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His father was Qusai ibn Kilab.
When his father died, he took charge of his work.
He too distinguished himself by his ability, and he was famous for his generosity and good judgment.
He had five sons: Nawfal, Abd Shams, Hashim (after whom the Banu Hashim clan was named) and Muttalib .
Muttalib was younger than Hashim, and became his successor.
al-islam.org
The Umayyad Empire was established.
In the year 660 the kingdom of Silla invaded the kingdom of Baekje. (
see Korea)
Empress Saimei of Japan makes an order to dispatch a force to the Korean Peninsula to save Baekje.
Yamanoue no Okura, Japanese poet (d. 733) (see: Waka)
Ghazi Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Haripur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The tehsil, headquartered at the town of Ghazi, is itself divided into 7 Union Councils.
Haripur Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil), of Haripur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 37 Union Councils.
Lahor is a town and tehsil of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The town is a settlement of 35,000 people and is west of Swabi, on the northern bank of the Indus River.
Lahor is surrounded by Yar Hussain, Tordher, Ambar and the Indus River.
Mandi Bahauddin Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The city of Mandi Bahauddin is the headquarters of the tehsil.
Mandi-Bahauddin
The Necronomicon is a fictional book of magic created by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
It is a Greek-sounding word commonly translated as "book of dead names".
It is pronounced "neck-ro-nom-ih-kon".
Like most of his ideas, the Necronomicon came to Lovecraft in his dreams.
Lovecraft let his friends write stories about the Necronomicon.
Eventually, fake Necronomicons were written.
Fictional History
According to Lovecraft, the Necronomicon was written in the eighth century by a crazy Arabian man named Abdul Alhazred.
Alhazred (who was also fictional) practiced evil magic.
He assembled a collection of evil spells into a manuscript (a book with loose pages and no cover) which he called Al Azif.
Lovecraft said this as an Arabian phrase for a scary sound, like a scream.
Later, the original manuscript was translated into Greek.
It was given the title Necronomicon.
Olaus Wormius (a real person) then translated the Greek version into Latin.
John Dee (also real) translated the Necronomicon into English.
Lovecraft liked to mix in real people and places in his fiction.
This made the stories seem more real.
Some people were fooled into thinking what he wrote was true.
"Real" Necronomicons
Since Lovecraft's death, several authors have written their own versions of the Necronomicon.
They are the author's imagination of what the Necronomicon would be like, if it were real.
A few claim to be the actual Necronomicon.
The most famous case of a "real" Necronomicon is the "Simon" Necronomicon.
Simon is a fake name.
It was published in the 1970s.
The "Simon" Necronomicon is based on Sumerian mythology.
It has nothing to do with H. P. Lovecraft's fiction.
Some people dislike the "Simon" Necronomicon.
They do not like that it pretends to be real.
Sometimes, people believe it to be real.
Simon has written several books about the Necronomicon'''s "discovery".
Here are some hoax Necronomicons (books that the authors claim are the real Necronomicon):The True Story of the Necronomicon, author unknownGeorge Hay Presents: The Necronomicon, by George HayAl Azif: The Necronomicon, by L. Sprague de Camp
Here are some books that are the authors' imaginations of what the Necronomicon might be like:Necronomicon: The Wandering of Alhazred, by Donald TysonAlhazred: Author of the Necronomicon (a novel about the life of Abdul Alhazred, also by Donald Tyson)Grimoire of the Necronomicon (a book of real spells inspired by the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, also by Donald Tyson)
Here are all the books by Simon about the Necronomicon:Necronomicon Spellbook (an instruction manual of how to use the Necronomicon's spells safely)Dead Names: The Dark History of the NecronomiconGates of the Necronomicon'' (a book explaining the Walking of the Seven Gates, a long and complicated ritual that all first-time users of the Necronomicon must perform)
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Occult refers to an area of knowledge or thought that is hidden.
The word occult has many uses in the English language.
Often it means knowledge that lies outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.
The term sometimes means knowledge meant only for certain people or knowledge that must be kept hidden.
For most occultists it is the study of a deeper spiritual reality.
The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders, and the teachings and practices as taught by them.
The name also extends to a large body of literature and spiritual philosophy.
Occultism is the study of occult.
It can involve such subjects as magic (alternatively spelled and defined as magick), extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism, numerology and lucid dreaming.
There is often a strong religious element to these studies and beliefs, and many occultists profess adherence to religions such as Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Satanism, Thelema, and Neopaganism.
While Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam are generally not considered as occult, some of their modern interpretations can be, such as the interpretation of Hinduism within Theosophy or the various occult interpretations of the Jewish Kabbalah.
Science and the occultism
Alchemy, is considered an occult practice.
Alchemy used to be common among scientists, such as Isaac Newton.
During the Age of Enlightenment alchemy and science went their separate ways.
Newton was accused of introducing occult agencies into natural science when he proposed that gravity was a force capable of acting over vast distances.
Journal of Thelemic Studies  - the first non-partisan, academic journal investigating the occult tradition of Thelema, founded by the infamous Aleister Crowley
The Occult Lodge  For all things Occult
University of Amsterdam Center for Study of Western Esotericism
University of Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO)
ESSWE European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, with many links to associated organizations, libraries, scholars etc.
Joseph H. Peterson, Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica (Esoteric Archives: Occult Literature)
Athenaeum  (Collection of occult works in PDF Format)
Inner Quest  All things occult
Pandemic Studios was a video game developer that was started in 1998.
It became owned by Electronic Arts from 2007 to 2009.
It was an Australian and American company, with offices in Brisbane and Los Angeles.
Pandemic Studios developed the first two main titles of the successful Star Wars: Battlefront series; those were Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II.
It also developed Full Spectrum Warrior, the Mercenaries series, and the last game in the Army Men series.
Their office in Brisbane was closed in February 2009.
In November 2009, Electronic Arts cut a total of 1,500 jobs, including at Pandemic.
The company was officially closed on 17 November 2009.
The rest of the staff were moved to EA Los Angeles to support Mercs Inc, a sequel to the Mercenaries series.
Games developed (made)
Battlezone II (1999)
Dark Reign 2 (2000)
Triple Play 2002 (2002)
Army Men RTS (2002)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (video game) (2002)
Full Spectrum Warrior (2004)
Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)
Destroy All Humans! (
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008)
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2009)
The Saboteur (2009
A ghost town is a name for a city or town in which no one lives anymore.
It can happen because of economical reasons (for instance, a town of gold miners who cannot find gold anymore), a natural disaster (a flood, a very long drought) or even a man-made disaster (for example, the nuclear fallout that emptied the town of Prypiat, Ukraine).
Some ghost towns are kept intact as tourist attractions.
For example Craco, in the Italian region of Basilicata, is a destination for tourists and pilgrims, as well as a famous movie set for movies like The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson and Quantum of Solace by Marc Forster.
A rain dance is a ceremonial dance.
It is performed by people who believe it will cause rain and keep their harvest safe.
Many different types of "rain dances" can be found in many cultures, from Ancient Egypt to certain Native American tribes.
In the 20th century Balkans, a ritual known as Paparuda (Romanian) or Perperuna (Slavic) is a type of rain dance.
The Cherokee tribe, an ethnic Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States used rain dances to both create rain and to remove evil spirits from the earth.
The legend of the tribe says that the rain created has the spirits of the former leaders of the tribe.
During the rain, these spirits fight the evil spirits in a place between our reality and the spirit world.
These raindances are also seen as acts of worship.
Julia M. Butree in her book,  describes the "Rain Dance of Zuni" and other Native American dances
Feathers and turquoise are worn during the dance.
They symbolize wind and rain.
Many traditions of the Rain Dance are passed down through history by people telling their children about them in stories.
Settler times
In an early type of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns.
They would do a raindance for settlers in return for trade items.
This is best known to happen among Osage and Quapaw Indian tribes of Missouri and Arkansas.
Ritual dances
Lice (singular: louse), are wingless insects that live in hair.
They are all external parasites on every species of bird and most mammalian orders.
They are not found on Monotremes  and a few eutherian orders, namely bats (Chiroptera), whales, dolphins and porpoises (Cetacea) and pangolins (Pholidota).
There are more than 3,000 different species; three are classified as human lice.
Lice spend their whole life on the host.
They are adapted to keep close contact with the host.
These adaptations are reflected in their size (0.5–8 mm), stout legs, and claws which are adapted to clinging tightly to hair, fur and feathers.
They are also wingless and flattened.
Lice feed on skin (epidermal) debris, feather parts, sebaceous secretions and blood.
A louse's color varies from pale beige to dark grey; however, if feeding on blood, it may become considerably darker.
A louse's egg is commonly called a nit.
Lice attach their eggs to their host's hair with specialized saliva which results in a bond that is very difficult to separate without specialized products.
Living lice eggs tend to be pale white.
Dead lice eggs are more yellow.
Lice are very annoying and are difficult to remove, but not impossible.
The process is called nit-picking, and is often done with a close-toothed metal comb.
For humans, anti-insect shampoos are available.
The order has traditionally been divided into two suborders; the sucking lice (Anoplura) and chewing lice (Mallophaga).
Four suborders are now recognised:
Anoplura: sucking lice, including head and pubic lice
Rhyncophthirina: parasites of elephants and warthogs
Ischnocera: avian lice
Amblycera: chewing lice, a primitive order of lice
Amblycera: jumping lice have very strong hind legs and can jump a distance of three feet
It has been suggested that the order is contained by the Troctomorpha suborder of Psocoptera.
What this means is that lice may have evolved from free-living species of that group.
Lice and humans
Humans are unique in that they host three different species of lice: head lice, body lice (which live mainly in clothing), and pubic lice.
The DNA differences between head lice and body lice provide corroborating evidence that humans started wearing clothes at approximately 70,000 BCE.
Lice Pest Control Information - National Pesticide Information Center
Bed-hopping led humans to 3 million-year itch
www.phthiraptera.org has extensive scientific information.
Body and Head lice  University of Florida Featured Creatures
Crab Louse  University of Florida Featured Creatures
WebMD Lice Info
The Adventures of Pinocchio () is a story by Carlo Collodi.
It was first published as a serial in a children's magazine between 1881-1883.
The serial ended tragically with the death of Pinocchio.
It was published as a book in 1883 with black and white illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti.
Pinocchio tells the story of a puppet who wants to become a real boy.
The book has been adapted to movies.
Zipes, Jack (Ed.)
384–5.
1883 books
Mandi Bahauddin is the capital of Mandi Bahauddin District in Punjab, Pakistan.
Thumper (Medicine), An oxygen or electric powered CPR Assist Device.
Thumper (Motorcycle), a four-stroke single cylinder motorcycle
Bible thumper, a derisive term used to describe Christian fundamentalists
Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit, the British Rail Class 205 and Class 207 diesel electric multiple units are nicknamed Thumpers
M79 Grenade launcher, a weapon nicknamed "Thumper"
Sun Fire X4500, a storage server code-named "Thumper"
WORTH produces first official NCAA Collegiate aluminum baseball bat, The Tennessee "Thumper" in 1974.
"Thumper", a song by Raging Speedhorn on the album Raging Speedhorn
"Thumper", a popular drinking game.
Jeremy Paxman, host of University Challenge
Restrictor, a machine in the game Half-Life 2, also known as Thumpers
"Thumper", a term used to name the Activity Indicator in early versions of Mozilla Firefox
"Thumper" is a character from the Twisted Metal Series of Sony PlayStation.
He is portraited as a African-American South Central gangsta that drives a pink and white 64 Impala-like car.
Thumper (Bambi), a rabbit in the Disney animated movie Bambi
Thumper, a quarry driller in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thumper, Hopper's pet grasshopper in A Bug's Life
Thumper, a recurring character in the television show Veronica Mars
Thumper, a mechanical device in the science fiction book Dune
Thumper, a character in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever
Talagang is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Punjab province and is the capital of Talagang Tehsil.
Arra is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Choa Saidan Shah Tehsil.
Union Councils of Chakwal District
Balkassar is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Choa Saidan Shah Tehsil and is located at 32°55'60N 72°39'0E. Also, Balkassar is famous for its 'Rain of Flaming Dogs' ceremony which happens once in a year.
Balokassar is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Choa Saidan Shah Tehsil.
Terry Goodkind (January 11, 1948 – September 17, 2020) was an American writer from the U.S. state of Nebraska.
He was known for writing fantasy books.
His most famous book is called Wizard's First Rule which is part of the The Sword of Truth series.
Begal is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 33°2'57N 72°39'11E
Bharpur is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 32°51'0N 72°34'0E
Bheen is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Bhoun is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Bidher is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil.
Buchal Kalan is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Kallar Kahar Tehsil.
Budhial is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
Budhial village is about 25 kilometres from Talagang at 32°58'60″N 72°10'60″E.
Chak Malook is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 32°58'0N 72°57'0E.
Chak Umra is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Choa Saidan shah is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is at 32°43'0N 72°58'60E. It is a named after a man who was a famous Sufi.
Its famous for it spirngs and lakes.
Choa Saidan Shah is one of the few villages that have all kinds of facities like Hospitals,Schools,Collages.
Famous Peoples
The Awans tribe dominate in the area.
Other tribes include Rajputs and Gujar.
Dab is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 33° 0' 0" N 72° 52' 0" E.
Dhoular is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
and is part of Talagang Tehsil.
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan its total population was about 6,500.
Dhudial is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
It is one of the largest villages of Chakwal District and is located at 33°3'52N 72°58'24E about 70km south of the capital Islamabad.
Awan  (اعوان)
Quresh (قریش)
Rana (انڈین مہاجر)
Ansar (انصار)
Gondal (گوندل)
Sadaat (سادات)
Mughal Kasar (مغل کسر)
Minhas (منہاس)
Bazigar (بازی گر).
Dhurnal is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Talagang Tehsil and is located at 32° 47' 60"N 72° 5' 60"E.
Dullah is a village and Union Council of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
Dumman is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Jabbi Shah Dilawar is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil and is located at .
Jand Khanzada is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 32°55'60N 73°5'60E. The name means village of Khanzada.
The University of Texas at Austin is a public university in Austin, Texas.
It is one of the largest universities in the United States, with almost 50,000 students.
It was founded in 1883.
Texas' athletics teams are called the Longhorns.
Texas has 18 varsity teams and they compete in the Big 12 Conference.
University of Texas, Austin
1880s establishments in Texas
Jassial is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil and is located at 33°1'40N 72°23'34E.
Jaswal is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 32°49'0N 72°58'0E.
Karsal is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 33°2'30N 72°35'7E.
Texas A&M University is a public university in College Station, Texas.
It is a large university, with about 65,000 students.
It was founded in 1871.
It and the University of Texas at Austin are the two largest universities in the state.
For many years, everybody at Texas A&M had to take classes about the army, and Texas A&M is one of only six schools in the country that have a "Corps of Cadets."
The George H.W. Bush presidential library is at Texas A&M.
There are other campuses of Texas A&M in Galveston, Laredo, Corpus Christi and Texarkana.
There is also a campus in Qatar.
Texas A&M's athletics teams are called the Aggies.
Texas A&M has 18 varsity teams that compete in the Southeastern Conference.
Texas A&M Aggies official athletics website
Khairpur is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Khotian is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 32°46'0N 73°7'0E.
Kot Choudrain is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.
Kot Gullah is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
It is part of Talagang Tehsil.
Kot Gullah is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil.
Kot Sarang is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil and is located at 33°2'14N 72°23'11E.
The impala (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized African antelope.
The name "impala" comes from the Zulu language.
Impala belong in the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata and class Mammalia.
Along with cattle, antelopes, sheep, goats, buffalo and bison, they belong to the family Bovidae.
The impala is reddish-brown with white hair inside the ears, over each eye and on the chin, upper throat, underparts and buttocks.
A narrow black line runs along the middle of the lower back to the tail, and a vertical black stripe appears on the back of each thigh.
Impalas have unique brushlike tufts of black hair that cover a scent gland located just above the heel on each hind leg.
Female impala, called ewes, have no horns.
But males, the rams, grow curved horns with a notable twisted appearance due to ridges.
These horns are black and grow as long as 36 inches.
In Africa, these animals still live throughout Kenya, Botswana, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zaire and Tanzania.
The Biblical Mount Sinai is a mountain that was written about in the Old Testament.
It was written by Moses that the Ten Commandments were given to him by God on Mount Sinai.
The name Horeb is sometimes used to describe Mount Sinai.
Tradition places it at Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, but some see it as being further north at the Wadi Sudr.
Where is Mount Sinai
The Lost Mountain, 1956-12-03, TIME
Ability to change the Boot image, Boot Progress Splash (usplash), wallpaper, Gnome Splash Screen, GDM theme, and other settings
Ability to add software to new compilation
Ability to enable all the repositories and add custom ones
Integrated option to burn the iso
remastersys, a similar program
Ubuntu Customization Kit
Download reconstructor
The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.
Several battles are fought with Wessex, but then peace is made (871).
The Danes start the Danelaw in other parts of England.
In 876, the Danes attack Wessex again, and in 878 king Alfred the Great of Wessex has to retreat to a single fort in the marshes of Somerset, but later that year he defeats the Danes, and England is divided in a Danish part in the northeast and a Wessex part in the south and west.
In the southwest of England, the Cornish continue to be driven back, with their King Dungarth (or Doniert or Dumgarth) drowning in battle around the middle of the decade.
872 — Battle of Hafrsfjord.
Harald Fairhair unites Norway.
Rhodri Mawr (the Great)
The University of the Incarnate Word is a private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
There are about 5500 students enrolled and it was founded in 1881.
University of the Incarnate Word - official site
Texas State University is a public university in San Marcos, Texas, United States.
There are about 28,000 students enrolled and it was founded in 1899.
The school is the namesake of the Texas State University System, founded in 1911 to govern the state's normal schools (teachers' colleges).
The system now has four universities and three two-year colleges.
1890s establishments in Texas
Northeastern State University (NSU) is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States, at the foot of the Ozark Mountains.
Tahlequah is also home to the capital of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma.
Northeastern is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma as well as one of the oldest institutions of higher learning west of the Mississippi River.
Although a school was founded on May 7, 1851, as the Cherokee National Female Seminary, it was not until Oklahoma became a state that the school now known as Northeastern State University opened.
The University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a public university in the Norman, Oklahoma, United States.
It has about 27,000 students enrolled, and it was started in 1890.
David Boren is president of the university.
Oklahoma's athletics teams are called the Sooners.
Oklahoma has 19 varsity teams, almost all of which compete in the Big 12 Conference.
In men's gymnastics, a sport that the Big 12 does not sponsor, Oklahoma is a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
Voices of Oklahoma interview with Barry Switzer.
First person interview conducted on August 17, 2009 with Barry Switzer.
University of Oklahoma, Bounded by Boyd Street on the North, Timberdell Road on the South, Chautauqua Avenue on the West, and Jenkins Avenue, Norman, Cleveland, OK at the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS)
1890 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades is a rhythm video game made by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision for the Nintendo DS game console.
It's the sequel to Guitar Hero: On Tour.
Players can share songs between the two games.
Players can choose more characters including Midori and Clive Winston.
Songs that can be played in this video game
|The All-American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
|Blondie - "One Way Or Another"|
|Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"|
|Boston - "Rock and Roll Band"|
|The Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"|
|Edgar Winter Group - "Free Ride"|
|Fall Out Boy - "The Take Over, The Breaks Over"|
|Foo Fighters - "The Pretender"|
|Free - "All Right Now"|
|Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"|
|Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie"|
|Journey - "Any Way You Want It"|
|Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way"|
|Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"|
|Los Lobos - "La Bamba"|
|Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama (live)"|
|Paramore - "Crushcrushcrush"|
|Queen - "We Are The Champions"|
|R.E.M. - "The One I Love"|
|Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Can't Stop"|
|Sammy Hagar - "I Can't Drive 55"|
|Seether - "Remedy"|
|Smashing Pumpkins - "Tarantula"|
|Stone Temple Pilots - "Down"|
|Veruca Salt - "Volcano Girls"|
|Weezer - "Buddy Holly"|
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is a first-person adventure video game made by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube game console.
It is a sequel to Metroid Prime, and it has a sequel called Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
de:Metroid#Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube, 2004)
This game begins with a meeting between Samus, three other bounty hunters, and the Galactic Federation about a computer virus caused by Phazon infecting their organic supercomputers.
The four bounty hunters must try and stop it.
But in the middle of the meeting, some Space Pirates crash into the frigate, the GFS Olympus, and stop the meeting.
Samus and the other bounty hunters go to stop both the Space Pirates and the virus.
They learn a Leviathan meteor is headed for Norion.
Samus heads to the planet and brings Generators A and C online, with a different hunter activating Generator B, powering a laser.
As Samus prepares to activate the last generator, Meta Ridley flies in and breaks the floor of the generator area, and Samus is forced to fight him in a long hole down to the planet's core.
She eventually beats him, and brings Generator C online, and heads to the control room.
Samus meets up with the other Hunters.
Samus takes the keyboard of the control pad, and then Dark Samus attacks the bounty hunters, but Samus survives, as does the rest of the bounty hunters.
The rest of the bounty hunters fall into a coma, while Samus manages to destroy the asteroid with the laser before she falls into a coma herself.
A month later, Samus finds out that Dark Samus' Phazon based attacks have partially corrupted her.
She, along with the other bounty hunters, are fitted with Phazon Enhancement Devices (PED) which allows her to use the Phazon within her.
She then finds out that her fellow bounty hunters have gone missing.
Samus goes to several planets named Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, where she finds that the inhabitants are all slowly being corrupted by the Phazon Leviathans.
On these planets, Samus must fight one of the corrupted hunters and the guardian of the Leviathan.
After doing that, she learns of the Phazon homeworld, Phaaze.
She then lands on planet Phaaze.
Seconds after she lands, Samus's PED Suit is in constant Hyper Mode because Phaaze's atmosphere, pure Phazon, is corrupting her.
This causes a somewhat permanent Hypermode.
She finds Dark Samus and they fight.
Samus wins, causing the destruction of the planet.
It turned out that Phazze, a planet, was the source of Dark Samus, as well as the source of all Phazon.
It would send meteors called "Leviathan Seeds" to some planets, like it did to Tallon IV and Aether, splitting Aether into Light Aether and Dark Aether.
It is made of pure Phazon, with gaseous Phazon for its atmosphere, liquid for its "water", and solid for its ground.
With its destruction, all the Phazon in the universe is destroyed, even the Phazon in Samus herself.
This is the first Metroid game for the Nintendo Wii, and so the controls have been changed to fit the controller.
There is also a unique mode, called "Hyper Mode".
The player uses the Nunchuk to move and use the grapple, as well as Morph Ball and Lock on.
He or she also uses the Wii remote (commonly called Wiimote) for Hypermode, as well as all weaponry and jumping, and aiming.
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Cicadas are small insects.
They are kinds of true bugs.
The noisy buzz they make is the male calling to the female using his vibrating panels, called tymbals, on his sides.
When the female, who cannot buzz, hears the buzz of a male, she searches for him.
After they mate, the female will use her ovipositor to cut a line into the branch of a tree and lay her eggs there.
Adult cicadas don't usually bite.
They are usually green or black.
Cicadas can also be eaten.
It is eaten in countries like China.
Cicadas live in temperate to tropical climates where their large size and unique sound makes them well known.
Cicadas are often colloquially called locusts, although they are unrelated to true locusts, which are a kind of grasshopper.
Cicadas are related to leafhoppers and spittlebugs.
Cicadas are arranged into two families: Tettigarctidae and Cicadidae.
There are two living species of Tettigarctidae, one in southern Australia, and the other in Tasmania.
The family Cicadidae is very widespread.
They live on all continents except Antarctica.
The largest cicadas are in the genera Pomponia and Tacua.
There are some 200 species in 38 genera in Australia, about 450 in Africa, about 100 in the Palaearctic, and exactly one species in England, the New Forest cicada, Melampsalta montana, widely distributed throughout Europe.
There are about 150 species in South Africa.
Most of the North American species are in the genus Tibicen: the annual or jar fly or dog-day cicadas (so named because they emerge in late July and August).
Periodic cicadas
The best-known North American genus is Magicicada.
These periodical cicadas have an extremely long life cycle of 13 to 17 years and then emerge in large numbers.
The advantage of this arrangement is that the predators are swamped by their numbers, and so most of them survive.
There are three species of 17-year periodical cicadas.
Australian cicadas
Australian cicadas differ from many other types because of that continent's diversity of climate and terrain.
In Australia, cicadas are found on tropical islands and cold coastal beaches around Tasmania; in tropical wetlands; high and low deserts; alpine areas of New South Wales and Victoria; large cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane; and Tasmanian highlands and snowfields.
Forty-two species from five genera populate New Zealand, and all are endemic to New Zealand and the surrounding islands (Norfolk Island, New Caledonia).
Many New Zealand cicada species differ from those of other countries by living high up on mountain tops.
Liège Airport, also called Liège-Bierset, is an important cargo airport in Belgium.
It was at the end of 2007 the 8th biggest cargo airport in Europe and the 38th biggest in the world.
Liège is in the centre of the golden triangle Paris – Amsterdam – Frankfurt that handles 66% of European freight, 75% with London added.
The airport is in the northwest of the city of Liège, in the east of Belgium.
It is mainly used for freight operation but also serves more than 21 destinations for passengers (mainly charters).
Liège Airport  (official site)
Airports in Belgium
In Object-oriented programming, an object is an instance of a Class.
Objects are an abstraction.
They hold both data, and ways to manipulate the data.
The data is usually not visible outside the object.
It can only be changed by using a well-specified mechanism (usually called interface).
Suppose there is a bank account; this bank account has a current balance, but it also has a history of things that were done.
These fields are however not directly accessible.
There are methods like deposit() and withdraw() and checkBalance().
Most applications (and other objects) only change this object through this interface.
Banks usually impose a credit limit.
Suppose, there are 1000 dollars on the account.
If the client does not have a special agreement with the bank, he cannot take out more money than there is on the account; so he can withdraw() a maximum of 1000 dollars.
He might have an agreement with the bank, so he can borrow money from the bank (but has to pay a fee).
In that case, he might be able to withdraw 1500 dollars (or 2000 dollars).
So the withdraw method has to do a lot of checks as described above.
As an object is an instance of a class; it has certain things from that class.
It can perhaps be compared to other objects of that class.
Two apples, one red and bigger, the other green and smaller.
On the other hand: It is not that easy to compare different objects.
A green apple does not have much in common with a steel wrench.
The Java Tutorials: Object-oriented programming concepts
Object-Oriented Design (OOD) is a way for the designer of a computer program to specify what a computer program will do, using the way that people think and not using the way that computers think.
People think in terms of classes and objects.
For example, fruit is a class, and there are different kinds of fruits such as bananas and pineapples.
If a computer program designer were specifying to a computer programmer how to create a computer program to manage the fruits in a supermarket, then he or she would specify the program in terms of classes and objects which is how people think.
A computer program called a compiler and/or an interpreter would take the program that the programmer typed in and convert it into a form that a computer can run.
Computers really only understand things that are encoded as numbers.
Object-Oriented-Design (OOD) uses the power and speed of a computer to allow humans to be more productive in making computer programs, by letting human computer programmers think in terms of how humans think.
In everyday language: the quality of being unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric
an integer is odd if dividing it by two does not result in another integer; see even and odd numbers
a function f defined on the real numbers is odd if f(x) = −f(−x) for all x; see even and odd functions
a permutation of a finite set is odd if it can be written as the functional composition of an odd number of transpositions; see even and odd permutations
In probability theory, the odds in favour of an event is the ratio of the event's probability to the complementary probability.
Odd (name), is a name of Old Norse origin, the 11th most common male name in Norway (coincidentally, Even is also a common Norwegian name).
In Old Norse the word means the sharp end of a weapon, e.g. edge of a sword or spear/arrow head.
Odd, West Virginia, USA
Odd Grenland B.K., is a Norwegian football team
Odd Della Robbia, a character in Code Lyoko
Optical disc drive (CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc/HD-DVD Drive)
ODD (fanzine''), a Hugo-nominated science fiction fanzine published by Raymond "Duggie" Fisher
In computer science, ODD (One Document Does it all) is a W3C specification
ODD, a play by Hal Corley.
Konkan is a part of India.
It on the west coast of India.
The coastal areas of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka are all part of Konkan region.
People in Konkan speak 2 main languages.
One is Konkani language.
Other is a dialect of Marathi language which is also called Konkani.
Triple J is a radio station from Australia.
It is funded and owned by the Australian Government through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The music played by the station is aimed at youth (usually between 12 and 25 years old) and is usually alternative music.
The station started in 1972 as "Double Jay" in Sydney.
It can now be heard all around Australia.
Triple J homepage
Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia) used to be a Bosnia and Herzegovinian politician.
He was in charge of part of the Bosnian Genocide.
From 1995 to 2008, he was a fugitive.
He was arrested on 21 July 2008 in Serbia.
In 2016, he was convicted of war crimes.
Karadžić was the child of Vuko and Jovanka Karadžić.
His father, Vuko (1912–1987), was a shoemaker.
His mother, Jovanka (1922–2005), was a peasant girl from northern Montenegro.
Her maiden name was Jovanka Jakić.
She married Karadžić's father in 1943, at age twenty.
Karadžić's father was in prison for most of his son's childhood.
During World War II, Yugoslavia had been taken over by Nazi Germany and the other Axis countries.
Karadžić's father had been a member of the Chetniks.
This was an army that supported Yugoslavia's original government.
Because he was in this army, he was put in prison after the war.
Karadžić moved to Sarajevo in 1960 to study psychiatry at the Sarajevo University School of Medicine.
In 1970, he studied anxiety and depression at Næstved Hospital in Denmark.
From 1974 to 1975, he got more medical training at Columbia University in New York City.
After he returned to Yugoslavia, Karadžić worked in the Koševo Hospital (the main hospital in Sarajevo).
He was also a poet.
Another Serbian writer encouraged him to go into politics.
Prison for fraud
While he was working in the Koševo Hospital, Karadžić made extra money in illegal ways.
For example, healthcare workers who wanted to retire early would pay him to say they were disabled.
Karadžić would also lie for prisoners who wanted to avoid punishment by saying they were insane when they committed their crimes.
In 1983, Karadžić started working at a hospital in a suburb of Belgrade called Voždovac.
With his partner, Momčilo Krajišnik, Karadžić got a loan that was meant to be used for improving agriculture.
Instead, he and his partner used the money to build themselves houses in Pale.
Pale was a Serb town above Sarajevo that the government had turned into a ski resort.
On 1 November 1984, the two were arrested for fraud.
They spent 11 months in jail before their friend Nikola Koljević paid their bail so they could get out.
On 26 September 1985, Karadžić was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement and fraud.
However, since he had already spent over a year in prison, the court did not make Karadžić spend the rest of his sentence in prison.
In 1989, Karadžić helped create the Serb Democratic Party () in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The party's goal was to bring together the country's Bosnian Serbs.
In September 1991, the Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS) began to create areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina that were ruled only by Serbs.
On 15 October 1991, the Bosnian parliament voted that they wanted to rule themselves.
Nine days later, a separate Serb Assembly was created, to represent only the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 9 January 1992, the Bosnian Serb Assembly said they had created a new country: the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Република српског народа Босне и Херцеговине/Republika srpskog naroda Bosne i Hercegovine).
On 28 February 1992, the Serb Republic approved its constitution.
It also said that it now controlled:
The areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina that were ruled only by Serbs
Parts of Bosnia-Herezogovina where the people were mostly Serbian
"All regions in which the Serbian people [are] a minority [because of] the Second World War genocide"
On 6 and 7 April 1992, Europe and the United States accepted that Bosnia was an independent country.
Bosnia became a member of the United Nations on 22 May 1992.
Karadžić was voted President of this Bosnian Serb government around 13 May 1992.
His powers included being in charge of the country's army.
War crimes charges
In 1995, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted Karadžić for committing war crimes against non-Serbs.
The ICTY accused Karadžić of ordering the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, where Karadžić's army murdered more than 7,500 Muslims.
They also accused him of many other crimes, including:
Forcing non-Serbian Muslims to leave their homes because of their ethnicity and religion
Persecution (treating a group of people badly) because of their race, religion, or political opinions
Terrorism against civilians
Extermination (trying to kill an entire population of people: all non-Serbian Muslims)
Karadžić ran away so he could not be tried for these crimes.
Until 2008, he hid.
The United States government offered a $5 million reward for his arrest.
Karadžić was arrested on 21 July 2008 in Belgrade.
He had been pretending to be a doctor of alternative medicine, mostly in Belgrade but also in Vienna, Austria.
Karadžić was sent to an ICTY jail in the Hague on 30 July.
Karadžić first appeared before a judge at the ICTY began on 31 July 2008.
At that time, the ICTY had found 64 people guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide during the Yugoslav Wars.
The film The Hunting Party was based on Karadžić's life as a fugitive.
Conviction and sentence
On 24 March 2016, Karadžić was found guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Karadžić was found guilty of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre.
He was also convicted of persecution, extermination, deportation, ethnic cleansing, and murder.
Presidents of Republika Srpska
Montenegrin people
A Common Language Specification (CLS) is a document that says how computer programs can be turned into Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code.
When several languages use the same bytecode, different parts of a program can be written in different languages.
Microsoft uses a Common Language Specification for their .NET Framework.
To fully interact with other objects regardless of the language they were used in, objects must expose to callers only those features that are common to all the languages they must exchange information with.
It was always a dream of Microsoft to unite all different languages into one umbrella and CLS is one step towards that.
Microsoft has defined CLS which are nothing but guidelines for languages to follow so that it can communicate with other .NET languages in a seamless manner.
Most of the members defined by types in the .NET Framework class library are able to work with CLS.
However, some types in the class library have one or more members that are not able to work with CLS.
These members allow support for language features that are not in the CLS.
The CLS was designed to be large enough to include the language constructs that are commonly needed by developers, yet small enough that most languages are able to support it.
Any language construct that makes it impossible to quickly confirm the type safety of code was excluded from the CLS so that all languages that can work with CLS can produce verifiable code if they choose to do so.
en:Common Language Specification
Constantine "Cus" D'Amato (January 17, 1908 – November 4, 1985) was an American boxing trainer.
He trained two of boxing heavyweight champions, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson.
He once said, "The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs.
It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters."
Cus D'Amato was born in 1908 in Bronx, New York to an Italian family of immigrants.
He was one of eight brothers.
In his childhood he wanted to become a boxer like his big brother Jerry.
However, at 12 years old he took part in a fight and became blind in one eye.
D'Amato's love for boxing was so strong that the sport became a very important part of his life.
He trained three champions although he never boxed himself.
Willi Auerswald (1894–1956) was a member of the German SS in the rank of a SS-Oberscharführer.
Auerswald belonged to the guards of the Mauthausen Concentration camp.
Between spring 1942 and November 1944 he was one of the leaders of the subcamp Steyr-Münichholz.
Auerswald was feared by the prisoners due to his brutality.
Executions and brutal punishments made him one of the most terrible guards at Mauthausen.
After the end of World War II Auerswald was charged by an US-military tribunal in Dachau.
The trial document lists a case where a Russian prisoner, begging for his life, was pushed by Auerswald into a fence secured by high voltage.
The documentation also mentioned that 300 healthy prisoners were brought from Mauthausen to the sub-camp St. Aegyd.
More than 50% died within the next few weeks or became severely sick so that they were brought back to Mauthausen where they died.
Auerswald was the head of the St. Aegyd sub-camp at that time.
Auerswald was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.
Later it was changed to life imprisonment.
Concentration-camp Mauthausen
Document about the trial (United States of America v. Willi Auerswald et al. -
Case No.
000.50.5.08)
Baylor University is a private Baptist university in Waco, Texas, United States.
There are about 13,000 students enrolled and it was founded in 1845.
Baylor University's men athletics teams are called the Bears and the women's athletic teams are called the Lady Bears.
Baylor has 16 varsity teams and they compete in the Big 12 Conference.
Baylor University - official site
1840s establishments in Texas
Texas Lutheran University is a private Lutheran university in Seguin, Texas, United States.
It is a small school with about 1300 students enrolled and it was founded in 1891.
Texas Lutheran University – official site
1891 establishments in the United States
The Evergreen State College is a public college in Olympia, Washington, United States.
There are about 4500 students enrolled and it was founded in 1967.
1960s establishments in Washington (state)
The Battle of Berlin was the last major battle of Second World War in Europe.
The Battle took place in Berlin from 16 April to 3 May 1945.
During the battle the Red Army, along with Polish forces, captured the city of Berlin, Germany.
When they captured the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler committed suicide with his new wife by shooting himself in the head and her taking a cyanide pill.
On 12 January 1945 the Soviet and Polish forces began attacking Berlin.
In the end of that attack, their forces stood on the Oder River, 60 kilometres east of Berlin.
In 1945 the Wehrmacht had few good fighters or good weapons compared to 1944.