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By the morning of September 8, Hurricane Ivan was a category 4 hurricane, and later on that day, Hurricane Ivan came close to the Netherlands Antilles.
For about twelve hours on September 9, Hurricane Ivan was a category 5 (the strongest category a hurricane can be).
Hurricane Ivan weakened a little bit before it came close to Jamaica on September 10.
Ivan strengthened into a category 5 again on September 11 after moving away from Jamaica.
At this point, Ivan reached its strongest winds, which were at 165 mph.
But Ivan again weakened before it moved close to the Grand Cayman Islands on September 12.
For just one more time, Hurricane Ivan again became a category 5 hurricane later on September 12.
By later on September 13 it entered the Gulf of Mexico and weakened back to a category 4 hurricane.
For most of Ivan's trip across the Gulf of Mexico, it stayed as a category 4 hurricane.
Later on September 13 it entered the Gulf of Mexico and weakened back to a category 4 hurricane.
But by midday on September 15, Hurricane Ivan weakened to a category 3 hurricane.
About 2 a.m. Central Daylight Time, on September 16, Hurricane Ivan made landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama, while winds were at 120 mph.
Ivan weakened fast after landfall.
On the same day Hurricane Ivan weakened to a tropical storm in Central Alabama.
Even later that day, in Northern Alabama, Tropical Storm Ivan weakened into a depression.
Tropical Depression Ivan stayed as a depression as it moved through several states.
On September 18 it almost survived its way back out to the Atlantic Ocean.
But Tropical Depression Ivan died on September 18 in Eastern Maryland.
The remains entered the Atlantic Ocean and moved south.
On September 21 the remains of Ivan crossed into Southern Florida.
The remains moved west and went into the Gulf of Mexico.
About halfway it reformed and became a tropical depression again on September 22 and shortly later, it became a tropical storm again.
Tropical Storm Ivan weakened back to a depression as it moved close to Louisiana and Texas.
On September 24 Ivan made landfall in Cameron, Louisiana and finally died out over Texas on September 24.
The remains were last seen in the Gulf of Mexico on September 25.
Ivan killed about 121 people.
1 In Barbados, 2 In Cayman Islands, 4 In Dominican Republic, 39 In Grenada, 17 In Jamaica, 1 In Trinidad and Tobago, 54 In the United States, and 3 In Venezuela.
In total, Ivan caused $18 billion in damage, nearly $13 billion was in the United States.
Caribbean and Venezuela
Ivan affected many islands in the Caribbean including Barbados, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.
In the Caribbean, Ivan caused about $3 billion in damage.
But the damage in the Dominican Republic is unknown.
The most damage was to the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Grenada.
$3.5 billion in damage in the Cayman Islands, $1.2 billion in Cuba, and $1.1 billion in Grenada.
In Venezuela, Ivan caused four people to get killed.
The damage in Venezuela is unknown, but on the northern coast, nearly 60 homes were damaged.
The United States got the worst of the hurricane as it made landfall in Alabama.
In the United States, about 54 were killed.
About 14 died in Florida, 8 were killed in North Carolina, 2 were killed in Georgia, and 1 was also killed in Mississippi.
The other 32 were "indirect" deaths.
Ivan also caused $13 billion in damage in the United States.
In Cruso, North Carolina about 17 inches of rain fell, which was the highest amount recorded from Ivan in the United States.
After Ivan reformed and made landfall in Texas, it caused up to 7 inches of rain in Texas and Louisiana.
Because the damage was high, the name Ivan was retired in the Spring of 2005.
Meaning, the name Ivan will not be used for another storm in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2010 the name "Igor" will be used instead.
Ivan could have caused a wave that was nearly 131 feet high.
Hurricane Ivan was also at the time, the third costliest hurricane in the United States.
It was beaten by Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Wilma, and Hurricane Ike.
So now it is about the sixth costliest hurricane in the United States.
Ivan got an ACE total at 70.38 which is the second-highest for an Atlantic hurricane, second only to the 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco, which had 73.57.
Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan
HPC Rainfall Page for Ivan
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center advisory archive on Tropical Depression Ivan
Orange Beach is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.
At the 2000 census the population was 3,784.
The city hosts popular annual events such as Viking longboat races, dolphin riding competitions, and para-gliding over the locally famous Bear Point Canyon.
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990, Paris France) is an English actress and model.
She is known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
She has played roles in other movies aside from the Harry Potter series, including The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and Ballet Shoes (2007).
She became the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014.
As late as 2019, Watson performed in the film adaption of Little Women, playing Meg.
Emma Watson is the daughter of Chris and Jacqueline Watson.
She has one brother, Alex, as well as one stepbrother, Toby, and two stepsisters, Lucy and Nina.
As Watson has grown older, she has become more interested in fashion.
She says that she thinks fashion is like art, which she studied in school.
In September 2008, she told a blogger, "I've been focusing on art a lot, and fashion's a great extension of that."
In 2008, the British news reported that Watson was going to be the model for the fashion house Chanel instead of Keira Knightley, but both Watson and Knightley said that this was not true.
In June 2009, Watson said that she would be helping Burberry by being a part of their new Autumn/Winter 2009 collection.
She was later a part of Burberry's 2010 Spring/Summer campaign with her brother Alex, musicians George Craig and Matt Gilmour, and Max Hurd.
English child actors
Rupert Alexander Lloyd  Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor and producer.
He is best known for playing the character of Ronald Weasley in all eight of the Harry Potter films.
In early July 2009 Grint had swine flu and was forced to take a few days off from filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Postman Pat: The Movie (2014)
Comrade (2012)
Eddie the Eagle (2012)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010)
Wild Target (2010)
Cherrybomb (2010)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Driving Lessons (2006)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Thunderpants (2002)
For the moon of Jupiter, see Metis (moon).
9 Metis is one of the biggest main belt asteroids.
It is made of silicates and metallic nickel-iron, and may be the core remnant of a big asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient collision.
Metis was found by Andrew Graham on April 25, 1848; it was his only asteroid discovery.
It is also the only asteroid to have been found as a result of observations from Ireland.
Its name comes from the mythological Metis, a Titaness and Oceanid, daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.
The name Thetis was also considered and rejected (it would later devolve to 17 Thetis).
Hubble space telescope images and lightcurve analyses are in agreement that Metis has a non-spherical stretched shape with one pointed and one broad end.
Radar observations suggest the presence of a significant flat area, in agreement with the shape model from lightcurves.
Light curve data on Metis led to an assumption that it could have a moon.
Later searches with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993 found no moons.
"Notice of discovery of Metis", MNRAS 8 (1848) 146
Irish Astronomical History: Markree Castle Observatory and The Discovery of the Asteroid Metis
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
Ely, Cardiff, Wales
Ely Place, Camden
Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation, Nevada
Ely Township, Michigan
The Isle of Ely, England
River Ely, Wales
Taff-Ely, a local government district in Wales from 1974 to 1996
People named Ely
Ely Buendia, a Filipino musician
Ely Callaway, founder of Callaway Golf
Eugene Burton Ely, aviation pioneer
Joe Ely, a honky-tonk/country musician
John Ely (further list)
Melvin Ely, an American professional basketball player
Michael Ely, an author
Richard T. Ely, an American economist
Ron Ely, stage name of an American actor born Ronald Pierce
Smith Ely, Jr., a mayor of New York City
William Ely, an Australian politician
Saint Ermenilda of Ely, daughter of King Eorcenberht of Kent and Saint Seaxburh of Ely.
Nicholas of Ely,  Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century
Saint Seaxburh of Ely, an Anglo-Saxon princess, abbess and saint
Diocese of Ely, a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury
Ely (band) from North England
Ely Airport, also known as Yelland Field
Ely-Criglar House (also known as the Francis R. Ely House), a historic site in Marianna, Florida
Ely Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Ely Racecourse, Cardiff
Ely railway station
Marquess of Ely (also Earl of Ely), a title in the peerage of Ireland
ELY is the ICAO airline code for El Al.
Ely Airport, also known as Yelland Field, has IATA code ELY.
Ely railway station has National Rail code ELY.
Elyria, Ohio rail station has Amtrak station code ELY.
Callaway Golf Company has NYSE code ELY.
Saint Louis IX (25 April, 1214–25 August, 1270), also called Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 to his death.
He established the Parlement of Paris.
after his death he was canonised (declared a saint) in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.
Two other important biographies were written by the king's confessor, Geoffrey of Beaulieu, and his chaplain, William of Chartres.
While several other people wrote biographies about the king, only Jean de Joinville, Geoffrey of Beaulieu, and William of Chartres had reliable information.
Louis was born at Poissy, near Paris.
He was the son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.
Louis was eleven years old when his father died on November 8, 1226.
He was crowned king the same year in the cathedral at Reims.
Because Louis was so young, his mother ruled France as regent while he was a child.
Crusading
He went on crusade twice, in his mid-30s in 1248 and then again in his mid-50s in 1270.
In 1250, after initial success in his first crusade, Louis's army of 15,000 men was met by overwhelming resistance from the Egyptian army and people.
Louis and his army were captured by Muslims in Egypt.
Later that year, they were released.
To be released, he had to give back the land that he had taken over.
where he was captured.
After his release from Egypt, Louis spent four years in the crusader Kingdoms of Acre, Caesarea, and Jaffe.
Both crusades were complete disasters;
In 1252, Louis attempted an alliance with the Egyptians, for the return of Jerusalem if the French assisted with the subduing of Damascus.
In 1253, Louis tried to seek allies from the Ismailian Assassins and the Mongols.
Louis was Catholic, and he built the Sainte Chapelle ("Holy Chapel") on the Île de la Cité in the centre of Paris.
It is thought that the French monarchy was trying to establish the kingdom of France as the "new Jerusalem."
Louis IX tried to make France, which was seen as being a very religious place, a protector of the Church.
It worked, and between the 12th and 13th centuries, France and the pope were very close.
Blanche (1240 – April 29, 1243)
Isabelle (March 2, 1241 – January 28, 1271), married Theobald V of Champagne
Louis (February 25, 1244 – January 1260)
Philippe III (May 1, 1245 – October 5, 1285)
Jean (born and died in 1248)
Jean Tristan (1250 – August 3, 1270), married Yolande of Burgundy
Pierre (1251–1284), Count of Perche and Alençon; Count of Blois and Chartres in right of his wife, Joanne of Châtillon
Blanche (1253–1323), married Ferdinand de la Cerda, Infante of Castille
Marguerite (1254–1271), married John I, Duke of Brabant
Robert, Count of Clermont (1256 – February 7, 1317).
He was the ancestor of King Henry IV of France.
Agnes of France (ca 1260 – December 19, 1327), married Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
During his second crusade, Louis died at Tunis, August 25, 1270, and his son, Philip III, replaced him as king.
He may have died either of bubonic plague or dysentry.
Places named after Saint Louis
Etext full version of the Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, a biography of Saint Louis written by one of his knights
Biography of Saint Louis on the Patron Saints Index
1214 births
1270 deaths
The Federal Ministry of Intra-German Relations () was a federal ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
It was responsible for all relations with the East German government.
This was because the West German government said there should be only one Germany.
This meant they could not use the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because they could not admit that East Germany was a foreign country.
The ministry was created in 1949 as the Federal Ministry of All-German Affairs ().
This ministry was also in charge of matters about the German lands east of the Oder-Neisse-Line which had become a part of Poland.
The ministry was renamed in 1969 when Willy Brandt signed a treaty with Poland which said that Poland's western border was along the Oder and Neisse Rivers.
This was part of Willy Brandt's ideas of Ostpolitik.
At that time Poland was under a communist government.
They could not allow West Germany to sign a treaty about East Germany's borders, which is why the treaty says "the western border of Poland" and not "the border between Germany and Poland".
The ministry was abolished in 1991, about one year after German Reunification, after helping with the change to one country.
All "intra-German affairs" are now jobs of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Minister of the Interior is now also Commissioner for the New Bundesländer to show that there is still some work to make all  of the states equal.
BMgF (Hrsg.):
SBZ von A-Z, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn, 1.
bis 10.
Aufl.,
1953 bis 1966, ca.
500 Seiten.
Sowjetische Auffassungen zur Deutschlandfrage 1945 – 1954.
Dargestellt nach amtlichen Dokumenten, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn, 1954.
Wer ist wer in der SBZ?
Ein biographisches Handbuch, Verlag für Internationalen Kulturaustausch, Berlin, 1958.
Die Situation der Jugend im kommunistischen Herrschaftssystem der SBZ Deutschlands in Bonner Berichte aus Mittel- und Ostdeutschland, Bonn – Berlin, 1960.
Die Bemühungen der Bundesrepublik um Wiederherstellung der Einheit Deutschlands durch gesamtdeutsche Wahlen.
Dokumente und Akten.
I. Teil, Oktober 1949 – Oktober 1953, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn, 1958.
Intra-German Relations
East Sussex is a county created on 1 April 1974.
It is in South East England.
10 Hygiea is the fourth biggest object in the asteroid belt.
It is somewhat non-spherical in shape, with diameters of 350 – 500 km.
Its mass is estimated to be 3% of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
It is the biggest of the class of dark C-type asteroids with a carbonaceous surface that are dominant in the farther part main belt, which lies beyond the Kirkwood gap at 2.82 AU, and is also the biggest body in this region.
Its dark surface and bigger than average distance from the Sun makes it very dim for such a big asteroid when seen from Earth.
In fact it is the third dimmest of the first twenty-three asteroids discovered, with only 13 Egeria and the quite small 17 Thetis having lower mean opposition magnitudes.
At most oppositions, Hygiea has a magnitude of around +10.2, which is as much as four orders fainter than Vesta, and will need at least a 4-inch telescope to resolve.
At a perihelic opposition, however, Hygiea can reach +9.1 and may just be resolvable with 10x50 binoculars, unlike the fifth and sixth biggest asteroids 704 Interamnia and 511 Davida which are always beyond binocular visibility.
Hygiea was found by Annibale de Gasparis on April 12, 1849 in Naples, Italy.
It is named after Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, daughter of Asclepius (Aesculapius for the Romans).
The asteroid was named by the director of the Naples observatory, Ernesto Capocci.
He called it Igea Borbonica ("Bourbon Hygieia") in honor of the ruling family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies where Naples was located.
However, by 1852, John Russell Hind wrote that "it is universally termed Hygeia, the unnecessary appendage 'Borbonica' being dropped."
The name was often spelled Hygeia in the nineteenth century, for example in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Generally Hygiea's properties are the least known out of the "big four" objects in the main belt.
Its orbit is much closer to the plane of the ecliptic than those of Ceres, Pallas or Interamnia, but is less circular than Ceres or Vesta with an eccentricity of around 12%.
Its perihelion is at a quite similar longitude to those of Vesta and Ceres, though its ascending and descending nodes are opposite the corresponding ones for those objects.
Although its perihelion is extremely close to the mean distance of Ceres and Pallas, a collision between Hygiea and its bigger companions is impossible because at that distance they are always on opposite sides of the ecliptic.
At aphelion Hygiea reaches out to the extreme edge of the asteroid belt at the perihelia of the Hilda family which is in 3:2 resonance with Jupiter.
At least 5 stellar occultations by Hygiea were tracked by Earth-based observers, but all with few seeing independent measurements so that much was not learned of its shape.
The Hubble Space Telescope was able to resolve the asteroid, and to rule out the presence of any orbiting companions bigger than about 16 km in diameter
A simulation of the orbit of Hygiea
Karl Walter Claus Carstens (14 December 1914 - 29 May 1992) was a German politician.
He served as the fifth Federal President of West Germany.
Born in Bremen, Carstens studied law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Dijon, Munich, Königsberg, and Hamburg from 1933 to 1936.
In 1949 he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Yale Law School.
Carstens joined the Nazi Party in 1940.
This was when he was a law clerk.
He said he had to join the party or he would not be treated fairly.
But this does not explain why Carstens had joined the SA, another Nazi party group, in 1933.
In July 1960 Carstens started to work for the government.
He was a secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the same year he was also appointed as professor for public and international law at Cologne University.
During the Grand coalition government (1966-1969), he was in the Ministry of Defence, and in 1968 he became Director of the Chancellor's Office.
In 1972 Carstens was elected into the Bundestag.
He stayed a member until 1979.
He often spoke against the left-wing ideas in German society and accused the governing SPD of being to soft on left-wing extremists.
He also famously denounced the author Heinrich Böll as a supporter of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
On 23 May 1979 Carstens was elected as President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Carstens was well known for hiking around Germany during his term in order to decrease the gulf between politics and the people.
In December 1982, the recently elected Chancellor Helmut Kohl deliberately lost a motion of confidence in order to hold new general elections.
On 7 January 1983, President Carstens dissolved the Bundestag and called for new elections.
In February 1983 the Federal Constitutional Court said that deliberately losing the vote was allowed, so the general elections could take place.
Michael F. Feldkamp (ed.),
Der Bundestagspräsident.
Amt - Funktion - Person.
Wahlperiode, München 2007,
Politicians from Bremen (state)
Rena Sinakin (born March 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
She was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Sinakin started her career as a singer on Capitol Records.
She later went on record on Atlantic/Atco.
During the 1970s, she moved into production.
She produced Gladys Knight and the Pips, McFadden and Whitehead and John Lennon's band Elephants Memory.
The song is about the singer asking her lover not to end their relationship.
She suggests many things that he could do, just as long as he does not "say the two words, which mean it's over" (the two words being "Goodbye, darling" – "" in Bosnian).
1997 songs
After military service Lammert studied political science, sociology, modern history and social economics at the university of Bochum and the University of Oxford (England) from 1969 to 1975.
He graduated in 1972 but carried on studying to get a doctorate in social sciences in 1975.
Although he has worked as a lecturer, Lammert became a member of the Bochum City Council in 1975.
He was elected to the Bundestag in 1980, and has been a member ever since.
In 2005, he was elected the President of the Bundestag, the German parliament.
Even though the President of the Bundesrat acts as deputy for the Federal President, according to the German order of precedence, Lammert, as President of the Bundestag, is Germany's highest ranking official after the Federal President.
Official biography at the Bundestag
Lammert's website
People from Bochum
Amarna ( al-‘amārnä) is on the east bank of the Nile in the modern Egyptian province of Minya.
It is a big archaeological site.
It has the remains of the capital city built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1353 BC), and abandoned shortly afterwards.
The Amarna period is the time when Amarna was the capital.
"Amarna" is the Arabic name for the place.
The name for the city used by the ancient Egyptians is written as Akhetaten in English.
It translates to "the Horizon of the Aten" (Akh-t-Aten).
Amarna art
The Amarna art-style broke with the old Egyptian conventions.
It showed its people more realistically.
It included informal scenes, such as affection within the royal family or playing with their children.
It no longer portrayed women as lighter coloured than men.
The art had a realism that sometimes shocks.
This art had a more lasting legacy than the religion.
The University of Cambridge's Amarna Project
Amarna Art Gallery Shows just a few, but stunning, examples of the art of the Amarna period.
Wallis Budge describes the discovery of the Amarna tablets
M.A. Mansoor Amarna Collection-
A decomposer is an organism that breaks down long chain polymers from dead organisms into smaller molecules.
Decomposers are bacteria and fungi.
What they do is use the parts and energy to build up their own materials, which are also organic.
Decomposers are heterotrophs.
This means they use organic substrates to get their energy, carbon and nutrients for growth and development.
Decomposers break down cells of other organisms using biochemical reactions without need for internal digestion.
This is different from detritivores, which actually digest dead organic matter.
Decomposition also involves abiotic decomposition.
This is breakdown by chemical processes, such as hydrolysis, or physical processes, such as heat.
This turns organic material into inorganic material, and so returns nutrients to the environment.
Saleisha Stowers is the winner of the 9th season of America's Next Top Model, a model competition on 2007.
She was born on January 10, 1986 and is now a model with Elite Model Management.
Stowers also won CoverGirl cosmetics worth $100,000 and a cover on a magazine called Seventeen.
Before America's Next Top Model
Stowers worked at a service counter.
She joined a camp by model Tyra Banks called T-Zone because she had no confidence in herself.
After the camp, she had more confidence and became more contented as a person.
Stowers was in the sixth season of the competition as a minor model with a one-second appearance.
She also was a model on Tyra Banks' show.
Stowers joined the ninth season of America's Next Top Model and became one of the 13 girls to become contestants.
She dated judge Nigel Barker in the show.
Stowers knew Tyra Banks, which made some people think it was unfair to the other girls.
Stowers also was in an advertisement before the contest.
The rule states that contestants must not be in advertisements in the previous five years.
Isaac Albéniz (pronounced EE-saac al-BAY-nith) (born Camprodón, Catalonia, Spain, 29 May 1860; died Cambô-les-Bains, Spain, 18 May 1909) was a Spanish composer and pianist.
He wrote a lot of piano music.
His best known work is the collection of 12 piano pieces called Iberia which have lots of exciting Spanish rhythms.
These pieces are very difficult to play.
He also wrote several zarzuelas (light-hearted Spanish operas) and he tried to make the zarzuela more serious, but the public did not want that.
He helped to make Spanish music more popular in other countries.
Albéniz started to learn the piano when he was three.
His elder sister taught him.
He was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four.
When he was seven he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was not given a place because they thought he was too young.
A year later his father lost his job, so he took his two children on tour so that they could give concerts and earn some money.
In 1869 the family moved to Madrid, but Albéniz  had an unsettled childhood.
He twice ran away from home, giving concerts in various places and even escaping as a stowaway to South America where he visited Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and then the USA.
He returned to Spain in 1873.
By the age of fifteen, he had already given concerts all over the world.
After a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1876 he went to study in Brussels.
In 1880, he went to Budapest wanting to study with Franz Liszt, but Liszt was not there.
In 1874 his sister wanted to become a singer at the Teatro de la Zarzuela.
When she did not get a place there she committed suicide.
Albéniz continued to travel all over the world.
In 1883, he met the teacher and composer Felipe Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Suite Española, Op.
The fifth movement of that suite, called Asturias (Leyenda), was later arranged for guitar.
It is probably the most famous piece for classical guitar.
The composer Francisco Tárrega made guitar arrangements of many other piano works by Albéniz.
Albéniz once said that he preferred Tárrega’s guitar arrangements to his own original piano versions.
During the 1890s Albéniz lived in London and Paris and wrote mainly theatrical works.
In 1900 he started to suffer from Bright's disease and started to write more piano music.
Between 1905 and 1909 he composed his most famous work, Iberia (1908), a suite of twelve piano "impressions".
His orchestral works include Spanish Rhapsody (1887) and Catalonia (1899).
In 1883, the composer married his student Rosina Jordana.
They had three children, Blanca (who died in 1886), Laura (a painter), and Alfonso (who played for Real Madrid in the early 1900s before becoming a diplomat).
Although he became world famous as a composer and pianist he was not properly appreciated in his own country.
The Spaniards were jealous of his international reputation and thought he was a Spaniard who had deserted his country.
He spent his last years in Paris where he had many friends including Gabriel Fauré, Vincent d’Indy, Paul Dukas and Claude Debussy.
There are no recordings of his piano playing but he had a very individual style.
He was able to put a lot of colour and life into his playing.
He had learned a lot from Liszt.
Most of his works are for piano.
The Suite Iberia is his best work.
A lot of the music is based on Spanish folksong.
Spanish pianists
James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
He is an original member of the thrash metal band Metallica.
Hetfield married his wife Francesca Tomasi on August 17, 1997.
Tyra Banks (born December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California) is an American supermodel and actress.
She is hosts her television programs, America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show.
Tyra is 5'11" tall.
She is the CEO of her own company, TYInc.
She was the first African American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Tyra is the "Youth Correspondent" for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
She signed modeling contract with the Elite Agency when she was 15 years old.
Before she signed, Tyra planned on attending Loyola Marymount University.
Actors from Inglewood, California
America's Next Top Model is a reality television series created and hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks.
It began in 2003 on UPN.
It moved to The CW for its seventh cycle in 2006 when it replaced UPN.
After 22 cycles, the show has been canceled with the last episode is going to be aired on December 4, 2015
A group of contestants are chosen to live together in the Top Model House and compete to become America's Next Top Model.
Each week, one girl is asked to leave (called 'elimination') because she does not have the standard and ability to become a top model.
The elimination is based on a photoshoot or a commercial and the reward challenge is different every week.
The last few girls travel to another country (France, Italy, Japan, China, Thailand etc.)
to continue the competition.
Near the end, they will do a CoverGirl commercial.
Then, the last girls appear in a final runway show against each other.
The winner is then chosen by the group of judges that includes Tyra Banks and others.
Tyra Banks - main judge, supermodel (Cycle 1 - 22)
Kelly Cutrone - PR maven (Cycle 18 - 22)
J. Alexander (Miss Jay) - male runway coach (Cycle 5 - 13, 21 - 22)
Kimora Lee Simmons - fashion company owner (Cycle 1)
Beau Quillian - fashion editor for Marie Claire (Cycle 1)
Janice Dickinson - (Cycle 1 - 4)
Eric Nicholson - fashion editor for Jane (Cycle 2)
Nigel Barker - a fashion photographer (Cycle 2 - 18)
Nole Marin - make-up artist (Cycle 3 - 4)
Twiggy - supermodel (Cycle 5 - 9)
Paulina Porizkova - top model ( Cycle 10 - 12)
André Leon Talley - fashion editor (cycle 14 - 17)
Rob Evans - male supermodel (Cycle 19 - 20)
Johnny Wujek - photoshoot creative director (Cycle 19 - 20)
Spin-Offs
This show has many spin offs, some of them aren't produced anymore.
Here are the most important:
Britain's and Ireland's Next Top Model
Germany's Next Top Model
The Prime Minister of France is the person who controls the government of France.
He is appointed by the President of France.
The current Prime Minister of France is Jean Castex.
He was given the job by President Emmanuel Macron on July 3, 2020.
List of prime ministers (since 1958)
Francois Fillon, (born 4 March 1954) is a former Prime Minister of France.
He was born in Le Mans.
Nicolas Sarkozy gave him the job on 17 May 2007.
He resigned on 15 May 2012, following the defeat of Sarkozy in the presidential elections.
In 2017, Fillon ran for President of France and at some point was seen as the front-runner.
However, following an embezzlement investigation his popularity decreased and lost the first round to Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
On February 24, 2020, Fillon became one of the few Prime Ministers to ever go on trial.
On June 29, 2020, he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.
Concordat of Worms condemns Pierre Abélard's writings on the Holy Trinity.
Later in the year, Canon Fulbert (not to be confused with Fulbert of Chartres (960-1028)), uncle of Heloise, has Abélard castrated.
Reading Abbey is founded.
David the Builder, King of Georgia, with the army of 55,000 defeats the 200,000-strong Muslim coalition troops at Didgori, Eastern Georgia.
December 11 — Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
William of Champeaux, French philosopher
Zhou Tong, archery teacher and second military arts tutor of famous Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
September 23 — Resolution of Investiture Controversy in the Concordat of Worms.
Pierre Abélard writes Sic et Non.
Battle of Beroia
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (approximate date) (d. 1204).
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1190).
Alexander I of Scotland, king of Scots
Ralph d'Escures, archbishop of Canterbury
Ilghazi, Ortoqid ruler of Mardin
Arnulf of Montgomery, Anglo-Norman aristocrat (b. 1068)
Margrave Ottokar II of Styria
First Council of the Lateran confirms Concordat of Worms and demands that priests remain celibate.
End of the reign of Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan.
Emperor Sutoku ascends to the throne of Japan.
St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts) founded in London, England.
The Pactum Warmundi is established between the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (d. 1160)
Leonardo Fibonacci, Mathematician born (d. 1209)
August 29 — Eystein I of Norway (b. around 1088)
Wanyan Aguda, chieftain of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe (b. 1068)
Peter of Pappacarbone
May 23 — Lothair of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V.
War ends between Toulouse and Provence.
The castle of Nassau is built.
Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.
June 11 — The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Azaz.
Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (d. 1194)
Lu You, Chinese poet (d. 1210)
January 24 — King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073).
April 12 — Vladislav I of Bohemia.
May 19 — Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev.
May 23 — Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081).
October 21 — Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler.
Eustace III of Boulogne.
Ingold II, ruler of Sweden (b. 1105).
The 1986 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in Mexico in 1986.
24 national teams took part.
Argentina won the trophy after beating Germany in the final.
Diego Maradona was the best player of the tournament.
Algeria (ALG) • Squad
Iraq (IRQ) • Squad
Hungary (HUN) • Squad
Northern Ireland (NIR) • Squad
Canada (CAN) • Squad
Ranking of third-place teams
Starting with the 1994 World Cup, teams were awarded three points for a win rather than two, to encourage more offensive tactics.
Had those rules been in place, Hungary would have finished ahead of Bulgaria for the 15th seed, and Uruguay would have been eliminated.
The top four teams qualified for the knockout stage.
1980s in Mexico
Football in Mexico
For other meanings of the word, see Amethyst (disambiguation).
The color amethyst is a moderate, transparent purple.
It is also known as a deep shade of lavender .
Its name is from the stone amethyst.
This stone is a form of quartz but it is not always purple.
It was a very prized stone before more of it was found.
In a RGB color space, hex #9966cc (also known as Amethyst) is composed of 60% red, 40% green and 80% blue.
Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 25% cyan, 50% magenta, 0% yellow and 20% black.
It has a hue angle of 270 degrees, a saturation of 50% and a lightness of 60%.
Color Codes
RGB Decimal: 153, 102, 204
RGB Percent: 60, 40, 80
Hex triplet: 9966cc
HSL: 270°, 50, 60
Sapphire is a deep blue or bright blue color that is a representation of the color of a sapphire.
Sapphire gems are most commonly found in a range of blue shades.
Other names for variations of the color sapphire are blue sapphire or sapphire blue, shown below.
The first written use of sapphire as a color name in English was in 1430.
Meaning of sapphire
In the Old Testament of the Bible, in the Book of Ezekiel, it is stated that God sits upon a sapphire throne in Heaven.
It is possible that this may be the source of the importance of the color blue in Judaism.
Tones of sapphire color comparison chart
Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
It is in the southern Caribbean Sea, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada.
The island is not hit by hurricanes very often.
Tobago House of Assembly
WorldStatesmen Trinidad and Tobago
Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago Tourism Development Company
The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is an intensely dry, warm and sometimes dust-laden layer of the atmosphere which often overlays the cooler, more-humid surface air of the Atlantic Ocean.
In the Sahara Desert region of North Africa, where it originates, it is the prevalent atmosphere, extending from the surface upwards several kilometers.
As it drives, or is driven, out over the ocean, it is lifted above the denser marine air.
This arrangement is an inversion where the temperature increases with height.
The boundary between the SAL and the marine layer suppresses or "caps" any convection originating in the marine layer.
Since it is dry air, the lapse rate within the SAL itself is steep, that is, the temperature falls rapidly with height.
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Portland Point is the southernmost point in Jamaica.
It is half-way along the island's south coast at the end of a hilly peninsula.
The Yucatán Channel is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.
It is also called the Straits of Yucatán.
The channel connects the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico.
It is just over  wide.
It is about  deep at its deepest point near the coast of Cuba.
George Town, Grand Cayman, is the capital of the Cayman Islands, in the British West Indies.
The town has a population of 20,626 (1999 estimates).
Guanahacabibes Peninsula is the western most point on the island of Cuba.
It is in the Pinar del Río Province, in the municipality of Sandino and is sparsely populated.
The waters surrounding the peninsula are important lobster and red snapper fishing grounds.
It also boasts the category of Biosphere Reserve, listed by UNESCO in 1987.
Its western extremity, Cape San Antonio (), is the western most point of Cuba.
National parks in North America
Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States.
Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side.
The Mobile River and Tensaw River empty into the northern end of the bay, making it an estuary.
Dog River, Deer River, and East Fowl River empty into the western side of the bay, and Fish River is across the bay on the eastern shore.
Geography of Alabama
The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, made up by parts of three U.S. states: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
Named as a portmanteau of the letters of the states that occupy it, it is almost 300 by 100 km or about 180 by 60 miles, and is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and Atlantic Ocean on the east.
September 29 – Rudolph I of Germany is elected King of Germany over rival candidate King Otakar II of Bohemia, ending the Interregnum; Otakar refuses to acknowledge Rudolph as the new king, leading to the outbreak of war in 1276.
Rudolph is the first of many Habsburgs to hold the throne.
December 6 – Thomas Aquinas quit writing Summa Theologica — a master work of Catholic theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.
King Otakar II of Bohemia captures Bratislava from Hungary.
December – Followers of the recently deceased Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi establish the Sufi order of the Whirling Dervishes in the city of Konya (in present-day Turkey).
The "Holy Redeemer" khachkar, believed to be one of the finest examples of the art form, is carved in Haghpat, Armenia, by Vahram.
The Constantinople suburb of Beyoğlu (then known as Pera) is given to the Republic of Genoa by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus in return for Genoa's support of the Empire after the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople.
January 31 – The six-year long battle of Xiangyang ends as commander of the Song Dynasty's forces surrender to Kublai Khan.
The battle is the first in which firearms are used in combat.
In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty (a puppet government of the Mongol Empire) ends as rebel forces are defeated by combined Mongol and Goryeo forces.
July 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (died 1352)
November 24 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (died 1284)
Abu al-Fida, Arab historian (died 1331)
David VIII of Georgia (died 1311)
December 17 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (born 1207)
Baldwin II of Constantinople, last Latin Emperor of Constantinople (born 1217)
End of the reign of Emperor Go-Saga, emperor of Japan.
Emperor Go-Fukakusa replaces him.
Güyük Khan is enthroned as the 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
A papal mission under Giovanni da Pian del Carpine arrives at Karakorum and witnesses this event.
Sainte-Chapelle built.
With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria
Beaulieu Abbey dedicated.
September 14 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (died 1272)
February 25 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
May 31 – Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
June 15 – Duke Frederick II of Austria (born 1219)
September 20 – Mikhail of Chernigov, Prince of Kiev
September 30 – Yaroslav II of Russia (born 1190)
November 8 – Berenguela of Castile, queen of Castile and León (born 1196)
Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.
Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completes the Kutadgu Bilig.
Bergen, Norway is founded by the king Olav Kyrre.
This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.
Abu Bakr Ibn-Umar founds Marrakesh.
Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi starts the Xining Reforms (which last until 1085).
The Temple of Literature is established in the capital of Vietnam.
A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuk Turks across the Euphrates.
Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.
Baldwin VI of Flanders (b. 1030)
The 1967 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1967, and lasted until November 30, 1967.
These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
The season was fairly average, with eight storms forming.
Hurricane Beulah was the most notable Atlantic hurricane of 1967.
A Category 5 hurricane, it killed 58 and made $217 million ($1.2 billion in 2005 US dollars) in damage as it crossed the Yucatán Peninsula and then made landfall a second time near the mouth of the Rio Grande river.
February 9 — Song Dynasty Chinese and Mongolian armies occupied the Jurchen capital at Caizhou, marking the collapse of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234).
Supposedly Mali begins revolt against oppressors.
Canonization of Saint Dominic
Pope Gregory IX called for a Crusade against Bosnia and replaced the Bogumil Bosnian Bishop with a Catholic Dominican German Johann
Pope Gregory IX released the Nova Compilatio Decretalium
King Andrew II of Hungary proclaimed herzeg Coloman as Ban of Bosnia, who passed it on to Prijezda, a cousin of Ban Matej Ninoslav (1234 to 1239) despite Matej being the legitimate Ban of Bosnia
Abaqa Khan, Mongol emperor of Persia (died 1282)
April 16 – Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (dob.
unknown)
June 18 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (born 1218)
August 31 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (born 1212)
Alan, Lord of Galloway
Stefan Radoslav, King of Serbia (born 1192)
Aragon – James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)
Castile – Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and León (reigned from 1217 to 1252)
Navarre – Sancho VII the Strong King of Navarre (reigned from 1194 to 1234)
The Normans invade Connacht.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary is canonized by Pope Gregory IX.
She died on November 17 1231 at age 24, either from physical fatigue or from disease, in Marburg.
A general inquisition begins in France.
The Byzantine emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes and the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II besiege Constantinople in an attempt to take it from its Latin rulers, John of Brienne and Baldwin II.
Angelo Sanudo successfully negotiates a two-year truce.
Sundiata Keita's victory at the Battle of Kirina marks the beginning of the Mali Empire.
The Lancaster Royal Grammar School is founded.
A Chinese text of this year records that Hangzhou City, the capital of the Song Dynasty, held various social clubs that included a West Lake Poetry Club, the Buddhist Tea Society, the Physical Fitness Club, the Anglers' Club, the Occult Club, the Young Girls' Chorus, the Exotic Foods Club, the Plants and Fruits Club, the Antique Collectors' Club, the Horse-Lovers' Club, and the Refined Music Society.
Henry of Almain, King of the Romans (died 1271)
Pope Boniface VIII (approximate date; died 1303)
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (died 1283)
Ramon Llull, Catalan writer and philosopher (died 1315)
Saint Rose of Viterbo (died 1252)
Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (died 1311)
Qian Xuan, Chinese painter (d. 1305)
January 14 – Saint Sava of Serbia (born 1175)
September 5 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (born 1165)
October 26 – Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175)
Rabbi David Kimhi, Biblical commentator (born 1160)
Hurricane Beulah tracked through the Caribbean Sea, struck the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico as a major hurricane, and moved west-northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, briefly gaining Category 5 status.
It was the strongest hurricane during the 1967 Atlantic hurricane season.
The cyclone then weakened before moving into Texas as a major hurricane.
It spawned 115 twisters across Texas, which established a new record for the highest amount of tornadoes produced by a tropical cyclone.
Due to its slow movement over Texas, Beulah led to significant flooding, and caused over $1 billion (2005 USD) in damages.
There were 58 fatalities.
1967 in the United States
1960s in Mexico
1960s in Texas
Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges
City of Airdrie, Scotland founded
King Sverker I of Sweden deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden
Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg
Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences
University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, founded
During Crusades, city of Ashkelon fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers
Earl of Bedford created
Cubbie Roo's Castle built on Wyre, Orkney
Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead
Neuruppin city founded in Brandenburg, Germany
Rinteln city founded in Lower Saxony, Germany
Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux
Joscelin II of Edessa taken prisoner during Second Crusade
Tuam promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese, Ireland
Earliest textual reference made to Gypsies working as musicians (in Constantinople)
Castle Rising built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
Garcia IV Ramirez ends reign as King of Navarre
Bishopric of Aberdeen established
Christian Malone writes Irish Chronology Chronicum Scotorum
Christchurch Priory founded
Leo II of Armenia (d. 1229).
William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (approximate date; d. 1211).
Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1176).
Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198).
Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220).
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195).
Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228).
Beatrice, Countess of Dia.
Emperor Xizong of Jin, the third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty
Barisan of Ibelin, figure in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem
Pribislav of Brandenburg, last king of the Hevelli (b. c. 1075)
The islands of the Caribbean Sea, collectively known as the West Indies are sorted by size and location into the Bahamas (or Lucayan archipelago), the Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles.
The Greater Antilles are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (composed of Haiti on the west side and the Dominican Republic on the east side) and Puerto Rico.
The smaller islands near these four major islands are sometimes also treated as part of the group.
This includes the smaller islands thst surrounding the main islands, but are still part of the main island country (e.g. the Republic of Cuba consists of the island of Cuba and several smaller islands around it).
The Cayman Islands are also often included in the Greater Antilles because they are close.