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The Specials often mixed other popular music styles from the 1970s and 1980s into their music, such as pop music and rock and roll.
1977 establishments in the United Kingdom
English musical groups
Musical groups established in 1977
New wave bands
KC & The Sunshine Band was a disco group, that was popular in the 1970s.
They formed in Miami in 1973.
Album discography
Do It Good (1974)
KC and the Sunshine Band (1975) US #4, UK #26
The Sound of Sunshine (1975) US #131
Part 3 (1976) US #13
Who Do Ya Love (1978) US #36
Do You Wanna Go Party (1979) US #50
Space Cadet (1981)
The Painter (1981)
All in a Night's Work (1982)
KC Ten (1983) US #93
Oh Yeah! (
I'll Be There For You (2001)
Yummy (2007)
Official Website (includes lyrics)
R&B groups
Funk bands
Musical groups from Miami, Florida
Musical groups established in 1973
1973 establishments in the United States
Musical groups established in 1993
1993 establishments in Florida
Roberta Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American R&B singer.
She was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
She has released nineteen studio albums.
She has had three number one singles. "
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was her first number one.
It won the 1973 Grammy Record of the Year.
In 1974 Flack performed "When I Grow Up" with Michael Jackson.
In 1999 a star was put in the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her.
Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
She was raised in Virginia.
Howard University gave her a music scholarship because she was good at playing piano.
When she was fifteen she became a student there.
Flack released her first album First Take in 1969.
The album went to number one in the US album chart.
It was her most successful album.
In 1970 Flack's second album Chapter Two was released.
It was less successful.
In 1972 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was released.
In 1973 Killing Me Softly was released.
In 1980 Flack's second album with Donny Hathaway was released.
Arad (pronunciation in Romanian: ; Hungarian: Arad; Serbian: Арад, Arad) is the capital city of Arad County, in the western part of Romania, in Crişana, Ardeal.
It is found on the Mureş River.
Atlit, Israel
Fushun, China
Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary
Giv'atayim, Israel
Pécs, Hungary
Kirklees, United Kingdom
Ditzingen, Germany
Würzburg, Germany
Trencin, Slovakia
Tatabánya, Hungary
Zrenjanin, Serbia
Transsexual people are people who change their appearance to more closely resemble that of the opposite sex.
Transsexuals may be male or female.
They typically take hormones and often undergo surgeries to support this process.
They usually adopt a new name and may legally have their name changed.
People who go from male to female (MTF) are referred to as transsexual women.
People who go from female to male (FTM) are referred to as transsexual men.
Ways to go from male to female
Transsexual women take female hormones.
They may also take drugs that stop male hormones called androgens.
Taking estrogen pills makes breasts grow.
It does not make beards go away.
It does not make voices higher.
Transgender women may remove their facial hair so it does not grow back.
This takes a long time and hurts.
Some transsexual women with low voices have surgery to raise their voices.
Other transsexual women try to make their voice sound higher and more female without surgery.
Some transsexual women also get surgery on their genitals.
This is called a vaginoplasty.
This is done by making a vagina from the skin of their penis, which is turned inside out.
Some transsexual women also have surgery to make their faces look more feminine.
Some also have surgery to make their breasts larger.
Ways to go from female to male
Transsexual men take male hormones.
This will make their voices lower.
It will make a beard grow.
It can also stop their menstruation.
Some transsexual men look like any other man after hormones.
Some transsexual men have surgery.
One surgery is removal of breasts (mastectomy).
Some transsexual men also get surgery on their genitals.
One surgery is removal of the uterus and ovaries (hysterectomy).
Some may also get surgery on their outside genitals.
One way takes their skin and tissue and makes it into a penis (phalloplasty).
Another way takes the clitoris (which grows bigger with hormones) and puts it where the penis usually is (metoidioplasty).
The place where urine comes out (urethra) can be run through the new penis.
The phalloplasty looks more like a penis.
A metoidioplasty has more sexual function, but it is 5 or 6 centimeters long.
Some ways also make a scrotum from the labia.
They may also have the vagina taken out or closed.
Very rarely, some people (called detransitioners) who have changed sex decide this was a mistake and return to living as members of the sex in which they were born.
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association: Doctors who know about transsexual people.
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH): Doctors, lawyers, and therapists who know about transsexual people.
Tom Waddell Clinic  A clinic that helps transsexual people.
Hormones for transsexual people: This helps doctors learn how to give hormones to transsexual people.
Note 1:  Lundstrom B, et al. “
Outcome of sex reassignment surgery.”
Acta Psychiat.
70:289-294.
Note 2:  Kuiper, M and Cohen-Kettenis, P. “Sex reassignment surgery: A study of 141 Dutch transsexuals.”
Archives of Sexual Behavior.
17(5):439-457.
A pianist can play music for piano alone or play together with other musicians in an ensemble or orchestra.
Pianists also play along singers, solo musicians, and other performers in their leading performance.
List of classical pianists
A telephone book or phone book or telephone directory is a book that has lists of telephone numbers of people and businesses.
People use phone books to look up the phone numbers of people and places when they need to call them.
One example of a telephone book is Yellow Pages.
International telephone book
Telephone numbers
The French dip sandwich is a popular dish.
It is a sandwich, usually on French bread, with roast beef on the inside.
It comes with a special sauce called jus which is usually made with the juice and fat that came off the roast beef when they were cooking it.
It was not originally from France; two restaurants in Los Angeles, California, Cole's and Philippe's, both claim to have invented it.
Recipe at Wikibooks
Coventry is a city in England.
It is the 9th biggest city in England.
It is also a metropolitan borough.
It is in the West Midlands county.
It used to be in Warwickshire.
During the 19th century Coventry became a great manufacturing area, especially for bicycles.
In the 20th century it made many motor cars.
It also made aeroplanes.
It was badly bombed in World War II.
During the November 1940 bombing, the city's cathedral was destroyed.
A new cathedral was built after the war.
The city has two universities.
Coventry University is in the city centre.
The University of Warwick is in the south of Coventry.
Billy Preston (September 2, 1946 - June 5, 2006) was an American R&B musician.
He is best known for his piano and organ playing.
Preston began playing piano when he was three years old.
He worked with many other musicians including Aretha Franklin, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton, the Jackson 5 and the Rolling Stones.
He worked on The Beatles's last album, Let It Be, in 1969, including the song "Get Back".
Many people thought that Preston would join the group, but the Beatles broke up shortly afterwards.
He later worked with George Harrison, who had been a Beatle.
Preston's biggest success also came from working with another musician.
He did a  with Syreeta Garrett on "With You I'm Born Again" in 1979.
It sold over a million copies and reached Number 2 in the United Kingdom singles chart.
Preston was gay.
He died of respiratory failure after being in a coma from a heart infection.
Deaths from myocarditis
LGBT African Americans
Musicians from Houston, Texas
Partial-order planning, an agorithm
Post Office Protocol, Internet protocol used for E-mail
Pop, an operation on a Stack
Corn Pops, breakfast cereal
Pop, carbonated soft drink
Pop (frozen snack), snack on a stick or in a plastic or cardboard sleeve made from fruit juice or sugared water
Blow Pops, Tootsie Roll brand
Caramel Apple Pops, Tootsie Roll brand
Jiffy Pop, popcorn product
Pop Secret, well-known brand of popcorn
Tootsie Pop, hard candy lollipop with a Tootsie Roll filling at its center
Pop Tarts, a flat rectangular toaster pastry
Prince of Persia, video game series
The Planes of Power, expansion pack to the MMORPG EverQuest
Iggy Pop, American punk rock singer and actor
Pop (album), 1997 album by U2
Pop music, type of popular music
A Point of Presence, where two communication interfaces meet.
The Post Office Protocol, a computer protocol to get electronic mail
Persistent organic pollutant, a kind of chemical substance
Progresterone only pill, a contraceptive for women
One of two operations that can be done on a stacĸ; pop removes the top element.
The other one is called push, and puts on an element.
Pop (television channel), children's television channel in the UK
Snap, Crackle and Pop, the three animated mascots of Rice Krispies cereal
Pop, the male parent or grandparent of a child
Pop, the first month of in the Maya Haab' calendar
Pop art, visual artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s
Pop culture, the vernacular culture that prevails in any given society
Pop icon, popular celebrity
Point of Purchase, retail display design for retailers and brand owners.
A computer virus is a program that is able to copy itself when it is run.
Often, computer viruses are run as a part of other programs.
Any program that is affected by the virus is "infected".
Biological viruses also work that way, as they copy themselves as part of other organisms.
This is how the computer virus got its name.
In addition to copying itself, a computer virus can also execute instructions that cause harm.
For this reason, computer viruses affect security.
They are part of malware.
Very often, the term is also used for other kinds of malware, such as trojan horses and worms.
Even though this is wrong, it may be difficult to tell the difference between different kinds of malware; they often occur together, and only an expert may be able to tell them apart.
Such programs also fit more than one category.
Computer viruses are spread through many ways.
Some of the common ways of spreading are through downloads, email attachments, removable hardwares, and so on.
Most viruses are very dangerous kind of malware.
Kinds of computer viruses
Probably the most common form is the macro-virus or script virus.
Such viruses are programmed with the script function which is present in many text processing systems and spreadsheets; or with general "script" functionality of a program.
Boot sector viruses infect the boot sector of floppy disks, hard drives and other media.
Executable files and scripts of the operating system; including those that are run automatically when a medium is inserted into a drive.
Cross-site scripting; scripts in web pages that replicate to other webpages.
Any computer file; generally buffer overflows, format strings, and race conditions are exploitable.
Limited user rights can limit the spread of a virus
In the beginning, operating systems on personal computers (or PC) did not have the concept of access control.
There were no "users", everyone could do everything.
Modern operating systems have the concept of access control.
There can be more than one user and some users may have more "privileges" than others.
Certain users may only have access to certain files and are unable to access others.
Other users may be able to modify or delete certain files.
These privileges can be specified for each file.
Another problem is that sometimes the system for rights management may be available, but that it is not used by default.
This is the case with systems such as Windows NT or Windows XP, where by default all users have same rights.
Antivirus software can protect computers against known viruses.
Some antivirus software scan files and compare a hash code for each file with its database of hash codes (or "signature").
If the code matches, it has likely found a virus.
This way of doing things has created some problems.
It will only protect against viruses whose hash code is known.
The companies that wrote the antivirus need to keep the virus signatures up-to-date and need to give this information to the PC to be protected.
There are two possible modes of scanning: Either the file is scanned "on demand" (or "manually"), or it is scanned when the system registers an access to the file called "on access".
Antivirus software cannot offer full protection, even in the case the virus is known.
Some viruses use something called polymorphic code to change their signature every time they move.
No matter how many signatures the company has, they will not be able to stop these types of viruses.
Another way that antivirus software can protect against viruses is to use heuristics.
Instead of knowing each virus by its signature, heuristic antivirus software look at the behavior of other software.
If a software does something that seems bad, the antivirus software steps-in to stop it.
Since every step needs to be watched, this is a slow way to do things.
"Live system"
This limits the usability of the computer as it is not possible to save documents or install new programs.
Only -R media (not -RW) should be used, and the media should be finalized to prevent creating a new session that might possibly contain a virus.
Apple Macintosh, computer
Mackintosh, raincoat
Slang or informal for; man; son; macaroni
MAC can be:
Media Access Control (MAC), MAC address
Mid-American Conference, a sports league for universities in the United States
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, a 1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones (movie), a 1963 movie based on the novel
Tom Jones (singer), a Welsh pop singer born Thomas John Woodward
Tom Jones (writer), writer of The Fantasticks
Thomas George Jones, English footballer
Tom Jones (auto racer), a Formula 1 racer
Hades (, Háidēs) is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld in ancient Greek religion and myth.
He is the eldest son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea and brother to Zeus, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera, Demeter and Chiron.
As the lord of the dead, Hades was greatly feared by the Greeks, and he had few temples or shrines dedicated to him.
He was married to the goddess Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
Hades’ symbols were the cornucopia, a sceptre, the cypress, narcissus, poplar and his Helm of Darkness; the screech owl was his sacred animal.
His sacred fruit was the pomegranate, the fruit that Persephone ate one- third of when she was kidnapped and in the underworld.
Hades’ Roman equivalent was Pluto, whose name is merely a Latinization of the Greek Plouton.
Greek gods and goddesses
A superlative, in grammar, is an adjective describing a noun that is the best example of a given quality.
In other words, a superlative describes a noun that has more of some quality than any other.
the coldest day (i.e. the best example of a cold day, or the day that is colder than all the others)
the craziest man
the fluffiest cloud
In English, most superlatives can be formed by adding -EST to an existing adjective, like the examples above. (
For adjectives that end in "-y", like "crazy", you often change the "y" to an "i" before you add the -EST on the end.)
Other adjectives have no superlative form at all, and the superlative is made simply by adding the adverb "most" before the adjective.
For instance, you do not say "funnest," or "interestingest".
Instead, you say "most fun," and "most interesting."
Learning disabilities, also called learning difficulties, are conditions that make it difficult to learn and understand things in the same way others do.
Some people with learning difficulties also find it hard to fit in with other people because there are many things that people must know to live in society that are not easy to learn.
Learning difficulties can be things that people can learn to live with on their own, like dyslexia (a difficulty with reading) and dysgraphia (a difficulty with writing).
They can also be big things that mean a person needs more help (like autism).
People with learning disabilities may have average intelligence.
Learning disabilities are not the same as mental illnesses.
They can often deal with their difficulties by doing things in different ways.
Down's syndrome
A wheelbarrow is a kind of vehicle that is built to be pushed around with a load inside it.
It is usually used in gardens.
Cold is a relative term used in comparison with the adjective warm (opposite of cold).
Because it is relative, there is no range in coldness.
The temperatures in the winter season are often categorized as being cold.
Cold is the opposite of hot.
The coldest possible temperature is −273.15 °C, which can be expressed as -459.67 °F on the Fahrenheit scale.
This is called absolute zero.
Absolute zero is also 0 K on the Kelvin scale and 0 °R on the Rankine scale
Cooling is when an object gets cold, or lowers in temperature.
This can happen by taking away heat, or by putting something in a place with a lower temperature.
Fluids used to cool objects are called coolants.
Air cooling is making the temperature of an object lower using air.
This will only work if the air is at a lower temperature than the object.
The process will work better if there is more surface area on the object or if the item's mass can be made smaller.
Other ways to cool objects include using ice, dry ice, or liquid nitrogen.
This works by convection; the heat  is taken from the relatively warm object to the relatively cold coolant.
Cold  locations and objects
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known place in the universe.
Scientists believe the temperature is 1 K (kelvin) (−272.15 °C/−457.87 °F).
Herschel Space Observatory equipment is kept at temperatures below 2 K, using  a large helium tank for cooling.
Neptune's moon Triton has a surface temperature of −235 °C (−390  °F).
Uranus has an atmospheric temperature  of −215 °C (−355 °F).
Saturn has a temperature of −175 °C (−285 °F) at cloud tops.
Mercury, even though it is close to the Sun, is actually cold during the  night.
It has a temperature of about −170 °C (−275 °F).
Mercury is cold at night because it has no atmosphere to trap in heat from the Sun.
Jupiter has a temperature of −145 °C (−230 °F) at the cloud tops.
Mars has a temperature of about −125 °C (−195 °F).
The coldest continent on Earth is Antarctica.
The coldest place on Earth is the Antarctic Plateau, an area of Antarctica around the South Pole that has an altitude of around 3000 meters.
The lowest measured temperature on Earth, , was recorded at Vostok Station on 21 July 1983.
Electrical conductivity is the measure of a material's ability to allow the transport of an electric charge.
Its SI is the siemens per meter, (A2s3m−3kg−1)  (named after Werner von Siemens) or, more simply,  Sm−1.
It is the ratio of the current density to the electric field strength.
It is equivalent to the electrical conductance measured between opposite faces of a 1-metre cube of the material under test.
The symbol for electrical conductivity is κ (kappa), and also σ (sigma) or γ (gamma).
Electrical conductance is an electrical phenomenon where a material contains movable particles with electric charge (such as electrons), which can carry electricity.
When a difference of electrical potential is placed across a conductor, its electrons flow, and an electric current appears.
A conductor such as a metal has high conductivity, and an insulator like glass or a vacuum has low conductivity.
A semiconductor has a conductivity that varies widely under different conditions.
Pierre Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) created and is now the chairman of eBay.
He was born in Paris, France to a French-Iranian family.
Born in Paris, France, brought up by Iranian parents, Omidyar moved to the United States at the age of six.
He grew up in Washington D.C. and developed an interest in computing while still at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Bethesda, Maryland.
He graduated high school in 1984.
In 1988 he graduated in computer science from Tufts University.
He helped write MacDraw in 1989 for Claris, a part of Apple Computer.
Two years later he co-founded Ink Development (later renamed eShop).
He was 28 when he wrote the original computer code for what eventually became e-Bay.
The site was launched on Labor Day, Monday, September 4 1995, under the more basic name “Auction Web.”
Businesspeople from Paris
Caribert of Laon, son of Martin of Laon, was the grandfather of Charlemagne.
In 721, he signed, with his mother Bertrada of Prüm, the foundation act of the Abbey of Prüm.
The same year, also with his mother, he made a donation to the Abbey of Echternach.
In 744, his daughter Bertrada of Laon (by Bertrada of Cologne) married Pepin the Short, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy and later king of the Franks.
He died before 762.
Year of birth unknown
8th-century deaths
The First Lady of the United States of America sometimes abbreviated as (FLOTUS) is the wife of the President of the United States.
If the President is not married, or his wife is unable to do the jobs of First Lady, a family member such as daughter or sister usually is considered the First Lady.
The current first lady is Jill Biden.
What the First Lady does
The First Lady is not chosen by the people of the United States, and there are no jobs she is officially required to perform.
Though she is not paid for being the First Lady, her role includes involvement in political campaigns, management of the White House, championing social causes and representing the President at official and ceremonial occasions.
First ladies have focused on different causes and have had a strong influence in a range of sectors, from public opinion on policy to fashion.
Living former First Ladies
Star Wars is a science-fiction media franchise created by George Lucas.
As of December 2019, nine movies in the main series have been made by Lucasfilm Ltd, released by 20th Century Fox, and distributed by Disney.
Star Wars has been so popular that there have been Star Wars books, video games, television shows, toys, spinoff movies and more.
It is also known for its iconic music by John Williams.
the influences such as, Starcrash, The Man Who Saved The World, etc.
'The Force'
The Force is a mystical power.
Those who can harness if for good follow a religion known as the Jedi.
It is a belief that the force flows through every living thing.
In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi:
People who can control the Force with their minds get a number of psychic powers, such telepathy (reading others thoughts), telekenesis (moving things with their minds), precognition (knowing about things before they happen) and mind control (telling people comands they must follow).
The Jedi and the Sith
The Jedi are a group of beings who use the Force to bring peace and harmony to people, planets, and cultures.
They are trained to use the force for good purposes.
They are sworn enemies with another group called the Sith.
The Sith are a group of beings who use the force as a power source; they are trained to use the force to gain ultimate power.
The Sith normally use the force to gain power in battles with their enemy who are the Jedi.
They also use the force to bring destruction to the universe and anything in their way.
They are the antagonists, and they usually use red lightsabers in contrast to the variety of colors used by the Jedi.
There are usually only two Sith, a master and an apprentice.
The lightsaber is a dangerous and powerful weapon used by the Jedi and the Sith.
It can be described simply as a light sword.
These weapons are very special to a Jedi or Sith.
They are custom built to special specifications by the Jedi or Sith.
The Sith tend to take a Jedi's lightsaber as a prize if they win the battle.
Many epic battles have been fought with lightsabers between the Jedi and the Sith.
For the lightsaber to be a weapon it is powered by a special crystal called a kyber crystal.
The kyber crystal comes in many different cololrs such as: Red, white, yellow, orange, and many more.
The reason it is powerful and dangerous is that when someone touches the blade, one gets burned straight away.
Anakin Skywalker is a young boy who meets Obi-Wan Kenobi and learns the ways of the Force (and to become a Jedi).
Although Jedi are not allowed to get married, as an adult, Anakin falls in love with Senator Padmé Amidala and they get married.
Anakin later goes to the Dark Side and turns against Obi-Wan Kenobi and the rest of the Jedi.
Then Palpatine renames him Darth Vader.
Before he turned against his wife, Anakin had two children with Senator Amidala, Leia and Luke Skywalker, that he does not know about.
Senator Amidala dies after giving birth to their twins.
After birth, the twins are separated to prevent Vader and the Dark Side from finding and hurting the children.
Obi-Wan Kenobi sends Luke to a planet called Tatooine to live with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
Leia is raised by Senator Bail Organa of the planet Alderaan; she is called Princess Leia Organa.
When they get older, Luke and Leia meet again.
At first they don't know that they are brother and sister, but they eventually find out.
They help fight the evil government, called the Galactic Empire.
Luke also learns the ways of the Jedi from Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda.
In the end, they defeat the Empire, with the help of the Rebellion, and Luke helps his father Anakin become good again.
Unfortunately, Anakin dies.
The galaxy is then saved for a while.
Thirty years later, however, the Empire rises again in the form of the First Order.
However, the New Republic does not believe that it is a threat.
Those who do believe form the Resistance, led by Leia.
Luke has vanished, and Leia has married Han Solo.
They had a child, named Ben, but Ben was corrupted by the First Order and is now called Kylo Ren.
Rey, a desert scavenger, fights with Han against the First Order, but Kylo Ren kills his father.
However, Rey still manages to gain a large defeat against the First Order with the help of the Resistance.
Rey then finds Luke, who was searching for the first Jedi Temple and for more knowledge about the Jedi.
Star Wars creatures and droids (robots)
The manatee nuns from “The Last Jedi” may not take an immediate liking to Rey, but we sure like them.
These wise caretakers in cream-colored habits are as cute as they are intense.
Yes, Lucas went overboard with the killer teddy bears of Endor, populating film and TV projects with these forest fuzz-warriors.
And it was their very engineered-for-cuteness factor that first divided Star Wars fans as pro- and anti-Ewok a long time ago — even if some naysayers softened a bit after the bar was lowered in 1999 by Jar Jar Binks.
Although the narrative may separate them, they are an inseparable joint entry here, befitting their place as a great action-comedy team.
R2-D2 is the droid that Resistance royals are forever looking for — the beeping do-it-all mechanic and sometime projector.
And C-3PO is the know-it-all, fussy butler of protocol, languages and odds-making.
Star Wars vehicles
X-wing Fighter
TIE Fighter
Major planets in the Star Wars universe
Expanded universe
Many books, short movies, and video games have been produced that deal with events that do not happen in the original movies.
They also tell more about things that did happen in the movies.
For example, the book Death Star tells about the building and destruction of the space station from the original movie.
It tells much about things seen in that movie but from the point of view of the people on the station.
A different example is that in the Expanded Universe, sometimes the Sith are shown as the protagonists.
Most of the stories in the Expanded Universe are about the rebuilding of the Republic after the Empire's defeat.
They are set anywhere from the early Sith Wars which happened 5,000 years before Episode VI to more than one hundred years after Episode VI.
Star Wars original trilogy:
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars prequel trilogy:
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2000)
Star Wars sequel trilogy:
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Anthology films:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Upcoming movies
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (2023)
Untitled Rian Johnson trilogy (Release date TBD)
Untitled film (December 2025)
Untitled film (December 2027)
Untitled Kevin Fiege film (Release date TBD)
Untitled Taika Watiti film (Release date TBD)
Television Specials
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Caravan of Courage (1984)
The Battle of Endor (1985)
Droids (1985-1986)
Ewoks (1985-1986)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005)
Star Wars The Clone Wars (2008-2020)
Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018)
Star Wars Resistance (2018-2020)
Star Wars Forces of Destiny (2017-2019)
Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures (2018-2020)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Release Date TBA)
Andor (2022)
The Mandalorian (2019-)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
Rangers of the New Republic (Release Date TBA)
Ahsoka (Release Date TBA)
Lando (Release Date TBA)
The Acolyte (Release Date TBA)
Visions (2021)
Upcoming projects
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is a future Star Wars movie set to be released December 22, 2023.
The movie is written and directed by Patty Jenkins making her the first woman to direct a Star Wars film.
According to Starwars.com, the movie "will introduce a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy."
Untitled Rian Johnson Trilogy a trilogy is currently being worked on by Rian Johnson who wrote and directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The trilogy was announced before the release of The Last Jedi but very little has been said about it.
Rian Johnson said that he would start writing it after his film Knives Out and that it will take place in a new era with new characters.
Two Untitled Star Wars films are set to release in December 2025 and December 2027.
A Untitled Kevin Fiege film is currently in currently being developed by Marvel Cinematic Universe producer Kevin Fiege
A Untitled Star Wars Taika Watiti film is currently in development and was announced on May 4, 2020.
Taika Waititi will be co-writing the movie with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
Taika will also be the director of the film.
Television shows
Lando is a future Disney+ show set in the Star Wars universe.
The show will focus on the character Lando Calrissian but it is unclear if Donald Glover or Billy Dee Williams will come back to play Lando.
The show is written by Justin Simien.
Rangers of the New Republic is a future Disney+ show set in the Star Wars universe.
The show was announced in December 2020 and will be worked on by Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau.
It will take place at the same time as, Ahsoka, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Ahsoka is a future Disney+ television show set in the Star Wars universe.
It will take place during the time of The Mandalorian, Rangers of the New Republic, and The Book of Boba Fett.
The shows will all join together in a story event at an unknown time.
Rosario Dawson will be playing Ahsoka Tano again and the show will be written and directed by Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau.
The Acolyte is a future Star Wars Disney+ show written by Leslie Headland.
The show will take place during the end of the High Republic Era of Star Wars and take a look at the dark forces in the galaxy as the events of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace get closer.
Visions is a future Disney+ show that will feature ten short anthology anime films by different cartoonist set in the Star Wars universe.
It will release in 2021.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a future Disney+ show set in Star Wars that is about Obi-Wan Kenobi's time on Tatooine.
Ewan McGregor is coming back to play Obi-Wan while Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in the prequel films will return as Darth Vader in what Kathleen Kennedy described as the "rematch of the century".
Originally a movie, the show was announced on August 23, 2019 but has not received a release date.
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TheForce.net—One of the oldest Star Wars Fan Movie sites
The Rebel Legion
StarDestroyer.
The Force of Star Wars  from Time.com
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Directory to Star Wars sites on the internet.
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The Korean language is spoken mainly in North and South Korea.
It is spoken by more than 78 million people (most are North or South Koreans).
In South Korea, it is called hangukmal (한국말) or hangugeo (Hangeul: 한국어, Hanja: 韓國語).
In North Korea, however, it is called choseonmal (조선말) or choseoneo (조선어, 朝鮮語).
They are named differently because the common names for North and South Korea are different.
Additionally, Koreans usually call their language urimal (Hangeul: 우리말) or urinara mal (Hangeul: 우리나라 말), meaning "our language" or "our country's language."
Korean uses two different writing systems.
One is Hangul, the main alphabet.
In North Korea, only Hangeul (Known as Choseongeul in North Korea) is used by law.
In South Korea, only Hangeul should be used in most public areas like education, but the other system, Hanja, is still used in some newspapers and professional areas.
Hanja is the system of Chinese characters that are used in Korean.
It was the only way to write Korean before the creation of Hangeul in the 15th century, and it was common in novels before the 19th century.
Although King Sejong the Great led the development of Hangeul to allow literacy to spread among common people and to create a writing system that represented the language more accurately than Hanja, it was not adopted by the upper classes of Koreans.
Hanja would continue to be the official writing system until the late 19th century.
Although it was rejected by the elite classes, Hangeul was used often by lower classes as a way to write down Korean literature and for lower classes to communicate.
Language isolates
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States of America.
The name of the state comes from the Kansa Native Americans, whose name comes from a Siouan-language phrase meaning "people of the south wind".
The land that would become Kansas was bought in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Kansas's capital is Topeka, and its biggest city is Wichita.
Kansas was first settled by Americans in 1827 when Fort Leavenworth was built.
In the 1850s, many more people came to live in Kansas.
This was also when people were fighting about slavery.
People were allowed to move to Kansas in 1854 because of the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
When this happened, anti-slavery Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery people from Missouri quickly came to Kansas.
They wanted to decide whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state.
Because of this, a lot of fighting happened, and it was known as Bleeding Kansas.
The anti-slavery people won.
On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state.
Kansas is in a region known as America's Breadbasket.
Like other states in this area, Kansas makes a lot of corn, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat; they make one-fifth of all wheat grown in the United States.
Kansas has other industries too, including aviation and communications.
Kansas has an area of , which is the 15th-biggest state by area.
Kansas is also 34th most-populous of the 50 states because 2,913,314 people live there.
People who live in Kansas are called Kansans.
Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest place at .
The terrain of Kansas consists of prairies and forests.
All of Kansas is in the Great Plains.
The name Kansas comes from the Algonquian term, Akansa,  for the Quapaw people.
These were a Dhegiha Siouan-speaking people who moved to Arkansas around the 13th century.
The stem -kansa is named after the Kaw people.
They are also known as the Kansa, a federally recognized Native American tribe.
In 1539, Marcos de Niza, a friar, reported rumors of Cíbola, a city of gold, to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City.
Niza said the city was in modern-day New Mexico.
In response to the rumors, two years later, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, with an army of 3000 Spaniards and 8001 Mexicans, marched northward from Culiacán in hopes of finding the city.
When Coronado did not find the city in New Mexico, he continued northeast into the Mississippi Valley, crossing the present area of Kansas diagonally.
This made Conrado and his army the first Europeans to see the Great Plains, including Kansas.
Later, Juan de Oñate also traveled to Kansas in 1601.
In 1682, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, Louis Hennepin and other French leaders took formal control of the Mississippi Valley, including the land that would become Kansas.
This land, known as the Louisiana territory, was used to organize trade with Native Americans.
In 1763, France ceded the Louisiana territory to Spain.
Between 1763 and 1803 the territory of Kansas was integrated into the Spanish Louisiana.
The governor Luis de Unzaga 'le Conciliateur', during that period, promoted expeditions and good relations with the indians tribes, among the explorers were Antoine de Marigny and others who continued trading across the Kansas River, especially at its confluence with the Missouri River, tributaries of the Mississippi River.
However, in 1803, Spain receded the territory back to France in the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
On April 30, 1803, Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.
In the early 1800s, Kansas was used to hold Native Americans that were removed from their native lands.
Statehood
On May 30, 1854, the Congress signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that Kansas and Nebraska were both territories of the United States.
It also stated that Kansans would vote on the legality of slavery.
Upon hearing this, about 1,200 armed New Englanders came to Kansas to vote against slavery.
However, thousands of southerners, mostly from Missouri, came to vote for slavery.
The final vote was to make slavery legal, and Kansas adopted most of Missouri's slave laws.
There was fighting between Southerners and Northerners in Kansas.
In one fight, John Brown and his men killed five people in the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Later, Southerners destroyed Lawrence, Kansas.
Kansas was called "Bleeding Kansas".
Between 1854 and 1861, Kansas proposed four state constitutions.
Out of the four proposed constitutions, three did not allow slavery.
Finally, in July 1859, Kansas passed the Wyandotte Constitution, which was anti-slavery.
The constitution for statehood was sent to the U.S. government in April 1860 to be voted on.
The constitution was passed by the House of Representatives, but rejected by the Senate.
This is because southern voters in the Senate did not like that Kansas would become a state without slavery.
In 1861, after the Confederate states formed, the constitution gained approval from the Union, and Kansas became a state.
Kansas in the Civil War
Four months after Kansas became a state, the Civil War started.
Out of the 381 battles in the Civil War, four were fought in Kansas.
Throughout the war, Kansas remained a Union state.
On August 21, 1863, William Clarke Quantrill led a force of 300 to 400 Confederates into the town of Lawrence, Kansas.
Quantrill and his troops burned, looted, and destroyed the anti-slavery town.
This battle became known as the Lawrence Massacre.
In total, 164 Union soldiers and 40 Confederate soldiers died in the Lawrence Massacre.
In the Battle of Mine Creek, on October 25, 1864, Union soldiers attacked Confederates as they were crossing the Mine Creek.
The Union surrounded the Confederates, and captured 600 men and two generals.
1,000 Confederate soldiers and 100 Union soldiers died in the battle.
In total, 8,500 people from Kansas died or were wounded in the Civil War.
Post Civil War
After the Civil War, many free slaves came to Oklahoma and Kansas.
In fact, between the years of 1879 and 1881, about 60,000 African Americans came to this region.
This is because the slaves wanted economic opportunities, which they believed awaited them in Kansas.
African Americans also came to Kansas for better political rights and to escape sharecropping.
These people were called "Exodusters."
From 1930 to 1936, Kansas went through a period of time called the Dust Bowl.
During this time, Kansas had little rainfall and high temperatures.
Thousands of farmers became very poor and had to move to other parts of the United States.
In total, 400,000 people left the Great Plains area.
The years from 1930 to 1940 was the only time the population of Kansas went down.
The number of people living in Kansas decreased 4.3 percent.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
During the 1950s, school segregation was required in fifteen U.S states.
However, Kansas was not one of these states.
Instead, school segregation was permitted by local option, but only in elementary schools.
In 1896, the ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson stated that segregation was allowed, but equal facilities should be made available for blacks and whites.
Often, however, black schools received less funding and had fewer textbooks than white schools.
For these reasons, Linda Brown and her family sued the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Brown won the case, and the ruling was to overturn the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
This was considered by many a landmark case in the civil rights movement.
Kansas is the 15th-largest state in the United States.
It covers an area of 82,282 square miles (213,109 km2).
Of this, about 462 square miles (1196.57 km2) are water.
This makes up 0.60% of the total area of the state.
Kansas shares borders with Nebraska to the north, Oklahoma to the south, Missouri to the east, and Colorado to the west.
Kansas is just as far away from the Pacific Ocean as it is the Atlantic Ocean.
The geographic center of the main 48 states is near Lebanon, Kansas.
The geographic center of Kansas is in Barton County.
The underground of Kansas is made of dipping sedimentary rocks, and they are slightly slanted west.
A series of Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian rocks are found in the eastern and southern parts of the state.
In the western part of Kansas, Cretaceous can be found sticking up from the ground.
This happened because of the erosion from the geologically uplifted Rocky Mountains west of Kansas.
Northeastern Kansas was affected by glaciation during the Pleistocene.
All of Kansas is in the Great Plains, where the land is mostly flat with prairies and grasslands.
Eastern Kansas has hills and forests, like the Flint Hills and the Osage Plains in the southeastern part of the state.
Kansas increases in elevation from east to west.
The highest place in the state is Mount Sunflower near the Colorado border.
Mount Sunflower is 4,039 ft (1,231 m) tall.
The lowest point is the Verdigris River in Montgomery County, at 679 ft (207 m) above sea level.
It is a common misconception that Kansas is the flattest state – in 2003, a tongue-in-cheek study famously said the state is "flatter than a pancake".
Kansas has a maximum topographic relief of .
This makes Kansas the 23rd flattest U.S. state.
About  of the Kansas's northeastern border is the Missouri River.
The Kansas River is created by the junction of the Smoky Hill River and Republican River.
This happens at Junction City.
The Kansas River then joins the Missouri River at Kansas City.
It goes  across the northeastern part of the state.
The Arkansas River (pronunciation varies) starts in Colorado.
It goes for about  across the western and southern parts of Kansas.
Kansas's has other rivers.
There is the Saline River and the Solomon River.
They are tributaries of the Smoky Hill River.
The Big Blue River, the Delaware River, and the Wakarusa River flow into the Kansas River.
The Marais des Cygnes River is a tributary of the Missouri River.
Spring River is between Riverton and Baxter Springs.
National parks and historic places
Areas under the protection of the National Park Service include:
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka
California National Historic Trail
Fort Larned National Historic Site in Larned
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
Nicodemus National Historic Site at Nicodemus
Oregon National Historic Trail
Pony Express National Historic Trail
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City
In Kansas, there are currently 238 species of rare animals and 400 rare plants.
Among those include: Boechera laevigata, Virginia Rail, Cleft Ledge, Royal Fern, Turkey-tangle, Bobolink, Cave Salamander, Peregrine Falcon, and Black-footed ferret.
Common animal species and grasses include: Crows, Deer, Lesser Prairie Chicken, Mice, Moles, Opossum, Prairie Dogs, Raccoon, Tripsacum dactyloides, Prairie Dropseed, Indian Grass, Little Bluestem, Switch Grass, Northern Sea Oats, Tussock Sedge, Sideoats Grama, and Big Bluestem.
The Köppen climate classification says that Kansas's climate has three types depending on where in the state it is: it has humid continental, semi-arid steppe, and humid subtropical.
The eastern 2/3 of the state (especially the northeastern part) has a humid continental climate.
This means it has cool to cold winters and hot, often humid summers.
Most of the precipitation happens during both the summer and the spring.
The western 1/3 of the state – from about U.S. Route 83 to west of it – has a semiarid steppe climate.
Summers are hot, often very hot, and generally less humid.
Winters vary a lot.
Winters can be anything between warm and very cold.
The western region gets an average of about  of precipitation per year.
Chinook winds in the winter can warm western Kansas all the way into the  range.
The far south-central and southeastern parts of Kansas, including the Wichita area, have a humid subtropical climate.
This means it has hot and humid summers, and it has milder winters.
It also has more precipitation than other places in Kansas.
Some things about three climates can be found in most of Kansas.
Many parts can get droughts and varied weather.
Places can be dry or humid.
Places can get both warm or cold in the winter.
Temperatures in many areas in the western half of Kansas reach  or hotter on most days of June, July, and August.
Because of the high humidity, the heat index can be deadly, especially in Wichita, Hutchinson, Salina, Russell, Hays, and Great Bend.
Temperatures are often high in Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal, but the heat index in those three cities is usually lower than the actual air temperature.
Temperatures of  or higher are not as common in the eastern half of Kansas.
However, higher humidity and the urban heat island effect make most summer days reach between  and  in Topeka, Lawrence, and the Kansas City metropolitan area.
During the summer, the low temperatures each night in the northeastern part of the state don't get colder than  very often.
Also, because of the humidity being between 85 and 95 percent, dangerous heat can be felt all day.
Kansas has a varied climate with an average yearly temperature of 56°F (13°C).
The highest temperature ever in Kansas is 121 °F (49.4 °C).
This happened in Fredonia on July 18, 1936, and in Alton on July 24, 1936.
The lowest temperature ever in Kansas is -40 °F (-40 °C).
This occurred in Lebanon on February 13, 1905.
Kansas is in a temperate area of the country.
Like other states in this region, Kansas has four distinct seasons.
Kansas can have extreme weather in all four seasons.
For example, in spring and autumn, Kansas has many tornadoes.
In fact, Kansas gets about 55 tornadoes per year.
This is because Kansas is in the area known as Tornado Alley, where cold and warm air masses come together to make severe weather.
In summer, Kansas has experienced severe droughts.
For example, in 1934, 1936, and 1939, Kansas had less than average rainfall and widespread dust storms as a part of the Dust Bowl.
In winter, Kansas has snow in most parts of the state.
The average snowfall in the northern half of the state is 16 inches, with the average snowfall in the southern half of the state being 8 inches.
Blizzards and related snowstorms are rare in Kansas.
Cities and Counties
Kansas is organized into 105 counties.
Each county has a county seat.