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Hurricane Paka (international designation: 9728, JTWC designation: 05C, PAGASA designation: Rubing, also known as  Typhoon Paka) was the last tropical cyclone in the 1997 Pacific hurricane and typhoon season, and was among the strongest Pacific typhoons in the month of December.
Paka, which is the Hawaiian name for Pat, developed on November 28 from a trough well to the southwest of Hawaii.
The storm tracked generally westward for much of its duration, and on December 7 it crossed into the western Pacific Ocean.
Much of its track was characterized by fluctuations in intensity, and on December 10 the cyclone attained typhoon status as it crossed the Marshall Islands.
On December 16, Paka struck Guam and Rota with winds of 230 km/h (145 mph), and it strengthened further to reach peak winds on December 18 over open waters.
Subsequently, it underwent a steady weakening trend, and on December 23 Paka dissipated.
Typhoon Paka first impacted the Marshall Islands, where it dropped heavy rainfall and left $80 million in damage (1997 USD, $100 million 2007 USD).
Later, it passed just north of Guam, where strong winds destroyed about 1,500 buildings and damaged 10,000 more; 5,000 people were left homeless, and the island experienced a complete power outage following the typhoon.
Damage on the island totaled $500 million (1997 USD, $645 million 2007 USD), which warranted the retirement of its name.
Paka also caused light damage in the Northern Marianas Islands, and overall the storm caused no reported deaths.
Pacific typhoons
Pauline formed in the eastern Pacific on October 6.
It strengthened rapidly, reaching category four on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale on the next day.
After a brief period of weakening to a category three, it re-intensified back to a category four, moving roughly parallel to the Mexican coast.
Pauline then made landfall, slamming into Mexico.
Heavy rains and high winds caused damage as the storm skirted the coast.
There were 300-400 deaths, and heavy damage to Acalpulco.
The name was retired and replaced by Patricia for the 2003 Pacific hurricane season.
Hurricane Linda of 1997 was the strongest hurricane ever Recorded in the east Pacific, until Hurricane Patricia in 2015 with continued winds of 160 knots and gusting to 190 knots, and a central pressure of 902 mbar.
It was part of an abnormally active season for both the Eastern and Western Pacific Basins.
A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 24th.
It moved across the unfavorable Atlantic without development.
As it crossed Central America convection increased, and a poorly-defined center developed early on September 9th.
Banding and convection increased, and it became a tropical depression that night, 400 nautical miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico.
Tropical Depression 14-E continued northwestward, and became a tropical storm on the 10th.
Linda started to intensify more quickly, becoming a hurricane on the 11th 475 nautical miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California.
After 30 hours of rapidly intensifying, Linda reached her peak of 160 knots on the 12th, or around 185 M.P.H. winds.
That is an increase of 95 knots, and a drop of 85 millibars.
Linda moved directly over Socorro Island on the 12th as a Category 5 hurricane, but cooler waters weakened it greatly, dissipating it on the 17th.
Five people drowned in a jetty.
Floods caused 3 deaths and mudslides destroyed millions of homes and caused $68 million in damage.
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Hurricane Ioke (also Typhoon Ioke, international designation 0612, JTWC designation 01C also sometimes called Super Typhoon Ioke) is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Central Pacific.
The first storm to form in the Central Pacific in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season, Ioke is a long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the Pacific, reaching Category 5 status twice as a hurricane.
As a typhoon, Ioke managed to achieve Category 5-equivalent one-minute sustained winds one more time before weakening.
Ioke did not affect any permanently populated areas in the Central Pacific or Western Pacific basins as a hurricane or a typhoon, but the storm passed over Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane and Wake Island as a Category 5 typhoon.
Despite its strength, Ioke only caused moderate damage to Wake Island, and was not responsible for any fatalities.
The system began in the third week of August as a persistent tropical disturbance south of the Hawaiian Islands.
It was initially embedded in a trough, but gained convection and developed into a tropical depression about 775 miles south of Honolulu on August 19.
It continued to strengthen, and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center designated the system with the name Ioke (IPA /iːˈəʊ.keɪ/), which is Hawaiian for the name Joyce, becoming the first tropical storm to form in the Central Pacific since 2002.
Ioke quickly began to enter a process of rapid development; strengthening into a hurricane just 24 hours after it had formed.
While safely avoiding the Hawaiian Islands, it continued to rapidly intensify and became a major hurricane (Category 3 or greater) on the morning of August 21.
Later that day, Ioke intensified even further into a Category 4 hurricane.
On August 22, it began to weaken as a result of cooler water and eyewall replacement cycle, and was downgraded back to a Category 2.
As a Category 2 storm, Ioke affected Johnston Atoll.
The storm began to rapidly deepen again late on August 23 as it moved over increasingly warm water, reaching major hurricane status for the second time while moving to the west-northwest.
From there, conditions would become even more favorable for development.
Overnight between August 24 and August 25, Ioke strengthened rapidly, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the 25th - the first system originating from the Central Pacific to reach that intensity while still in the Western Hemisphere.
Ioke then began to travel over a large environment highly favorable for hurricane development, and would maintain its strength for an extended period of time.
Ioke also became the most intense hurricane ever to develop in the Central Pacific, with a central pressure of 921 mbar (27.19 inHg) at that point (which dropped to 920 mbar at its Central Pacific peak).
Ioke began to fluctuate in intensity afterward; weakened back to a Category 4 while undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, regaining Category 5 strength on August 26.
Ioke held that intensity until crossing the International Date Line that evening (August 27 after the crossover), becoming Typhoon Ioke in the process.
The storm weakened to Category 4 strength according to the JTWC, but by 2100 UTC on August 29, the JTWC advised that Ioke had regained Category 5 strength for the third time.
After maintaining Category 5 strength for 12 hours, Ioke weakened back to a Category 4 for the final time on August 30 while approaching Wake Island.
Ioke passed almost directly over the island on early September 1 and continued tracking to the west-northwest while slowly weakening over gradually cooling waters.
On September 3, under the influence of an approaching trough, the typhoon began to recurve to the northwest, then to the north and away from Japan, while weakening more rapidly.
Ioke  began to transition into an extratropical storm late on September 4 due to increased wind shear and rapidly cooling seas, and the JTWC issued its last advisory at 1200 UTC on September 5 after it was decided that Ioke had begun extratropical transition.
The JMA followed suit early on September 7 after Ioke had become completely extratropical east of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Ioke was the first Category 5 hurricane ever to form in the Central Pacific and reach that intensity while still in the Central Pacific.
It was also only the fifth Category 5 hurricane on record in the Central Pacific (the other four formed in the Eastern or Western Pacific), and the first one since Hurricane John in 1994.
Ioke was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Central Pacific with a recorded pressure at its peak of 920 mbar (27.179 inHg).
Ioke tied Hurricane Emilia of 1994 by reaching Category 5 status twice, both as hurricanes in the Northern Pacific east of the International Date Line.
Ioke would go on to restrengthen to a Category 5-equivalent typhoon.
Ioke spent longer at Category 4 and higher than any other Central or East Pacific hurricane with a total of 34 (31 consecutive) 6 hourly reports at that strength.
The previous record was held by Hurricane Paka with 27 (25 consecutive) 6 hourly reports.
Despite Ioke's extreme intensity and impacting two small land masses, damage was surprisingly moderate.
Little damage was done on Johnston Atoll, and damage to infrastructure on Wake Island was less than expected, despite Ioke's eyewall brushing the island.
Twelve people on a United States Air Force vessel in the Pacific were forced to abandon ship and take shelter in a hurricane-proof bunker on the island.
They were reported safe the next day, and a reconnaissance flight reported little damage on the island.
Due to Typhoon Ioke's projected path near Wake Island, all 188 people who live and work there were evacuated in two C-17 Globemaster IIIs to Oahu in Hawaii.
The typhoon's powerful winds, estimated to gust as high as 190 mph, damaged weather sensors on the island, causing them to fail after the instruments reported a 100 mph gust.
A reconnaissance mission by the Coast Guard indicated the typhoon caused moderate damage on the island, including blown off roofs, damaged sides of buildings, and downed trees.
However, the damage was repairable, and the major infrastructure on the island was intact.
Minami Torishima
Post-grunge is a music genre that is strongly influenced by grunge music, a genre that started in Seattle, Washington, United States in the mid-1980s.
However, it makes it into a more melodic and radio-friendly sound.
Not by a coincidence, it has become very popular on the radio.
Examples of post-grunge artists
Ayutthaya was the old capital of Thailand.
Its full name is ‘Phra-Na-Khon-Sri-A-Yud-Dha-Ya’.
Some people call it ‘Ayudya’.
This city was the capital for 417 years.
It is the longest Thai capital.
Ayudhaya is at the center of Thailand.
It was built at the meeting of the rivers Chao Phraya, Pa Sak and Lopburi.
It is like an island city.
This province is adjacent Lopburi, Angthong and Saraburi at the north, Pathumthani and Nonthaburi at the south, Sarhaburi at the east and Suphanburi at the west of Thailand.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province () or Khorat or Korat, is the biggest province and the second most populated province of Thailand.
Nakhon Ratchasima means ‘big province’.
It is in the eastern part of Thailand.
It is about 260 km from Bangkok.
It has forests, walking, education, rivers, sight seeing, foods, ancient cultures and tradition.
There are local handicrafts for sale.
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Nakhon Ratchasima shooting
Khorat
The Garuda (Sanskrit: Garuḍa गरुड, eagle; Pāli Garuḷa) is a large bird or bird- that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist history.
Garuda is also known by another name Vainateya, son of Vinata and Sri Kashyapa prajapathi.
Garuda is separately worshipped on the day of Garuda panchami, fifth day of lunar month after ashasa amavasya.
His brother Anura(Arun) is the charioteer of God Suryanarayana.
Garuda, a divine bird in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
Garuda Indonesia, an airline
Garud Commando Force, an elite special forces unit of the Indian Air Force.
The Garuda Valley (Kyunglung) south-west of Mount Kailash
Garuda Blend, a popular blend of coffee beans from Indonesia sold by Peet's Coffee
The Garuda 1 satellite
the comic book The Transmutation of Ike Garuda
Ike Garuda, the comic book's titular character
Garuda (Chouseishin), the Ultra-Star God of the Fire Tribe in Chouseishin Gransazer.
a summon and a server name on the popular MMORPG of Final Fantasy XI
a fictional race of humanoid avians appearing in the novel Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (see Races of Bas-Lag)
Garuda (film), a Thai giant monster film made in 2004
a flying mecha in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II
a flying mecha in the anime Zegapain
a masked professional wrestler, portrayed by Japanese Tomokazu Morita.
the name of a fighter in the Street Fighter EX series of games
a character in the manga series Genju no seiza by Matsuri Akino
the name of the fictional Emmerian Air Force 28th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
The name of the character played by actor Vic Morrow (General Garuda) in the 1978 Sci-Fi film entitled Message from Space
Scorpion, also King Scorpion or Scorpion II refers to the second of two kings so-named of Upper Egypt during the Protodynastic Period.
Scorpion's name was borrowed for the 2002 movie The Scorpion King.
William Golding's novel The Scorpion God is loosely based upon this period of Egyptian History.
A villain named Scorpion claims lineage with the king in the 1997 movie Legend of the Lost Tomb.
Predynastic Pharaohs
Ka, also Sekhem Ka, was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt.
He ruled over Abydos in the late 32nd or early 31st century BC and was buried at Umm el-Qa'ab.
He most likely was the immediate successor to Iry-Hor and was succeeded by Narmer.
He is the earliest known Egyptian king with a serekh, inscribed on a number of artefacts.
Iry-Hor or Ro (as read by Petrie) was a Predynastic pharaoh of ancient Egypt, although some archaeologists are doubtful of his existence.
He was most likely Ka's immediate predecessor.
He ruled over Abydos and was buried in its local cemetery at Umm el-Qa'ab near Ka, Narmer and the First Dynasty kings.
King Iry-Hor
Wazner, also Wazenez or Wadjenedj, was a Predynastic Egyptian king who ruled in the Nile Delta.
He is mentioned in the Palermo Stone inscriptions among a small number of kings of Lower Egypt.
Hsekiu, also Seka, was a Predynastic ancient Egyptian king who ruled in the Nile Delta.
He is mentioned in the Palermo Stone inscriptions among a small number of kings of Lower Egypt
Tiu, also Teyew etc.,
was a ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled in the Nile Delta.
He ruled in the Predynastic period in ancient Egyptian history.
Tiu is mentioned in the Palermo Stone inscriptions, along with a small number of kings of Lower Egypt.
Nothing else is known of his life or what he did while he was Pharaoh.
Scorpion I was a king of  Upper Egypt during the Predynastic Period, or the period before egypt was united.
His name may refer to the scorpion goddess Serket.
He is believed to have ruled in Thinis one or two centuries before the rule of the better known King Scorpion II.
To him belongs the U-j tomb found in the royal cemetery of Abydos where Thinite kings were buried.
In contemporary fiction
William Golding's novel The Scorpion God is loosely based upon this period of Egyptian history.
The 2001 adventure film The Mummy Returns features a fictionalized account of the "Scorpion King" of Egypt, a character who went on to have his own spin-off in the 2002 film, The Scorpion King.
Thesh, or Tjesh, Tesh etc.,
was a Predynastic ancient Egyptian king who ruled in the Nile Delta.
Ford Cortina was a car produced by Ford Motor Company from 1962 to 1982.
It was named after the Italian ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo.
From 1970 onwards, it was almost identical to Ford Taunus.
It was a very popular and common car in the UK during its time.
It was still selling well by the time the Sierra replaced it in 1982, but stocks of the Cortina continued for a while afterwards.
In computer science, a closure is a function that has an environment of its own.
In this environment, there is at least one bound variable (a name that has a value, such as a number).
The closure's environment keeps the bound variables in memory between uses of the closure.
Peter J. Landin gave this idea the name closure in 1964.
The Scheme programming language made closures popular after 1975.
Many programming languages made after that time have closures.
Anonymous functions (functions with no name) are sometimes wrongly called closures.
Most languages that have anonymous functions also have closures.
An anonymous function is also a closure if it has an environment of its own with at least one bound variable.
An anonymous function with no environment of its own is not a closure.
A named closure is not anonymous.
Closures and first-class functions
Values may be numbers or some other type of data, such as letters, or data structures made up of simpler parts.
In the rules of a programming language, the first-class values are values that can be given to functions, returned by functions, and bound to a variable name.
Functions that take or return other functions are called higher-order functions.
Most languages that have functions as first-class values also have higher-order functions and closures.
(lambda (book) (>= (book-sales book) threshold))
In this example, the lambda expression (lambda (book) (>= (book-sales book) threshold)) is part of the function best-selling-books.
When the function is run, Scheme must make the value of the lambda.
It does this by making a closure with the code for the lambda and a reference to the threshold variable, which is a free variable inside the lambda. (
A free variable is a name that is not bound to a value.)
The filter function then runs the closure on each book in the list to pick which books to return.
Because the closure itself has a reference to threshold, the closure can use that value each time filter runs the closure.
The function filter itself might be written in a completely separate file.
Here is the same example rewritten in ECMAScript (JavaScript), another popular language with support for closures:
function(book) { return book.sales >= threshold; }
ECMAScript uses the word function here instead of lambda, and the Array.filter method  in place of the filter function, but otherwise the code does the same thing in the same way.
A function may create a closure and return it.
The following example is a function that returns a function.
; Return a function that approximates the derivative of f
; using an interval of dx, which should be appropriately small.
(define (derivative f dx)
(lambda (x) (/ (- (f (+ x dx)) (f x)) dx)))
return function(x) {
The closure environment keeps the bound variables f and dx after the enclosing function (derivative) returns.
In languages without closures, these values would be lost after the enclosing function returns.
In languages with closures, a bound variable must be kept in memory as long as any closure has it.
A closure need not be formed using an anonymous function.
The Python programming language, for example, has limited support for anonymous functions but does have closures.
For example, one way the above ECMAScript example could be implemented in Python is:
# Return a function that approximates the derivative of f
# using an interval of dx, which should be appropriately small.
def gradient(x):
return gradient
In this example, the function named gradient makes a closure together with the variables f and dx.
The outer enclosing function named derivative returns this closure.
In this case, an anonymous function would work also.def derivative(f, dx):
return lambda x: (f(x + dx) - f(x)) / dxPython must often use named functions instead because its lambda expressions may only contain other expressions (code that returns a value) and not statements (code that has effects but no value).
But in other languages, such as Scheme, all code returns a value; in Scheme, everything is an expression.
Uses of closures
Designers of software libraries can allow users to customize behavior by passing closures as arguments to important functions.
For example, a function that sorts values can accept a closure argument that compares the values to be sorted according to a user-defined criterion.
Because closures delay evaluation–i.e., they do not "do" anything until they are called–they can be used to define control structures.
For example, all Smalltalk's standard control structures, including branches (if/then/else) and loops (while and for), are defined using objects whose methods accept closures.
Users can easily define their own control structures as well.
Multiple functions can be produced which close over the same environment, enabling them to communicate privately by altering that environment (in languages that allow assignment).
(set!
foo (lambda (msg) (set!
secret-message msg)))
bar (lambda () secret-message)))
Closures can be used to implement object systems.
Pakistan's principal natural resources are arable land and water.
About 25% of Pakistan's total land area is under cultivation and is watered by one of the largest irrigation systems in the world.
Agriculture accounts for about 23% of GDP and employs about 44% of the labor force.
Pakistan is one of the world's largest producers and suppliers of the following according to the 2005 Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations and FAOSTAT given here with ranking:
Chickpea (2nd)
Apricot (4th)
Cotton (4th)
Sugarcane (4th) (National Juice of Pakistan)
Milk (5th)
Onion (5th)
Date Palm (6th)
Mango (7th) (National fruit of Pakistan)
Tangerines, mandarin orange, clementine (8th)
Rice (8th)
Wheat (9th)
Oranges (10th)
Pakistan ranks fifth in the Muslim world and twentieth worldwide in farm output.
It is the world's fifth largest milk producer.
Agriculture has also been the main source of population growth in Pakistan.
Gwadar Bay is near the maritime border of Pakistan and Iran.
The name is from Persian, Khalij-e Gavader or 'Gulf of Gwadar' on Arabian Sea.
It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran–Pakistan border.
It is about 20 miles (32 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
The Dashtiari River flows into it from the northwest, and the Dasht River from the northeast.
The town of Gwadar, Pakistan, is on the Arabian Sea coast about 30 miles (48 km) east of Gwadar Bay.
Huntly () is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie.
It has a population 4,460   2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle.
Huntly was the home town of the writer George MacDonald.
Some of his novels, especially the Robert Falconer and Alec Forbes of Howglen play partly in Huntly, even if the name of the town is changed.
So they give a rather good introduction to the life in Huntly in the 19th century.
Huntly website.
Huntly at Undiscovered Scotland
Clerkhill is an area of the town of Peterhead in north east Scotland.
Surrounded by the areas of Meethill, Dales Park and Coplandhill, it is one of the smaller areas of the town.
Ellon is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 16 miles north of Aberdeen, lying on the River Ythan (pronounced eye-than) which has one of the few undeveloped river estuaries on the eastern coast of Scotland.
Famous people from Ellon
Paul Sturrock, footballer
Teddy Scott, footballer, coach and kit man for Aberdeen
Evelyn Glennie, percussionist
Ellon Tourism Group website
Ellon AAC Website
Ellon Academy website
Ellon Webcam, local picture galleries and historic info
Fraserburgh (Scots: The Broch) (Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhruaich) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland with a population recorded in the 2001 Census at 12,454.
It lies at the northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, around  north of Aberdeen, and  north of Peterhead.
It is the largest shellfish port in Europe and a major white fish port and busy commercial harbour.
UK Constituency: Banff and Buchan — Alex Salmond, SNP, (1987–), Party leader (1990–2000, 2004–), First Minister of Scotland (2007-)
Scottish Parliament Constituency: Banff and Buchan — Stewart Stevenson, SNP, (2001–) Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change (2007-)
Aberdeenshire Council Ward: Fraserburgh and District - 3 SNP councillors and 1 independent councillor.
Fraserburgh golf club is the fifth oldest club in Scotland and seventh oldest in the world.
It has both an 18 hole and a 9 hole course, and a modern clubhouse.
Fraserburgh Football Club is a senior football club that plays in the Highland League.
Fraserburgh United FC is a junior football club that plays in the Scottish Junior Football North Premier League (also known as the North Superleague).
George Bruce (1909-2002): Poet of the Scottish literary renaissance
Bill Gibb (1943-): born in Fraserburgh; became international fashion designer
Steve Fairnie (1951-1993) : Fraserburgh born musician, painter, sculptor, actor, board game designer, chicken hypnotist, frontman of the post-punk band Writz and half of the Techno Twins.
Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911): born in Fraserburgh, where his father worked for the coastguard, moved to Japan and founded Mitsubishi Company.
Known as the Scottish Samuri.
He has a local chip shop named after him.
Robertson Macaulay (1833-1915): one time president of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada).
Dennis Nilsen (1945–): Serial killer; born at Academy Road, Fraserburgh.
James Ramsay (1733–89): born in Fraserburgh; anti-slavery campaigner.
Sir George Strahan (1838–87): born in Fraserburgh; British colonial governor.
Joseph Watt (1887-1955): Gardenstown born; recipient of the Victoria Cross 15th May, 1917
Stan Williams (1940-): Liverpool born but lived in Fraserburgh since 1975; author of 'PENNY LANE is in My Ears and in My Eyes' about growing up with The Beatles
Bressuire, France
Fraserburgh: Scotland's Leading Light
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
Banff and Buchan College
Cairness House
Buchan hillwalking club
Web Historian's pages on the fishing villages of the North East
Rosehearty (Gaelic: Ros Abhartaich), Rizarty in the local dialect, is a village in Scotland.
It is on the Moray Firth coast, four miles west of the town Fraserburgh, in the county of Aberdeenshire.
The burgh has about 1,300 people, with about 25 per cent of pensionable age.
There are two shops and three hotels in the village.
Rosehearty Golf Course
Stonehaven (Steenhive in the Doric dialect of Scots) and Cala na Creige in Gaelic is a town with around fourteen thousand inhabitants (9,577 in the 2001 census) on the northeast coast of Scotland.
It is the county town of the historic county of Kincardineshire or The Mearns and the present day county of Aberdeenshire.
It grew around an Iron Age fishing village, now the "Auld Toon" ("old town"), and expanded inland from the Seaside.
As late as the 16th century, old maps indicate the town was called Stonehyve or Stonehive.
The novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) attended school at what was the old Mackie Academy (now Arduthie Primary).
Mackie Academy now serves over 1000 pupils and they study his work.
Undiscovered Scotland Dunnottar Castle
Stonehaven Online Directory
Turriff is a town and parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It is approximately 166 feet above sea level.
It is known locally as Turra in the Doric dialect of Scots.
The name appears to be Scottish Gaelic in origin, from "torr" meaning a mound or round hill, or "tur" meaning a tower.
Early in 1639, the Marquis of Huntly assembled his forces here, and thereafter went to Kintore in lower Aberdeenshire, eventually marching from there to Aberdeen itself.
The Marquis — being informed shortly after his arrival in Aberdeen that a meeting of Covenanters was to be held in Turriff on the fourteenth of February — resolved to disperse them, by occupying the town with 2000 men.
The incident was known as the "First raid of Turray".
The Turriff and District Tourism Action Group
Danko Jones is a three-piece hard rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The band consists of Danko Jones (vocals/guitar), JC (also known as John Calabrese) (bass guitar), and Dan Cornelius (drums).
Abercrombie & Fitch () (A&F) is an American clothing retailer sold as a lifestyle brand.
The company has four brands: the Abercrombie & Fitch brand, abercrombie kids, Hollister Co., and Gilly Hicks.
The company also had another brand called RUEHL No.925 which closed in January 2010.
Stores operate in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Denmark, and Japan.
It was created by David Abercrombie and Ezra H. Fitch.
Abercrombie & Fitch was created in 1892.
In this year, David Abercrombie opened the first store in New York City.
This article is about the village in Scotland.
For other things with the name Abercrombie, please see Abercrombie.
Abercrombie (Gaelic: Obar Chrombaidh) is a small village in Fife, Scotland.
It is around 1 mile north of the village of St Monans, and 10 miles south of the town of St Andrews.
Abercrombie was the former name of the parish (church district) of St Monans, although both Abercrombie and St Monans had churches.
Villages in Fife
Jamestown is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland.
The A90 road and the Fife Circle Line are two modes of transport in Jamestown.
The nearest ferry is from Rosyth, and goes to Zeebrugge.
Edinburgh Airport is the nearest airport.
Bargeddie () is a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, east of the junction of the M73 and M8 motorways,  west of Coatbridge town centre.
A location in the same area is named in Timothy Pont's map of 1595, but it appears to be originally spelt as Balgedy.
She was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 (one of Vostok rocket) on 16 June 1963.
She and four others were chosen out of more than 400 other women to fly in space.
Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He grew up in Mooresville, Indiana.
His first robbery occurred in Mooresville in 1924.
He went to prison until 1933.
Later, he helped some convicts escape, and formed a gang of robbers with them.
Criminal career
In 1934, Dillinger was accused of killing a policeman.
He was transported from Arizona to Indiana.
He escaped from jail.
His flight across state lines in a stolen vehicle made him a fugitive from the FBI.
He formed a gang and robbed banks.
He had several gun battles with the men of the FBI.
By the middle of 1934, he had robbed 10 banks in four midwestern states.
Dillinger was hiding in Chicago, Illinois, when he was betrayed by the madame of a brothel named Anna Sage.
She accompanied him to the Biograph Theater wearing a red dress.
This was done so the police could easily see her.
Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI as he left the movie theater.
Dillinger had chosen to see the Clark Gable gangster movie, Manhattan Melodrama.
Anna Sage became known as "The Lady in Red".
Film depictions
Humphrey Bogart's played the gang leader Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, {1936} a character based on Dillinger.
Lawrence Tierney starred in the first film dramatization of Dillinger's career; Dillinger (1945).
In a parody of Dillinger's escape with a phony gun, Woody Allen tries the same stunt [and fails} in his 1971 movie, Take the Money and Run.
Warren Oates's 1973's  Dillinger.
Another  dramatization version of the Dillinger gang comparable to the 1969 movie  "Bonnie and Clyde"
A TV movie Dillinger was released in 1991, starring Mark Harmon.
Director Michael Mann's 2009 film Public Enemies, is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43 and features Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Criminals from Indiana
SEAT Arosa was a car produced by SEAT from 1997 through 2014 with a facelift in 2001.
It is a badge-engineered version of the Volkswagen Lupo and Škoda Lupo.
Its successor appeared in 2012 as the Seat Mii.
Skoda Lupo
1.0 37 kW (50 hp)
1.4 44 kW (60 hp)
1.4 16V 74 kW (101 hp)
1.9 L F9Q1 TDI I4
1.4 TDI 55 kW (75 hp)
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SEAT Ibiza is a car produced by SEAT since 1984.
It is currently in its Fifth Generation.
The first generation appeared in 1984 while the second generation was the first based on the Volkswagen Polo and arrived in 1993 while it got a facelift in both 1996 and 1999.
It entered its third generation in 2002 while the fourth generation appeared in 2008.
The current fifth generation arrived in 2017 which is now 5-door only and there's also a small crossover model based on it called the Arona.
The restyled version of the fifth generation of the Ibiza is presented in April 2021.
Commedia dell'arte is a form of improvisational theatre that began in Italy in the 16th century.
It continued to be popular during the 17th century and is still popular today.
The title is difficult to translate.
A close translation is “comedy of craft”.
This is shortened from commedia dell’arte all’improvviso, or “comedy of improvisation”.
The plays of Commedia dell'arte were often performed by a small group of actors who traveled around and performed in town squares.
The actors would pass a hat around for people to put money in.
The earliest known company was in Padua in 1545.
By the turn of the seventeenth century there were several troupes (group of actors) such as the Gelosi, Confidenti, and Fedeli.
Some troupes were popular at foreign courts, especially in France, where images from the commedia became a favorite theme of well-known artists.
The actors often wore masks.
The stories were often about people being cunning.
Hunger, love and money were important in the stories.
There were several characters who often appeared in lots of the stories.
These are called "stock characters".
Examples of stock characters from Commedia dell'arte are: Harlequin, Pantalone, Arlecchino, Colombina, Pulcinella, Pierrot, Scaramuccia.
Commedia dell'arte had a lot of influence on theatre plays in many countries.
Punch and Judy shows, popular with children in Britain and other countries, are similar to Commedia dell'arte.
They also have stock characters: Punch, Judy, the crocodile, the policeman etc.
Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It is  north of Aberdeen and  south of Peterhead.
Sea cliffs rise to , south of the village: a coastal path leads along these to the Bullers of Buchan.
- Boddam Community Website
- Buchan Ness Lighthouse (Northern Lighthouse Board website)
- Official Tourist Web Site
- Peterhead Area Business Directory
Blackburn is a rapidly growing commuter town in Aberdeenshire just northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland.
It has an industrial estate.
Banff (Gaelic Banbh) and Macduff (Gaelic MacDhuibh) are neighbouring towns on Banff Bay, both of which are former burghs in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Until 1975 Banff was the county town of Banffshire.
Duff House Royal Golf course is bordered by the River Deveron and Duff House.
Some interesting holes which can be difficult depending on the wind.
Macduff also has a golf course known as Royal Tarlair.
Built on land which ends on precipitous cliffs, lost balls really are lost.
The name "Banff" is uncertain but may be derived from the Scottish Gaelic Banbh or Banbha, a sow, buinne, a stream, or a contraction of Bean-naomh, the holy woman (as is reflected in the town's coat-of-arms).
Currently, the languages spoken in the town and in its vicinity tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
Sandi Thom
Colin Newton
COAST festival
On Flikr photos of 600th Anniversary Celebrations
On Flikr photos of BB's Festival of Britain 1951
On Flikr photos of 1 Photos of Banff, Macduff and Surrounding Area
Banchory (Scottish Gaelic: Beannchar, 'blessed place') is a burgh or town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, lying approximately 18 miles west of Aberdeen, near where the Feugh River meets the River Dee.
Banchory Air Training Corps
Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan
Visit Banchory - Gateway to Royal Deeside
Banchory Community Website
Official Burnett Worldwide Website
Banchory Ternan East Parish Church
Laurencekirk is a small town in the ancient county of Kincardineshire, modern county of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road.
It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns area and houses the local secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was awarded the Charter Mark in 2003.
The 2004 population is estimated at 3,596.
Inverurie is a Royal Burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 16 miles north west of Aberdeen on the A96 road and lies on the Northern Express Railway Route from Aberdeen to Inverness.
The nearest airport is Aberdeen International Airport at Dyce.
Inverurie Loco Works F.C., playing their matches at Harlaw Park, are the local Highland League football team and Aberdeen F.C. is the nearest Scottish Premier League team.
Rugby Union is played by the Garioch Rugby Football Club.
The Inverbervie name derives from Inbhir Beirbhe, meaning Mouth of the River Bervie in Scottish Gaelic.
John Arbuthnot, mathematician, physician, satirist and polymath
Hercules Linton, designer of the Cutty Sark clipper ship
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author, lived in nearby Arbuthnott
Insch is a town in Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It is about  from the city of Aberdeen.
Auchleven and Premnay are villages associated with Insch.
Insch Community Website
Insch Golf Club
Loch Insch Fishery
Insch Primary School
Portsoy (Gaelic: Port Saoidh) is a burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly in the county of Banffshire.
its local jewellery made from "Portsoy marble" (which is not marble, but rather serpentine)
its locally milled oatmeal which is sold around the world
its annual small boat festival.
its two historical harbours
Peterhead is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It is Aberdeenshire's largest settlement, having a population of 17,947 at the 2001 Census.
Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in mainland Scotland.
Peterhead is often referred to as 'The Blue Toon' and people who were born there as Blue Tooners.
More correctly they are called Bloomogganners, supposedly from the blue worsted stockings that the fishermen originally wore.
Peterhead's Official Website
The unofficial guide to Peterhead
Photographs and forum live webcams showing life in a rural garden
Peterhead News Site
Local Authority Covering Peterhead Area
Maud (Gaelic: Am Mòd) is a small town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire.
Population 610 (2004).
Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads.
It has had a variety of names:
Bank of Behitch
Brucklay
New Maud
Kintore (Gaelic: Ceann Tòrr) is a town and former royal burgh near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, now bypassed by the A96 road between Aberdeen and Inverness.
The name Kintore comes from the Gaelic, Ceann-an-torr.
Ceann means the head, or the end, and Torr means a round hill.
So the name signifies that the town was at the head or end of a round hill.
Kemnay (Gaelic: Ceann a' Mhuigh) is a village 16 miles west of Aberdeen in Scotland.
It has a population of about 7040 (2007).
Aberdeenshire Cricket Association
Kemnay Village Community Web
Kemnay Academy
Portlethen is a town 7 mi south of Aberdeen, Scotland along the A90.
It has expanded rapidly over the last 30 years.
Portlethen has a population of about 7000, and more than 800 houses are, as of 2007, were being built on nearby farmland.
To the east of Portlethen lie three fishing villages: Findon, Downies and Old Portlethen (now often referred to as Portlethen Village).
Although Portlethen is a town in terms of population (and it has been granted official town status), it resembles a residential suburb without a clear 'town centre' or focal point.
A lisp is a speech problem, linked to the misarticulation of 's'-sounds.
This results in unclear speech.
In many languages, these sounds are difficult to pronounce.
There is a difference between lisping children who are in the process of learning to speak, and lisping adults.
In many cases, lisping is easy to treat using specialized therapy.
Some characters (especially in cartoons) lisp for a comic effect.
BonziBuddy (styled as BonziBUDDY) was a freeware program from BONZI Software.
The software was available from 1999 to 2004.
It is based on the Microsoft Agent technology.
The program is no longer available because it contained a lot of adware, malware, and spyware.
Most antivirus software picked up the software as Adware.
The user would right click on the character and a menu would come up with different things that the character could do.
It could tell jokes, facts, sing songs, download files and keep people on schedule with a calendar.
Most things required the purchase of add-ons which would add extra jokes, facts and songs.
There were also game add-ons and a speech recognition add-on which was called the 'Talking Add-on Module'.
The program itself was advertised as an Internet Companion.
The official website stayed open until 2008 and then it was no longer working.
BonziBUDDY can still be downloaded by uploads from fans.
For the first version, they used a green bird called Peedy that was created by Microsoft.
In 2001, the company made their own character.
They called it Bonzi.
The character was a purple gorilla.
When the program launched, the gorilla would surf onto their screen on a yellow surf board.
In later versions, they changed Bonzi's entrance from a surf board to a jungle vine.
Virus issues
BonziBUDDY had a lot of spyware.
It would bring out random advertisements, set the homepage to www.bonzi.com and slow down the computer.
It was also rated 6th at PCWorld's annoying spyware products.
It would also collect personal information about what people do on their computer and that was a legal issue about this software.
The Kansas Koyotes are a professional indoor football team based out of Topeka, Kansas.
The Koyotes compete in the American Professional Football League (APFL).
They began play in 2003.
The novel is about an American football player who can no longer get work in the National Football League.
His agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy.
The quarterback's move to a small city in a foreign land leads to a series of cultural misadventures.
Panthers.it Official Site
Share The Dream with Grisham Official Site
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck.
The book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is often read in American high school and college classes.
The title of the novel is from Book of Revelation 14:19.
The book is about the Joads, a family of farmers.
It takes place during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Because of drought and changes in the agriculture industry, the Joads are forced to move from their old home to California's Central Valley to find work and land.
The book talks about the problems they face on the way, as they drive through the Dust Bowl to get to California.
It also talks about the poverty, discrimination, exploitation and other problems they face once they get to California.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl.
This story of the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka is often considered one of the most beloved children's stories of the 20th century.
It has been made into a movie twice.
Only five children were to win a golden ticket and to be allowed inside the Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Those who won the lottery would get a magical tour and see all the mysterious machinery in the factory where the world's most wonderful sweets are made.
The lucky five were the greedy Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, the smart-alecky Mike Teavee and the poor Charlie Bucket.
One by one, the children break Wonka's rules by acting on a vice they possess, with Charlie ending up a hero of the story.
The movie teaches about sins and virtues.
The main characters
Willy Wonka: Wonka is the owner of the chocolate factory
Charlie Bucket: Charlie is the main character in the story.
He enters a competition run by Wonka.
Grandpa Joe: Charlie's grandfather
The other children
Augustus Gloop: Gloop is a greedy boy, who is the first child to be sent away.
He was not careful when he was drinking the Chocolate River.
He fell into the in it as was sent to be made into strawberry-coated fudge.
Veruca Salt: Salt is a girl who likes to get everything that she wants.
She goes to the nut room and is found to be a "bad nut”.
She is sent to the furnace.
Violet Beauregarde: Beauregarde is a girl who is always chewing gum.
She tries Wonka's everlasting gum.
She grows bigger and bigger and ends up becoming a giant blueberry.
Mike Teavee: Teavee is a boy who is likes to always watch television.
He is shrunk by the Television Chocolate.
Oompa-Loompas: Midgets who work in the Factory.
They are about  high   and they have strange hair cuts.
They are paid in cacao beans.
They come from Loompaland, which is a region of Loompa.
Loompa is a small island in the Pacific Ocean.
When the book was written, it said that they came from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before", but this was changed (see Problems section).
They are the only people that Wonka trusts to work in the factory.
When any of the children are taken away, the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about them.
Mr. Slugworth: In the book, Slugworth is a chololate maker who is one of Wonka's rivals.
In the 1971 movie, Slugworth is finally shown to be one of Wonka's workers who has been testing the children's loyalty.
Prince Pondicherry: Wonka made a chocolate palace for the Prince.
It melted in the sun.
In early editions of the book, the Oompa-Loompas are described as African pygmies.
This caused controversy and criticism.
In later editions of the book, they have white skin and golden hair. (
In the 1971 movie, they have orange skin).
Official Roald Dahl Website
The Willy Wonka Candy Company
1964 books
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 American comedy movie starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover and Mia Farrow.
The movie's name is from a phrase commonly displayed on VHS rental tapes.
It is set in Passaic, New Jersey.
Jack Black as Jerry
Mos Def as Mike
Danny Glover as Mr. Fletcher
Mia Farrow as Miss Falewicz
Melonie Diaz as Alma
Arjay Smith as Manny
Paul Dinello as Mr. Rooney (court bailiff #1)
Sigourney Weaver as Ms. Lawson (court bailiff #2)
The Internet (Sweded) Movie Data Base  at swededmovies.org
Collection of fan 'swedes'  at SwededFilms.com
Jack Black Be Kind Rewind Interview
Movies directed by Michel Gondry
The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, also called the College of LS&A (or simply LS&A), is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Started in 1841 with seven students and two teachers, the college is now the largest part at U-M in terms of the number of students.
It is located on the university's Central Campus, which is shared with the Ross School of Business, the School of Information, the UM Law School, and other units.
1840s establishments in Michigan
Upper Largo or Kirkton of Largo is a small town in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on 10 January 1953) is a four-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer with seven platinum and three gold albums to her credit, as well as 19 Top 40 singles.
Pat Benatar was eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, she was nominated in 2020 and was not elected and will be nominated again in 2022.
Pat Benatar Pictures
Eurythmics were a pop music band from England.
Its two members were Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
Their most famous song is "Sweet Dreams".
Some of their other songs are "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Love Is a Stranger" and "Missionary Man".
The Eurythmics formed in London in 1980 and broke up in 1990.
They recorded eight albums during that time.
Eurythmics got back together in 1999 and made a ninth album.
Then they released a greatest hits album and split again in 2005.
In the Garden (1981)
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (1983)
Touch (1983)
For the Love of Big Brother (1984)
Be Yourself Tonight (1985)
Revenge (1986)
Savage (1987)
We Too Are One (1989)
Peace (1999)
2005 disestablishments in England
Abingdon, Queensland, a place in Northern Queensland
Abingdon, Ontario
Abingdon, Iowa
Abingdon, Maryland
Abingdon, North Carolina
Abingdon, South Carolina
Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, 133 miles (214 km) southwest of Roanoke.
1776 establishments in the United States
Bill Clinton, a former President of the United States
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary
DeWitt Clinton, politician and mayor of New York
George Clinton, former Vice President of the United States
George Clinton, Musician
Sir Henry Clinton, British army general
Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, wife of Bill Clinton, and 2016 presidential candidate
Clinton County (disambiguation)