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She was the lead singer of Patty La Belle and the Bluebells during the 1960s and 70s.
Later the group was known as simply "Labell".
In this later group the style was more laid back, singing hits like The Rolling Stones' Wild Horses.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, model and producer.
Referred to as “The Voice”, she is regarded as one of the most influential vocalists in popular music.
Houston is noted for her powerful and soulful vocals, as well as her charismatic stage presence.
She is the most awarded female artist of all time.
Houston is also one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide.
Her first two studio albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), both peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and are among the best-selling albums of all time.
She is the only artist to have seven consecutive number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Saving All My Love for You" in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988.
Houston made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992).
She recorded six songs for the film's soundtrack, including "I Will Always Love You", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling physical single by a female in music history.
It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and remains the best-selling soundtrack album of all time.
Houston starred and recorded soundtracks for two other high-profile films, Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996), with the latter's soundtrack being the best-selling gospel album of all time.
On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and was featured prominently in international media.
Houston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
Houston was born at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey.
She was the second child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. and gospel singer Cissy Houston.
Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are her cousins.
Whitney began singing at a young age in gospel music at church, being influenced by her mother.
She was described as having an impressive ranging mezzo-soprano voice.
In 1983, she was discovered by an Arista Records representative and signed to the label.
Houston released her first album, Whitney Houston, in 1985.
It featured the number-one singles "Saving All My Love for You", "Greatest Love of All", and "How Will I Know".
Her second album, Whitney, was released in 1987 and featured the number-one hits "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and "So Emotional".
In 1990, her album I'm Your Baby Tonight was released, and the song of the same name also reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, as did the single "All the Man That I Need".
She sang the National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl and earned widespread praise for the performance.
She starred in the film The Bodyguard in 1992 and performed several songs on its soundtrack, one of which was a cover of country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton's song, "I Will Always Love You".
The song became Houston's biggest hit of her career and reached number one in countries around the world.
Houston sat throughout much of the music video for "I Will Always Love You" because she was pregnant with her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.
"I Will Always Love You" became the bestselling song by a female artist, with the soundtrack for The Bodyguard becoming the bestselling film soundtrack ever.
She performed with singer-songwriter Mariah Carey on the song "When You Believe" for the film The Prince of Egypt.
Houston released albums My Love Is Your Love, Just Whitney..., and I Look to You in 1998, 2002, and 2009, respectively.
She also appeared in the film Sparkle alongside singer Jordin Sparks.
Whitney Houston has earned six Grammy Awards and seven number-one songs in a row on the Billboard Hot 100.
She had a total of 11 Billboard Hot 100 number-ones, placing her in fourth place for women behind Mariah Carey (18 number-ones), Rihanna (14), and Madonna and The Supremes (12 each).
She is the most-awarded female artist of all time.
Houston married Bobby Brown in 1992.
In 1993, they had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.
In a 2009 interview, Houston indicated the marriage was both passionate and turbulent.
Their marital relationship was marred by drug use and by Brown's professional jealousy, psychological abuse, and physical confrontations.
The couple divorced in 2007.
On the night of February 11, 2012, at the age of 48, Houston was found dead in her guest room at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
The official coroner's report stated that she had accidentally drowned in the bath.
Atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use were listed as contributing factors.
Her funeral was televised.
Accidental deaths by drowning in the United States
Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
Kami (神) is a Japanese word for any of several gods, spirits, or the God of Abrahamic religions.
Kami may also mean
The word may also mean charisma, omniscience, miracle, or any other quality that might remind one of the holy.
For example, Kamikaze means "divine wind".
Kami is a HIV positive puppet in Takalani Sesame.
Kami is a character in Dragon Ball, a manga.
Kami was the drummer of the Japanese band Malice Mizer.
Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and more within a particular people.
This also includes the oral traditions of that culture, subculture, or group.
The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics.
The famous folk tale is Little Red Riding Hood (in European culture).
Inari, Finland, a municipality in Finland
Lake Inari in Finland
Inari Sami, one of the Sami languages
Inari (mythology), a Shinto god
Inari-zushi, a kind of sushi
Oni, Georgia, a town in the Republic of Georgia
Oni (folklore) (鬼), the demons and ogres of Japanese folklore
Oni (video game), a third-person shooter video game made by Bungie Studios
Oni Sakti, professional artist, once known as Atticus Ross
Oni (novel), a work of fiction by author Marc Olden, about a Russian/Japanese terrorist.
The Office of Naval Intelligence, the United States Navy's service intelligence center
The National Olympiad of Informatics (Olimpiada Naţională de Informatică), the most important Romanian informatics competition
Kappa (uppercase/lowercase Κ κ) is the letter of the Greek alphabet used to represent the "k" sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.
In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 20.
Letters that came from it include the Roman K and Cyrillic К.
The letter κ always stands for the sound "k" in Greek.
It is customary to transliterate (re-write) κ as "c" in English, but this is somewhat problematic since c is pronounced as "s" before e, i and y (which does not happen in Greek).
In mathematics, the lowercase  is used to represent the curvature of a curve, while the uppercase Κ is used to represent an ordinal number which is also a cardinal number.
Thermal conductivity, represented by
Kappa, a letter of the Greek alphabet
Kappa (folklore), a Japanese river imp
Kappa (rocket)
Kappa Publishing Group
Kappa particle, a feature of some Paramecium aurelia
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Kappa
Kappa Phi Lambda
Văn Cao (born Nguyễn Văn Cao; 15 November 1923 – 10 July 1995) was a famous Vietnamese composer.
He wrote the Vietnamese national anthem, "".
He, along with Pham Duy and Trinh Cong Son, is widely considered one of the three most important people in modern (non-classical) Vietnamese music.
Kojiki or Furukotofumi (), also called in English the Records of Ancient Matters, is the oldest book known in Japan.
It was written 712 CE, and dedicated to Empress Gemmei.
The Kojiki is a book about Japanese mythology (Shinto), legends, songs, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 BCE.
The book mixes the legends of first emperor of Japan and several others with stories about the gods.
Therefore, it is difficult to know which parts of the Kojiki are real and which parts are legend.
According to legend, all the emperors of Japan are descended from Amaterasu, the sun goddess.
The Kojiki is written in Chinese, but the way the Japanese wrote it is by using the pronunciation of the Chinese characters and not the meanings of them.
In other words, a person who can read Chinese will not be able to read the Kojiki unless they also know how to speak Japanese.
It includes many Japanese names and some phrases.
The Kojiki is divided into three parts: the , the  and the .
The Kamitsumaki, also known as the , includes the preface of the Kojiki.
It is about the first gods in the mythology of Japan, Izanagi and Izanami.
These are the gods who created the world.
This volume also tells of the births of various gods of the kamiyo period, or Age of the Gods.
The Kamitsumaki also describes the legends about the creation of Japan.
It describes how Ninigi-no-Mikoto, grandson of Amaterasu, came down from heaven to Kyūshū and became the ancestor of the Japanese royal line.
According to this legend, he is considered the great-grandfather of Emperor Jimmu.
The Nakatsumaki begins with the story of Jimmu, the first Emperor, and how he conquered Japan.
The volume ends with the 15th emperor, Ōjin.
Not much is written about the reigns of the second through the ninth emperors; only their names and the names of their various descendants are mentioned, as well as a few other details.
There is no mention of their achievements.
Many of the stories in this volume are mythological, and there is no evidence to suggest that they are historically accurate.
Recent studies support the opinion that these emperors were invented to push Jimmu's reign further back to the year 660 BC.
The Shimotsumaki recounts the 16th to the 33rd emperors.
Unlike the other two volumes, this one does not contain many references to the gods.
Interactions between the human world and the gods are very prominent in the first and second volumes, but not in this volume.
Information about the 24th to the 33rd emperors is largely missing as well.
The Internet Sacred Text Archive - An online version of Basil Hall Chamberlain's translation of Kojiki (1919).
There are mainly six branches of Hindu Philosophy.
These six schools of philosophy have been the result of ancient Indian thought and usually termed as "Sad Darsana".
Vaiseshika
Purva Mimamsa
Among the above six schools of Hindu Philosophy, Vedanta is by far very popular.
The Vedanta accepts the authority of the knowledge portions of the Vedas, called Upanishads.
In the Sanskrit language, guru means teacher.
Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and newer movements such as Transcendental Meditation use guru as a title.
They give it to a teacher (or guide) of religious matters.
In Western usage, any person who has followers may be called a guru, even if he is followed for things other than religion or philosophy.
A person with knowledge or expertise may be called a guru if he influences by personal teaching.
Modern terms which have a rather similar meaning are mentor and tutor.
Many Hindus have a satguru as well.
The word "guru" means the one who removes the darkness from our heart.
Satguru means true guru or true teacher.
The title means that his students know that the guru can be trusted and will lead them to enlightenment.
A satguru is a great soul who has realized God and is able to lead others along the path.
God shines out from the satguru more brightly than from other people because he is very pure and enlightened.
The satguru is devoted full time to religious life, is unmarried and has given up all possessions, personal life, family and friends.
He has received an initiation from his satguru that gives him great spiritual power and authority.
He can teach parents how to raise children, adults how to avoid problems and overcome any challenge in life, and in general he can make people feel close to God.
Examples of gurus
Lao Zi
Moksha is the ultimate goal of personal spiritual development for some schools of Hinduism.
It is the equivalent of Nirvana in Buddhism.
In the Sanskrit language, "moksha" means freedom.
It is as a state of eternal bliss and emptiness.
According to Vedanta life is an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth into a physical universe.
Hindu scriptures describe Moksha as the spiritual liberation from this cycle and the achievement of an eternal and blissful emptiness that transcends all of the joys, pain, and sorrow of the physical body or corporeal life.
It is the goal of Hindu practitioners to achieve Moksha (freedom/liberation from the material world) through the practice of Yoga viz Jnana Yoga(knowledge), Karma Yoga(work), and Bhakti Yoga (through reciting prayers and worshipping God).
Moksha is a Vedic term.
Scholars disagree about the precise relationship between the Moksha of Vedanta Hinduism and the Nirvana of Buddhism, but there is agreement that they are closely related historically and philosophically.
Similarities can be found between Moksha and some concepts found in the Upanishads.
Hindu texts explain the Moksha as Sat-Chit-Anand [True blissness of soul by separating the soul from the physical body by practising Dhyan and Yoga ].
Moksha originates from the Sanskrit word, moksa.
In short, moksha symbolizes something which is beyond comprehension; too great and too wondrous to be truly understood, it can only be felt when one attains it.
The world is truly a beautiful place, but the greatness that lies within is even more so, since the power of the greatness is completely unknown.
The complete works of Swami Vivekananda
2.Philosophia Ultima(commentaries on Mandukyopanishad) by Osho
3.Vedanta: Seven steps to Samadhi by Osho (Osho is the author of more than 650 books, his discourses are free to download on on<http://oshoworld.com>)
The caste system is a system in India that was once mainly used by Hindus.
This system has been generally accepted for about 3000 years.
There are four castes in this system, and one outcast group regarded as "untouchables".
There are also castes in countries other than India as the system spread to South Asia about 2000 years ago.
For centuries, this system has dictated one's marriages, geographical location, and occupation.
The Indian government today works to decrease this discrimination with the quotas set in government jobs in 1950.
Brahmin - priests and scholars
Kshatriya - warriors and kings
Vaishya - merchants and landowners
Shudra - peasants and labourers
Untouchables or Dalits - came much later after the other four groups and consisted of people who did jobs considered ritually polluting.
This included sweeping ashes after cremations or ridding of animal waste or skinning animals such as cows.
Brahmin is one of the part of four varnas in Hinduism.
Brahmins are the highest and most respected among people.
In ancient India people who read the complete Upanishad Brahmanak were called Brahmins.
They were teachers, warriors, doctors, scholars, or religious people in the past.
They are called Dwij because they guided others toward enlightenment.
Caste system
The caste system classified people by jobs.
The people in this caste were mostly priests and dramatists in the Aryan society.
The Brahmins arranged prayers and rituals.
Parashurama was one of the well known Brahmin by birth, but throughout his life, he was a warrior whose job was to protect Dharma.
Parshurama is also Creator Father of Bhumihar Brahman and Bhumihar Thakur, Bhumihar's are also known as Parashurama Brahman & Bramhkshatriya.
Most Brahmins practice vegetarianism.
There are many subgroups in Brahmins based on demography.
Rishiswar, Sanadhya, Kanyakubj, Telang, Saryupareen, Bhumihar, Goswami, Tyagi, and Saraswati are the main streams of Brahmin.
Across the subcontinent, other Brahmins are also believed to have switched from the traditional duties of Brahmins in favor of military and administrative ones.
In other parts of the subcontinent, outside of Punjab and the Gandhara region, they have been known as the Tyagi Brahman and "brahma-kshatriya" groups.
These groups also claim to have descended from the Parshuram Tyagi Brahmans of Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh; traditionally, they have a close relationship and brotherhood with Mohyals.
Some Mohyal Brahmins migrated eastward and became as some sub-divisions of Bhumihar Brahmins, some of whom are also descendants of Hussaini Brahmins and mourn the death of Imam Hussain.[7] Bhumihar Brahmins and Tyagi/ Mohyal Brahmins have an affinity and brotherhood for each other.
The  Bhumihar Brahmins, of whom many, though not all, belong to the Saryupareen Brahmin division of Kanyakubja Brahmins.
In Kerala Ezhavathy is also a Mohyal community.[8]
The Brahmins of Vedic Period
The Brahmanas of the Vedic period were regarded as the most knowledgeable people and the best of best in all arts.
Therefore, not all Hindus worship other Gods.
The sub-groups
In Tamil Nadu, The Iyers and Iyengars are well known Brahmin communities.
Iyers are mostly worshippers of Shiva and the Iyengars are Vaishnavites.
Kshatriya is a division of the caste system about Rajput Jatt Gurjar in Hinduism.
A kshatriya is a warrior, ruler or noble.
Rajputs are universally considered as kshatriyas .
Suryavanshi (Solar Dynasty)
Chandravanshi (Lunar Dynasty)
Agnivanshi (Fire Dynasty)
However, there is one more lineage (not mentioned in any Puranas) - ‘’’Nagavanshi’’’ (snake-born), who claims descent from the Nagas.
Vaishya is a division of the caste system.
A vaishya is a trader, merchant or artisan.
Shudra is a division of the caste system.
A shudra is considered a servant or peasant.
Shudra and Ati-shudra indicates the bottom most ranks in the Indian caste system.
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule set out the history of shudra-ati-shudra communities in his book Gulamgiri.
He drew the attention to the exploitation of Shudras, Ati-shudras, and women etc.
At this time, most prefer not even to touch such castes.
In Hinduism, Jnana Yoga is the yoga or practice of knowledge.
Jyâna in Sanskrit means "knowledge".
In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says that jyâna consists of properly understanding kshetra (the field of activity—that is, the body) and kshetra-jna (the knower of the body—that is, the soul).
Krishna emphasizes one must understand the difference between these two. "
Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the body and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process of liberation from bondage in material nature, attain to the supreme goal."
The Atharva Veda is the fourth Veda, one of the Hindu scriptures.
There are a number of upanishads in this veda.
Ganapathy, Narayana, Devi, Atharva Siropanishaths are part of atharv veda.
Bhavanopanisath is also in atharva veda.
Sankaracharya established joshimath in kedarnath one of the four popal centres of Hinduism to flourish atharva veda.
Victoria Park is one of the most important parks.
It has a canal running through it and lots people like to walk their dogs.
Uriah Heep are an English hard rock band.
They formed in December 1969.
...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble (1970)
Demons and Wizards (1972)
Abominog (1982)
Head First (1983)
Sonic Origami (1998)
Into the Wild (2011)
Living the Dream (2018)
The official Uriah Heep website
An electronic book (also called an e-book, ebook or digital book) is a book in digital form.
E-books can be read on computers or other electronic devices such as e-book readers.
E-book readers, such as the Amazon Kindle, the Kobo eReader and the Barnes and Noble Nook are devices which are dedicated to showing e-books.
The first e-book might have been the Index Thonisticus, prepared by Roberto Busa in the late 1940s.
However, this is sometimes not called an ebook because the digital text was (at least at first) meant to develop an index and concordance, rather than as a published edition in its own rights.
Despite the extensive earlier history, it is commonly reported that the inventor of the e-book is Michael S. Hart.
In 1971, Hart was given extensive computer time by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois.
Seeking a worthy use of this resource, he created his first electronic document by typing the United States Declaration of Independence into a computer.
In 1992, Sony launched the Data Discman, an electronic book reader that could read e-books that were stored on CDs.
One of the electronic publications that could be played on the Data Discman was called The Library of the Future.
Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups.
The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques and other subjects.
In the 1990s, the general availability of the Internet made transferring electronic files much easier, including e-books.
The current eBook standard is the EPUB file.
There are other proprietary formats like .MOBI, AZW, IBA and PDF.
E-books are searchable.
You can easily search for any information in an e-book, instead of turning page after page.
When you need certain information, you can get it immediately, by downloading an e-book.
No trees are required to manufacture paper for the pages of ebooks.
E-books can show links, for easy access to more information and related websites.
E-books take up less space.
You don't need any space to store them.
You don't need a library or a room for them.
You can store hundreds and thousands of e-books on your computer.
No prime cost of paper and transportation.
Functional and convenient: it combines with much other software, make itself more functional and convenient.
Easy for authors or publishers to revise or update the books.
Individualization：different backgrounds, front covers, back covers etc.,
according to people's needs.
Self publishing: Any one can write books and let people read them through Internet without publishing to a paper book.
eBooks aren’t good for your eyes and you will feel tired after you look at the screen for a long time.
eBooks require power.
E-Book readers are special devices or programs on a computer that allow the user to access the book electronically.
There is absolutely no paper involved.
If there is a power outage and the batteries die, the user will not be able to access the book.
e-readers have plastics and heavy metals, this is not good for the environment and is worse than paper.
People can't get the special feeling that they can feel when they read a paper book.
eBooks are often tied to a digital rights management platform that only offers a license to access the eBook and not a direct ownership of a ebook.
Compatible e-readers or Sharing of an ebook are disabled or are tightly controlled.
As sales of paper books decline, local bookshops lose business.
Some bookstores leverage their reputation in the community to sell ebooks on their own using platforms like Papertrell
E-books "E-books copy editing"
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Main_Page
The Church-Turing thesis (also known as Church's thesis, Church's conjecture and Turing's thesis) is a statement about computers.
It says that a very simple kind of computer now named a “Turing machine” is able to compute all computable functions.
The Church-Turing thesis is linked to Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
When a programming language is able to do what a Turing machine can do, that language is called Turing complete.
If a problem is solvable in one such language, then it is solvable in all of those.
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The London Borough of Ealing is a London borough in West London, it is part of Greater London.
It includes the town of Ealing, famous for the Ealing Studios, a movie studio.
Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前) is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology and folklore.
In the Otogizoshi, a collection of Japanese prose written in the Muromachi period, Tamamo-no-Mae was a courtesan under the Japanese Emperor Konoe.
She was said to be the most beautiful and intelligent woman in Japan.
Tamamo-no-Mae's body mysteriously always smelled wonderful, and her clothes never became dirty.
Tamamo-no-Mae was not only beautiful, but she was very wise in all subjects.
Although she appeared to be only twenty years old, there was no question that she could not answer.
She answered every question posed to her, whether about music, religion, or astronomy.
Because of her beauty and intelligence, everyone in the Imperial Court adored her, and Emperor Konoe fell deeply in love with her.
After some time had passed, the Emperor suddenly and mysteriously fell ill.
He went to many priests and fortune-tellers for answers, but they had none to offer.
Finally, an astrologer told the Emperor that Tamamo-no-Mae was the cause of his illness.
The astrologer explained that the beautiful young woman was in fact an evil fox with nine tails (kitsune), who was making the Emperor ill in a evil plan to take the throne.
Following this, Tamamo-no-Mae disappeared from the court.
The Emperor ordered Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke, the most powerful warriors of the day, to hunt and kill the fox.
After escaping from the hunters for some time, the fox appeared to Miura-no-suke in a dream.
Once again in the form of the beautiful Tamamo-no-Mae, the fox told Miura-nosuke would kill it the next day, and begged for its life.
Miura-no-suke refused.
Early the next day, the hunters found the fox on the Plain of Nasu, and Miura-no-suke shot and killed the magical creature with an arrow.
The body of the fox became the Sessho-seki, or Killing Stone, which kills anyone that comes in contact with it.
Tamamo-no-Mae's spirit became Hoji and haunted the stone.
Hoji is said to have haunted this stone in the Japanese prefecture of Nasu until a Buddhist priest called Genno stopped for a rest near the stone and was threatened by Hoji.
Genno did a certain spiritual ritual, and begged the spirit to consider her spiritual salvation, until finally Hoji surrendered and swore to never haunt the stone again.
In Matsuo Bashō's famous book, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi), Bashō tells of visiting the stone in the Japanese prefecture of Nasu.
Tamamo-no-Mae's legend served as base for the noh drama Sesshoseki ("The Killing Stone") and the kabuki play Tamamonomae (or The Beautiful Fox Witch).
Mailahn, Klaus: Der Fuchs in Glaube und Mythos, Münster 2006, 190-194,
The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London.
The western District line and Piccadilly line pass through the Borough.
The area was part of Middlesex, and is near to London Heathrow Airport.
Through Houslow runs the A4 Great West Road.
The heart of Hounslow is the Treaty Centre, a two-floor shopping paradise with over 10 shops including a Debenhams.
The musician M.I.A is from here, and the movie Bend it like Beckham is set in this part of London.
Hounslow info
London Borough of Richmond
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a London borough in south-west London.
It is one of three Royal boroughs in London.
The London Borough of Havering is a east London borough.
Romford is the major centre.
Havering is connected to central London by the District Line, which terminates at Upminster.
Waltham Forest has urban districts in the south with inner-city characteristics, and richer housing development in the north.
The north has reservoirs, open spaces, small sections of Epping Forest, parks, and playing fields, which together cover a fifth (20%) of the borough.
The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough in north London.
There are some interesting sights, for example, the stadium of the Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur and the Alexandra Palace.
The London Borough of Hillingdon is a London borough.
It is the farthest west borough of London.
Sir John Shakespeare II (c. 1530-September 1601) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight.
He was Sir William Shakespeare's father and husband of Mary Arden.
1530s births
People from Warwickshire
The Norwegian Elkhound is a type of dog that was bred in Norway, where most of them are found.
They are fluffy and are working dogs.
A spitz, type with curled tale and pricked ears, the are friendly,playful and also great with kids.
They are a great family dog, but needs a large garden and daily walks.
They enjoy an active family that will play with them but are more than happy to live a less strenuous life but,they must not be allowed to get lazy because as with all hounds, will put on weight in excess.
Kim Dae-jung (January 6, 1925-August 18, 2009) was a South Korean president.
In 2000, he got the Nobel Peace Prize.
He is the first person from Korea to get a Nobel prize.
A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela" of Asia   Kim Dae Jung was the President (succeeding Kim Young-sam) from 1998 to 2003.
He was born in Haui-do, South Jeolla Province, an island off the South Korean Coast.
Official Nobel page for Kim
Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library
BBC article on his legacy
The reason it is called a game is because people who play the game can set it up in different ways to make it do different things.
Sometimes people play the game by changing the way the imaginary robot is set up at the start to watch what happens.
The Game of Life is a zero-player game because it changes without anybody playing (after the starting position is chosen).
A different type of game lets two players set up imaginary robots to see which one is better.
The game is played on a grid of squares called cells, each cell is black (alive) or white (dead).
When people are playing the game, they start by making some dead cells alive.
Then the alive cells can make other cells alive or dead because of the rules of the game.
Any alive cell that is touching less than two alive neighbours dies.
Any alive cell touching four or more alive neighbours dies.
Any alive cell touching two or three alive neighbours does nothing.
Any dead cell touching exactly three alive neighbours becomes alive.
The way a player sets up the first alive cells starts the game.
The first level (generation) is made by using the 4 rules.
After the player is done changing the cells, they do the same thing all over again to make the next level.
The game is over when all the cells are dead or all the cells are alive or the game is doing the same thing over and over.
The Game of Life is Turing-complete.
John Horton Conway made the Game of Life because he wanted to know if he could make an imaginary robot out of cells that would be able to get bigger.
He combined lots of ideas in math to make the rules for the game.
It is one of the first ever 'simulation games' that represent things that happen in real life.
It is important because when used in complicated math, it can look at many things like physics, biology, economics, and philosophy.
Patterns are special things that happen in the game.
Many different types of patterns happen, including static patterns where nothing changes between levels, repeating patterns where the cells that are alive and dead repeat, and patterns that move themselves across the board ("spaceships").
Common examples of these three classes are shown below, with live cells shown in black, and dead cells shown in white.
The "block" and "boat" do not change, the "blinker" and "toad" have 2 looks that repeat, and the "glider" and "lightweight spaceship" ("LWSS") are spaceships which keep moving across the cells in each level.
The "pulsar" is the most common repeat that has 3 parts.
Most of the repeating patterns have 2 parts, like the blinker and toad. .
Variations on Life
Since the Game of Life was made, some people play with new rules.
These rules are usually more ways to make cells alive or dead, or they are more rules to make it harder for cells to switch.
When two people play the Game of Life, the alive cells have two colors and a player wins when their colors take up all of the cells.
When a dead cell becomes alive, its color is the same as the alive cells that touch it.
If both colors are touching the new alive cell, then the color that touches it more wins.
Many other websites concerning the Game of Life can be found on .
In addition, Game of Life News is a blog reporting on recent developments in the Game of Life by many individuals.
Cellular Automata FAQ - Conway's Game of Life - Answers to frequently asked questions.
Robert T. Wainwright's LIFEPAGE  - From 1971 to 1973 Wainwright edited LIFELINE, an influential newsletter for enthusiasts.
This site contains a downloadable copy of the first issue as well as an index.
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life - Describes an implementation of a Turing machine engineered from Game of Life pattern components.
Conway's Game of Life Simulator  - Contains a Game of Life implementation that can be run in a web browser.
Conway's game of life implementation. (
Silverlight)
Game of Life on JavaScript
Game of Grid - a pretty implementation of the Game of Life in a toric space
Bio-Booster Armor Guyver (Viz Media) or Guyver (Chuang Yi Publishing) (強殖装甲ガイバー, Kyōshoku Sōkō Gaibā?)
is a long-running manga series written by Yoshiki Takaya
1986 horror movies
1991 movies
2005 anime television series
Anime OVAs
Anime series
Manga series
1985 manga
Repulse Bay (, literally Shallow Water Bay) is a famous beach in Hong Kong.
It is in the southern part of Hong Kong Island.
There are many stories explaining how the bay got its name: in 1841, pirates took Repulse Bay and lived there.
They frequently took things from ships.
In order to protect the ships, the British Fleet repulsed (attacked) the pirates and their base.
Due to this event, it was named Repulse Bay.
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the name of Repulse Bay was changed to ).
Geography of Hong Kong
Beaches of Asia
Scriptural saints
John the Baptist, also known as John of Jerusalem, who baptised Jesus at the start of Jesus' ministry
John the Apostle, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus
John the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of John.
In some traditions, the same person as John the Apostle.
John of Patmos, author of the Book of Revelation
Later, ecclesiastical saints
(in chronological order)
Saint John (d. 303), martyred with Cyrus (see Cyrus and John)
Saint John (d. 366), a priest martyred with Abda and Abdjesus
Saint John of Egypt (d. 394) hermit
Saint John Chrysostom (347–407), Archbishop of Constantinople
Saint John Cassian (c. 360–433)
Pope John I (523–526)
Saint John Climacus (c. 579–649), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites
Saint John the Merciful (d. c. 620), also known as John the Almoner, John the Almsgiver, John V of Alexandria, and Johannes Eleemon
Saint John of Ephesus (c. 505 – c. 585)
Saint John of Damascus (c. 676–749)
Saint John of Beverley (d. 721)
Saint John of Rila (876 – c. 946), also known as Ivan Rilski, Bulgarian hermit
Saint John of Matha (1169–1218), French founder of the Trinitarian Order
Saint John of Nepomuk (c. 1340–1396), Bohemian priest
Giovanni da Capistrano (1386–1456)
Saint John Fisher (1469–1535), Bishop of Rochester, professor at Cambridge
Saint John of God (1495–1550)
Saint John of Avila (1500–1569)
Saint John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic
Saint John Sarkander (1576–1620), Moravian priest
Saint John Ogilvie (1579–1615), Scottish Catholic martyr
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651–1719), the patron saint of teachers
Saint John Joseph of the Cross (1654–1739), Italian Franciscan
Saint John Neumann (1811–1860), Bishop of Philadelphia
John Bosco born Giovanni Melchior Bosco (1815–1888)
John Baptist Con, John Charles Cornay, John Dat, John Hoan Trinh Doan, John Louis Bonnard, and John Thanh Van Dinh of the Vietnamese Martyrs (16th–19th century)
John, (era unknown), one of the Ethiopian saints Abraham, Ethnus, Acrates, James, and John
John of Sammanud, (era unknown), martyred with James of Manug
John of Kiev, the name used to refer to an infant of Kiev and an adult monk, both saints – see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev
Mar Yohanna (Arabic)
Sant Joan (Catalan)
Saint-Jean (French)
Sankt Johann (German)
Agios Ioannis (Greek)
San Giovanni (Italian)
São João (Portuguese)
San Juan (Spanish)
Sant Ioan (Welsh)
Sankt Hans (Danish)
San Joan or Donibane (Basque)
Johannes de Doper (Dutch)
With 'St. John' as a surname
Austin St. John, American actor
Bridget St John, British singer
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), English statesman and philosopher
Ian St. John, former footballer and now pundit
John St. John (1833–1916), U.S. politician
Kate St John, British musician and composer
Lara St. John, Canadian violinist
Oliver St John (c. 1598–1673), English statesman and judge
Spenser St. John, British Consul in Brunei (19th century)
Pamela St. John, American composer
Saint John (electoral district), federal electoral district in New Brunswick
Saint John River, in New Brunswick and Maine (United States)
St John, Cornwall, a village near Millbrook, Cornwall, England
St John, Hackney, England
St. John, Powys, Wales
Saint John, Jersey – a parish on Jersey.
St. John, Indiana
Saint John Plantation, Maine
St. John, Missouri
St. John, North Dakota
Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
St. John, Washington
Saint John River, Maine and New Brunswick (Canada)
Knights of St. John
St. John Ambulance
York St John University
St. John (comic book publisher)
St John (restaurant), Smithfield, London
St. John (store), an upscale, luxury American fashion brand
St. John Catholic School, Toronto
John (disambiguation)
Saint John's (disambiguation)
St. John's Cathedral (disambiguation)
Saint John Cemetery (disambiguation)
St. John's Church (disambiguation)
Saint John's College (disambiguation)
Saint John Parish (disambiguation)
St. John's School (disambiguation)
Saint John's University (disambiguation)
Pelagianism is a theory named after Pelagius.
It is the belief that people are not born with original sin and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without Divine aid.
For this reason, Adam's sin was there to set a bad example for those that came after him; other than that it had no consequences.
Jesus was there to set a good example (much like Adam's bad example) but also to pay the price for our sins.
Pelagius believed that because people choose to sin, they are like criminals who need to be pardoned, not victims of an inherited sinful nature.
Pelagianism was condemned as heresy at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD.
However, some people believe that Pelagius was simply misunderstood.
Today there are no known Pelagians, but there are people who follow Celtic Christianity tradition, which respects Pelagius as a good example of Celtic Christian.
Canons From The Council Of Carthage Against Pelagianism, May 1, 418
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pelagius and Pelagianism
Pelagians, Donatists, Monks, Anabaptists and other Perfectionists  - a sympathetic look at Pelagianism and similar 'perfectionist' movements
Pelagius Library: Online site dedicated to the study of Pelagius
Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man  - a critical look at Pelagianism
Ancient Christianity‎
Goggles and safety glasses are thick, plastic glasses worn over the eyes to keep objects out of them.
Goggles are used to keep water out of the eyes when swimming.
They are also used for safety reasons when working with instruments that can be dangerous, like chemical or when things might fly into the eyes.
Special goggles are used for kinds of welding to protect the eyes from bright light.
is a Japanese fairy tale about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded with a visit to the Ryūgū-jō, the Dragon Palace.
There are many different versions of this story.
One day, a fisherman named Urashima Taro was fishing when he noticed a turtle, which appeared to be in trouble.
Taro saved the turtle and in return the turtle magically gave Taro gills and brought Taro to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō), deep underwater.
The turtle turned out to be the daughter of Ryūgū-jō, a lovely princess.
He stayed there with her for a few days, and received a mysterious box from her when he was leaving, which she told him never to open.
What he did not realize that time in the Dragon Palace moves an awful lot slower than on land and when he returned 700 years had passed.
When he got home he found that all of his family had died long ago.
In grief, he opened the box.
It revealed itself in a cloud of white smoke, it was his true age, and Urashima Taro aged and died.
Rip van Winkle
Urashima Taro  (in English)
A generator usually means a machine that makes electrical energy.
It has a generator head with wires, spinning inside a magnetic field.
The resulting electromagnetic induction makes electricity flow through the wires.
Hybrid electric vehicles carry a generator powerful enough to make them go.
The biggest generators don't go anywhere; they stay in power stations.
Different things can be used to make the generator head spin.
Some small ones are cranked by someone's arms or legs.
Bigger ones are connected to an engine.
The biggest ones use a steam turbine or hydroelectric water power.
Some use wind power.
Whatever makes it turn, the generator converts this energy into electrical energy.
Some portable generators have an internal combustion engine.
They are harmful when used indoors because they make carbon monoxide.
a rotor, which is the moving part of the generator
an axle
a magnet
a commutator, which is a switch that reverses the current
a power supply to start the generator
Glue, something that is used to make two objects stick together.
Cut, copy and paste in computing.
Paste (food), a type of Mexican food.
An inert gas is a gas that does not usually react chemically with other things.
Examples of inert gases are argon and helium.
Inert gases are made up of only one element is called a noble gas.
Inert gases can also be made of more than one element.
They can be gases of molecules or mixtures of gases of elements.
Inert gases are used in several ways.
A gas made from nitrogen is used to keep vegetables from spoiling when they are transported.
Other inert gases are used in welding.
They are put into gasoline tanks to help prevent explosions.
The inert gases are as follows:
Emperor Gaozu of Han (, 256 BC or 247 BC – 195 BC) was the founder of Han Dynasty.
He ruled China from 202 BC until 195 BC.
His name was Liu Bang and Ji was his courtesy name.
He was born in Yang Li City.
After defeating the great King, Xiang Yu, Emperor Gaozu of Han unified China and became the first emperor of Han Dynasty.
Emperor Weidi of Han, Gaozu's son, was the 2nd emperor of Han Dynasty.
One day, Liu Bang's mother slept near the river bank.
Suddenly, thick clouds darkened the sky and it thundered.
Liu Bang's father, Liu Tai Gong, felt it strange and he worried over his wife's safety.
He went to find his wife immediately.
When Liu Tai Gong arrived, he saw a dragon sleeping on her body.
After this incident, Liu Tai Gong's wife had a baby and Liu Bang was born soon!
According to the Records of the Grand Historian, Liu Bang looked like the dragon.
Also, there were 72 moles on his left leg.
People saw a dragon following Liu Bang all the time.
For the personality, Liu Bang was kind and he loved helping poor people.
He liked drinking wines with his friends as well.
Emperors of Han Dynasty
3rd-century BC births
190s BC deaths
The Unification Church is a religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s.
It officially began as a church in 1954 in Seoul, South Korea.
On October 12, 2009, it was announced that Sun Myung Moon was given the church to his sons, Moon Hyung-jin, Moon Kook-jin, and Moon Hyun-jin.
The Unification Church is a controversial organisation.
Some people say it is a cult.
For example, Sun Myung Moon's says he is the "Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord" and using a Senate office building for a coronation ceremony.
He also said that his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons".
Many countries have recognized the organisation as a  religion for legal purposes.
This means the Unification Church has to pay less taxes, or no taxes at all.
Some doubt the organization's religious origins.
Frederick Sontag, a professor of philosophy whose view of the church is no longer favorable studied the Unification Church for 11 months.
He concluded that "one thing is sure: the church has a genuine spiritual basis."
A German court  made a similar finding.
Abuse of money
Critics say the church  misused money.
They say the church made Moon rich.
The Moon family situation is described as one of "luxury and privilege" and as "lavish".
Nansook Hong lived with the Moon family for 14 years.
She describes the Unification Church as "a cash operation".
She also pointed out there have been questionable movements of money, for example: "The Japanese had no trouble bringing the cash into the United States; they would tell customs agents that they were in America to gamble at Atlantic City.
In addition, many businesses run by the church were cash operations, including several Japanese restaurants in New York City.
I saw deliveries of cash from church headquarters that went directly into the wall safe in Mrs. Moon's closet."
In the 1990s, thousands of Japanese elderly people claimed to have been defrauded of their life savings by Moon followers' spiritual sales .
Moon's church was the subject of the largest consumer fraud investigation in Japan's history in 1997 and number of subsequent court decisions  awarded hundreds of millions of yen in judgments, including 37.6 million yen ($300,000) to pay two women coerced into donating their assets to the Unification Church.
Recruitment and allegations of brainwashing
Moon dismissed these criticisms, stating in 1976 that he had received many thank-you letters from parents whose children became closer to them after joining the movement. (
In 1977, Moon had a notice posted in all Unification Churches in America, mandating that all members write to their families no less than once every 10 days.)
Moon and his wife were banned from entry into Germany and the other 14 Schengen treaty countries, on the grounds that they are leaders of a sect that endangered the personal and social development of young people.
The Netherlands and a few other Schengen states let Moon and his wife enter their countries in 2005.
In 2006 the German Supreme Court overturned the ban.
Critics of the Unification Church have accused the organization of being closely involved with covert CIA-authored operations against communism in Korea during the 1960s.
The Church is known to have been involved with weapon and munitions manufacturing in Korea since the 1960s, as documented in a 1978 United States Congressional Report on the Unification Church.
The explanation given by Korean Unification Church members is that all manufacturers seeking to do business in South Korea were required to supply the military.
Sun Myung Moon's controversial religious and political Unification Movement, which includes not only the Unification Church but an enormous constellation of civic organizations, including the Washington Times Foundation, is allied politically with evangelical Christians such  as Jerry Falwell and Tim LaHaye.
Advocates adhering to this point of view have challenged the church's tax-exempt status in the US, arguing that the political activities of church-related groups comprise an impermissible intrusion of the church into political areas.
Rev. Moon's infidelity
In her 1998 book In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family, Nansook Hong, ex-wife of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han's eldest son Hyo Jin Moon said that both Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han told her about Sun Myung Moon's extramarital affairs (which she said he called "providential affairs"), including one which resulted in the birth of a boy raised by a church leader, named by Sun Myung Moon's daughter Un Jin Moon on the news show 60 Minutes.
In 1993, Chung Hwa Pak released the book Roku Maria no Higeki (Tragedy of the Six Marys) through the Koyu Publishing Co. of Japan.
The book contained allegations that Moon conducted sex rituals amongst six married female disciples ("The Six Marys") who were to have prepared the way for the virgin who would marry Moon and become the True Mother.
Chung Hwa Pak had left the movement when the book was published and later withdrew the book from print when he rejoined the Unification Church.
Before his death Chung Hwa Pak published a second book, The Apostate, and recanted all allegations made in Roku Maria no Higeki.