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Common kinds of sugar are monosaccharide, disaccharide, and polysaccharide.
Fender is a well known company that produces guitars and basses.
These are sold all over the world.
The founder is Leo Fender.
Fender makes the Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars; and the Precision and Jazz basses.
American music companies
Myra is an ancient town in Lycia.
The small town of Kale (Demre) is situated near it today.
It is in Antalya Province of Turkey.
It was located  on the river Myros (Demre Çay), in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Dağ, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea.
Nicholas of Myra (also known as Saint Nicholas) did many things there.
Metis was found in 1979 by Stephen P. Synnott in images taken by the Voyager 1 probe.
Its designation was .
In 1983 it was named after the mythological Metis, a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter).
Metis is not a sphere and measures 60×40×34 km across.
The composition and mass of Metis are not known, but assuming that its mean density is like that of Amalthea (~0.86 g/cm³), its mass can be estimated as ~7×1016 kg.
Amalthea's density implies that moon is composed of water ice with a porosity of 10-15%, and Adrastea may be similar.
The surface of Metis is very cratered.
It is dark and appears to be reddish in color.
Metis is the closest moon to Jupiter.
It orbits Jupiter at a distance of ~128,000 km.
It has a very small orbital eccentricity (~0.0002) and inclination (~ 0.06°) relative to the equator of Jupiter.7
The images taken by Voyager 1 showed Metis only as a dot, and very little was known about Metis until the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft.
Galileo took pictures of almost all of the surface of Metis and put constraints on its composition.
Metis Profile  by NASA's Solar System Exploration
The valley, which is only about  across and  long, is full of thousands of mushroom-shaped pinnacles.
These pinnacles are each a few meters high.
Because of their height and shape, people referred to them as goblins.
They are made of large orange-brown boulders of hard rock on top of weaker sandy layers.
The sandy layers have eroded more quickly causing their shape.
The "Goblins" are well hidden from the nearby road.
The land to the east is flat and empty.
It is near a long narrow ridge with eroded layers of grey and red-brown rocks.
The far side of this empty land gives the best views of the landscape.
The Goblins look as if they join with the cliffs.
This gives giving the look of a strange skeletal structure with skull-like rocks and bony ridges.
The park
There are several trails passing through the park.
These trails are not easy to notice and people can walk almost anywhere.
The land west of Goblin Valley State Park is part of the San Rafael Swell.
It is similar to much of south Utah.
The land is far away from most things and beautiful.
It is crossed only by a few dirt tracks.
4WD vehicles are very useful here.
There are many slot canyons in this area.
Some of these, for example Little Wild Horse Canyon, may be explored easily.
The European Article Number (often shortened to EAN) is a standard to encode product numbers.
The EAN is a special case of a Global Trade Item Number.
The EAN is made of either 8 or 13 digits (EAN-8, and EAN-13).
In many cases, the EAN allows to uniquely identify the item.
Most of the time, the EAN is printed on the packaging of a product.
Special scanners are able to decode these numbers.
They then look up the product-specific data (such as the price) and print it on the bill, for exampe.
Note that the EAN is often encoded using a barcode (such as the ones in the example), but this does not have to be thecase.
There are other machine-readable codes which can also be used.
EAN-13/GTIN-13
The standard EAN has 13 digits.
The EAN is composed of different sections:
Country-specific part: 3 digits
Company part
Article number: 3-5 digits
Checksum digit
EAN-8/GTIN-8
The normal length of an EAN is 13 digits.
There is also a shorter version called EAN-8, for small packages, where the full 13-digit number would take too much space on the package.
The EAN-8 consists of:
Country-specific part: 2-3 digits
Article number: 4-5 digits
There are special organisations which give out both EAN-8 and EAN-13 numbers.
Since EAN-8 numbers with a starting digit 2 are free use, many retailers (such as Aldi) use them for their own products.
As an example, Aldi uses EAN-8 codes starting with 290 or 221; 290 and 221 are the country-specific parts "for internal use".
Eta, of the Greek alphabet (Η, η)
Eta Aircraft eta, a very high performance German glider
Burakumin, a Japanese social minority group (Eta is an old, derogatory name)
Eta reduction in mathematics: see lambda calculus
Eta (Potato Chip), a New Zealand brand of potato chip, produced by Griffin's Foods
Eta Carinae, a highly luminous hypergiant double star
Eta meson, a physics particle: see list of mesons
Eta (letter in Greek alphabet, lower case only), symbol for efficiency in scientific discourse
Estimated time of arrival
Estimated Time Amount when using μTorrent, Azureus, and other BitTorrent clients.
Education And Training Administration, flight training software by Talon Systems
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna () is a Basque paramilitary nationalist organization.
ETA SA, a watchmaking company
ETA, a. s., electrotechnical company from Hlinsko, Czech Republic
Electronic Technician's Association
Electronic Travel Authority, Australian electronic visa
Elektrosektionens Teletekniska Avdelning, An electronics club at Chalmers University, Sweden
Employment and Training Administration, a branch of the US Department of Labor
Engineering and Technology Academy, a school is San Antonio, and part of NEISD
Environmental Transport Association, a UK motor car breakdown and rescue organisation
Eric the Actor, see Eric the Midget
Estonian Broadcasting Agency (Eesti Teadete Agentuur), a defunct Estonian news service
Ethiopian Teachers' Association, a trade union centre for Ethiopia
Ethiopian Telecommunication Agency
Evangelical Theological Association, an associated teaching institute of the Melbourne College of Divinity
Eidiko Tmima Alexiptotiston, Greek special operations unit
A numerical weather prediction model formally known as the Eta
Carrefour is a poor district in the Ouest Department of Port-au-Prince, Haïti.
Its population is 408,000.
The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced however as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations.
A slum called Feuilles of Carrefour is notorious for the illegal execution of eleven young men that took place there in 1999.
Mochi is a type of Japanese confectionary made from pounded pasty rice and molded into shape.
Mochi normally has a filling inside, such as ice cream, azuki (red bean) paste, and others.
In Japan, mochi is often eaten in New Year's Day in one of two dishes: ozoni (お雑煮) or osiruko (おしるこ).
Mochitsuki(餅つき）
Mochitsuki is a traditional mochi-making ceremony in Japan.
It requires two people.
One person pounds steamed rice into the dough with a traditional mortar (臼:usu）and a mallet（杵:kine).
The other person turns over rice each time it is pounded.
They have to keep rhythm to make mochi well.
These days, normal families rarely do classic mochitsuki, but it is still popular at community events or with children's groups.
Mochi dishes
Yaki mochi (grilled mochi)
Kusa mochi (mochi produced by mixing mugwort into glutinous rice and pounding the mixture )
Kinako mochi (mochi with powdered soybeans )
Ozoni (soup dish which contains mochi and other ingredients)
Oshiruko (mochi in a sweet soup which is obtained by boiling red beans )
Choking hazard
http://janmstore.com/mochitsuki.html/
Donkey Kong is an arcade video game made by Nintendo in 1981.
It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi after their other games failed in North America.
It is the first game starring Mario (then called Jumpman) and Donkey Kong, where Mario has to climb a construction site to save his girlfriend Pauline from Donkey Kong, an escaped gorilla.
The player is Jumpman (Mario).
He must climb to the top of the level to reach his girlfriend Pauline who has been kidnapped by Donkey Kong, who escaped from a zoo.
There are four different levels, and Donkey Kong has different weapons in each.
Donkey Kong rolls barrels down a busted construction site, and Mario has to climb ladders and jump over these barrels until he reaches the top.
He can grab a hammer to defeat obstacles, and each level has three of Pauline's things that will give him bonus points.
When Mario beats the fourth level, it goes back to the first level and it gets harder.
Like all arcade games with looping levels has an end level because the game cannot go farther than that.
In this, Mario dies ten seconds into the final level.
The music was made by Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka.
Several remixes have been made of music from this game and used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Shigeru Miyamoto made Donkey Kong with the help of other people, such as Gunpei Yokoi.
It was based on an older Nintendo game called Radar Scope, which did not do very well in the United States, so Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, asked Miyamoto to make a game to replace Radar Scope.
There are a lot of rumors about where the name comes from.
One rumor says that someone misheard or mistranslated the phrase "Monkey Kong" into Donkey Kong when talking over the phone or on a fax machine.
Another rumor is that Miyamoto used a Japanese-to-English dictionary to find words that meant stubborn gorilla and came up with Donkey Kong.
When Donkey Kong was first announced in America, game magazines thought it was not going to be a good game because it was not like other games being made at the time, which were mostly shooting games.
But when it came out, it got great reviews and made a lot of money at the arcades.
It is one of Nintendo's most famous games ever made.
There was a documentary made about the game called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters where someone tries to beat the high score for the game.
A lot of items from this game are used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
There is also a stage that copies the third level.
Sequels and re-releases
Donkey Kong has had many sequels.
Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong 3 were sequels to this game.
The playable character called Mario went on to become the biggest game character of all time, making Nintendo more than 1 billion dollars and releasing more than 200 games, more than any other series.
Donkey Kong went on to have his own series apart from Mario, starting with Donkey Kong Country for the Super NES.
Donkey Kong also starred in many more sequels, as well as spin-offs like the Donkey Konga music games.
Donkey Kong has been re-released many times; first on the Nintendo Entertainment System where it was the same game except that it does not have the second level.
It has also appeared on other consoles including Atari consoles.
A sequel came out for the Game Boy called Donkey Kong, which has the first four levels and 100 new levels after that.
Donkey Kong appeared as a bonus game in the Frantic Factory level for Donkey Kong 64.
This game has not to be confused with the Game & Watch Donkey Kong Jr. portable game console, because the history of the game is a little different.
In the Game & Watch version, the main character is Donkey Kong Jr., that has to save its father Donkey Kong from Mario.
This game recently released for the Nintendo DSi as a downloadable for the cost of 200 Nintendo Points.
Atari 2600 games
Famicom Disk System games
Léogâne is the name of both a coastal city and a district in Ouest Department, Haiti.
The city of Léogâne is around .
The arrondissement of Léogâne contains three communes: Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve, and the city of Léogâne.
It is the closest town to the earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010.
The port town is about  West of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
Léogâne is the birthplace of the Taíno queen Anacaona (the town was originally called  the Amerindian name Yaguana and the city's name is a corruption of that) and of Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, the wife of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758).
Cities in Haiti
Atlantic Beach is a city in Duval County, Florida,  United States.
When the majority of communities in Duval County consolidated with Jacksonville, Florida in 1968, Atlantic Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach and Baldwin, Florida, remained quasi-independent.
Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city council.
The population was 13,368 at the 2000 census.
According to the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 13,436.
City of Atlantic Beach
City of Jacksonville
1920s establishments in Florida
Pity means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow.
In a positive sense it means "sympathy" and "empathy".
More commonly Pity is a negative judgement of others and their situation.
An example of pity is how most people feel about the homeless.
Pity and compassion are closely related words but have subtle differences.
The difference is that compassion usually involves some commitment to help.
Pity does not usually require any personal involvement.
Sometimes pity can also have feelings of contempt and dislike that go with it.
In a positive sense, and especially as practiced in many religions, it can involve feelings the person does not deserve what has happened to him or her.
In this case the person feeling pity feels sorry it happened.
The risks for the climbers are often very high, because the way to the top is not known.
That is why first ascents are often carefully recorded as part of the history of a mountain and usually mentioned in books about that mountain.
Alpinist Magazine Peter Mortimer's First Ascent.
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The ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).
The letters ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
The letters are written properly in capital letters.
The word ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and more quickly, when senders use it.
The basic ZIP code is made up of five numbers.
An extended ZIP + 4 code includes the five digits of the ZIP code, a hyphen and then four more digits.
This lets a piece of mail to be sent to a more exact location than by the ZIP code alone.
ZIP Code was a trademark of the U.S. Postal Service but its registration has since ended.
The postal service started the use of postal zones for large cities in 1943.
By the early 1960s a more general system was needed.
On July 1, 1963, ZIP codes were created for the whole country but they were not .
In 1967, these were made mandatory for many types of mail.
The system was soon used for all mail.
ZIP + 4
200 2nd Ave.
South #358
33701 is the basic ZIP code, 4313 is the "+ 4"
Structure and allocation
ZIP codes are numbered with the first number representing a certain group of U.S. states.
The second and third numbers represent a region in that group of states or, in some cases, a large city.
The fourth and fifth numbers representing a group of delivery addresses within that region.
The main town in a region (if applicable) often gets the first ZIP codes for that region.
Other towns are often given ZIP codes in numerical order alphabetically.
0 = Connecticut (CT), Massachusetts (MA), Maine (ME), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), Puerto Rico (PR), Rhode Island (RI), Vermont (VT), Virgin Islands (VI), APO Europe (AE), FPO Europe (AE)
1 = Delaware (DE), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA)
2 = District of Columbia (DC), Maryland (MD), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Virginia (VA), West Virginia (WV)
3 = Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Mississippi (MS), Tennessee (TN), APO Americas (AA), FPO Americas (AA)
4 = Indiana (IN), Kentucky (KY), Michigan (MI), Ohio (OH)
5 = Iowa (IA), Minnesota (MN), Montana (MT), North Dakota (ND), South Dakota (SD), Wisconsin (WI)
6 = Illinois (IL), Kansas (KS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE)
7 = Arkansas (AR), Louisiana (LA), Oklahoma (OK), Texas (TX)
8 = Arizona (AZ), Colorado (CO), Idaho (ID), New Mexico (NM), Nevada (NV), Utah (UT), Wyoming (WY)
9 = Alaska (AK), American Samoa (AS), California (CA), Guam (GU), Hawaii (HI), Marshall Islands (MH), Federated States of Micronesia (FM), Northern Mariana Islands (MP), Oregon (OR), Palau (PW), Washington (WA), APO Pacific (AP), FPO Pacific (AP)
ZIP Code lookup webpage from the United States Postal Service.
Postal codes
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
It is used in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries.
Most of them also use Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) as a summer daylight saving time.
Where it is used
Bulgaria, since 1894
Cyprus, (Northern Cyprus abolished daylight saving and has switched to Moscow Time all year long in September 2016, but returned to EET in October 2017)
Estonia, in years 1921-40 and since 1989
Finland, since 1921
Greece, since 1916
Israel, since 1948
Latvia, in years 1926-40 and since 1989
Lithuania, in 1920 and since 1989
Moldova, in years 1924-40 and since 1991
Romania, since 1931
Ukraine, in years 1924-30 and since 1990
Moscow used EET between 1922-30 and 1991-92.
In Poland this time was used between 1918-22.
Major metropolitan areas
Brasov, Romania
Cluj Napoca, Romania
Damascus, Syria
Jerusalem, Israel
Timişoara, Romania
Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013) was an American writer and screenwriter.
His books are thrillers about politics, spys and the military.
Most of his books include many technical details about their subjects.
Seventeen of his novels were best-sellers, with over 100 million copies in print.
His stories take place during and after the Cold War.
He owned with some other people a Major League Baseball team.
Clancy also produced popular video games.
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was born on April 12, 1947, in Maryland.
He finished school 1965.
After school he studied English Literature at Loyola College in Baltimore and finished that in 1968.
He said he studied English because he was not smart enough to do physics.
Clancy married his first wife, Wanda, in the 1970s.
They have four children together and separated in 1998.
In 1999, Clancy, at age 52, married the 32-year-old writer Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, on June 26.
Llewellyn is a distant relative of Colin Powell.
Clancy died October 1, 2013, after a brief illness at Johns Hopkins Hospital, near his Baltimore home.
Clancy is survived by his wife, Alexandra; their daughter, Alexis; and four children from a previous marriage to Wanda King: Michelle Bandy, Christine Blocksidge, Kathleen Clancy and Thomas Clancy III.
His cause of death was later confirmed to be heart failure.
From the books The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears films were made, that many people wanted to see.
The first NetForce book was filmed for television.
The website IMDB says that Tom Clancy's novel Without Remorse is to be made into a movie in 2008.
No other details are available (27 June 2007).
Several books that are written by other writers have Tom Clancy's name on them, because the books are written in the same way and have the same stories as his own.
Tom Clancy's Op-Center
Tom Clancy's Power Plays
Tom Clancy's Net Force
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
Transcript of interview with Deborah Norville on the War in Iraq - April 2004
Detailed Tom Clancy Book Reviews
Tom Clancy FAQ
Internet Book Database of Fiction bibliography
1984, 1986 interviews of Tom Clancy  by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
Literary reviews and criticism
"Something for the Boys" by Christopher Hitchens, The New York Review of Books, November 14, 1996.
A review of Clancy's Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Mount Thor is a mountain on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
It is the steepest mountain on Earth.
It has a straight drop at 1,250 m (4,100 feet), with an average angle of 150 degrees.
Waluigi is a character in Nintendo's series of Mario video games.
He is the villain version of Luigi in the same way that Wario is the evil version of Mario.
Waluigi is a very long, thin, tall man, who wears purple.
However, Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Yoshi are all friends.
Waluigi is very tall and thin.
He wears black overalls with a purple shirt, and has brown, pointed shoes.
He has upside-down Ls (Γs) on hat, gloves and mustache which is a Greek letter Gamma, and is the evil counterpart to Luigi.
He was made as a partner for Wario by the company Camelot in Mario Tennis and other Mario spinoff games and has no real story behind him.
He is in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Assist Trophy.
Waluigi is known to be smarter than Wario, but acts sillier.
Waluigi was ranked in the tenth slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games.
They also listed him as one of the top 25 video-game anti-heroes, saying that it was too bad that he has never had the spotlight.
However, he also ranked number one on the Top 10 Worst Mario Characters list from Game Daily, which said, "for every likable character there's one that continues to annoy us even years after we're done with the game they came from".
Waluigi has been criticised by others as well.
Cracked.com said that he was a lazy excuse to add a new villain to the spin-off games and even called him an "abomination".
Waluigi on Giant Bomb
Fictional characters introduced in 2000
Alexander von Humboldt  (Berlin, 14 September 1769 – Berlin, 6 May 1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer.
Humboldt's work on botanical geography was very important in the field of biogeography.
Humboldt was born in Berlin.
His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt, was a major in the Prussian Army.
He married Maria Elizabeth von Colomb in 1766.
The couple had two sons, the younger was Alexander.
Alexander's elder brother was the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt.
In his childhood Humboldt already liked to collect plants, shells, and insects.
Humboldt's father died very early (in 1779).
From that time on his mother took care of his education.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled to Latin America and was the first scientist who wrote about it.
He was one of the first who said that South America and Africa was once one continent.
Late in his life he attempted to bring together different fields of science in his work Kosmos.
Honors and namesakes: Many places and species are named for him, as is the Humboldt Current.
List of science books#19th century
The website of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Works by Alexander von Humboldt at Internet Archive
"Lives of the Brothers Humboldt" an extensive biography available from the Million Book Project:
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie: biography of Humboldt at Wikisource
Online version of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New World
"Alexander von Humboldt", from In our time, a 45 minutes BBC Radio 4 program.
Nike, Incorporated is a company formed in the United States.
It is based near Beaverton, Oregon.
The company was founded on 25 January 1964.
Nike was named Blue Ribbon Sports at first ( it changed to Nike in 1971).
The original founders of Nike are Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight.
The company is named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
Nike today
Nike sells its products under its own name as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan, and Team Starter.
Nike also owns the brands Bauer, Cole Haan, Hurley International, and Converse.
Nike, Incorporated also funds certain sports events such as the FIFA World Cup 2014.
Nike corporate website
Companies based in Oregon
The pound sterling (GBP; £ or ₤), also called just the pound, is the official currency used in the United Kingdom.
It is also used in British overseas territories, Isle of Man, Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey.
The pound is divided into 100 pence.
Today's coins are 1 penny, 2 pence, 5 pence, 10 pence, 20 pence, 50 pence, £1 and £2.
The notes are £5, £10, £20 and £50.
As of July 2021, one pound was equal to 1.39United States dollars.
A pound coin originally weighed one troy pound of sterling silver, giving the currency the name "pound sterling". "
Sterling silver" means mixed metal that has 92.5% or more real silver.
One pound sterling was originally divided by 240 sterling pence.
This was because there are 240 pennyweights in a troy pound.
So a single one–pound coin weighed one troy pound and a single 1–penny coin weighed one pennyweight.
The £ or ₤ is a stylised writing of the letter L, a short way of writing libra.
Up until around the 1970s, especially on typewriters or keyboards without a "£" symbol, it was common to write "L" instead of "£".
The old system
The pound has only been divided into 100 pence since 1971.
Before this time it was divided into 20 shillings.
Each shilling was divided into 12 pennies.
The symbols for shilling and penny came from Roman coins: "s" for shilling (from the Latin word solidus) and "d" for penny (from the Latin denarius).
The penny was divided into 4 farthings.
The farthing became obsolete (was no longer used) in 1961 because it was worth so little.
½d (half a penny) was pronounced "haypenny" (spelt: ha'penny or halfpenny)
2d (two old pennies) was always pronounced "tuppence"
3d (three old pennies) was always pronounced "thrupence" or "thruppenny bit" for the 3d coin" (spelt threepence)
One shilling was written "1/–" (sometimes called a "bob").
Prices in shillings and pence were pronounced like this: 2/6 (or: 2s6d) "two and six" (or: "two shillings and sixpence").
The price £4 6s 3¾d was pronounced: "four pounds six shillings and thruppence three-farthings"
There was also a guinea.
Originally the guinea was a gold coin.
Although the coin had not been minted or circulated for a long time, prices were still sometimes given in guineas.
A guinea was 21s (or £1 1s 0d).
A price of 58 guineas was, in fact, £60 18s 0d, which sounds more than "58 guineas".
(Following the Great Recoinage of 1816)
(Following the Great Coinage of 1816)
The crown and sovereign were legal currency before 1971.
By then they were commemorative coins and not commonly found in circulation.
They are both still legal currency at a value of 25 pence and £1 respectively.
In 1971, the pound sterling of the United Kingdom and the Irish Pound of Ireland were decimalised (divided into 100).
Most coins were de-monetised.
£1 was equal to 100 pence after then.
One shilling became 5 pence, remaining  of £1.
£1 stayed the same.
Decimal currency
The banknotes of the United Kingdom
British currency
Vestfold is a former county in Norway.
It bordered Buskerud and Telemark.
The county administration was in the city of Tønsberg.
Vestfold was west of the Oslo Fjord.
The river Numedalslågen runs through the area.
Many islands are at the coast.
Vestfold is mostly lowland areas.
It is among the best agricultural areas of Norway.
On 1 January 2020 the county merged with Telemark to the current county of Vestfold og Telemark.
Vestfold used to be a headquarters for whaling fleets.
The economy of the coastal towns of Vestfold now is centered around fishing and shipbuilding.
Some lumbering is done away from the coast.
The district also has some of the best farmland in Norway.
Andebu
Holmestrand
Lardal
Nøtterøy
Sande
Sandefjord
Stokke
Svelvik
Tjøme
Former counties of Norway
Buskerud is a former county of Norway.
Its main city was Drammen.
Telemark is a former counties in Norway.
Skien is the main city in Telemark.
Akershus is a former county in Norway.
It was bordered by Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and Østfold; the area has a short border with Sweden.
Akershus was the second largest county in population after Oslo.
It has more than half a million people living in it.
The county was named after Akershus Fortress.
The county administration was in Oslo, which was not part of the county.
Most of the county is in the districts Follo and Romerike.
There are also the two smaller districts of Asker and Bærum which are west of Oslo.
This happened when the municipality of Aker (surrounding Oslo) was moved from Akershus county to Oslo in 1948.
Akershus includes some of the lake Mjøsa and some of the river Glomma.
Because it includes many suburbs of Oslo, notably Bærum, Akershus has a large number of people living in a small area.
The main national railway lines into Oslo run through Akershus with many stations such as Asker, Ullensaker, Ski and Lillestrøm.
The county includes the historical place Eidsvoll, 48 km north of Oslo.
This is where the National assembly voted the Norwegian constitution in 1814.
South of Eidsvoll is the international airport of Oslo Airport at Gardermoen.
The home of the crown prince is in Asker.
The county has a major international airport, the Oslo Airport.
It also has two university hospitals, Akershus University Hospital and Sunnaas Hospital.
Akershus became a fief in the 16th century.
At that time it included the current counties of Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud and Oslo.
It also included municipalities of Askim, Eidsberg and Trøgstad in the county of Østfold.
In 1685 Buskerud was separated from Akershus.
In 1768 Hedmark and Oppland were also separated from Akershus.
In 1842 Christiania (Oslo) was made separate as well.
In 1948 Aker was transferred to the county of Oslo.
The fortress was built in 1299.
Its name means "the (fortified) house of (the district) Aker".
Aurskog-Høland
Eidsvoll
Enebakk
Frogn
Gjerdrum
Hurdal
Nannestad
Nesodden
Nittedal
Oppegård
Rælingen
Skedsmo
Sørum
Ullensaker
Vestby
Akershus county website
The Westie was first used for hunting foxes and otters.
The breed is well known for high stamina, courage and agility.
Westies have a double white coat which protects them from attacks and cold weather.
They have dark black eyes.
They are small dogs and are lively, playful and alert.
They are loyal to their owner, but can be stubborn at times.
They are known to kill small animals, such as moles, squirrels, chipmunks and birds.
They like to be outdoors.
"Soldier" is an R&B/hip hop song written by Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rich Harrison, Sean Garrett, T.I., and Lil Wayne for Destiny's Child's fourth studio album, Destiny Fulfilled (2004).
It was produced by Knowles and Harrison and released as the album's second single in fall 2004.
The song reached number 3 in Australia and the United States.
It became the group's tenth and final consecutive top 10 hit in the US.
It peaked in the top 10 in New Zealand, the UK, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Finland, Italy, Greece and Switzerland.
The song also was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category.
It won the Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best R&B/Soul Single by a Group, Band or Duo.
Lead vocals - Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams
Vocal production - Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland
Recorded by Jim Caruna at Sony Music Studios, NYC
Additional vocals recorded by Tom Tapley, Fabian Marasciullo
Audio mixing - Dexter Simmons
Additional pro tools editing - Rommel Nino Villanueva
Mastered by Tom Coyn
"Soldier Part II" (feat Rohff)
"Soldier" (Remix) (feat Stack Bundles, Lil' Wayne & T.I)
"Soldier" (DJ Noodles Remix) (feat.
T.I. & Trazz)
"Soldier" (JS Nu Soul Remix)
"Soldier" (Kardinal Beats Remix)
"Soldier" (Maurice's Joshua Nu Anthem Remix)
"Soldier" (Maurice's Joshua Soul Remix)
"Soldier" (Maurice's Joshua Nu Beat Remix)
"Soldier" (Danny Howell & Dick Trevor's Kinkyfunk Remix) (feat.
T.I.)
"Soldier" (Grizz Blackmarket Remix) (feat.
T.I. & Lil' Wayne)
"Soldier" (MGM Antiloop Confusion Mix)
"Soldier" (Bizarre Remix)
"Soldier" (Remix) (feat.
B.G.)
Bizarre of D-12)
"Soldier" (Gogh's In House Mix)
"Soldier" (Soldja Boy Crank Mix) (performed by Beyoncé Live on her 2007 Tour)
In dermatology, an abrasion is a damage to the skin that affects only the surface, generally not deeper than the epidermis.
But it can give mild bleeding.
Mild abrasions, also known as 'grazes' do not scar, but deep abrasions may lead to the development of scarring tissue.
Abrasion (medical), damage to the skin, generally not deeper than the epidermis
Abrasion (dental), the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from a foreign element
Abrasion (geology) (corrsion), mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport in wind, glacier, waves, gravity or running water.
Abrasion (materials science), abrasive wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another solid.
Abrasion (band), a heavy metal trio formed in Melbourne, Australia.
In materials science, wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another solid.
The study of the processes of wear is part of the discipline of tribology.
Adhesive wear
Abrasive wear
Corrosive wear
Surface fatigue
The definition of wear does not include loss of dimension from plastic deformation, although wear can happen without loss of material.
Also this definition does not include impact wear where there is no sliding motion or cavitation  (also corrosion) where counterbody is  a fluid..
Wear, along with other aging processes such as fatigue, creep, and fracture toughness, causes progressive degradation of materials with time leading to failure of material at an advanced age.
Under normal circumstances, the property changes during usage normally occur in three different stages as follows:-
•	Primary or early stage or run-in period, where rate of changes can be high.
•	Secondary or mid-age process where a steady rate of aging process is                                                      maintained.
The useful or working life is at this stage.
•	Tertiary or old-age stage, where rapid rate of aging leads to early failure.
With increasing severity of environmental conditions, such as, higher temperatures, strain rates, stress and sliding velocities, the secondary stage is shortened and the primary stage tends to merge with the tertiary stage, thus drastically reducing the working life.
Surface engineering processes are used to minimize wear and extend working life of material.
Adhesive wear is also known as scoring, galling, or seizing.
It happens when two solid surfaces slide over one another under pressure.
This happens when material is removed by contact with hard particles.
The particles either may be present at the surface of a second material or may exist as loose particles between two surfaces.
R.Chattopadhyay; Surface Wear- Analysis, Treatment, and Prevention, ASM-International, OH, USA, 2001, ..
R.Chattopadhyay, Advanced Thermally Assisted Surface Engineering Processes Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, USA (now Springer, NY), 2004, , E-.
Compacted oxide layer glaze describes the often shiny, wear-protective layer of oxide formed when two metals (or a metal and ceramic) are slid against each other at high temperature in an oxygen-containing atmosphere.
The layer forms on either or both the surfaces in contact and can protect against wear.
I.A. Inman.
Compacted oxide layer formation under conditions of limited debris retention at the wear interface during high temperature sliding wear of superalloys.
Ph.D. dissertation, Northumbria University.
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Wear (erosion), the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another material
The River Wear, a river in northeast England
WEAR-TV, an ABC affiliate, in Pensacola, Florida
Wear is a lesser used synonym for jibe, generally referring to tall ships.
To have on one's person, like an item of clothing.
Wear (journal), a scientific journal
In medicine, a wound is a type of physical injury where in the skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a bruise (a closed wound).
In pathology, it specifically means a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
A mortal wound is one that  leads directly to the death of the victim.
WOUNDS, online open-access journal featuring articles about wound care and related research.
Ostomy Wound Management, online open-access journal featuring articles about wound care, ostomy care, incontinence care and nutrition
Journal of Burns and Wounds , online open-access journal featuring articles about wound care and related research
He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and learned to play drums and piano with his father.
His career began in 1962 and he moved to New York City where he went to music schools and played with famous jazz musisicans such as Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis.
In 1972 he started his own jazz band called Return to Forever, where he played electric piano.
In the 1980s he formed one band called the Acoustic Band and one called the Electric Band.
He also had small trios and bigger bands.
One of his recents bands was called "Spanish Heart Band" and had 8 members.
All together he made around 80 records and won 23 Grammy Awards.
Some of his best known jazz compositions were called "Spain", "500 Miles High", "Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows".
Bister
Blatten
Filet
Mörel
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Former districts of Switzerland
Children that are homeless, and that have to look for themselves are called street children.
They may have run away, or they may have no relatives who look after them.
Children on the street: They spend most of the day on the street, because they have to work.
They sleep at home.
Street children in the proper sense: The center of the lives of these children is on the street.
They also sleep there (because they have nowhere else to go).
According to the European Federation for Street Children, they are an extremely vulnerable group living in very difficult conditions.
The human rights of many of these children are often violated: They are exposed to violence or sexual exploitation and abuse.
They may be addicted to drugs.
development.”
Homelessness denies each one of those rights.
According to an Inter-NGO Program on street children and youth, a street child is “any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc.)
has become his or her habitual abode and/or source of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, directed, and supervised by responsible adults.”
Children who have no home but the streets, and no family support.
They move from place to place, living in shelters and abandoned buildings.
‘Child on the street': children who visit their families regularly and might even return every night to sleep at home, but spends most days and some nights on the street because of poverty, overcrowding, child sexual abuse or physical abuse at home.
Part of a street family: these children live on sidewalks or city squares with the rest of their families.
They may be displaced due to poverty, wars, or natural disasters.
The families often live a nomadic life, carrying their possessions with them.
Children in this case often work on the streets with other members of their families.
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Ayer
Montana-Vermala
Saint-Luc
Salins
Visp is a district in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland.
Steckborn is a former district of the canton of Thurgau.
The capital city was Steckborn.
Former districts of Thurgau
Frauenfeld is a district of the canton of Thurgau.
The capital city, and the capital of Thurgau, is the city of Frauenfeld.
Districts of Thurgau
The American badger (Taxidea taxus) is an animal usually found in the Great Plains area of North America.
It looks similar to the European badger, but it is  not closely related to them.
It is found in the western, central, and eastern United States, northern Mexico, and south-central Canada.
The American badger's habitat lives in open grasslands eating prey (such as mice, squirrels, and groundhogs).
The badger likes areas such as prairies  with sandy loam soils where it can dig easily for its prey.
They are found in many places from high alpine meadows to sea level.
Badgers are carnivorous.
Unlike many carnivores that stalk their prey in open country, badgers catch most of their food by digging.
They can tunnel after ground-dwelling rodents with amazing speed.
Kreuzlingen is a district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city is Kreuzlingen.
Weinfelden is one of the eight districts of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city is Weinfelden.
Bischofszell is a former district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city was Bischofszell.
Diessenhofen  is a former district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city was Diessenhofen.
Münchwilen is one of the eight districts of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city is Münchwilen.
Arbon is a district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The capital city is Arbon.
Steckborn is near Lake Constance.
In 2005, 3,398 people lived there.
People lived in the area around Steckborn already in the 100s.
There are also Roman ruins of walls and other buildings.
Probably in the 800s, the village became part of the territory of the monastery of Reichenau.
This is the period when it is first written about.
Karl Friedrich Gegauf, entrepreneur
Fritz Gegauf, inventor of the sewing machine and founder of Bernina
www.steckborn.ch
BERNINA International site
Municipalities of Thurgau
Frauenfeld is the capital city of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
It is also the capital city of the district of Frauenfeld.
The city is first written about in 1246.
It grew up around the Frauenfeld castle on the land of the Reichenau convent.
In 1264, it became the property of the Habsburgs.
In 1374, the Habsburgs bestowed the right of judgment for all of Thurgau (which then included St. Gallen) on the Duke of Frauenfeld.
In 1919, the municipalities of Langdorf, Kurzdorf, Huben, Herten, and Horgenbach became part of Frauenfeld.
In 1998, Gerlikon, Schönenhof, and Zelgli joined Frauenfeld.
He was born in Casdemiro, and joined the Benedictines at the age of 12, and had taken classes in Galicia, León, and Salamanca.
He later taught theology and philosophy at the university of Oviedo, and died at Oviedo.
Padre Feijoo studied in Salamanca, Spain, at the University of Oviedo, earning a professorship in theology.
Feijoo was a prominent essayist for the Spanish, and his critiques, letters, and plays helped change the steadfast beliefs of many during the 18th century.
His two famous multi-volume collection of essays, Teatro critico universal (1726-1739) and Cartas eruditas y curiosas cover a range of subjects, from education, law, and medicine, to superstitions and popular beliefs.
Father Feijoo was a debunker of myths.
He had great interest in natural science and many of his essays touch on topics related to this subject and to the many myths about creatures and lands that abounded at that time.
One example of how far his naturalistic bent went can be found in a story told by Julio A. Feijoo, one of his descendents, born in Cuba in 1910.
Father Feijoo believed that demonic possession was a psychological phenomenon.
Once he was called upon to perform an exorcism, and in order to demonstrate that this phenomenon was more due to suggestibility than anything else, in performing a spurious exorcism on the "possessed" subject, he read from Bocaccio's famous bawdy work the Decameron.
Upon hearing the Latin lines, the "possessed" individual settled down and declared himself to be free of demonic influence.
In 1874, the municipality of Egelshofen was renamed Kreuzlingen.
It reached the present size with the adding of Kurzrickenbach in 1927 and Emmishofen in 1928.
The name of the municipality stems from the Augustinian monastery Crucelin, which was later renamed Kreuzlingen Abbey.
It was built in 1125 by the Bishop of Constance, Ulrich I. In the Swabian War and the 30 Years' War after the siege of Constance by Swedish troops, Kreuzlingen Abbey was burned down by the people of Constance.
The crime was blamed on the monks for having supported the enemy.
In 1650, the monastery was rebuilt in its present location.
Because of secularization in 1848, the buildings became a school.
The chapel became a Catholic church
People already lived in the Kreuzlingen area during the Bronze Age.
Celtic and Roman coins and artifacts show that people continued to be settled in the area pre-writing.
Kurzrickenbach is first mentioned as Rihinbah in 830, Egelshofen is mentioned as Eigolteshoven in 1125, and Emmishofen is mentioned as Eminshoven in 1159.
The territory of the municipality, except for the Augustinian monastery, belonged to the Bishop of Constance.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the current centre of Kreuzlingen was still largely agricultural.
The first steamboats began to operate on Lake Constance in 1824.
The first train line to Romanshorn was finished in 1871, and the second to Etzwilen in 1875.
This brought commerce and industry to the area.
In 1874, Kreuzlingen became the capital of the district, instead of the previous capital, Gottlieben.
However, until World War I, Kreuzlingen was a kind of suburb of Constance.
Most of its profits went to German firms.
The war made Kreuzlingen more independent.
w:The Sanatorium of Bellevue (1857-1980), which occupied part of the old monastery, played an important role in the history of Kreuzlingen.
In 1842, a man called Ignaz Vanotti from Constance bought a large area of land and constructed a building to house the emigrant press of Bellevue in 1843, which had been located in Römerburg before.
In 1857, Ludwig Binswanger, a psychiatrist from Münsterlingen bought the property and opened a private sanatorium.
The clinic was very modern and stayed in the control of the Binswanger family for nearly 120 years.
Important psychiatric discoveries, particularly under the founder's grandson's control, especially in the development of existential psychotherapy, were made at the sanatorium.
However, few of its buildings remain.
Earlier, most of the people in Kreuzlingen made a living in the wine industry.
However, because of diseases and bad harvests, the last wine grapes were raised in Kreuzlingen in 1938.
http://www.kreuzlingen.ch
Weinfelden is a municipality in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
It is the capital of the district of the same name.
In December 2004 it had about 9500 people.
Since it is in the middle of the canton, part of the canton's government is in the town.
The Thurgau cantonal bank is also there.
The grand council of the canton meets in Weinfelden during the winter.
Already in the year 124 AD, there was a Roman bridge over the Thur at Weinfelden.
The name Weinfelden is first documented in 838.
Weinfelden was by far the biggest town in the canton of Thurgau.
In 1798, Paul Reinhart and his committee led the area to freedom from the domination of the Eidgenossen.
In 1803, Thurgau became an independent canton, through the mediation of Napoleon, with Frauenfeld as capital.
In 1830, Thomas Bornhauser spoke to a large crowd in Weinfelden, demanding a liberal constitution for the canton.
It is one of the first (if not the first) such document.
Portraits of both Paul Reinhart and Thomas Bornhauser hang in the Rathaus.
Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 – October 23 1590), was a Franciscan missionary to the Aztec (Nahua) people of Mexico, best known as the compiler of the Florentine Codex, also known as  (General History of the Things of New Spain).
1590 deaths
A bruise, also called a contusion or an ecchymosis, is a visible bluish or purplish mark or patch appearing beneath the surface of the skin, resulting from blood that leaked out of the deeper layers of the tissues.
Bruises are usually caused by a blow or pressure.
In older people, bruises may also occur without a special reason.
Bruises often cause pain but are normally not dangerous.
Sometimes bruises can be serious and lead to other more life-threatening forms of hematoma, or they can be associated with serious injuries such as fractures and internal bleeding.
Minor bruises may be easily recognized, in people with light skin color, by their characteristic blue or purple appearance (idiomatically described as "black and blue") in the days following the injury.
How long do bruises last?
Bruises change color over time.
That is because the body is fixing the bruise by breaking down and reabsorbing the blood, which makes the bruise to go through many colors before it later disappears.
The age of a bruise can be guessed by looking at its color.
At the start, it is red because of the blood that is appearing just under the skin.