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In 2014, Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter in the New York Times, saying that her adoptive father Woody Allen had sexually abused her when she was a child.
Allen wrote a response in which he quoted Moses Farrow, “My mother drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister."
"So What" is a 2008 song performed by American pop rock singer Pink.
The single was the first off her fifth album Funhouse and became her first solo #1 hit in the United States.
Cheetos are an extremely popular snack food consisted of cheese curls made through Frito-Lay.
The product has been sold using different mascots.
Frito-Lay North America is an American company connected under PepsiCo, Inc. The company creates potato chips, corn chips and other snack foods.
It was founded around 1965.
Its headquarters is in Plano, TX.
Abbas II (14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1892-1914).
He was largely a puppet of the United Kingdom The British removed him from power because of his support for the Sultan of Turkey in the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Turkey was an ally of Germany fighting Great Britain.
Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in central Africa.
It was formed in 1908.
The government of Belgium took over the previously separate kingdom of Belgium's monarch Léopold II; the Congo Free State.
Today it is called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It existed between Léopold II's formal transfer of his personal control to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.
Belgian Congo article in Encyclopædia Britannica 1922 extension.
Oasis Kodila Tedika and Francklin Kyayima Muteba.
Sources of growth in Democratic Republic of the Congo before independence.
A cointegration analysis.
Revue congolaise d’économie / Congo Economic Review.
Document de Travail / Working Paper.
WP02/10 — July 2006.
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Sir Roger Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist and British diplomat.
He served as British consul in Boma, the capital of the Congo Free State and reported human rights abuses there.
He helped a campaign against King Léopold II of Belgium's rule in the Congo Free State which lead him to relinquish his African kingdom to the Belgian Parliament in 1908.
He was an Irish revolutionary.
After participating in the 1916 rising, he was executed for treason by hanging by the British.
Brenda Blethyn (born 20 February 1946) is a British actress.
She has starred in movies, television and theatre.
She has been nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Emmy Awards.
She has won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Notable movies she has starred in include Secrets & Lies (1996).
Saving Grace is a 2000 British comedy movie set in Cornwall.
Brenda Blethyn stars in the movie.
It premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
Critical reaction to this movie was positive.
The movie received favorable notice for an independent British comedy; it was nominated for awards.
Lukas Katnik (born 31 July 1989) is an Austrian footballer.
He plays for FC Pasching in Austrias Regionalliga Mitte as striker.
He started playing football in the local clubs FC Mäder and FC Köblach in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.
2006 he went to FC Lustenau where he made his professional debut in 2007.
In 2010, he went to FC Dornbirn where he scored 10 goals in the first part of the season.
In January 2011, he went on to Red Bull Juniors but went at once to USK Anif on loan.
In 2011/2012 he came back to the Juniors and is mostly part of the starting team in the Regionalliga West, which is the 3rd division in Austrian football.
Players profile Transfermarkt.at
Pope Benedict IX (; c. 1012–1056), born Teofilatto or Theophylactus of Tusculum, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 146th Pope from 1032 to 1045.
He is listed as the 148th Pope in 1045.
Also, he was the 151st Pope in 1047-1048.
Teofilatto was born in Rome c. 1012.
He was the son of Alberic III of the noble Tusculum family.
In 1032, Alberic III used his money and influence to make his son the pope.
Pope Benedict chose his name in honor of his uncle, Benedict VIII.
Benedict's second period as pope lasted from his return six months later to 1045 when he sold his title to John Gratianus, who was then made pope with the name of Gregory VI.
Benedict abdicated or resigned.
In 1046, there were three men with the title of pope.
The problem was solved by electing a new pope with the name of Pope Clement II, who died a short time later.
When the death of Clement II in 1047, Benedict IX tried to claim the papacy again, but was driven out of Rome by German troops.
The timely election of Pope Damasus II became unimportant when he died 23 days later.
List of ages of popes
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Teofillato
1056 deaths
Shooting is when a rifle, shotgun or other weapons which fire a projectile, such as bows or crossbows, are fired.
Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting.
A person who is very good at shooting is a marksman.
Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports or in combat.
Shooting is also an Olympic sport.
Shooting is used for hunting birds such as grouse or pheasant, rabbits etc.
Sometimes "shooting" just means "hunting".
When someone shoots random innocent people it is sometimes caused by misanthropy (hate for humans).
Competitive shooting
In several countries, rifle clubs have been made since the 19th century.
Soon, international shooting events were started, including shooting at the Summer Olympics (from 1896) and World Championships (from 1897).
The International Shooting Sport Federation is in charge of Olympic and non-Olympic rifle, pistol and shotgun competitions.
However, there are also many national and international shooting sports which other organisations are in charge of.
Shooting supplies
In most countries, people who want to shoot firearms need a license.
Firearms can usually only be bought from registered shops.
Thomas William McNeeley, Jr. (February 27, 1937 – October 25, 2011) was a professional boxer.
He was son of Tom McNeeley, Sr.,
who was also a professional boxer.
McNeeley attended Michigan State University where he played football.
His first professional fight was on July 17, 1958.
He fought 25 times without losing.
On December 4, 1961, McNeeley fought Floyd Patterson for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Patterson retained his title.
McNeeley retired after a June 14, 1966 fight.
He later served on the Massachusetts Boxing Commission for eight years.
He was also a U.S. Marshall.
Later, he worked in the athletic department of the Massachusetts prison system and as a counselor for state employees.
McNeeley's son, Peter McNeeley was also a professional boxer.
Peter fought Mike Tyson.
Politicians‏ from Massachusetts
The Waitresses were an American experimental new wave music group.
They were from Akron, Ohio.
The group formed in the early 1980s.
Their song I Know What Boys Like was released in 1980 but did not chart until 1982.
They also represented the theme song for the television series Square Pegs in 1982-1983.
The group broke up in 1984.
Their lead singer died due to lung cancer in 1996.
Pope John II (533–535)
Pope John III (561–574)
Pope John IV (640–642)
Pope John V (685–686)
Pope John VI (701–705)
Pope John VII (705–707)
Antipope John VIII
Pope John VIII (872–882)
Pope John IX (898–900)
Pope John X (914–928)
Pope John XI (931–935)
Pope John XII (955–964)
Pope John XIII (965–972)
Pope John XIV (983–984)
Pope John XV (985–996)
Antipope John XVI
Pope John XVII (1003)
Pope John XVIII (1003–1009)
Pope John XIX (1024–1032)
Pope John XX
Pope John XXI (1276–1277)
Pope John XXII (1316–1334)
Antipope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (1958–1963)
"Deck the Halls" is a Christmas and New Year's themed song.
The "fa-la-la" refrains were played earlier on harps.
The tunes of this song are that of old Welsh air.
Various singers have covered the song, including James Taylor and Nat King Cole.
"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song.
The lyrics represent Christmas in the city rather than rural.
It was first performed via Bob Hope.
The first recorded version was done by Bing Crosby and released in October 1950.
Other musicians, including though not limited to The Supremes, Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams have done their versions of this Christmas carol.
fr:Un Noël à New York
Andy Williams (December 3, 1927 - September 25, 2012) was an American singer.
He had many gold and several platinum albums and songs, including 8 Christmas albums.
Some sources say he was born in 1927, others say 1928.
Williams was married to Claudine Longet from 1961 until they divorced in 1975.
He was later married to Debbie Meyer from 1991 until his death in 2012.
Williams had 3 children.
In November 2011, Williams was diagnosed with bladder cancer.
Williams died on September 25, 2012 in Branson, Missouri from the cancer, aged 84.
"Let It Snow!
Let It Snow!" (
also known as "Let It Snow!")
is a holiday oriented song that is played during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years holidays' season, although it does not mention any holiday within the lyrics.
It was originally written by Sammy Cahn.
It has been covered by many singers, including though not limited to Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and Anne Murray throughout the decades.
Kung Fu was an American television series created by Ed Spielman, and starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine.
The show was nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Kung Fu follows the adventures of a Shaolin monk named Kwai Chang Caine travelling through the Old West of the United States as the only weapon, using his skills in martial arts and inner strength of his philosophy of life.
Its purpose was to find his half-brother, Danny Caine, and start a new family, as Kwai Chang had fled China after the authorities put a price on his head.
Action TV: tough-guys, smooth operators and foxy chicks, by Bill Osgerby,Anna Gough-Yates
Cinephilia: movies, love and memory, by Marijke de Valck,Malte Hagener
Stoichiometry is a branch of science that studies and measures the amount of matter in chemical reactions.
It can be used to predict the amount of things that will be made in a chemical reaction.
It uses the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite composition and the law of multiple proportions in balancing chemical equations.
zh:化学计量学
Occupy London (also known as Occupy London Stock Exchange) is a peaceful protest and demonstration.
The aims of the protest is to demand dialogue and to draw attention to several different issues such as the widening gap between rich and poor people in the UK as well as the great influence that companies and business groups have on decisions made by the UK government.
Location and History
The protest is mostly found in a group of tents that have been put up in the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.
The Cathedral is just in front of the London Stock Exchange.
The protest started on 15 October 2011 with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, United States.
On 22 October 2011 another protest was set up in Finsbury Square which is about 1 km away.
Organisation and Events
The Occupy London website and blog
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and radiation by heated objects.
He coined the term black body radiation in 1862.
He proposed two sets of independent concepts in both circuit theory and thermal emission.
They are all called 'Kirchhoff's laws' after him, as well as a law of thermochemistry.
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after him and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.
He also discovered rubidium with Bunsen in 1861.
"Carol of the Bells" is a very popular song.
It was composed by Mykola Leontovych, a Ukrainian composer.
It is played during the Christmas season of every year.
It has been featured in many movies, in parodies and in television programs.
It has also been performed by many musicians, such as Johnny Mathis, The Carpenters, Destiny's Child and Jessica Simpson.
Pranto matricial (1955) .
Los derechos sobre el espacio marítimo (1960) .
La anunciación de Valle-Inclán (1967) .
Sementeira do vento (1968) .
La marginacíón de Galicia (1970) .
X. R. Barreiro Fernández, F. Díaz-Fierros ..., Los Gallegos, (1976), La sociedad y la economía, (1975), pp.
45–93.
A galecidade na obra de Guimarães Rosa (1978) .
Cen chaves de sombra (1979) .
Castelao na luz e na sombra (1982) .
O legado xornalístico de Valentín Paz-Andrade (1997) .
Epistolario, (1997) .
Freixanes, Víctor F. (1982), Unha ducia de galegos. .
Calvo, Tucho (1998), Valentín Paz-Andrade, a memoria do século. .
Rodríguez Vidales, Francisco (1999), VPA, Valentín Paz-Andrade. .
Enciclopedia Galega Universal
Spanish lawyers
Spanish businesspeople
Spanish economists
People from Pontevedra
Pope Innocent I (401–417), saint of the Roman Catholic Church
Pope Innocent II (1130–1143)
Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)
Antipope Innocent III
Pope Innocent IV (1243–1254)
Pope Innocent V (1276)
Pope Innocent VI (1352–1362)
Pope Innocent VII (1404–1406)
Pope Innocent VIII (1484–1492)
Pope Innocent IX (1591)
Pope Innocent X (1644–1655)
Pope Innocent XI (1676–1689)
Pope Innocent XII (1691–1700)
Pope Innocent XIII (1721–1724)
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Reactivity is a measure of how much a substance tends to react with other things.
Some substances are more reactive, and others are less reactive.
Reactivity is set by several factors:
the range of circumstances (conditions that include temperature, pressure, or presence of catalysts) in which the substance reacts,
the range of substances that will react with it,
the equilibrium point of the reaction (that is, the extent to which all of it reacts), or
the speed of the reaction.
Reactivity involves both the thermodynamics and kinetics of the particular chemical reaction.
A reaction will be more reactive if the total energy of the products is less than the total energy of the reactants.
A reaction will be more reactive if the energy of its transition is low.
Lithium reacts with water and air.
Gold does not react with water or air.
Gold is unreactive, thus low on the reactivity series.
Lithium is reactive.
There are several ways to measure reactivity.
Some are reducing agents, and others can be oxidizing agents.
Some absorb water easily.
Some break down easily.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a widely popular Christmas song first done by Mariah Carey for her fourth studio album, Merry Christmas.
It was first released in November 1994.
The lyrics of the song declare that the protagonist doesn't care about the Christmas presents or lights and that all she is wanting is to be united alongside her lover for the Christmas holidays.
The song has been remixed and covered by other musicians, such as The Cheetah Girls, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus and John Mayer since it was introduced.
Carey wrote and produced the song with her longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff.
The song's length is four minutes and one second.
On December 18, 2017, Billboard announced that the song had reached the top ten on the Hot 100 for the first time in the 23 years that the song was released.
In 2018, it reached number three on the Hot 100 and topped the Canadian Hot 100 and Australian Singles Chart.
On December 16, 2019, Billboard announced that, after 25 years of release, the song had reached number one on the Hot 100, marking Carey's 19th chart-topper, extending her record as the soloist with the most US number-ones in history.
On December 3, 2021, the RIAA certified the song Diamond in the US for sales and streams of 10 million copies there.
In December 2016, British talk show host James Corden recorded a version of the song as part of his Carpool Karaoke segment on CBS's The Late Late Show.
The video features British musicians Adele, Elton John, and Chris Martin, along with American entertainers Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, Gwen Stefani, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Carey herself, singing lines from the song.
As of January 2021, this version has over 49 million views on YouTube.
Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement.
He was also known as Mohandas Karam Chandra Gandhi.
AKUT Search and Rescue Association (Turkish: AKUT Arama Kurtarma Derneği) is a non-governmental and volunteer organization in Turkey, which was established in 1996 by a group of mountaineers.
The association has established 27 teams in different regions of Turkey and has participated in more than 1000 search and rescue operations in and out of Turkey.
It's also a member of the International Rescue Dogs Organization and United Nations' International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG).
Official webpage of Ankara Team  rev.
Nov. 2011
INSARAG USAR Directory rev.
IRO - Mitgliedsorganisationen rev.
Nov. 2011 (in German)
The Twelve Days of Christmas is an English Christmas carol which was published around 1780, and it is said that it was written by Catholics in hiding during the days of Queen Elizabeth I of England's persecution.
It was invented to help teach children articles of the Catholic faith without drawing attention from government officials, using imagery as a tool to help the children remember.
The song represents increasingly grand gifts given during each of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
The partridge in a pear tree symbolizes Christ on the Cross.
The two turtledoves represent his Human and divine nature, the two books of the Old and New Testament, and the two tablets the Ten Commandments were carved on.
The three French hens symbolize the Trinity of the Catholic faith: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, as well as the three Cardinal virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.
The four calling birds were the four Evangelists who wrote the gospels, etc.
Orthacanthus was an ancient, fresh-water shark that had a long spine growing from the back of its skull.
It had a very long dorsal fin, which ran all along the sharks back, giving it an eel-like appearance.
Orthacanthus was the terror of freshwater swamps and bayous in Europe and North America.
Its body reached nearly 10 feet (3 meters) in length and its powerful jaws were lined with double-fanged teeth.
Orthacanthus lived from roughly 280 million years ago, from the Pennsylvanian period through the Permian period.
They were around before the dinosaurs evolved.
Rod Piazza (born December 18, 1947, Riverside, California) is a blues harmonica player and singer from the United States.
His sound combines the styles of jump blues, West Coast blues and Chicago blues.
He started playing at the age of seven.
His first instrument was a guitar.
He played blues because his much older brothers bought records of this style.
In 1963 he started playing the harp.
Around 1965 he formed his first band (The Mystics) where he should play the guitar but it came out that someone else played this instrument much better.
So he became harp player and singer of the band.
They had their first gigs at parties.
Later they went to Los Angeles and played in little clubs.
At that time they signed a contract with ABC Bluesway  and renamed the band.
They were now called „The Dirty Blues Band".
Because some of the members had to go to Vietnam the band broke up.
He formed a new band called Bacon Fat.
In this band his mentor  George "Harmonica" Smith played the second harp and so they had a "dual harp" sound.
After leaving Bacon Fat he played solo.
Later he formed the Chicago Flying Saucer Band which was renamed "The Mighty Flyers".
This is the band which is till today backing up Piazza.
On of the founding members of the Mighty Flyers was the pianist Debra „Honey“ Solum, who later became Piazzas wife.
The Mighty Flyers 2011
Rod Piazza: harp, vocals
Honey Piazza:keyboards
David Kida:drums
Henry Carvajal:guitar
Pre-Mighty Flyers Era
1967 Dirty Blues Band / Dirty Blues Band (ABC-Bluesway)
1969 Dirty Blues Band / Stone Dirt (ABC-Bluesway)
1970 Bacon Fat / Grease One for Me (Blue Horizon)
1971 Bacon Fat / Tough Dude (Blue Horizon)
1973 Rod Piazza / Blues Man (LMI)
1979 Chicago Flying Saucer Band /	Flying Saucer Band (Gangster)
The Mighty Flyers
1980 Radioactive Material (Right Hemisphere)
1981 The Mighty Flyers (Right Hemisphere)
1982 Robot Woman II (Shanghai)
1984 From the Start to the Finnish (Right Hemisphere)
1985 File Under Rock (Takoma)
1985 Harp Burn (Murray Brothers; Rod Piazza solo)
1988 So Glad to Have the Blues (Murray Brothers; Rod Piazza solo)
1991 Blues in the Dark (Black Top)
1992 Alphabet Blues (Black Top)
1994 Live at B.B. King's Club (Big Mo)
1997 Tough and Tender (Tone-Cool)
1999 Here and Now (Tone-Cool)
2001 Beyond The Source (Tone-Cool)
2004 Keepin' It Real (Blind Pig)
2005 For The Chosen Who (Delta Groove)
2007 Thrillville (Delta Groove)
2009 Soul Monster (Delta Groove)
2011 Almighty Dollar (Delta Groove)
As guest artist
1968 George 'Harmonica' Smith- Of the Blues
1969 Charlie Musselwhite- Tennessee Woman
1970 Revolutionary Blues Band- Revolutionary Blues Band
1978 Shakey Jake- Make It Good To You
1981 Gary Wright- Right Place
1981 Mother Gong- Robot Woman
1983 Shakey Jake- The Key Won't Fit
1983 Pee Wee Crayton- Make Way for Pee Wee
1983 Smokey Wilson- 88th Street Blues
1985 Jimmy Rogers -Feelin' Good
1988 Michelle Shocked -Short Sharp Shocked
1990 Tommy Conwell -Guitar Trouble
1991 Doug MacLeod -Ain't the Blues Evil
1994 Big Joe Turner -Big Bad & Blue
1995 Johnny Dyer- Jukin'
1995 Smokey Wilson- 88th Street Blues
1998 George 'Harmonica' Smith- Now You Can Talk About Me
1999 Pee Wee Crayton -Early Hour Blues
2000 Rick Holmstrom -Gonna Get Wild
2000 Charlie Musselwhite- Best of the Vanguard Years
2001 Kid Ramos -Greasy Kid Stuff
Timothy Donald "Tim" Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the chief executive officer of Apple Inc.. He joined the company in March 1998.
On August 24, 2011, he was made the CEO of Apple after the resignation of Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 from pancreatic cancer.
Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile.
His father was a shipyard worker, and his mother was a homemaker.
Cook finished high school at Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988.
Cook spent six months at Compaq as the Vice President for Corporate Materials before he was hired by Steve Jobs to join Apple.
At first, he was the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations.
Before that, Cook was the chief operating officer (COO) of the computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics and spent 12 years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment.
Cook is praised for pulling Apple out of working by closing factories and warehouses around the world.
This helped the company get lower inventory levels and make its supply chain easy, making margins a lot bigger.
In January 2007, Cook was promoted to COO.
Cook served as Apple CEO for two months in 2004, when Jobs was healing from pancreatic cancer surgery.
In 2009, Cook was made Apple CEO again for several months while Jobs had to leave for a liver transplant.
In January 2011, Apple's Board of Directors allowed Jobs to leave again for medical reasons.
During that time, Cook was responsible for most of Apple’s day-to-day operations while Jobs made most big decisions.
After Jobs retired, Cook was made permanent CEO of Apple on August 25, 2011.
Executive Biography of Tim Cook at Apple
"Azerbaijan Railways" Closed Joint-Stock Company () is the national state-owned rail transport company in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The total length of the rail network is , with a  rail gauge which is electrified at 3 kV (3,000 V) DC.
The headquarters of the Azerbaijan Railways is in the capital Baku.
The Azerbaijan Railways was made from the Soviet Railways.
The Soviet Railways itself came after the Russian Imperial Railways.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, its railway system broke up into national railway systems of many countries which used to be in the Soviet Union.
The Republic of Azerbaijan became independent the same year and the Azerbaijan Railways was made.
There are  kilometers of railway tracks out of which 72% or  kilometers are single railway tracks and 28% or  kilometers are double railway tracks which are laid next to each other.
Of the total length of the railway routes 43% or  are electrified.
About 38% of the length of the railway routes or  has full automatic railway signaling systems and 16% or  are supported by the communications and repair employees who are responsible for getting and giving the right and trustworthy messages to the train drivers and railway stations on time, and following and repairing the trains and railway equipment.
Of the total length of the railway routes 72% or  are for public transport and does not include railway routes for freight rail transport.
A lot of the railway track and trains have to be repaired or replaced.
However, with the Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway, a regional rail link project that directly connects Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, which was completed and opened in 2017, the railway lines are getting more modern in Azerbaijan with the newest technology and new and fast trains.
These will replace the old trains which are still being used.
The freight market share of the railways are also expected to rise quickly with the completion of the Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway in 2017.
International railway links with neighboring countries
Russia -  gauge.
Georgia -  gauge - also new  standard gauge link to Turkey (under construction -  due to be completed in 2012).
Iran - change of gauge  - .
Turkey - no link - change of gauge  - also new  standard gauge via Georgia (under construction - due to be completed in 2012).
Armenia -  gauge - closed for political reasons.
Azerbaijan Railways Official Site
Gallery and Information of the Electric Locomotives of the Azerbaijan Railways
Schematic Map of the Azerbaijan Railway Network
Transport in Azerbaijan
1990s establishments in Azerbaijan
Before the British found India, Persian language was the country's second official language.
It was also thought of as the cultural and scientific language.
However, after the British found India in 1832, they replaced it with English.
Persian inscript
http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/articles/persian_parsi_language_history.php
http://www.soas.ac.uk/southasia/research/nilc/indopersian/
"Santa Baby" is a holiday themed song about a person who wants extravagant things for the Christmas season.
It was first recorded in 1953 by Eartha Kitt, and many other musicians, including though not limited to Pussycat Dolls, Kylie Minogue, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Madonna have covered this melody throughout the decades.
Original recording
"Santa Baby" was originally recorded by Eartha Kitt with Henry René and his orchestra in New York City in July 1953.
The song was a huge hit for Kitt, and she later said that it was one of her favorite songs to record.
Ariana Grande version
"Santa Baby" is a song recorded by American recording artist Ariana Grande, featuring a guest appearance from American actress Liz Gillies.
The song was released by Republic Records on December 10, 2013, as the fourth single from Grande's EP Christmas Kisses.
"Santa Baby (feat.
Liz Gillies)" – 2:51
"Blue Christmas" is a melancholy holiday themed song first recorded under Doye O'Dell around 1948 and made popular via Ernest Tubb in 1949.
The song was featured in several Christmas specials and recorded by numerous other musicians, most notably Celine Dion, Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers and countless others.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood".
After they had broken up, John William Waterhouse painted in their style.
Their influence shrank as the impressionists and post-impressionists became more important.
The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the 'mechanistic approach'.
This was first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo.
The Brotherhood believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art.
So, they are called Pre-Raphaelites.
In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, whom they called "Sir Sloshua".
To the Pre-Raphaelites, according to William Michael Rossetti, "sloshy" meant "anything lax or scamped in the process of painting ... and hence ... any thing or person of a commonplace or conventional kind".
In contrast, they wanted to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.
The Pre-Raphaelites continued to accept the idea of history painting, and the imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art.
Despite this, they were a reform movement: they created a distinct name for their form of art, and published a periodical, The Germ, to promote their ideas.
Their debates were recorded in the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.
The Brotherhood were highly praised by the art critic John Ruskin, and in turn they were influenced by his ideas.
Rossetti's wife Elizabeth Siddal was their favourite model, and she developed into  an excellent artist herself.
"Pretty Vacant" is a song by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols.
It was released in 1977, as the third single from their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
Piccadilly is a major street in central London, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east.
It is completely within the City of Westminster.
St. James's lies to the south of the eastern section of the street, while the western section overlooks Green Park.
The area to the north is Mayfair.
It is the location of Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy, The Ritz Hotel, the RAF Club and Hatchards book shop.
Simpsons, once amongst the United Kingdom's leading clothing stores, opened on Piccadilly in the 1930s.
The store closed in 1999 and the site is now the flagship shop of the booksellers Waterstone's.
The name Piccadilly may come from a tailor named Robert Baker, in the late 16th century and early 17th century.
He amassed a large fortune by making and selling piccadills – stiff collars with scalloped edges and a lace border, which were then in fashion.
With his great fortune he bought a large tract of what was then open country to the west of London.
After the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Piccadilly and the area to the north (Mayfair) began to be systematically developed as a fashionable residential locality.
Some of the grandest mansions in London were built on the northern side of Piccadilly: Clarendon House, Berkeley House (later Devonshire House), and Sir John Denham's house (later Burlington House) were built in the 17th century.
Later mansions included Melbourne House (now The Albany), Apsley House, Bath House  and Cambridge House.
Several members of the Rothschild family had mansions at the western end of the street, and that part was colloquially referred to as Rothschild Row.
By the 1920s most of these buildings had been demolished or were in institutional use.
The enlargement of Park Lane and the formation of Hyde Park Corner as a major traffic gyratory system has cut off the western stretch of Piccadilly, with the result that Apsley House has become detached from it.
21st century Piccadilly is not one of London's principal shopping streets, despite the presence of several famous shops.
The Ritz Hotel is in the street, along with some other luxury hotels.
There are also some offices and some very expensive flats.
Piccadilly is one of the widest and straightest streets in central London.
"Last Christmas" is a holiday song by the pop duo Wham!.
The single focuses about betrayal of the protagonist by a person he thought was there to stay.
The song was released in 1984.
Other singers have covered it since then, including Ashley Tisdale.
Lock picking is the art of opening a lock without the key and without damaging or destroying the lock or its door.
It is usually used by locksmiths to let people back in who have lost their keys or locked them inside a car or house.
Lock picking is very rarely used by criminals, because picking a lock is difficult and other ways of entering such as breaking a window are much easier.
Some people pick their own locks as a hobby.
In most places picking locks that you own is legal, but it is illegal to pick locks that you do not own or do not have permission to pick.
History of keys and locks goes back for about 4,000 years.
Ancient people also wanted to protect their possessions and keep them in places where other people cannot get access to them.
The first locks and keys were made of wood and other easily accessible materials and they provided the small safeguard against theft or break-in.
However, such locks at least let the owners know if someone tried to tamper with the lock.
The earliest known key and lock was discovered in the Nineveh ruins, which was the capital of ancient Assyria.
They were dated to 704 BC.
The first models of wooden locks and keys originate from Ancient Babylon and Egypt.
These simple devices had small pins, controlling the movement of the security bolt.
In order to unlock the bolt, it was necessary to lift the pins, by using bulky wooden keys.
Roman age introduced many improvements of the Egyptian wooden locks.
Ancient Romans created stronger and smaller locks than Egyptians, by using bronze and iron.
The keys of locks from Roman era were small and light enough to be carried everywhere.
Such small keys were often viewed as one of the effective ways of showing your wealth to other people.
Rich Romans often kept their valuable things in secure boxes and wore the keys as finger rings.
The warded lock also comes from antiquity and is still the most recognizable lock and key type.
Nowadays, there is a wide range of different locks, keys and other security systems available on the market.
Among them are also keyless entry systems, that allow people to operate their locks without using the keys.
Warded locks
Warded locks are the simplest locks to pick and are picked by inserting a warded lock pick (also called a skeleton key) into the keyhole and turning it as if it were the key.
A pick for warded locks can be made by filing down all of the teeth on a regular key except the last one, or for some locks, the last two.
Pin-tumbler and wafer-tumbler locks
Pin-tumbler and wafer-tumbler locks normally open when the correct key pushes all of the pins or wafers to the shear line.
An incorrect key will push the pins or wafers too little or too far.
These locks are more difficult to pick than warded locks and are picked by putting tension on the keyhole and pushing the pins or wafers up individually until they reach the shear line.
When all of the pins have reached the shear line, the lock will turn as if the key were inserted.
Other methods of raising the pins or wafers involve moving an S-shaped pick called a rake through the keyhole to vibrate the pins or wafers to the shear line, or using the pick gun, which bounces the pins to the shear line.
It is also possible to pick a pin-tumbler lock with a bump key, which, when struck with a hammer, will bump the pins to the shear line.
The force on the hammer should be slightly less than that used for driving a nail, because too much force will break off the head of the key, leaving the rest of the key stuck in the lock.
Many newer locks have special pins that make picking more difficult.
The special pins are usually spool-shaped and work by wedging into the shear line when pushed up by the pick.
Other locks
Most padlocks can be opened by inserting a thin piece of metal called a shim between the shackle and the body of the lock.
This will need to be done on both sides if there are locking levers on both sides.
The shim pushes the locking latch aside and allows the lock to open.
High-security padlocks often use a ball-bearing latch, which can not be pushed aside with a shim.
Some door locks can be shimmed with a credit card or similar thin plastic object.
The card is placed between the door and doorframe, which pushes the latch aside.
Combination locks can not be picked, but it is often possible to find the combination by feeling for certain clicks inside the lock, except on certain high-security safe locks.
Some combination locks have small cracks through which the parts inside the lock can be seen, allowing the combination to be determined.
The Master Lock #175 brass combination lock has a very unique flaw allowing a small piece of metal to be inserted into the bottom of the lock, which pushes the locking bar aside, opening the lock.
A special pick exists for disc-detainer locks, but it is only effective on inexpensive locks that do not have false gates.
A well-made disc-detainer lock with false gates (such as the Abloy Protec) is considered almost impossible to pick.
Lever locks are considered difficult, although possible, to pick and also require a special pick.
Tubular locks can be picked with a special tubular pick.
Some poorly-made tubular locks can be picked with an ordinary writing pen.
Most car locks can be defeated by inserting a metal or plastic rod with a small hook on the end into the area between the rubber seal on the window and the car body, and using the hook to pull the lock lever that is normally pulled by hand from the inside of the car.
On most cars, it is possible to electrically connect the switch contacts on the ignition lock to start the car without a key, completely bypassing the mechanical lock.
This is called hotwiring the car.
Most cars use a wafer-tumbler based lock, so it is also possible to pick the door or ignition locks the traditional way.
Some cars, such as many Honda and BMW models, have electronic protection against both hotwiring and traditional picking.
What Is Lockpicking?
Romeo is the son of Lord and Lady Montague in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
He is one of the two protagonists of the story.
Romeo falls in love with Juliet Capulet, and secretly marries her.
Juliet fakes her death to rid herself of a parental marriage arrangement with Count Paris.
Romeo is not aware of the fake death.
He believes Juliet is truly dead and kills himself.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonard Whiting, Leslie Howard and Douglas Booth have played Romeo in movie adaptations of the play.
Romeo is also a character in opera and ballet adaptions of the play.
Complete listing of all of Romeo's lines
Pope Benedict V (;   -died July 4, 965), was an Italian deacon of the Roman Catholic Church and the 133rd Pope for five weeks in 964.
After the death of Pope John XII, Cardinal Benedetto was elected pope by the Romans in 964; but the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, did not approve.
Otto deposed Benedict who was then exiled.
Benedict was buried in the cathedral in Hamburg.
Later, his remains were transferred to Rome.
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Benedetto
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Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965 in Los Angeles) is an American television personality and columnist, regularly featured in American media.
She is often called "Hollywood Madam" (formerly she was a madam and for a short time a prostitute) and is a periodic guest on Fox News programs.
Her father was Paul M. Fleiss.
Fleiss had been convicted of tax evasion and spent some time in prison.
She was in a domestic partnership with Dennis Hof until his death in October 2018.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the biggest earthquake that has ever hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906.
It was felt from Los Angeles to Oregon and Nevada.
The earthquake was about a 7.8 on the Richter scale.
Around 3,000 people were killed and between 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless.
There were also fires because gas pipes were destroyed, and the gas caught on fire.
Over 80% of the city was destroyed by the earthquake and fires that came later.
The city is on the San Andreas Fault, which slid, causing the earthquake.
Many people looted so then the Army had to come in to keep the peace, but there were reports of the army looting as well.
The 1906 Earthquake and Fire from the National Archives
Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916 From American Memory at the Library of Congress.
A geologic tour of the San Francisco earthquake, 100 years later from American Geological Institute
The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire from the Museum of the City of San Francisco website
"Wonderful Christmastime" is Christmas song which was first recorded by Paul McCartney and released in 1979.
The single did not chart on Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
It did, however, reach #6 on United Kingdom music charts.
This single is played during the Christmas season worldwide with strong popularity.
Other singers, including Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, Hilary Duff and Demi Lovato have covered this song throughout the years.
Douglas Joseph Ashton (19 November 1919 — 3 November 2011) was the owner of the world's longest family run circus, and the oldest surviving travelling circus.
Ashton's Circus was started by Doug Ashton's great grandfather, Joseph Henry Ashton, in 1847.
Doug Ashton was born into the circus and was on the road travelling when only six days old.
Ashton, and his wife Phyllis, were both awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1996 for their work for charity and the arts.
He died in Perth, Western Australia, while travelling with his grandson's circus, Circus Joseph Ashton.
Joseph Ashton trained Nicole Kidman to use the flying trapeze for Baz Lurhmann's movie, Moulin Rouge!.
In medicine, saline refers to any solution of salt in water; that is, salt water.
Such solutions are sterile when they are to be placed into the body by infusion or injection.
If the solution has more salt in it than is found in the human body, it is called hypertonic saline.
The normal salt level is 0.9% and any salt amount more than 0.9% is called hypertonic.
Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935 in Pennsylvania) is an American musician of Polish descent.
At first Vinton was not successful.
Around 1963, he began making serious hit songs and albums.
That continued into the 1970s and beyond.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rodrigo and Gabriela), also known as "El Rodri y La Gabi", are a Mexican musical duo.
They play fast, rhythmic music on acoustic guitars.
The duo is Rodrigo Sanchez, lead guitar, and Gabriela Quintero, rhythm guitar and percussion.
They became well known playing in the hotels and bars of Dublin, Ireland.
One reviewer said that "...Rodrigo y Gabriela's secret is maybe quite simple.
They are resourceful musicians, and are open-hearted, happy entertainers.
That, very often, is what people want."
Both are vegans and support animal rights.
They  play a mixture of many influences and styles.
They met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash metal band and later moved to Dublin.
Their album, Rodrigo y Gabriela, entered the Irish Albums Chart at Number One.
Foc (2001)
re-Foc (2002)
Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)
11:11 (2009)
Area 52 (2012)
Live: Manchester and Dublin (2004)
Live in Japan (2008)
Live in France (2011)
''Live Session (2007)
Live gigs
Official Rodrigo y Gabriela site
Video Channel  on MUZU TV
An early career interview with Rodrigo y Gabriela
Interview on WNYC's Soundcheck.
Interview with Gabriela for Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal, March 2007
Interview on NPR's All Things Considered, October 10, 2009
Rodrigo y Gabriela Rock the White House
2000s Mexican music groups
20th-century establishments in Mexico
Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer.
His "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" was a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011.
His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011.
He died one month later, on November 4, 2011, at age 92.
He started as a reporter covering World War II in Europe.
Rooney joined CBS in 1949, as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, when Godfrey was very popular on radio and TV.
He also wrote for The Garry Moore Show.
CBS Biography
Archive  of previous "A Few Minutes ..." segments
Andy Rooney Podcast  among other CBS podcasts
Snopes.com on Rooney E-Mail Snopes.com's article on false e-mail claims
Andy Rooney Interview at Archive of American Television
Some of Andy Rooney's Best Observations and Opinions
People from Albany, New York
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a well-known Christmas carol that represents the birth of Jesus found under Gospel of Luke in which shepherds outside Bethlehem find many angels praising children.
The song has been covered and performed by many singers over the years.
Pulmonology is a type of medicine where doctors know about the lungs and the heart.
They work on keeping lungs healthy.
A doctor working in pulmonology is called a pulmonologist.
Pulmonologists also work with respiratory therapists to educate and help make lungs healthy.
Where do they work?
Clinics (Regular doctors offices)
"O Tannenbaum", also known as "O Christmas Tree" in alternate name, is a holiday melody of German origin.
The best known form of this song was written in 1824.
Notable singers who have performed this song are Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis and Chicago.
Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting place and a tourist attraction in its own right.
The Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros.
Actually the statue is that of Anteros, who in legend was the brother of Eros.
The fountain is a pedestrian area: it and the Circus there is surrounded by several noted buildings, the London Pavilion and the Criterion Theatre.
Directly underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus tube station, part of the London Underground system.
The Dale–Chall formula is one of the ways to predict how difficult text is to read.
It is a readability test.
The Dale–Chall formula is a one-variable test: it measures the difficulty of the words used.
It does not measure the difficulty of the sentence structure (the syntax).
One of the first readability tests, the Dale–Chall formula used a vocabulary list.
In 1995 the authors published an updated word list.
Textual difficulty
A photogram is a photograph that is made without a camera.
Something is placed on top of some photographic paper (or a similar material) and then shining light on it.
At the end of this, you get a shadow picture.
It usually has different tones.
This depends on how transparent the object is.
Despite the traffic noise, the road is upmarket.
It features five-star hotels, such as The Dorchester, Grosvenor House Hotel and InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel, and showrooms for several makes of high-end sports car.
The hotels are part of the area known as Mayfair.
Originally a country lane running north-south along what is now the eastern boundary of Hyde Park, it became a fashionable residential address from the eighteenth century onwards.
It has views across Hyde Park and a position at the most fashionable western edge of London.
It became lined with some of the largest privately owned mansions in London, including the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor House and the Holford family's Dorchester House (demolished in 1929 and replaced by 1931 with The Dorchester, which are now both hotels, and the Marquess of Londonderry's Londonderry House, which has been demolished.
On a corner with Oxford Street, Somerset House (No.
40), built in 1769-70, was successively the town house of Warren Hastings, a former Governor-General of India, the third Earl of Rosebery, and the Dukes of Somerset.
In the 1960s the Lane was widened to three lanes each way either side of a central reservation.