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Zimbabwe has also done well in the Commonwealth Games and All-Africa Games.
Kirsty Coventry won 11 gold medals in swimming.
Zimbabwe has also been at Wimbledon and the Davis Cup in tennis.
Zimbabwe has also done well in golf.
Other sports played in Zimbabwe are basketball, volleyball, netball, and water polo, as well as squash, motorsport, martial arts, chess, cycling, polocrosse, kayaking and horse racing.
Most of these sports don't have international representatives but instead stay at a junior or national level.
1980 establishments
1980s establishments in Africa
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco (French: Principauté de Monaco), is the second smallest country in the world after the Vatican City; approximately 39,000 persons live there.
It is near south-eastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in Western Europe.
French is the most common language spoken in Monaco.
The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, who is the head of state, is Prince Albert II, whose family has ruled since 1297.
The government and the prince share power.
Tourism is the main industry.
People in Monaco pay no income tax.
Monaco is a city-state, because all its territory is urban and built-up.
Monte Carlo, famous for its casino, is in the north-east of the country.
Monaco is famous for two car races: the Monte Carlo Rally and the Monaco Grand Prix.
A sovereign and independent state, the Principality of Monaco has borders on its land-ward side with several communes of the French Department of the Alpes-Maritimes; from west to east these are Cap d’Ail, La Turbie, Beausoleil and Roquebrune Cap Martin.
Seawards, Monaco faces the Mediterranean.
It lies in a narrow coastal strip which sometimes rises straight upwards with its highest point at 163 metres.
Its width varies between 1,050 metres and only 350 metres.
Its coastline is 4,100 metre long.
Holy Grail or "Graal" in older forms
A style of glassblowing
Graal-Müritz, a seaside health resort
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There are 7,657 people living in Jettingen.
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Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is the second-highest money earning contestant on the American television game show Jeopardy!.
He won a total of 74 times, earning $2,522,700.
His winning streak lasted from June 2, 2004 through November 30, 2004.
He lost after that time to a player named Nancy Zerg, who lost within a day to Katie Fitzgerald.
He was brought back to appear in the final three games of the show's Ultimate Tournament of Champions.
In the tournament, he lost to Brad Rutter, who became the highest money winner on Jeopardy!.
According to the introduction given at the start of the show, Jennings is a "Software Engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah"  His highest one day total was a record $75,000, which was later broken by Roger Craig in 2010.
Jennings is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon.
In October 2008, Jennings appeared on an episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.
He won $500,000, making him the highest winner in game show history once again.
In February 2011, Jennings, along with Rutter, competed in the "IBM Challenge" against an artificial intelligence computer named Watson.
Jennings placed second, losing to Watson.
He won half of a $300,000 prize; with the other half going to charity.
In the spring of 2014, Jennings and Rutter competed in the Jeopardy!
Battle of the Decades tournament.
They faced off in the finals alongside Roger Craig.
Rutter won the tournament with the $1,000,000 top prize, reclaiming the game show record from Jennings.
In January 2020, Jennings beat Rutter and James Holzhauer in Jeopardy!
The Greatest of All Time, claiming the $1,000,000 first place prize.
During Season 37 of Jeopardy!,
Jennings became a consulting producer and records video clues.
In January 2021, he became a guest host after the death of longtime host Alex Trebek.
And during the show's 38th Season, Jennings and Mayim Bialik are co-hosting the show after Mike Richards resigned.
Television game shows
Sublimation is how a solid becomes a gas without becoming a liquid first.
It happens when the particles of a solid absorb enough energy to completely overcome the force of attraction between them.
Most substances can sublimate only at low pressure.
Many can sublimate in space.
Sometimes snow sublimates.
This is usually on sunny winter days when the air is very dry.
Snow may look like it disappears on a cold sunny day, but this is not sublimation because it forms a thin layer of liquid water first.
At normal atmospheric pressure on the surface of the Earth, only some compounds like dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) can go through this process.
CO2 changes from dry ice, a solid to a gas without being a liquid.
Also diamond, graphite, iodine, ammonium chloride and aluminium chloride sublime rather than melt at atmospheric pressure.
Malcolm McDowell (born 13 June 1943) is an English actor.
He has been in many movies, including: A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!
and Caligula.
People from West Yorkshire
MAD Magazine is a humor and satire magazine that started in 1952 as a 10 cent comic book parody of other comics.
For its 25th issue it converted to a 25 cent magazine.
It remains popular in the United States.
Each issue features the grinning red-headed mascot, Alfred E. Neuman on the cover, and comic-like articles making fun of recent movies, television series, music, trends, etc.
as well as regular monthly features (Spy Vs.
Spy, Monore, etc.)
Traverse City is a town in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, United States.
Traverse City is famous for its cherries.
It has a beautiful beach, world-class hotels, but the zoo has been closed because not many people visited it.
Cities in Michigan
County seats in Michigan
Willard Carroll Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He got his start as part of the rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
He became an actor when he starred on the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Will Smith, a teenager from Philadelphia sent to live with his rich relatives in Southern California.
He has appeared in many movies including Independence Day, Men in Black, Ali, Wild Wild West, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, and in Suicide Squad.
In 2022, he won a Golden Globe Award and is nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Richard Williams in the 2021 drama movie King Richard.
Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997.
They have had two children Jaden and Willow.
Big Willie Style (1997)
Willennium (1999)
Born to Reign (2002)
Lost and Found (2005)
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Movie producers from Pennsylvania
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (, ) is a Russian politician.
He is currently President of Russia.
Putin was born in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, on 7 October 1952.
He was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, then President of Russia from March 2000 to May 2008, and Prime Minister again from 2008 to 2012.
He became president again in 2012.
He originally trained as a lawyer.
Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).
His parents were Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova; 1911–1998).
Spiridon Putin, Vladimir Putin's grandfather, was a cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.
From 1985 to 1990, Putin worked for the KGB, the Soviet Union's secret spy service.
Putin worked in Dresden, which was part of the former East Germany.
After East Germany collapsed in 1989, Putin was told to come back to the Soviet Union.
He chose to go to Leningrad, which is where he went to university.
In June 1990, he started working in the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University.
In June 1991, he was appointed head of the International Committee of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's office.
His job was to promote international relations and foreign investments.
Putin gave up his position in the KGB on August 20, 1991, during the putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1994, he became First Deputy Chairman of the city of Saint Petersburg.
In August 1996, he came to Moscow, and served in a variety of important positions in Boris Yeltsin's government.
He was head of the FSB (a secret spy service in modern capitalist Russia) from July 1998 to August 1999, and he was Secretary of the Security Council from March to August 1999.
Putin is the leader of the ruling United Russia party.
This party has been winning the Russian elections ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Critics of Putin say that he has taken away people's freedoms, and that he has failed to make the country more developed.
Russia makes lots of money from selling oil and gas to other countries, but because of corruption, this money is not used for improving living conditions.
Recently, the Russian opposition has held anti-government rallies, campaigned against Putin on the Internet, and published independent reports for the general public.
Because of censorship in the mass media, it's very difficult to get different information out to the public.
Putin was against invading Libya in 2011.
He is also against invading Syria and Iran.
On March 24, 2014, Putin and Russia were suspended from the G8.
This was because the United States thought that the Ukraine crisis was Putin's fault.
According to the Constitution of Russia, no-one can be president three times in a row.
Because of this, Putin didn't put himself forward for the March 2008 election.
However, you're allowed to be president as many times as you want, as long as it's not for more than two times in a row.
In March 2012, Putin put himself forward for the elections, and won 64% of the vote.
This means that he was the president of Russia until 2018.
On 24 February 2022, Putin announced that Russia was going to invade Ukraine.
This happened after a year of tension and military buildup between the two countries.
Burrett, Tina.
Television and Presidential Power in Putin's Russia (Routledge; 2010) 300 pages
Kanet Roger E., ed.
Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 295 pages; essays by experts
Journalist works
Gessen, Masha, The Man Without a Face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin, New York : RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2012.
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Henry VII or Henry Tudor (28 January 1457–21 April 1509) was King of England from 1485 to 1509.
He founded the Tudor dynasty by winning the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
His son became king Henry VIII of England.
Henry VII was born in 1457 to Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort.
His father died two months before he was born, leaving his 13-year-old mother as his only parent.
After Henry's birth, he spent a lot of time with his uncle Jasper Tudor.
Jasper took Henry to France, where he spent most of his youth.
Henry had a claim to the throne of England, but it was not a very good one, and he had to wait a long time for a chance to take the throne.
In 1483, a new king came to the throne in England, called Richard III.
King Richard was not popular with everyone.
Some thought he had stolen the throne from his young nephews and had killed them.
This gave Henry the chance he had been waiting for.
With help from the French, he raised an army.
They landed at Dale in Pembrokeshire, close to where Henry had been born, so he was able to gather more supporters on the way.
The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) had been going on for years.
They were fought over the throne of England between supporters of the House of Lancaster and supporters of the House of York.
Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III.
King Henry VI and his family the House of Lancaster fought against their enemies for many years.
The wars finally came to an end when King Henry VII of England came to the throne in 1485
On 22 August 1485, Henry's army defeated Richard III's army at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
When Richard III died in this battle, Henry VII became king.
Other people also had a claim on the throne, and Henry did his best to stop them from taking it from him, either by executing them, putting them in prison, or trying to make friends of them, as he did with the Earl of Lincoln.
Another step he took was to marry Elizabeth of York, the niece of King Richard III, who would herself have been the heir to the throne if she had not been a girl.
There were also people who pretended to be long-lost members of the royal family, so that they could try to take the throne.
One of these was a little boy called Lambert Simnel, who looked very like Edward, Earl of Warwick.
The real Earl of Warwick was Henry's prisoner, but this did not stop other people from believing that Lambert was him.
The Earl of Lincoln rebelled against King Henry and raised an army to make Lambert king, thinking that he himself could rule the country.
There was a battle, and the Earl of Lincoln was killed.
Lambert Simnel was captured, but, because he was only a child, Henry spared his life and he became a royal servant.
Henry married Elizabeth of York, and by this action put an end to the Wars of the Roses.
They had six children, but only four survived infancy:
Arthur Tudor (September 1486–April 1502)
Margaret Tudor (November 1489–October 1541)
Henry VIII (June 1491–January 1547)
Mary Tudor (March 1496–June 1533)
Edmund Tudor (died young)
Catherine Tudor (died young)
Henry VII increased taxes so future kings would have enough money.
People disliked that.
Henry VII died of tuberculosis in 1509 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
He was succeeded by his son, Henry VIII on 21 April 1509.
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Dover is also the name of the capital of Delaware
Dover is a town on the coast in Kent, in the United Kingdom.
It was built by the Romans.
There is a castle in Dover, called Dover Castle.
It is the largest castle in England.
The population is about 39,078.
Throughout history, it has been an important port of Britain because it is the closest port to mainland Europe.
The sea between Dover and the French port of Calais is called the Strait of Dover.
It is the narrowest part of the English Channel at only  wide.
The ferry port in Dover has ferries to Calais, France and Ostende, Belgium.
Almost 45,000 people and 15,000 vehicles pass through the port every day.
On of the largest tourist attractions around Dover are the White Cliffs of Dover.
Dover History
The Romans first tried to invade Dover in 55BC, under Julius Caesar.
They were forced back by the Celts, who fiercely defended the coastline.
It was not until 43 AD, under the rule of Emperor Claudius, that Roman forces landed on British soil at Richborough and took control of the land as far as the northern border.
Dover, then called DVBRIS, became the Romans' most important naval town.
A History of Dover
The History of Dover Castle
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Tonbridge is a town in Kent in England.
The River Medway runs through the town.
A castle stands on the northern river bank in the middle of Tonbridge.
There are many secondary schools in the area.
such as Tonbridge Grammar School
Inverness is a city in the northern part of Scotland.
It is often called the capital of the Highlands.
It is on the A9 road.
Inverness Airport is an important way to get to the Scottish Highlands.
Yvette Cooper, politician
Karen Gillan, actress
Charles Kennedy, politician
A boycott is a protest where the protesters do not buy a product or give money to a company.
Instead of buying a certain product, they might also buy another, very similar product from a different company.
The word was made during the Irish Land War'.
It comes from the name of Captain Charles Boycott.
Boycott was in charge of looking after the land of a landlord in County Mayo, Ireland.
In 1880, the tenants (those who rented) wanted their rent lowered.
Boycott refused, and threw them out of the land they had rented.
The Irish Land League then proposed that instead of becoming violent, everyone in the community should stop doing business with Captain Boycott.
The captain was soon isolated.
No one helped him with the harvest, no one worked in his stables or his house.
Local businessmen no longer traded with him, the postman no longer delivered his post.
To get his harvest done, he had to hire 50 people from other counties, the counties Cavan and Monaghan.
They were escorted to and from their work by 1000 policemen.
Of course, this cost far more than what the harvest was worth.
boycott resources
List of boycotts at EthicalConsumer.org
When something is artificial, or man-made, it has been made by humans, not nature.
For example, an artificial satellite is one made by humans, while a natural satellite is a satellite that was not made by humans.
Many artificial things imitate or copy things found in nature.
The imitation may use the same basic materials as those in the natural object; or it may use quite different materials, as in Artificial leather.
These are concepts in defining reality.
There are different ideas about what can be considered artificial and what is natural.
The word "artificial" comes from the Latin words art (meaning "skill") and fex ("to make").
Artificial does not necessarily mean synthetic (that is, created by synthesis).
An artificial sweetener imitates sweetness using a chemical formula that is not found in nature; it is therefore both artificial and synthetic.
Artifact (disambiguation)
King Arthur was a mythical king in the mythology of Great Britain.
He lived in the medieval times, in his famous castle, Camelot.
He possessed a sword known as Excalibur, given to him by the Lady of the Lake.
King Arthur is a fabled ruler of Sub-Roman Britain who defended his kingdom from the Anglo-Saxons.
He is a popular fictional character in modern literature.
He won several battles, and had many homes.
However, his favourite home was in Camelot.
In one of the most famous tales of King Arthur, he pulls a sword out of a stone, making him King of the Britons.
The first narrative account of Arthur's life is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin work Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), completed .
Many castles claim to be Arthur's Camelot, but the most likely one is Tintagel Castle, Cornwall (though there is no evidence for this).
In Camelot sat the famous Round Table, where Arthur, his queen Guinevere, Merlin, Morgan le Fay, Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, Percival and many other knights sat.
Arthur and his knights went on many quests including The Quest For The Holy Grail, The Green Knight, The Black Knight and more.
After King Arthur's many adventures, his son Mordred seized his kingdom and queen, forcing Arthur to fight for what was truly his.
They fought for a long time.
Mordred hit King Arthur in many places, but in the end Arthur killed Mordred.
After this victory, King Arthur was weak and died from losing blood from battle wounds.
As his knights rode back to Camelot, they threw Excalibur into the lake so that it could return to where it came from.
One legend says Arthur never died, and will return when the British need him.
Books, poems and movies
Many books have been written about King Arthur.
Most of them involve Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, and Morgan le Fay.
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the first book about Arthur in the 12th century.
In the 15th century, Sir Thomas Malory wrote one of the best-known books about Arthur, called Le Morte d’Arthur (The Death of Arthur).
Later, in the 19th century, Alfred, Lord Tennyson visited Tintagel, the mythical Camelot, twice.
He wrote a series of poems about Arthur.
Some stories about Arthur say he tried to find the Holy Grail, the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper.
There are also many movies about Arthur.
These include Disney's The Sword in the Stone; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; King Arthur (2004); King Arthur, The Kid Who Would Be King (2019); the Legend of the Sword (2017); and the musical Camelot.
Arthurian legend
John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman (September 26, 1774 - March 11, 1847) is an American folk hero.
He was a Christian missionary and pioneer.
His nickname came from the fact that he planted apple trees throughout the American Midwest.
Many people consider him an early conservationist or "tree-hugger".
He wandered the country, usually barefoot, and with a cooking pot on his head for most of his adult life, planting apple trees, teaching the Bible, telling stories, and befriending Native Americans, wild animals, and other settlers.
Many stories have been told about him and his journeys, as well as art, books, and later movies, which makes him a folk hero.
He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts and is buried in Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
John Chapman is said to have been in the Wilkes-Barre region some time in the 1790s, practicing his profession as a nurseryman, but just when he embraced the Swedenborgian faith and began his missionary activities we cannot be sure, though it is probable that it was before he ever reached western Pennsylvania.
There are some early accounts of John speaking of his own activities as "a Bible missionary" on the Potomac when he was a young man, and Johnny was seen for two or three consecutive years along the banks of the Potomac in eastern Virginia, picking the seeds from the pomace of the cider mills in the late 1790s.
The apple seeds that Johnny obtained were free, as the cider mills wanted there to be more apple trees planted to improve their business.
At the time of his death, Johnny Appleseed left an estate of more than 1,200 acres of nurseries, and he left these to his sister.
He additionally had four plots located in Allen County, Indiana, which was a nursery that included 15,000 trees.
Records show that John Chapman appeared on Licking Creek, in what is now Licking County, Ohio, in 1800, when he was twenty-six years old.
He had probably come up the Muskingum River to plant near the Refugee Tract, which would soon fill up with settlers, when Congress actually got around to granting the lands.
In April, 1798, the Continental Congress had ratified resolutions to donate public lands for the benefit of those who had left Canada and Nova Scotia to fight against the British in the Revolutionary War.
The lands were actually set apart in 1801 and patents issued in 1802.
Grants of land ranging from 160 acres to 2,240 acres were awarded according to the exertions of the patentee in the War.
Johnny, with true Yankee enterprise, went ahead and planted his nurseries before the refugees arrived.
Licking County, then a part of Fairfield, contained only three white families.
By the time families were ready to settle the area, Johnny's tracts of land were ready for market.
http://johnnyappleseedfacts.com/
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A Compact Disc, also called a CD is a storage device that are small plastic discs which store and retrieve computer data or music using light.
Compact Discs replaced floppy disks because they were faster and could hold more information.
The CDs made floppy disks become obsolete.
CDs were invented by both Philips and Sony at the same time, but not together.
Sony and Philips did work together to create a standard format and the technology to read CDs in 1982.
CDs can hold up to 700 MB worth of data, which is about 80 minutes of music.
Mini CDs were also made for special small programs like drivers.
CDs that have computer information on them are called CD-ROMs, or Compact Disc - Read Only Memory.
The diameter of a normal CD is 120 mm.
The middle hole in a CD is about 1.5 cm).
CD-MO
Video CD or VCD
Maidstone is a town in Kent, in England.
It stands on the River Medway.
Maidstone is the county town of Kent, meaning the local government is based there.
Its name means "stone of the maidens".
The town of Maidstone is within the borough of Maidstone, which also includes several surrounding villages.
In 2001, 75,070 people lived in the town of Maidstone, and there were 138,959 in the whole of the Borough.
During the Civil War a battle took place in 1648, which was won by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers.
A year later, Andrew Broughton, who was then Mayor of Maidstone (and also Clerk to the High Court of Justice) gave the death sentence to Charles I. Today there is a plaque in Maidstone Town Centre describing Andrew as 'Mayor and Regicide' (a killer of kings).
Maidstone used to be an industrial area, with paper making and brewing being two of the most important industries, although both have mainly died out in recent years.
Until 1998, Sharps Toffee factory was where Bassets liquorice allsorts and other sweets were made.
Most of the heavy industry has now been replaced by light and service industries.
Today, Maidstone is one of the top five shopping centres in the south east of England, with more than one million square feet of retail space.
Most of this is in two shopping areas, Fremlin Walk, which was built on the site of one of the old breweries, is , and The Mall Maidstone provides another .
Both include multi-story car parks.
Redhill  can mean several things:
Maibam Lokpa Ching, a WWII memorial site, also known as Red Hills, because the entire landscape was dyed red due to heavy casualties in the Japanese troops as a result of British attack in the Battle of Imphal.
Redhill, Somerset, England
Redhill, Surrey, England
Redhill, Nottinghamshire, England
Redhill, Singapore, Singapore
Redhill High School, South Africa
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), usually called C. S. Lewis, was a British scholar who wrote about 40 books.
He is famous for his fantasy works, essays, and writings on literature and theology.
Lewis' theological works are usually apologetics, the defence of Christianity.
Some of his most popular Christian writings were Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters.
His works have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Lewis was a professor of literature at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
Lewis was married to American writer Joy Davidman (1915–1960) from 1956 until her death from bone cancer.
He died of renal failure in Oxford.
His writing is popular with many people, and many of his books were made into movies.
His most famous and popular fantasy work is The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a series of seven books.
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This article is about the Irish rock band.
For the American rock band, see The Cars.
The Corrs is a folk pop rock band from Ireland.
There are three sisters and one brother in the quartet.
They became very popular in the late 1990s.
The group
Jim Corr
Jim Corr (born 31 July 1964) is the oldest member of the group.
He mainly plays the guitar, but he can also play the on the keyboards and the piano.
Sharon Corr
Caroline Corr
The Corrs created themselves in 1991 to try to get in the movie The Commitments.
Jim, Sharon, and Caroline got a small part as musicians, while Andrea got a speaking part as Sharon Rabbitte, sister of the main character.
It was while they were trying out for this movie that they were noticed by their manager, John Hughes.
Their first album, Forgiven, Not Forgotten, was most popular in Australia.
They then did another album called Talk On Corners, which was very popular in Ireland and Britain.
Albums released
Jupiter Calling (2017)
White Light (2015)
Home (2005)
Borrowed Heaven (2004)
The Best Of The Corrs (2001)
In Blue (2000)
Talk on Corners (1998)
Forgiven, Not Forgotten (1995)
DVDs they have been on
Best Of The Corrs 2002
Live In London 2001
Live At Lansdowne Road 2000
Unplugged 2000
Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2000
The Corrs Rock (fans website with discussion board)
Official Corrs site
The Corrs Infopage (fan website)
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Aaron is a person described in the Bible and the Qu'ran.
He was the older brother of Moses.
He helped Moses lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.
In the Bible, he appeared very much in Exodus.
Moses' helper
Aaron spoke for Moses, when he went to tell Pharaoh the King of Egypt everything God wanted Moses to say.
The Lord said to Moses (Exodus 7:1 to 3), "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country...".
Aaron's staff
Aaron's staff was used by the Lord a few times when trying to persuade the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.
The Lord ordered Moses and Aaron, "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh', and it will become a snake."
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and Aaron did so.
Aaron's staff, according to the Bible, really became a snake and ate up all the other snakes that the Pharaoh's magicians had made.
Also, Aaron's staff was used to make the Nile River all turn into blood.
He "stretched it out", and the fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled; and the Egyptians could not drink the water, as it was recorded in the Bible.
Ancient Israeli people
Paula Julie Abdul (; born June 19, 1962) is an American singer and dancer.
She had a string of hit songs and choreographed (planned) many dances for herself and others, including singer-songwriter Janet Jackson.
Musically, she is known for her late-1980s number-one singles "Straight Up" and "Cold Hearted", along with the 1990s number-one hit "Opposites Attract".
She won a Grammy Award for "Best Music Video – Short Form" for "Opposites Attract".
She was a judge on the television show American Idol for its first eight seasons.
She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range.
1962 births
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American contemporary R&B singers
Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was a British writer.
He is most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Adams was born in Cambridge.
When he was a few months old he moved to East London and a few years later to Brentwood, Essex.
He originally received attention when he wrote for the popular TV shows Monty Python and Doctor Who in the 1970s.
In 1978 he wrote a science-fiction radio series called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It was later turned into a novel.
In the early 1980s, it became a television series and in 2005 it became a movie produced by Disney.
Adams also wrote several sequels for radio and as novels.
He was also known for his humorous detective novels starring Dirk Gently, and for his efforts to conserve endangered species.
In 2001, Adams died of a heart attack while he was working out at the gym in Montecito, California, United States.
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Tom Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.
He was born in Ottumwa, Iowa.
He became famous when he married Roseanne Barr in 1990, another comedian and star of the popular sitcom, Roseanne, who he divorced in 1994.
Recently, he was one of the original hosts of the talk show, "The Best Damn Sports Show Period!"
on Fox Sports.
In November 2009, he married Ashley Groussman.
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Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian, and singer, best known for her roles in Maude and The Golden Girls.
Arthur was born in Brooklyn, New York City.
Her parents were Philip and Rebecca Frankelin.
She grew up in Cambridge, Maryland.
After high school and the junior college she did an apprenticeship as a Medical Laboratory Technician and she was as a volunteer for the United States Marine Corps.
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Dave Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American comedian and host of the TV show Insomniac with Dave Attell, shown on Comedy Central in the United States.
Christiaan Karel Appel (; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter.
He painted in the abstract expressionist style.
He was known for his childlike style.
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Randall Charles Bachman (born September 27, 1943 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian musician.
He was a member of the rock groups The Guess Who and later Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish writer.
His best-known work is Peter Pan.
Barrie was born in Kirriemuir.
He died of pneumonia in London.
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Charon, the ferryman to the Greek underworld in Greek mythology
Charon (moon), a moon of the dwarf planet, Pluto
Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band
Charon (web browser), a web browser for the Inferno operating system
Charon (Forever War), a fictional planet in the Forever War
Charon (animal), a genus of amblypygid
Charon (cars), a Dutch automobile manufacturer
Charon of Lampsacus|Charon of Lampsacus, ancient Greek logographer
CHARON, a programming language
Charon (Dungeons & Dragons), a lord of the yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price
Charon (CrossGen), a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
Charon QC (Law), a law blog http://charonqc.wordpress.com/
Charon (The Three Worlds), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds.
Riga is the capital city of the European country of Latvia.
Riga is on river Daugava near the Baltic Sea.
The mayor of Riga is Mārtiņš Staķis.
Riga was founded in 1201.
It was a castle of the Teutonic Order.
In 1710 during the Great Northern War the city was incorporated to Russia.
Then it became a center of Courland province.
Since 1918 Riga has been the capital city of Latvia, including Soviet Latvia in 1940-1991.
On June 30, 1941 German troops captured Riga.
The city was liberated on October 15, 1944.
The Riga inhabitants are named “Rīdzinieki” on Latvian and “рижане”(rizhani) on Russian.
Most of the people by ethnic origin are Latvian (45%) and 40% are Russian.
Historically the city had large German population.
Among other ethnic groups there are Byelorussians, Poles and Jews.
During the Soviet period the Riga wagon building factory made very big number of local trains.
The are 8 tram and 18 trolley routes.
Vera Mukhina, sculptor.
Sergey Eisenstein, movie director.
Mikhail Zadornov, writer.
Oleg Znarok, ice hockey player and coach.
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Pope John Paul II (; ; ), sometimes called Saint John Paul or John Paul the Great, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), was the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2 April 2005.
He was the second longest-serving pope in history.
As a Pole, he was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
The last non-Italian pope was Pope Adrian VI, who died in 1523.
He is the first pope to have visited the White House, and a mosque.
He traveled more than any other pope before him, visiting many of the countries of the world.
He is also famous for starting the annual World Youth Day.
After he was beatified, his title was changed to Blessed John Paul II.
John Paul II was canonized by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014 which means that the Polish Pope is now known as Saint John Paul II.
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice, Poland.
His parents were Karol Wojtyła, who was a military officer, and Emilia Kaczorowska, who was a seamstress.
He was nine years old when his mother died in 1929.
His father supported him so that he could study.
His brother was a doctor.
He died when Wojtyła was twelve.
He lost everyone in his family - a sister, brother, mother, and father - before he became a priest.
He played sports.
He liked football (soccer) as a goalkeeper.
Wojtyła went to Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice.
In 1938, he studied drama at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
He worked as a volunteer librarian.
He was an athlete, actor, and playwright.
He did two months military training in the Academic Legion.
This training was compulsory.
He would not hold or fire a weapon.
When he was young, he met many Jewish people.
They lived in that area.
In 1939, Nazi forces closed the Jagiellonian University.
All men, except for the disabled, had to have a job.
From 1940 to 1944, Wojtyła worked in a restaurant.
He also worked in a limestone quarry, and then as a salesman for a chemical factory.
He did not want to be sent to Germany.
If he was sent, he would be made to join the German army.
His father died of a heart attack in February 1941.
On 29 February 1944, Wojtyła was knocked down by a German truck (lorry).
He thought he would be badly treated.
The German officers sent him to a hospital.
He spent two weeks there with head and shoulder injuries.
It was at this time that he decided that he must become a priest.
When he left hospital, the young Polish men were being sent to Germany for training.
He escaped to the house of the Archbishop.
He hid there till after the war.
On the night of 17 January 1945, the Germans left the city.
The priests and teacher and students went back to the seminary.
There was a big clean-up to be done.
Wojtyła offered to clean out the lavatories.
That month, Wojtyła found a fourteen-year-old Jewish refugee named Edith Zierer.
She was trying to reach her parents.
She had collapsed from hunger.
He gave her food and helped her go to the railway station.
She did not hear of him again until the day came when he was elected Pope.
In 1958, Wojtyła then became the youngest bishop in Poland at the age of 38.
In 1962 he took part in the Second Vatican Council and helped write two very important documents.
One was about Religious freedom and the other one was about the work of the church in the Modern World.
John Paul II became Pope on 16 October 1978.
John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
He was pope for 26 years, making him the second longest serving pope after Pope Pius IX who held the office for 31 years and seven months.
He was also the first and only Slavic pope.
John Paul II was the most traveled pope in history with 104 international trips.
During his lifetime he learned many foreign languages.
He spoke Polish as his native language, and learned Latin and Ancient Greek in school.
On the day that he officially became Pope, he spoke to people in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Portuguese.
He also spoke a little Lithuanian, Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian.
John Paul II beatified many people.
This means that the Pope gave these people the title of "Blessed".
One example is the painter Fra Angelico, who lived in the 1400s.
After studying his life and teaching, it was decided that he should officially be called "the Blessed Fra Angelico".
John Paul II gave more people the title of "Blessed" than any other pope in history.
He also made many saints.
In 1984 John Paul II started World Youth Day which was first held in Rome and attended by about 300,000 people.
Since then it has been held in a different country every year.
It encourages young people to be faithful to God, and to live together in peace.
Many millions of people have attended.
Pope's travels
The first pope who traveled a lot was Pope Paul VI.
Like him, John Paul II liked to travel.
While he was pope, he made 105 trips, visiting 117 countries.
In total he travelled more than 1.1 million km (725,000 miles).
Wherever he went, he attracted large crowds.
All these travels were paid by the money of the countries he visited and not by the Vatican.
One of John Paul II's earliest official visits was to his home country of Poland, in June 1979.
There, he was always surrounded by happy, cheering crowds.
The Pope wanted to bring freedom and human rights to his country.
His visit encouraged Poles to oppose the communism, and in 1980 the Solidarity movement was born.
On later trips to Poland, he made his message of support stronger.
The Soviet Union had controlled Eastern Europe for many years.
In 1989, Poland was the first country to begin to break free from the Soviet Union.
John Paul II went to places where other popes before him had already been, such as the United States, or The Holy Land.
He also went to many countries that no pope had ever visited before.
He was the first reigning pope to travel to the United Kingdom, where he met Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
In 1982, the Pope made a visit to Japan, and in 1984 to South Korea and Puerto Rico.
He was the first pope to visit Cuba.
During his visit in January 1998, he sharply criticized Cuba for not allowing people to freely express their religion.
He also criticised the United States embargo against Cuba.
In 2000, he became the first modern Catholic pope to visit Egypt, and met with the Coptic Pope, and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.
He was the first Catholic Pope to visit and pray in an Islamic mosque, in Damascus, Syria in 2001.
He visited Umayyad Mosque, where John the Baptist is believed to be buried.
In 1988 he made a trip to Lesotho to beatify Joseph Gérard.
On 15 January 1995, during the 10th World Youth Day, he offered Mass to an estimated crowd of between four and eight million in Luneta Park, Manila, Philippines.
This is considered to be the largest single event in Christian history.
After the attacks on 11 September 2001, even though people were worried about his safety, the Pope traveled to Kazakhstan and spoke to large audiences including many Muslims.
He also went to Armenia, to participate in the celebration of the 1700 years of Christianity.
He said Mass in local languages during some visits, including Kiswahili in Nairobi, Kenya in 1995 and in an Indonesian language in East Timor.
During his trips, the Pope always showed his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
He visited many shrines consecrated to her, notably Knock in Ireland, Licheń Stary in Poland, Fátima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Lourdes in France.
On 13 May 1981, the Pope was shot twice in the abdomen by a Turkish national, Mehmet Ali Ağca.
The pope was gravely injured.
He barely survived the assassination attempt, and had to be treated in hospital for 20 days.
The pope later visited Ağca in prison.
He had forgiven him already.
Exactly one year later he traveled to Fatima to thank Mary, Mother of God for saving his life.
On this trip there was a second attempt to his life.
A follower of the French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre tried to hurt the Pope with a bayonet.
He was overpowered by the bodyguards of the Pope.
Lefevbre and his followers were against the decisions of the Second Vatican Council.
After this the Pope often travelled in a bullet-proof trailer known as the "popemobile."
John Paul died on Saturday, on the eve of the Divine Mercy Holiday, 2 April 2005.
The official time of death on his death certificate was 9:37 pm, but a few sources reported 9:33 pm.
The death certificate stated that when the Pope died, he had Parkinson's disease, with serious breathing difficulties.
The Pope had tracheotomy surgery in mid February but it did not help and he lost weight.
He also had an enlarged prostate, urinary infection and other problems.
The cause of death were that his kidneys failed, causing blood poisoning and infection brought by septic shock.
John Paul II spoke his final words, “pozwólcie mi odejść do domu Ojca”, (“Let me depart to the house of the Father”), to his aides, and fell into a coma about four hours later.
The Pope's medical team used heart-monitoring machinery for more than 20 minutes, so his real and true time of death was around 9:15 PM Vatican time.
As tradition demands, his name was called three times.
When there was no reply, his papal ring was broken, which meant the end of John Paul II's papacy (reign as pope).
Many people claimed to have been specially blessed by the reign of Pope John Paul II.
Many people thought he should be given the title "Blessed".
This usually takes at least five years (and may take hundreds of years).
On 13 May 2005, Pope Benedict XVI cut short the usual 5-year wait for the beatification process to begin.
The only other time (in recent history) that this has happened was for Mother Theresa, who was made Blessed Mother Theresa by John Paul II.
According to the Vatican, Pope John Paul II's remains (which will not be exhumed and exposed) will be moved from the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica, where he is presently buried, to a marble stone monument in Pier Paolo Cristofari's Chapel of St. Sebastian, which is where Blessed Pope Innocent XI is currently buried; Blessed Pope Innocent's remains will likely be moved.
This more prominent location, next to the Chapel of the Pieta, the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament and statues of Popes Pius XI and Pius XII, will increase the number of pilgrims capable of viewing his memorial.
On 30 September 2013, Pope Francis said that John Paul, together with Pope John XXIII, would be made saints on 27 April 2014.
This was the first time two popes have been made saints on the same day.
Teachings
John Paul II was generally against communism.
He was also a critic of capitalism that was not controlled and he did not want people's basic rights to be oppressed by world governments.
He officially condemned aspects of Liberation theology.
He was against abortion and contraception in general.
As head of the largest Christian group, John Paul II taught a conservative theological view of human sexuality.
On the subject he wrote 130 topics called the Theology of the Body.
He was against homosexuality, and in favour of people starting families as one husband and one wife.
But he said that homosexuals have the same inherent dignity and rights as everybody else.
On 30 April 2000, John Paul instituted a Divine Mercy Holiday, according to the teachings of Saint Faustyna Kowalska and on that day she was also proclaimed a Saint of the Catholic Church.
The Feast of the Mercy of God is continuously growing worldwide.
John Paul is also remembered for his devotion to the Consecrated Holy Communion, the Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
Child abuse scandals
During John Paul's time as pope, the church was involved in a large number of claims about child sexual abuse by priests.
There are many people who believe that the Church, and therefore the Pope, knew about these claims and tried to cover them up.
For example, in 1996 the Irish bishops decided that priests suspected of child abuse must be reported to the police.
The Vatican sent a letter to the bishops that they were not to report such cases.
The letter was from future Pope Benedict XVI - whom John Paul II had asked to handle such cases.
John Paul II is also claimed to have got a cardinal to send a thank you letter to a French bishop who had refused to report a priest to the police.
In 2001 John Paul II sent out a special letter saying that the abuse of children by priests was a very serious crime, and should be strictly punished.
Some Catholics wanted the process for making John Paul II a saint stopped, until there was an investigation into his role in keeping secret information about bad priests.
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Marvel Comics (created in 1939 as Marvel Worldwide Inc., then Marvel Publishing, Inc. and later Marvel Comics Group) is an American comic book company that makes "superhero" comic books.
Marvel's the original characters includes Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and other members of the Marvel characters.
One of Marvel's most original superheroes includes Spider-Man, who is the official comic book character from Marvel Comics.
Its top rival is DC Comics.
In 2009, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel for US$4 billion.
Its comic book characters were created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others.