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Police shot and killed some, but more protestors kept coming.
Nicholas gave up the throne.
This ended centuries of Romanov rule.
Alex Kerensky started a new provisional government.
It was ruled by the bourgeoisie, or the wealthy upper-middle class.
The war against the Germans continued.
It drained food supplies.
In the October revolution they overthrew the weak provisional government without that much of killing the people.
The leader Lenin wanted a new government ruled by the soldiers, peasants, and workers.
Having lost power, the nobles of Alex's governments, as well as the  of the previous tsar government, were not happy.
They created the white army and fought Lenin and his red army.
This was the Russian Civil War.
Lenin won and so the communist Soviet Union was born.
This was the start of communist rule in Russia.
It was a model Marxist revolution where the proletariat peasants and workers overthrew the bourgeoisie capitalist nobles.
It inspired similar revolutions across Europe and in China.
Communism forms the foundation of some of these nations today.
The roots can be traced back to socialist ideas developed in the 19th century, and to the 1917 October revolution.
Experience is knowledge a person gets by doing something or watching someone else do it.
Experience is learning through actions.
For example, if someone wants to learn about the game chess, they would play several games.
By making mistakes and learning from them, they learn more rather than just reading about playing.
Types of experience
Someone who experienced by watching or doing something himself is said to have first-hand experience.
When one person tells another person, the other person has second-hand experience.
When an experience is felt or enjoyed through imagined participation, the person has had a "vicarious experience".
A religious experience is a spiritual event seen by someone.
Holy books like the Bible talk about visions or dreams where men like Moses, Daniel or Jesus met God.
Mystics also describe these events, and offer advice.
William James wrote a famous book about the kinds of religious experience.
Proverbs about Experience
"Only the foolish learn from experience — the wise learn from the experience of others."
Romanian proverb. (
Fools go out, make their own mistakes and learn from them.
Smart people learn from others' mistakes.)
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Benjamin Franklin (Fools refuse to learn in school from textbooks or teachers.
Fools choose to learn only from their own mistakes.
They will not learn in a school classroom.)
or (Experience is a great teacher and teaches many of life's most important lessons, but only fools will refuse to get new knowledge in other ways too.
Examples of other ways to learn things are listening, reading, remembering, and reasoning.)
http://www.primeguru.com (Site discontinued) Learn from other's experiences and let others learn from your experiences
Norse or Scandinavian mythology is the belief and legends of the Scandinavian people.
Norse mythology is a version of the older Germanic mythology and was later replaced by Christianity for the most part.
Norse mythology is a set of beliefs and stories shared by Northern Germanic tribes.
It was not handed down from the gods to the mortal.
It had no scripture.
The mythology was passed on from one generation to the next in the form of poetry.
It continued to be passed down this way through the time of the Vikings.
The original beliefs were long lost.
Our knowledge about it is mainly based on the Eddas and other medieval texts.
These were written down while and after they turned to Christianity.
In Norse mythology, the universe was thought to have 9 realms or “worlds”.
Asgard is where the gods lived.
Asgard could only be reached by walking across the rainbow (the Bifröst bridge).
The Frost Giants lived in a place called Jötunheimr.
Jötunheimr means giant realm.
A cold, dark place called Niflheim was ruled by Hel.
She was the daughter of Loki.
This was the eventual home of most of the dead.
Located somewhere in the south was the fiery realm of Muspelheim, home of the fire giants.
Supernatural beings
There are three "clans" of deities, the Æsir, the Vanir, and the Jötnar (referred to as giants in this article).
After a long war, the Æsir and Vanir made peace and joined together.
The Æsir and the Vanir are enemies with the Jötnar or giants.
The Æsir are descendants of Jötnar.
Both Æsir and Vanir intermarry with them.
There are two kinds of giant: frost-giants and fire-giants.
There are many other supernatural beings.
Fenrir the gigantic wolf
Jörmungandr the sea-serpent that is coiled around the world.
Hugin and Munin (thought and memory), the two ravens who keep Odin informed of what is happening on earth.
Ratatosk, the squirrel which scampers in the branches of the world tree, Yggdrasil.
Most of this mythology was passed down orally as Skaldic poetry, and much of it has been lost.
Some of it was recorded by Christian scholars.
The earlier detailed records come from the Eddas and the Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson though the mentioning of their deities And mythology goes back to Cornelius Tacitus’ report “Germania” in 98 AD.
Modern influences
The Germanic gods have affected elements of every day western life in most countries that speak Germanic languages.
An example is some of the names of the days of the week.
The days were named after Roman gods in Latin (named after Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn).
The names for Tuesday through Friday were replaced with Germanic versions of the Roman gods.
In English, Saturn was not replaced.
Saturday is named after the sabbath in German, and is called "washing day" in Scandinavia.
Modern popular culture
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was influenced by the myths of the Northern Europeans.
As it became popular, parts of its fantasy world moved into how people see the fantasy genre.
In almost any modern fantasy novel, you can find Norse creatures like elves, dwarves, and giants.
W. Wagner's "Asgard and the Home of the Gods" e-book
Peter Andreas Munch's "Norse Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes" e-book
heimskringla.no Old Norse Prose and Poetry
Timeless Myths - Norse Mythology - Information and tales from Norse and Germanic literatures
Norse Gods, Goddesses, Giants, Dwarves and Wights
CyberSamurai Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology
Fresh Meadows is also the name of a housing development (housing estate) in the neighborhood, along 188th Street.
The Fresh Meadows buildings were built in the late 1940s and were for lower middle & middle-class people.
It is one of three housing areas built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company after World War II, the others are Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan and Parkchester in the Bronx.
The Long Island Expressway runs through the neighborhood.
Main streets are 188th Street, Horace Harding Expressway, 73rd Avenue, Utopia Parkway, and Fresh Meadows Lane.
Fresh Meadows is also home to St. Francis Preparatory School, the largest Catholic high school in the United States.
Francis Lewis High School, P.S. 26 (Rufus King school), M.S. 216 (George J. Ryan Middle School), and P.S. 173 (The Fresh Meadows School) are other schools in the neighborhood.
1940s establishments in New York (state)
Miranda is one of Uranus' moons.
It is the smallest, and the one which has the least rotation time.
Gerard Kuiper discovered it in 1948, February 16th and named it after Miranda, Prospero's daughter in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Sometimes it is also called Uranus V.
It's one of Uranus' strangest moons.
Its complex surface may indicate partial melting of its interior, with icy material drifting to the surface.
The probe Voyager 2 made some photos in 1986.
These are the only images that exist, so far.
Geologically, it is the most active body in the Uranus system.
The grooves and troughs reach depths of a few kilometers (or miles) and expose materials of different albedos (reflectivity).
The features suggest a long, complex geologic evolution of this satellite.
Uranus' moons
The trombone is a brass horn musical instrument.
It is similar to a large trumpet, except the player pushes and pulls on its slide to change the length of the tube.
Together with vibrations from the player's lips, the trombone can play a wide range of notes.
It sounds deeper than a trumpet and is usually said to be one of the bass clef instruments.
Music is normally written in the bass clef, but some high parts can be written in tenor clef.
Some players have the music transposed into the treble clef.
The trombone is the loudest instrument in the symphony orchestra.
A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist.
Some trombones have a valve which increases the range of available notes.
The name trombone comes from the Italian language and means large trumpet.
Trombones are nearly always made out of brass but can also be made out of plastic: the "P-bone".
The forerunner to today's trombone was called the sackbut.
It was first used in the 16th century during the Renaissance era of music.
In the centuries that followed, the sackbut was gradually improved into today's trombone.
Beethoven was the first composer to add trombones to the standard symphony orchestra.
Many different types of music use the unique sound of the trombone to add color and depth.
Trombones are used in orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, brass bands, big bands, swing bands, ska bands, and jazz ensembles.
In the symphony orchestra, it is common to see trombones in a section of three: two tenors and a bass.
In a standard big band, a four player section is more typical.
This time with three tenors and one bass as the normal arrangement.
In the hands of a skilled trombonist, the trombone is a very versatile instrument and can play many styles.
The trombone can go from smooth, sweet jazz ballads and peaceful slow melodies such as Duke Ellington's "Pyramid", to fast and technical passages from pieces like "Blue Bells of Scotland" and "Carnival of Venice".
There are a lot of types of trombones.
Each one is for different playing ranges (how high or low you play).
There are contrabass trombones, bass trombones, tenor bass trombones, tenor trombones, alto trombones, soprano trombones, and piccolo trombones.
These are the different types of trombones, arranged according to general usage.
The tenor trombone is the most popular trombone type in use today, and is usually what people mean when they say "trombone".
It is usually the first instrument a new trombonist will play.
It has a slide that is used to change notes and make music.
People who play the tenor trombone usually play from bass clef but some very good players can play from treble clef.
Better and more expensive tenor trombones have an F attachment.
The bass trombone is different from the tenor trombone because it has one or two triggers, and has a larger bell, which makes it sound better in lower octaves.
Most bands have only one bass trombonist.
Usually, if a song does not have a bass trombone part, the bass trombonist reads off the 3rd or 4th trombone part.
The alto trombone is a type of trombone that is somewhat higher sounding than a regular trombone.
It is mostly used in orchestras where the highest part is sometimes easier to play on an alto trombone.
However, it is not very common and most of the time, a tenor trombone  plays the alto trombone part if one exists.
The contrabass trombone is the lowest-sounding trombone used in music today.
It sometimes has a double slide, meaning that the slide tube wraps twice instead of once like on a tenor trombone.
The soprano trombone is a type of trombone that plays in the same range as a Bb trumpet.
The valve trombone is just a tenor trombone with a valve section.
These valves work the same as those on a trumpet, euphonium, etc.
Famous trombonists
Edward ‘Kid’ Ory
Carl Fontana
Jim Robinson
Al Grey
Tommy Dorsey
Pete Ramberg
Lawrence Brown
Fred Wesley
Martin Schippers
Christian Lindberg
Joseph Alessi
Christopher Bill
Wycliffe Gordon
International Trombone Association
Trombone Page of the World
TrombonesOnline   - Trombone Portal and Trombonist Directory
British Trombone Society
Finnish Trombone and Tuba Association
Online Trombone Journal
Cloth, textile or fabric are similar names for manufactured material.
They are often made by weaving or knitting fibres together.
It is often used to make clothing or cover furniture.
Cloth can be made from natural fibres or man-made ones.
Examples of natural fibres are cotton, wool, and silk.
Examples of man-made fibres are nylon, rayon, and polyester.
The first clothes, were worn at least 70,000 years ago and maybe much earlier.
They were probably made of animal skins and helped to protect early humans from the weather.
At some point, people learned to weave plant fibers into textiles.
Textiles are commonly used for clothing.
They are also containers such as bags and baskets.
In the household, textiles are used in carpeting, upholstered furnishings, window shades, towels, coverings for tables, beds, and other flat surfaces.
Textiles are also used in art.
In the workplace, textiles can be used in industrial and scientific processes such as filtering.
It can also be used in flags, backpacks, tents, nets, handkerchiefs, cleaning rags.
It is used in transportation devices such as balloons, kites, sails, and parachutes.
Textiles are also used make composite materials such as fibreglass and industrial geotextiles stronger.
Textiles are used in many traditional crafts such as sewing, quilting and embroidery.
Types and sources of fibre
Textiles are made from many materials.
The fibre used in textiles are gotten from with four main sources.
They are animal (wool, silk), plant (cotton, flax, jute, bamboo), mineral (asbestos, glass fibre), and synthetic (nylon, polyester, acrylic, rayon).
The first three are natural.
There are many sources of animal fibers.
Wool refers to the hair of the domestic sheep or goat.
It is different from other types of animal hair because each strand is coated with scales and lanolin.
Wool is commonly used for thick clothing.
Alpaca wool, vicuña wool, llama wool, and camel hair.
They are generally used to make coats, jackets, ponchos, blankets, and other warm coverings.
Cashmere, the hair of the Indian cashmere goat, and mohair, the hair of the North African angora goat, are types of wool that are known for their softness.
Angora refers to the long, thick, soft hair of the angora rabbit.
Qiviut is the fine inner wool of the muskox.
Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric.
It is made from the silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of pen shells.
Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm.
It is spun into a smooth fabric which is soft.
Around four-fifths of the silk made is made up of cultivated silk.
There are many sources of plant fibers.
Coir (coconut fibre) is used in making twine.
It is also used in making doormats, brushes, mattresses, floor tiles, and bags.
Straw and bamboo are both used to make hats.
Straw is a dried form of grass.
It is also used for stuffing, as is kapok.
Fibres from pulpwood trees, cotton, rice, hemp, and nettle are used in making paper.
Cotton, flax, jute, hemp, modal and even bamboo fibre are all used in clothing.
Piña (pineapple fibre) and ramie are also fibres used in clothing.
Acetate is used to make certain fabrics such as silks, velvets, and taffetas shinier.
Seaweed is used in making textiles.
Rayon is a fabric gotten from plant pulp.
There are three sources of mineral fibers.
Asbestos and basalt fibre are mineral fibres used for vinyl tiles, sheeting and adhesives, acoustical ceilings, stage curtains, and fire blankets.
Glass fibre is used in making ironing board and mattress covers, ropes and cables, reinforcement fibre for composite materials, insect netting, flame-retardant and protective fabric, soundproof, fireproof, and insulating fibres.
Metal fibre, metal foil, and metal wire have lots of uses including making cloth-of-gold and jewellery.
There are many sources synthetic fibres.
Polyester fibre is used in all types of clothing, either alone or used together with fibres such as cotton.
Aramid fibre (e.g. Twaron) is used for flame-retardant clothing, cut-protection, and armour.
Acrylic is a fibre used to mimic wools.
It is often used to replace wool in some clothes.
Nylon is a fibre used to mimic silk.
It is used in making pantyhose.
Thicker nylon fibres are used in rope.
Spandex is a polyurethane product.
Olefin fibre is a fibre used in activewear, linings, and warm clothing.
Olefins are hydrophobic, which allows them to dry quickly.
Ingeo is a polylactide fibre mixed with other fibres such as cotton and used in clothing.
It is hydrophilic.
Lurex is a metallic fibre used in clothing embellishment.
Milk proteins have also been used to make synthetic fabric.
It is sold as a biodegradable, renewable synthetic fibre.
Carbon fibre is mostly used in composite materials, together with resin.
The fibres are made from polymer fibres through carbonization.
The '''100s'span from 100-109.
In the first century Dio Chrysostom writes that Lions are extinct in Europe.
Trajan leads a military campaign against the Dacians, 101-106.
Tacitus writes his work Historiae.
In the more northern cities of the Roman Empire, rich people start to use central heating.
The 130s was the decade that started on January 1, 130 and ended on December 31, 139.
130 - The Temple of Olympian Zeus is completed at Athens.
131 - The Temple of Baalshamin is built in Palmyra.
132 - Chinese scientist Zhang Heng invents the first seismometer.
136 - Pope Hyginus succeeds Pope Telesphorus as the ninth pope.
138 February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, if Pius adopts Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
139 - Marcus Aurelius is named Caesar.
Hadrian, Roman Emperor
Willy Brandt (18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German chancellor from 1969 until 1974.
He was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck, Germany.
He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987 and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1971).
He died on 8 October 1992 in Unkel on the Rhine.
He was born as son of Martha Frahm and John Möller in 1913 in Lübeck.
He never met his father and grew up with his mother and his grandfather.
He fled to Norway when the Nazis took over government in Germany.
He led a contact office for the resistance against the Nazi regime.
After he lost his German citizenship, he became Norwegian.
The Germans arrested him when they occupied Norway.
In 1945, Brandt returned to Germany as writer for Scandinavian newspapers.
Carlotta Thorkildsen - 1940 to 1948
Rut (Hansen) Bergaust - 1948 to 1980
Ruth Seebacher - 1983 to 1992
His political career started in 1948.
He became a representative for the SPD in the Bundestag for a district of Berlin.
He was member of the state parliament of Berlin from 1950 until 1971.
He became president of the Parliament of Berlin (1955) and Mayor of Berlin (1957).
Willy Brandt started to campaign for the position as Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) for the Social Democrats (SPD) in 1961.
In 1966, he became Vice-Chancellor of the "Grand Coalition" of SPD and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger.
He started the social-liberal coalition between the SPD and the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP).
Willy Brandt became Chancellor in 1969.
He made many changes in several political areas.
Society politics
New divorce laws
Right of vote was made 18 instead of 21
Easier to be declared a Conscientious objector
Education politics
No study fees
Financial aid for poor students
Opened more universities
Foreign politics
The New Eastern Politics of Western Germany.
He travelled to East Germany, Warsaw and Moscow to improve relationships.
His acceptance the Oder-Neisse Line and many of controversies in the Parliament and society followed.
In 1972, Rainer Barzel of the CDU believed he could end the Brandt administration, but he failed to win the vote of no-confidence.
Brandt was re-elected to a second term later that year.
In 1974, Günther Guillaume who worked in Brandt's office was discovered to be a spy.
Brandt resigned and Helmut Schmidt became chancellor.
Brandt stayed leader of the SPD, and later of the Socialist International too.
He was member of the European Parliament from 1978 to 1983.
He gave up the position as chief of the SPD in 1987.
Willy Brandt died of colon cancer at his home in Unkel, a town on the River Rhine, on 8 October 1992, at the age of 78.
He was given a state funeral and was buried at the cemetery at Zehlendorf in Berlin.
Biography of Willy Brandt
New Berlin Airport to be named after Willy Brandt
Former MEPs
MEPs for Germany
People from Lübeck
Politicians from Schleswig-Holstein
Vice Chancellors of Germany
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (see Marie Alacoque)
Saint Margaret of Cortona
Saint Margaret of England
Saint Margaret the Virgin
Saint Margaret the Widow
Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270)
Thomas the Apostle,the Christian saint of the 1st century.
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, an island of the Caribbean Sea.
Monk, the male version of a nun
A fraternity member
A member of a peer group who is male
A male family member with the same parents (sibling).
Also see the Wiktionary page
An African-American male
Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer (born 5 January 1876 in Cologne; died 19 April 1967 in Rhöndorf (part of Bad Honnef)).
From 1949 to 1963 he was the first Bundeskanzler (chancellor) of the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1951 to 1955 was foreign secretary the same time.
Adenauer was the third of five children of a court secretary in Cologne.
Konrad Adenauer started his political career in 1906 in the city assembly of Cologne.
From 1917 to 1933 and again in 1945 he was mayor of Cologne.
Adenauer was a member of the Catholic Zentrum Party.
When the Nazi Party took power he lost his job.
At first he worked with the Nazis, but after the conspiracy to kill Hitler failed in 1944 he hid for his own safety.
In the Parlamentarischer Rat of West Germany, he was one of the top politicians and the President.
He founded the CDU at the same time.
He made sure West Germany joined the side of the western capitalist countries in the Cold War.
He also helped West Germany join NATO.
In 1964 he stopped being chancellor.
He was a member of the Bundestag until his death at 91 years old.
German mayors
German mayors (Weimar Republic)
Nazi German politicians
Prussian politicians
Miri Ben-Ari is a hip-hop violinist.
She was born in Israel in 1978 and was brought up in a small town near Tel Aviv.
She was trained as a classical violinist.
She was a prodigy and was praised by famous violinists like Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern.
At the age of 16 she took herself to the United States.
She spoke no English at the time.
In New York City, she met several musicians such as the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who supported her.
She became interested in contemporary R&B (Rhythm and Blues) and hip-hop.
In January 2001 she appeared in the Carnegie Hall with the rapper Wyclef Jean.
Later that year her TV performances on Showtime at the Apollo added to her fame.
Her second jazz album, entitled Song of The Promised Land features the dance single Peace in the Middle East as well as two tracks together with Wynton Marsalis.
She has now sold millions of records, and is known as “the hip-hop violinist”.
This was the title of a record released in 2005 by Universal which includes the single “Sunshine to the Rain” featuring Scarface and Anthony Hamilton.
In 2004 she toured world-wide with rapper Kanye West.
She has a very personal sound which is a mixture of Classical, jazz, hip-hop, R&B and world music.
She won her first Grammy award in 2005 for co-writing “Jesus Walks” which received a trophy for the “Best Rap Song” in 2005.
"Furry" is also a word for something covered in fur.
A furry is a person who is interested in or creates fictional animal characters who have human traits.
This group of people make up the furry fandom.
Furry characters (called fursonas, especially when referring to someone's personal furry characters) can walk on two legs or talk.
Another word for a "furry character" is an anthropomorphic character, which means a character which has some human features.
Many different stories have furry characters.
Fairy tales and mythology often have animal characters who talk or do other human things.
Books, comics, children's books, video games, and toys can have furry characters too.
Some of the most popular cartoon characters are furries: Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Disney's Robin Hood, and Scooby-Doo.
Sometimes, people draw porn of furry characters to fit their sexual interests.
Quite a few people believe this represents a large part of the furry fandom, and it gains significant news attention.
Furry traits
To be a furry character, an animal needs to look or act like a human in some way.
Here are some of the ways:
Showing their feelings like humans do, by smiling and frowning
Walking on two legs
Wearing clothes
Living in houses or working at jobs
It's also important to say here that there's also "feral" sections of the fandom.
They focus more on the animal aspects of the character, and most feral furry characters don't talk or do many human activities.
Not all of these features have to be on a furry character for it to be a furry character.
Some furry characters can be thought of as "fursonas" without walking on their hind legs or having jobs.
A character does not need to have fur to be a furry.
A lizard or bird character that has these features could also be a furry, although they may also be called a "scalie" or an "avian".
Furry characters in art
Humans are good at reading human body language, but less good at reading animal body language.
Art showing animals smiling or frowning like humans makes it easier for humans to know how the character is feeling.
Because humans have been around animals for a long time, humans expect certain animals to act certain ways.
Art that gives humans animal traits tells people what to expect from those characters.
For example, many cultures see foxes as clever, so many people will assume a fox furry character is clever.
Fairy tales and mythology
For thousands of years, people have told stories and made art with furry characters.
Egyptian mythology has many gods who are part animal and part human.
Roman mythology has a story about a minotaur, which is part bull and part human.
The werewolf of European mythology is part wolf and part human.
Cartoons and video games
Many cartoons have furry characters.
Looney Tunes,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Kung Fu Panda, and
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Many video games also have furry characters.
A few examples:
Jak and Daxter,
Ratchet and Clank,
Crash Bandicoot,
Sonic the Hedgehog, and
Star Fox.
Furry fandom
In the modern day, people from all around the world make up the furry fandom.
Many of them meet and talk to each other the Internet, but they also meet in real life.
Furry websites like FurAffinity and DeviantArt let people share pictures, stories, music, games, and animations that have furry characters.
Fursonas and role-play
Fans of furry characters sometimes make up a furry character to represent themselves.
This is called a "fursona."
Often, but not always, the fursona's species is that person's favorite animal.
These people sometimes talk to each other while pretending to be their fursonas.
This is called a "role-play," because each person is playing a role, like in a television show or stage play.
Role-playing isn't exclusive to furries, but it is a big part of the community.
These role-plays usually happen over instant messaging or forums, but sometimes happen in real life.
Furry conventions
People who like furry art sometimes meet to talk about their favorite characters, buy books or art, and show off their costumes.
These meetings may also have music, dancing, and parties.
Conventions are usually held in large hotels, so there is enough room for hundreds or even thousands of people.
The largest furry conventions are Anthrocon, Midwest FurFest, Further Confusion, RainFurrest, Furry Weekend Atlanta, and Eurofurence.
Many others happen all around the world each year.
Furry conventions are similar to science fiction conventions.
Fursuits and other costumes
Some people who like furry characters wear toy ears and tails for fun.
Others dress up in "fursuits," which are costumes that look like furry characters.
Fake fur is used to make these costumes, so they can be many different colors.
Some fursuits look very much like real animals; other fursuits look like cartoon characters or legendary creatures.
A person who wears a fursuit is called a fursuiter.
Fursuits may cover the person's whole body, or just part of it.
A fursuit that covers the whole body is called a "full suit."
A suit that covers only part of the body (usually the head, arms, and feet, plus a tail) is called a "partial suit" or "partial."
With a partial suit, the rest of the body is covered by clothes to hide the person inside.
Fursuits are almost always one-of-a-kind.
This is because they are often based a specific fursona and usually made one at a time.
Some are made by the person who will wear them, others are made by artists who make them for money.
People usually wear fursuits for fun.
Sometimes people feel less shy in a fursuit because no one can see who they are.
This can make them feel more comfortable dancing, playing, hugging, meeting people, or being silly.
People may also wear fursuits to be a mascot for a charity or event, usually one related to animals.
Inside a fursuit, it can be difficult to see and hear.
Fursuiters often have a friend help them cross traffic or use stairs.
In hot weather, fursuiters must be careful not to overheat.
Slang in the furry fandom
Like many groups, the furry fandom has its own slang. "
Murr" is a word used to show you like something or find it attractive sexually. "
Scritching" is gentle scratching; in the furry fandom, this is a way to show you like someone, like hugging. "
Yiff" is a slang word for sex.
A "fursuit" is a costume that looks like a furry character.
A "fursona" is a furry character someone makes up for himself or herself, although sometimes the word is used to describe furry characters (or "furs") in general. "
Anthro" is short for anthropomorphic (human-like) and can mean either a furry character (example: "an anthro bear") or the genre (example: "anthro art").
The word “snoot” is slang for snout.
Furries often "boop" snoots; this means gently pushing or tapping a fursuiter's nose, usually done as part of roleplay, as a greeting, or for fun.
The word "beans/bean" is ether referring to a person or paw pads.
Some people in the furry fandom find that attraction to furry characters or people in fursuits is an important part of their sexuality, and some do not.
In one survey 37%  of furries questioned answered that it was important to their sexuality, while 24% said that it was not.
Other surveys say that only a small minority of people in furry fandom say that they are sexually attracted to animals.
all though some say this there called "murrsuiters" and is only a very small percentage of the "furry fandom" people still think that very small percent is most of the community.
Alderaan is a fictional planet found in the Star Wars series of movies created by George Lucas.
It is the home of the characters Princess Leia Organa and Senator Bail Organa.
The surface of Alderaan is only seen for a short time at the end of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005).
The entire planet is destroyed in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) when the Death Star fires a laser beam at the planet, which then explodes, killing everyone on it.
Star Wars planets
San Francisco Municipal Railway (or MUNI) is the public transit agency that runs buses, cable car, and subway service in the city of San Francisco, California.
MUNI runs diesel and trolleybuses that run throughout San Francisco, three Cable Car lines that run through the Financial District and Chinatown (with service to Fisherman's Wharf) and the Market Street surface, seven light rail lines that run below Market Street and two Historic Streetcar lines.
Muni operates 365 days a year and connecting with other transportation services, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain commuter trains, along with AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans buses, and ferries from Golden Gate Ferries and San Francisco Bay .Ferry.
Muni operates 44 local bus routes; 2 are operated during weekday peak hours.
A number of routes have different terminals during evenings and/or weekends.
Some routes also operate short turn route service during peak hours to deal with crowding on buses.
Rapid lines have an R following their route number.
Muni operates five Rapid bus routes.
The Rapid routes largely follow the route of the local buses but have less stops on the corridor.
Express lines have an X, AX, or BX following their route number.
Muni operates 12 Express bus routes.
Most of the express routes run on highways and on one-way traffic.
These express routes also operate during peak hours.
Muni operates 14 Owl routes.
Owl routes are operated during midnight.
Some local daytime routes are shortened during Owl service.
And some Owl routes also cover big or small parts of daytime bus routes.
Muni Metro
Muni operates 7 light rail lines and has its own subway tunnel underneath Market Street.
These routes are named with a letter while buses are named with a number.
Heritage streetcars
Muni operates 2 Historic Streetcar lines, these routes are operated by streetcars and are mostly treated as tourist attractions by tourists.
Cable Cars
Muni operates 3 Cable Car lines, these routes are based out of the Cable Car barn at Mason & Washington streets.
NextBus for Muni, a GPS system that predicts vehicle arrival times.
Market Street Railway
1912 establishments in California
Cartilage is a flexible connective tissue found in many parts of the body.
It can bend a bit, but resists stretching.
Its main function is to connect bones together.
It is also found in the joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the throat and between the bones of the back.
Another function of cartilage is to create a place on which bones can form when they are first developed.
It also helps to protect the places where bones work against each other: the joints.
In some fish like sharks (Chondrichthyes), cartilage forms the whole of the skeleton.
Unlike other connective tissues, cartilage does not contain blood vessels.
The cells are supplied by diffusion.
So, compared to other connective tissues, cartilage grows and repairs more slowly.
Cartilage also does not contain nerves, making the hard tissue painless if damage is caused.
However, the breaking of a cartilage often results in damage to tendons and muscles, which certainly does cause pain.
There are many diseases caused by defects in cartilage.
One of the most common is osteoarthritis, where the cartilage wears so thin that bone rubs against bone.
Cartilage acts as a barrier, preventing the entry of lymphocytes or diffusion of immunoglobulins.
This allows surgeons to transplant of cartilage from one person to another without fear of tissue rejection.
Cartilage is made of special cells (called chondroblasts) that produce a large amount of matrix outside the cells.
The matrix is composed of
collagen fibres,
a ground substance rich in proteoglycan.
This is a protein linked to glycans.
different types of  fibres.
These are collagen , elastin and reticulate fibers.
University of Kansas Medical Center Cartilage tutorial
Public domain text from Gray's anatomy dated 1918, so probably needs updating
I've heard 'Ears and nose do not ever stop growing.'
Is this false?
Skeletal system
Dokkyo University is a university in Soka city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
This university is well known for its Foreign Language Department.
Colleges and universities in Japan
Munich Airport (IATAcode MUC) is an airport 28 km north east of the city Munich, Germany.
It is mainly used by Lufthansa and the Star-Alliance, which Lufthansa is in.
In 2008, 34.53 million passengers used the airport.
After Frankfurt am Main Munich is the second most important airport in Germany.
It is the 8th largest in Europe.
Munich Airport was opened in 1992.
Before that the airport was in Riem.
Building was started in 1980.
Because Frankfurt am Main was so busy, Lufthansa began to use Munich for international flights.
The Airport was named after Franz-Josef Strauss, a politician who was very interested in aeroplanes.
People in Munich usually just call it München Flughafen or der Flughafen.
You can use the Munich S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 to go to the city.
They both cost €8,80 and take about forty minutes.
Taxis to Munich cost €50 and can get stuck because of traffic congestion.
The cities near the airport are Erding and Freising.
They can be reached by Bus (~3-4 €) or Taxi (~€18).
The Munich Airport center (MAC) is between the two terminals but it is not so far.
It has many shops and restaurants.
Munich Airport has two terminals.
Terminal 2 is newer and larger.
Terminal 1 is used by the non-Star Alliance airlines.
The halls or areas are numbered A-F. It was opened on 17th May 1992 20 million passengers can use it every year.
At the moment the terminal is being renovated, giving more room for shops and other things.
The first halls have already been finished.
Variable Halls
Air Transat (Calgary, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver)
Hapagfly (Antalya, Brindisi, Cairo, Catania, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife)
HLX.com (Cagliari, Dubrovnik, Leipzig [starts October 30, 2006], Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Rijeka, Venice)
Hall A
dba (Athens [ends October 28, 2006], Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Moscow-Domodedovo, Münster/Osnabrück, Nice, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumcino [ends November 5, 2006], Thessaloniki [ends October 28, 2006])
Nordic Regional (Palma de Mallorca)
British Airways (Bristol, Glasgow, London-Heathrow)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca) [ends November 23, 2006]
Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
Hall C
Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
African Safari Airways (Mombasa)
airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
Air Via (Bourgas, Varna)
Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
Atlas Blue (Agadir)
Corendon Airlines (Antalya)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna)
EgyptAir (Cairo, Hurghada)
Emirates (Dubai)
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos)
Inter Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum)
Onur Air (Antalya)
Polet Airlines (Voronezh)
Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum)
Royal Jordanian (Amman)
S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Sky Airline (Antalya)
SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)
Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus)
TACV (Sal)
Tajikistan Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Dushanbe)
Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj, Sibiu)
Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
UT Air (Tyumen)
Hall D
Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
Blu-express (Rom-Fiumicino)
easyJet (Edinburgh, London-Stansted)
easyJet operated by easyJet Switzerland (Basel/Mulhouse)
FlyNordic (Stockholm-Arlanda)
InterSky (Elba)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
Hall E
Hall F
Arkia (Tel Aviv)
El Al (Tel Aviv)
Israir (Tel Aviv)
Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
Terminal 2 is used by all Star Alliance flights.
It was opened on 29th June 2003 and nearly 20-25 million passengers can use it every year.
Many passengers like the terminal because connections are easy and fast.
The time needed for a connection inside the terminal is only 25 minutes, the airport and Lufthansa say.
Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
Air Canada (Toronto)
Air China (Beijing)
Carpatair (Timişoara)
Cimber Air (Billund)
Cirrus Airlines (Brno, Erfurt, Kiel [ends October 27, 2006], London-City)
Condor (Agadir, Antalya, Bangkok, Barcelona, Bourgas, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fuchal, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, La Romana, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Madrid, Mahe Island, Málaga, Male, Marsa Alam, Mauritius, Naples, Paphos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Punta Cana, Sanat Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba, Tenerife, Varadero, Venice)
Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)
Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg)
LOT Polish Airlines (Gdansk, Warsaw)
operated by Eurolot (Katowice [starts October 29, 2006], Poznan, Wroclaw)
Lufthansa (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Catania, Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kiev-Boryspil, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montréal [seasonal], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
Lufthansa CityLine (Amsterdam, Basel, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Bremen, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Donetsk, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Florence, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hanover, Kraków, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Timişoara, Toulouse, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland-Sylt, Zagreb, Zürich)
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Ancona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berne, Bologna, Cagliari, Milan-Bergamo [ends October 27, 2006], Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pisa, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Trieste, Turin, Venice)
Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Dortmund, Florence, Graz, Olbia, Paderborn, Poznan, Prague, Stuttgart, Wroclaw, Zagreb)
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Leipzig/Halle)
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Belgrade, Budapest, Münster/Osnabrück, Naples, Nice)
Privatair (Newark)
Luxair (Luxembourg, Saarbrücken)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Swiss International Airlines (Zürich)
TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
The central area is a shopping-mall that is in between the two terminals; the older part which belongs to terminal 1 is an indoor area.
The newer part which was built as the same time as the 2nd terminal is a big outside area.
Cargo Area
The airport also has a cargo area.
It is used by:
Cathay Pacific Cargo
Emirates Cargo
Qatar Airways Cargo
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician.
He was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Helmut Schmidt was born in Hamburg in 1918.
He finished school in 1937 with the Abitur.
Afterwards he had to join the working service and later the army.
At the end of World War II, he was a First Lieutenant.
He became a prisoner of war in 1945.
After he was set free, he started to study macro economy.
He finished his studies in 1949.
Then he started to work for the administration of Hamburg.
Schmidt joined into the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1949.
In 1953, he became a member of the Bundestag first time.
From 1961 to 1965, he was Senator in the state government of Hamburg.
From 1969 to 1972, he was Minister of Defence of West Germany.
From 1972 to 1974 he was Minister of Finance.
After Willy Brandt gave up his job as Bundeskanzler, Helmut Schmidt was elected as new chancellor.
Schmidt died in Hamburg on 10 November 2015 from complications of surgery he had to cure a blood clot in his left left.
He was 96 years old.
Biography at the German Historic Museum (German)
Chancellor Site (German)
Helmut Schmidt University (English)
Talks:
Die Selbstbehauptung Europas im neuen Jahrhundert (German, 2000)
Kröten und Paragrafenwahn (German, 2006)
Schmidt's talk on the occasion of China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visiting Hamburg (English, 2006)
Interview on nuclear strategy in Europe  for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Booknotes interview with Schmidt on Men and Powers, 15 April 1990.
Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective on Google Books.
The name Glinde is found in a document from March 25 1229 for the first time.
In the document, Earl Adolf IV.
of Schauenburg and Holstein gave the village to a Cistercian convent. (
The convent moved to today's town of Reinbek.)
The King of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Frederick I of Denmark, got all the convent had during the Protestant Reformation.
In 1544 his son Christian III gave a part of it to each of his brothers.
The owner changed again several times.
In 1948, the town administration of Glinde, Oststeinbek, Havighorst and Schönningstedt were brought together to the Amt Glinde.
Schönningstedt left that combination in 1949 and Havighorst left it in 1973.
So Glinde und Oststeinbek became independent villages.
Partnerships with other towns
Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (near Nantes in the west French Département Loire-Atlantique)
Kaposvár (Main town from the province of Somogy south of Lake Balaton in Hungary).
1803: 220
1933: 544
1939: 2.173
1948: 5.059
2002: 16.124
Wolfgang Bachhofer: Glinde.
1929 bis 1979.
Eine junge Stadt stellt sich vor.
Glinde 1979.
www.glinde.de
Towns in Schleswig-Holstein
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, (18 March 1844, Tikhvin – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer.
He was one of the most famous composers of his time and influenced a lot of other composers.
Like so many Russian composers in the 19th century, he was an amateur composer.
His main job was in the navy.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born near Novgorod, 18 March 1844, and died in Lybensk, near St Petersburg, 21 June 1908.
He is best known for his operas, orchestral music and songs.
He was brilliant at  writing music for orchestras and wrote an excellent book about orchestration.
He loved to write music about fairy-tale stories and legends.
His best-known work is Scheherazade, an orchestral piece which describes in music the stories told by Scheherazade in the book of One Thousand and One Nights.
He also completed or re-orchestrated several works by Modest Mussorgsky which had been left unfinished.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1844.
Several people from his family had careers in the Russian army and navy.
Both his grandmothers, however, were simple people who had lived in the country.
When he was young he showed a great interest in music.
He sang every tune he heard and knew, without looking, the names of the notes that he heard being played on the piano.
When he was six he started piano lessons.
The opera Life for the Tsar by Glinka made a big impression on him.
However, he wanted to join the navy, so in 1862 he entered the College of Naval Cadets, where his brother (who was 22 years older) was the director.
He continued to learn the piano while he was at Cadet school.
He was never a brilliant pianist, but he enjoyed  playing tunes from operas on the piano.
He got to know several young composers who were already becoming famous: Balakirev, Cui and Mussorgsky.
Balakirev gave him advice about his compositions.
He started to write a symphony, but then he had to go to sea for two-and-a-half years.
He sailed on a clipper called Almaz.
The boat went to Gravesend, the Baltic Sea, New York, Rio de Janeiro and the Mediterranean  When he got back, Balakirev made him finish the symphony.
Career and musical work
Rimsky-Korsakov now worked about two or three hours a day for the navy.
He spent the rest of the time composing or visiting friends.
He met more composers, including Borodin and Dargomïzhsky, and he composed songs and piano music, although he was not good enough to play the piano to audiences.
However, his friends realized that he was very good at writing for orchestras and he was asked to orchestrate several pieces.
Dargomïzhsky, who was dying, had not yet orchestrated his opera The Stone Guest, so he asked Rimsky-Korsakov to do it.
Although he had not had any formal musical education he was offered a job as professor of composition at the Petersburg Conservatory.
In 1872 he married a girl called Nadezhda.
She was a beautiful woman and an excellent pianist, and she helped him a lot, especially in making piano arrangements of his orchestral music.