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The arena opened in 1999, and is the current home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
It holds 19,800 seats for basketball and 18,819 for hockey.
The arena has also been the host of many concerts and WWE events over the years.
When the arena was sponsored by Air Canada, it was nicknamed the ACC and the Hangar.
The new nickname of "The Vault" was in use shortly after the new sponsorship was announced.
In August 2017, as the arena's sponsorship contract with Air Canada was nearing its end, MLSE announced that it had made a new deal with Scotiabank that took effect on July 1, 2018.
The current deal runs for 20 years and is worth C$800 million.
Miloš Krasić (born 1 November 1984) is a Serbian professional football winger.
He plays for Fenerbahçe SK and the Serbian national team.
Fenerbahçe completed the transfer of Krasić for €7 million on 3 August, 2012.
Krasić signed a four-year contract worth €2.3 million per-season.
The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a sports arena in Uniondale, New York.
The arena opened on February 11, 1972, and is the current home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The arena is commonly known as Nassau Coliseum or The Coliseum.
The arena was also notable for hosting the first part of the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania 2 in 1986.
In addition, it has also hosted WWE's SummerSlam in August 2002, The Great American Bash in July 2008, and WWE Fatal 4-Way on June 20, 2010.
The arena was also the home of the New York Nets from 1972 to 1977.
The Islanders said they are moving to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn when their lease of the Coliseum expires at the end of the 2014-2015 season.
When the Islanders move, the Coliseum would not have a permanent tenant after 2015 and leaves the future of the Coliseum in doubt.
Sports buildings in New York
Canada Life Centre, originally known as True North Centre and later as MTS Centre and Bell MTS Place, is a sports arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The arena opened on November 16, 2004, and is the current home to the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The arena was originally known as True North Centre during planning but naming rights were bought by Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS).
After Bell Canada purchased MTS in spring 2017, the arena was renamed effective that May 30.
The most recent name change was on July 15, 2021, when insurance and financial services company Canada Life entered into a 10-year naming rights agreement with True North Sports & Entertainment, which owns both the Jets and the arena.
The arena has been home to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL), the Jets' top minor-league team, two different times.
The team first played there from 2004 to 2011 before moving to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and then returned to Winnipeg in 2015.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (12 August 1831 – 8 May 1891) was a Russian born occultist.
At the age of 17 she married a Russian nobleman, Nikifvor Blavatsky.
but soon divorced.
In 1875, Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott established a research and publishing institute called the Theosophical Society.
Blavatsky defined Theosophy as "the archaic Wisdom-Religion, the esoteric doctrine once known in every ancient country having claims to civilization".
One of the main purposes of the Theosophical Society was "to form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color".
Madame Blavatsky saw herself as a missionary of this ancient knowledge.
She travelled the world and wrote books about the occult including Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.
The Theosophical Society had an influence on Buddhist modernism and Hindu reform movements, and the spread of those modernised versions in the west.
Blavatsky was important in the Western transmission and revival of Theravada Buddhism.
PNC Arena is a sports arena in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The arena opened on October 29, 1999, and is the current home to the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL) and North Carolina State University Wolfpack men's basketball.
The arena was originally known as Raleigh Entertainment & Sports Arena until RBC Bank, the U.S. division of the Royal Bank of Canada, acquired naming rights for 20 years, which cost a reported $80 million.
The name then changed to RBC Center.
The arena was also host to many WWE events such as SummerSlam in 2000 and No Mercy in 2006.
In 2011, the Royal Bank of Canada sold RBC Bank to PNC Financial Services, and the arena's name was officially changed to PNC Arena on March 15, 2012.
Kris Kross was an American rap duo from Atlanta.
Their most notable song was Jump in 1992.
The duo also had other hits including Warm it Up and were noted for wearing their clothes backwards.
Their following albums did not do as well.
The duo disbanded around 1998.
The Scotiabank Saddledome is a sports arena in Calgary, Alberta.
The arena opened on October 15, 1983, and is the current home to the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL), Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL) and Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
The arena was also known as the Olympic Saddledome from 1983 to 1996, the Canadian Airlines Saddledome from 1996 to 2000 and the Pengrowth Saddledome from 2000 to 2010.
Scotiabank currently has naming rights on the arena.
The arena has a seating capacity of 19,289 people.
1983 establishments in Canada
Sport in Calgary
Li (禮 pinyin: Lǐ) is a classical Chinese word used in Confucian and post-Confucian Chinese philosophy.
The English meaning is "the way things should be done."
In Li one must be aware of the way one should act and function within a society.
In Li one can best cultivate their character by understanding what it entails.
Li encompasses most importantly the Doctrine of the Mean, and the Five Constant Relationships.
The Doctrine of the Mean is the way in which one should make decisions in life, in which the best decision is always the middle between unworkable extremes.
Taking the middle road as Confucius said would guide one to the way things should be done.
The Five Constant Relationships outline how one should act in society, being the relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, elder sibling and junior sibling, elder friend and junior friend, and ruler and subject.
With these constant relationship guidelines, Li sets up a hierarchy between the two people and terms the accepted responses and actions between them.
A parent is to be loving, a child obedient.
An elder sibling is to be gentle, and younger siblings respectful.
Husbands are to be good and fair, and wives understanding.
Older friends are to be considerate, younger friends reverential.
Rulers should be benevolent, and subjects loyal.
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A stratovolcano is a tall, conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash.
Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes have a steep slope and explosive eruptions every now and then.
The StG 44 (Sturmgewehr 44; Assault Rifle 44), known as the world's first assault rifle.
Is a gun produced in Nazi Germany during the World War II, replacing the MP-40.
Hitler first did not approve of this new class of weapons, so it was called MP-43 and MP-44, meaning Machine Pistol in English.
The first service on the Eastern Front was successful, so more were manufactured.
Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby (born 27 December 1948) is the elected Mayor of Leicester.
Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971) in Idaho.
She is a retired alpine ski racer who won gold medals at 1998 Winter Olympics and downhill at the 1996 World Championships.
She also won silver medals at 1994 Winter Olympics and won World Cup downhill titles in 1995 and 1996, making her the first American woman to do so.
Garageland is a song by English punk rock band The Clash, featured on their first album, The Clash.
"The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running, which would undoubtedly be more of a loss to their friends and families than to either rock or roll."
The Clash responded immediately by writing the song 'Garageland'.
The opening verses are: "Back in the garage with my bullshit detector / Carbon monoxide makes sure it's effective", followed by the chorus: "We're a garage band / We come from garageland", and concluding with "Back in the garage".
Yet, only two years later, Murray was describing the band as "the greatest rock band in the world" in the same paper.
Pope Pius X (; , 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 258th Pope from 1903 to 1914.
He is a saint of the Catholic Church, well known as being strongly against members of the Catholic Church trying to make it follow modern ideas, a movement called modernism.
Giuseppe Sarto was born in 1835 in Riese in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.
He studied at the University of Padua.
Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Pius X
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Sarto
Museo San Pio X
Fondazione Giuseppe Sarto
"Dancing Queen" is a 1975 song by the Swedish pop group ABBA.
It was released as a single in autumn 1976, but recorded in 1975.
The song reached #1 in 13 countries.
It's commonly known as one of many successful songs in the 1970s.
It is a signature song for ABBA.
ABBA songs
Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an US Senator from Pennsylvania.
He had 30 years in the Senate.
He changed to the Democratic Party in 2009.
Specter was born on February 12, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas.
He was with the United States Air Force during the Korean War.
Specter later graduated from Yale Law School.
He was married to Joan Specter.
The Rexall Place is a sports arena in Edmonton, Alberta.
The arena opened on November 10, 1974, and is the current home to the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League (WHL) and the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
The arena was originally known as Northlands Coliseum from 1974 to 1995, Edmonton Coliseum from 1995 to 1998 and the Skyreach Centre from 1998 to 2003.
Rexall medicine company currently has naming rights for the arena.
The arena has hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1978 as well as WWE's Backlash pay-per-view in 2004.
The 2015–16 season is the last for the Oilers at Rexall Place.
In 2014, construction started on a new arena for the Oilers in downtown Edmonton.
The new arena, to be known as Rogers Place, will  open for the 2016–17 season.
Robert Fliess (1895-1970) was a psychoanalyst.
His father was Wilhelm Fliess, who worked with Sigmund Freud.
Robert Fliess wote several books, including Erogeneity and Libido.
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic.
He wrote many books, including The Lost Keys of Freemasonry and The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Hall started the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 1934.
Breakspear was an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 170th Pope.
He is the only Englishman ever to have been Pope.
Breakspear was born near St. Albans in Hertfordshire in England.
His father was Robert, who later became a monk at St Albans Abbey.
Nicholas himself, however, was not yet to attend the monastery.
He was told by the Abbot to 'wait to go on with his schooling so that he might be considered more suitable' (Abbey chronicles).
He did not wait and went instead to Paris.
He finally became a canon regular of the cloister of St. Rufus monastery near Arles.
He rose to be Prior and soon was unanimously elected Abbot.
This election has been traditionally dated to 1137.
Evidence from the Abbey's chronicles suggests it was about 1145.
In 1146, Breakspear was made Bishop of Albano.
Pope Eugene III raised Breakspear to the rank of Cardinal in the same year, 1146.
Cardinal Breakspear was elected pope on 3 December 1154.
He chose the name Adrian IV.
He at once tried to bring down Arnold of Brescia, the leader of the anti-papal faction in Rome.
Disorder in the city led to the murder of a cardinal.
Adrian, shortly before Palm Sunday 1155, took the step of putting Rome under interdict.
The Senate (City Council of Rome) then exiled Arnold.
A proposed alliance with the Eastern Byzantine Empire came to nothing.
Adrian signed a Papal Bull (official letter) urging King Henry II of England to invade Ireland and bring the Celtic Christian church into the Roman system.
A dispute with Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor was happening when Adrian died.
He was said to have died from choking on a fly in his wine.
It was probably of quinsy.
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Breakspear
1159 deaths
Respiratory care is a type of medicine that works with pulmonology to make people better who are suffering from lung problems.
People working in respiratory care are called Respiratory Therapists.
Respiratory Therapists help in every part of lung health.
Respiratory Therapists are not all over the world, but are mostly in Canada, United States and Mexico.
In other countries people involved in Respiratory Care are registered nurses and physical therapists.
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (May 11, 1934 – August 18, 2014) was an American politician.
He was a United States Senator from Vermont.
He was senator from January 3, 1989 through January 3, 2007.
Before being senator, Jeffords was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Vermont.
He was elected as a Republican.
In 2001 he left the party to become a Independent.
That gave control of the Senate to the Democratic Party.
Jeffords died on August 18, 2014 from Alzheimer's disease at Knollwood, a military retirement facility in Washington, D.C.. He had lived there for eight years.
He was 80 years old.
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United States senators from Vermont
Ground state is the lowest level of energy in a particle, atom or molecule.
If energy is added from outside, then the level of energy is increased, and the ground state is changed.
Changing ground state is the process of excitement of electrons to higher levels.
Any other state is called an "excited state."
In ground state, an atom is stable, and does not give out electromagnetic radiation.
When an electron drops down from an excited state to the ground state, electromagnetic radiation is released.
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"Winter Wonderland" is a winter oriented song often played during the Christmas holiday season.
The song was created around 1934 via Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith.
The lyrics for Winter Wonderland talk about Parson Brown in the first bridge and a circus clown later in the song.
This winter based song has been recorded by over 150 musicians, including though not limited to The Andrews Sisters, Amy Grant, Anne Murray and Johnny Mathis throughout the years.
Pius VII made Castiglioni a cardinal in 1816.
Cardinal Catiglioni was made Bishop of Frascati in 1822.
Catholic Hierarchy,  Pope Pius VIII
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Castiglioni
"O Holy Night" is a Christmas oriented song.
It was created to celebrate the renovation of the church organ in the town of Roquemaure, France.
Placide Cappeau, a French wine merchant and poet, wrote a poem in 1843.
He called it Minuit, chrétiens ("Midnight, Christians").
The poem reflects the birth of Jesus and tells about the redemption of mankind.
The music was made by Adolphe Adam around 1847.
Notable singers of the song include, although are not limited to, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and others.
Joseph Raymond Conniff, better known as Ray Conniff, was an American bandleader.
He worked with many musicians, including Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mathis.
He created the Ray Conniff Singers (representing twelve women and thirteen men) around 1959; the group lasted until mid 1970s.
Conniff was born November 6, 1916 and died October 12, 2002.
American musical entertainers
The RMS Lusitania was a British cruise-liner.
The ship is best known for being sunk by Germany.
There were 128 Americans on board.
They were killed when the ship sank.
At first President Woodrow Wilson only asked the German government to apologize and compensate the families of the victims.
The Home Port of RMS Lusitania – Lusitania.net
RMSLusitania.info
RMS Lusitania on the wrecksite
British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry
Pope Gregory I (590-604), also called Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory II (715-731)
Pope Gregory III (731-741)
Pope Gregory IV (827-844)
Pope Gregory V (996-999)
Pope Gregory VI (1045-1046)
Antipope Gregory VI
Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), Hildebrand
Pope Gregory VIII (1187)
Antipope Gregory VIII
Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241)
Pope Gregory X (1271-1276)
Pope Gregory XI (1370-1378)
Pope Gregory XII (1406-1415)
Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585), known for the Gregorian calendar
Pope Gregory XIV (1590-1591)
Pope Gregory XV (1621-1623)
Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846)
"Here Comes Santa Claus" is an American Christmas song recorded by Gene Autry.
It was recorded in 1947 and 1953 on Columbia Records, both through Autry.
Elvis Presley covered this song during 1957.
Other musicians who recorded Here Comes Santa Claus include Doris Day, The Andrews Sisters and the Ray Conniff Singers.
Orvon Grover Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry was an American movie actor and a singer.
He was born in Tioga, Texas.
He was also owner of a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles.
His is best known for the song "Back in the Saddle Again" but he also performed many Christmas songs.
"Frosty the Snowman", written and recorded in 1950, is a Christmas oriented song which was first performed by Gene Autry.
The song is about a snowman that comes alive after a hat gets placed on his head by some children with whom he shares playful adventures before he has to hurry on his way.
The children become sad as Frosty leaves, though Frosty tells them he will return.
Some versions of the song say Christmas Day in the final lines.
Other singers, including Nat King Cole, Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, Ronettes and The Jackson 5, have performed their versions of the song throughout the years.
Chronic bronchitis is inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from the air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs.
It's characterized by daily cough and mucus (sputum) production.
Symptoms of COPD include difficulty breathing and cough, in particular coughing up lots of phlegm.
It is usually caused by smoking cigarettes, and around half of people who smoke for their whole lives will develop COPD.
In the developing world, COPD often occurs in people exposed to fumes from burning fuel for cooking and heating in poorly ventilated homes.
At the beginning of the disease, the difficulty breathing is only noticeable when exercising, but over many years it gradually becomes worse, until there is difficulty breathing even when sitting or lying down.
It can also lead to infections of the lung, which may be serious enough to cause death.
The most important step in treating COPD is to stop smoking.
Exercise and medications can also help.
The most commonly used medications are called bronchodilators, which help to open up the airways and allow more air into the lungs.
3% of all disability is related to COPD.
People can die from COPD.
The World Health Organization predicts that COPD will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2030.
It is thought that more people will die from it in the future.
Types of COPD
Chronic bronchitis
Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was an acclaimed German psychiatrist.
He was a behaviorist and a leading opponent of Freudianism.
He wrote many books, including attacking Freud called Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire in 1985.
He also wrote Causes and Cures of Criminality.
Von Teese was married to rock musician Marilyn Manson from 2005 to 2007.
Khedive is a ruler.
The word means the same as viceroy.
It is an official who runs a country, colony, province, or city, as the representative of the monarch of the territory.
Khedive was the title of Egyptian rulers from 1867 to 1914.
It was given to the Turkish ruler of Egypt by the Ottoman Sultan, and removed by the British Empire when the Ottomans joined Germany in World War I.
The title was first used by Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian officer who seized power in Egypt as Wali (Governor).
He ruled under the nominal overlordship of the Turks.
His family was not recognized by the Sultan until the reign of his grandson Ismail Pasha.
The last Khedive of Egypt was Abbas II.
The dynasty of Muhammed Ali continued to rule Egypt, though under British 'guidance'.
This ended with the Egyptian revolution of 1952.
The last member of the family who ruled was King Farouk I.
1867 establishments
1914 disestablishments
Rockefeller Republican is a phrase that describes a kind of politician in the United States.
Rockefeller Republicans are moderate or liberal Republicans.
They are often from the northeastern part of the country.
The term comes from former Vice President and Governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller.
Prescott Bush (1895-1972) was a Republican member of the US Senate from Connecticut.
He was the father of American President George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of President George W. Bush and Governor of Florida and presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
He also worked with Brown Brothers Harriman.
He went to Yale University and was a member of Skull and Bones and the Yale Glee Club.
He was treasurer for Planned Parenthood.
The Irish Parliament () was a legislature created in 1297 to represent the Anglo-Irish in the English monarch's Lordship of Ireland.
Like the Parliament of England, it had its own Houses of Commons and House of Lords.
When King Henry VIII of England elevated Ireland to a kingdom in 1541 through an act of the Irish Parliament, he invited the Gaelic Irish to sit in the England Parliament for the first time.
However, later English monarchs' penal laws prevented Roman Catholics from entering Parliament.
So, the native Irish after this were virtually unrepresented since they were almost all Catholic.
The Irish Parliament's power was restricted by "Poynings law".
Poynings Law was a bill sponsored by English Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Edward Poynings in 1494.
In 1782, the bill was repealed and the kingdom of Ireland had brief period of legislative autonomy.
But in 1800 it passed a law called the Act of Union to abolish itself and the kingdom of Ireland, and incorporate Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
After that, the island was represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster.
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1297 establishments
Connie Francis is an American pop singer.
She is well known for her trademark sobbing styles.
She was popular during the 1950s and 1960s and topped the Billboard Hot 100 musical charts many times.
Connie Francis was born on December 12th 1937 to Ida and George Franconero.
For the first few years of her life she lived in a Brooklyn neighbourhood on Utica Avenue/St. Marks Avenue until her family packed up and moved to New Jersey.
She spent her teens years in an Italian/Jewish Neighbourhood; due to this, she became fluent in Yiddish and later went on to record multiple songs in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Francis recalls her father being a very supportive and encouraging her to regularly attend talent shows, pageants, etc.
since the age of four as a singer and accordion player.
She attended Newark Art School in 1951-’52 until her family moved to Belleville, where she graduated as Salutatorian from Belleville High School in the Class of 1955.
During this time she continued her passion for performing and appeared at many neighbourhood talent shows (some of which were televised).
Under the name Connie Franconero she appeared on NBCs variety show Startime Kids between 1953 and 1955.
During rehearsals for her appearance on Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts, she was advised to change her name (for the sake of easier pronunciation) and drop the accordion, advice she gladly took as she had begun to despise the bulky instrument.
She was also a singer on demo records around this time, she would record songs and companies or established singers would subsequently choose whether or not to buy the rights to the song and record it professionally.
In 1955 (the same year the Startime Kids went off the air), George Franconero Sr.
and Francis' manager George Scheck raised money for a recording session in an attempt to get four songs sold to a major company under Francis’ name, however they were declined as she had not yet developed her own distinctive sound.
When MGM Records finally signed her, it was only because of one song, “Freddy”, that the co-executive thought would make a good present for his son of the same name.
Her first few singles were commercial failures, her first chart success was in 1957 and that was a duet with Marvin Rainwater.
Her breakthrough, although amazing, came too late, after the failure of her last few singles her company said that her contract would not be renewed.
This led her to consider a career in medicine and was about to accept a four year scholarship had it not been for her father, who insisted that she record a cover of “Who’s Sorry Now?”
This, like the rest of her singles, at first went unnoticed but in 1958, after she did a performance on TV, it reached no.
1 on the UK Singles Chart and no.4 in the US and her contract was immediately renewed.
Over the next several years she would have many more commercial successes and would record some songs in European languages (such as, "Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel" that was first on German charts, and others in Yiddish, Irish, Hebrew, French, etc.).
After 15 years of this success she decided to allow her contact to run out and to distance herself from the business and would on appear on shows as a special guest.
After her moderate success with one single, she began to perform regularly again but sadly this led to an extremely tragic event; when performing at a music fair in New York in 1974 she was raped at a motel and almost suffocated under the weight of the mattress her attacker had thrown upon her.
She subsequently sued the motel she was staying in and received $2.5 million, this entire ordeal led to a reform in hotel security but her rapist was never found.
Francis went into a deep depression and reportedly began to abuse pills daily and rarely left her home.
In 1977 she decided to get nasal surgery and almost lost her voice, leading to her having to attend several other surgeries and vocal lessons.
A year after losing her voice she returned to the studio to cut an album called “Who’s Happy Now?”
She recorded “Where the Boys Are" also in Japanese, Italian, and Spanish, as she had done before with her original 1960 version.
Again in 1981 she returned to the studio to record her original releases under MGM records.
In 1981, more tragedy struck Francis as her Brother George Franconero Jr. (with whom she was very close) was killed by mafia hitmen.
Despite this event she took up performing again, her newfound success was short-lived though as she was soon diagnosed with manic depression and was committed to a total of 17 hospitals.
Francis admitted she even attempted suicide due to the hospitals environments being extremely upsetting.
Despite this, she was able to publish her autobiography Who’s Sorry Now that’s went on to become a The New York Times Bestseller.
In 1989 she resumed her career and re-recorded 18 of her biggest hits and in ’92 one of her biggest German hit charted and ended up among the best singles of the year, this brought Francis the R.SH-Gold award for best comeback of the year.
She continued to perform live in the more recent years also, in Las Vegas in 2004, San Francisco in 2007 and Manila in 2008.
She also appeared at the Las Vegas Hilton with Dionne Warwick and in 2017 released her most recent autobiography Among My Souvenirs.
The Work of Claus Ogerman, a pictorial discography showing albums and singles, along with studio photos and complete liner notes which document Francis' work in the 1960s with this arranger/conductor
Baltimore Net Radio—Features a one-hour weekly internet radio program streaming world-wide, devoted to the music of Connie Francis: "A Visit with Connie Francis" Thursdays from 3:00–4:00 p.m. NYT, with rebroadcasts as per the program schedule
Carlow is a town in the Republic of Ireland.
It was the capital of the English-controlled Lordship of Ireland from 1361 to 1374.
The Lamborghini Reventón is a supercar.
Lamborghini built it in 2007.
The Reventón is based on the Murciélago.
The styling of the Reventón was based on the F-22 Raptor.
Only 20 Reventóns were built.
Lamborghini first showed the Reventón to the publics at the 12,908 Frankfurt Auto Show.
Like many others Lamborghinis, the Reventón was named after a fighting bull.
The Reventón was based on the Lamborghini Murciélago, and used the same engine as the Murciélago LP640.
The Reventón uses the same  Lamborghini V12 engine as the Murciélago LP640.
The Reventón’s engine is also paired to the same six-speed automated manual transmission as the Murciélago LP640.
The Reventón, like the Murciélago, sends its power to all four wheels through an all-wheel drive system.
The Reventón’s engine makes  at 8,000 rpm.
It also makes  of torque at 6,000 rpm.
The Reventón can accelerate from from 0- in 3.4 seconds.
It can also reach a top speed of .
Lamborghini first showed the Reventón Roadster at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show.
The Roadster was a convertible version of the Reventón.
Lamborghini built 15 Reventón Roadsters.
The Reventón Roadster used the engine from the Murciélago LP 670–4 SV.
This engine had 30 more horsepower than the standard Reventón.
The Reventón Roadster has a lower top speed than the Reventón.
The Roadster’s top speed is .
The Roadster’s 0- time is 3.45 seconds, which is the same as the standard Reventón.
The Church of Ireland () is the Anglican church in Ireland.
It is an independent member of the Anglican communion.
During the kingdom of Ireland it was the state religion.
It continued to be during the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, when it became part of the Church of England.
It was disestablished and separated from the Church of England in 1871 by the British Parliament.
The seat of the Church of Ireland is at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.
Today the Church has roughly 390,000 members throughout Ireland, which makes it the second largest religious community in Ireland (after the Catholic Church) and the third largest in Northern Ireland (after the Catholic Church and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland).
Michael Francis O'Dwyer, KCIE, (April 1864 – 13 March 1940) was a British colonial administrator.
He was an Irish Roman Catholic.
He was Lieutenant Governor of Punjab during the Amritsar Massacre committed by General Dyer and was controversial for his defense of Dyer.
Pope Benedict I (575–579)
Pope Benedict II (684–685)
Pope Benedict III (855–858)
Pope Benedict IV (900–903)
Pope Benedict V (964)
Pope Benedict VI (972–974)
Pope Benedict VII (974–983)
Pope Benedict VIII (1012–1024)
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045–1046 & 1047–1048)
Antipope Benedict X
Pope Benedict XI (1303–1304)
Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342)
Pope Benedict XIII (1724–1730)
Pope Benedict XIV (1740–1758)
Antipope Benedict XIV
Pope Benedict XV (1914–1922)
Pope Benedict XVI (2005–2013)
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families is a treaty of the United Nations for the rights of all migrant workers.
It also protects their families.
It was adopted in 18 December 1990.
It went into force in 2003.
This Convention is made as a series of the international human rights law and at the "Preamble" of the Convention, they recall the conventions of the International Labour Organization about migrant workers and unfree labour.
The aid of the Convention is to protect the rights of migrant workers who have not the nationality of the staying country, thus who can often be under the worse working condition or even the victims of human trafficking.
But as of December 2019, only 55 countries have ratified, that is admitted formally the Convention.
Most of those countries are in North Africa and South America.
No migrant-receiving State in Western Europe or North America has ratified the Convention.
Other important receiving countries, such as Australia, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, India and South Africa have not ratified the Convention either.
Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers (full text)
Dominican monk
In 1254, Boccasini became a Dominican friar at the age of 14.
He rose in the ranks of the Order; and was elected General or Master of the Order of Preachers in 1296.
Pope Boniface VIII raised Boccasini to the rank of cardinal.
In 1298, he was named Cardinal of Santa Sabina.
Cardinal Boccasini was elected pope on October 22, 1303; and he chose to be called Benedict XI.
He was pope for only eight months.
Benedict XI was the author of a volume of sermons and commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew, on the Psalms, the Book of Job, and John's Apocalypse.
"St. Benedict XI.,
Pope and Confessor", Butler's Lives of the Saints''
Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Benedict XI
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Boccasini
1304 deaths
The Bell Centre () is a sports arena in Montreal, Quebec.
The arena opened on March 16, 1996, and is the current home to the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The arena was originally known as Molson Centre () from 1996 to 2002.
Bell Canada currently has naming rights for the arena.
The arena has also held several WWE events, which includes the Survivor Series in 1997, where the infamous Montreal Screwjob between Bret Hart, Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels took place, as well as other pay-per-views including No Way Out in 2003 and Breaking Point.
Pope Adrian I (772-795)
Pope Adrian II (767–872)
Pope Adrian III (884-885)
Pope Adrian IV (1154–1159), English pope
Pope Adrian V (1276)
Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523), Dutch pope
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is a Christmas themed song.
It was first written and recorded in 1934.
The song was adapted to a television special around 1970.
It has been recorded by multiple singers, including though not limited to Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Dolly Parton, The Jackson 5, The Crystals, Mariah Carey and Beach Boys since it was introduced.
America's Most Wanted is an American television program about wanted criminals that airs on Lifetime.
The program is about catching people wanted for catching serious crimes.
It aired on Fox from its debut until Fox canceled it on June 18, 2011.
Six months later, Lifetime brought the show back.
The creator and host is John Walsh.
The project began in April 2004 when Jessica Jackley came back from East Africa where she had worked as a consultant for the non-profit Village Enterprise Fund.
After, they began developing their plan for a microfinance project that became Kiva.
Kiva means “unity” in Swahili.
In January 2006, Premal Shah became Kiva’s president.
More and more countries were included in Kiva’s projects like Mongolia, Liberia and Columbia in 2009.
On top of that, since its creation, the organization has won a lot of  prizes, for example the World Summit Award for “e-Business” in 2007 and the Webby People’s Choice Award for Charitable Organizations in 2008.
Kiva has become more and more popular.
It belongs to the “50 best websites 2008” according to TIME magazine.
President Clinton’s book Giving names Kiva "a way to give back".
In October 2010, Kiva celebrated its fifth birthday.
In five years it has given 100 million loans.
Kiva follows the rules of microcredit.
Small, interest-free loans to people in difficulties or who cannot access a regular bank loan.
The following points represent the different steps of the Kiva  system.
Borrowers (they can be anyone in the world) meet “Field partners” and ask them for a  loan.
The field partners give the amount of money requested to the borrowers.
Then they ask Kiva to make a loan request on the website Kiva.org.
Kiva publishes the name of the borrower, the amount of money requested and the reason for the loan.
Kiva receives the money from generous lenders or groups of lenders and gives it to the Field partners.
As soon as they can, the borrowers begin to repay the loan.
To simplify all the transfers of money, there is a Kiva account which allows you to have a Kiva credit.
When you are repaid, the money is available on this account, and you can loan it again.
So, if you loan 25$, when you have been repaid you can lend it again, and actually, you have given 50$!
Kiva's home base
Kiva's team
Kiva's team is composed of around 450 employees and volunteers who work for the organisation.
There are different sectors:
microfinance
product marketing
partnerships (translators...)
The microcredit system
The system of microcredit generally deals with the attribution of low sum loans to businessmen or artisans who cannot have regular bank loans.
Microcredit is being developed in developing countries : nations with a low level of material wealth, where it allows small  “micro” projects to become reality.
It favours activity and wealth creation.
Microcredit is also practiced in developed countries.
On the 13th October 2006, Muhammad Yunus and the bank he created, Grameen Bank, were awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
They were rewarded because of  microcredit development at international, almost worldwide level.
This microcredit system is aimed at local economic development generally in poor countries to help small businesses and artisans to increase their goods or services production.
Thanks to this system, little by little it allows economic development at national level, then at international level.
It represents a solution to improve the situation of poor people.
Kiva official website
Waunfawr is a village in the small town of Aberystwyth in Wales.
It has a big secondary school called Penglais Comprehensive School, a community hall and a park.
It also has an old people's home, two shops and a chippy.
There are many houses in Waunfawr.
A decompression chamber is a large container that divers can enter after they have surfaced to help their bodies return to normal atmospheric pressure.
It is also called a "recompression chamber" or "hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber".
When a diver returns to the surface too quickly, he can suffer from decompression sickness (also know as "the bends".)
To prevent this divers would stop at various points as they returned toward the surface to allow their bodies to adjust to the pressure change.
If a driver uses a chamber, the diver will adjust in the chamber rather than stop at various depths underwater.
This eliminates many of the risks of long decompressions underwater, in cold or dangerous conditions.
A herbal is a collection of plant descriptions: Very often, it also lists the properties of each plant, or its use, for example for medicine or alchemy.
A herebal can also classify the plants it describes.
One of the oldest known herbals is the Vienna Dioscurides dating from the 6th century.
Physicians and Apothecaries were the main users of such books.
Herbals were also important for the study of botany.
Hieronymus Bock descrived the plants of southwestern Germany, in his 16th century herbal; he was the first to mention certain morphological features.
Herbarium or Herbar - a collection of plant specimens
Lindsay Wagner (b. June 22, 1949 near Los Angeles) is an Emmy Award winning television and movie actress.
She is best known as the main character in the television series The Bionic Woman.
She has done many other programs and movies since then.
Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924– May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.
On October 6, 2009, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".
Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he was the son of a medical doctor and moved to Quebec with his father and mother Beatrice when he was three.
He was home schooled by his mother until age fourteen, when he attended Montreal's Lower Canada College to complete his secondary education.
Boyle attended McGill University, but his education was interrupted in 1943, when he joined the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.
He was loaned to the Britain's Royal Navy, where he was learning how to land Spitfires on aircraft carriers as the war ended.
He gained a Bachelor of Science (1947), Master of Science (1948) and PhD (1950) from McGill University.
After receiving his doctorate, Boyle spent one year at Canada's Radiation Laboratory and two years teaching physics at the Royal Military College of Canada.
In 1953 Boyle joined Bell Labs a part of Bellcomm, where he invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962.
He also helped invent a semiconductor injection laser.
He became director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at the Bell Labs in 1962.
They provided support for the Apollo space program and helped to select Moon landing sites.
He returned to Bell Labs in 1964, working on the development of integrated circuits.
In 1969, Boyle and George E. Smith invented the charge-coupled device (CCD).
Before CCDs were used in cameras, all cameras used chemicals to capture photographic images.
CCDs made electronic photography possible.
Boyle and Smith jointly received the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the CCD.
NASA used the CCD to send clear pictures to Earth back from space.
CCD is also used in many digital cameras today.
Smith said of their invention: "After making the first couple of imaging devices, we knew for certain that chemistry photography was dead."
Boyle was Executive Director of Research for Bell Labs from 1975 until his retirement in 1979.
In retirement, he split his time between Halifax and Wallace, Nova Scotia where he helped launch an art gallery with his wife Betty, a landscape artist.
He married Betty in 1947, and has four children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2010.
Boyle died in Wallace from kidney disease.
Canadian physicists
Baku Metro (), is an electrified metro railway system which is a part of the public transportation system of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
It was opened on 6 November 1967.
At that time, Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Baku Metro has the features found in most other ex-Soviet metro systems.
These include very deep metro stations, and detailed decorations that blend traditional Azerbaijani national designs with Soviet ideology.
The metro system has three lines and has 38.1 kilometers of double railway tracks with 26 stations, all of which is underground.
It is run by the Bakı Metropoliteni.
In 2015, it carried 222.0 million passengers, which means an average ridership of approximately 608,200 passengers each day.
At present, there are several projects, only two of which are under construction.
In 2011, the Chief Executive of the Baku Metro, Taghi Ahmadov, announced plans to construct 70 new stations by 2040.
These will serve the new bus complex as well as Heydar Aliyev International Airport.
Renaming of stations
Baku Metro Track Map
Urbanrail - Baku Metro
Baku Public Transportation
Rail transport in Azerbaijan
Buildings and structures in Baku
20th-century establishments in Azerbaijan
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941October 12, 2011), was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era."
He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system.
Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999.
Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
He was the 'R' in K&R C.
Dennis Ritchie's home page at Bell Labs
Williamson, Marcus, "Obituary: Dennis Ritchie: Computer software pioneer", The Independent (UK), Monday, 17 October 2011
"Obituary"The Economist (UK), 20 October 2011
Transcript of an interview with Dennis Ritchie – Interview by Michael S. Mahoney
Interview with Dennis M. Ritchie – By Manuel Benet (published in LinuxFocus.org in July 1999)
"The C Family of Languages: Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling" -  article in Java Report, 5(7), July 2000 and C++ Report, 12(7), July/August 2000
- "The Guru" - article in Linux Magazine, June 2001
Unix.se DMR interview published February 7.
Ritchie and Thompson Receive National Medal of Technology from President Clinton
The future according to Dennis Ritchie – LinuxWorld.com 12/4/00
The Limbo Programming Language by Dennis M. Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie's video interview June 2011
Mayim Bialik (born December 12, 1975 in San Diego) is an American actress and neuroscientist.
She also wrote a controversial book about raising kids.
Her most notable television series are NBC's Blossom and CBS' The Big Bang Theory.
In Blossom, Bialik played a teenage girl living with her father.
In The Big Bang Theory, she plays Amy Farrah Fowler.
Bialik has also acted in a number of movies, including Beaches in 1988.
many voices of TV shows include, The Powerpuff Girls in Season 9, Recess, Johnny Bravo, Nutri Ventures, Jonny Quest, Star Vs.
The Forces of Evil, Lloyd In Space, etc.
In 2021, she was a guest host on Jeopardy!
after the death of Alex Trebek.
After Mike Richards resigned as host, Bialik is splitting hosting duties with Ken Jennings for the remainder of the 2021-22 season.
Bialik is Jewish.
She married Michael Stone on August 31, 2003.
The couple have two sons, and divorced in May 2013.
Blossom was an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 1991 to May 1995.
The main stars were Mayim Bialik and Joey Lawrence.
Bialik played Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers after her mother left to pursue her own career.
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow; February 9, 1945) is an American singer, actress and humanitarian worker.
She has won many awards, including a Golden Globe.
She has been in almost 50 movies.
Farrow is also known for her extensive humanitarian work.
Time magazine named Farrow one of the most influential people in the world.
She gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra.
She later married André Previn after she became pregnant with his child.
She has dated Woody Allen.
Farrow's first main role in a movie was as Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary's Baby and starred in the television series Peyton Place.
She won several awards for it.
She became the first American actress to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In the 1980s and early 1990s Farrow acted in nearly all of the movies released by her boyfriend Woody Allen.
She last acted in the 2011 movie Dark Horse.
Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966.
He divorced Farrow in 1969.
In 1980 Farrow started dating Woody Allen.
In 1992 Farrow found naked pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn in Allen's house.
Farrow and Allen broke up after this.
She has thirteen living children and nine grandchildren.
Two of her daughters have died.
Farrow has seven adopted children.