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Greater Wichita Convention & Visitors Bureau
360Wichita.com (directory of local business and entertainment)
Wichita Mid-Continent Airport
The Wichita Eagle (local newspaper)
City of Wichita-History, on city-administered web page .
History of the Wichita Beat poets and artists .
LASR: Wichita Kansas Attractions, Events and Recreation.
1868 establishments in Kansas
Casablanca is a 1942 American movie set in the eponymous city of Morocco during World War II.
It stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
From the time of its debut, it has been called one of the greatest movies ever made.
Casablanca at the Movie Wiki
1940s romance movies
1940s war movies
Best Picture Oscar
Movies set in Africa
World War II movies
The Godfather is a 1972 American movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
It is based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, and stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
The story of the movie takes place from 1945 to 1955.
It has been considered one of the best movies about the Mafia.
In addition, many have called it the best movie of all time; it also appears on many such lists, including AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (where it was ranked at number three).
The Godfather won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (for Marlon Brando, who refused the award), and Best Adapted Screenplay.
A sequel, The Godfather Part II, was released in 1974 and won another Best Picture Oscar.
It was the only sequel to do so until 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The third movie in the Godfather trilogy, The Godfather Part III, came out in 1990.
The critics thought it was not as good as the other two movies.
1969 books
1972 crime movies
1972 drama movies
1970s crime drama movies
Gangster movies
Italian-language movies
Movies set in Italy
Movies set in the 1940s
Movies directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant (a plant that eats small animals, such as insects).
Carnivorous plants
grow in soil that has little nitrogen.
They get nitrogen from the insects they trap.
This nitrogen is used to make intravenous food like proteins and fats.
The Venus flytrap is one of a very small group of plants that can snap shut very quickly.
When an insect or spider crawls along the leaves and touches a hair, the trap closes only if a different hair is touched within twenty seconds of the first touch.
The two-touch trigger means that little energy is wasted on things that are not food.
The Venus flytrap is a small plant, with small leaves.
Its clam-shaped leaves look rather like flowers, and so they attract insects.
When they are open, they are red and smell sweet.
They have stiff hairs on each edge.
Inside the leaves, there are very sensitive, tiny hairs which cause the leaves to snap shut when they are touched.
Two hairs must be touched to make the leaves close.
This makes it more likely that the thing that touched its hair is living.
Then it secretes juices to digest the insect
First it traps the insect inside its leaves, and then lets out a liquid that helps digest the trapped animal.
The plant consumes the insect and takes the nitrogen from the insect's body.
The Venus flytrap makes sugar by photosynthesis.
The insects give it nutrients which it cannot get from the waterlogged soil.
With the nutrients it can build up enzymes and other molecules which need trace elements as well as sugars and amino acids.
Venus flytraps were first discovered in North America on the coast of North and South Carolina, where it grows wild near the Cape Fear River.
However, people anywhere can grow Venus flytraps in pots.
Venus flytraps in pots need water and soil without calcium or nitrogen in it.
It is named after the Roman goddess of love, Venus.
Information about the Venus flytrap from the Botanical Society of America website
website with information about the Carnivorous Plants of the world
A prime number is a natural number of a particular kind.
Any natural number is equal to 1 times itself.
If the number is equal to any other natural numbers multiplied, then the number is called a composite number.
The smallest composite number is 4, because 2 x 2 = 4.
1 is not a composite number.
Every other number is a prime number.
The prime numbers are the numbers other than 1 which are not equal to  (except 1 times itself).
The smallest prime number is 2.
The next prime numbers are 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13.
The set of prime numbers is sometimes written as .
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every positive integer can be written as a product of primes in a unique way, though the way the prime numbers occur is a difficult problem for mathematicians.
When a number is larger, it is more difficult to know if it is a prime number.
One of the answers is the prime number theorem.
One of the unsolved problems is Goldbach's conjecture.
One of the most famous mathematicians of the classical era, Euclid, recorded a proof that there is no largest prime number.
However many scientists and mathematicians are still searching to find it as part of the  Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
How to find small prime numbers
There is a simple method to find a list of prime numbers.
Eratosthenes created it.
It has the name Sieve of Eratosthenes.
It catches numbers that are not prime (like a sieve), and lets the prime numbers pass through.
The method works with a list of numbers, and a special number called b that changes during the method.
As one goes through the method, they circle some numbers in the list and cross out others.
Each circled number is prime and each crossed-out number is composite.
At the start, all the numbers are plain: not circled and not crossed out.
On a sheet of paper, write all the whole numbers from 2 up to the number being tested.
Do not write down the number 1.
Go to the next step.
Start with b equal to 2.
Circle b in the list.
Starting from b, count up b more in the list and cross out that number.
Repeat counting up b more numbers and crossing out numbers until the end of the list.
(For example: When b is 2, you will circle 2 and cross out 4, 6, 8, and so on.
When b is 3, you will circle 3 and cross out 6, 9, 12, and so on.
6 and 12 have already been crossed out.
Cross them out again.)
Increase b by 1.
If b has been crossed out, go back to the previous step.
If b is a number in the list that has not been crossed out, go to the 3rd step.
If b is not in the list, go to the final step.
(This is the final step.)
All of the prime numbers are circled and all of the composite numbers are crossed out
For example, one could carry out this method on a list of the numbers from 2 to 10.
At the end, the numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7 will end up circled.
These are prime numbers.
The numbers 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 will be crossed out.
These are composite numbers.
This method or algorithm takes too long to find very large prime numbers.
However, it is less complicated than methods used for very large primes, such as Fermat's primality test (a test to see whether a number is prime or not) and the Miller-Rabin primality test.
What prime numbers are used for
Prime numbers are very important in mathematics and computer science.
Very long numbers are hard to solve.
It is difficult to find their prime factors, so most of the time, numbers that are probably prime are used for encryption and secret codes.
Most people have a bank card, where they can get money from their account using an ATM.
This card is protected by a secret access code.
Since the code needs to be kept secret, it cannot be stored in cleartext on the card.
Encryption is used to store the code in a secret way.
This encryption uses multiplications, divisions, and finding remainders of large prime numbers.
An algorithm called RSA is often used in practice.
It uses the Chinese remainder theorem.
If someone has a digital signature for their email, encryption is used.
This makes sure that no one can fake an email from them.
Before signing, a hash value of the message is created.
This is then combined with a digital signature to produce a signed message.
Methods used are more or less the same as in the first case above.
Finding the largest known prime number has, over the years, become a sport of sorts.
Testing if a number is prime can be difficult if the number is large.
The largest primes known at any time are usually Mersenne primes, because the fastest known test for primality is the Lucas-Lehmer test, which relies on the special form of Mersenne numbers.
GIMPS, a group that searches for Mersenne primes
An igloo (or iglu) is a shelter (a place for people to stay warm and dry) made from blocks of snow placed on top of each other, often in the shape of a dome (like half of a hollow ball).
They were used in winter as temporary shelters by hunters when they were away from their regular homes.
They were most often built in places where a lot of snow covers the land for weeks or months at a time, such as the far north of Canada and Greenland.
Most igloos are built by native Inuit people (sometimes called Eskimoes).
As they learned to build them better, sometimes people would build larger igloos that would last longer and hold more people, even for dancing.
Dust (band), a 70s hard rock group
Dust (His Dark Materials), a fictional form of matter in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Dust (novel), by Charles Pellegrino
Dust (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Dust (1985 movie), based on J. M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country
Dust (2001 movie) (Прашина), directed by Milčo Mančevski
Dust (Screaming Trees album)
Dust (Mourning Beloveth album)
Dust (Peter Murphy album)
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, a PC adventure game
For articles on how the word dust is used as a technical term in physics, astronomy, cosmology, and
Cosmic dust, on intergalactic clouds
Interstellar clouds, on interstellar dust
Dust solution, a type of exact solution in general relativity
Dust (relativity), idealization of a cold gas
Mineral dust
The Phantom of the Opera () is a French novel by Gaston Leroux.
It was published in 1910.
An English edition came out a year later.
The book was adapted to a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1986.
The musical was made into a movie in 2004.
Movie versions include one starring Lon Chaney in 1925, one from 1943 with Claude Rains, another from 1962 with Herbert Lom, and The Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
The story has been adapted to made for television movies several times.
1910 books
French novels
There are a number of pubs there with some character, and even two small nightclubs.
It has a lot of green, and is good for rambling but there is the danger of a field being an army firing range.
Working in Fleet
Its local business parks seem to be a focus for many CAD companies serving the local military in Fleet, Aldershot, and Farnborough.
Notably there are AutoDesk and PTC.
Travelling in Fleet
It has its own train station on the London-Basingstoke line.
It also has bus services running to and from local towns, including Reading.
The local bus company did go bust a few times, notably at the same time as the major plague of train accidents and strikes in early 2002 - where combined with large snow deposits, made travel in or out of the town impossible or at least very unpleasant.
Anyone who lived on the London-Basingstoke line will remember people being crammed into the guard-vans of the train after waiting 90 minutes, or being stuck between stations for what seemed like days.
Hentai is a Japanese word that literally means "strange appearance", but also means "perverted".
Hentai, because of this, is a word used by countries outside of Japan to show porn and sex-related anime, manga and video games.
The word is not used to mean this in Japan.
In Japan, terms such as ecchi are used.
The word hentai is sometimes used to apply to cartoon characters that are not anime characters.
Hentai is the anime version of porn.
There is on screen sex, often very graphic and very imaginative.
Since hentai is anime, the performers are not bound by physical laws.
Makers of hentai often use this in very creative ways.
Some of the acts performed in hentai would be physically impossible.
Some of the performers are often impossible themselves.
Fairies, monsters, and even new and strange creatures are stars of hentai.
Monsters and demons with tentacles are seen so often that “tentacle porn” is its own sub-category of hentai.
Most of the hentai (anime)-films in the late 1990s to the present day are based on Ero-Games, where the only actual goal is to date the girls in the game and have sex with one of them.
The games feature various character-types, like a bookworm, a tough girl, a younger girl, and a tomboy.
Ero-games can include highly taboo themes, such as coprophilia or dismemberment, pedophilia, and rape.
Sometimes slightly less taboo subjects, such as incest.
Some examples of these kind of game-to-hentai-anime conversions are Immoral Sisters, Isaku, Pia Carrot, Five Card, Bible Black, Words Worth, Night Shift Nurses, Huniepop, and Milk Junkies.
Cream Lemon (1984)
Urotsukidôji (1987)
La Blue Girl (1992)
Night Shift Nurses (2000)
Bible Black (2001)
Boku No Pico (2006)
Rapping is a type of vocals, like singing.
It is different to singing because it is more like talking, but timed with rhythm over music.
Someone who raps is called a rapper, or sometimes an MC.
That stands for Master of Ceremonies.
Rapping can be done over music of many types (or genres), including jazz, house, reggae and many more.
One genre of music that includes a lot of rapping is hip hop.
What people think of as rapping today, was started by African Americans in New York City, USA, in the 1970s.
People would talk over disco music DJs at parties, and this gradually evolved into rapping.
But, the start of the art of rapping is even older.
Reggae artists in Jamaica used a similar style to rapping from the 1950s.
Going back further than that, the West African Griots (travelling musicians and poets) would also rap over tribal drums in the 1400s.
Today rapping is a very popular style of vocals.
Many of the best selling artists in the world use it in their music.
Snowboarding is a sport that is much like skiing.
A person stands on a snowboard and rides down a mountain covered with snow.
A snowboard is a flat board with bindings that hold your feet in place while gliding down the mountain.
It is different from skiing because both feet are on one board - like surfing.
The original idea was born in 1965 through Sherman Poppen.
He invented the ‘’snurfer ‘’, which was made of two skis fixed together, as a gift to his daughter.
It soon became very popular, so he licensed it to the Brunswick Corporation who sold about a million over the next 10 years.
In the mid 1970s Dimitrije Milovich created a snowboard inspired by the surfing board called the 'Winterstick'.
Finally, in 1977 Jake Burton Carpenter helped by Tom Sims and Chuck Barfoot created the first snowboard model, which made them very rich.
During the eighty's, the sport became very popular.
In 1982 the first National Snowboard race was held in Vermont at Suicide Six.
The number of windsurfering and snowboarding stations grew very fast everywhere there was snow and mountains.
Snowboarding was first recommended to join the Olympic program in 1996 by the Olympic council in Atlanta.
Two years later, some competitions like the Big slalom and the Half-pipe took place in The Olympic Nagano games.
Snowboarders must wear hot and good quality clothes against the cold temperature.
They wear also some ski goggles to protect their eyes from reflection of the sun on the snow, against the snow and the wind that can be very hurtful.
It is essential to have a good view during the ride.
The board that they used has to be fitted by squares on all its length that allow snowboarders to practice this sport even if there is not a lot of snow.
Also, the snowboard is equipped with binding to provide snowboarders solidity and stability.
The security attach have to be firmly tied on the binding and clip on one of your boots adapted to this sport.
Wearing a helmet is strongly recommended.
There are two possible positions on the board.
First of all, there is the regular one.
With this position, your right foot is placed in the back.
The second one is called goofy where you have to put your left foot in the back.
The choice between those two positions is personal to everyone.
Contrary to what everybody can thinks, goofys are not necessary left-handed or regulars right-handed.
In fact, seventy-five percent of the people are regulars.
Because the board make a curve in the front and in the back, it can glide on the two sides.
In addition, the board called twin-tips is perfectly symmetric, so it allows windsurfers to glide in switch (when the favorite foot is in the back) or in normal-foot (when the favorite foot is in the front).
Board sports
Aquamarine is a gemstone, named for its blue-green color, which looks like some shallow seas.
It is a type of beryl.
The color aquamarine is named for the gemstone.
It is considered as a birthstone of March.
Traces of TNT can be detected by analytical forensic chemical investigation even in extremely small amounts.
For example, if a person has been involved in a crime using TNT, scientists can track it down by testing hair or clothing samples to see if TNT traces are found on them.
These traces can remain in the hair or in the fabric of the clothes even after many washings.
TNT is a nitroaromatic explosive and it can be dangerous both as an explosive and for being poisonous if handled incorrectly.
Soldiers, engineers and workers who must work with TNT should therefore observe strict safety measures when handling this explosive.
Spores are the way fungi and some non-seed plants (ferns and mosses) reproduce.
They are also made by bacteria for long-term survival.
Some protozoa also make long-term survival spores.
The spores of seed plants are single cells that grow into a pollen grain or the gametophyte inside the ovule.
The structure of seeds in higher plants is more complicated than spores.
The main 'innovation' of seeds is their nutrition for the developing embryo, which spores do not have.
Fungal spores
Fungi (for example, mushrooms) produce spores, which may be asexual or sexual.
The asexual spores have inside them the genetic material to make a whole new organism identical to its parent.
Conidia are asexual, non-motile spores of a fungus; they are also called mitospores due to the way they are generated through the cellular process of mitosis.
They are haploid cells genetically identical to the haploid parent, can develop into a new organism if conditions are favorable, and serve in dispersal.
Asexual reproduction in Ascomycetes (the Phylum Ascomycota) is by the formation of conidia, which are borne on specialized stalks called conidiophores.
The morphology of these specialized conidiophores is often distinctive of a specific species and can therefore be used in identification of the species.
Sporangia
Bacterial spores
Spores of tetanus and anthrax, for example, can survive in the soil for many years.
The origin of these spores was discovered in the 19th century, when a biologist noticed, under the microscope, a small, round, bright body inside bacterial cells.
This survived even when the bacteria were boiled for five minutes.
They germinated when conditions were right.p186
Plant spores
Plants have alternation of generations.
One of the generations is the sporophyte, which produces spores by meiosis, and the other is the gametophyte with produces gametes.
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
The lead singer and lyrics writer of the band is Thom Yorke, who also plays guitar and piano.
Thom is known for his high voiced singing style and the band is known for their different style of rock music.
The band has five members, and three of them play guitar.
In their early years, Radiohead was known for their layered and heavy guitar sound.
In later years, the band began using other instruments too, and creating more electronic sounds.
The band still performs live and attracts large crowds of fans to sold-out concerts, even though they play many different styles of music.
Radiohead started in 1985.
The members of the band went to school together at Abingdon School, a boys' school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
The band first called themselves "On a Friday".
The band would usually rehearse on Friday in their school's music room.
On A Friday signed a contract with EMI, a large record label, in 1991.
They changed their name to "Radiohead".
This name came from the song "Radio Head" on the album True Stories by Talking Heads.
They released their first EP, called Drill, in May 1992.
Radiohead started work on their first album.
It was called Pablo Honey and it was recorded in 1992 in a studio in Oxford.
They released their first single, "Creep", late in 1992.
They released Pablo Honey in February 1993.
Initially, the album was going to be released also in late 1992 but was delayed.
The album did not become popular, but "Creep" did, and the band got a lot of fans because of it.
At the time, Radiohead's style of music was not very popular, and people said it sounded like Nirvana, but was not as good.
They said that other Britpop bands, like Suede, were better. "
Creep" was played on the radio at a lot of colleges around the world, however.
When Radiohead went on tour in the United States in early 1993, the music video for "Creep" was being played frequently on MTV.
Radiohead made an EP in 1994.
This was called My Iron Lung, and contained the title single, and seven songs known as B-sides (because they were not on a full-length album).
The main song, "My Iron Lung", was about the way fans had reacted to their song "Creep".
The band was happy the song had been a hit, because otherwise they might not have been able to continue the band.
But the band, especially Thom Yorke, were reluctant to be celebrities.
They were already disturbed by the workings of the music industry.
They felt they had no control over things. "
Creep" was popular, so they felt under pressure to make more similar songs.
They hated the way "Creep" was the only Radiohead song anyone listened to at their concerts, yet it was all that was keeping them popular and afloat in the record industry.
The "iron lung" was a metaphor for such a "life support".
Their second normal album, The Bends, came out in 1995.
The album was going to released in late 1994 but was also delayed.
The song "My Iron Lung" was on it, along with 11 new ones.
The band released four more songs as singles: "Fake Plastic Trees", "High and Dry", "Just" and "Street Spirit [Fade Out]".
None of these songs were as popular as "Creep" around the world.
Radiohead was now a one-hit wonder to many people in America.
Songs from The Bends did not get played on the radio very much there.
But the album became very popular in Radiohead's home of the UK.
It also got excellent reviews from music critics, unlike the band's first album.
Many said it was one of the best rock records in memory.
The album was produced by John Leckie, a veteran at EMI's Abbey Road studios.
As a young man Leckie had assisted on Pink Floyd albums in the 1970s.
The band's lineup was the same for The Bends.
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien played rhythm and auxiliary guitar; Thom sang and Ed sang backup.
Phil Selway played drums and percussion.
Colin Greenwood played bass guitar.
Radiohead's lead guitarist was Jonny Greenwood, Colin's younger brother.
Jonny was also younger than any of the other members.
Jonny was the only member of the band who did not graduate from university.
He was also the only member who had attended music school.
Jonny had had to leave university after a few months to join Radiohead on a tour when they became popular.
But he played in an orchestra when he was young, and he had a knowledge of classical and experimental music and jazz.
Thus, Jonny became the band's musical expert.
At this stage he already played many instruments, such as keyboard.
It was Jonny's complex and cathartic guitar solos in songs like "Just" and "The Bends" that soon began to attract notice.
So did his simpler playing in other songs.
The circle of Radiohead fans began to grow.
Thom Yorke's lyrics also began talking about larger more political themes during this time.
Mostly, they were still about personal disappointments, loves, losses, depression, unease, and anger.
But Thom wrote songs like "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit" which found the source of the unease in the larger structure of society, not the individual.
Radiohead's style of music had gotten more mature, according to most people, without changing too much.
Some others felt their songwriting had improved so much it was no longer unrecognizable.
The band used more keyboards and acoustic guitar this time, and made a more subtle atmosphere.
But electric guitars were the main instrument used on the record.
Some of Radiohead's influences this time were: the post-punk band Magazine, the singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, Morrissey's (former Smiths singer) Vauxhall & I, and the music of R.E.M. That band had inspired Radiohead from the beginning.
Radiohead would get a chance to tour with them in summer 1995, after releasing the album.
Lead singer Michael Stipe became a friend and mentor to Thom, and also a public fan of Radiohead.
In 1995 he said "they're so good, they're scary".
The band's influences had expanded once more by the time of their next album OK Computer.
With OK Computer (released in 1997), the band started the next section of their career.
They started using more sounds from electronic music.
They released the album Kid A (released in 2000, was initially going to release sometime in late 1999) which had a lot less use of guitar than on previous albums, but was still called one of their best albums (with some people calling it their best).
An album of songs recorded during this time, but that did not appear on Kid A was released, called Amnesiac (released in 2001).
In 2003 they released the album Hail To The Thief which was a return to a sound with more guitars and less use of electronic sounds.
In 2007 they released In Rainbows.
It was first released for free on the band's website, then released properly on January 1, 2008.
The album was delayed two times, it was going to be released in late 2005, then it was going to be released sometime in 2006, before finally getting released in 2007.
After this, they went on to release, The King of Limbs (2011) and a Moon Shaped Pool (2016), which both garnered critical and popular acclaim.
Additionally, they released TKOL RMX 1234567 (2011), an album of collaborations with the likes of Four Tet, Jamie XX, and Caribou and an remix of OK Computer entitled, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (2017).
Their most recent album was KID A MNESIA (2021), an extended and reworked version of Kid A which clocked in at over 2 hours.
Pablo Honey (1993) (originally going to be 1992)
The Bends (1995) (originally going to be 1994)
OK Computer (1997)
Kid A (2000) (originally going to be 1999)
Amnesiac (2001)
Hail to the Thief (2003)
In Rainbows (2007) (originally going to be 2005 then 2006)
The King of Limbs (2011) (originally going to be 2009 then 2010)
(2016) (originally going to be 2014 then 2015)
KID A MNESIA (2021)
|rowspan="3"| 1998 || Radiohead || Best Group ||
| OK Computer ||  Best Album ||
| "Paranoid Android" || Best Single ||
| 1999 || "No Surprises" || Best British Video ||
| 2001 || Radiohead || Best British Group ||
|rowspan="2"| 1998 ||rowspan="2"| OK Computer || Best Alternative Music Performance ||
| Album of the Year ||
| 1999 || Airbag/How Am I Driving?
|| Best Alternative Music Performance ||
| 2000 || Meeting People Is Easy || Best Music Video Long Form  ||
|rowspan="2"| 2001 ||rowspan="2"| Kid A || Best Alternative Music Performance ||
| 2002 || Amnesiac || Best Alternative Music Performance ||
|rowspan="2"| 2004 || "There There" || Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ||
| Hail to the Thief || Best Alternative Music Performance ||
|rowspan="5"| 2009 ||rowspan="3"| "House of Cards" || Best Rock Song ||
| Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ||
| Best Music Video Short Form ||
|rowspan="2"| In Rainbows || Album of the Year ||
| Best Alternative Music Album ||
| 2008 || In Rainbows || Album Award ||
| 1997 || OK Computer || Album of the Year ||
| 2001 || Amnesiac || Album of the Year ||
| 2003 || Hail to the Thief || Album of the Year ||
| 2008 || In Rainbows || Album of the Year ||
|  || "Just" || Breakthrough Video  ||
|  || "Paranoid Android" ||  Breakthrough Video  ||
|rowspan="4"|  ||rowspan="4"| "Karma Police" || Best Group Video ||
| Best Direction ||
| Best Cinematography ||
| Best Alternative Video  ||
|rowspan="4"|  ||rowspan="4"|  "There There" || Best Art Direction ||
| Best Special Effects ||
| Best Editing ||
| 2001 || Radiohead || Best Act in the World Today ||
| 2002 || Radiohead || Best Act in the World Today ||
Radiohead.com, official site
1985 establishments in the United Kingdom
Musical groups established in 1985
Ladino (also called Judeo-Spanish) is a Jewish Romance language that is very close to the Spanish language.
It has many old Spanish words and Hebrew words.
During the Middle Ages, many Jews lived in Spain.
They were called Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (in Hebrew).
Forced to leave Spain after the country was taken over by Christians, they brought the old Spanish with them to their new countries.
Some Sephardic Jews still speak Ladino in Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, the United States, and other countries.
Like many other Jewish languages, Ladino is an endangered language, is in danger of language death.
It could become an extinct language.
Most native speakers are old because many of them who emigrated to Israel and did not pass on the language to their children or grandchildren.
In some Sephardic Jewish communities in Latin America and elsewhere, there is a threat of dialect levelling by the extinction by assimilation into modern Spanish.
Ladino is usually written by using the Latin alphabet but in Israel, it uses the Hebrew alphabet.
Socolovsky, Jerome. "
Lost Language of Ladino Revived in Spain", Morning Edition, National Public Radio, March 19, 2007.
Guns N' Roses is a popular American hard rock band.
The band was formed in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The five original members of the band were Axl Rose (lead vocals), Slash (lead guitar), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals), and Steven Adler (drums).
The band's most known songs are Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine, Patience, Live and Let Die, November Rain", Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Don't Cry, and Civil War.
The music they made was different from the rock music that was popular in the 1980s.
They played harder rock music.
It was also closer to traditional rock.
Because of this, many music fans became interested in Guns N'Roses.
Guns N'Roses was created in Los Angeles in June, 1985.
By singer W. Axl Rose, guitarists Tracii Guns and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Ole Beich and drummer Rob Gardner.
Axl's old band was named Hollywood Rose, and Tracii's old band was named L.A. Guns.
They joined the two names and got the name Guns N' Roses.
In 1985, Guns N' Roses went to Seattle to perform.
Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner could not attend the show.
Rose called guitarist Slash and drummer Steven Adler, who were his friends.
They agreed, and became permanent members.
On the way back to Los Angeles, the five members wrote the lyrics for 'Welcome to the Jungle' which became one of their most famous songs.
Then in 1990 Drummer Steven Adler got fired from the band because of his drug abuse.
He was replaced by The Cult Drummer Matt Sorum.
Since parting ways with the Appetite for Destruction lineup, Rose has remained a constant member and many lineups have changed since.
The last studio album the band  released was Chinese Democracy, which had been delayed for over ten years, to mixed reactions.
In 2016, Slash and Duff rejoined the band, along with the band's first female member, Melissa Reese.
The band members now
Axl Rose- Lead Vocals
Slash - Lead Guitar
Duff McKagan - Bass, backing vocals
Dizzy Reed-Keyboards, Piano, backing vocals
Melissa Reese - Keyboards, backing vocals
Richard Fortus- Rhythm Guitar, backing vocals, Lead Guitar
Frank Ferrer- Drums
Appetite for Destruction - 1987 (toured in 1987-1988)
G N' R Lies - 1988 (toured in 1988-1989)
Use Your Illusion I - 1991 (toured in 1991-1992)
Use Your Illusion II - 1991 (toured in 1991-1992)
The Spaghetti Incident? -
1993 (Tour cancelled, initially planned for 1993-1994)
Live Era: '87-'93 (Gold) - 1999
Greatest Hits -2004
Chinese Democracy''- 2008 (initially going to release in 1999, but was in development hell for about nine years)
LAGUNS - (COVER BAND) - forums, videos, chat, photos
January 19 – British East India Company captures Aden
January 20 – In the Battle of Yungay, Peruvian and Bolivian soldiers lose to Chilean soldiers.
February 24 – William Otis patents for the steam shovel
March 23 – First known use of "OK" oll korrect in the Boston Morning Post
March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta
April 9 – The world's first commercial electric telegraph line is built, next to the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
April 19 – The Treaty of London makes the kingdom of Belgium
June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives patent for his Daguerrotype camera.
By September a company sells copies of the camera for 400 French Francs.
July 1 – Slaves fight their masters on the Amistad
November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute starts in Lexington, Virginia, USA
November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
Abd-ul-Mejid becomes emperor of the Ottoman Empire.
Mississippi passes the first state law in the U.S. letting women own property.
The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is found by Thomas Henderson.
Excavation on Copan begins
Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands, making a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
Abd al-Kader makes a jihad against the French.
January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs American physicist and chemist (died 1903)
February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (died 1906)
March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymnwriter (died 1908)
March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (died 1881)
April 12 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (died 1888)
July 8 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (died 1937)
July 17 – Ephraim Shay, Inventor (died 1916, see Shay locomotive)
December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (died 1876)
April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (born 1757)
April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher (born 1777)
April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist (born 1779)
May 17 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (born 1757)
August 10 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (born 1758)
August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (born 1789)
August 28 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (born 1769)
November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (born 1754)
December 3 – Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (born 1768)
Lake Chaubunagungamaug, or Lake Webster is a lake in the United States.
It is in the state of Massachusetts.
The lake is also known by the much shorter name of Webster Lake, but some people prefer the long name Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which is the Native American name for the lake.
The name is the longest place name in the United States.
Geography of Massachusetts
Hans Enoksen (born 1956) was the Prime Minister of Greenland.
He was the Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002-2009.
Prime Ministers of Greenland
Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit (You Our Ancient Land; ) is the national anthem of Greenland.
It was written by Henrik Lund, and it became the national anthem in 1916.
Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit niaqqut ulissimavoqq qiinik.
Qitornatit kissumiaannarpatit tunillugit sineriavit piinik.
Akullequtaastut merlertutut ilinni perortugut tamaani
kalaallinik imminik taajumavugut niaqquit ataqqinartup saani.
Atortillugillu tamaasa pisit ingerlaniarusuleqaagut,
nutarterlugillu noqitsigisatit siumut, siumut piumaqaagut.
Inersimalersut ingerlanerat tungaalitsiterusuleqaarput,
oqaatsit "aviisit" qanoq kingunerat atussasoq erinigileqaarput.
Taqilluni naami atunngiveqaaq, kalaallit siumut makigitsi.
Inuttut inuuneq pigiuminaqaaq, saperasi isumaqaleritsi.
Our country, which has become so old your head is all covered with white hair.
Always held us, your children, in your bosom and gave us the riches of your coasts.
As middle children in the family we blossomed here Kalaallit,
we want to call ourselves before your proud and honourable head.
With a burning desire to develop what you have to give, renewing,
removing your obstacles of our desire to move forward, forward.
The way of matured societies is our zealous goal to attain;
the effect of speech and letters we long to behold.
Humbleness is not the course, Kalaallit wake up and be proud!
A dignified life is our goal; courageously take a stand.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 American comedy movie, released by 20th Century Fox.
It is set in Las Vegas, Nevada and stars Ben Stiller, Rip Torn and Vince Vaughn.
2004 comedy movies
2000s LGBT movies
2000s sports comedy movies
American LGBT movies
American sports comedy movies
Movies set in Las Vegas
Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter, movie director, and producer.
He is best known for his roles in There's Something About Mary, Zoolander (2001), Meet the Parents (2001) (and its 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers).
Stiller has also starred in Flirting with Disaster (1996), Duplex (2003) and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) among others.
One of the first movies he starred in was Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) Tropic Thunder (2008).
He directed Reality Bites (1994) and The Cable Guy (1996).
Stiller was born in New York City in 1965.
His father, Jerry Stiller, was from a Jewish family that immigrated from Poland and Galicia, in Eastern Europe.
His mother, Anne Meara, who was of Irish Catholic background, converted to Reform Judaism after marrying his father.
She died in 2015.
The family celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Stiller had a Bar Mitzvah.
He has said that he is "half Jewish and half Irish Catholic."
Stiller's parents frequently took him on the sets of their appearances, including The Mike Douglas Show when he was six.
He stated in an interview that he considered his childhood unusual: "In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing—a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights—not what you'd call traditional."
His older sister, Amy, has appeared in many of his productions, including Reality Bites, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and Zoolander.
Stiller displayed an early interest in filmmaking and made Super 8 movies with his sister and friends.
At age 9, Stiller made his acting debut as a guest on his mother's short-lived television series, Kate McShane.
In the late 1970s, he performed with the New York City troupe NYC's First All Children's Theater, playing several roles, including the title role in Clever Jack and the Magic Beanstalk.
After being inspired by the television show Second City Television while in high school, Stiller realized that he wanted to get involved with sketch comedy.
During his high school years, he was also the drummer of the post-punk band Capital Punishment, which released the studio album Roadkill in 1982.
The band's bassist, Peter Swann, went on to become (as of 2018) an Arizona Court of Appeals Judge.
The band reunited in 2018 to release a new EP, titled This is Capital Punishment, for Record Store Day.
Stiller attended The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and graduated from the Calhoun School in New York in 1983.
He started performing on the cabaret circuit as opening act to the cabaret siren Jadin Wong.
Stiller then enrolled as a film student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
After nine months, Stiller left school to move back to New York City.
He made his way through acting classes, auditioning and trying to find an agent.
During its run, Stiller produced a satirical mockumentary whose principal was fellow actor Mahoney.
Stiller's comedic work was well received by the cast and crew of the play, and he followed up with a 10-minute short titled The Hustler of Money, a parody of the Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money.
The film featured him in a send-up of Tom Cruise's character and Mahoney in the Paul Newman role, only this time as a bowling hustler instead of a pool shark.
The short got the attention of Saturday Night Live, which aired it in 1987 and two years later offered Stiller a spot as a writer.
In the meantime, he had a bit role in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.
In 1989 Stiller wrote and appeared on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer.
However, since the show did not want him to make more short films, he left after four episodes.
He then put together Elvis Stories, a short film about a fictitious tabloid focused on recent sightings of Elvis Presley.
The film starred friends and co-stars John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Mike Myers, Andy Dick, and Jeff Kahn.
The film was considered a success, and led him to develop the short film Going Back to Brooklyn for MTV; it was a music video starring comedian Colin Quinn that parodied LL Cool J's recent hit "Going Back to Cali".
Producers at MTV were so impressed with Back to Brooklyn that they offered Stiller a 13-episode show in the experimental "vid-com" format.
Titled The Ben Stiller Show, this series mixed comedy sketches with music videos and parodied various television shows, music stars, and films.
It starred Stiller, along with main writer Jeff Khan and Harry O'Reilly, with his parents and sister making occasional appearances.
Although the show was canceled after its first season, it led to another show titled The Ben Stiller Show, on the Fox Network in 1992.
The series aired 12 episodes on Fox, with a 13th unaired episode broadcast by Comedy Central in a later revival.[36] Among the principal writers on The Ben Stiller Show were Stiller and Judd Apatow, with the show featuring the ensemble cast of Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk.[37] Both Denise Richards and Jeanne Tripplehorn appeared as extras in various episodes.
Throughout its short run, The Ben Stiller Show frequently appeared at the bottom of the ratings, even as it garnered critical acclaim and eventually won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program" posthumously.
A crowd of people is all looking towards a man at the center who is signing a hat.
The crowd is attempting to hand him posters to sign and others are taking pictures using cameras and cell phones.
In the early 1990s Stiller had minor roles in films such as Stella and Highway to Hell as well as a cameo in The Nutt House.
In 1992 Stiller was approached to direct Reality Bites, based on a script by Helen Childress.
Stiller devoted the next year and a half to rewriting the script with Childress, fundraising, and recruiting cast members for the film.
It was eventually released in early 1994, directed by Stiller and featuring him as a co-star.
The film was produced by Danny DeVito, who would later direct Stiller's 2003 film Duplex and produce his 2004 film Along Came Polly.
Stiller joined his parents in the family film Heavyweights (1995), in which he played two roles, and then had a brief uncredited role in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore (1996).
Next, he had lead roles in If Lucy Fell and Flirting with Disaster, before tackling his next directorial effort with The Cable Guy, which starred Jim Carrey.
Stiller once again was featured in his own film, as twins.
The film received mixed reviews, but was noted for paying the highest salary for an actor up to that point, as Carrey received $20 million for his work in the film.
The film also connected Stiller with future Frat Pack members Jack Black and Owen Wilson.
Also in 1996, MTV invited Stiller to host the VH1 Fashion Awards.
Along with SNL writer Drake Sather, Stiller developed a short film for the awards about a male model known as Derek Zoolander.
It was so well received that he developed another short film about the character for the 1997 VH1 Fashion Awards and finally remade the skit into a film.
In 1998 Stiller put aside his directing ambitions to star in a surprise hit with a long-lasting cult following, the Farrelly Brothers' There's Something About Mary, alongside Cameron Diaz.
That year, he starred in several dramas, including Zero Effect, Your Friends & Neighbors, and Permanent Midnight.
He was invited to take part in hosting the Music Video awards, for which he developed a parody of the Backstreet Boys and performed a sketch with his father, commenting on his current career.
In 1999 he starred in three films, including Mystery Men, where he played a superhero wannabe called Mr. Furious.
He returned to directing with a new spoof television series for Fox titled Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black; however, the show was not picked up by Fox after its pilot episode and the series was cancelled.
In 2000, Stiller starred in three more films, including one of his most recognizable roles, a male nurse named Gaylord "Greg" Focker in Meet the Parents, opposite Robert De Niro.
The film was well received by critics, grossed over $330 million worldwide, and spawned two sequels.
Also in 2000, MTV again invited Stiller to make another short film, and he developed Mission: Improbable, a spoof of Tom Cruise's role in Mission: Impossible II and other films.
In 2001, Stiller directed his third feature film, Zoolander, starring himself as Derek Zoolander.
The film featured multiple cameos from a variety of celebrities, including Donald Trump, Paris Hilton, Lenny Kravitz, Heidi Klum, and David Bowie, among others.
The film was banned in Malaysia (as the plot centered on an assassination attempt of a Malaysian prime minister),[52] while shots of the World Trade Center were digitally removed and hidden for the film's release after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
After Stiller worked with Owen Wilson in Zoolander, they joined again for The Royal Tenenbaums.
Over the next two years, Stiller continued with the lackluster box office film Duplex, and cameos in Orange County and Nobody Knows Anything!
He has guest-starred on several television shows, including an appearance in an episode of the television series The King of Queens in a flashback as the father of the character Arthur (played by Jerry Stiller).
He also made a guest appearance on World Wrestling Entertainment's WWE Raw.
In 2004, Stiller appeared in six different films, all of which were comedies, and include some of his highest-grossing films: Starsky & Hutch, Envy, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (in which he had an uncredited cameo), Along Came Polly and Meet the Fockers.
While the critical flop Envy only grossed $14.5 million,[60] the most successful film of these was Meet the Fockers, which grossed over $516.6 million worldwide.
He also made extended guest appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development in the same year.
In 2005, Stiller appeared in Madagascar, which was his first experience as a voice actor in an animated film.
Madagascar was a massive worldwide hit, and spawned the sequels Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008 and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted in 2012.
In 2006, Stiller had cameo roles in School for Scoundrels and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny; he was executive producer of the latter.
In December 2006, he had the lead role in Night at the Museum.
Although not a critical favorite, it earned over $115 million in ten days.
In 2007, Stiller starred alongside Malin Åkerman in the romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid.
The film earned over $100 million worldwide despite receiving mostly negative reviews.
In 2009, he starred with Amy Adams in Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, sequel to Night at the Museum.
In 2010, Stiller made a brief cameo in Joaquin Phoenix's mockumentary I'm Still Here and played the lead role in the comedy-drama Greenberg.
He again portrayed Greg Focker in the critically panned but financially successful Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet the Parents.
He had planned to voice the main character in Megamind, but later dropped out while still remaining a producer and voicing a minor character in the film.