the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Then they squeeze in their  radula.
This is a rough tongue-like organ that has thousands of tiny denticles (tooth-like protrusions).
Shasta County is a county in northern California, in the United States.
It is in the Sacramento Valley part of the Central Valley of California.
163,256 people live there.
The county seat, as well as the biggest city, is Redding.
One major attraction in the county is Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake, one of the biggest dams in the state of California.
County of Shasta Website
Tehama County is one of the counties of the U.S. state of California.
It is just south of Shasta County, in the Sacramento Valley part of the Central Valley of California.
The county is 2,962 square miles (7,672 square kilometers) in size.
Its county seat is Red Bluff.
Tehama County official website
1856 establishments in California
As of 2000, the county had a population of 26,453.
The county seat is the city of Willows.
Wells Fargo Plaza is a skyscraper in Houston, United States.
It is 302 meters (992 feet) tall.
It has 71 floors.
It was built in 1983.
Official Website - Wells Fargo Plaza
Emporis.com - Wells Fargo Plaza
SkycraperPage.com – Wells Fargo Plaza
Comcast Center is a skyscraper in Philadelphia, United States.
It is 297 meters (974 feet) tall and has 57 floors.
It was built in 2008 and is one of the tallest buildings in the United States.
Emporis.com - Comcast Center
SkycraperPage.com – Comcast Center
Buildings and structures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HCJB (Heralding Christ Jesus' Blessings) is a Christian shortwave radio station in Quito, Ecuador.
It has been broadcasting on shortwave for more than 75 years and now also has television, satellite and Internet programs.
http://www.hcjb.org/
Media studies is an academic area of study about mass media and its history and effects.
It mostly focuses on newspapers, radio, television, and internet.
Media studies take some ideas from other areas of study, such as humanities and the social sciences.
Most production and journalism courses use media studies content, but academic institutions such as universities often start separate departments.
Media studies students may see themselves as observers of media, not creators or practitioners.
These distinctions are different depending on the country where students live.
The development of media studies was sparked by the growth of new media in the post-Second World War period.
A typical source was Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
This book set out to connect changes in media with changes in society.
His most famour phrase was "The medium is the message".
Discuss - BBC News, 18 August 2005.
Yosemite National Park is a national park in the state of California, U.S.A.. Created on 1 October 1890, it was the second national park, after Yellowstone.
Yosemite covers 1,189 square miles (3,081 square kilometers) on the Sierra Nevada.
Over 3.5 million people visit the park each year.
Despite the park's great size, most people spend time in Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places in the park.
Almost 95 percent of the park is wilderness.
Yosemite has many waterfalls.
The most famous of these is the world-famous Yosemite Falls, which at  tall, is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world.
In the northern area of the park lies the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a debated dam project.
The reservoir floods.
Many people supporting environmentalism are trying to get the dam removed.
Cliffs are usually formed by rock that is resistant to erosion and weathering.
Sedimentary rocks most likely to form cliffs include sandstone, limestone, chalk, and dolomite.
Igneous rocks such as granite and basalt also often form cliffs.
An escarpment (or scarp) is a type of cliff, formed by the movement of a geologic fault, or a landslide.
Cliffs are known for forming major geographical features such as waterfalls.
The tallest cliff in the solar system may be Verona Rupes, an approximately 20 km (12 mile) high cliff on Miranda, a moon of the planet Uranus.
Major cliffs
The Cliff of Kurosakitakao, Mikurajima, Tokyo prefecture, Japan 480 m above Pacific Ocean
Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, 4600 m
Great Trango Towers, Baltoro Muztagh, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 1340 m
Uli Biaho Towers, Baltoro Glacier, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Baintha Brakk (The Ogre), Panmah Muztagh, Northern Areas, Pakistan
The Latok Group, Panmah Muztagh, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Various cliffs in the Ak-Su Valley of Kyrgyzstan cliffs are high and steep.
Masada, Israel, Dead Sea
Hornelen, Norway, 860 m above Frøysjøen
Cape Enniberg, Faroe Islands, 750 m above North Atlantic
Croaghaun, Achill Island, Ireland, 668 m above Atlantic Ocean
Vixía Herbeira, Northern Galicia, Spain, 621 m above Atlantic Ocean
Preikestolen, Norway, 604 m above Lysefjorden
Slieve League, Ireland, 601 m above Atlantic Ocean
Cabo Girão, Madeira, 589 m above Atlantic Ocean
Conachair, St Kilda, Scotland 427 m above Atlantic Ocean
Cap Canaille, France, 416 m above Mediterranean Sea is the highest sea cliff in France
St John's Head (Hoy Orkney Islands Scotland) at 335 m is the  most vertical sea cliff in the UK
Hangman cliffs, Devon, 318 m above Bristol Channel is the highest sea cliff in England
White Cliffs of Dover, above the English Channel
Troll Wall, Norway 1100 m above base
Mięguszowiecki Szczyt north face rises to 1043 m above Morskie Oko lake level, High Tatras, Poland
Kjerag, Norway 984 m
Mały Kieżmarski Szczyt (north face), Tatra Mountains, Slovakia about 900 m denivelation (vertical rise)
Giewont (north face), Tatra Mountains, Poland, 852 m above Polana Strążyska glade
Kazalnica Mięguszowiecka, Tatra Mountains, Poland, 576 m above the Czarny Staw pod Rysami
The six great north faces of the Alps (Cima Grande di Lavaredo, Eiger, Grandes Jorasses, Matterhorn, Petit Dru and Piz Badile)
Mount Thor, Baffin Island, Canada; 1,370 m (4,500 ft) total; top 480 m (1,600 ft) is overhanging.
This is commonly regarded as being the largest purely vertical drop on Earth at 1,250 m (4,100 ft).
The sheer north face of Polar Sun Spire, in the Sam Ford fjord of Baffin Island, has been reported as exceeding Mount Thor's west face in height.
Ketil's west face in Tasermiut, Greenland (also known as God's Thumbnail), has been reported as 1,400 – 1,450 m high, but there are arguments.
Mount Asgard, Baffin Island, Canada; vertical drop of about 1,200 m (4,000 ft).
A variety of other cliffs measured at approximately 1,000 m (3,280 ft) in height can be found along the Sam Ford fjord in Baffin Island, such as Walker Citadel, Kiguti Peak and Great Sail Peak, whilst there are others in Querbitter Fjord, and in Tasermiut, Greenland.
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, Sierra Nevada, California, United States; about 900 m (3,000 ft) high
Northwest Face of Half Dome, near El Capitan; 1,340 m (4,400 ft) total, vertical portion about 610 m (2,000 ft)
Painted Wall in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado, United States; 685 m (2,250 ft)
The west face of Notch Peak in southwestern Utah, United States; a limestone cliff of about 670 m (2,200 ft)
All faces of Devil's Tower, Wyoming, United States
Various faces of Shiprock, New Mexico, United States
The North Face of North Twin Peak, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada
All walls of the Stawamus Chief, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Calvert Cliffs along the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland
Mt Siyeh Glacier National Park North Face 4200 ft sheer cliff
Autana Tepui, Venezuela, stands 1,300 m above the forest floor.
Auyan Tepui, Venezuela, about 1000 m  (location of Angel Falls) (the falls are 979 m, the highest in the world)
Pared de Gocta, Peru, 771 m
Fortaleza canyon, Aparados da Serra National Park, Brazil, about 720 m
Pedra Azul, Pedra Azul State Park, Espirito Santo, Brazil, 540 m
Pão de Açúcar/Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 395 m
All faces of Cerro Torre, Patagonia, Chile-Argentina
All faces of Cerro Chalten (Fitz Roy), Patagonia, Argentina-Chile
Various faces of the Torres del Paine group, Patagonia, Chile
Kogelberg, Western Cape, South Africa, 1289 m above False Bay, Atlantic Ocean
Table Mountain, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 1086 m above Atlantic Ocean
Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, South Africa.
A series of 17 precipitous peaks (all sharp cliff faces) ranging from ca 700 m to 1067 m above the Atlantic Ocean
Risco de Faneque, Gran Canaria-Canary Islands, Spain, 1027 m above Atlantic Ocean
Guguy's Cliffs, Gran Canaria-Canary Islands, Spain, 725 m above Atlantic Ocean
La Mérica, La Gomera-Canary Islands, Spain, 711 m above Atlantic Ocean
Andén Verde, Gran Canaria-Canary Islands, Spain, 690 m above Atlantic Ocean
Karbonkelberg, Western Cape, South Africa, 653 m above Hout Bay, Atlantic Ocean
La Peña's Cliffs, El Hierro-Canary Islands, Spain, 652 m above Atlantic Ocean
Los Gigantes, Tenerife-Canary Islands, Spain, 637 m above Atlantic Ocean
Kalaupapa, Hawaii, 1010 m above Pacific Ocean
Hurricane Bonnie was a strong Atlantic tropical cyclone in late August 1998.
The storm was a major hurricane with winds near .
Bonnie made landfall near Wilmington and Cape Fear, North Carolina as a strong Category 2 hurricane early on August 27.
The storm also caused damage in southeastern Virginia.
Tropical Storm Frances caused extensive flooding in Mexico and Texas in September 1998.
The sixth tropical cyclone and sixth named storm of the annual hurricane season, Frances developed from a low pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico on September 8
Hurricane Georges caused much damage and many deaths in on the norther Caribbean islands and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Even though it was very strong, caused a lot of damage and many deaths, it was not the strongest, costliest, or deadliest of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, that would be Hurricane Mitch later on.
Hurricane Georges crossed some islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and  Cuba, before it made landfall in Mississippi.
Georges killed 604 people and caused $5.9 billion in damage, much of it from high winds and severe flooding.
1998 in Florida
1990s in the Dominican Republic
20th century in Cuba
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful storm of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season.
Hurricane Mitch was one of the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mitch was the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane because it killed 11,000-18,000 in Central America and Mexico, it is second only to the Great Hurricane of 1780.
Mitch also caused over $5 billion in damage.
Because the damage and deaths were very high, the name Mitch was retired and will never be used for a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean again.
It was in 1998 and hit Florida, Central America,  and the Yucatán Peninsula.
Meteorologic history
On October 10 a tropical wave moved off of Africa.
It stayed as a tropical wave because the conditions in Atlantic wasn't good enough for it to become a tropical depression or tropical storm.
The tropical wave became Tropical Depression Thirteen on October 22, because conditions became better.
On October 23 Tropical Depression Thirteen strengthened and became Tropical Storm Mitch.
Tropical Storm Mitch made a small loop after becoming a tropical storm and then turned north.
Tropical Storm Mitch strengthened and became Hurricane Mitch on October 24.
Hurricane Mitch then turned west.
Mitch strengthened very fast and on October 26 Mitch reached its top winds.
Its top winds were are 180 mph making it a category 5.
Mitch stayed as a category 5 turned south.
Mitch started weakening on October 27 and by October 29 Mitch was only a category 1.
On October 29 Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras, with the winds at 80 mph.
Mitch quickly weakened into a tropical storm.
Tropical Storm Mitch moved very slowly and almost froze over Honduras.
Tropical Storm Mitch weakened into a tropical depression as it entered Guatemala.
As Tropical Depression Mitch entered Mexico it became a remnant low and was not a tropical depression anymore.
The remains entered the Bay of Campeche and became Tropical Storm Mitch again on November 3.
Mitch moved northeast and made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Mitch weakened into a tropical depression over the Yucatán Peninsula.
Once Tropical Depression Mitch reached the Gulf of Mexico it became Tropical Storm Mitch.
Tropical Storm Mitch continued northeast and made landfall in Naples, Florida on November 5 as a tropical storm with the winds at 65 mph.
After Tropical Storm Mitch crossed Florida it became extratropical and was no longer a tropical storm.
The remains were last seen on November 9 north of Great Britain.
The worst affects from the hurricane were seen in Honduras, where Mitch caused 7,000 deaths and $3.8 billion in damage.
In Honduras rainfall could have been up to 75 inches.
Crops in Honduras were impacted very badly, Mitch destroyed, 58% of the corn output, 24% of sorghum, 14% of rice, and 6% of the bean crop.
Mitch also destroyed 85% of banana, 60% of sugar cane, 29% of melons, 28% of African palms, and 18% of coffee.
Just the crop damage from Hurricane Mitch in Honduras was at $900 million.
Also in Nicaragua rainfall may have been up to 50 inches.
The rains stopped a volcano in Nicaragua, instead the volcano caused a mudslide.
The mudslide covered an area 10 miles long and 5 miles wide.
Hurricane Mitch left between 500,000 and 800,000 people homeless.
Damaged in Nicaragua totaled to $1 billion and at least 3,800 were killed in Nicaragua.
In the U.S. only Florida was affected.
In Florida, Mitch destroyed buildings in the Keys that were damaged by Hurricane Georges.
Mitch killed 2 people and left $40 million in damage.
Hurricane Mitch caused rain all the way down to Panama, where the hurricane killed 3 people.
Offshore in the Caribbean Sea the hurricane sunk a boat causing 31 people to drown.
In Costa Rica Hurricane Mitch caused about 4,000 people to become homeless.
Hurricane Mitch caused mudslides that affected nearly 800 miles of road.
Hurricane Mitch left $92 million  in damage and killed 7 people.
In El Salvador the flooding from Mitch destroyed 37% of the bean production, 19% of the corn production, and 20% losses in sugar canes.
Hurricane Mitch also killed 10,000 cattle.
In El Salvador the damage from Mitch was at $400 million and 240 people were killed.
In Guatemala Hurricane Mitch caused 6,000 houses to be destroyed and damaged 20,000 others.
Damage just the banana and coffee exports were at $325 million.
Mitch caused a plane to crash leaving 11 people to get killed indirectly, Mitch also caused 268 people to get killed directly.
Damages left from Mitch in Guatemala was at $748 million.
In Belize Mitch caused some crop damage and damage many roads.
Damage in Belize was not as bad as it could have been.
Mitch killed 11 in Belize, but no one knows the damage it caused.
Hurricane Mitch caused waves about 7 feet in Jamaica.
Mitch killed about 3 people, but no one knows the damage.
Also, a house in Spanish Town was destroyed.
Because of the deaths and damage the name Mitch was removed and retired.
Meaning, the name will not be used again to name a storm in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2004 the name Matthew was used instead.
The name Matthew will be used again in 2010 because it was not retired.
History of Belize
20th century in Costa Rica
History of El Salvador
20th century in Panama
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (December 1, 1896 – June 18, 1974) was a Soviet general during World War II.
He first became famous for stopping a Japanese invasion in Mongolia.
During Operation Barbarossa, he arrived in Moscow with his army in just enough time to defend the city.
Later in the war he led Soviet forces to victory at the  Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk, broke the Siege of Leningrad, destroyed the German center in the 1944 summer offensive called Operation Bagration, invaded Germany and led the Battle of Berlin.
After Stalin died he became Minister of Defense.
Georgy Zhukov - Encyc
Russian military people
Soviet generals
Miacis is a small extinct carnivore of the family Miacidae.
They were small mammals which lived in forests and climbed trees.
They had the ancestral mammalian of about 30-45 teeth.
Miacis  had brains that were relatively larger than those of the creodonts, and the larger brain size compared to body size suggests their behaviour was more flexible and possibly more intelligent.
Miacids are either early members of the order Carnivora or in a larger group called the Carnivoramorpha.
They may not be monophyletic.
One professional opinion is that most Miacis species belong to the ancestors of the modern order, the crown-group Carnivora.
Butte County is a county in the state of California.
It is in the United States.
The county borders Tehama County to the north and Glenn County to the west.
It is in the north part of the Central Valley of California.
Butte County was founded in 1850.
Its county seat is Oroville, and its biggest city is Chico.
The county has a land area of 1,677 square miles (4,343 square kilometers), 38 square miles (98 square kilometers) of which is water.
The Sacramento River flows along it in a north-south direction and the Feather River flows through it in an east-west direction.
The Sierra Nevada mountains rise above the county on the east side.
California State Route 32, California State Route 70, and California State Route 99 run through the county.
Airports in the county include Chico Municipal Airport, Oroville Municipal Airport, Paradise Airport, Ranchaero Airport and Richvale Airport.
Butte County Official Website
State Route 99 (commonly known as Old Highway 99 or just 99, also named in the future as Interstate 7 or Interstate 9) is a state highway in California, in the United States.
It is about  long, running from north to south in the Central Valley.
It is parallel with Interstate 5.
It begins at Interstate 5 near Wheeler Ridge, and continues north through the major cities of Bakersfield, Fresno, Chowchilla, Modesto, Stockon, Sacramento, Chico, and Red Bluff.
Most of it is freeway, but some of it is still the historic rural two-lane road or a four-lane highway.
California Highways: Route 99
Pierce Brendan Brosnan  (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish-American actor.
Brosnan holds both Irish and American citizenship.
He was born in Drogheda, County Louth.
He used to play the part of James Bond.
He played the roles of Mr. Brunner and Chiron in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Stu Dunmeyer in Mrs. Doubtfire, and was in Mamma Mia!.
He will play Doctor Fate in the 2022 DC Extended Universe movie Black Adam.
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English television and movie actor and movie producer.
He was born in Chester, Cheshire, England.
He is the latest actor to play James Bond.
Craig is married to actress Rachel Weisz.
He has a daughter Ella by his first wife, Fiona Loudon.
In 2006 he joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
On 12 June 2008, Craig sliced the top of one of his fingers off while filming Quantum of Solace.
Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is what happens to a dilute gas when it is made very cold, near absolute zero (0 K which equals −273.15 °C or −459.67 °F).
It forms when the particles that make it up have very low energy.
Only bosons can make a Bose–Einstein condensate.
The gas has extremely low density, about one-hundred-thousandth the density of normal air.
A Bose–Einstein condensate is a change of state.
When matter is in the BEC state it has zero viscosity.
Superfluidity and  superconductivity are both closely connected with the BEC state of matter.
Particles have energy.
They can have a lot of energy and bounce wildly like in gases; have less energy and flow like a liquid; or have even less energy like a solid.
If you take enough of the particle's energy away you get to the tiniest or the smallest amount of energy possible.
This is a Bose–Einstein condensate.
This makes all of the particles exactly the same and instead of bouncing around randomly in all different directions, they all bounce up and down in exactly the same way, forming something called a 'giant matter wave'.
The Bose-Einstein Condensate was first suggested by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924–25.
Seventy years later, its existence was proved.
Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman made the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 at the University of Colorado.
Cornell, Wieman,and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT were then given the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Usually, to get anything cold enough to make a Bose–Einstein condensate you must first trap the boson using magnets, then, by bouncing lasers off them, take all of their energy away (Laser cooling).
But, this still doesn't get it cold enough.
Some of the particles will still be bouncing around a lot, and only some will be lying down as needed, so the magnetic field is slowly lowered bit by bit, to let the faster bouncing particles out.
This leaves the coldest and slowest atoms inside.
Today the town is a working class town near to Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland.
The town has also been described as "uniquely populated largely by people of Irish descent", meaning that there are many people from Irish families.
Fleury-les-Aubrais, France, since 2004
Gracanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haninge, Sweden
Santeramo in Colle, Italy
Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 12 March 1836 – 6 February 1865) was known around the world as Mrs Beeton.
She was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookbook writers.
Isabella was born at 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London, England.
Her father, Benjamin Mayson, died when she was young and her mother, Elizabeth Jerram later married Henry Dorling, who was a widower and he had four children of his own.
They lived in Epsom, Surrey where Henry was  Clerk of Epsom Racecourse.
Isabella was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany, where she became a very good pianist.
When she finished school, she went back to Epsom.
Marriage and career
Isabella's husband, Samuel Orchart Beeton, was also born in Milk Street.
Even after the move to Epsom the two mothers of Samuel and Isabella kept talking to one another.
On a visit to London, Isabella was introduced to Samuel Beeton who had become a publisher of books and popular magazines.
They married on 10 July 1856 at Epsom Parish Church.
In August of that year they moved into their first home, a large Italianate property at 2 Chandos Villas on the Woodridings Estate in Hatch End.
Their first child, Samuel Orchart, was born in May 1857 but he died of croup in August of that year.
In September 1859, another son was born, and his name was also Samuel Orchart.
During Isabella's time in Hatch End she began to write articles on cooking and how to manage a house for her husband's publications.
In 1859–1861, she wrote something every month for The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.
In October 1861, the writings were published as a single book, The Book of Household Management.
The Beetons left Hatch End in the autumn of 1861.
In December of that year their son became sick with scarlet fever while on holiday in Brighton.
He died on New Year's Eve.
Mrs. Beeton gave birth to two other sons, Orchart (on New Year's Eve in 1863) and Mayson Moss (in January 1865).
Book of Household Management
The book was very well known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, it was a guide to running a Victorian household, with advice on fashion, child care, animal husbandry, poisons, the management of servants, science, religion, and industrialism.
The book had 1,112 pages, and over 900 of the pages were recipes.
Because many of the pages were recipes, it became known as Mrs Beeton's Cookbook.
Most of the recipes were illustrated with colored pictures, and it was the first book to show recipes in a way that is still used today.
It is said that many of the recipes were actually taken from earlier writers (including Eliza Acton), but the Beetons never claimed that the book's contents were original.
It was supposed to be a guide of reliable information for the middle class people.
Mrs Beeton is described better as the books compiler and editor than as its author, because many of the passages were not in her own words.
Early death
The day after the birth of her fourth child, in January 1865, Isabella became sick with puerperal fever.
She died a week later at the age of 28.
Her widower lived for another twelve years.
He died of tuberculosis in June 1877 at the age of 46.
Susan Watkin: Know Your Onions or Mrs Beeton’s Hinterland, Lulu Press, 2006.
Kathryn Hughes: The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, 2005,
Margaret Beetham:A Magazine of Her Own?:
Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914.
London, 1996.
Michael Hurd: Mrs Beeton’s Book, a Music-Hall Guide to Victorian Living, London, 1984.
Sarah Freeman: Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton, London: Victor Gollancz, 1977.
Elizabeth David: Isabella Beeton and Her Book, in: Wine and Food, Spring 1961.
H. Montgomery Hyde: Mr. and Mrs. Beeton, London: George S. Harrap & Co, 1951.
Nancy Spain: Mrs. Beeton and her husband by her grand niece, London: Collins, 1948.
Later: Beeton Story (1956).
Online edition of Household Management
Searchable online version of Beeton's Book of Household Management
Guardian article on "plagiarism"
Fleury-les-Aubrais is a commune of the Loiret department in the northern part of France.
Fleurylesaubrais
The South Region of Brazil () is one of the five geographical regions of Brazil defined by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 1969.
It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
It is the only region of Brazil located outside the tropical zone, with clear variations about the seasons.
In winter there are frosts and rarely snow.
The relief is just a bit hilly, with a predominance of a large plateau, in general low.
The rivers of the southern region are availed for navigation, irrigation agriculture, urban water supply and power generation.
The most important rivers are voluminous and have great hydroelectric potential.
The Itaipu Dam, on the Parana River, is exploring the potential for power generation in the region.
This operation allows the South and the Southeast an increasing use of electricity for domestic and industrial use.
The relief of the region is characterized by many plateaus that rises at altitudes up to more than 1,000 meters above sea level, decreasing to the west.
Covering about 3/4 parts of the regional relief, this set is called Southern Plateau of Brazil and breaks down into plateaus that go from east to west.
Only Brazilian region located almost entirely in a subtropical climate, the South is the coldest area of Brazil, with frost and even, in some places, the snowfall.
The seasons are well defined and the rains are evenly distributed over the year.
Southern Brazil has subtropical or temperate climate.
The annual average temperatures vary between 12 °C (53.6 °F) and 22 °C (71.6 °F).
Frost is very common and can snow in some mountain ranges.
What most characterizes the South is the way it was colonized and kind of colonizers received.
Received short black slaves, but many Caucasian immigrants.
The Europeans gave the population the predominance of white skin color, gave to the landscape marks of their original countries and introduced the system of medium and small farms.
The southern region has good social indicators : it has the highest HDI in Brazil (0.831), and the third highest GDP per capita of the country.
The region is also, 94.8% of the population.
The region is highly urbanized (82%) and many cities are famous for their urban planning, like Curitiba and Maringá.
It has a  relatively high standard of living in many aspects, with the highest Human Development Index of Brazil, 0.859 (2007), and the second highest per capita income of the country, $13.396.
The region is also the most literate, 94% literacy rate.
The first inhabitants of southern Brazil are the indigenous people.
Then came the Spanish Jesuit priests to evangelize the Indians and dominate the land.
The pioneers of São Paulo attacked the missions to arrest the Indians.
So, the Jesuits and the Indians abandoned the place and the cattle got loose in the fields.
The São Paulo pioneers became interested in the trade of cattle.
On the way through which the troops passed villages have emerged.
For many years, the Portuguese and Spaniards fought over land in the region.
, the South Region had a population of 29,439,773, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Racial groups
The region received large numbers of European immigrants during the 19th century, who have had a large influence on its demography and culture.
The main ethnic origins of Southern Brazil are Portuguese, Italian, and German.
But in some places dialects of German or Italian origins are also spoken; some villages even use the language of immigrants.
In Porto Alegre and Curitiba there are some Yiddish speakers.
In Paraná, the Iguassu Falls receive thousands of tourists every year, being the main destination for foreigners in the region.
The state also has a geological site of approximately 340 million years, with huge rock formations.
The capital, Curitiba, was considered the best southern city for tourism
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber, German pronunciation: ˈɛtmʊnt ˈʃtɔʏbɐ, (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician.
He used to be the Minister-President of the state of Bavaria and the leader of the Christian Social Union party (CSU).
On 18 January 2007, he said he no longer wanted to be minister-president and party leader by 30 September, after having been  by his own party for weeks.
Edmund Stoiber was born in Oberaudorf in the district of Rosenheim, Bavaria.
Before he became a member of the Bavarian parliament in 1974, he was a lawyer and worked at the University of Regensburg.
Stoiber is married to Karin Stoiber.
They have three children: Konstanze (1971), Veronika (1977), Dominik (1980) and three grandchildren: Johannes (1999), Benedikt (2001) and Theresa Marie (2005).
Education and profession
Stoiber was a student at Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium in Rosenheim, where he received his Abitur (high school diploma) in 1961.
He served the military with the mountain infantry division but had to leave because he hurt his knee.
After his military service, Stoiber studied political science and later law in Munich.
In 1967 he passed the state law exam and then worked at the University of Regensburg in criminal law and Eastern European law.
He became a doctor of jurisprudence, and then in 1971 passed the second state examination.
In 1978 Stoiber was elected secretary general of the CSU, which he stayed until 1982/83.
From 1982 to 1986 he was a representative to the Bavarian secretary of the state and then a minister of state from 1982 to 1988.
From 1988 to 1993 he was the Bavarian Minister of the Interior and in May 1993, the Bavarian Landtag (parliament) elected him as minister-president.
As such he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1995/96.
In 1998, he was made leader of the CSU.
Running for Chancellor
Before the 2002 election, the CSU/CDU was on top of the opinion polls and Stoiber said that "...this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2-0", a quote that has become famous.
However, on election day things had changed.
The SPD had a huge comeback and the CDU/CSU got  less votes.
Both the SPD and CDU/CSU had 38.5% of the vote, but the SPD was ahead by 6,000 votes.
Gerhard Schröder was elected again as chancellor by the parliament.
He joined together with the Green party.
Many people think it was Stoiber's reaction to the floods in eastern Germany, shortly before the election, that made his party lose the vote.
Also, Schröder made clear that he was against the Iraq war led by the United States.
He made the war the main topic in his campaign, which was seen by many people as the changing factor in the weeks before the election.
Outside politics
Stoiber is a great football fan and he supports the FC Bayern Munich.
Before the 2002 election FC Bayern's manager Uli Hoeneß said he supported Stoiber and the CSU.
Football legend, FC Bayern President and Vice-President of the German Football Association, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Stoiber quotes (in German)  (critic)
Stoiber and the East - Deutsche Welle
Parlazzo Media Awards - Nomination 2007 - 10 Minutes - 10 Minuten (in German)
The California Aqueduct is a system of aqueducts in the Central Valley in California, in the United States.
It carries water from the Cascade Range about  to southern California.
Three major  reservoirs are on the aqueduct: Bethany, Castaic, and Silverwood.
An aqueduct is a man-made channel that carries water from one place to another.
Usually, they are used to supply water to cities and towns.
They may also carry water for irrigation, or for hydroelectricity.
Pipes, canals, tunnels, and bridges that serve this purpose are all called aqueducts.
Some aqueducts carry a canal for boats and ships.
The word “aqueduct” comes from the Latin words “aqua” (water) and “ducere” (to lead).
Aqueducts have been used since ancient times.
List of major aqueducts
Ancient Greek aqueducts
The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek island of Samos.
Roman aqueducts
The Pont du Gard in southern France
Barbegal aqueduct, France
Eifel aqueduct, Germany
Caesarea Maritima, Israel
Kavala, Greece
Patras, Greece
Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain
Acueducto de los Milagros, Mérida, Spain
Almuñécar, Spain (5 aqueducts - 4 still in use)
Valens aqueduct, Istanbul, Turkey
Aqua Augusta, Italy
Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus, as part of the Porta Maggiore, Rome, Italy
Skopje aqueduct, Skopje, North Macedonia
Other aqueducts
Wignacourt Aqueduct, Malta.
Built in the 16th century to transport water from the old capital city of Malta, Mdina to the new capital city Valletta.
Today, only part is visible in the localities of Balzan, Birkirkara and Santa Venera.
Aqueduct St-Clément, Montpellier, France - 17th century
Águas Livres Aqueduct, in Lisbon, Portugal (built 1731-1748)
Carioca aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (built 1744-1750)
Aqueduct of Teruel, Spain
Roquefavour aqueduct, France - built between 1842 and 1847
Winnipeg aqueduct, Manitoba, Canada - built between 1915 and 1919
Canal de l'aqueduc, Quebec, Canada
Päijänne water Tunnel, a 120 kilometer long underground aqueduct (continuous tunnel) connecting lake Päijänne to Greater Helsinki.
Wan Mat Saman aqueduct, Kedah, Malaysia - built between 1900 and 1909
Mathur aqueduct in Tamil Nadu state, India
Surviving Spanish aqueducts in Mexico:
Aqueduct of Querétaro, Mexico - built between 1726 and 1738, 1.3 km long and featuring 74 arches.
Aqueduct of Morelia, Michoacan, built between 1735 and 1738.
Aqueduct of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, built in 1528  .
Levadas,  of 17th century aqueducts on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Espada aqueduct, built 1735, in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Quabbin aqueduct,  long tunnel, in Massachusetts, United States.
Chicopee Valley aqueduct,  long, in Massachusetts, United States.
Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
California aqueduct, a 714 mile long combination of canals, pipelines and tunnels, in the Central Valley of the United States.
Delaware aqueduct, in New York State, United States - at 85 miles (137 km) long, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel.
High Bridge, part of the former Croton Aqueduct, built in 1848, is the oldest surviving bridge in New York City.
Orange County (established 1889) is one of the counties of California, in the United States.
It is in southern California, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Its county seat and largest city is Santa Ana.
The county has 3,121,251 people, spread across just 948 square miles (2,455 square kilometers).
It is the third most populous county in California.
The west-flowing Santa Ana River divides the county into north and south parts.
On the north, the San Gabriel River forms its border with Los Angeles County.
Some other big cities include Anaheim, Orange, Huntington Beach, Fullerton and Irvine.
The county is mostly residential.
The highest average income in Orange County is $203,091, in the city of Villa Park.
Some famous attractions, such as Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm, are in Orange County.
The tallest building in Orange County is the 37-story One Broadway Plaza, an unfinished building in Santa Ana.
It will be  tall when it is completed.
Orange County’s Changing Politics – slideshow by The New York Times
Orange County, California  on National Association Of Counties
Filming Locations in Orange County
1880s establishments in California
České Budějovice ( or ) is a town in the Czech Republic.
About 96,000 people live there (2009).
It is located in the South of the historical region Bohemia.
The popular Czech beer, Budweiser Budvar, is made there.
České Budějovice webpage
Virtual show
Karlovy Vary (German: Karlsbad) is a city in the Czech Republic.
As of 2015, about 50,000 people were living there.
It is located in the west of the historical region of Bohemia.
It is popular for its spa.
The city was in Austria-Hungary, and the people who lived there were mainly German-speaking.
Bohemia was transferred to the new state of Czechoslovakia after World War I. The existence of such German-speaking peoples outside of Germany was used by Hitler as a reason to invade the Sudetenland (the German-speaking part of Bohemia and Moravia), which Germany did in 1938.
This was a result of the Munich Agreement.
This event was a prelude to World War II.
Karlovy Vary webpage
Dracophyllum is a genus of shrubs or trees in the family Ericaceae.
This genus is very close with genus Richea.
This plants grow in Australia and Oceania; many species grows in mountains.
The number of species is more than 60.
The common English name of dracophyllum is the grass tree.
It is evergreen plants with the long leaves in the form of snakes.
Flowers are small; its color is white, white-yellow or white-red.
It may be an interest plant for gardens.
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Dracophyllum
NCBI: Dracophyllum
Flora of New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua — Landcare Research Databases
Tropicos.org
Dragonball Evolution is a low budget 2009 American live-action movie based on the Dragon Ball franchise being made by 20th Century Fox.
The story follows the adventures of the lead character, Son Goku, around his 18th birthday.
The movie began being made in 2002, and is directed，produced and written by James Wong.
It was first released in Japan and several other Asian nations on March 13, 2009, and later released in the United States on April 10, 2009.
Justin Chatwin was cast as Goku, and James Marsters is Lord Piccolo, the antagonist of the movie.
A video game of the movie, with the same name, will be released in March/April for the PSP.
Since its release, Dragonball Evolution was universally being rated and commented as the most poor manga adoption ever.
On Rotten Tomatoes it scored 15% based on 55 reviews, while on Metacritic it received a rating of 45 out of 100 based on 10 reviews.
Official Fox Japan Dragonball Evolution site
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a brave young mongoose.
The story is a favourite of Kipling fans and is notable for its scary and serious tone.
It has often been added to literary collections and has also been published more than once as a short book in its own right.
The story was also adapted into an animated TV special by American animator Chuck Jones in 1975.
5335 Damocles is the main asteroid of the Damocloids, asteroids that are inactive comets of the Halley Family and long period comets.
It was found in 1991 and named after Damocles, a figure of Greek mythology.
When Damocles was found, in 1991 by Robert H. McNaught, it was found to be on an orbit that was very different from all others known.
Damocles' orbit reached from inside the aphelion (farthest approach from the Sun) of Mars to as far as Uranus.
Its orbit seemed to be changing from an almost round outer solar system orbit to a stretched orbit taking it to the inner solar system.
Duncan Steel, Gerhard Hahn, Mark Bailey, and David Asher found out what's it's future could be, and found a good chance that it will become an Earth-crosser asteroid, and may spend a quarter of its life in such an orbit.
Damocles has a stable orbit for tens of thousands of years before and after the present, because its highly tilted orbit does not take it near Jupiter or Saturn.
for JPL Horizons telnet version is most comprehensive
Colusa County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
It is by the Sacramento River, in the north part of the Central Valley.
Its county seat is Colusa.
It has 18,804 people.
It covers about .
The San Gabriel River is a river in Los Angeles and Orange counties in the state of California.
It begins in the San Gabriel Mountains and flows southwest into the Los Angeles Basin, then flows into the Pacific Ocean near Long Beach and Seal Beach.
Like the Los Angeles River, it is heavily polluted and is lined with concrete in many places.
Nearby rivers
North along coast
South along coast
Rivers of Los Angeles County, California
The Los Angeles River (also called: El Rio De Nuestra Senora La Reina De Los Angeles De Porciuncula or Porciuncula River; Spanish: River of the Angels; informally LA River) is a river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, in the United States.
About  long, it flows from Canoga Park south and west to its end at the Long Beach Harbor, in San Pedro Bay, part of the Pacific Ocean.
The basin is rimmed by the San Gabriel Mountains, Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Susana Mountains, as well as several smaller mountain ranges.
Much of the water that flows in the Los Angeles River flows in from tributaries that come from the mountains.
The river was once free-flowing, winding across a floodplain that occupied much of the Los Angeles Basin.
With its frequent floods, it often changed course, causing erosion and depositing silt in other places.
When the city of Los Angeles had its first settlers around the 1850s, the river was its main water source.
With the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, the Los Angeles River was no longer needed as a water source.
Today, the Los Angeles River runs in a fixed course through a concrete channel for nearly its whole length.
It is heavily polluted.
The primary source of water during summer and fall is the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys.
Plans for restoration of the river are being discussed.
The watershed of the Los Angeles River covers 834 square miles (2,135 square kilometers).
The Santa Monica Mountains and smaller Simi Hills border it on the east side.
On the west side lies the San Gabriel Mountains and Santa Susana Mountains.
Seven major tributaries flow into the Los Angeles River: Burbank Western Channel, Aliso Wash, Tujunga Wash, Verdugo Wash, Arroyo Seco, Compton Creek, and Rio Hondo.
360 square miles (920 square kilometers) of the watershed are open space, while the remaining 474 square miles (1,215 square kilometers) are highly developed with all kinds of land uses.
The river officially begins in a place called Canoga Park, in the San Fernando Valley.
Bell Creek and Calabasas Wash (Arroyo Calabasas or Calabasas Creek; Calabasa is Spanish for "pumpkin") flow from opposite sides of the valley to a point () where the Los Angeles River officially begins.
At this point, the river already flows in a concrete channel.
In times of flood, the channel can move between  per hour to up to
or even  per hour.
Tujunga Wash, Aliso Wash, and Brown's Canyon Wash join the river from the left.
The river flows on to a basin called the Sepulveda basin, controlled by a dam at its southeastern end.
This basin is incredibly rich in wildlife and plants.
Normally, there wouldn not be a year-round flow of water here.
But because of 75 million gallons of water flowing into the river every day from the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, there is an year-round flow of water.
This water is not suitable to be drinking water, but is safe to touch.
An important tributary, Verdugo Wash, flows in from the left.
The Verdugo Wash begins in the Verdugo Hills and flows west to the Los Angeles River.
Uniquely, the intersection of Interstate 5 and Route 134 is located right above this point.
The Los Angeles River makes a great bend west around Griffith Park, a big park in the middle of Los Angeles.
Here, the river has an earthen bottom, which is unique because most of the river is covered with concrete.
Further downstream, there is a place uniquely named "Frogtown" because of the many frogs once found in the river there.
Downstream from this place, the river picks up another important tributary, Arroyo Seco, on the left. (
The name "Arroyo Seco" means "dry creek" in Spanish.)
The Arroyo Seco begins in the San Gabriel Mountains and flows south to the Los Angeles River.
One important feature of the Arroyo Seco is the giant Devil's Gate Dam.
The Arroyo Seco is free-flowing in many places.
After flowing a few more miles, the Los Angeles River becomes very wide.
The final large tributary, Rio Hondo (Spanish for "deep river") flows in from the left, in the city of South Gate.
Notably, the sediment here is over  deep.
Here, the threat of floods is always present.
In fact, in a flood in 1992, the water was only a few inches below the top of the riverbank.
As the river approaches San Pedro Bay and eventually the Pacific Ocean, it passes by the RMS Queen Mary, a retired ocean liner now a museum and hotel.
Original river
The Los Angeles River was originally a free-flowing river, running across a wide basin that would periodically flood.
The river would have heavy flows in the winter and spring (rainy season) and little to no flow in the summer and fall (dry season).
However, water being forced out of an aquifer below the Los Angeles Basin gave parts of the river an year-round flow.
This phenomenon can still be seen today, most notably in a place called Griffith Park where water rises out of the ground and feeds the river.
Native American era to Spanish settlement
The river was used for hundreds of years by pre Columbian natives as a source of drinking water and food.
When Spanish explorers came to the area in the 1760s, they named the river the Porciuncula, seeing that it was a good site for a settlement.
The full name they gave the river was actually El Río de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciúncula, which translated to English means: The River of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula. (
Porciuncula is a small church in Italy.)
But they were to soon find out, the Los Angeles River had, and still has, a long history of floods.
Many times when the river flooded, it would change course from Ballona Creek, a stream flowing into Santa Monica Bay on the northeast; to its original channel flowing into San Pedro Bay.
One big flood in 1825, it left Ballona Creek and flowed into its old channel, and Ballona Creek became a separate,  long waterway.
It still is that way today.
Late 1800s to early 1900s
The city of Los Angeles rose beside the Los Angeles River, inland at the site of the old Spanish settlement.
In 1889, San Pedro Bay, the place where the river flows into, was chosen as the city harbor.
A series of railroads were needed to connect the city with the port.
The most logical route was beside the river, since that was the smoothest land.
With the railroads came industry, which rose up all along the lower Los Angeles River.
With its disastrous flood history, and the fact that it was too shallow for boats, the river was finally forced into a concrete channel beginning in 1938.
Los Angeles Flood of 1938
1938 was the same year that a terrible flood struck the region.
From February 27 to March 1, 1938, a storm approached the California coast.
Over 4.4 inches (11 cm) of rain fell.
That was the equivalent of one-fourth the average yearly rainfall in the area.
Finally, on 5:45 AM on March 4, the rain ended, and the flood slowly dropped in level.
it seemed similar to the earlier flood in 1934.
Everyone thought that it was already over, but it was not.
15 hours later, another storm hit Southern California, dumping another 6-10 inches (15–25 cm) of rain.
The soils of the region could not take in any more water from the rains of the past few days.
The three major rivers in the region, the Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and the Santa Ana, burst their levees and flooded three California counties.
It was the 5th largest flood in the recorded history of the area.
5,601 houses were destroyed, 1,500 houses were damaged, and 800 cars were trapped in the mud.