the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Charles Babbage, English inventor
Charles Barkley, American basketball player
Charles Blanvillain, French rapper
Charles Bronson, American actor
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Charles Chaplin, American actor
Charles Chesnutt, American author
Charles Colson, American lawyer
Charles Cornwallis, British general and politician
Charles Court, Australian politician
Charles Curtis, Vice-President of the United States
Charles Darwin, who came up with the theory of evolution
Charles G. Dawes, Nobel Laureate and Vice-President of the United States
Charles Ellis, English physicist
Charles de Gaulle, French general and President
Charles Dickens, English author
Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Charles Foster, Ohio Congressman
Charles Gounod, French composer
Charles Hendry, British MP
Charles Higounet, French historian
Charles Hoare, English computer scientist
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Charles Ives, American composer
Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
Charles Lummis, American author and historian
Charles-Louis Montesquieu, French philosopher
Charles Spurgeon, British preacher
Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racecar driver
Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist
Charles Frederick Worth, fashion designer
Rulers and noblemen named Charles
Charles I of England, King of England, 1625-49
Charles II of England, King of England, 1660-85
Charles IV of France, King of France, 1322-28
Charles I of Spain, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-58
Charles IV of Spain, King of Spain 1788-1808
Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV
Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman
Charles Edward Stuart, a.k.a.
Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobin pretender
Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia 1730-1773
Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1796-1802
Charles Felix of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1821-1831
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British PM
Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne
Eschborn is a town near Frankfurt am Main in the Main-Taunus district, Hesse, Germany.
The town has a population of 20,789.
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher.
He is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.
He writes both fiction and non-fiction books and articles.
He is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy (series of four books).
The first two books (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards.
Now he edits the science fiction webzine called Flurb.
Rucker attended St. Xavier High School.
Then he completed a B.A. in mathematics from Swarthmore College.
Next, earned Master's and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Rutgers University.
He taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1972 to 1978.
He got a grant (money to support scholarship) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, so he went to teach math at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980.
He then taught at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1980 to 1982.
Next, he tried being as a full-time author for four years.
Inspired by an interview with Stephen Wolfram, Rucker became a computer science professor at San José State University in 1986.
He retired from SJSU in 2004.
He is a mathematician who is also interested in philosophy.
He has written books connecting these two areas, for example: The Fourth Dimension; Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension; and Infinity and the Mind.
Princeton University Press published new editions of Infinity and the Mind in 1995 and in 2005, both with new prefaces; the first edition is cited with fair frequency in academic literature.
As his "own alternative to cyberpunk," Rucker developed a writing style he calls Transrealism.
He gave a brief explanation of Transrealism in his 1983 essay, The Transrealist Manifesto.
It is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change.
One example of Rucker's Transrealist works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens.
Rucker and his publisher marketed the book as non-fiction as a kind of joke.
Rucker wrote his first Transrealist novel, White Light, while he was at Heidelberg.
This Transrealist novel is based on his experiences at SUNY Geneseo.
Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas.
For example, White Light examines the concept of infinity.
Parts of the Ware Tetralogy (written from 1982 through 2000) are an explanation of using natural selection to develop computer software (a subject also developed in his The Hacker and the Ants, written in 1994).
His novels also show a mystical philosophy.
Rucker explained this philosophy in an essay called The Central Teachings of Mysticism.
There may be some irony in this tiitle (The essay is included in Seek!,
He recently published a book called The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy.
This book summarizes the various philosophies he's believed over the years.
It ends with the tentative conclusion that people might get some benefit by thinking about the world as made of computations.
His final remark in the book is, "perhaps this universe is perfect."
Software (1982)
Wetware (1988)
Freeware (1997)
Realware (2000)
Transrealist novels
White Light (1980)
Spacetime Donuts (1981)
The Sex Sphere (1983)
The Secret of Life (1985)
The Hacker and the Ants (1994) (Revised 'Version 2.0' 2003)
Saucer Wisdom (1999) novel marketed as non-fiction
Other Novels
Master of Space and Time (1984)
The Hollow Earth (1990)
Spaceland (2002)
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (2002)
Frek and the Elixir (2004)
Mathematicians in Love (2006)
Postsingular (Fall 2007)
Hylozoic  (sequel to Postsingular, May 2009)
Story collections
The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka (1983)
Transreal!,
also includes some non-fiction essays (1991)
Gnarl! (
2000), complete short stories
Mad Professor (2006)
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977)
(editor), Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles H. Hinton, Dover (1980),
Infinity and the Mind (1982)
The Fourth Dimension (1984)
Mind Tools (1987)
All the Visions (1991), memoir
Seek! (
1999), collected essays
Software Engineering and Computer Games (2002), textbook
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2005)
List  on Rucker's SJSU web page.
With links to each book's web page.
The Rudy Rucker website
Rudy Rucker's SJSU Home Page
Rudy Rucker's Twitter page
Rudy Rucker's autobiography, written for Contemporary Authors in 2004
A story in a San Jose newspaper regarding Rucker
The Transrealist Manifesto
Flurb, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales (Rudy Rucker, editor)
Rudy Rucker: Everything is Computation - 3/1/2007
Radio interview  on Philosophy Talk
A tinamou is one of an family of birds called the Tinamidae.
They are the only species within the family.
There are 47 species of tinamou in Central and South America.
They are one of the most ancient living groups of bird, and are related to the ratites.
Generally ground dwelling, they are found in a range of habitats.
Of Gondwanan origin, tinamous are related to the ratites.
Although the fossil record in South America is poor, the known tinamiform fossil record goes back 10 million years.
Together with the ratites, they make up Palaeognathae ("old jaws"), while all other living birds are members of Neognathae ("new jaws").
Unlike the other palaeognaths, tinamous do have a keeled sternum.
Like the other palaeognaths, they also have a distinctive palate (thin bony plate at top of mouth).
Recent phylogenetic studies place tinamids as the sister group of Australasian/Oceanian ratites.
Those are the (cassowaries, emus, and kiwi).
South American ratites (rheas) and African ratites (ostriches) are also related, but more distantly.
Tinamous themselves are monophyletic.
This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera.
Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in ancient Rome when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.
Be aware that the Latin letter i can be used as either a vowel or a consonant.
When used as a consonant, it is often replaced by the letter j, which was originally simply an orthographic "long i" that was used in initial positions and when it occurred between two other vowels.
This medieval convention is most commonly preserved in Latin legal terminology–hence phrases like de iure are often spelled de jure.
On this list, the more common form will be the one a phrase is listed under: thus, de jure is used instead of de iure, and alea iacta est instead of alea jacta est.
List of Latin phrases (full)
List of Latin phrases (F)
List of Latin phrases (G)
List of Latin phrases (H)
List of Latin phrases (M)
List of Latin phrases (O)
List of Latin phrases (P)
List of Latin phrases (R)
List of Latin phrases (S)
List of Latin phrases (T)
List of Latin phrases (U)
List of Latin abbreviations
List of legal Latin terms
List of Greek phrases
Latin legal phrases
Latin medical phrases
Latin abbreviations
Latin quote ideas
Latin sayings & Latin phrases , organized by topic
Musette is the French word for small bellows played bagpipes.
Some composers liked to use a drone (especially one in fifths) to make it sound like bagpipes or other folk instruments.
Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin and other Baroque composers often called such pieces "Musette".
Sometimes they did this in orchestral music: Joseph Haydn used a drone in the last part of his Symphony No.
Suppose we have a set of vectors  that form a basis for , and that we wish to convert these into a friendly basis.
We begin by finding out which component of a vector is being unfriendly to a second vector, which we may do with inner products.
If we have two vectors , then we may find the component of  being unfriendly to  with .
By subtracting this from , we get the component friendly to .
By returning to our abstract set , we may make use of this observation to construct a general algorithm to convert an arbitrary basis into a friendly basis.
Like from our original set, each time we use the process on a new vector, it is guaranteed to be mutually friendly with all the previous vectors.
Should we wish to make this a friendly and cute basis, we can simply make each new element of the basis cute, by replacing both  with .
The pigeonhole principle explains that when there are (n) pigeon-sized holes in a pigeon container, then it's impossible to fit more than (n) pigeons in that container, without having at least one hole containing more than one.
The pigeons are used here as an example for anything that can be put into containers or subdivisions.
In one suitcase there are 12 blue socks and 18 black socks.
If we close our eyes, how many socks must we pull out to be sure we have a pair of the same color?
If we think of the colors as holes or categories, we have 2 holes, so (n) = 2.
If we pull three socks from the suitcase, at least two of them must be the same color, because 3 is a number greater than 2.
So the correct answer here is three.
A nickel is a coin.
It is in the United States currency.
It is worth 5 cents.
It is made of cupronickel, an alloy of copper and nickel.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) aims to keep people’s money safe.
Specifically, the money people put into American banks.
If money is lost they will replace it.
The FDIC will replace up to $250,000 per person, per bank.
the FDIC insured 7,895 different banks or institutions.
The FDIC also watches banks or institutions for problems or failings.
The FDIC was made during the Great Depression by President Franklin Roosevelt in June 1933.
This is an important occurrence in United States history because it guaranteed people their money.
This also helped people feel safer when using banks in the United States.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (official website)
FDIC Statistics at a Glance  (FDIC.gov)
FDIC List of Failed Banks
The Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005
History including Boards of Directors
60 Minutes - Your Bank Has Failed: What Happens Next?
Vehicle insurance (also called auto insurance or car insurance) is a kind of insurance that protects people if they have a car accident.
Somebody with vehicle insurance would not have to pay the entire cost of damage a car accident causes.
In many places, it is against the law to drive without vehicle insurance.
The driver pays a premium to the car insurance company.
In exchange, the company covers the potential cost of damages and financial loss that are a result of driving.
The bare minimum everyday driver should require to purchase liability coverage.
It varies from state to state and it is important to have the minimum amount as required by law.
You can receive a ticket, have your driver's license revoked, or even be arrested.
Insurance prices vary a lot by the company.
The car you drive can affect your auto insurance rates.
If you get in an accident the repairs on the car may be different from others.
Somebody with vehicle insurance would pay what is called a premium  (perhaps every month).
The insurance company would decide how big the premium is and might consider several factors.
These include some of the following:
Type of car
Type of job
History of insurance
Past accidents
When you pay a premium, the insurance company agrees to pay your losses as outlined in your policy.
Depending on different factors, the insurance company may not pay all or any of your losses.
Umbrella insurance protects all items of economic value and future income.
It is also known as a type of liability insurance.
A liability is a legal debt or obligation.
The umbrella refers to how the policy shields insured assets.
It covers damages caused by you and your dependents.
People who have large sums of money usually have this type of insurance because they have high premiums.
Premiums are the total cost of the policy.
It guarantees you higher liability limits.
It provides additional limits of coverage if you are at risk of being sued.
The umbrella policy is there to fill the gaps in other insurance policies.
Where one policy does not cover, the umbrella policy picks up where it doesn’t cover.
The umbrella policy covers all insurances such as house, car, etc.
The umbrella policy covers in increments of 1,000,000 dollars.
So if you had car insurance that only covered 200,000 dollars, the coverage would then be 1,200,000 dollars.
The same goes for home owners insurance, if you had 500,000 dollars in coverage the total coverage would become 1,500,000 dollars in coverage.
An argument from false premises is a line of reasoning which can lead to wrong results.
A false premise is an untrue proposition that forms part of the basis of a logical syllogism.
Since the premise (assumption) is not correct, the conclusion drawn may also be wrong.
However, it should be noted that whether or not an argument is "valid" does not depend on whether its premises are true.
It rather depends on whether the conclusion follows from them, which is to say, on whether under the assumption that the premises are true, the conclusion must be true as well.
If the streets are wet, it has rained recently. (
premise)
The streets are wet. (
Therefore, it has rained recently. (
conclusion)
This argument is logically valid.
But its premises are not always true.
The first premise can be false – someone could have hosed down the streets, a street cleaner could have passed, the local river could have flooded, and so on.
A simple logical analysis will not reveal the error in this argument, since that analysis assumes that all the argument's premises are true.
For this reason, an argument based on false premises can be much more difficult to refute, or even discuss, than one featuring a normal logical error, as the truth of its premises must be established to the satisfaction of all parties.
Another feature of an argument based on false premises that can bedevil critics, is that its conclusion can in fact be true.
It may well be that it has recently rained, and that the streets are wet.
This of course does nothing to prove the first premise, but can make its claims more difficult to refute.
A false premise can also be a premise that is poorly defined, which makes the conclusion questionable.
The following joke from Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar illustrates the point: "An old cowboy goes into a bar and orders a drink.
As he sits there sipping his whiskey, a young lady sits down next to him.
... She says, 'I'm a lesbian.
I spend my whole day thinking about women. ...'
A little while later, a couple sits down next to the old cowboy and asks him, 'Are you a real cowboy?'
He replies, 'I always thought I was, but I just found out I'm a lesbian'."
The mistake the cowboy makes is that he assumes that the definition of a lesbian is somebody who spends the "whole day thinking about women", without including the fact that a lesbian is a homosexual female.
The cowboy is neither homosexual nor female; therefore, he is not a lesbian.
Nichrome is an alloy.
It is made of nickel and chromium.
It has an 80/20% composition.
It is used as a heating element.
It gets hot when electricity goes through it.
It is normally silver in colour and a wire.
Cupronickel is an alloy.
It is made of copper and nickel.
It is used in nickels, the US coins.
It is silvery in color.
It has 75% copper and 25% nickel.
Nickel(II) oxide, green
Nickel(III) oxide, black
Nickel(II) oxide, also known as nickelous oxide, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is NiO. It contains nickel in its +2 oxidation state.
Nickel(II) oxide is a light green solid.
Sometimes it is gray because all of the nickel is not in the +2 oxidation state.
It reacts with acids to make nickel(II) salts.
For example, it reacts with hydrochloric acid to make nickel(II) chloride.
It does not react with bases easily.
Nickel(II) oxide can be made by heating nickel powder in air at .
This normally makes a black nickel oxide.
It also can be made by reacting nickel with water at .
The simplest way to make it is to heat nickel(II) hydroxide, nickel(II) carbonate, or nickel(II) nitrate.
It is used to make alloys.
It is also used in ceramics.
It is used to make other nickel compounds.
Margaret Cho (born Moran Cho on 5 December 1968) is an American comedian and actress.
She is bisexual and liberal.
Comedians from San Francisco
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) was the President of Nigeria (5 May 2010 - 29 May 2015).
He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and became the Vice President of Nigeria on 29 May 2007.
Jonathan is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which is in power as of September 2010.
On 13 January 2010, a federal court gave him the power to carry out state affairs while President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was being taken care of in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
On 24 February 2010, Yar'Adua came back to Nigeria, but Jonathan kept the President's power .
Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010, and Jonathan officially became the President.
He took the oath of office the next day.
Early life, education and personal life
Jonathan was born in Otueke in Ogbia Local Government Area in Nigeria to a family of canoe makers.
He has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
degree in Zoology.
He also holds an M.Sc.
in Hydrobiology/Fisheries biology, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Zoology from the University of Port Harcourt.
After he got his degree, he worked as an education inspector, lecturer, and environmental-protection officer, until he decided to become a politician in 1998.
Jonathan is married to Patience Faka Jonathan and has two children.
Jonathan is a member of the Ijaw ethnic group.
Bayelsa State governorship
Jonathan, who had been the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, succeeded Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who was impeached by the Bayelsa State Assembly after being charged with money laundering in the United Kingdom.
In September 2006, Jonathan's wife was indicted by the nation's anti-crime agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for crimes related to money laundering.
Presidential race
In December 2006, Jonathan was chosen as running mate to Umaru Yar'Adua for the PDP presidential ticket in the April 2007 election.
On 20 April 2007, shortly before the presidential election, there was a violent attack from militants.
The police said that people had tried to kill Jonathan.
However, this did not end up happening.
Vice Presidency
Following the PDP's election win, which some people did not think was fair, militants blew up Jonathan's country house in Otu-Eke, Bayelsa State on 16 May; two policemen were killed in the attack.
Jonathan was not there at the time.
President Umaru Yar'Adua left Nigeria on 23 November 2009 for medical treatment.
He did not make plans for anyone to take over his duties.
On 13 January 2010, a federal court handed Vice-President Jonathan the power to carry out state affairs in the president's continued absence.
On 22 January 2010, the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had 14 days to decide whether President Yar'Adua "is incapable of discharging the functions of his office".
On 9 February 2010, the Senate decided that presidential power should be given to the Vice President.
He was appointed to serve as Acting President, with all the accompanying powers, until when and if Yar'Adua returned to full health.
The power transfer was called a "coup without the word" by opposition lawyers and lawmakers.
The Nigerian Constitution requires a written letter from the President stating he is unable to serve or that the cabinet sends a medical team to examine him but this provision has not apparently been fulfilled leaving some doubts as to the constitutionality of the action.
Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010.
Jonathan was sworn in as Yar'Adua's replacement on 6 May 2010, becoming Nigeria's 14th Head of State.
He will serve as President until the next election.
Upon taking office, Jonathan cited anti-corruption, power and electoral reform were what he wanted to focus on as President.
He stated that he came to office under "very sad and unusual circumstances."
World Cup controversy
After the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, in which the Nigerian side failed to advance beyond group stage, Jonathan said that the national team could no longer play international matches.
FIFA objected to the president's decision and threatened to kick Nigeria out of the association.
After this, Jonathan ended the ban.
Re-election
Presidents of Nigeria
Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense, or Nicaraguan Sign Language, is a sign language that was spontaneously invented by deaf schoolchildren in Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.
The language developed when the Sandinist government of Nicaragua created the first (elementary) school for deaf people, in the 1970s.
The language is of special interest to linguists, because it allows them to study how languages develop.
In the 1970s, the deaf people of Nicaragua rarely met.
They lived isolated lives and used simple gestures to communicate with their friends and family.
In 1977, a special programme for the deaf was started in a suburb of Managua.
At first, fifty children took part.
When the Sandinist came to power, the number of pupils rose to hundred.
In 1980, a vocational school for deaf people was opened in another part of Managua.
In 1983, both schools together had about 400 pupils.
The teaching was centered on lip reading and the use of a hand alphabet.
This was mostly unsuccessful, because most pupils had trouble spelling words in this way.
The children were cut off from their teachers, and used recreational breaks, and free time spent together to create a system that allowed them to communicate with each other.
Gestures and signs used at home were used to create a pidgin.
Later the pidgin developed into a Creole language.
The first step, that is to say the pidgin is called Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense (LSN) today.
Pupils who left the school before the creole language was created, continue to use the pidgin.
The staff of the school missed the fact that a language was developing before their eyes.
All they saw were some mimics, and the failure to learn Spanish.
As they did not know what the pupils were saying, they asked for help.
In 1986, Judi Kegl, an expert on the topic of American Sign Language was asked to help.
When she analysed the language, she found out that the pidgin NSL had been made more complex by the younger pupils — it now included a fixed grammar, and the arrangement of verbs.
Today, this extended form is known as ISN.
5 minute PBS documentary video showing examples of Nicaraguan Sign Language (QuickTime and RealPlayer formats).
http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=NCS
https://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/04/041014.coppola-ct.html
Nickel(II) nitrate, also known as nickelous nitrate, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Ni(NO3)2.
It contains nickel in its +2 oxidation state.
Nickel(II) nitrate is a green crystalline solid.
Because it has nitrate ions, it is an oxidizing agent.
It normally has water molecules attached to it, making it hydrated.
It is an oxidizing agent, so it should be kept away from things that can burn.
It also is toxic to things that live in the water.
Nickel(II) chloride, also known as nickelous chloride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is NiCl2.
It is a yellow-green solid.
It normally is attached to water molecules (hydrated).
It reacts with ammonia to make a purple solution.
It also reacts with hydrochloric acid to make a yellow solution.
It reacts with bases to make nickel(II) hydroxide.
Solutions of nickel(II) chloride have a pH of 4.
It is made by dissolving nickel metal in hydrochloric acid.
It also can be made by reacting nickel(II) oxide, nickel(II) carbonate, or nickel(II) hydroxide with hydrochloric acid.
It is used to electroplate nickel metal on metal objects.
Nickel(II) chloride irritates skin and eyes.
It can also cause cancer.
A facial composite is a reconstructed image of the face of a person.
Such images are usually based on descriptions of eyewitnesses.
They are mostly used by police, to help them find people who have committed a serious crime.
Nickel(II) hydroxide, also known as nickelous hydroxide, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is Ni(OH)2.
It is a light green solid.
It dissolves in acids to make other nickel(II) salts.
The Baitul Futuh Mosque (English: House of Victories) is claimed to be the largest mosque in Europe.
According to some estimates it is the second largest after the Mosque of Rome.
It has an area of , the mosque complex can hold up to 10,000 worshippers.
It was built in 2003 at a cost of about £5.5 million with money given by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
It is located in the London area of Morden, next to Morden South railway station and 150 yards from the Morden Underground.
The foundation stone was placed by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad on the 19 October 1999, in a ceremony attended by 2000 guests, and opened by the current head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, on the 3 October 2003.
Mirza Masroor Ahmad is based at Fazl Mosque but delivers his weekly Khutbah (Friday sermon) from Baitul Futuh.
The opening ceremony was attended by over 600 guests such as High Commissioners, Deputy High Commissioners, Members of European Parliament, Members of Parliament, Mayors of London boroughs, councilors, university lecturers, and representatives of 17 countries.
Services to the Community
Several events are held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque to serve both the Muslim and greater community.
In addition to regular prayers, its services include an annual Peace Symposiums, school tours, other local community events, as well as the 'Merton Youth Partnership Annual Conference', hosting the Perfect Jeevan Programme Any Questions?,
and is included in Suman.
The Peace Symposium 2010 chose the location to award the first Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize to Lord Eric Avebury.
The award is for lifetime contribution to the cause of Human Rights.
Prayer halls for Men and Women
Multi-functional rooms
MTA Television Studios
Kitchen & Dine
Guest rooms
Disabled access.
Wash-room Facilities:
WC's
Wash Basins
Footbaths
Showers
Drinking Fountains
Baby Changing Units
Toilets for the Disabled
WC's and Wash Basins for Crèche
Islam in the United Kingdom
List of mosques
List of mosques in Great Britain
Darul Barakaat Mosque
Al Mahdi Mosque
Nickel(II) carbonate, also known as nickelous carbonate, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is NiCO3.
Nickel(II) carbonate is a pale green solid.
It turns into carbon dioxide and nickel(II) oxide when heated.
Nickel(II) sulfate, also known as nickelous sulfate, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is NiSO4.
Nickel(II) sulfate is a bluish solid.
It is normally attached to some water molecules (hydrated).
When it is anhydrous (not attached to water molecules), it is yellow.
Nickel(II) sulfate is used to make other nickel compounds.
It is also used in the electroplating of nickel on metal objects.
It is used in the lab.
Frogger is an arcade video game made in 1981 by Konami.
The player must play as Frogger to get to home.
The player must cross a road and a river.
If the player is hit by a car or falls into the water, the player must start over.
Frogger is very popular and there are many newer Frogger games.
The player guides a frog using a joystick (a game controller).
The frog starts at the bottom of the screen.
The frog must first cross a busy road.
There are cars that go left and right on the road.
If a car hits the frog, it dies and the player must start again.
Once the frog crosses the road, the frog must cross a river.
There are logs and turtles that move left and right in the river.
The player must jump on top of the logs and turtles to reach the other side.
If the player reaches the other side, he gets extra points and can try again.
If a car hits the frog, the frog dies.
If the frog falls in the water, the frog dies.
Sometimes, there are snakes, otters, and alligators in the water.
If an animal hits the frog, the frog dies.
Sometimes, the turtles go under the water.
If the frog is riding on a turtle when it goes under the water, the frog dies.
If the frog goes off the edge of the screen, the frog dies.
The frog can not land in the same spot twice at the top of the screen.
If it does, the frog dies.
There is a timer.
If the time runs out, the frog dies.
If the frog dies, the player can try again.
Once the frog dies too many times, the game is over.
São Carlos F.C. is a football club which plays in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
G.E. Sãocarlense  is a football club which plays in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Johann Strauss III (February 16, 1866 - January 9, 1939) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
He was the son of Eduard Strauss, the nephew of Johann Strauss II, and grandson of Johann Strauss I. He wrote several waltzes, as well as an operetta, Katze und Maus (Cat and Mouse).
Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940 in Mexico City) is a Mexican businessman.
He was the richest person in the world from 2010 to 2013.
He owns the Mexican phone company Telmex, which provides a telephone service to most Mexicans.
After graduating, Slim expanded on his father's ownings of real estate in Mexico City.
By age 26, he was worth $40 million.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Slim bought several companies that were bankrupt or being privatized.
Slim owns about 7% of the New York Times.
He is now worth $60 billion.
Slim's maternal grandparents and his father were from Lebanon.
In 2017, According to Forbes Carlos Slim is the world’s fifth richest person.
People from Mexico City
Pandanales is an order of flowering plants, that grow around the tropical areas of important continents.
The order includes palm-like trees, shrubs, lianas, and herbs.
This order is considered to be a basal, or early diverging, group of angiosperms.
The families of this order are united by being families of aquatic herbs and are known from the fossil record as early as the Lower Cretaceous.
Ie, ie or IE  may refer to:
i.e., abbreviation for Latin id est, meaning "that is; in other words"
Internet Explorer, the web browser by Microsoft
IntelliMouse Explorer, a line of computer mice designed by Microsoft
Infinity Engine, the game engine behind Baldur's Gate among others
Information engineering, an approach to designing and developing information systems
.ie, Irish Internet country code top-level domain
Institut Eksekutif, an educational institution in Sarawak, Malaysia
IE Business School, formerly known as Instituto de Empresa, a global leading Business School in Madrid, Spain
Iarnród Éireann, or Irish Rail
Solomon Airlines, as IATA airline designator "IE"
Arts/entertainment
Improv Everywhere, a comedy group
Into Eternity, a progressive death metal band from Canada
Inland Empire (California), in the United States
Ie, Okinawa, in Japan
Industrial ecology, the study of sustainable industrial systems
Industrial engineering, the engineering discipline that concerns the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process
Infective endocarditis, a form of endocarditis caused by infectious agents
Information Element, a component of information systems
Information extraction, a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured or semistructured information from unstructured machine-readable documents
Institute for Energy of the European Union
Ionization energy, the energy required to strip an atom or molecule of an electron; see Ionization potential
The ie (digraph)
International English, the concept of the English language as a global means of communication
Indo-European (disambiguation), as in:
Indo-European studies
Ie (Japanese family system), the classical Japanese family system
Ie (trading houses), Japanese cottage industry
-ie, an English diminutive suffix
Interlingue, originally the Occidental language (ISO 639-1 code ie)
Republic of Ireland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code IE)
A spelling guideline of the English language: "i before e except after c"
Crossroads is a movie from 2002 with starring Britney Spears in her first major movie role.
Britney Spears as Lucy Wagner
Dan Aykroyd as Pete Wagner
Kim Cattrall as Caroline Wagner
Anson Mount as Ben
Zoë Saldana as Kit
Taryn Manning as Mimi
Justin Long as Henry
Crossroads (Roblox game)
John Severn Bednarski (born July 4, 1952 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) was an ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League.
Over the course of his career, he played the New York Rangers and the Edmonton Oilers.
As a junior player he played in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, he signed with the Rangers as a free agent in 1972 and began play in the American Hockey League with the Rochester Americans.
He made his NHL start in 1974 with the Rangers playing 99 games and scoring 2 goals and 18 assists.
In 1977, he returned to the minor leagues before signing with the Oilers for their first year in the NHL, playing only one game before being sent back down to the minors.
He later signed a contract with the Buffalo Sabres but never played another NHL game.
He would eventually become the radio and TV analyst for the Americans for many years before resigning prior to the 2005–06 season.
Lidio John Fogolin, Sr. (
born February 27, 1926 in Fort William, Ontario - d. November 29, 2000) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL.
Lee Fogolin started his professional career with the Omaha Knights of the USHL in 1946.
The next year he played for the Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL.
He saw his first NHL action for the Detroit Red Wings in the 1948 playoffs.
He began the 1949 season with Indianapolis before being called up to the NHL full-time.
He played the next 3 seasons with Detroit winning the Stanley Cup with them in 1950.
In 1951 he was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks along with Steve Black for Bert Olmstead and Vic Stasiuk.
He played the final 6 years of his career on less than impressive Chicago Black Hawks teams.
In 1957 he signed on as a player-coach of the Calgary Stampeders of the WHL.
He broke his elbow that season and decided to retire at its conclusion to concentrate on coaching full-time.
Lee Fogolin coached 1 season in the WHL in 1957.
He did not return to coaching until 1971 with the Thunder Bay Twins of the USHL where he stayed for 2 seasons.
Lee Fogolin Sr.
played in 2 NHL All Star Games in 1950 and 1951.
His son Lee Fogolin Jr. won 2 Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers in 1984 and 1985.
His grandson Michael Fogolin played for the Prince George Cougars in the WHL and died in his sleep on May 26, 2004 of a possible heart condition.
Picture of Lee Fogolin's Name on the 1950 Stanley Cup Plaque
On October 11, 1953 Gatherum replaced injured Terry Sawchuk to record a shutout in his National Hockey League (NHL) debut for Detroit 4-0 win over Toronto.
He then played on October 16 and 17 for Detroit.
Terry returned from injury and Gatherum returned to minors having 2 wins, and 1 tie.
He also set an NHL for the longest shutout sequence by a goaltender to start a career 100.21 min Oct 11-16, 1953.
The record stood until 2011.
He was recalled for playoffs as a spare goaltender and got his name on the Stanley Cup with Detroit in 1954.
Gatherum would never play in the NHL again.
He spent the rest of his career playing in the minors or senior hockey until retiring after 1959 season.
Picture of Dave Gatherum's Name on the 1954 Stanley Cup Plaque
He played for two years in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Cleveland Barons, winning a Calder Cup, but in the 1957-58 season he debuted in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings.
In the following seasons he became a defender for the Red Wings team, except for a loan in the Western Hockey League during the 1959-60 championship.
In 1962 he played for a few months in the New York Rangers organization, winning another Calder Cup with the Springfield Indians farm team, but in October he returned to the Red Wings.
He split five seasons between the NHL team and their AHL affiliate the Pittsburgh Hornets, with whom he won the third Calder Cup in his career.
In the summer of 1967 in the NHL Expansion Draft Goegan was selected by the Minnesota North Stars, with which he played a season for a total of 46 games in addition to a Western Hockey League loan.
He retired a year later in 1969 after playing in other North American leagues.
is a Railway station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Seibu Railway that is in the city of Akishima, Tokyo, Japan.
Tōbu Railway
Tōbu Noda Line
Hatsuishi - Nagareyama-ōtakanomori - Toyoshiki
Minami-Nagareyama (10) - Nagareyama-ōtakanomori (12) - Moriya (15)
Seni-Rapid
Minami-Nagareyama (10) - Nagareyama-ōtakanomori (12) - Kashiwanoha-campus (13)
Nagareyama-centralpark (11) - Nagareyama-ōtakanomori (12) - Kashiwanoha-campus (13)
The European Coal and Steel Company was a union started in 1951.
Its purpose was to bring the western countries of Europe together during the Cold War so they would be harder to attack.
It was the forerunner of the European Union.
Its original purpose was to prevent war between France and Germany.
It created a market for coal and steel between all of the countries that signed it.
It was dissolved in 2002 and put into the European Community.
Toner is a powder commonly used in photocopiers and Laser printers to draw images and text onto paper.
The early forms of toner were just carbon powder.
Modern toners mix carbon with a thermoplastic and other materials.
In early machines, the user had to pour the toner into a reservoir on the machine itself.
Current machines feed from a sealed cartridge which is normally a proprietary design.
Although manufacturers try to make the process complicated, empty cartridges are sometimes refilled by third-party vendors.
Many companies selling laser printers will also provide a way to return empty toner cartridges.
These are commonly re-used, with new toner.
Today, many toners have chips which tell the printer how much toner is left.
These chips also need to be re-programmed, when the toner is re-filled.
Material Safety Data Sheets: HP LaserJet Print Cartridges from Hewlett-Packard
Toner Particles – Monitoring Particle Size Distribution and Particle Shape  from Malvern Instruments
The Three Choirs Festival is a festival of classical music which is held every year in August.
The choirs from three cathedrals take part in many of the concerts.
The three cathedrals are: Hereford Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral.
Each year the festival is held in one of those three cathedrals in turn.
The Three Choirs Festival is one of the oldest festivals of classical music.
It has its roots in the 18th century.
Many famous musicians have performed in the festival.
Concerts have been conducted by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams and many others.
Music has been composed for the festival by Frederick Delius, Zoltan Kodaly Holst, Arthur Sullivan, Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, William Walton, Arthur Bliss and Benjamin Britten, Lennox Berkeley, John McCabe, William Mathias, Paul Patterson and James MacMillan.
As well as the cathedral choirs there is also a choir called the Festival Chorus which takes part, usually singing large-scale works with orchestra.
Many ensembles and international soloists perform at the festival.
Three Choirs Festival website
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England.
It stands on a bank overlooking the River Severn.
It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Worcester.
Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester.
It was built between 1084 and 1504, so therefore there are many different kinds of architecture, from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic.
It is famous for its Norman crypt and the unusual chapter house.
The Cathedral was founded in 680 with Bishop Bosel as its head.
Most of the cathedral we see today dates from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Monks and nuns had been at the Cathedral since the seventh century.
The monastery became Benedictine in the second half of the tenth century.
The Benedictine monks were driven out in 1540 and replaced by secular (non-religious) canons.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the building became a cathedral of secular clergy again.
The cathedral often had restoration work done, especially by Sir George Gilbert Scott and A. E. Perkins in the 1860s.
Both men are buried at the cathedral.
In the chancel of the cathedral is the tomb of King John.
The cathedral has a memorial, Prince Arthur's Chantry, to the young prince Arthur Tudor, who is buried here.
Arthur's younger brother and next in line for the throne was Henry VIII.
Worcester Cathedral was not destroyed  by Henry VIII during the English Reformation because of his brother's chantry in the cathedral.
The tower has a ring of twelve bells plus three semitone bells and a non-swinging bourdon.
They are some of the most beautiful church bells ever made.
There is a teaching centre  with eight special training bells, linked to computers.
Worcester Cathedral has three choirs: the Worcester Cathedral Choir (the main choir which has both a boys' and a girls' treble line, which normally work separately), Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, and the Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir.
Since the 18th century, Worcester Cathedral Choir has taken part in the Three Choirs Festival, the oldest music festival in the world.
The composer Edward Elgar spent most of his life in Worcestershire.
The first performance of his Enigma Variations took place at the cathedral during the 1899 festival.
There is a stained glass window which contains his portrait.
Worcester Cathedral has a long history of organs dating back to at least 1417.
Until recently there was a large four-manual organ, originally built by Hope Jones.
Most of this organ was removed in 2006 in order to make way for a new instrument by Kenneth Tickell, which was completed in the summer of 2008.
Famous organists at Worcester have included Thomas Tomkins (from 1596), Hugh Blair (from 1895), Ivor Atkins (from 1897) and David Willcocks (from 1950).
Today the organist (from 1996) is Adrian Lucas.
Worcester Cathedral official web site
A Formula One Grand Prix is an automobile event using open wheel cars.
The Grand Prix takes place over an entire weekend.
There are two practice sessions on Friday.
On Saturday, there is one more practice session and then the qualifying session.
The race takes place on Sunday.
Formula One Grand Prix are run under the rules and control of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
Typically, a FIA support series, such as the Formula Two, also runs during the weekend.
The event usually begins on Friday with two practice sessions.
The first session, called Practice 1, runs from 10:00 to 11:30.
The second session, called Practice 2, runs from 14:00 to 15:30 (or 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the 12-hour clock).
The practice sessions allow the drivers to learn the circuit and the teams to test their cars.
Teams may test new parts on their cars.
The car's wings and suspension settings may be changed to make the car faster.
The teams may also allow one of their test drivers to drive the practice session.
The practice sessions have become more important starting in .
With the FIA ban on testing during the season, the Friday sessions are the only time a team has to test new car parts.
The last practice session, called Practice 3, takes place on Saturday from 11:00 to 12:00.
This allows the teams a final tune-up before qualifying starts.
Special races
The Monaco Grand Prix has a special schedule.
The practice sessions that normally take place on Friday are moved to Thursday.
The F1 teams do not have any sessions scheduled on Friday.
The Singapore Grand Prix, Bahrain Grand Prix and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix are the only night races in the Formula One calendar.
Because of this, the session times are changed.
Practice 1 runs from 18:00 to 19:30, and practice 2 runs from 21:30 to 23:00.
The practice 3 session runs from 19:00 to 20:00.
On Saturday at 14:00 the qualifying session takes place.
This session will determine the running order at the beginning of the race.
This is often called setting the grid.
The qualifying session is split into three parts, called Q1, Q2, and Q3.
Q1 is 18 minutes long, followed by a seven minute break.
Q2 is 15 minutes long, followed by an eight minute break.
Q3 is 12 minutes long.
During each part of qualifying, the fastest lap time set by a car is recorded.
Drivers may run as many or as few laps as they wish.
After Q1 is complete, the five slowest cars are eliminated (removed) from the qualifying session.
This would include any cars that did not set a qualifying time.
The remaining 15 car advance (move on) to Q2.
The five cars eliminated are placed in the last five start positions, based on their fastest time from Q1.
The procedure is repeated for Q2.
The five slowest cars from Q2 are placed in the 11 through 15 starting positions on the grid.
The top ten cars remain for Q3.
After this final part of qualifying, the top ten starting positions on the grid are set.
The fastest qualifier is placed in the first position, which is known as the pole position.
This car will have an advantage at the start, because they do not need to follow any other cars.
Driving a qualifying lap
Generally, a driver will leave the pits and drive around the track back to the start/finish line.
This is called the out-lap, and is not a timed lap.
This lap often starts out at a slower pace to warm up the tyres.
They will be up to full speed by the time they reach the start line.
When they cross the line, they will try to drive the quickest time they can around the circuit.
This is called a flying lap or a hot lap.
A driver may run several hot laps in a row.
The fastest of these hot laps is used in setting the grid position.
Finally, the driver will slow down and drive around the track.
They re-enter the pit-lane on this in-lap.