city of Odessa, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union.
This was to show support and to help the allied port city during World War II.
Town-twinning information from the European Commission
Sister Cities International (cities twinned with cities in the USA)
Germany and the town twinning movement
List of UK twin towns
Toledo Sister Cities International
Two Toledos Documentary
Town twinning in Europe's municipalities, towns and regions
The Buffyverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Joss Whedon.
It is the setting used for the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), the BtVS television series and the Angel television series.
Comic books and novels based on both the Buffy and Angel television series and the Fray comic book also take place in the Buffyverse.
The term Buffyverse was created by the fans of the shows and later used by Whedon as the name for his world.
The term has also been used in the titles of published works.
The Buffyverse is a world where Vampires and demons exist.
Many different types of fictional creatures and monsters can be found in this world.
These creatures include werewolves, ghosts, trolls, and witches.
It is a world where magic is used often.
Most of the people in the Buffyverse do not know that these creatures live in this world or that magic exists.
Notable features
The Slayer or Chosen One is a young girl with super-human strength, agility and stamina.
It is her destiny to fight evil.
When one Slayer is killed, a new girl is chosen to become the new Slayer.
The new slayer has all of the power of the last Slayer as soon as she is chosen.
The new Slayer also begins to have dreams that tell her of her future and Slayers from the past.
The first Slayer was created long before written history by a group of men who looked like Aborigine.
She was created by combine her with a demon.
As each Slayer is killed, the demon moves to the next slayer.
It gives her the powers of the Slayer as well as the dreams of its past with the other slayers.
In the Buffyverse there are many different dimensions or worlds.
Some are full of evil.
A place where the borders between the normal world and an evil dimension are weak is called a Hellmouth.
Evil in the normal world will naturally move towards a hellmouth.
The area closest to a hellmouth will be home to much evil and strange circumstances.
There are two well known hellmouths in the Buffyverse.
The first is located in Sunnydale, California.
This is the place where the stories in Buffy take place.
It is the largest and most powerful hellmouth in the Buffyverse.
The second hellmouth is in Cleveland, Ohio.
Not much is known about this hellmouth.
Buffyverse dialog database
Volume can mean loudness, for example, in the volume control on computers and televisions which lets you tell the unit how loud you want its sound to be.
Loudness is measured in Decibels (Db) and can be measured using a "Decibel Meter" or "sound level meter".
The Atlas Mountains (Amazigh: Idurar n Watlas, ) are a mountain range in northwest Africa.
They extend about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
The highest peak is Tougkal, with an elevation of 4,167 metres (13,671 ft) in southwestern Morocco.
The second highest mountain is the M'Goun of 4071 meters.
The southwestern part is called "Anti-Atlas".
The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.
Most of the people living in the Atlas Mountains are part of Berber tribes in Morocco and in Algeria.
Geography of Algeria
Geography of Morocco
Genetic drift is a random effect on biological populations.
Its effect is to remove genetic variation from a population of living organisms.
In natural populations there are a number of forces acting.
There are forces which add heritable variation to the population, such as mutation and recombination.
There are also  factors which remove variation from the population, and drift is one of these.
In a species, or an interbreeding population, there is usually a great deal of genetic variation.
This genetic variation is in the form of different alleles at many loci (gene positions) on the chromosomes.
Changes in allele frequency are mainly caused by natural selection, that is, by differential survival, and contribution to the next generation.
But as populations get smaller, there is a tendency for each generation to become more homozygous, with less variety of alleles.
This is an effect similar to inbreeding: it leads to genetic uniformity.
Genetic drift is the name given to this loss of variation.
It can affect evolution in surprisingly big ways, but only when populations are quite small.
What 'small' means would depend on the organism.
50 individuals is small, 5000 is not, 500 is maybe.
The basic mechanism of drift is that genetic variety is reduced by chance, making the individuals more similar to each other, and hence more vulnerable.
The human species is often quoted as having been through such stages, for example, when groups left Africa to set up elsewhere (see human evolution).
The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The USSR debuted in these Winter Olympics.
They immediately showed their strength by winning more medals than any other nation.
A total of 32 nations sent athletes to Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Bolivia, Iran, and the USSR competed at the Winter Games for the first time.
Korea, Liechtenstein, and Turkey returned after having missed the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Argentina, Denmark, New Zealand, and Portugal did not compete at these Games, after participating in 1952.
1956 in Europe
1950s in Italy
Winter Olympics 1956
A dustrag or cloth used to remove dust from furniture or other objects
A feather duster
A smaller whisk broom or brush
A light coat or housecoat; see Duster (clothing)
An automobile, the Plymouth Duster
A member of the Amarillo Dusters arena football team
A member of the Hudson Dusters street gang
A gas duster to use on electronics
The M42 Duster self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
A lo-fi space-rock band; see Duster (band)
A main character in the game Mother 3, see Duster (Mother 3)
An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertiliser (aerial topdressing); in this role they are referred to as "top dressers" or "crop dusters."
Agricultural aircraft are also used for hydroseeding.
A term given to a style of stories and movies about the western half of the United States (cowboys), sometimes also known as westerns
In baseball, a brushback or possible beanball
A feather duster is a tool used for cleaning.
It consists typically of a handle and a segment composed of natural or artificial feathers which form the cleaning-contact surface.
It is particularly useful for removing dust from surfaces.
Electrostatics (also known as static electricity) is the branch of physics that deals with apparently stationary electric charges.
Although charge exchange happens whenever any two surfaces contact and separate, the effects of charge exchange are usually only noticed when at least one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electrical flow.
This is because the charges that transfer to or from the highly resistive surface are more or less trapped there for a long enough time for their effects to be observed.
The attraction of plastic wrap to ones hand when one has removed it from a package.
Spontaneous explosion of grain silos.
Damage of electronic components during manufacturing or the operation of photocopiers.
Other websites and further reading
RMCybernetics: High Voltage Physics .
Homemade projects & experiments.
"Man's static jacket sparks alert".
BBC News, 16 September 2005.
"Can shocks from static electricity damage your health? ".
Wolfson Electrostatics News pages.
"Can Gravity be an Electrostatic Force? "
A Quantum theory of Gravitation, 2005.
invisible wall of static
Essays and books
William J. Beaty, "Humans and sparks; The Cause, Stopping the Pain, and 'Electric People".
William Cecil Dampier, "The theory of experimental electricity".
Cambridge [Eng.]
University press, 1905 (Cambridge physical series).
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The coat of arms of the Dominican Republic, as described by Article 96 of the Dominican Constitution, has a shield supported by an olive branch (left) and a palm leaf (right); above the shield, a blue ribbon displays the national motto: Dios, Patria, Libertad (God, Fatherland, Freedom).
Below the shield, there is a red ribbon with the words República Dominicana (Dominican Republic).
In the center of the shield there is an opened Bible with a small cross above it, and on each side flanked by three spears, two of them holding Dominican flags.
The Constitution does not specify in what page should be opened the Bible; only that is the "Book of Gospels, opened".
In fact, only the 1916 Constitution said "opened in John, Chapter XIII" but that constitution was not valid because of the occupation of the country by United States.
The official Dominican coat of arms, or Great Seal of the Nation, was established in 1913, when Adolfo Nouel was the President of the Dominican Republic.
1844 establishments in the Dominican Republic
Eustis is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States.
Its current population as of 2005 is 17,683.
City of Eustis
Fort Walton Beach is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States.
As of 2005, the population is estimated to be 19,817.
City of Fort Walton Beach
Local Boating Events and Information
Outdoor Recreation Guide for Fort Walton Beach, Destin, and Pensacola
Local Family Condo Rentals
A supercell is a strong type of thunderstorm with a thick, rotating updraft (a mesocyclone).
Supercell thunderstorms are the largest, most dangerous type of thunderstorms.
There are really only two types of thunderstorms: supercell and ordinary, but some have four classifications: single-cell, multi-cell, squall line, and supercell.
Structure and Dynamics of Supercell Thunderstorms - NWS
University of Illinois World Weather Project
Weather Glossary for Storm Spotters - NWS
Lemon, Leslie R. (1998): On the Mesocyclone "Dry Intrusion" and Tornadogenesis
Lemon, Leslie R., Charles A. Doswell III (1979): "Severe Thunderstorm Evolution and Mesocyclone Structure as Related to Tornadogenesis".
Monthly Weather Review Vol.
1184–1197.
Browning, K.A. and Ludlam, F.H. (1962): "Airflow In Convective Storms", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 88, 117-135.
Explanation of Supercells
Picture sequence of a supercell in Nebraska
Sideshow of Supercell images
de:Gewitter#Superzellengewitter
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (December 15, 1942 – August 18, 2019) was an American politician.
She served as Governor of Louisiana from 2004 through 2008 until being replaced by Bobby Jindal.
She was born in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Blanco is a member of the Democratic Party.
In December 2017, Blanco was diagnosed with an incurable form of eye melanoma and liver cancer.
On April 19, 2019, it was announced that she was in hospice care.
Blanco died on August 18, 2019 under hospice care in Lafayette, Louisiana at the age of 76.
Governors of Louisiana
Deaths from eye neoplasm
Lieutenant Governors of Louisiana
The Armenian hypothesis suggests that the Proto-Indo-European languages was spoken in the Armenian Highland in the 3rd millennium BC.
Scholars Tamaz Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov place the homeland in Armenia.
T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, The Early History of Indo-European Languages, Scientific American, March 1990
I.M. Diakonoff, The Prehistory of the Armenian People (1984).
Robert Drews, The Coming of the Greeks (1988), argues for late Greek arrival in the framework of the Armenian hypothesis.
Martiros Kavoukjian, Armenia, Subartu, and Sumer : the Indo-European homeland and ancient Mesopotamia, trans.
N. Ouzounian, Montreal (1987), .
Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups
Wilsonian Armenia is used for the borders that were drawn by Woodrow Wilson at the Treaty of Sèvres.
The area was to the north and to the west side of Trabzon Province to provide the DRA an area to the Black Sea.
The Armenian national fight for "Western Armenia" being somewhat part of the newly established Turkish republic dropped from the table.
Wilson for Armenia - Armenian Cause and International Law
Wilsonian Armenia - Armeniapedia.org
Yasuo Fukuda () (born 16 July 1936) was Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008.
He was born in Gunma, Japan.
The prime minister before him was Shinzo Abe.
He hosted the G8 meeting in Hokkaido in July 2008, but resigned on September 1, 2008, due to low approval ratings and political deadlock.
He was succeeded by Taro Aso.
People from Gunma Prefecture
Mercenaries are soldiers who fight for money, rather than for their country, political/religious beliefs, or other benefits.
Mercenaries are a very old phenomenon.
They are mentioned in the Old Testament, and King David had a bodyguard of Cretan and Philistine mercenaries.
They are also mentioned in the Iliad, specifically the Myrmidons who fought in the Trojan War (12th century BC).
The Carthaginians often used mercenaries.
The so-called Free Companies in the Middle Ages were mercenary companies of rogue knights and archers.
The Japanese ronin were mercenary samurai.
For many years in the Middle Ages, soldiers from Switzerland fought battles for whoever paid them.
The popes would hire soldiers from Switzerland to fight for them.
The Swiss Guard is all that is left of Switzerland's mercenary tradition, but it is no longer a mercenary force because all its members are Catholic, and they are prepared to fight not for their country but for their beliefs.
Soldiers of professional volunteer armies, like the US Army, are not considered as mercenaries since they fight for their country and fatherland.
Likewise, foreign volunteers in standing armies, such as French Foreign Legion, are not considered as mercenaries since they are loyal to the country that they serve.
However, various private military contractors are considered as mercenaries.
Kere ( or Kerey) is a lake in Kazakhstan, in Akmola Province.
Its area is 63.8 square kilometres.
It is about 10 km south of Lake Tengiz
Jean-Pierre Jeunet bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short movies while studying animation at Cinémation Studios.
He made friends with Marc Caro.
Caro was a designer and comic book artist.
Caro worked on many of Jeunet's movies with him.
Their first live-action movie was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981).
It was a short movie about soldiers in a futuristic world.
Jeunet also directed numerous television advertisements and music videos.
Jeunet and Caro's first full-length movie was Delicatessen (1991).
It was a black comedy set in a famine-plagued future.
Next came The City of Lost Children (1995).
It was a dark fantasy movie with a story about a doctor who kidnaps children in order to steal their dreams.
Because The City of Lost Children was well liked, Jeunet was asked to direct the fourth movie in the Alien series - Alien: Resurrection (1997).
Though not well received by critics, Alien: Resurrection turned a profit at the box office.
Jeunet returned to France after making Alien: Resurrection.
The fact that he had made a Hollywood movie gave him freedom on his next movie, Amélie.
Amélie is lighter and more romantic than his earlier movies.
This story was a huge success worldwide.
It was nominated for several Academy Awards.
For this movie he also got an European Film Award for Best Director.
In 2004, Jeunet released A Very Long Engagement.
It is based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot.
The movie is set after World War I. It is about a woman (played by Audrey Tautou) looking for her missing lover.
L'Évasion (1978)
Le Manege (1980)
Le Bunker de la derniere rafale (1981)
Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko (1984)
Foutaises (1989)
Delicatessen (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Amélie (2001)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet Official Site
French movie directors
Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian movie and television screenwriter.
His most famous works are the 1994 movie Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.
Yost did not write the dialog for Speed.
The dialog was written by Joss Whedon.
He has also written for the television series Herman's Head, Band of Brothers, and Boomtown.
More recently, he is the creator of the NBC drama Raines starring Jeff Goldblum that premiered on March 15, 2007.
Yost won an Emmy award for his part in the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon and for his involvement in The Pacific.
Graham also won a Golden Globe for his work on HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers.
Graham was one of the writers for the show.
A longboat was an open boat used on-board ships during the age of the sailing ships.
The original name was 'Shallop' but was changed to longboat in the 18th century.
A ship or vessel would carry several ship's boats  for various uses.
The most important would be a longboat, an open boat to be rowed by up to eight or ten oarsmen.
The longboat had rowing benches designed for up to two men to an oar.
A longboat was designed for use in rough water and could be rigged for sails.
One of its main uses was as a pulling boat.
Another was to weigh anchor.
When a ship was at anchor, longboats carried people and supplies between ship and shore.
Jarrow is a town in England.
It has 27,000 people.
Romans had set up a fort near Jarrow in the 1st century.
Later in the 5th century, Anglo-Saxons occupied the location.
It is not well known when Jarrow was first built.
The name of "Jarrow" has been used from 750.
The monastery of St Paul is the sister monastery of Monkwearmouth in Sunderland.
Towns in Tyne and Wear
A total of 30 nations sent athletes to compete at these Games, which was the highest number to that date.
This was the first time New Zealand and Portugal participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Australia, Germany, and Japan returned, after having missed the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Korea, Liechtenstein, and Turkey did not participate in 1952, after having competed in 1948.
1952 in sports
1952 in Europe
History of Oslo
1940s in Japan
Cancelled Olympic Games
The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1936 in the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.
Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin.
28 nations sent athletes to compete in Germany, to date the largest number at a Winter Games.
Australia, Bulgaria, Greece, Liechtenstein, Spain, and Turkey all made their Winter Olympic debut in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia all returned to the Games after having missed the 1932 Winter Olympics.
Olympics, Winter
History of Bavaria
Olympic Games in Germany
In anatomy, the atlas is the top cervical vertebra (neck bones) of the spine.
In anatomy, the atlas is written (C1) for short.
The atlas connects to a vertebra called the axis.
Together they form the joint connecting the skull to the rest of the spine.
The atlas and axis are different in shape from all the other vertebrae.
They have more movement.
They allow the head to nod and to rotate (turn).
Vertebrae (singular: vertebra) are the individual irregular bones that make up the spinal column (aka ischis) – a flexuous and flexible column.
There are normally thirty-three (33) vertebrae in humans, including the five that are fused to form the sacrum (the others are separated by intervertebral discs) and the four coccygeal bones which form the tailbone.
The upper three regions comprise the remaining 24, and are grouped under the names cervical (7 vertebrae), thoracic (12 vertebrae) and lumbar (5 vertebrae), according to the regions they occupy.
Each vertebra has a hole through which the spinal cord passes.
Gray's Anatomy: The Vertebral column - The 1917 Gray's Anatomy is available via the Bartleby project.
It is available with full colour diagrams, and provides an excellent starting point in anatomy, as well as a relatively complete source for gross anatomy.
This article was copied and pasted from the 1917 Gray's Anatomy, which is in the public domain.
Smart implant will help broken vertebra  - An article from IsraCast
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own and not as a part of a Summer Olympics.
The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were later renamed as Winter Olympics.
They were actually part of the 1924 Summer Olympics.
All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games.
Athletes from 25 nations competed at these Games, up from 16 in 1924.
This was the first time many countries attended the Winter Olympic Games, including Argentina, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Romania.
1928 in Europe
For the purposes of local government, England is divided into as many as four levels of administrative divisions.
At some levels, various legislation has created alternative types of administrative division.
Regional level
At the top level, England is divided into nine regions.
Each one containing one or more county-level areas.
The regions were created in 1994 and since the 1999 Euro-elections have been used as England's European Parliament constituencies.
All have the same status.
However London is the only region with any devolved power in the form of an elected mayor and the Greater London Authority.
The regions also vary greatly in their areas and their populations.
County level
England is divided by the Lieutenancies Act 1997 into areas for the appointment of Lord Lieutenants, who are historically the Crown's representative in a county.
Although not actually defined as such, these areas have become known as ceremonial counties.
These counties are sometimes used by people when describing where they live in England.
However, many are not used as local government areas themselves, as many are too large or include large urban areas.
They are taken into consideration though when drawing up Parliamentary constituency boundaries for example.
There are six metropolitan counties, divided into metropolitan boroughs, which cover large urban areas outside London.
They were created in 1974.
In 1986 their county councils were abolished.
Shire county
The "shire counties" were also created in 1974 and are legally known as non-metropolitan counties.
They are divided into non-metropolitan districts and cover much of the country, though mainly the rural areas.
Unitary authorities were created in the 1990s and are single-tier authorities which combine the functions of county and district councils.
They are defined either as counties consisting of a single district or districts of a county such as Berkshire that has no county council.
The Isle of Wight is the exception, being a county council with no districts.
Greater London was created in 1965 and is sometimes considered as a metropolitan county but it is not defined as such.
It is divided into the City of London and London boroughs.
District level
Metropolitan district
The metropolitan counties were divided into metropolitan districts which are usually called boroughs.
When the county councils were abolished the metropolitan districts gained much of their powers and therefore function similar to other unitary authorities.
Non-metropolitan district
Power is shared with the county council, but shared differently to the metropolitan counties when first created.
Parish level
Under the legislation that created Greater London, they are not permitted within its boundary.
Not all of the rest of England is parished, though the number of parishes and total area parished is growing.
Inner and Middle Temples
The Isles of Scilly have a sui generis local authority, the Isles of Scilly Council, which is similar to a unitary authority found in the rest of England.
Changes proposed in 2004
A referendum was held in North East England on November 4, 2004 to see whether people there wished to have an elected regional assembly.
As part of the referendum, voters were to have been asked to choose which system of unitary authorities they would like to see in the existing county council areas if the regional assembly was approved.
In the event, the vote in the North East was a decisive "no", making the proposed local government changes moot.
Similar referendums in North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber were postponed indefinitely: on 8 November 2004 the Deputy Prime Minister announced "I will not therefore be bringing forward orders for referendums in either the North West, or Yorkshire and the Humber". *
Statement by Deputy Prime Minister
Most of the proposed changes would have required no change in the county level entites, as they could have been be implemented by merging districts and abolition of the county council.
Where borders were crossed, however, changes would have been needed.
This impacted Lancashire, where various parts were proposed for combination with Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen (both unitaries), Sefton (in Merseyside), Wigan (in Greater Manchester), and southern Cumbria; it also affects one proposal for North Yorkshire, which would have merged the district of Selby with the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Few of the boundary changes would have involved creating new borders - only the proposals to combine Blackpool with parts of Wyre, and to split West Lancashire between Wigan and Sefton would do this.
Changes under consideration in 2007
On 27 March, 2007, Local Government Minister Phil Woolas announced  that sixteen councils bidding for unitary status had been short listed to go forward for public consultation.
On 26 July, 2007 Wollas' successor John Healey announced that nine proposals would proceed, subject to the approval of Parliament in the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (LGPIH).
The Government expects those approved for implementation to be fully operational by April 2009.
The short-listed proposals were those made by:
Council review may mean end of counties  (The Guardian, 29 December 2005)
The games were thought to be a success.
Half of the expense of the games was covered by the Dutch government.
A total of 46 nations were represented at the Amsterdam Games.
Malta, Panama, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) competed at the Olympic Games for the first time.
Germany returned after having been banned in 1920 and 1924.
Amsterdam 1928 at Olympic.org
History of Amsterdam
20th century in the Netherlands
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1924 in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Europe (FRANCE) between 30 January and 2 February 1922.
At first, the games were called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and were held as part of the 1924 Summer Olympics.
It was later decided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the Games would be called the I Olympic Winter Games.
Russia won the four man bobsled.
1920s in France
Winter Olympics 1924
1924 in Europe
Realism is a way of portraying or thinking about reality.
The word "realism" is used in many liberal arts in many different ways (such as in music, painting, and philosophy).
It usually means trying to be true to reality.
This is where the word "realistic" comes from.
Realism is usually seen as an opposite of romanticism and idealism.
It is also sometimes seen as an opposite of liberalism and classicism.
It is used mainly to describe the way that some artists treat making art.
These artists try to focus on the world as it really is, without unrealistic or supernatural ideas.
Realism began as an art movement and  in the 19th century.
These realists wanted to give an accurate description of nature and of the way people lived.
Realism can also apply to artists and artworks from before the 19th century though.
The word "realism" first appeared in 1794, as the opposite of idealism in art and philosophy.
The French magazine  () used the word in 1826.
It said that realism was the art-style of being accurate to real life, rather than following art of the past.
Around this same time, realism was thought to have been one of the styles of philosophy within scholasticism.
Then in the 1840s, realism began as an art movement in France.
It focused on realistic modern life without avoiding what was unpleasant.
It also focused on the lower or middle classes.
Realism in liberal arts
In music there was a movement called Verismo which was the Italian word for "reality".
Verismo was popular in Italian opera around the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Puccini was an opera composer whose style is typical of Verismo.
In painting and drawing
In politics and history
In writing and philosophy
Realism as a literary movement began in Germany.
The poet and writer Heinrich Heine  tried in his books to accept the world as it is instead of trying to escape from it.
Realistic writers tried to find good things about society.
The interest in realism led to a movement called naturalism.
This meant describing scenes in nature accurately.
The novelist Emile Zola was a naturalist.
In philosophy, realism is also a way of thinking about knowledge and reality.
It is usually the view that a particular thing is real whether or not it is known about.
In fact, one person can be a realist about some things and a non-realist about other things.
For example, some realists say that the past really happened no matter what we think about it.
Other realist philosophers say that there are morals that really exist as facts.
This is different from philosophers who say that things only exist because of people who are aware of them.
For example, a non-realist philosopher might say beauty only exists because someone sees something that they think is beautiful.
A realist philosopher might instead say that beauty is there whether anyone sees it or not.
The term social realism describes an art form in America in the 1930s which expressed social protest in a naturalistic way.
This is different from what is usually called socialist realism which was a term used by Soviet politicians from 1932 to the mid 1980s to describe art which showed the workers' struggle, glorifying the Soviet Union.
Philosophical movements and positions‎
A ridge is a stretched out area of high atmospheric pressure compared to normal recorded pressures.
It is also the opposite of a trough.
Hurricane Hunters are special aircraft that fly into or around a tropical cyclone to gather information (or data).
Hurricane Hunters are only used to study tropical cyclones in the northern Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean.
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron homepage
403rd Wing Homepage
Air Weather Reconnaissance Association homepage
NHC Reconnaissance data archive
The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center homepage
Navy Hurricane Hunters homepage
VW-1 All Hands Alumni Association homepage
St. Vincent Island, Florida is one of a group of islands that is located in the Floridan Gulf Coast.
St. Vincent Island at Green Nature
Forgotten Florida
Islands of Florida
Phencyclidine (a shortened version of the chemical name phenylcyclohexylpiperidine), usually called PCP, is an illegal drug.
PCP is called a hallucinogenic drug: it causes people to hallucinate, and see, hear, and sense things that are not real.
PCP is neurotoxic.
It causes changes to the brain that can leave permanent damage.
Before people started using PCP as an illegal drug, it was used as an anesthetic.
PCP is a white powder, made of tiny crystals.
It dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
PCP has many slang or 'street names'; the most common is "angel dust".
Other slang names for PCP are angel hair, angel mist, aurora borealis, black whack, crystal, cyclones, devil dust, dummy dust, embalming fluid, hallucinogen, horse tranquilizer, jet fuel, magic dust, rocket fuel, or star dust.
PCP is sometimes mixed with marijuana and called love boat or killer weed.
PCP can also be mixed with crack; this is called "space basing".
PCP was created after World War II as a surgical anesthetic.
It worked well, but there were serious side effects: hallucinations, jumbled speech, and delirium.
Around the mid-to-late 1960s, the drug sprang up on the streets of San Francisco as a "Peace Pill."
People soon realized that it was a very dangerous drug.
In the San Francisco area, the use of PCP died out before the 1970s.
At the same time, the drug was becoming more common in New York, and it spread quickly there.
However, its use in this area died out, like in San Francisco.
The United States made it illegal to use PCP for any reason, or to make the drug, because of its serious effects.
People can have many different effects from using PCP.
The drug can affect the central nervous system (the brain and major nerves).
This can cause many changes in the brain and body.
Changes in feeling and thinking
Euphoria (feeling very happy)
Loss of inhibitions which normally keep people from doing things that are dangerous or inappropriate
Anxiety or paranoia (feeling very worried or scared)
Feeling disoriented: a person is confused and may not know who he is, where he is, or what is happening
Thinking problems: the person is not able to think clearly, and when they talk they may not make sense
Feeling dissociated: disconnected with the people and things going on around them
Changes in senses
PCP often causes major changes in what a person senses (what he feels, sees, hears, smells, or tastes).
Feeling weightless (the person feels like he weighs nothing and is floating)
Auditory hallucinations (hearing things that are not there)
Visual hallucinations (seeing things that are not there)
Changes in the body
Feeling restless
Feeling tired
Tachycardia (high heart rate)
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Excess salivation (where the body makes more saliva, or spit, than usual)
Numbness
Staggering (not being able to walk straight)
Being unable to speak clearly
Muscle rigidity (where the muscles become very stiff).
How the drug is used
PCP can be eaten, snorted, injected (shot into the body using a needle), or smoked.
A person can take a low, medium, or high dose of PCP, and he will have different effects depending on which dose he takes.
Low doses can cause a person to feel euphoric (very happy), relaxed, numb, detached from his own body, anxious, or confused.
At low doses, people can also have sensory distortions (changes in how they hear, see, taste, smell, or feel things); amnesia (where the person cannot remember things normally); speech which does not make sense; blurred vision; or a blank stare.
Medium doses can cause confusion, agitation, analgesia (not feeling pain), fever, excessive salivation, and "schizophrenic-type" behavior.
High doses can cause seizures, respiratory failure (where the breathing systems in the body stop working), coma, fever, stroke, or death.
People who use PCP can get physically or psychologically (mentally) addicted to the drug.
If an addicted person suddenly stops taking PCP, he will get withdrawal symptoms, like diarrhea, chills, and tremors (uncontrollable shaking in part of the body).
In the brain, PCP affects multiple neurotransmitter systems. (
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers in the brain.)
For example, it keeps the brain from getting rid of extra dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin.
These are all very important neurotransmitters in the brain.
PCP can also affect some types of opioid receptors in the brain.
It also inhibits (or blocks) the action of glutamate by blocking NMDA (N-methyl d-aspartate) receptors.
Prescription drugs like diazepam (Valium), haloperidol (Haldol), and phentolamine may be used to help manage some of PCP's effects.
Philodendron (tree lover) is a large genus of the Arum family, Araceae.
Currently, about 900 different species are known.
The plants are evergreen flowering plants.
Some of them are vines, some can grow as epiphytes.
Most of them grow like bushes.
They can reach a height of about 6 meters.
Very often, Philodendron are grown as houseplants.
They grow quickly, and are easy to care for.
Sometimes Monstera are still called Philodendron.
That plant is very similar.
Philodendron are sometime grown because they can neutralise some poisons commonly found indoors, most notably formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and benzene.
Sagittarius (astrology), an astrological sign
Sagittarius dwarf elliptical galaxy
Sagittarius (band), a 60's California recording project featuring Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher
Sagittarius (comics), a member of a fictional evil organization called Zodiac.
Sagittarii were Roman mounted archers.
Sagittarii (gladiators) were Roman mounted-archer gladiators.
Sagittarius is the astrological Zodiac sign that represents the constellation Sagittarius.
Sagittarius is from November 22 to December 17.
The opposite sign to Sagittarius is Gemini, which is from May 21 to June 20.
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
Its parent is a multinational oil company ("oil major") of Anglo Dutch origins.
Royal Dutch Shell is one of the largest oil companies in the world.