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She is said to have died giving birth to one of her children {who Izanagi killed due to the grief of losing his beloved} and was sent to Yomi, the land of the dead.
Izanagi, her husband, came down to Yomi to bring her back to earth.
While she Izanami was in Yomi, she felt hungry and ate the fruit.
After eating the fruit, she turned into one of the undead, a rotting, maggot-infested pile of flesh.
When Izanagi arrived, she would not step out from the shadows and told her husband to go back to earth.
Izanagi tried to persuade her to come back with him and she agreed if she could take a rest in her bedchambers, forbidding Izanagi to enter.
Izanagi, anxious to return to earth, snuck into her chambers and, taking his comb from his hair, lit it on fire, showing him her rotting body.
Izanami woke up and seeing him, became enraged.
Izanagi fled from the underworld and sealed the way with a giant rock.
Izanami then became known as the Shinigami, the goddess of death.
Izanami vowed to kill 1,000 people everyday, and Izanagi vowed to create 1500 every day.
In computer engineering, computer architecture is the conceptual design and fundamental operational structure of a computer system.
It is the technical drawings and functional description of all design requirements (especially speeds and interconnections), it is how to design and implement various parts of a computer — focusing largely on the way by which the central processing unit (CPU) operates internally and how it accesses addresses in memory.
Instruction set architecture, or ISA, is the abstract model of a computing system that is seen by a machine language (or assembly language) programmer, including the instruction set, memory address modes, processor registers, and address and data formats.
Microarchitecture, also known as Computer organization is a lower level, a detailed description of the system that is sufficient for completely describing the operation of all parts of the computing system, and how they are inter-connected and inter-operate in order to implement the ISA.
The size of a computer's cache for instance, is an organizational issue that generally has nothing to do with the ISA.
System Design which includes all of the other hardware components within a computing system such as:
System interconnects such as computer buses and switches.
Memory controllers and hierarchies.
CPU off-load mechanisms such as direct memory access.
Issues like multi-processing.
Once both ISA and microarchitecture has been specified, the actual computing system needs to be designed into hardware.
This design process is called implementation.
Implementation is usually a hardware engineering design process.
Logic Implementation: Design of blocks defined in the microarchitecture, mainly, at the register-transfer and gate levels.
Circuit Implementation: Transistor-level design of basic elements (gates, multiplexers, flip-flops, etc.)
as well as of some larger blocks (ALUs, caches etc.)
that may be implemented at this level, or even at a lower physical level, for performance reasons.
Physical Implementation: Physical circuits are drawn out, the different circuit components are placed in a chip floor-plan or on a board and the wires connecting them are routed.
More sub-definitions
Macroarchitecture: Architectural layers that are more abstract than microarchitecture, for example ISA.
Instruction Set Architecture (ISA): As defined above.
UISA (Microcode Instruction Set Architecture): A family of machines with different hardware level microarchitectures may share a common microcode architecture, and hence called a UISA.
Assembly ISA: A smart assembler may convert an abstract assembly language common to a group of CPUs into slightly different machine language for different CPU implementations.
Programmer Visible Macroarchitecture: Higher level language tools such as compilers may define a definite interface to programmers using them, abstracting differences between underlying ISA, UISA, and microarchitectures; for example the C, C++, or Java standards define three different definite programming interfaces.
Pin Architecture: The set of functions that a microprocessor is expected to provide, from the point of view of a hardware platform.
For example, signals that the processor is expected to emit during executing an instruction.
Examples of computer architectures
The x86, made by Intel and AMD.
The SPARC, made by Sun Microsystems and others.
The PowerPC, made by Apple, IBM, and Motorola.
ISCA: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Micro: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
HPCA: International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
ASPLOS: International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Microprocessor Report
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/arch/www/people.html
ESCAPE  - an easy-to-use, interactive portable PC-based simulation environment aimed at the support of computer architecture education
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/System_Design.asp  - This approach allows beginners to easily break and design complex software systems.
Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Computer Architecture
The von Neumann Architecture of Computer Systems
Mary Scott Harrison McKee (April 3, 1858 – October 28, 1930) was the only daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline Scott Harrison.
After her mother died in 1892, McKee served as her father's First Lady for the remainder of his term.
Zella-Mehlis is a town in the Schmalkalden Meinigen district, in Thuringia, Germany.
It is in the Thuringian Forest,  north of Suhl, and  east of Meiningen.
Schmalkalden-Meiningen Rural District
Port Said has fishing and industries, like chemicals, processed food, and cigarettes.
Port Said is also an important harbour both for exports of Egyptian products like cotton and rice, but also a fuelling station for ships that pass through the Suez Canal.
PortSaid Free-zone Forums
PortSaid-Online,Port Said's Largest Community - All about Port Said
Satellite picture by Google Maps
Food processing means the ways that are used to change raw ingredients into food so that they can be eaten by humans or animals.
The food processing industry uses these processes.
Food processing often takes clean, harvested or slaughtered and butchered components and uses these to produce attractive and marketable food products.
Similar process are used to produce animal feed.
Cannery
Industrial rendering
Meat packing plant
Sugar industry
Vegetable packing plant
Food processing Faraday
Foodprocessing Informational Website
Hyfoma Food processing and manufacturing knowledge Portal
Institute of Food Technologists
How to choose a food processor
Food Processor Review
Food Processor Recipes
Food Processing Technology
U.S. association of suppliers to the global food, beverage and pharmaceutical processing industries
de:Lebensmittelindustrie#Industrielle Lebensmittelverarbeitung
60 (spelled sixty) is a number.
It comes after fifty-nine and before sixty-one and is an even number.
Seventy-two is an even number.
It comes after seventy-one and before seventy-three.
The CN Tower is a telecommunications tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is  tall and is the tallest free-standing structure (meaning it cannot have wires to keep it standing) in Canada, North America, and the Western Hemisphere.
It is not the tallest building as there are no floors for people to work or live in.
That title goes to One World Trade Center in New York City, New York, United States, which is a bit shorter at  tall.
It is not the tallest structure of any kind in the Americas either, as the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, also in the United States, is taller at , but that needs wires to keep it upright.
Construction of the concrete tower started on February 6, 1973.
In 1975, while it was still being built, it became taller than the Ostankino Tower in Moscow.
When it opened to the public  on June 26, 1976, it became the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world.
It held this record for more than thirty years, until the Burj Khalifa, while it was still being built, became taller on September 12, 2007 .
The CN Tower continued to be the world's tallest tower until the Canton Tower became taller in 2010.
It is now the ninth tallest building in the world and the fifth tallest free-standing structure behind both of these, the Shanghai Tower, and the Burj Khalifa.
The "CN" in the tower's name came from the Canadian National Railway, the railway company that built the tower.
In 1995, the railway sold the tower to the Canada Lands Company (CLC).
Local residents wanted to keep the name CN Tower, though, so the abbreviation is now a shortened form of Canada's National Tower instead of the original Canadian National Tower.
Neither of these names are commonly used, though; the tower is usually called the CN Tower.
Today, the CN Tower is an important icon of Toronto and has more than two million tourists and visitors every year.
It has been one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World since 1995.
It has a restaurant that spins around every 1 hour & 12 minutes.
1976 establishments in North America
Freiburg (Alemannic German: Friburg im Brisgau) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Its full name is Freiburg im Breisgau.
, Besançon,since 1959
, Innsbruck, since 1963
, Padua, since 1967
, Guildford, since 1979
, Madison, Wisconsin, since 1987
, Matsuyama, since 1988
, Lviv, since 1989
, Granada, since 1991
, Isfahan, since 2000
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments, which included questioning the size of the Holocaust, have sparked questions about Freiburg's partnership with Isfahan.
After the comments Freiburg's mayor postponed a trip to Isfahan, but most people involved, especially those in the Alliance '90/The Greens party, were opposed to cancelling the partnership.
Friedrich von Hayek, economist
Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi eugenicist
Dany Heatley, player for the Ottawa Senators NHL team
Martin Heidegger, philosopher (originally not from Freiburg, taught in Freiburg)
Edmund Husserl, philosopher
Boris Kodjoe, model and actor
Benjamin Lebert, author and newspaper columnist
Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team.
Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian
Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior, 1989 - 1991, in Helmut Kohl and, 2005 - current, Angela Merkel governments.
Jürgen Schrempp, former head of DaimlerChrysler
Berthold Schwarz, fabled alchemist who supposedly introduced gunpowder to Germany
Til Schweiger, actor and director
Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
Edith Stein, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, member of the Freiburg faculty; her residence is marked by a plaque.
Martin Waldseemüller, the inventor of the name America
August Weismann, biologist
Bernhard Witkop, organic chemist
Freiburg:History and images
City of Freiburg and the Black Forest
Augustinermuseum
VAG Freiburg Freiburg Public Transit Authority
Freiburg-Home.com - Information & Reviews about Freiburg in English for expats, tourists and the community
Solar City - Germany  August 2000
Webcams in Freiburg and the Black Forest
Tramway in Freiburg
fudder - a popular online-mag for young people (Winner of Grimme Online Award 2007)
Freiburg's History for Pedestrians
Baden-Baden (Alemannic German: Bade-Bade) is a spa town with around 50,000 inhabitants in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It is at the border of the Rhine valley and the Black Forest.
The town is well known as a spa town, as a place for rich people and for many cultural offers.
In the 19th century the town played an important role as a meeting place for the nobles, rich and other important people.
A rich cultural heritage from that time can still be found at Baden-Baden.
The springs of Baden-Baden were known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town is referred to the emperor Hadrian by an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity.
The name of Aurelia Aquensis was given to it in honour of Aurelius Severus, in whose reign it would seem to have been well known.
Fragments of its ancient sculptures are still to be seen, and in 1847 remains of Roman vapour baths, well preserved, were discovered just below the New Castle.
In 1931, the town of Baden-Baden was officially given its double name (a short form for "Baden in Baden", i.e. Baden in the state of Baden).
In both World Wars, the town escaped destruction.
After World War II, Baden-Baden became the headquarters of the French forces in Germany and the site of a displaced persons camp.
From September 23 to September 28 1981, the XIth Olympic Congress took place in the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden.
Kurhaus
Friedrichsbad
Caracalla Spa
Lichtentaler Allee, a well known 19th century park
Sammlung Frieder Burda
Old Castle "Hohenbaden", built in 1102, the first residence of the margraves of Baden, a ruin since the 15th century
New Castle, former residence of the margraves of Baden
The famous Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Ruins of Roman baths, ca.
2000 years old, excavated in 1847
Stiftskirche, a church including the tombs of fourteen margraves of Baden
"The Paradise" (Paradies), an Italian style Renaissance garden with lots of trick fountains
Mount Merkur with Merkurbergbahn funicular railway and observation tower
Fremersberg Tower
Fabergé Museum
Castle Hohenbaden
"Art and Nightlife Have Baden-Baden Percolating Again", New York Times, July 9, 2006
Coburg (East Franconian: Coborch, Coburch)  is a town on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany.
Its 2005 population was 42,015.
It joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920.
Before 1918, it was the larger of the two capital cities in the united duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Coburg is about 90 km south of Erfurt and about 100 km north of Nuremberg.
Coburg was first mentioned in a document dated 1056, although there was a settlement at the site that before then called Trufalistat.
Following several changes of noble owners, it came into the hands of the House of Wettin in 1353 when Friedrich III, the Strong, married Katherina von Henneberg.
In 1596, it became the capital of one of the new Duchy of Saxe-Coburg under the leadership of Duke Johann Casimirs (ruled 1596-1633).
Due to the royal connections among the royal houses of Europe, Coburg was the site of many royal Ducal weddings and visits.
Britain's Queen Victoria made 6 visits to Coburg during her 64-year reign.
In 1896 one ceremony brought together Queen Victoria, her son Edward (future Edward VII), her second son Alfred (Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), her daughter the German dowager Empress Friedrich (Victoria), and many of her grandchildren, such as Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and the future King George V of Great Britain.
In 1920, two years after the abdication of the last duke, the locals voted to join Bavaria.
Thus whilst the other Saxon-Thuringian principalities were later incorporated into the German Democratic Republic after World War II, Coburg became part of West Germany As a result, the town spent the Cold War years lying right next to the Iron Curtain, surrounded by East German territory on three sides.
Coburg has the typical features of a former capital of German little states.
There are numerous houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
The most important landmarks include:
Ehrenburg, a former Franciscan convent built in 1220 and turned into a castle in 1543-1549, and renovated until the 19th century.
The internal decoration dates from the late 17th-early 18th centuries.
St.-Moriz Church ("St. Maurice", 14th-16th centuries), is a Gothic edifice on the Hallenkirche plan with two towers.
The interior, remade in 1701, include the notable funerary moment of Duke John Casimir, a 12 m-tall alabaster sculpture painted with statue and reliefs (1595-1598).
The medieval Veste Coburg, one of the biggest and most beautiful castles in Germany.
It was mostly rebuilt in the 19th century.
It has a triple line of walls with numerous towers.
Martin Luther resided here in 1530.
The edifices contain today 3 museums with armories, art galleria, exhibitions and other attractions.
Casimirium, an elegant Renaissance edifice from 1598.
Gymnasium Caimirianum, begun in 1601.
Arsenal (1616-1621).
Coburg State Theatre
Coburg Doll Museum
Callenberg Palace
Town Hall (1414)
Castle Rosenau near Coburg
The Baroque sanctuary at the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen, 20 km outside the city.
Most residents of Coburg are members of the Evangelical Church (Lutheranism).
Other Christian communities are Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, the ICF Movement, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Old Catholics and the New Apostolic Church, as well as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Coburg had a large Jewish community until the 1940s.
Jews have lived there since the 14th century.
Today it is used by Old Catholics.
Coburg became Protestant after the Reformation.
All Catholics were persecuted.
A new Catholic community was founded in the 19th century.
Coburg City
Beiersdorf
Bertelsdorf
Cortendorf
Creidlitz
Glend
Ketschendorf
Lützelbuch
Neu- and Neershof
Rögen
Scheuerfeld
Seidmansdorf
Wüstenahorn
Amongst the associated royalty, one individual's 20th century association with Coburg proved especially tragic.
This was that of the British Royal Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who was arrested and tried as a Nazi.
In 1530, Martin Luther stayed in the Veste Coburg to follow negotiations at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg.
He also preached at St. Moriz church.
In 1887, Johann Strauss, the Waltz King, left Vienna when the Roman Catholic Church would not let him divorce his 2nd wife.
He moved to Lutheran Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with his future 3rd wife Adele, where he lived the last 13 years of his life in Coburg.
He was however buried in Vienna.
In 1922, Adolf Hitler led several hundred stormtroopers in a march through the city, fighting pitched street battles with leftists.
During the Nazi era, the Coburg Badge was one of the most prestigious party medals.
The US National Hot Dog and Sausage Council asserts that Frankfurt am Main is traditionally credited with originating the Frankfurter.
According to the Council, this claim is disputed and that the hot dog was created in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg.
Coburg was the first German town to elect a Nazi Mayor.
, Cobourg
, Gais
, Garden City
, Isle of Wight
, Niort
, Oudenaarde
Coburg Tourist Board
World sites atlas
Schloss- under Gartenverwaltung Coburg
Aerial view of the Castle
Lots of Photos from Coburg
Görlitz (, Upper Sorbian: Zhorjelc, , , Upper Lusatian dialect: Gerlz, Gerltz or Gerltsch) is a town in Germany on the river Lusatian Neisse, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony, opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec.
Zgorzelec was a part of Görlitz until 1945.
Historically Görlitz has belonged at times to the regions of Lusatia and Silesia.
Today it is the easternmost city in Germany.
When Nazi Germany lost the war, German troops blew up all bridges crossing the Lusatian Neisse.
The redrawing of boundaries in 1945 – in particular the relocation of the German-Polish border to the Oder-Neisse line – divided the town, the right bank becoming part of Poland, and named Zgorzelec in 1948, while the main portion became part of the German state of Saxony.
When the East German states were dissolved in 1952, Görlitz became part of the Dresden Bezirk (region), but the states were restored upon German reunification in 1990.
Today Görlitz and Zgorzelec, two towns on opposite banks of the river, have friendly relations.
Two bridges have been rebuilt, a bus line connects the German and Polish parts of the town, and there is a common urban management, with annual common sessions of both town councils.
In 2006 Görlitz/Zgorzelec was a candidate for European City of Culture 2010.
It was hoped that the jury could be convinced by the concept of a Polish-German Cooperation but Essen got the award, with Görlitz achieving the second place.
The Campaign was renamed City of Culture to intensify German-Polish relationship and to attract tourists from all over the world.
The dramatic courtroom scene, at the conclusion of John le Carré famous Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", takes place in a secret Socialist Unity Party of Germany installation near Görlitz, in the middle 1960s.
Jakob Böhme - philosopher, 1575 born in a village near Görlitz.
Johann Christoph Brotze
Oskar Morgenstern
Hans-Jürgen Dörner, football player and coach
Jens Jeremies, retired footballer, had played for Bayern Munich and the German national team.
Michael Ballack, footballer,  signed to German club Bayer Leverkusen, current captain of the German national team.
Görlitz Rural District
The visible spectrum (or sometimes called the optical spectrum) is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
The familiar colors of the rainbow in the spectrum include all those colors that can be produced by visible light of a single wavelength only, the pure spectral or monochromatic colors.
Color display spectrum
Color displays (e.g., computer monitors or televisions) mix red, green, and blue color to approximate the color spectrum.
In the illustration, the narrow red, green and blue bars show the relative mixture of these three colors used to produce the color directly above.
Vision  can refer to:
Sight- the ability to see
a form of religious experience
Vision (Marvel Cinematic Universe) - A fictional superhero created by Marvel Studios
Aach [] is a small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Being situated close to Lake Constance and the Swiss border, it is mostly known for the Aachtopf — Germany's biggest natural spring in terms of production.
The last elections in 2004 brought three seats for the CDU, three seats for the SPD and four seats for independent voters' associations.
Aach's mayor is Severin Graf (CDU).
Aach:History and images
Aach is a municipality in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
It is part of Trier-Land, a Verbandsgemeinde.
The last elections in 2004 brought the CDU twelve seats, the other four went to the free voters' association (FWG Aach e. V.) In the same elections Mayor Josef Klein (CDU) was voted into office with nearly 74% of the votes.
Aach is about 6 km north of the center of Trier.
It is in the southern Eifel mountains.
Joachimsthal is a town in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany.
It is  northwest of Eberswalde, and  northeast of Berlin-Mitte.
Barnim Rural District
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Dutch or Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker.
He is known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.
He is nicknamed 'Peasant Bruegel' to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel family.
But he is the most famous of them and therefore in most of the cases when someone speaks of "Brueghel" he thinks of him.
From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel.
There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant.
He was the son of a peasant living in the village of Breughel.
In Bruegel's later years he painted in a simpler style than the Italian art in his time.
The most obvious influence on his art is the older Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch.
Bruegel specialized in landscapes populated by peasants.
He is often credited as being the first Western painter to paint landscapes for their own sake.
He showed the rituals of village life—including agriculture, hunts, meals, festivals, dances, and games.
These show the folk culture of 16th century life.
Some of his Paintings
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, 1565, Bruxelles, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie, inv.
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The Peasant and the Nest Robber, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Three Soldiers, 1568, Frick Collection, New York City
Conversion Of Paul, 1567, Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna
The Storm at Sea, an unfinished work, probably Bruegel's last painting.
Biography at the Web Gallery of Art
Pieter Bruegel the Elder at Olga's Gallery
Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the "A World History of Art"
Complete list of paintings.
Includes all of the 100 proverbs from the painting, with explanation (in French).
www.all-art.org/early_renaissance About Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Timken Museum of Art's "Parable of the Sower" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
In 1937 a SS-Junkerschule (SS Officer Candidate School) was made at Bad Tölz which operated until the end of World War II in 1945.
As well, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp was located in the town.
It provided labour for the SS-Junkerschule and the Zentralbauleitung (Central Administration Building).
The former SS-Junkerschule was the base of the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group until 1991.
Bad Tölz is known for its spas, historic medieval town, and spectacular views of the alps.
On the western bank of the Isar River lies the Kurverwaltung, or modern spa, whose iodine-rich waters are known for their soothing and healing powers.
Another major attraction is Stadtpfarrkirche, a church made in 1466, which is a good example of German late-Gothic architecture.
Bad Tölz sits on the Isar River, 670 metres above sea level.
It has an area of
Bad Tölz is the setting of the popular television series, Der Bulle von Tölz.
Tölzer Knabenchor - a world-famous boys choir.
Bad Tölz is famous for the hockey club EC Bad Tölz (also known as Tölzer Löwen)
Junkerschule Bad Tölz
Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor.
"Forever" is one of his most famous songs.
He has won three American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, and a Grammy Award.
He got attention when he was arrested and convicted in 2009 for beating his then-girlfriend, R&B/pop singer Rihanna.
He was sentenced to five years probation and six months community service.
He was also ordered to stay at least 300 feet away from her for five years.
Brown has bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Bernau bei Berlin (English Bernau near Berlin) is a German city in the Barnim district.
The city is located about  northeast of Berlin.
In 1842 a railway line was opened.
One of the first electrical suburban railway lines in the world has been opened in 1924.
This line of the Berlin S-Bahn connected Bernau with station Stettiner Bahnhof (today Berlin Nordbahnhof) in Berlin.
The Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB) (General German Confederation of Trade Unions) opened its school in 1930.
The Waldsiedlung (engl.
residential area in the wood) is a district of the city where the political leaders of the GDR lived isolated from the people.
- Champigny-sur-Marne
,  - Meckhenheim
- Skwierzyna
Official website of the city (German)
Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and capital of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
It is located near Salzburg, and encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps.
Mount Staufen () and Mount Zwiesel () are both near Bad Reichenhall.
Bad Reichenhall is a traditional center of salt production, obtained by evaporating water saturated with salt from brine ponds.
The town was the site of a disaster on January 2, 2006, when the roof of the town's ice rink collapsed under snow, killing 15 and injuring 34 others.
Ice rink disaster
Fifteen people, twelve of them children, died in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink on 2 January 2006.
Famous people from Bad Reichenhall
Anni Friesinger, speed skater
Regina Häusl, alpine skier
Stefan Holzner, triathlete
Michael Neumayer, ski jumper
Hans Söllner, singer-songwriter
Bad Reichenhall Tourist Centre
Bad Reichenhall Tourist Attractions
Chris Brown (album), an album by Chris Brown
Chris Brown (Canadian musician), Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Chris Brown (Australian musician), Australian musician, member of Ayers Rock (band)
Chris Brown (composer) (born 1953), composer, pianist, and electronic musician
Chris Taylor Brown (born 1981), singer for Trapt
Christopher Brown (composer) (born 1943), English composer
Chris Brown (cricketer, born 1974) (born 1974), English cricketer
Chris Brown (cricketer, born 1973) (born 1973), former Cook Islands cricketer
Chris Brown (American football coach), American football coach and former player
Chris Brown (defensive back) (born 1962), American football player
Chris Brown (offensive lineman) (born 1978), former American football offensive lineman
Chris Brown (running back), American football player
Chris Brown (American soccer) (born 1977), American soccer midfielder/striker
Chris Brown (footballer, born 1971), English-American football defender and manager
Chris Brown (footballer, born 1984), English football striker
Chris Brown (footballer, born 1992), English football defender
Chris Brown (field hockey) (born 1960), New Zealand
Chris Brown (ice hockey) (born 1991), American ice hockey player drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes
Christophe Brown (born 1974), Swiss ice hockey player in the Switzerland National League A
Other sports
Chris Brown (athlete) (born 1978), Bahamian sprinter
Chris Brown (baseball) (1961–2006), American third baseman
Chris A. Brown (born 1964), member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Christopher J. Brown (born 1971), member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Chris Brown (California politician) (born 1981), American politician and businessman in the state of California
Chris Brown (Mississippi politician) (born 1967), Republican Mississippi state representative and businessman
Christopher Brown (author), American science fiction author
Christopher Brown (museum director) (born 1948), director of the Ashmolean Museum
Chris Brown (British Army officer), last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland
Chris Brown (veterinarian) (born 1978), Australian veterinarian, television personality and author
M. Christopher Brown II, President of Alcorn State University
Chris Brown (dancer) (1896–1956), Native American dancer and costume maker
Demmin () is a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
It was the capital of the former Demmin Rural District.
German troops destroyed the bridges over the Peene while retreating from Demmin during World War II.
This way, the advance of the Soviet Red Army was slowed down when they arrived in Demmin on April 30, 1945.
During that night and the following morning, Demmin was handed over to the Red Army largely without fighting, similar to other cities like Greifswald.
Although there were only a few pockets of resistance, nearly 900 people committed mass suicides in fear of the Red Army.
Coroner lists show that most drowned in the nearby River Tollense and River Peene, where others poisoned themselves.
This was fuelled by atrocities and rapes committed by Red Army soldiers until the city commander had the access to the rivers blocked on May 3.
Joachim Lütkemann (1608-1655), preacher and author
Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann (1724-1782), merchant and politician
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839-1884), pathologist
Willy Schulz-Demmin (1892-1974), painter
Hans-Adolf Asbach (1904-1976), politician
Willi Laatsch (1905-1997), pedologist
Paul von Maltzahn (born 1945), diplomat
Andy Glandt, banjo player
Norbert Buske, Das Kriegsende in Demmin 1945 (German) - The End of the War in Demmin 1945
Demmin Rural District
The Red Army was the army of the Bolsheviks led by Leon Trotsky in the Russian Civil War.
Later it became the army of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was the name used mainly before and during World War II.
After the war it was renamed as the Soviet Army, although many people still continued to call it the Red Army.
Even nowadays some people still nickname the modern Russian Army as the Red Army.
Geographical location
Nienburg is on the river Weser, approx.
55 km southeast of Bremen, and 45 km northwest of Hanover.
Nienburg is the largest town in the Mittelweserregion.
(in each case December 31st)
1998 - 32.789
1999 - 32.659
2000 - 32.611
2001 - 32.454
2002 - 32.462
2003 - 32.543
2004 - 32.691
2005 - 32.803
Town's structure
Erichshagen
Holtorf
Langendamm
Schäferhof/Kattriede
Leintor
Lehmwandlung
Alpheide
Town council
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands - CDU 14
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands - SPD 17
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen - Grüne 3
Freie Demokratische Partei-FDP 2
Wählergemeinschaft - WG 1
Die Linke 1
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Vitebsk, Belarus
Querfurt a town in Saalekreis district (Kreis) in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in a fertile country on the Querne,  west from Merseburg, on a branch line from Oberroblingen.
12,935 (2005).
Saalekreis Rural District
The Saab 35 Draken ("kite" or "dragon") is a fighter aircraft made by Saab.
It first flew in 1955 and was introduced in 1960.
It was made to replace the Saab 29 Tunnan.
The Draken used a delta wing, which gave it speed.
In fact, it was Sweden's first aircraft to go twice the speed of sound.
What the Draken is like
The Draken is 50 feet, 4 inches (15.35 meters) long, 30 feet, 10 inches (9.42 meters) wide, and 12 feet, 0 inches (03.89 meters) tall.
It weighs 18,188 pounds (8,250 kilograms) empty and can weigh up to 27,050 pounds (12,270 kilograms) with things in it.
It is powered by a Volvo Flygmotor RM 6C jet engine.
It carries 2 30mm cannon and can carry AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Who uses the Draken
Haiti is divided into 10 departments (French, départements).
When Haiti was the French colony of Saint-Domingue, there were three provinces: North, South and West.
Under Toussaint L'Ouverture, the provinces were converted into departments.
The departments are further divided into 41 arrondissements, and 133 communes.
Statoids: Departments of Haiti
Turquoise is an opaque (cannot be seen through), blueish-green mineral.
It is not common and can be valuable in finer grades.
It has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years because of its interesting coloring.
Yotsuya Kaidan, also known as Tōkaidō yotsuya kaidan, is one of the most famous Japanese ghost stories of all time.
It was written as a play in 1825 by Tsuruya Nanboku.
The story is a tale of murder and ghostly revenge.
It continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.
He was born on May 21, 1471 and died on April 6, 1528 in Nuremberg, Germany and is best known as a maker of old master prints.
His prints were often in a series, so that there is a group of different prints about a subject.
The most famous series are the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511).
Dürer's best known individual engravings (that is, ones that are not part of a series) include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514).
His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the Rhinoceros, and numerous self-portraits in oils.
Dürer possibly did not cut his own woodblocks but may have employed a skilled carver who followed his drawings faithfully.
He painted a number of religious works in oils and made many brilliant watercolours and drawings, which through modern reproductions are now perhaps his best known works.
Dürer's prints made him famous across Europe before 30, with many people hailing him as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.
Dürer was the third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children.
His father was a successful goldsmith from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary.
Dürer's godfather was Anton Koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year Dürer was born.
He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, and owned twenty-four printing presses and had many offices in Germany and abroad.
His most famous publication was the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493 in German and Latin.
It had 1,809 woodcut pictures by the Wolgemut workshop.
Dürer may well have worked on some of these, as the work on the project began while he was with Wolgemut.
Dürer had started to learn goldsmithing and drawing from his father.
His father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, but he was so good at drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486.
A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 (Albertina, Vienna).
Wolgemut was the leading artist in Nuremberg at the time, and had a large workshop making different types of works of art, in particular woodcuts for books.
Nuremberg was a rich city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.
It had strong links with Italy, especially Venice, a relatively short distance across the Alps.
Wanderjahre and marriage
After completing his term of apprenticeship in 1489, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking a wanderjahre — in effect a gap year.
Dürer was away nearly four years, travelling through Germany, Switzerland, and probably, the Netherlands.
Dürer wanted to meet Martin Schongauer, the best engraver of Northern Europe, but Schongauer died shortly before Dürer's arrival.
He stayed at the house of Schongauer's brother, and got some pictures that Schongauer owned.
His first painted self-portrait is now in the Louvre.
It was painted in Strasbourg, probably so that Dürer could send it back to his fiancée in Nuremberg.
In fact, very soon after he got back to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494 Dürer was married to Agnes Frey.
She was the daughter of a well known brass worker (and amateur harpist) in the city.
He was 23, and the marriage was arranged while Dürer was away travelling.
his absence.
They had no children, and most people think that they did not marry for love, but because it was good to link the two families.
Also, a single man could not set up in business for himself in Nuremberg.
Dürer painted some portraits of his wife, but experts say that they "lack warmth".
The experts think that if Dürer loved his wife he would have taken more time over those pictures to make her look more beautiful and friendly.
First Visit to Italy
Within three months Dürer left for Italy.
The start of plague in Nuremberg was one reason for his leaving.
In Italy, he went to Venice where artists were working in a more modern style.
Dürer wrote that Giovanni Bellini was the oldest and still the best of the artists in Venice.
Return to Nuremberg
On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Dürer opened his own workshop.
He started to use what he learned in Italy more and more, so his work was quite different from the other artists in Nuremberg who used only the traditional German style.
Dürer probably did not cut any of the woodblocks himself.
This was a job for experts.
But he had designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut as part of his training in Wolgemut's studio, and he had seen  many carved and painted altarpieces made in the studio.
This means he knew what could be made into a woodblock print, and how to work with the expert block cutters.
Dürer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Either way his drawing was destroyed when the block was cut.
His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse are dated 1498.
He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.
Around 1503–1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.
Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.
The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and Body proportions from him.
de'Barbari did not want to tell Dürer everything he knew, so Dürer began his own studies, and he kept studying for the rest of his life.
This is a series of drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, before he made his famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504).
This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Dürer made large numbers of other practice drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Praying Hands (1508 Albertina, Vienna).
He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of very beautiful still lives of meadow sections or animals, including his "Hare" (1502, Albertina, Vienna).
Second visit to Italy
In early 1506, he returned to Venice and stayed there until the spring of 1507.
By this time Dürer's engravings were very popular and were being copied.
In Venice he was given a valuable commission from the emigrant German community for the church of San Bartolomeo.
This was the altar-piece known as the Adoration of the Virgin or the Feast of Rose Garlands.
It includes portraits of members of Venice's German community, but shows a strong Italian influence.
Later, the Emperor Rudolf II took it to Prague.
Other paintings Dürer made in Venice include, The Virgin and Child with the Goldfinch, Christ disputing with the Doctors (supposedly produced in just five days), and a number of smaller works.
Nuremberg and the masterworks
Dürer was admired by the Venetians, but he was back in Nuremberg by mid-1507.
He stayed in Germany until 1520.
His reputation had spread throughout Europe.
He was on friendly terms with most of the major artists of Europe, and exchanged drawings with Raphael.
The years between  and his journey to the Netherlands are divided according to the type of work he made.
During the first five years, 1507–1511, after his return from Venice Dürer mostly painted.
He made his four best  paintings, Adam and Eve (1507), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece the Assumption of the Virgin (1509), and the Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints (1511).
During this period he also completed the two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin.
He complained that painting did not make enough money, so from 1511 to 1514 he concentrated on printmaking.
The famous works he made in this period were the thirty-seven woodcuts for the Little Passion, published first in 1511, and a set of fifteen small engravings on the same theme in 1512.
In 1513 and 1514 he created his three most famous engravings, The Knight, Death, and the Devil (or simply, The Knight, as he called it, 1513), Melencolia I, and St. Jerome in his Study (both 1514).
'Melencolia I' has a magic square which is believed to be the first seen in European art.
The two numbers in the middle of the bottom row give the date of the engraving, 1514.
In 1515, he created his woodcut of the Rhinoceros.
The rhinoceros was in Lisbon, but Durer never saw it.
He made it from a sketch and description from another artist.
It was not very lifelike, but still being used in some German school science text-books early last century.
The rhinoceros was from an  extinct Indian species.
Up to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including portraits in tempera on linen, experiments in etching on plates of iron, and parts of the Triumphal Arch and the Triumphs of Maximilian which were huge woodcut projects ordered by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Journey to the Netherlands and beyond
He wanted to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him.
Maximilian had died in 1519, so the  city of Nuremberg stopped paying it.
Dürer also needed new patrons following the death of Maximilian, and to avoid an outbreak of sickness in Nuremberg.
Dürer went to Aachen for the coronation, but also made trips to Cologne, Nijmegen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Zeeland.
In Brussels he saw "the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land" — the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.
Dürer wrote that this treasure trove "was much more beautiful to me than miracles.
These things are so precious that they have been valued at 100,000 florins".
Dürer appears to have been collecting for his own cabinet of curiosities, and he sent back to Nuremberg various animal horns, a piece of coral, some large fish fins, and a wooden weapon from the East Indies.
Dürer took many prints with him.
He wrote in his diary to whom he gave, exchanged, or sold them, and for how much.
This is some of the few times the price of prints was recorded, so historians think it very important to show the values of prints compared to paintings at that time.
Dürer returned home in July 1521.
He had an unknown illness which stayed with him for the rest of his life, and slowed his rate of work.
Final years in Nuremberg
Back in Nuremberg, Dürer started work on a series of religious pictures.
There are many practice sketches and studies (practice paintings for a bigger painting) but no big paintings from this time.
This was partly because of his illness, but more because of the time he spent preparing to write books about geometry and perspective, the proportions of men and horses, and fortification.
His writings show that Dürer was highly sympathetic to Martin Luther, and he may have been influential in the City Council declaring for Luther in 1525.
However, he died before religious divisions had hardened into different "Catholic" and "Protestant"churches.
Dürer probably thought of himself as a reform-minded Catholic.
Dürer died in Nuremberg at the age of 56.
He left money and goods worth 6,874 florins - a considerable sum.
His workshop was a part of his large house.
His widow lived there until her death in 1537.
Books/sources
Giulia Bartrum (2002), Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy, British Museum Press.
Walter L. Strauss (Editor) (1973), The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer, Dover Publications.
— still in print in paperback.
Wilhelm Kurth (Editor) (2000), The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, Dover Publications.
Links to online museum images of all of Dürer's prints — see section B (nb: Not all Public Domain)
Albrecht Durer in the "History of Art"
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/
Alternative Albrecht Durer
Works by Albrecht Dürer  at Museumsportal Schleswig-Holstein
Albrecht Dürer: Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (Nuremberg, 1528).
Selected pages scanned from the original work.
Historical Anatomies on the Web.
US National Library of Medicine.
De Symmetria... and Underweysung der Messung 1538, from Rare Book Room.
O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson Biography at St-andrews.ac.uk
1528 deaths
El Greco ("The Greek", 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménicos Theotokópoulos ().
El Greco was born in Crete, which was the center of Post-Byzantine art at that time.
He trained and became a master of that kind of art before travelling at 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done.
In 1570, he moved to Rome and opened a workshop and made a series of works.
While he was in Italy, El Greco added elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance to his style.
In 1577, at the age of 36, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death in 1614.
In Toledo, El Greco painted his best-known paintings.
El Greco's dramatic and expressionist style puzzled other painters at the time, but came to be appreciated in the 20th century.
El Greco is considered to have influenced both the Expressionist and Cubist styles.
His personality and works inspired poets and writers like Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis.
Many modern scholars think that El Greco belongs to no conventional school.
He is best known for long figures and often fantastic or dramatic coloring, combining Byzantine traditions with Western painting traditions.
His paintings generally have very bright parts contrasting with very dark parts.
1541 births
1614 deaths
Greek people
People from Toledo, Spain
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English peer, nobleman, politician, and poet.
He was christened George Gordon Byron, but changed his name later in life.
He adopted the surname Noel, so he that could inherit half his mother-in-law's estate.
He was a leading figure in Romanticism.
He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets and many people still read his works.