the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Example of an autogenic training session
sit in the meditative posture and scan the body
"my left arm is heavy and warm" (repeat 3 times)
"my arms and legs are heavy and warm" (repeat 3 times)
"my heartbeat is calm and regular" (repeat 3 times)
"my solar plexus is warm" (repeat 3 times)
finish part one by cancelling
start part two by repeating from steps 2 to cancelling
part three repeat steps 2 to cancelling
Counter-indications
Luthe Dr W & Schultz Dr JH, "Autogenic Therapy", first published by Grune and Stratton, Inc., New York, (1969).
Republished in (2001) by The British Autogenic Society.
In six volumes.
1 Autogenic Methods
2 Medical Applications
3 Applications in Psychotherapy
4 Research and Theory
5 Dynamics of Autogenic Neutralisation
6 Treatment with Autogenic Neutralisation
The British Autogenic Society
Spanish Society of Psychotherapy and the Institute for Autogenic Psychotherapy (in Spanish)
An audio version of the Autogenic Training
Autogenics: A self-help training schedule.
Mathematical notation is a system in mathematics that uses symbols to represent objects and ideas.
In mathematics and other exact sciences like physics or computer science, problems often need to be presented in some way.
In such representations, different symbols have different meanings:
There are numbers, like 1 and 2, or variables that stand for such numbers (like x and y)
There are functions that act on numbers and variables.
Such function take a predetermined number of elements, and do something with them.
An example is +, which adds two numbers
There are concepts of advanced mathematics such as limits and derivatives
Some mathematical notations use diagrams, or small drawings to show the underlying concepts.
One example is the Penrose graphical notation which is used to show tensors.
Another examples are Coxeter–Dynkin diagram which are used for certain problems of geometry.
There are different ways to write down an equation like  two and three
Infix notation: The functions and the symbols they act on, are mixed, this gives  2 + 3
Prefix notation: First there is the function, and then the values it operates on.
This gives + 2 3.
Computer languages influenced by lambda calculus, like LISP use this notation.
Sometimes this is called polish notation
Postfix notation: First there are the numbers, and then the function.
2 3 +.
Postscript uses this.
It is also generally known as reverse polish notation
KaTeX - JavaScript library that shows mathematical notation on any web browser
LaTeX - Free software to output mathematical notations on a PDF
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Animal shell, which includes sea shells
Shell (projectile), an object fired out of a weapon
Eggshell, the outer part of an egg
Shell (computing), a type of user interface in computer programs and operating systems
Shell Oil Company, an oil company
sv:Skal
Ian Craig Marsh (born 11 November 1956) is a British musician.
He helped start the electronic band The Human League, until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) and later Heaven 17.
Laboratory equipment are tools and equipment used by scientists who work in a laboratory.
These can include tools such as:
Bunsen burners
burettes
calorimeters
microscopes
spectrophotometers
A List of Chemistry Laboratory Apparatus and Their Uses
Sarah Louise Palin (; née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author.
She was the ninth Governor of Alaska, from 2006 to 2009.
As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election alongside Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency.
Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies.
Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996.
In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency.
The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009.
She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections.
Personal life and education
Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho to Charles R. "Chuck" Heath, a science teacher and track and field coach, and Sarah "Sally" (née Sheeran), a school secretary.
Palin's siblings are Chuck Jr., Heather, and Molly.
Palin has English, Irish, and German ancestry.
When Palin was a few months old, the family moved to Skagway, Alaska where her father received his job to teach.
They relocated to Eagle River in 1969, and finally moved to Wasilla in 1972.
Alaska politics
Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1992 to 1996, and was the city's leader or mayor from 1996 to 2002.
She tried to become the assistant to the Governor of Alaska (the lieutenant governor) in 2002, but lost the race.
Palin led the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004, and was chosen to become Governor of Alaska in November 2006 by  first being picked to be the choice of the Republican Party and then being chosen over a man in the Democratic Party who had twice been governor of the state.
She was both the youngest governor of Alaska and the first female governor of the state.
She resigned July 26, 2009.
Though elected on a platform of clean government, she blamed the many ethics cases brought against her.
She said the legal costs and time kept her from doing her job.
2008 Election
On August 29, 2008, John McCain, who was the choice of the Republican Party to become president of the United States, said he wanted Palin to become the Vice President.
She was picked at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota to be the Republican Party choice.
She was the first woman to be chosen by the Republican Party to try to become either President or Vice President and the first person from Alaska to be picked for one of these jobs by either the Republican or the Democratic Party.
Many Republicans liked the choice, but many other people thought she did not have enough experience and was not smart enough.
This image came about from errors in her speeches and interviews with journalists like Katie Couric and Charles Gibson.
Her opponent was Joe Biden, who won.
After the 2008 election
In 2009, Palin, with help, wrote a book about her life called Going Rogue.
It was at the top of the bestseller list, and she drew large crowds at her book signings.
On November 14, 2010, a show on TLC called Sarah Palin's Alaska debuted and was hosted by Sarah Palin.
Official Campaign Website for McCain/Palin 2008
American Evangelicals
Writers from Idaho
Businesspeople from Alaska
Governors of Alaska
Politicians from Idaho
United States vice-presidential candidates, 2008
Samvel Babayan (; born June 22, 1957), was the Commander-in-Chief of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army from 1994 to 2000.
On March 22, 2000, he allegedly tried to kill President Arkadi Ghukasyan in Stepanakert.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR) Defense Army was made on May 9, 1992, as the formal defence force of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, made up of Armenians.
It is internationally recognised to be part of Azerbaijan.
Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh (; , ) or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (), is a de facto independent republic in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus.
It has been populated for a long time by Azerbaijanis since the Middle Ages and by the Armenians since the Classical antiquity.
In the 11th century the Seljuk invasion swept over the Middle East, including Transcaucasia.
Nomadic Turkic Oghuz Seljuk tribes, which also include the Azerbaijanis, who were brought with this invasion became dominant in Nagorno-Karabakh.
From this time, till the beginning of the 20th century these tribes used Mountainous Karabakh as their summer pastures, where they stayed for about four-five warmer months of year, and moreover, in fact owned the region.
The area has been disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan since 1918.
After the Soviet Union established control over the area, in 1923 it formed the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the Azerbaijan SSR.
In the final years of the Soviet Union, the region again became a source of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, resulting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War from 1988–1994.
On 10 December 1991, a referendum was held in the NKAO and the neighbouring Shahumian region, which was boycotted by the region's Azerbaijani population.
This resulted in a declaration of independence from Azerbaijan as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
The country is not recognized by any UN member state, including Armenia.
Representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have since been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.
The Artsakh Republic has a lot of mountains.
It is  in area, and borders Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran.
The highest peaks in the country are Mount Mrav, , and Mount Kirs .
The major rivers are the Terter and Khachen rivers.
Most rivers in the country flow towards the Artsakh valley.
The climate in the Artsakh Republic is mild.
It is foggy for over 100 days a year.
More than 36% of the country is forested.
In 2005, the country's population was 137,737.
The ethnic composition was 137,380 (99.74%) Armenians, 171 (0.12%) Russians, 21 (0.02%) Ukrainians, 6 (0.00%) Azerbaijanis and 159 (0.12%) others.
The first demographic census in the Artsakh Republic took place in 1769.
It was a letter from Heraclius II of Georgia to Russia's Petr Ivanovich Panin, and said, "Seven families rule the region of Khamse.
Its population is totally Armenian."
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Office of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Washington D.C.
National Statistical Service of NKR
President of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic
Articles and Photography on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) from UK Photojournalist Russell Pollard
Artsakh World portal
Karabakh-Open
"Azat Artsakh", Artsakh Government's newspaper
Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor of Han Chinese, German, English and Swedish descent.
He was the son of martial arts movie star Bruce Lee.
In 1993, he was accidentally shot dead when filming the movie adaptation of The Crow, a popular comic book.
About his character Lee said, "He has something he has to do and he is forced to put aside his own pain long enough to go do it".
Brandon Lee was born in East Oakland Hospital in Oakland, California, He is eldest child of Bruce Lee and his wife Linda,  He lived in Hong Kong for his first eight years.
Lee lost his father when he was only 8 years old, and then moved to Seattle with his mother and sister.
Lee faced a lot of difficulties when he was a teenager.
He moved around a lot, coped with being the son of a martial arts legend, and he dropped out of high school several times.
Lee  made his first feature movie, Legacy of Rage (1986).
And around that time, he appeared in Kung Fu: The Movie with David Carradine, which aired on television.
But then, Brandon Lee had his promising career cut short by tragedy, much like his father.
A few years later, returning to the big screen, Lee made three action movies: Laser Mission (1990), Showdown in Little Toyko (1991) with Dolph Lundgren and Rapid Fire (1992) with Powers Boothe.
The Crow, and his death
Lee  played Eric Draven in The Crow, a movie that derived from comic books of James O'Barr.
In this movie, he played a murdered rock musician.
But there were a series of mishaps during the scene of shooting.
Lee was performing his death scene for the movie.
He was supposed to perform shoot to death by a prop gun, but the bullet in the prop gun was real and it pierced through his abdomen.
Then, he died on March 31, 1993 because of his injuries.
Then he was buried next to his father in Seattle on April 3, 1993.
And The Crow was released the next year after additional scenes were shot to complete the movie.
Brandon Lee talk
Actors from Oakland, California
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teen idol during the 1980s, and made a successful career as an adult actor in the decades following, ending in an Oscar nomination for his acting in the film Crash.
Scotsman.com interview (November 13, 2005)
About.com interview  (May 3, 2005)
BeliefNet interview (2003)
Cigar Aficionado interview  (October 31, 1996)
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and philanthropist.
He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his writing of the story for the movie Good Will Hunting, and he was nominated for his acting in the same movie.
He has also acted in several other movies including The Bourne Identity, the Ocean's Trilogy, and Syria Must Die.
He is the son of Kent Telfer Damon, a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University.
His father is of Scottish, Welsh, and English ancestry, while his mother is of Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish ancestry.
His brother Kyle is an accomplished sculptor and artist.
He and his family moved to Newton and lived there for two years.
After his parents divorced, Damon and his brother moved with their mother back to Cambridge, where they lived in a six-family communal house.
Damon grew up near actor Ben Affleck, a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films (Damon is Affleck's tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor).
Matt Damon on Moviefone
Matt Damon News Column
Matt Damon on Hardball
GreenDimes Matt Damon, board member
Not On Our Watch: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub
Actors from Boston, Massachusetts
Actors from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an Emmy-winning actor.
He was born in Toronto, Ohio.
Urich is best known for playing private investigators on the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988) and Vega$ (1978–1981).
He also acted in many other television series over the years including: S.W.A.T. (1975), Soap (1977) and The Lazarus Man (1996).
He was also known for staring in the movie A long Way Home which was released in 2003.
Deaths from sarcoma
Victor Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982) was an American actor.
He was famous for acting in the television series Combat! (
1962-1967), in which he also worked as a television director.
Morrow was born in the Bronx, New York City.
He was the father of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Morrow died while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie at an accident in Ventura County, California with a helicopter that crashed and killed him and two children.
The accident made the government make many reforms in U.S. child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets in California.
Twilight Zone Tragedy at crimelibrary.com
Find A Death - Vic Morrow
Article on Twilight Zone tragedy, written by friend and COMBAT!
co-star Dick 'Little John' Peabody
Sculptural Tribute to Actor Vic Morrow
NTSB Accident Investigation Report
Accidental deaths in California
The Lal Masjid siege was a conflict centering around the Lal Masjid mosque and madrasah complex in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, that was besieged from July 3 to July 11, 2007.
2000s in Pakistan
2007 in Asia
The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family (Columbidae).
It has five subspecies.
The number of mourning doves is about 475 million.
They live in North America.
Mourning doves are light grey and brown, and males and females look similar.
These birds usually have one partner at a time.
Both parents sit on the eggs and care for their chicks.
Adult mourning doves usually eat only seeds.
The parents feed crop milk to the young.
People hunt mourning doves for sport and for meat.
Up to 70 million birds are shot in the United States every year.
Its name, "mourning," comes from its sad-sounding call.
The bird is a strong flier, and can fly at up to 88 km/h (55 mph).
The mourning dove has a large range of nearly 11 million square kilometers (6.8 million square miles).
These birds live throughout the Greater Antilles, most of Mexico, the Continental United States, and southern Canada.
In the summer, the birds are mostly in the Canadian prairies, and in southern Central America in the winter.
The species is a vagrant in northern Canada, Alaska, and South America.
It has been seen at least seven times in the Palearctic ecozone with records from the British Isles (five), the Azores (one) and Iceland (one).
In 1963, the Mourning Dove was introduced to Hawaii, and in 1998 there was still a small population in North Kona, Hawaii.
The mourning dove lives in many different habitats, such as farms, prairie, grassland, and woods.
It does not live in swamps or thick forests.
They also lives in places where humans live, such as in cities or towns.
The mourning dove is a medium-sized, slender dove.
It weighs an average of .
It has a small head and a long tail.
Mourning doves have perching feet, with three toes facing forward and one facing backward.
The legs are short and reddish color.
The beak is small and dark, usually a mixture of brown and black.
Its feathers are generally light gray-brown and lighter and more pink below.
The wings may have black spots, and the outer tail feathers are white.
The eyes are dark, with light skin around them.
The adult male has bright purple-pink patches on the sides of its neck, with light pink coloring up to the breast.
Younger birds look more scaly and dark.
All five subspecies of the mourning dove look similar and cannot be told apart easily.
The Western subspecies has longer wings, a longer beak, shorter toes, and is lighter in color.
The Panama mourning dove has shorter wings and legs, a longer beak, and is grayer in color.
The Clarion Island subspecies has larger feet, a larger beak, and is darker brown in color.
This species' call is a cooOOoo-woo-woo-woooo, which is used by males when attracting a mate.
Other sounds include a nest call (cooOOoo) by paired males to attract their mates to the nests, a greeting call (a soft ork) by males upon joining their mates again, and an alarm call (a short roo-oo) by either male or female when in danger.
The male begins courtship by flying noisily, and then in a graceful, circular glide with its wings outstretched and head down.
After landing, the male will go to the female with a puffed out breast, bobbing head, and loud calls.
Once the pair is mated, they will often spend time preening each other's feathers.
The mourning dove does not easily leave its mate.
Pairs may sometimes remain together throughout the winter.
However, lone doves will find new partners if necessary.
After mating, the male shows the female all the potential nest sites, and lets the female choose one and build the nest.
The male will fly about, gather material, and bring it to her.
The male stands on the female's back to give the material to the female, who builds it into the nest.
The nest is constructed of twigs, conifer needles, or grass.
Sometimes, mourning doves will take place of the unused nests of other mourning doves, birds, or mammals such as squirrels.
Most nests are in trees, but they can also be found in shrubs, vines, or on buildings and hanging flower pots.
When there is no suitable place to nest above, mourning doves will nest on the ground.
The nest is almost always big enough for exactly two eggs.
Sometimes, however, a female will lay her eggs in the nest of another pair, leading to three or four eggs in the nest.
The eggs are small and white.
Both sexes incubate; the male from morning to afternoon, and the female the rest of the day and at night.
Mourning doves rarely leave their nest alone.
Incubation takes two weeks.
Both parents feed the squabs crop milk for the first 3–4 days of life.
After that, they gradually begin to eat seeds.
The feathers and wing muscles begin to develop for flight in about 11–15 days.
This happens before the squabs are fully grown, but after they digest the adult food.
They stay nearby to be fed by their father for up to two weeks after fledging.
Mourning doves breed quickly.
This fast breeding is essential because they cannot live long.
Each year, the mortality can reach 58% a year for adults and 69% for the young.
Mourning doves eat mostly seeds.
Seeds are at least 99% of their diet.
Rarely, they will eat snails or insects.
Mourning doves generally eat enough to fill their stomach and then fly away to digest while resting.
They often swallow gravel or sand to help them digest.
At bird feeders, mourning doves are attracted to corn, millet, and sunflower seeds.
Mourning doves do not dig or scratch for seeds, but only eat what they can see.
They will sometimes perch on plants and eat from them.
Mourning doves especially prefer pine nuts, sesame, and wheat.
When they cannot find their  favorite foods, mourning doves will eat the seeds of other plants, including buckwheat and rye.
Mourning doves can be easily harmed with several different parasites and diseases, including tapeworms, nematodes, mites, and lice.
The Trichomonas gallinae, a parasite which lives in the mouth, is especially severe.
While the bird sometimes shows no ill effects, the parasite often causes a yellowish growth in the mouth and throat.
This can cause the bird to starve to death.
The greatest predators of this species are birds of prey, such as falcons and hawks.
Other times, during nesting, corvids, grackles, house cats or rat snakes will prey on their eggs.
Cowbirds rarely pass parasites mourning dove nests.
Mourning doves reject slightly under a third of cowbird eggs in such nests, and the cowbirds cannot eat the Mourning Dove's vegetarian diet.
Like other doves, the mourning dove drinks without lifting or tilting its head.
They often gather at drinking spots around dawn and dusk.
Mourning doves wash themselves in the sun or rain.
These birds can also take baths in shallow pools or bird baths.
They may sometimes bathe themselves in the dust as well.
When they are not breeding, mourning doves roost in dense deciduous trees or in conifers.
During sleep, the head rests between the shoulders, close to the body, and is not tucked under the shoulder feathers as most species do.
Sometimes, roosting is delayed on colder days during the winter in Canada.
The mourning dove is of Least Concern to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The species is not at immediate risk.
The population is about 475 million and they live across a wide area.
However, around 40–70 million birds are shot as game every year.
The mourning dove is closely related to the eared dove (Zenaida auriculata) and the Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni).
Sometimes these three birds are put in the separate genus Zenaidura.
The Socorro dove was once thought to be the same species as the mourning dove.
However, differences in behavior, call, and appearance separate them as two different species.
Eastern Z. m. carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
Clarion Island Z. m. clarionensis (C.H.Townsend, 1890)
West Indian Z. m. macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Western Z. m. marginella (Woodhouse, 1852)
Panama Z. m. turturilla (Wetmore, 1956)
The West Indian subspecies lives throughout the Greater Antilles.
It is also lives in the Florida Keys.
The Eastern subspecies lives mainly in eastern North America, as well as Bermuda and the Bahamas.
The Western subspecies lives in western North America and parts of Mexico.
The Panamanian subspecies is in Central America.
The Clarion Island subspecies lives near the Pacific coast of Mexico.
The mourning dove is sometimes called the American mourning dove, because it may be confused with the distantly related African mourning dove (Streptopelia decipiens).
It also used to be known as the Carolina turtledove or Carolina pigeon.
The species' scientific name was given in 1838 by French zoologist Charles L. Bonaparte, honoring his wife, Princess Zénaide.
The "mourning" part of its name comes from its call.
Closest relative
The mourning dove is thought to be most closely related to the extinct passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).
As a symbol and in the arts
The Eastern mourning dove (Z. m. carolinensis) is Wisconsin's official symbol of peace.
The mourning dove appears as the Carolina turtle-dove on plate 286 of Audubon's The Birds of America.
Mourning doves are referred to often in American literature.
They are in some American and Canadian poetry such as in the works of Robert Bly, Jared Carter, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Wright.
Mourning Doves on the Internet Bird Collection
USGS page
Information from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
South Dakota Birds page
Mourning Dove Movies (Tree of Life)
28 Mourning Dove Photos
Video of a Mourning Dove's Call
Mourning Dove Bird Sound
She started her singing career in 1999 when she was 17 years old.
Her first single was "Love, Day After Tomorrow".
It became a million seller.
She writes her own lyrics most of the times.
But she does not compose (write) the music.
She gets music from composers. “
Cybersound” in Boston often does the arrangements.
Saint Mesrop Mashtots (also Mesrob, Mashtotz, , 360 - February 17, 440) was an Armenian monk.
He invented the Armenian alphabet in the year 406.
He was a theologian and linguist.
That was a basic and important step in strengthening three things: the Armenian Church, the government of the Armenian Kingdom, and connections between the Armenian Kingdom and Armenians living in the Byzantine and Iranian Empires.
He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet  AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.
He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets by some scholars.
1988: Mesrop Mashtots Film documentary Armenfilm 35mm, color () Director Levon Mkrtchyan,script by Artashes Martirosyan,the composer Sarkis Alajajyan,narration by Sos Sargisyan.
360 births
440 deaths
Ashlee Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop rock singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer.
She is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson.
Ashlee started dancing at the age of 4 and by the time she was 11 enjoyed the status of being the youngest person ever admitted to the prestigious School of American Ballet.
In 1999, when she was 14 years old, she moved to Los Angeles with her family for her sister's career and instantly began her own career by working as a backup dancer for Jessica.
Ashlee's first album, Autobiography, was released in 2004.
She also starred in her own reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show.
Simpson was criticized when she used a pre-recorded vocal track for a performance on Saturday Night Live in October 2004.
Simpson released another album in 2005 called I Am Me.
In May 2008, Ashlee married Pete Wentz, from the band Fall Out Boy.
Their son, Bronx Mowgli, was born in November 2008.
In February 2011, Simpson-Wentz filed for divorce.
Providence (1977 movie), a French/Swiss film
Providence (1991 movie), an American/Canadian film starring Keanu Reeves
Providence (band), 1970s-era American band
Providence (TV series), an 1999–2002 NBC television series starring Melina Kanakaredes
Providence (Wildstorm) is a fictional comic book character, part of the Wildstorm comic company
Providence (comics) is a fictional island, part of the Marvel Comics company
Outside Providence, a 1988 book and 1999 film by Peter Farrelly
"Providence", a Sonic Youth song that appears on their 1988 album Daydream Nation
Providence, a novel by Geoffrey Wolff
Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Providence College and Theological Seminary, Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada
Providence Health & Services, an American health care system which runs hospitals in Oregon, Washington, Montana, California, and Alaska
Providence Health Care, operator of health care facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Providence Health Care Centre, a Toronto, Ontario, Canada health care facility, specializing in rehabilitation
Providence, New York
Providence (Caswell County), North Carolina
Providence (Granville County), North Carolina
Providence (McDowell County), North Carolina
Providence (Mecklenburg County), North Carolina
Providence, Rhode Island, the largest and best-known city with this name
Providence, Utah
Providence, Ohio
Providence Atoll in the Republic of Seychelles
Providence Island of the Republic of Colombia
Divine Providence, by the influence of God
Providence Ministries, a Progressive Southern Gospel group based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States
Providence Ministries, a Dalton Georgia Christian outreach program.
Providence (religion) the name of Jung Myung Seok's new religious movement.
The Sisters of Providence are an international order of Roman Catholic sisters headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in 1843 by Mother Emilie Gamelin.
USS Providence
The Airbus A340 is a long-range four-engined widebody commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Airbus S.A.S. a subsidiary of EADS.
It is similar in design to the twin-engined A330.
The A340-200 (which is the shortest), the A340-300, the A340-500 and the longest one the A340-600.
The A340-600 is the second longest passenger plane in the world.
Having four engines, the A340 uses more fuel than many other aircrafts.
However, that also mean it does not have to pass the ETOPS (extended range twin operations) test to fly long range.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls the conditions inside the body.
It is sometimes called the 'visceral nervous system' or 'involuntary nervous system'.
The ANS is part of the peripheral nervous system.
ANS controls all automatic actions.
That means that it controls all reflexes and actions during sleep.
Most of its activities are done without the person having conscious control over them.
The person usually cannot feel what the ANS is doing.
However, some of the ANS's activities work together with the conscious mind, like breathing.
The sympathetic nervous system, which causes the body to become more active as in the "fight or flight" response.
The parasympathetic nervous system, which is mostly involved in "rest and digest".
Overview at arizona.edu
ANS Medical Notes on rahulgladwin.com
Explanations on the ANS by Dyansys, Inc.
Michael D. Gershon 1998.
The second brain.
HarperCollins, New York.
The peripheral nervous system, or PNS, is part of the nervous system.
It consists of the nerves and ganglia which are outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord).
The main function of the PNS is to connect the central nervous system (CNS) to the  limbs and organs.
The PNS is not protected by bone like the central nervous system.
Therefore it is exposed to toxins and mechanical injuries.
The peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic nervous system (SNS) and the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
But the enteric nervous system (ENS) can be seen as a third branch of its own and not as part of the autonomic nervous system.
The SNS coordinates your body's movement, receiving external stimuli, and regulates everything under conscious control.
The ANS controls all automatic actions.
The ENS controls the gastrointestinal system.
IKEA is a multinational furniture company that was founded by Ingvar Kamprad, from Sweden.
The name IKEA is an acronym from the name Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden).
The company was started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018) when he was seventeen years old as a mostly mail-order sales business.
From the beginning, the company was selling items such as pens, picture frames, clocks, jewellery, nylon stocking, wallets and whatnot.
After an order, Kamprad would often deliver it himself.
By 1947 it started selling furniture and by 1958 the first IKEA store was opened in Älmhult, Småland.
The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969).
The stores spread to other parts of Europe in the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland (1973), followed by West Germany (1974).
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1943 establishments in Sweden
The central nervous system (CNS) is the largest part of the nervous system.
It is made up of the brain and the spinal cord.
Together with the peripheral nervous system, it has an important role in the control of behaviour.
The CNS is protected by bone in the dorsal cavity: the brain in the cranial subcavity, and the spinal cord in the spinal cavity.
See also: Vertebrate brain
Parts of the vertebrate CNS
Human Brains: A Learning Tool .
Explaining the human nervous system .
Nervous System - Back Pain - Anatomy (info on nerve pairs) .
Textbook in Medical Physiology And Pathophysiology, many links
Brain and Cranial Nerves, Anatomy and Physiology Lecture, Northland Community College
Latest Research on the Brain and Central Nervous System From ScienceDaily
The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.
It is enclosed in and protected by the bony vertebral column.
The main function of the spinal cord is transmission of neural inputs between the periphery and the brain.
Spinal cord segments
Humans have 31 left-right pairs of spinal nerves, each roughly corresponding to a segment of the vertebral column.
The spinal nerve emerges from the spinal column through an opening between adjacent vertebrae.
Outside the vertebral column, the nerve divides into branches.
The nerves for incoming sensory information are bundled separately from nerves for outgoing motor instructions for muscles.
The system serves the autonomic nervous system as well as the motor activities which we control consciously.
Spinal Cord Histology  - A multitude of great Images from the University of Cincinnati
Spinal Cord Medical Notes  - Online medical notes on the Spinal Cord
eMedicine: Spinal Cord, Topographical and Functional Anatomy
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Spina Bifida - Topic Overview  Information about Spina Bifida in fetuses and throughout adulthood.
WebMD children's health.
Retrieved March 19, 2007.
is a British quiz show, produced by Celador.
In May 2008, the Dutch company 2waytraffic bought the license for the international format.
aired for the first time on 4 September 1998 in the United Kingdom.
The UK show is hosted by Chris Tarrant.
It had its biggest ratings in March 1999 when more than 19 million were watching the show.
The first millionaire on the show was Judith Keppel who appeared on 20 November 2000.
National variants
More than 100 countries around the world have bought the license and air local versions of the show, including Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Russia, United States.
The United States version became a big hit when Regis Philbin started hosting it in 1999.
John Carpenter, a man who worked for the IRS, became the first person to win the grand prize of $1,000,000 in 1999.
Philbin hosted the show until 2002.
A syndicated version of the show has aired since 2002.
It is hosted by Meredith Vieira.
Each country airs the show under the same rules.
They all have the same studio design.
In Australia, a spin-off called Millionaire Hot Seat has aired since 2009.
1998 British television series debuts
Danny Saucedo (born Daniel Gabriel Alessandro Saucedo Grzechowski on 25 February 1986 in Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden) is a Swedish singer who competed as one of the finalists in Pop Idol — the Swedish version of Idol.
His two songs charted on the official Swedish singles chart. '"
Öppna Din Dörr"' (Tommy Nilsson cover) peaked at No.
24 in 2006 and Tokyo (credit to Danny) was two weeks at No.
1 in 2007.
Agnes Carlsson (born March 6 1988 in Vänersborg), (better known by her stage name Agnes) is a Swedish singer who rose to popularity after winning Idol 2005, the Swedish version of Pop Idol, shown by TV4.
The October 10th 2006 SVT confirmed that Agnes would participate in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007 with her song "More than a girl", but she got disqualified because she talked about the song in an interview with Aftonbladet.
She is the third only Idol winner who was previously a Wildcard on the show, next to Canada's Ryan Malcolm and Kazakhstan's Almas Kishkenbayev.
Agnes advanced to the finals as the jury's choice.
She has released a song called "Release Me", which became a huge hit for Agnes.
Agnes (2005)
Stronger (2006)
Pop! (
Veritas'' (2012)
Daniel Lindström (born January 30, 1978) is a Swedish singer from Umeå.
He won the Swedish Idol 2004 contest against Darin Zanyar.
His first single, "Coming True", sold double platinum, and his self-titled album, released in December 2004, topped the Swedish pop charts.
The new album Nån slags verklighet (Some kind of reality) contains songs written in Swedish by the singer himself.
Daniel Lindström was the first winner of the Swedish Idol series.
Destiny's Child was a three-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B girl group.
They were founded in Houston, Texas.
They formed in 1997.
Originally a quartet called Girl's Tyme, the group eventually became a trio whose members were Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.
According to the World Music Awards, Destiny's Child is the best selling female group of all time.
On June 12, 2005, they announced on tour in Barcelona that they would no longer be performing together, but pursuing individual careers in music, theatre, television and film.
They disbanded in 2006.
Destiny's Child has sold in total 75 million worldwide including albums, video albums and singles; its leader Beyoncé as a solo and featured artist has sold the same million of copies; Kelly Rowland has sold as a solo and featured artist 20 albums and singles million worldwide.
With Michelle Williams as the lineup destiny's child sold about 35 million copies.
By herself Michelle has had several albums amongst them are: heart to you and unexpected.
Destiny's Child released their first album, Destiny's Child, in 1998.
Their second album The Writing's on the Wall was released in 1999.
It was the band's last album with four members.
In 2001 Survivor was released.
All of the album's four singles reached number one.
The band released their last album Destiny Fulfilled in 2004.
Musical groups disestablished in 2006
American soul bands
Her total sales (LP, EP, compilation, video album and singles) surpassed 100 million worldwide (60 with the group e 40 as solo and featured artist).
Rowland has released four solo albums.
Her first album Simply Deep is her most successful album.
Rowland had her only number one on the album, "Dilemma".
Rowland's parents separated when she was seven.
She and her mother moved to Houston when she was eight.
Pop Idol was a British television series that was first shown on ITV on October 5, 2001.
The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer, or 'pop idol', in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation.
There were two series of Pop Idol.
The first was from October 2001 - February 2002.
The winner was  Will Young; the runner-up was Gareth Gates.
The second series was in 2003.
It was won by Michelle McManus.
The Idol series has become an international franchise.
It has spun off many successful shows such as Idol, American Idol, Idols, Canadian Idol, Australian Idol, Idols West Africa, Indian Idol, Indonesian Idol, New Zealand Idol, Philippine Idol, Pinoy Idol, Hay superstar, Nouvelle Star, Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, Singapore Idol, Malaysian Idol, Music Idol, Idols South Africa, Ídolos Brazil, Ídolos Portugal, and others.
ITV reality television programmes
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
Rachel Renee Smith (born April 18, 1985 in Panama) is a beauty queen from Clarksville, Tennessee.
She won the Miss USA contest in 2007.
She had previously competed in the Miss Teen USA contest.
She represented the USA in the Miss Universe pageant in 2007.
People from Tennessee
HHB Life - new official web site by Natalie Glebova
Healthy Happy Beautiful - Book by Natalie Glebova
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People from Toronto
Tenitra Michelle Williams (born July 23, 1979) is an American gospel and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
She was a background singer for Monica, before rising to fame as one-third of the successful Grammy Award-winning musical group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time, selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Williams played the character Shug Avery in the play The Color Purple.
She was a contestant in the 2010 series of British reality television show Strictly Come Dancing.
In 2013, she made a return to inspirational music with the lead single, If We Had Your Eyes from her upcoming fourth studio album titled Journey to Freedom.
People from Rockford, Illinois
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is a British businessman, entrepreneur, music talent show judge and television personal.
Cowell is the A&R executive for Syco in the United Kingdom and the son of estate agent and music industry executive Eric Cowell Sr.
and socialite Julie Brett.
He was born in Lambeth, London and raised in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
He is well known as a judge on television programmes Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol and Britain's Got Talent.
On these shows, Cowell is known for saying that most of the contestants on the shows are not talented.
He is known for joining activities in the television and music industries, having made singles and records for many television characters.
Cowell has been in a relationship with Lauren Silverman since 2013.
The couple's son, Eric, was born in February 2014.
Silverman's husband divorced her for alleged adultery with Cowell.
Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, document actual events, and have ordinary people instead of professional actors.
Although reality television has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the term "reality television" is most commonly used to describe shows since 2000.
Documentaries, news and sports shows are not called reality shows.
There are many different kinds of reality television shows, from game or quiz shows to surveillance-type shows, such as Big Brother.
Critics say that the term "reality television" is not accurate.
Many shows portray a changed and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes told to act certain ways, and with events on screen sometimes changed by editing.
Types of reality television
Documentary-style—watching people do their daily personal and professional activities
Special living environment—People who did not know each other before the show must live together.
They are often given tasks to complete together.
Examples: The Real World, Road Rules
Celebrity reality—A celebrity living his or her normal everyday life.
Examples: The Anna Nicole Show, The Osbournes.
Sometimes the celebrities are given a task.
Examples: The Surreal Life, The Simple Life
Professional activities—Professionals doing their day-to-day business at their jobs.
Examples: COPS, Miami Ink, American Chopper
Elimination/Game shows—Participants compete to win a prize, sometimes while living together.
Example: The Amazing Race
Dating-based competition—A person chooses one person to date out of a group of suitors.
Examples: The Bachelor, Temptation Island
Job search—Contestants compete to see who is the best at a certain skill.
Examples: America's Next Top Model (for modeling), The Apprentice (for business skills), Hell's Kitchen (for cooking)
Game shows are most numerous, and can be made quickly and cheaply in a television studio.
Self-improvement/make-over—A person or group of people try to improve themselves or their lives.
Examples: Extreme Makeover, The Biggest Loser, Supernanny, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Home renovation—Improving homes.
Examples: Changing Rooms, Trading Spaces, Extreme Makeover:Home Edition
Dating shows—People go on a date.
Unlike dating competition shows which have the same contestants all season, dating shows have new people each episode.
Example: Blind Date
Talk shows—A host interviews people, often about strange or outrageous topics that will cause conflict on-screen.
Examples: The Jerry Springer Show, Maury
Hidden cameras—A hidden camera records random people in a staged situation.
The situations are often meant to confuse, amuse or scare the person.
Examples: Candid Camera, Punk'd, Scare Tactics
Hoaxes—The show is a prank or trick on one or more cast members.
They know that they are on a TV show, they just do not know the true nature of the show.
Examples: The Joe Schmo Show, Invasion Iowa
Tengwar is a constructed writing system, invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The tengwar is used in his fictional world Middle-earth, for example the book The Lord of the Rings.
In the Quenya language, tengwar means "letters", tengwa is the singular and means "letter".
The tengwar are used to write some of Tolkien's constructed languages, like for example the elven languages Quenya and Sindarin.
But Tolkien used the tengwar mostly for writing English.
Because the tengwar is an alphabet, it can be used to write almost any language.
In the late 1910s, J. R. R. Tolkien developed the script Sarati, which was  already a bit similar to tengwar.
The tengwar were probably developed in the late 1920s or in the early 1930s.
The first published sample of tengwar writing was 1937 in The Hobbit, to so-called The Lonely Mountain Jar Inscription.
The full explanation of the tengwar was published in 1955 in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings.
Modes and sounds
The tengwar have a certain order, and are usually shown in a table/chart.
They are sorted by how they look, which is also connected to how they sound.
Because it is an alphabet, every tengwa means a sound.
The main tengwar letters are placed into four vertical series (témar) and six horizontal rows (tyeller).
There are different ways to write with tengwar, which are called "modes".
Between these modes there are differences, sometimes only a few and sometimes many differences.
In different modes, the tengwar sometimes mean different sounds.
In some modes the tengwar are used for vowels and consonants; and in other modes the tengwar are only used for the consonants, and the vowels are marked by signs above or below the tengwa, as in abugida writing.
These vowel signs are called tehtar ("signs"; singular: tehta, "sign").
There are different modes to write the different Middle-earth languages.
People have also made new modes to write English and other modern languages with the tengwar.
The tengwar is written in a table/chart with the way the letters sound.
For example, if the sound comes from the front of the mouth it is in 1 row.
Each column is for the sounds that come from the nose, throat, or lips.
Tolkien used the tengwar to write texts for his fictional world Middle-earth and other things.
He used it to write in the languages he invented (for example Quenya and Sindarin), but also used the tengwar to write English.
After Tolkien's Middle-earth books became famous, people also got interest in his languages and writing scripts.
The tengwar are used by fans to write new things, or to re-write existing texts with tengwar.
Petros Duryan (1851-1872) an Armenian poet and actor.
His father was an blacksmith in Istanbul.
He died of Tuberculosis at the age of 21.
Petros Duryan at ArmenianHouse.org
1851 births
Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian supermodel.
She is well known for her work with underwear company Victoria's Secret.
When she was 6 months old, her father left her and her mother.
She has not talked to him since then.
Since 2007 she has been trying to meet with him again.
She is married to Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić, and they have two daughters.
In early 2014, the couple announced that they have separated.
DNA models
Adrianazone.com
Brazilian models
People from Salvador, Bahia
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War.
In Russia, it is known as the Caribbean Crisis (, Karibskiy krizis).
Cuba calls it the October Crisis.
It was a proxy conflict around Cuba.
It began when the Soviet Union (USSR) began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962.