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Later he concentrated on composing classical music.
Previn received many prizes and honours.
In the United Kingdom he was knighted in 1996.
He is particularly remembered in Britain for a guest appearance he made on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1971 where Eric Morecambe (who called him Andrew Preview) pretended to play the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg with Previn conducting.
When Previn told him he was playing all the wrong notes, Morecambe grabbed him by his jacket and said that he was playing "all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order".
Andre Previn was married five times.
His fifth marriage was to the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for whom he wrote a violin concerto.
They divorced in 2006.
A type of phonograph, a machine for recording and replaying sound
Gramophone record, a disc for storing analogue sound
Gramophone (magazine), a British magazine about classical music
Gramophone Company, a British record company, existing from 1897 to 1931
Franz Welser-Möst (born Linz, 16 August 1960) is an Austrian conductor.
He is the conductor (music director) of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Franz Leopold Maria Möst was born in Linz, Austria.
He learned to play the violin, but after being injured in a car accident he changed to conducting.
In 1985 he changed his stage-name to "Welser-Möst" after the town of Wels where he grew up.
He soon started to be invited to conduct major orchestras.
He appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1985, then conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986 and, from 1989 he appeared a lot in the United States.
He conducted the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In 1990, Welser-Möst became main (principal) conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
He received a lot of criticism and left the LPO in 1996.
In 1995 he went to the Zurich Opera House where he conducted many operas including complete cycles of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
He left the Zurich post in 2008.
In 2007, the Austrian government made him musical director (Generalmusikdirektor) of the Vienna State Opera beginning in September 2010.
Franz Welser-Möst biography at The Cleveland Orchestra
People from Linz
Commerzbank Tower is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.
At 259 meters, or 850 feet (300 meters with antenna included), it is Germany's tallest skyscraper and the third tallest building in Europe.
It was completed and opened in 1997.
Commerzbank Tower is located in Frankfurt's district Innenstadt in the centre of the city.
It is home to the headquarters of the second largest German bank, Commerzbank.
Skyscrapers in Frankfurt
MesseTurm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
In English it is known as the Trade Fair Tower.
It is Germany's second tallest, and at the time of its building, it was the tallest building in Europe.
It is the fourth tallest building in Europe.
It is 257 metres (840 feet) tall.
MesseTurm is located in Frankfurt's district Westend.
This is near the same named Trade Fair-Area in the centre of the city.
It is home to the German headquarters of Reuters, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.
The construction began in 1988.
It was finished in 1991.
It was the tallest building in Europe, between 1991 and 1997.
In 1997, Commerzbank Tower became the tallest building in Germany.
It was only two metres higher than MesseTurm.
The construction of the building's foundation set a world record.
The world record was for the longest continuous concrete pour.
Ninety trucks poured concrete for 78 hours.
They poured it into the  deep foundation.
There is a pyramid on the very top of MesseTurm.
This makes it very different from other skyscrapers.
Because of this shape, people in Germany often call it "The Pencil."
1990s establishments in Germany
The arrondissement of Belley is an arrondissement of France, in the Ain department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Its capital is the city of Belley.
When the Ain department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Belley was part of that original department.
It is the southernmost of the arrondissements of the department with an area of .
It has 98,110 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement of Belley is in the southeastern part of department and is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Nantua, to the northeast by the Haute-Savoie department, to the east by the Savoie department, to the south by the Isère department and to the west by the arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse.
In the arrondissement of Belley, there are 3 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement: Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Belley and Lagnieu.
The canton of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine has 1 commune in Belley, 2 in the arrondissement of Gex and 11 in the arrondissement of Nantua, the canton of Hauteville-Lompnes has 29 communes in Belley and 12 in Nantua, and the canton of Lagnieu has 22 communes in Belley and 4 in the arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse.
The arrondissement of Belley has 115 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
L'Abergement-de-Varey (01002)
Ambérieu-en-Bugey (01004)
Ambléon (01006)
Ambronay (01007)
Ambutrix (01008)
Andert-et-Condon (01009)
Anglefort (01010)
Aranc (01012)
Arandas (01013)
Arboys-en-Bugey (01015)
Argis (01017)
Armix (01019)
Artemare (01022)
Belley (01034)
Belmont-Luthézieu (01036)
Bénonces (01037)
Béon (01039)
Bettant (01041)
Blyes (01047)
Bourg-Saint-Christophe (01054)
Brégnier-Cordon (01058)
Brénaz (01059)
Brens (01061)
Briord (01064)
La Burbanche (01066)
Ceyzérieu (01073)
Chaley (01076)
Champagne-en-Valromey (01079)
Champdor-Corcelles (01080)
Charnoz-sur-Ain (01088)
Château-Gaillard (01089)
Chavornay (01097)
Chazey-Bons (01098)
Chazey-sur-Ain (01099)
Cheignieu-la-Balme (01100)
Cleyzieu (01107)
Colomieu (01110)
Conand (01111)
Contrevoz (01116)
Conzieu (01117)
Corbonod (01118)
Corlier (01121)
Cormaranche-en-Bugey (01122)
Cressin-Rochefort (01133)
Culoz (01138)
Cuzieu (01141)
Douvres (01149)
Évosges (01155)
Faramans (01156)
Flaxieu (01162)
Groslée-Saint-Benoît (01338)
Hauteville-Lompnes (01185)
Haut-Valromey (01187)
Hostiaz (01186)
Innimond (01190)
Izieu (01193)
Joyeux (01198)
Lagnieu (01202)
Lavours (01208)
Leyment (01213)
Lhuis (01216)
Lochieu (01218)
Lompnas (01219)
Lompnieu (01221)
Loyettes (01224)
Magnieu (01227)
Marchamp (01233)
Marignieu (01234)
Massignieu-de-Rives (01239)
Meximieux (01244)
Montagnieu (01255)
Le Montellier (01260)
Murs-et-Gélignieux (01268)
Nivollet-Montgriffon (01277)
Oncieu (01279)
Ordonnaz (01280)
Parves-et-Nattages (01286)
Pérouges (01290)
Peyrieu (01294)
Pollieu (01302)
Prémeyzel (01310)
Prémillieu (01311)
Rignieux-le-Franc (01325)
Rossillon (01329)
Ruffieu (01330)
Saint-Champ (01341)
Saint-Denis-en-Bugey (01345)
Sainte-Julie (01366)
Saint-Éloi (01349)
Saint-Germain-les-Paroisses (01358)
Saint-Jean-de-Niost (01361)
Saint-Martin-de-Bavel (01372)
Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans (01378)
Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens (01379)
Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey (01384)
Saint-Sorlin-en-Bugey (01386)
Saint-Vulbas (01390)
Sault-Brénaz (01396)
Seillonnaz (01400)
Serrières-de-Briord (01403)
Seyssel (01407)
Souclin (01411)
Sutrieu (01414)
Talissieu (01415)
Tenay (01416)
Thézillieu (01417)
Torcieu (01421)
Vaux-en-Bugey (01431)
Vieu (01442)
Villebois (01444)
Villieu-Loyes-Mollon (01450)
Virieu-le-Grand (01452)
Virieu-le-Petit (01453)
Virignin (01454)
Vongnes (01456)
The Book of Enoch is a book claiming to be written by Enoch.
He was the great-grandfather of Noah and son of Jared in the Bible.
However, scholars consider it to be Pseudepigrapha.
It is not part of the Bible canon and only the Ethiopian Orthodox Church says it is part of the Bible.
The Book is an old Hebrew text, likely written in the 2nd century BC, and contains material on the origins of demons and giants, why some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why Noah's Flood was morally necessary, and a description of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah.
It is interesting to many Christians because the ninth verse of the first chapter is quoted in the Epistle of Jude 1:14-15.
Anton Szandor LaVey (April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997), born Howard Stanton Levey, was the founder of the Church of Satan.
He created a religion called LaVeyan Satanism.
He wrote several books describing his beliefs.
His first book was called The Satanic Bible.
He reported a dramatic life story, although some say he lied about his past.
LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago, Illinois to a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent.
His family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area of California soon after he was born.
He was talented with musical instruments, particularly the pipe organ and calliope.
His biography says that he stopped going to high school to join the circus.
When the carnival was not active, he played organ in burlesque houses.
He then worked as a police photographer in San Francisco, though this has been questioned.
In the 1960s, LaVey began giving lectures at his house to a group of people he called his "Magic Circle."
A member of this Circle told him that his ideas could become a religion.
He agreed, and founded the Church of Satan in 1966.
In 1969, he published The Satanic Bible.
The Satanic Bible was a collection of writings he had published in the past years that outlined his philosophies and the basics of the religion.
It was influenced by Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, H. L. Mencken, and other authors and philosophers.
In 1971, LaVey published The Compleat Witch (later released as The Satanic Witch).
The Satanic Witch was a manual of magic.
In 1972, LaVey published The Satanic Rituals.
This contained instructions for performing rituals.
In the 1990s, LaVey published two books of essays, The Devil's Notebook and Satan Speaks.
LaVey died on October 29, 1997.
His death was caused by pulmonary edema (fluid in his lungs).
This was brought on by his heart disease.
Official website of the Church of Satan
The Anton Szandor LaVey Memorial
Satanists
Disease-related deaths in California
People from San Francisco
Hurricane Ike was one of the most damaging tropical cyclones in United States history, having caused about $38 billion dollars in damage.
It was the sixth-costliest Atlantic hurricane in U.S. history.
Hurricane Ike was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane and the most-intense hurricane of 2008 in terms of pressure.
Ike may have caused up to 195 deaths.
Most deaths happened in Haiti and the U.S. together.
Haiti was still recovering from Tropical Storm Fay, Hurricane Gustav, and Hurricane Hanna.
The storm that eventually became Hurricane Ike started near the west coast of Africa on August 28.
The storm grew quickly as it moved to the west-northwest.
On September 1, the storm formed into Tropical Depression Nine when the storm was over the central Atlantic Ocean.
Later that day Tropical Depression Nine became Tropical Storm Ike.
In spring 2009, the name "Ike" was retired due to severe damage it caused, particularly in Texas.
It was replaced by "Isaias" for the 2014 season.
2008 in Canada
Rafflesia is a genus of flowering plants.
They are found in southeastern Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Thailand and the Philippines.
They are the biggest single flowers in the world.
In one species the flowers can be over a meter (three feet) across.
The flowers smell like a dead animal, which attracts flies.
The flies, which normally lay their eggs on rotten flesh, pollinate the Rafflesia when they get inside.
Rafflesia is a parasite, and does not use chlorophyll.
The plant has no stem, leaves or true roots.
It lives inside vines of the genus Tetrastigma (Vitaceae).
It spreads its absorptive organ, the haustorium, inside the tissue of the vine.
The only part of the plant that can be seen outside the host vine is the flower.
Jamili Nais 2001.
Rafflesia of the world.
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Parks.
Parasitic Plant Connection: Rafflesia Gallery
Video: 'David Attenborough finds the Rafflesia'
Northern Fury F.C. is a soccer club from Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
The club was founded in 2008 and competed in the A-League as North Queensland Fury FC.
On 1 March 2011, the club was removed from the league due to financial instability.
On 3 October 2012, the club was re-formed as Northern Fury FC after it was granted a license to play in the NPL Queensland.
Northern Fury play their home fixtures at Townsville Sports Reserve.
Minor Trophies/Honours
Queensland Nickel Cup
2009/10 (NQ Fury V's Gold Coast United: {Contested Over 3 League Fixtures} NQ Fury W2/D0/L1)
Chief Minister's Cup
– 2009 (3–2 V's Adelaide United – Played In Darwin/NT 02/07/09)
The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music is a Palestinian music conservatory.
It has branches in Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.
More than 500 students can study music there.
When it was started in Ramallah in 1993 it was called The National Conservatory of Music.
In September 2004 it was given its present name in honour of the Palestinian scholar and musician Edward Said.
The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music and the Al Kamandjati are the two main music schools for the two million Palestinians living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The students of the conservatory study in an are where there is a lot of war and conflict with Israel.
Nevertheless there are a few projects where Israeli and Palestinian musicians have managed to work together.
The Palestine Youth Orchestra was started through the efforts of the Edward Said National Conservatory.
It is one of the best youth orchestras in the Arab world.
The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music official site
SafetySuit (or Safety Suit and Safetysuit) is an American rock band formed in 2008.
They are famous for the hit singles Someone Like You and Stay.
Safety Suit has released only 1 hit studio album called Life Left to Go in July 2008.
Someone Like You (2008)
Anywhere But Here (2008)
Stay (2009)
Life Left to Go (2008)
Someone Like You - EP (2008)
Life Left to Go is an album by alternative rock band SafetySuit.
It was released in the summer of 2008.
The album contains the tracks Someone Like You (SafetySuit song), Stay, and Anywhere But Here.
"Apology"
"Find the Way"
"Stay (SafetySuit song)"
"Something I Said"
"Anywhere But Here"
"The Moment"
"Gone Away"
"A Life Left to Go"
Someone Like You is a hit single released of the album by SafetySuit called Life Left to Go.
The single was released in February of 2008.
The song was recorded along with the other tracks featured on the album Life Left to Go in 2006 and 2007.
"Stay" is the 2nd hit single off the album by SafetySuit called Life Left to Go.
The song was originally released in fall of 2008, but according to the seemingly major release date in the United Kingdom, it is known to be regularly released in January of 2009.
Vrilissia () is a small Greek city.
It is near Athens in Attica.
Almost 40,000 people live there.
It is located at the northeastern edge of the metropolis of Athens.
The city is accessed by Attiki Odos, the suburban railway and metro transit.
Vrilissia is an area with lots of squares and parks.
It has a small forested area near the mountain of Pendeli.
Vrilissia is a twin city of Naples, Italy and Ottweiler in Germany.
In Ottweiler, a main bridge is named after the Greek city.
Municipality site
Vrilissia informational portal
A squall is a quick and big increase in wind speed which is usually linked to weather such as rain showers, thunderstorms, or heavy snow.
The Oxford English Dictionary (or OED) is a dictionary.
It is published by the Oxford University Press in England, and is the largest English dictionary.
It traces (or follows in detail) the historical development of the English language, and is a resource to writers and scholars.
It describes how the language has been used.
The second edition came to 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, published in  1989.
Number of main entries is 231,100 and number of main entries for out-of -date words is 47,100.
Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was not until 1884 that it began to be published in parts, under the name of A New English Dictionary on historical principles; founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society.
In 1895, the title The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes.
In 1933, The Oxford English Dictionary was reprinted as twelve volumes with a one-volume supplement.
More supplements came over the years until 1989, when the second edition was published.
Since 2000, a third edition of the dictionary has been underway, approximately a third of which is now complete.
The first electronic version of the dictionary was done in 1988.
The online version has been available since 2000, and as of April 2014 was receiving over two million hits per month.
The third edition of the dictionary will probably only appear in electronic form; Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, feels it unlikely that it will ever be printed.
Sir Thomas Beecham (born St Helens, Lancashire, 29 April 1879; died London, 8 March 1961) was an English conductor.
He was one of the most famous conductors of his time.
He came from a very rich family and was able to use his money to pay orchestras that he formed.
He formed the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
He was especially well known for conducting the music of Mozart as well as that of his friend Delius.
Beecham was born in 1879 in St. Helens, Lancashire in the north of England.
Beecham was self-taught as a conductor.
He had some private composition lessons from Charles Wood in London and Moszkowski in Paris.
Beecham’s father, Sir Joseph Beecham, had made a lot of money making medicines (the famous Beecham pills) and he also liked music, so he was able to help his son in his career as a musician.
Thomas was only 20 years old when his father was reinstated as mayor of St. Helens.
To celebrate this, his father paid for the Hallé Orchestra to give a concert.
It was going to be conducted by the famous German conductor Hans Richter.
However, a few days before the concert it was announced that Richter was ill.
Thomas immediately said he would conduct the concert.
The orchestra at first refused to play for a 20 year old who had only once ever conducted a concert, but in the end they changed their minds and the concert was a great success.
In 1909 Thomas got a group of musicians together to form the Beecham Symphony Orchestra.
They gave concerts and played for ballets and operas.
Beecham conducted operas in Covent Garden and other London opera houses.
He conducted works by composers such as Strauss, Delius, Smythe and Holbrooke.
He also played for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes when they first came to England.
During World War I he gave money to the Halle Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Society, all of which he conducted.
He often conducted these orchestras outside London, giving people the chance to hear music they had never heard before.
For several years he had money problems and did not conduct much.
Then, in 1932, he formed the London Philharmonic Orchestra and quickly made it into an excellent orchestra.
They toured Germany in 1936 and the next year went to Paris.
During the 1930s he conducted at Covent Garden where he had control of everything that went on.
He conducted several cycles of Wagner’s Ring.
When World War II started in 1939 the theatre was closed.
He went to the United States where he conducted several orchestras including the New York Philharmonic.
He also went to Australia.
In 1944 he returned to Britain.
His orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, were now a self-governing body (the members themselves made decisions about what the orchestra should do and play).
They decided that they did not want Beecham because he would want to have power to rule the orchestra in the way he wanted.
So Beecham formed another orchestra: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
He gave many concerts, toured with them and made many great recordings.
He was especially known for his concerts of Joseph Haydn and Mozart.
He also conducted Die Meistersinger at Covent Garden in 1951 as well as appearing at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1958.
The last concert he gave was on 7 May 1960 when he conducted the RPO in Portsmouth.
His fame
Beecham was an enormously talented musician.
Because he had a lot of money he did not need to go through the musical education that most other musicians have.
He formed his own life, and spent a lot of his energy as well as money creating the right conditions for musicians to work in, conditions that would have been normal in many other European countries, but which were not normal at the time in England.
He was not interested in the music of Bach, though he did conduct Handel.
He was famous for his Mozart performances, and particularly enjoyed playing Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Bizet and Dvořák.
He was one of the first people in England to conduct the new music of Richard Strauss and Sibelius.
He was a close friend of Delius and performed his music as well as editing it so that it could be published.
There are many stories about the witty things that he said.
He was knighted in 1916.
A lady told Beecham that she wanted her son to learn to play a musical instrument but did not want to hear the awful sound it made when he was beginning to learn.
She asked him what instrument he should learn.
Beecham said he should learn the bagpipes because “they sound exactly the same when you have finished learning them as when you start learning them”.
Beecham was rehearsing a very long opera by Wagner.
They had been rehearsing for a long time.
Beecham took out his watch and said: “My God!
We have been playing for two hours and we are still playing this bloody tune!”
Beecham was rehearsing an opera by an English composer.
The composer was at the rehearsal, and kept stopping the orchestra and asking Beecham to play it differently.
Each time Beecham turned back to the orchestra and said: “The same again, gentlemen, please”.
Beecham once met a lady he knew, but could not remember who she was.
He asked her whether she was well.
"Oh, very well, but my brother has been rather ill lately", she said.
"Ah, yes, your brother.
And, er, what is your brother doing at the moment?"
"Well... he's still King", replied Princess Mary.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; edited Stanley Sadie; 1980;
In 2006 the theatre was closed so that work could be done to improve the inside of the building.
It reopened in 2010
There had been a theatre there in the middle of the 19th century.
The present building was opened in 1908.
The auditorium is horseshoe-shaped and has 2,487 seats.
The acoustics of the building are very good.
It is in the middle of Buenos Aires.
Bim Bum Bam was produced by Alessandra Valeri Manera and created by Paolo Bonolis and Giancarlo Muratori.
Mascotte
Uan, the pink dog
Ambrogio, the lion
I Puffi (The Smurfs) (1982; 1993)
Kiss me Licia (1985; 1998; 2002)
Carletto il principe dei mostri (Kaibutsu-kun) (1983)
C'era una volta... Pollon (Poron)
L'incantevole Creamy (1985; 1995; 2001)
Snorky (Snorks) (1986)
Foofur Superstar (Foofur) (1987; 1996-97)
Teodoro e l'invenzione che non va (Wowser) (1989)
Cristoforo Colombo (1992)
Conte Dacula (Count Duckula) (1989)
Bentornato Topo Gigio (1992)
Calimero (1995)
Sailor Moon (1995-2000)
T-Rex (1994-95)
James Bond Junior (1994-95)
Mighty Max (1995)
L'ispettore Gadget (Inspector Gadget) (1994-95)
Tartarughe Ninja alla riscossa (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)) (1994-95)
The Real Ghostbusters (1994-95)
Widget, un alieno per amico (Widget The World Watcher) (1993; 1996)
The Mask: The Animated Series (1996-97)
Scuola di polizia (Police Academy: The Animated Series) (1996; 2001)
La fabbrica dei mostri (Creepy Crawlers)
Iznogoud - Chi la fa l'aspetti (Iznogoud) (1996-97)
Mr. Magoo (1996-97)
Alf (1996-97)
Robinson Bignè (Robinson Sucroe) (1996-97)
Ace Ventura (two episodes) (1996-97)
Casper (1998)
Sale e Pepe (Les Jules) (1998)
Pippi Calzelunghe (1998)
Braccio di Ferro (Popeye) (1999)
I gemelli del destino (Destiny Twins) (1999)
Alvin Show (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (1999)
Beethoven (Beethoven) (2000)
Pokemon (2000-2002)
Card Captor Sakura (1998-2000)
Pu-yi (Chinese: 溥仪, February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) was the last Emperor of China.
He was crowned emperor in 1908 at the age of three.
He married five times but never had any children.
His father was Zaifeng Prince Chun II.
He never knew his mother and was raised by eunuchs.
When he was two years old,in 1908,  he became the Xuantong Emperor (then spelled as Hsuan Tung Emperor).
On February 12, 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution he was forced to abdicate.
His era name as Qing emperor, "Xuantong", means "proclamation of unity".
He later became the ruler of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.
At the age of six, he was overthrown by Sun Yat-sen in the 1911 Revolution.
Although he was forced to give up all political power, he was allowed to keep his title, his servants, and everything he owned in the Forbidden City, but in turn he had to pay the Republic of China 4 million taels a year and he was never allowed to leave the Forbidden City.
In the year 1919, Pu-yi appointed a British tutor named Reginald Johnston.
It was through him that the young emperor developed a fascination with the Western world, so he began to adopt aspects of the West for himself.
He learned how to ride a bicycle, he cut off his own Manchu queue, he even began to wear glasses.
After Pu-yi was married to his first wife, he discovered that many of the palace's treasures were getting stolen.
Believing that it was his eunuchs who were stealing his treasures, he demanded that they make an inventory to keep the treasury from getting robbed anymore.
On the June 27, 1923, a fire destroyed the area around the Palace of Established Happiness.
He accused the eunuchs of burning up the treasury to destroy any proof of their theft, and he also overheard some eunuchs' conversation that made him fear for his life.
In response, he banished all the eunuchs from the palace.
In 1925, warlord Feng Yuxiang forced the emperor to leave the Forbidden City.
Pu-yi then asked his tutor Johnston to go to the British Embassy and ask them to let the emperor to move to England.
Unfortunately, the embassy refused his request.
He then called the Japanese Embassy and they agreed to escort him out of Beijing and move him over to Tianjin.
After the Japanese took over Manchuria n 1932, they made Pu-yi the Emperor of their new puppet state, Manchukuo.
Despite being emperor, though, he practically had no power, but he was constantly manipulated, threatened, and blackmailed by the Japanese government.
Once again, the emperor found himself to be a prisoner in his own palace.
Chinese media and writers accused the Japanese and collaborators like Puyi of being homosexuals as an insult.
After the Soviet Red Army invaded Manchuria in 1945, they captured Pu-yi when they invaded Changchun.
After the CCP took over China in 1949, the Soviets agreed to hand Pu-yi over to China, and for the next ten years, the former emperor was thrown in a prison camp in Liaoning.
After the prison guards declared that he was reformed, he was freed from prison and was moved back to Beijing, where he would spend the rest of his life as a common citizen.
He would work as a gardener and then an editor, in which he would earn 100 yuan a month.
When he returned to the Forbidden City (which was made into the Imperial Palace Museum), he had to buy a ticket to enter.
He thought that it was ironic that he had to buy a ticket just to visit his own home.
Lithium is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana which featured on their second album Nevermind.
Kurt Cobain wrote the song.
He said the song is about a man who became religious after his girlfriend died.
It is the science of the endocrine system and hormones in a wide range of animals.
Endocrinology is also a medical specialty.
This means that when a doctor finishes studying medicine in general, they can choose endocrinology as the part of medicine they work in.
The endocrine system consists of several glands in different parts of the body.
They secrete hormones directly into the blood.
Hormones have many different functions and modes of action.
Hormones are active in metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sleep, digestion, respiration, excretion, mood, stress, lactation, movement, reproduction, and perception.
Another field is behavioral endocrinology.
Medical understanding of hormones began in the 19th century with Graves' disease, caused by a swelling of the thyroid gland.
Since the mid-19th century many medical conditions have been found caused by hormone imbalance, that is, too much or too little of a hormone.
An endocrinologist can help people who have diseases related to their endocrine system.
Diseases that an endocrinologist would treat include:
diabetes mellitus
hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism
Cushing's syndrome
An endocrinologist can find out if a person has one of these diseases by doing tests.
They can test a person's blood to find out if they have too much or too little of a hormone.
An example of this is Type 1 diabetes.
People who have Type 1 diabetes do not have enough of a hormone called insulin.
Endocrinologists usually do not treat patients directly, but give advice to physicians about what how patients might be helped.
too little hormone: hormone deficiency
too much of a hormone: hormone excess
tumours (benign or malignant) of endocrine glands
Most medical applications concern the lack of balance between hormones, and sometimes the complete lack of a necessary hormone.
For example, most forms of hyperthyroidism are associated with an excess of thyroid hormone and a low level of thyroid stimulating hormone.
Helping transgender people
Endocrinologists can advise on hormone treatment for transgender persons.
A transgender person might want their body to look different so that they look more like their chosen gender.
For example, a transgender woman might want less facial hair so that she looks less like a man to other people.
In histology, adipose tissue or body fat or just fat is a tissue made up of cells called adipocytes.
They store nutrients called fats in fat cells.
Adipose tissue produce different compounds which are called adipokines.
They include leptin, tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 1 beta and others.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the god of Pastafarianism.
It is often seen as a parody religion and thus has become popular with people opposed to the idea that God or gods created the world.
Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are sometimes called Pastafarians.
The multiverse theory has suggested that what began as a spoof has become potentially real in the infinite universes and their countless creatures with at least some matching the general description of the FSM.
Bobby Henderson first described the Flying Spaghetti Monster in 2005 in a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education.
Henderson wrote the letter to protest rules about teaching intelligent design in public schools.
The Board of Education required teachers to teach intelligent design.
The Church's website (spaghettimonster.org) contains several sighting of 'His Noodlieness', multiple propaganda resources and an ordination package available for $49.
This package contains a paper certificate of ordination, a black/silverresin wallet card and two vinyl car decals.
The package also comes with free shipping.
As the church states, 'Great.
Consider yourself a member.
You’ll notice there’s no hoops to jump through.
You don’t need to pay anything.'
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
Offical church of the flying spaghetti monster
Clubs 2021
Titles by Clubs
Sand plantain (Plantago afra), It is generally described as an annual forb.
It has two seeds, reddish-brown, narrow-elliptic, shining, 2–3 mm long.
It is native to Malta and Mediterranean regions, Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Vervolg ob de Avbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen
Sarihan E. et al.
Adventitious Shoot Regeneration from International   Journal of Agriculture & Biology 7,879–881
The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.
The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Camme Animation Studios, DiC Entertainment and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "
The Real" was added to the title over a dispute with Filmation and its Ghost Busters properties.
The series continues the adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Dr. Ray Stantz, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer.
Peter Venkman - Lorenzo Music (seasons 1-2), Dave Coulier (seasons 3-7)
Egon Spengler - Maurice LaMarche
Ray Stantz, Slimer - Frank Welker
Winston Zeddemore - Arsenio Hall (seasons 1-3), Buster Jones (seasons 4-7) Winston's last name was alternately spelled "Zeddemore", as in the movies, and Zeddmore.
Janine Melnitz - Laura Summer (seasons 1-2), Kath Soucie (seasons 3-7)
Louis Tully - Rodger Bumpass (seasons 5-6)
The show originally aired on ABC for its full run, except for the third season which ran on syndication at the same time as the second season ran on ABC.
Later, reruns of the show appeared on USA Network, Fox Family before moving to Nickelodeon from 1996 to 1999 and on Cartoon Network in 2002.
Teletoon aired episodes of the series in the month of October beginning in 1998, but has not done so in recent years.
Slimer!
At the start of the third season in 1988, with the series renaming, it was given an hour long time slot.
In addition to the regular thirty-minute Real Ghostbusters episode, a half-hour Slimer sub-series was added that included 2-3 short animated segments focusing on the character Slimer.
At the end of its six season run, 147 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of Slimer, with multiple episodes airing out of production order.
The segments added several characters as friends of Slimer, including the character Professor Norman Dweeb—mad scientist accompanied by a poodle named Elizabeth who wanted to capture Slimer to experiment on him.
The Professor Dweeb also made infrequent appearances in the main series.
One of the ghosts from the Slimer cartoons, the Sleaze, also reappeared in The Real Ghostbusters to be captured a second time.
Extreme Ghostbusters
In 1997, a sequel cartoon entitled Extreme Ghostbusters, was created by Columbia TriStar Television and Adelaide Productions.
It premiered on September 1, 1997 and ran for forty episodes until its conclusion on December 8, 1997.
Set several years after the end of The Real Ghostbusters, the series opened by saying the team has disbanded due to a lack of supernatural activity.
Only Egon remains in the firehouse, along with Slimer, to care for the containment system and teaching classes at a local university.
When supernatural events begin occurring in New York, Egon recruits four of his university students as a new team of Ghostbusters, and Janine, also one of Egon's students, returns to manage the office.
The original Ghostbusters return for the series two-episode finale to celebrate Egon's 40th birthday, leading to them reluctantly working together with the younger generation to solve one last case.
Messianic Judaism is a movement of Jews who believe that Jesus (called by them with his Hebrew name Yeshua) is the Jewish Messiah, and who perform this belief in a Jewish way (observing the regulations of the Torah etc.).
They are called Messianic Jews.
The main branches of Judaism do not consider Messianic Judaism to be Judaism, but rather a form of Christianity, because Judaism rejects Jesus/Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah.
Sir Malcolm Sargent (born Ashford, Kent, 29 April 1895; died London 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer.
He was an extremely famous and popular conductor who had a lot of influence on music in England during his life.
He conducted many choirs, both amateur and professional, as well as orchestras.
He was the main conductor of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts from 1948 to 1967.
He made the Last Night of the Proms into a very popular and joyful concert which today is enjoyed by millions of people worldwide on television.
He conducted the music of many British composers, helping them to become known to a wide public.
Sargent was born in 1895 into a working-class family.
His father was a coal merchant at Stamford, Lincolnshire, who also played the organ.
Sargent grew up in Stamford and became involved in a lot of amateur music making.
He learned a lot about music from singing in church and playing the organ.
He took his ARCO organ diploma when he was only 16 and became an organ pupil at Peterborough Cathedral.
At 18 he got a job as organist at Melton Mowbray church.
In the same year he got a music degree from the University of Durham.
After conducting local choirs and orchestras he got the opportunity to conduct his own composition Impressions on a Windy Day with Henry Wood’s Queen’s Hall Orchestra, first at Leicester and then at the Proms in the Queen's Hall.
Wood encouraged him in his conducting.
He started to teach at the Royal College of Music and moved to London.
He conducted the Robert Mayer children’s concerts and the Courtauld-Sargent concerts, a series which was aimed at people who had never been to concerts.
He conducted for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and, in 1928 he became conductor of the Royal Choral Society, a job which he kept until his death.
Illness, and mid career
In 1932 he was very ill with tuberculosis, but he recovered during the next few years.
He often conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra which had been formed in 1932 by Thomas Beecham.
He did not often conduct opera, but he did conduct at the Royal Opera House: in 1936 with Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise in 1936 and in 1954 the first performance of Walton's Troilus and Cressida.
As an orchestra conductor Sargent was not always popular.
He made many enemies with a remark he made in 1936 when he said that orchestral musicians should not have a secure “job for life” but should give their “lifeblood with every bar they played”.
Sargent had only just recovered from a long illness himself, during which time the musicians had given him support, so they were very annoyed when he said this.
He was very popular in Australia and nearly took a job there, but when World War II started he decided he should work in his own country.
During the war, Sargent conducted the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester (1939-42) and the Liverpool Philharmonic (1942-48) and became a popular radio broadcaster with the BBC.
He helped the British people to keep their spirits up during the war by touring and giving many concerts and not asking for much money.
During one concert he was playing Beethoven's Symphony No.
7 when there was an air raid.
Sargent stopped the orchestra, calmed the audience by saying they were safer inside the hall than they would be outside, and started to conduct again.
The orchestra played extremely well that night.
In May 1941 Sargent conducted Elgar's Dream of Gerontius in an afternoon concert in the Queen's Hall.
That night the Queen’s Hall was completely destroyed by a bomb.
In 1945, Arturo Toscanini invited Sargent to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
He gave four concerts, in which he included mostly British music.
The Proms and later years
Sargent was chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 until his death in 1967.
In 1950 he followed Sir Adrian Boult as conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
He held that job until 1957 when he became Chief Guest Conductor.
Everywhere that Sargent took the orchestra the audience were wild with excitement.
The orchestra became internationally famous.
Sargent was a very popular person at the Proms.
He made the Last Night (the last concert of each season) into an exciting celebration in which the audience waved flags and joined together to sing, hum and clap.
He conducted music by famous classical composers as well as British music by more recent composers.
However, he did not conduct modern experimental music.
During his time at the Proms foreign conductors such as Carlo Maria Giulini, Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski, Rudolf Kempe, Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink were invited to perform.
There were also some foreign orchestras.
When the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra nearly had to come to an end after Beecham's death in 1961, Sargent worked hard to save the orchestra.
A lot of the players, who still remembered the remark he made in 1936, started to support him again.
By the mid-1960s Sargent was suffering from cancer.
He was too ill to conduct the Proms in 1967, but on 16 September, at the Last Night, to everyone’s astonishment, he appeared at the end of the concert to talk to his audience.
He gave his baton to Colin Davis who took over his job.
Sargent looked very ill, and died two weeks later.
Achievement and reputation
Sargent received many honours.
He was knighted in 1947 and received the Royal Philharmonic Society gold medal in 1959.
His nickname was “Flash Harry” because he always dressed and behaved in a flashy style.
He was often known as “Britain’s ambassador of music”, because he often toured all over the world with his orchestras, conducting British music, especially the works of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst and Walton.
If the professional musicians he worked with did not always like him, his audiences loved him and he was especially fond of the Promenaders.
At his memorial service in Westminster Abbey the whole of the nave was reserved for Promenade Season Ticket holders
The playoffs, postseason, or finals are a series of games played after the regular season of a particular sports league.
They are played by the most successful teams of the season.
It is used to determine the season's champion.
The teams that play in the playoffs are the ones with the most wins or points during the regular season.
Lars is a male name.
It is usually used in Scandinavian countries and Germany.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Lars Ulrich, Danish musician
Boyce and Hart were a musical and songwriting duo, who worked together in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tommy Boyce (born Sidney Thomas Boyce in 1939 and died in 1994) and Bobby Hart (born Robert Luke Harshman in 1939) wrote and produced hit records for The Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville", "Valleri"), Jay and the Americans ("Come a Little Bit Closer"), Chubby Checker ("Lazy Elsie Molly"), and for themselves, with "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" and other songs.
Their biggest success was with the Monkees, as writers, producers and performers.
Many of the early Monkees recordings featured Boyce and Hart's band, the Candy Store Prophets, before the Monkees were even selected from auditions.
When the Monkees themselves took charge of their recordings, they still recorded Boyce and Hart's songs, and praised the duo to the public.
Ten years after the Monkees's heyday, two former members, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, teamed up with Boyce and Hart, touring and performing the band's hits.
They also issued a new album on Capitol Records.
Janesville is a city in the state of Wisconsin in the United States.
59,498 people were living in Janesville as of the 2000 census.
Janesville has an area of 48.1 square miles, says the United States Census Bureau.
The first settlers arrived in Janesville in 1835.
It incorporated as a city in 1835
City of Janesville
Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist, living in New York City.
He has written for The New Yorker since 1996.
He is well known as the author of the books, The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), and Outliers (2008).
Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire to a Jamaican mother and English father.
He moved to Elmira, Ontario at age six.
TED Talks: Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce at TED in 2004
Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker bio
Rosoideae is a subfamily of plants in the rose  family Rosaceae.
These plants may be small trees, shrubs, or plants without wood.
Many useful plants are in Rosoideae.
Strawberries and Raspberries are two common fruits from Rosoideae.
Roses are common flowers in Rosoideae.
Botany at Hawaii U
First Leicester is the trading name of Leicester Citybus Ltd., a bus company owned by the First Group.
It runs buses in the city of Leicester England.
In 2007,a new depot opened on Abbey Lane replacing the former premises on Abbey Park Road which go back to the company's municipal heritage.
This site is now derelict pending redevelopment as apartments.
First Leicester website
First Leicester network map
Star Trak  - Real-Time bus information
The Leicester Transport Heritage Trust
British transport companies
Costadinos Contostavlos, better known by his stage name of "Dappy", is an English rapper, singer and songwriter of Greek heritage.
He leads the hip hop group N-Dubz.
Contostavlos was raised on a Camden Town council estate, North London by his mother, Zoe Contostavlos and father, Byron Contostavlos.
His father was the bassist in 1970s group Mungo Jerry.
Contostavlos is from Greek origin but speaks fluent English with a classic North London accent.
He does not think of himself to be "English in anyway".
At home he speaks Greek.
He says he is a "foreign guy that lives in Camden".
He wears unusual hats.
His trademark is a selection of woolly fleece lined hats with big pom-poms on the top and strings on the sides.
These have been called "Dappy hats".
He normally turns up one side of the hat.
Early life and current status
Dappy was born in Camden Town, London.
It is said that he grew up in a small council flat with his parents and older brother.
He actually lived in a large townhouse because his father was a member of 1970s band Mungo Jerry.
In an interview he gave to The Sun, he said that the estate he lived on was "rough and lots of the kids I saw got into drugs or fights".
Dappy showed interest in music from a young age.
He started performing around Camden Town at the age of 13 years old.
He performed with band members Richard "Fazer" Rawson and Tula "Tulisa" Contostavlos, who is his cousin.
At the time they were called the "Lickle Rinsers Crew".
Contostavlos and his band-mates studied at Haverstock School.
Contostavlos was forced to leave the school when he was 15, for multiple truancies and fighting.
He later went back to study at college and received a GCSE A* in English.
His father, Byron was, to Dappy, the "inspiration behind the band".
With the money he made from his time in the band, Bryon set up a small studio for the band.
When Byron died, the song N-Dubz wrote "Papa (Can You Hear Me?)"
was played at his funeral.
It  became the group's best hit at #19, and at #17 in the download charts.
Dappy later had the words "RIP Dad" tattooed on his neck.
He refers to his dad as "B" or "Uncle B".
N-Dubz were forced to change some of their live shows from the Uncle B tour after Dappy got temporary deafness.
He later said that it "was terrible and it has really taught me to take better care of my ears because I wouldn't be the musician I am today if I couldn't hear."
In 2007 Dappy released Love For My Slum with fellow UK rap artist Baker Trouble.
It was number one on Channel U for several weeks.
It did not do as well with the media.
It was heavily criticised for a scene in which Dappy is stood outside a block of expensive luxury flats with a "rich kid" who is trying to look like a gangster.
The Independent wrote "His lyrics combine jealousy with anger: 'You got too much to lose / You're in a great position... You wouldn't last a minute where I'm from / You'd go missing / So appreciate what you got / 'cos I'm still wishing.'
And then he grabs the rich kid by his coat, pulls him toward him, and punches him in the face.
The silent boy falls instantly to the pavement...", they then went on to put "Do scenes like these suggest that music videos are encouraging their viewers to indulge in criminality?".
Other newspapers put that he was "idolising thuggery".
When asked in interviews about the single, and these comments he said "these people need to listen to the lyrics, they are about showing appreciation to what you've got".
In December 2008, Contostavlos pleaded guilty to two counts of assault at Chelmsford Magistrates Court, Essex.
He spat in a girl's face while drunk on a night out.
He got four weeks' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months and 100 hours community service.
He was also ordered to pay £50 to the girl and her friend, and £300 costs.