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Sir Charles Mackerras, (born 17 November 1925; died 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor.
He was very famous for his conducting of operas, especially the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mackerras was born in Schenectady, New York, and was brought up in Sydney, Australia.
He went to the New South Wales Conservatory to study oboe, piano and composing.
He became an oboe player with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during World War II, and was made the principal oboist in 1946.
He conducted the orchestra at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973.
Five years later he was the first Australian conductor to be the orchestra's principal conductor.
First generation (1995–2003)
The first Mégane arrived in late 1995 to replace the 19.
It came in many bodystyles and engines, the model formed the basis for the Scenic, Europe's first compact MPV which arrived in late 1996.
The range was facelifted in April 1999 and an estate/wagon version appeared but wasn't sold in the UK.
Although a new Mégane arrived in late 2002, the original was sold into 2003 until all bodystyles were redesigned.
1.4 51 kW (69 hp) and 55 kW (75 hp)
1.4 16V 70 kW (95 hp)
1.6 55 kW (75 hp) and 66 kW (90 hp)
1.6 16V 79 kW (107 hp)
1.8 16V 85 kW (115 hp)
2.0 84 kW (114 hp)
2.0 16V 110 kW (150 hp)
2.0 IDE 103 kW (140 hp)
1.9 dT 66 kW (90 hp)
1.9 dTi 59 kW (80 hp) and 72 kW (98 hp)
1.9 dCi 75 kW (102 hp)
Second generation (2002–2010)
The second Mégane arrived in late 2002 with the hatchback models, other versions appeared during 2003.
The hatchback models became known for their distinctive rear end styling which resulted in Renault doing an advert for it based on that.
It was facelifted in early 2006.
1.4 16V 60 kW (82 hp) and 72 kW (98 hp)
1.6 16V 82 kW (112 hp)
2.0 16V 99 kW (135 hp)
2.0 16V Turbo 120 kW (163 hp)
2.0 16V Turbo RS 165 kW (225 hp)
1.5 dCi 60 kW (82 hp), 63 kW (86 hp), 74 kW (100 hp) and 78 kW (106 hp)
1.9 dCi 66 kW (90 hp), 81 kW (110 hp), 85 kW (115 hp), 88 kW (120 hp) and 96 kW (130 hp)
2.0 dCi 110 kW (150 hp)
2.0 dCi RS 127 kW (173 hp)
Third generation (2008–2016)
The third Mégane arrived in late 2008 with the hatchback and coupe models.
Other models arrived during 2009.
It received a mild facelift in 2012 then a more thorough one in late 2013.
It entered its fourth generation in 2016.
1.6 16V 74 kW (100 hp) and 81 kW (110 hp)
1.4 TCe 96 kW (130 hp)
2.0 16V 103 kW (140 hp)
2.0 TCe 132 kW (180 hp)
2.0 TCe Renault Sport 184 kW (250 hp)
1.5 dCi 66 kW (90 hp), 78 kW (106 hp) and 81 kW (110 hp)
1.9 dCi 96 kW (130 hp)
2.0 dCi 118 kW (160 hp)
Ryan Atwood is a fictional character on the show The O.C. He is played by Benjamin Mckenzie.
He is from Chino, California.
He is with Marissa Cooper as his girlfriend.
He also graduated from Berkely University.
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First generation (1994–2001)
The first Laguna arrived in early 1994 to replace the 21, it came as a hatchback at first and then it was joined by an estate/wagon version in late 1995.
It got a facelift in 1998.
1.8 69 kW (94 hp)
1.8 16V 88 kW (120 hp)
2.0 16V 102 kW (139 hp)
2.0 S 103 kW (140 hp)
3.0 V6 123 kW (167 hp) and 140 kW (190 hp)
1.9 dTi 72 kW (98 hp)
1.9 dCi 79 kW (107 hp)
2.2 D 63 kW (86 hp)
2.2 dT 83 kW (113 hp)
Second generation (2000–2007)
The second Laguna arrived at the end of 2000 and again, hatchback and estate/wagon bodystyles were offered.
In 2001, it became the first car to receive 5 stars in the Euro NCAP crash testing, making it one the safest models at the time.
It received a facelift in March 2005.
1.6 16V 79 kW (107 hp) and 82 kW (112 hp)
2.0 16V Turbo 120 kW (163 hp), 125 kW (170 hp) and 151 kW (205 hp)
3.0 V6 152 kW (207 hp)
1.9 dCi 68 kW (92 hp), 77 kW (105 hp), 79 kW (107 hp), 81 kW (110 hp), 88 kW (120 hp) and 96 kW (130 hp)
2.0 dCi 110 kW (150 hp) and 127 kW (173 hp)
2.2 dCi 102 kW (139 hp) and 110 kW (150 hp)
Third generation (2007–2015)
The third Laguna went on sale in October 2007 and became available in hatchback, estate/wagon and coupe bodystyles.
It received a mild facelift in late 2010.
Then in 2015 it was replaced by a new model called the Talisman.
1.6 16V 81 kW (110 hp)
2.0 16V Turbo 125 kW (170 hp) and 150 kW (204 hp)
3.5 V6 175 kW (238 hp)
1.5 dCi 81 kW (110 hp)
2.0 dCi 96 kW (130 hp), 110 kW (150 hp), 127 kW (173 hp) and 131 kW (178 hp)
3.0 V6 dCi 173 kW (235 hp)
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The Tata Indica is a car produced by Tata Motors in two generations from 1998 to 2015.
Between 2003 and 2005, it was sold in the UK as the Rover CityRover but the car was not a success there.
First generation (1998–2008)
1.2 49 kW (65 hp)
1.4 52 kW (70 hp)
1.4 D 40 kW (44 hp)
1.4 TD 46 kW (62 hp) and 51 kW (69 hp)
1.4 Dicor 52 kW (70 hp)
1.9 TD 52 kW (70 hp)
Second generation (2008–2015)
1.2 SaFire 48 kW (65 hp)
1.3 Quadrajet 16V 55 kW (75 hp)
1.4 TD 16V 53 kW (72 hp)
Market capitalization (often market cap) is a measurement of the size of a business corporation.
It is equal to the price of one share of stock, times the number of shares of stock in a public company.
Owning stock in a company is owning a part of the company.
Market capitalization shows the public opinion of a company's value.
The total market capitalization of all publicly traded companies in the world was US$51.2 trillion in January 2007.
In May 2008 it rose to US$57.5 trillion,<ref
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Market capitalization represents the public opinion of the value of a company's equity.
A public corporation, including all of its assets, may be bought and sold as stock.
These purchases and sales will define the price of the company's share price.
Market capitalization is the share price times by the number of shares in issue.
This provides a total value for the company's shares and the value the company.
Some companies have stock that is privately owned, and not publicly traded.
Many Stock markets adjust the market cap on the value of the publicly traded part of the company.
In this case, market capitalization is based on the publicly traded stocks.
Note that market capitalization is a market estimate of a company's value.
It is based how the public believes the company will perform in the future.
There are many things that can affect the stock price.
These include economic conditions and mergers and acquisitions.
Categorization of companies by capitalization
In the past, companies were separated into large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap.
New categories 'micro-cap' and 'nano-cap' have been added.
There are general guidelines to know what category a company is in.
These guidelines are adjusted over time due to changes in the market and the economy.
For example, $1 billion was a large market cap in 1950 but it is not very large now.
Different numbers are used by different stock markets.
There is no official definition of the exact cutoffs.
They also may be done by percentiles rather than fixed cutoffs.
Related measures
Market cap reflects only the equity value of a company.
A more comprehensive measure is enterprise value (EV), which includes debt and other factors.
How to Value Assets - from the Washington State (U.S.) government web site
Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers of the early 20th century.
They were famous for developing and promoting dancing in the period of the First World War.
Vernon Castle (2 May 1887 – 15 February 1918) was born William Vernon Blyth in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Irene Castle (17 April 1893 – 25 January 1969) was born Irene Foote, the daughter of a prominent physician in New Rochelle, New York.
Vernon chose 'Castle' as a stage name when he first performed as a comic, because his sister (also on the stage) already used the family name, Blyth.
He had already taken the name before Irene met him in 1910.p33
Vernon was initially trained to become a civil engineer.
He moved to New York in 1906.
There he became established as a comic actor and conjuror.
Irene studied dancing and performed in several amateur theatricals before meeting Vernon in 1910.
The next year, over her father’s objections, the two were married.
The English-born Vernon had already established himself as a dancer in comedic roles.
His specialty was playing a gentleman drunk, who elegantly fell about the stage while trying to hide his condition.
After their marriage, Irene joined Vernon in The Hen-Pecks (1911), a production in which he was a featured player.
The two then travelled together to Paris to perform in a dance revue.
The show closed quickly, but the couple were hired as a dance act by the Café de Paris.
Performing the latest American dances, the Castles were soon the rage of Parisian society.
They introduced American ragtime dances, such as the Turkey Trot and the Grizzly Bear.
When the Castles returned to the U.S. in 1912, their success was repeated on a far wider scale.
Making their New York debut at a branch of the Cafe de Paris, the duo were soon in demand on stage, in vaudeville and in motion pictures.
In 1914, the couple opened a dancing school in New York called Castle House, a nightclub called Castles by the Sea on the Boardwalk in Long Beach New York, and a restaurant, the Sans Souci.
Film and fashion
In addition to cabaret, the Castles also became staples of Broadway.
The Castles' greatest success was on Broadway, in Irving Berlin's debut musical Watch Your Step (1914).
In this extravaganza, the couple refined and popularized the Foxtrot, which vaudeville comedian Harry Fox may have invented.
After its New York run, Watch Your Step toured through 1916.
The Castles helped remove the stigma of vulgarity from close dancing.
The Castles’ performances, often set to ragtime and jazz rhythms, also popularized African-American music among well-heeled whites.
Irene’s fashion sense, too, started national trends.
Her elegant, yet simple, flowing gowns were often featured in fashion magazines.
She also introduced American women to the bob—the short hairstyle favored by flappers in the 1920s (see also Louise Brooks).
The Castles appeared in a newsreel called Social and Theatrical Dancing in 1914 and wrote a bestselling instructional book, Modern Dancing, later the same year.
The pair also starred in a feature film called The Whirl of Life (1915), which was well-received by critics and public alike.
As the couple's celebrity increased in the mid-1910s, Irene Castle became a major fashion trendsetter, with her bobbed hair and shorter skirts.
Her chic wardrobe was supplied almost exclusively by the couturière 'Lucile', (Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon) but Irene also designed some of her clothes herself.
The Castles endorsed Victor Records and Victrolas.
They issued records by the Castle House Orchestra, led by James Reese Europe –– a pioneering figure in Black music.
They also lent their names to advertising for other products, from cigars and cosmetics to shoes and hats.
They were, in short, personalities of the modern kind, who had a gift for self-publicity.
They were as famous as any film stars of the day.
World War I: Vernon's death
Vernon returned to the UK to become a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Flying over the Western Front he shot down two aircraft and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in 1917.
He was posted to Canada to train new pilots, and then promoted to Captain and posted to the US to train American pilots.
While flying at Benbrook Field, near Fort Worth, Texas, he took emergency action shortly after take off to avoid another aircraft.
His plane stalled, and he was unable to recover control.
Fatally injured, he died soon after the crash, on .
Irene paid tribute to Vernon in her memoir My Husband, 1919.
Life without Vernon
Irene starred solo in about a dozen silent movies between 1917 and 1924 and appeared in several stage productions before retiring from show business.
She married three more times –– to Robert Treman, Frederic McLaughlin, and George Enzinger.
In 1939, her life with Vernon was turned into a movie, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, produced by RKO and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Irene served as a technical advisor on the movie, but clashed with Rogers, who refused to short bob or darken her hair.
Irene also objected to white actor Walter Brennan playing their servant: "Walter was BLACK".
Irene died .
Vernon and Irene Castle are interred together in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
There is a large monument to Vernon Castle near the site of his crash in Benbrook, Texas.
Fashion gallery
Associated dances
Bunny hug
Castle Walk
Hesitation Waltz
Maxixe
Turkey Trot
Irene Castle at the TCM Movie Database
Radio Nostalgia Network - "Radio Journeys" , Episode 17, including "The Life of Irene Castle"
United States Library of Congress; American Memory.
Dance Instruction Manuals: Modern Dancing By Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle
Orphans of the Storm animal shelter founded by Irene Castle
The Fiat Stilo is a car produced by Fiat from 2001 to 2007.
The car was a modest sales success across Europe.
1.4 16V 66 kW (90 hp) and 70 kW (95 hp)
1.6 16V 76 kW (103 hp) and 77 kW (105 hp)
1.8 16V 98 kW (133 hp)
2.4 20V 125 kW (170 hp)
1.9 JTD 59 kW (80 hp), and 85 kW (116 hp)
1.9 Multijet 8V 74 kW (100 hp) and 88 kW (120 hp)
1.9 Multijet 16V 103 kW (140 hp) and 110 kW (150 hp)
The Fiat Doblò is a car produced by Fiat in two generations since 2000.
First generation (2000–2009)
1.6 16V 76 kW (103 hp)
1.3 Multijet 16V 51 kW (69 hp), 55 kW (75 hp) and 62 kW (84 hp)
1.9 D 8V 46 kW (63 hp)
1.9 JTD 8V 74 kW (101 hp)
1.9 Multijet 8V 77 kW (105 hp) and 88 kW (120 hp)
1.6 Natural Power 16V CNG 76 kW (103 hp)
Second generation (2009–present)
1.4 T-Jet 88 kW (120 hp)
1.3 Multijet 16V 66 kW (90 hp)
1.6 Multijet 16V 66 kW (90 hp) and 77 kW (105 hp)
2.0 Multijet 16V 99 kW (135 hp)
1.4 Turbo Natural Power 16V CNG 88 kW (120 hp)
A payment is the transfer of something from one party to another.
Giving money to a company is a payment, for example.
A payment is usually made for goods or services.
The oldest form of payment is barter.
Barter is a simple form of payment.
It is the transfer of one good or service for another.
Today, payment is usually with money, cheque, debit, credit, bank transfer, or mobile payment.
In transfers between businesses, sometimes payments can be complicated, with stock and other things.
In law, the payer is the party that sends the payment and the payee is the party that gets the payment.
Pedro Jaime Abreu Martínez, known as Pedro Martínez (born October 25, 1971), is a Dominican pitcher who played for five Major League Baseball teams from 1992 to 2008—the Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, and Philadelphia Phillies.
Martínez is one of 18 pitchers in MLB history with 3,000 career strikeouts, was named to eight All-Star Game rosters, won the Cy Young Award as the top pitcher in the National League once and the American League twice, and helped the Red Sox to a World Series victory in 2004, the team's first since 1918.
Martínez was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015, the first year in which he could be elected.
Remy Zero was a alternative rock band.
The band made the theme song for the television series Smallville.
The band broke up in 2003.
Entertainers from Birmingham, Alabama
Romeo (Shakespeare), the main character of Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare
Alfa Romeo, a car manufacturer.
Romeo Benetti, former Italian football player
Romeo Castelen, Dutch football player
Romeo Crennel, American football coach
Romeo Santos, American singer, lead singer of Aventura
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor.
He is partly of Jewish descent (his mother was Jewish), and considers himself Jewish.
He starred in many movies, including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Godzilla and The Lion King.
Broderick married Sarah Jessica Parker in 1997.
Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American movie directed by Woody Allen.
It stars Allen, Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Tim Roth, Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts.
It was released in December 1996.
Hurricane Allen was an extremely powerful hurricane in 1980.
The storm smashed through the Caribbean, Mexico and South Texas in August 1980.
Over 200 were killed and damages were $1 billion (1980 USD).
The winds of this hurricane reached 190 miles an hour, tying Hurricane Camille for highest wind speeds in any Atlantic Tropical Cyclone.
Allen was one of the most powerful Atlantic tropical storms in recorded history.
The name Allen was later retired in Spring of 1981 and replaced with Andrew, which in turn was retired because of the destructive 1992 hurricane.
Housecleaning is what people do to remove mess, trash, and dirt from where they live and put things where they belong so the house looks neat.
Housecleaning makes it easier to see the floor and furniture without clutter in the way.
It also leaves fewer places for spiders and insects to live and removes dust so that people in the house can breathe more easily.
Housecleaning may be sweeping the floor with a broom, cleaning rugs with a vacuum cleaner, cleaning clothes and putting them away, and washing windows.
Washing a sponge, squeezing out the water, and placing it on a dish rack to dry is also part of housecleaning.
Clutter is things that either should not be in the house at all or have been put in the wrong place.
A teacup in the middle of the floor is clutter.
A teacup on its shelf is not clutter.
Places people put things away on shelves, in drawers, and on hangers.
Dust allergies
Dust can make people sneeze, cough, and get watery eyes.
Dust can give people esrash and trouble breathing.
Dust can come from smoke, cotton, small bits of soap, pollen, mold spores, dried cat saliva, pieces of spider web, skin flakes, cloth fibers, insect fibers, or tiny bits of food.
Cleaning chemicals
Surfactants help water get things wet faster.
Alkaline chemicals like soap and baking soda can make mud and grease easier to wash away.
Acidic chemicals like vinegar and orange juice can make mustard, wine, tea, coffee, rust, dry soap suds, and limescale easier to wash away.
Flammable solvents like turpentine can make paint easier to wash away.
Disinfectants kill germs, fungus, and mold.
Bredenberg, Jeff, Managing Editor; Researchers, writers and others.
Clean It Fast, Clean It Right: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Making Absolutely Everything You Own Sparkle & Shine.
Emmaus, PA: Rodale, Inc     paperback www.rodalestore.com
Gove, P. B. and others.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged.
Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Company.
Bredenberg, Jeff.
Clean It Fast, Clean It Right . . .
Emmaus, PA: Rodale, Inc hardcover.
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.
It was first printed in 1941.
The book is about two mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts.
Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's pictures, drawn in charcoal, then lithographed on zinc.
In 2003, the book had sold more than two million copies.
The book was so popular a statue of a mother duck and her eight ducklings were set up in the Public Garden.
In 1991, Barbara Bush gave a copy of this statue to Raisa Gorbachev as part of the START Treaty, and the work is in Moscow's Novodevichy Park.
The book is the official children's book of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The book is still highly praised for over 60 years because of its pictures and pace.
However, it was criticised for having a loose plot (story) and weak characters.
The book is very popular around the world.
1941 books
Sequence dancing is a form of dance in which there is a preset pattern of movements, to music.
The music is usually also preset.
Sequence dancing may include dances of many different styles.
The term may include ballroom dances, which move round the floor, as well as line, square and circle dances.
Sequence dancing in general is much older than modern ballroom dances.
With the exception of the waltz, invented around 1800, all dances in ballrooms were sequence dances until the early 20th century.
The quadrille was one example, the minuet another.
After modern ballroom dancing developed, in England, sequence dancing continued.
It included so-called 'Old Time' dances and also adapted versions of the new ballroom dances, and then versions of Latin dances.
Sequence dancing is a competitive sport as well as a social pastime.
The British Sequence Championships is the most famous annual sequence dance competition and is part of the Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival.
This is held in the Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, since 1949.
The Škoda Felicia was a car produced by Škoda Auto.
It replaced the Favorit in 1994 with a facelift in 1998.
Its successor, Škoda Fabia, was introduced in 1999, but the Felicia still continued until 2001 in estate form until it was replaced by the Fabia version.
1.3 40 kW (54 hp) and 50 kW (68 hp)
1.6 55 kW (75 hp)
Minos was the mythical first king of Crete,  son of Zeus and Europa.
The following stories are mythological, and have no real historical basis.
Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.
After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld.
He once had a wife named Pasophae.
Minos upset the Greek gods by cheating them in a sacrifice.
He told Poseidon that he would sacrifice a beautiful bull that Poseidon gave him after he used it.
Instead, he switched it with another bull.
They punished him by having Pasophae fall in love with a bull.
Pasophae asked Daedalus to help her, so Daedalus made a mechanical cow for her, and she got into it.
The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasophae had a child.
It was the Minotaur, half human, half bull.
King Minos took the Minotaur and put it in a labrynth, or maze, built by Daedalus.
When he was in possession of all of Crete he ordered that fourteen young people come to him to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.
Theseus volunteered to be one of them, and went there with daughter, Ariadne.
He killed the Minotaur in the labyrinth.
The Minoan civilization was later named after him by Arthur Evans.
Evans was the archaeologist who discovered and excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete.
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http://www.maicar.com/GML/Minos2.html
http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/minos.htm
The Paso doble is a dance and music based on the Spanish bullfight.
It is the music played at bullfights at the procession of the bullfighters, between stages, and at the end of each session.
The dance is based on the way matadors perform in the ring.
In the dance, the man takes the part of the matador, and the woman takes the part of the man's cape (not the bull!).
The man's stance (the way he stands) should be proud, and when he has a free arm it should be held slightly bent, rather as matadors do.
The photograph of the ice dancers gives a perfect example of what dancers should aim for in this style.
The paso doble is one of the five International Latin ballroom dances.
It gives a very good contrast in style with the four other dances.
Although so Spanish in style and origin, the dance techniques were first developed in Paris.
Later, in mid 20th century London, the Latin and American dances took on their present form.
The music is scored in 2/4 time.
It is a march-like type of music, and as a dance it is a two-step (paso doble = two-step).
It is played at about 60/62 bars (measures) a minute for dancers.
The most famous piece of paso doble music is the España Cañí or Spanish Gypsy Dance.
A sample of La Gracia de Dios gives an idea of the rhythm.
Daedalus was King Minos' head architect in ancient Greece and son of Athena.
When King Minos of Crete was having some sovereignty problems, he asked Poseidon, god of the sea, for an offering to sacrifice to him as a sign as true kingship.
So Poseidon sent a snow-white bull straight out of the sea foam.
Once the people of Crete saw the bull, they all agreed that it was a sign of true kingship.
However, once King Minos saw the bull, he refused to sacrifice the bull, kept it for himself, and sacrificed another bull to Poseidon, thus angering him.
Poseidon put a curse on Minos’ wife, making her fall in love with the bull.
She loved it so much that she wanted to mate with it.
Minos called for the help of Daedalus, who built a wooden bull and put Queen Pasiphae inside it, thus calming her anxiety for mating with the bull.
She soon became pregnant with half-man, half-bull (also called the Minotaur).
King Minos was horrified and asked Daedalus to build some kind of prison to keep the Minotaur from destroying Crete.
So Daedalus built a labyrinth that was so complicated that the Minotaur could not get out.
Only Daedalus knew the course of the labyrinth.
Minos was afraid that Daedalus would tell the route through the labyrinth, and that he would tell that the Minotaur was the son of Minos' wife, he imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus, in a high tower.
Daedalus made some wings that he strapped to his and Icarus’ arms and together they escaped from the tower.
However, Icarus, forgetting his father’s words, flew too close to the sun, and the wax that held the feathers together melted.
Icarus fell into the ocean and drowned.
Daedalus landed safely on an island, and in grief, he named the sea that he and Icarus had flown across the Icarian Sea.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/minos.html
An emergency medical dispatcher is a person who answers telephone calls to the emergency medical services and sends out the ambulances.
For each call they much decide if an ambulance is needed and which one should be sent.
They also help the caller with their problems until the ambulance arrives.
Santa Cruz is a Chilean commune in the Province of Colchagua, O'Higgins.
The town was founded as Santa Cruz de Unco, in an unknown date.
Bircham International University is an educational institution of higher education.
It uses distance education.
It offers adult degree programs.
It is registered in Spain and Delaware.
In the past it operated from the Bahamas or the United Kingdom.
It has no recognized educational accreditation in any of these places.
It is a member of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning.
It is also a member of the International Accreditation and Recognition Council, an unrecognized accreditation agency in the United States.
Bircham states that it was accredited by the American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation in 2010.
This organization is not a recognized accreditation body.
Bircham International University official website
He has also worked for WWE where he performed under the ring name Festus and teamed with Jesse.
He also competed under the ring name Luke Gallows and was a member of the wrestling stable Straight Edge Society with CM Punk, Serena Deeb and Joey Mercury.
New Japan Pro Wrestling profile
Emirates is an airline based in the United Arab Emirates.
They are a subsidiary of The Emirates Group.
They are the seventh biggest airline in the world, by number of passengers.
Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East.
It is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
It runs more than 2400 passenger flights per week from its hub at Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, to 108 places in 60 countries.
It goes to countries on six continents.
Emirates is a part of The Emirates Group, which has more than 50,000 employees, and is owned fully by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai.
Cargo activities are done by the Emirates Group's Emirates SkyCargo division.
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San Jose State Spartans is the name of the different sport teams at San Jose State University.
The teams compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) at the NCAA Division I level. (
Football Bowl Subdivision which used to be known as Division 1-A for football.)
The university has taken part in athletics since its baseball team began in 1890.
San Jose State University sports teams have won in the NCAA in track and field, cross country running, golf, and boxing.
By 2008, SJSU had won 10 NCAA team championships and 50 NCAA Division 1 champions.
SJSU also has an international reputation for judo, winning 43 out of 46 collegiate national championships in the sport (by 2008).
People who once went to SJSU have won 18 Olympic medals (including seven gold medals) since the gold medal won by Willie Steel in track and field in the 1948 Olympics.
These people have won medals in swimming, judo and boxing.
The track team coached by "Bud" Winter earned San Jose the nickname "Speed City," and has included Olympic medalists and social activists Lee Evans, John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
Smith and Carlos are remembered for giving the raised fist salute from the medalist's podium during the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Current athletics programs
Basketball (Men)
Basketball (Women)
Cross Country (Men)
Cross Country (Women)
Golf (Men)
Golf (Women)
Gymnastics (Women)
Soccer (Men)
Soccer (Women)
Swimming/Diving (Women)
Tennis (Women)
Volleyball (Women)
Water Polo (Women)
Its full name is Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations ( HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim,  al-Mūssād li'l-Istikhbārāt wa'l-Mahāmm al-Khāṣṣa). "
Mossad" is a Hebrew word for institute or institution.
Its main job is to gather information and perform operations to keep Israel safe from terrorist groups.
The Fiat Idea is a car produced by Fiat from 2003 to 2012.
1.3 Multijet 16V 51 kW (69 hp) and 66 kW (90 hp)
1.3 Multijet II 16V 70 kW (95 hp)
The Fiat Fiorino is a car produced by Fiat in three generations since 1977.
First generation (1977–1988)
0.9 33 kW (45 hp)
1.05 37 kW (50 hp)
1.3 D 33 kW (45 hp)
Second generation (1988–present)
1.0 8V
1.2 8V
1.4 8V
1.5 8V
1.7 D 8V
1.7 TD 8V
Third generation (2007–present)
1.4 8V 54 kW (73 hp)
1.3 Multijet 16V 55 kW (75 hp)
1.4 Natural Power 8V CNG 57 kW (78 hp)
Tigger is a fictional tiger.
He has orange fur with black stripes.
He was first written about in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner.
He is easily recognized by his beady eyes, long chin, springy tail, and bouncy personality.
As he says himself, "Bouncing is what Tiggers do best."
Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.
Brewer is a town in the northern U.S. state of Maine.
It is next to Bangor, Maine.
In 2000, about 8,987 people lived there.
They were originally called the Major Brothers and were later renamed Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder.
The team was also called the Edge Heads.
They dressed as fans of Edge and helped him during matches.
Curt Hawkins WWE profile
Zack Ryder WWE profile
A pump action shotgun is a type of shotgun.
The shooter pulls back on a handle below the barrel of the shotgun to reload it.
It is widely used to hunt birds.
Accuracy is low, but it can be fired again quickly.
Jacob Black is a fictional character in the series of books and movies called Twilight Saga.
In the movies, the character is played by Taylor Lautner.
He lives in the U.S. state of Washington.
He has a romance with Bella and tries to protect her from the vampires and Edward Cullen the head vampire who is in love with Bella.
Jacob can also turn into a wolf.
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A living room is a room in a home.
The living room in a home is shared by the people living in the home.
In the living room they talk with each other and their guests and do other things such as reading or watching television.
The furniture can include a couch, chairs, tables, lamps, a television, curtains and pictures.
People may have started using the compound word, living room, in the early twentieth century.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language.
G. & C. Merriam Company.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
Tenth Edition.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
Winter swimming is the activity of human swimming during the winter season, typically in outdoor locations, or in unheated pools or lidos.
It is done mostly for health benefits.
Many winter swimmers swim with standard swimming costumes rather than with wetsuits or other thermal protection.
In colder countries winter swimming may be synonymous with ice swimming.
In Finland, Northern Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia the ice swimming tradition has been connected with the sauna tradition.
Cankar.org  on how to create an avanto
Winter Swimming — the technique of winter swimming and its healing effect.
Winter Swimming World Championships, pictures Oulu Finland 3.-5.3.2006
Winter Swimming Championships 2008  - held at Tooting Bec Lido, London, UK
The writers are currently planning a sequel to Zombieland.
The sequel will star the original cast and will be shot in 3-D.
A cowardly shut-in named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is forced to join up with a seasoned zombie slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) in order to survive the zombie apocalypse.
As Tallahassee sets out on a mission to find the last Twinkie on Earth, the duo meets up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), two young girls who have resorted to some rather unorthodox methods to survive amidst the chaos.
Reluctant partners in the battle against the undead, all four soon begin to wonder if it might be better to simply take their chances alone.
Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee
Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus
Emma Stone as Wichita
Abigail Breslin as Little Rock
Amber Heard as 406, Columbus's attractive dorm neighbor
Mike White as Gas Station Owner
Bill Murray as Himself (Cameo)
Zombieland received mostly positive reviews of reviewers:
Rotten Tomatoes - 7.3/10 (184 reviews)
Top Critics - 86% approval (29 reviews)
Metacritic - 73% approval
Roger Ebert - 3 out of 4 stars
Zombieland debuted at #1 at the box office in North America, with ticket sales of $24,733,155 on the opening weekend and is the top-grossing zombie movie in history.
Zombieland's official website
Screenplays by Paul Wernick
Screenplays by Rhett Reese
The Dragunov sniper rifle, or the SVD rifle, is a gun that was first made in the Soviet Union.
It is used by twenty-six countries.
Alyson Rae Stoner (born August 11, 1993) is an American actress, dancer, singer and former model.
She was known for her roles in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (as Max), Cheaper By The Dozen (as Sarah Baker), and Step Up (as Camille Gage), Phineas and Ferb (for the voice of Isabella Garcia), Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2:The Final Jam (as Caitlyn Geller).
Stoner is from Toledo,Ohio.
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson  (born July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas) is an American actor.
He made his movie debut in the 1986 movie Wildcats.
Harrelson's father was Charles Voyde Harrelson.
He was a contract killer.
He was arrested for the killing of Federal Judge John H. Wood, Jr. by rifle fire in 1979 in San Antonio.
Harrelson is a vegan.
He was on postage stamps issued in 2011 as one of PETA's 20 famous vegetarians.
He was named PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2012 (along with Jessica Chastain).
He would like the legalization of marijuana and hemp.
He is also an environmental activist.
Harrelson is a supporter of the 9/11 truth movement.
He has supported reopening an investigation into the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In 1985, Harrelson married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright Neil Simon, in Tijuana.
The two meant to divorce the following day, but the storefront marriage/divorce parlor was closed when they had returned to it.
The two remained married for ten months.
On December 28, 2008, Harrelson married Laura Louie, his girlfriend since 1987.
The couple have three daughters, Deni Montana (born February 28, 1993), Zoe Giordano (born September 22, 1996), and Makani Ravello (born June 3, 2006).
Laura is his former assistant.
She is a co-founder of Yoganics, an organic food delivery service.
Harrelson was arrested in Columbus, Ohio in 1982 for disorderly conduct.
He was found dancing in the middle of the street.
He was also charged with resisting arrest after he ran from the police and assault after he hit one of the officers.
Harrelson avoided jail time by paying a $390 fine.
On June 1, 1996, Harrelson was arrested in Lee County, Kentucky.
He symbolically planted four hemp seeds.
This was to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana.
Harrelson was acquitted of these charges in 2000.
In 2002, Harrelson was arrested in London after an incident in a taxi that ended in a police chase.
Harrelson was taken to a London police station and later released on bail.
The case was later dismissed after Harrelson paid the taxi driver involved in the incident £550 ($844).
In 2008, TMZ photographer Josh Levine filed a lawsuit against Harrelson.
It was for an alleged attack outside a Hollywood nightclub in 2006.
A video of the incident appeared to show Harrelson grabbing a camera and clashing with the photographer.
Los Angeles prosecutors would not press charges against the actor.
Levine filed a lawsuit asking for $2.5 million in damages.
The case was dismissed in April 2010.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series in Cheers
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Demi Moore) in Indecent Proposal (1993)
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Body of Work in The Messenger (2009)
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Body of Work in Zombieland (2009)
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Body of Work in 2012 (2009)
Death at a Funeral is a 2010 comedy movie which was produced by  Sidney Kimmel, William Hordberg, Chris Rock, Share Stallings and Laurence Malkin and was directed by Neil LaBute.
It is a remake of the original 2007 Death at a Funeral.
Chris Rock - Aaron Barnes
Martin Lawrence - Ryan Barnes
Regina Hall - Michelle Barnes
Tracy Morgan - Norman
Zoe Saldana - Elaine Barnes
James Marsden - Oscar
Columbus Short- Jeff Barnes
Loretta Devine - Cynthia Barnes
Keith David - Reverend Davis
Danny Glover - Uncle Russell
Peter Dinklage - Frank Lovett
Luke Wilson - Derek
Kevin Hart - Brian
2010s black comedy movies
2010s LGBT movies
British black comedy movies
Movies directed by Neil LaBute
The Persian is a cat from Persia (now Iran).
It is one of the oldest and most popular cat breeds.
They are called Longhair or Persian Longhair in Britain.
It was made by English breeders and the American ones after the Second World War.
Because of very careful breeding, it has gotten a really flat face and many different colors.
While most cat fanciers love the flat faced Persian, this brings along many illnesses.
The public likes the traditional faced Persian more than the flat faced one.
They can get polycystic kidney disease easily.
The gentle and easy-going nature of the Persian makes it very easy to live in apartments with this cat.
While it is the top cat in the United States, its popularity has decreased in France and the United Kingdom.
A botanical garden is generally a well kept garden or a  park which contains many different kinds of plants labeled with their botanical names.
They can contain collections of special types of plants, such as cacti, herb gardens, plants of certain parts of the world.
Some of these collections need to be kept in greenhouses, such as tropical plants, alpine plants or other exotic plants.
In botanic gardens, seeds or cuttings are collected from species in the wild and then used to build up a population of plants from which, one day, some plants may be reintroduced to their natural habitats.
Tissue culture can often help to produce many plants from just a few specimens.
The garden encompasses all green vegetation with specific names and values that add beauty to the environment.
The plant needs to be selected and considered for onward discovery, classification, naming and systematic.
Zoological garden
A butt plug is a sex toy, which can be inserted into the anus or rectum.
Butt plugs are similar to dildos, but they are designed so they cannot get stuck inside the rectum or anus.
Padang is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Sumatra, and the largest city on the western coast of Sumatra.
The Australian Grand Prix is a motorsport race contested by cars in the Formula One section.
The race was first held in Adelaide before moving to Melbourne in 1996.
As of the 2018 edition, four-time World Drivers' Champion Alain Prost remains the only driver to win the race in both World Championship and domestic formats, winning the Australian Drivers' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988.
* Between 1997-2003 built by Ilmor
** Between 1968-1993 designed and built by  Cosworth, funded by Ford
Alain Prost is the only driver, as of the 2019 Australian Grand Prix, to win the race in both Australian domestic (1982) and World Championship (1986 and 1988) formats.
The last Australian driver to win the AGP was  World Champion Alan Jones who won 1980's non-championship race.
The last Australian driver to officially finish on the podium was John Smith in 1983.
Australia's only current () Grand Prix driver Daniel Ricciardo had finished 2nd in the 2014 race, but was disqualified post-race.
Since becoming a round of the Formula One World Championship in , Jones (1985 and 1986), David Brabham (1990 and 1994), Mark Webber (2002–2013) and Ricciardo (2012–present) are the only Australian drivers to race in the Australian Grand Prix.
* From 1932 to 1948, the winner was determined on a handicap basis.
+ The 1937 event was staged as the "South Australian Centenary Grand Prix" on 26 December 1936.
# The 1928 event was officially known as the "100 Miles Road Race".
** The 2020 Grand Prix was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but organisers announced their intention to reschedule the race.
Eschatology is the part of theology  that is concerned with what are believed to be the last events in history.
It also looks at the destiny of humanity as a whole.
Believers may call it the "end of the world" or "end times".
Eschatologies vary in optimism or pessimism about the future.
In some eschatologies, conditions are better for some and worse for others, e.g. "heaven and hell".
They also vary as to time frames.
Groups claiming imminent (soon to come) eschatology are often called doomsday cults.
The SEAT Altea is a car produced by SEAT since 2004, it was a 5-door compact MPV which gained a larger XL version in late 2006 with the Freetrack appearing a year later in 2007, in 2015 after 11 years of production, the Altea was discontinued and was not replaced with another generation.
1.2 TSI 77 kW (105 hp)
1.4 16V 63 kW (85 hp)
1.4 TSI 92 kW (125 hp)
1.8 TSI 118 kW (160 hp)
2.0 FSI 110 kW (150 hp)
2.0 TSI 147 kW (200 hp) and 154 kW (210 hp)
1.6 TDI 77 kW (105 hp)
1.9 TDI 66 kW (90 hp) and 77 kW (105 hp)
2.0 TDI 100 kW (136 hp), 103 kW (140 hp) and 125 kW (170 hp)
Altea
The SEAT Córdoba is a car produced by SEAT in two generations from 1993 until 2009.
First generation (1993–2002)
1.4 16V 55 kW (75 hp) and 74 kW (100 hp)
1.8 66 kW (90 hp)
1.8 16V 95 kW (129 hp)
1.8 20V Turbo 115 kW (156 hp)
1.9 D 47 kW (64 hp) and 50 kW (68 hp)
1.9 SDI 47 kW (64 hp) and 50 kW (68 hp)
Second generation (2002–2009)
1.2 12V 47 kW (64 hp) and 51 kW (69 hp)
1.4 16V 55 kW (75 hp), 63 kW (85 hp) and 74 kW (100 hp)
1.9 TDI 74 kW (101 hp) and 96 kW (131 hp)
First generation (1999–2006)
After launching the second generation in 2005, the first generations continues as León Torro until 2006.
1.6 74 kW (100 hp)
1.9 TDI 66 kW (90 hp), 74 kW (101 hp), 81 kW (110 hp), 96 kW (131 hp) and 110 kW (150 hp)
Second generation (2005–2012)
1.4 16V 63 kW (85 hp)
1.4 TSI 92 kW (125 hp)
1.6 75 kW (102 hp)
2.0 TSI FR 147 kW (200 hp) and 154 kW (210 hp)
2.0 TSI Cupra 177 kW (240 hp)
2.0 TSI Cupra R 195 kW (265 hp)
1.9 TDI 66 kW (90 hp) and 77 kW (105 hp)
2.0 TDI FR 125 kW (170 hp)
Third generation (2013–2020)
1.2 TSI 86 HP
1.2 TSI 105 CV Start&Stop
1.4 TSI 122 CV Start&Stop
1.4 TSI 140 CV Start&Stop
1.6 TDI CR 90 CV
1.6 TDI CR 105 CV Start&Stop
2.0 TDI CR 150 CV Start&Stop
2.0 TDI CR 180 CV Start&Stop.
This is a list of governors of the US state of California.
The Malaysian Grand Prix is a yearly motor race which takes place in the Sepang International Circuit, near to Kuala Lumpur.
Sepang was designed by race track designer, Hermann Tilke, who has designed many new tracks for Formula One.
The first Formula 1 race was in 1999, which was won by Eddie Irvine, who drove for the Ferrari team.
The Alfa Romeo 155 was a car produced by Alfa Romeo.
It replaced the 75 in early 1992 and was facelifted in early 1995.
It was succeeded by the Alfa Romeo 156 in late 1997.
1.6 Twin Spark 16V 88 kW (120 hp)
1.7 Twin Spark 85 kW (115 hp)
1.8 Twin Spark 93 kW (126 hp)
1.8 Twin Spark 16V 103 kW (140 hp)
2.0 Twin Spark 104 kW (141 hp)
2.0 Twin Spark 16V 110 kW (150 hp)
2.0 Q4 140 kW (190 hp)
2.5 V6 121 kW (165 hp)
2.0 TD 68 kW (92 hp)
2.5 TD 92 kW (125 hp)
Fragments or Winged Creatures is a 2008 crime-drama movie.
It is about a group of people dealing with life after  a man walks into a deli and shoots one of the main character's father.
Fragments stars Dakota Fanning and Kate Beckinsale along with Forest Whittaker.
Winners of the Chinese Grand Prix
The Audi A2 was a 5-door hatchback automobile produced by Audi from 1999 until 2005.
The car was made from aluminium which made it light and economical but was expensive to produce, and demand for it fell later in its life, only one generation was made and had an indirect successor in 2010 with the A1.
1.6 FSI 81 kW (110 hp)
1.2 TDI 45 kW (61 hp)
1.4 TDI 55 kW (75 hp) and 66 kW (90 hp)
The Volkswagen Golf Mk4 is the fourth generation of the compact car Volkswagen Golf.
It successed the Mk3 in 1997, and were in 2003 successed by the Mk5, but the Golf Variant continues until 2006.
The platform of the Mk4 Golf were also used for the New Beetle and the Bora.
1.8 20V 92 kW (125 hp)
1.8 20V Turbo 110 kW (150 hp) and 132 kW (180 hp)
2.3 VR5 110 kW (150 hp) and 125 kW (170 hp)
2.8 VR6 150 kW (204 hp)
3.2 R32 177 kW (241 hp)
1.9 TDI 66 kW (90 hp)
1.9 TDI 74 kW (100 hp) and 81 kW (110 hp)
1.9 TDI 85 kW (115 hp) and 96 kW (130 hp)
1.9 TDI 110 kW (150 hp)
Golf Mk4
The Volkswagen Golf Mk3 is the third generation of the compact car Volkswagen Golf.
It replaced the Mk2 in late 1991 with UK sales starting in February 1992 and in late 1997 was replaced by the Mk4, this was the first Golf to feature an estate model called the Golf Variant which launched in late 1993 and continued until 1999, the Golf Cabriolet continues until 2002.
The platform of the Mk3 Golf were also used for the Vento.
1.6 55 kW (75 hp) and 74 kW (101 hp)
2.0 GTI 16V 110 kW (150 hp)
2.8 VR6 128 kW (174 hp)
1.9 TDI 81 kW (110 hp)
Golf Mk3
Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout.
He travelled the world and had many adventures.
He served to the British Army in colonial Africa and for taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the boy scouts.
Burnham attended high school but never graduated.
When he was 14 he began his working as a scout and tracker for the U.S. Army.
As an adult Burnham went to Africa where this background proved useful.
He soon became an officer in the British Army and fought in several battles there.
During this time Burnham became friends with Baden-Powell and taught him both his outdoor skills and his spirit for what became known as Scouting.
Burnham eventually became involved in espionage, oil, conservation, writing and business.
His descendants are still active in Scouting.
Major Burnham on Pine Tree Web scouting site .
Frederick Howard Russell Burnham (great grand nephew)
People from Minnesota
The Volkswagen Golf Mk5 is the fifth generation of the compact car Volkswagen Golf.
It successed the Mk4 in 2003, and were in 2008 successed by the Mk6, but the Golf Variant and the Golf Plus continues until 2009.
The platform of the Mk5 Golf were also used for the Touran and the Eos.
1.4 16V 55 kW (75 hp) and 59 kW (80 hp)
1.4 FSI 66 kW (90 hp)
1.6 FSI 85 kW (115 hp)
2.0 GTI 147 kW (200 hp) and 169 kW (230 hp)
3.2 R32 184 kW (250 hp)
2.0 SDI 55 kW (75 hp)
Golf Mk5
OS/2 is an operating system that was originally made by a joint agreement between the Microsoft and IBM companies.
The name stands for "Operating System/2".