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This was because the control of atomic energy was with the people after president Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act in 1946.
Congress then declared that atomic energy should be used for peace, not nuclear war.
Historians tend to identify the city with Voruta, a legendary capital of Mindaugas who was crowned in 1253 as King of Lithuania.
The city was first mentioned in written sources in 1323, in letters of Grand Duke Gediminas that were sent to German cities and invited Germans and members of the Jewish community to settle in the capital city.
In 1387, the city was granted city rights by Jogaila, one of Gediminas' successors.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth period
Between 1503 and 1522 the walls were built to protect the city, and at the time it had nine city gates and three towers.
Vilnius reached the peak of its development under the reign of Sigismund August, who moved his court there in 1544.
In the following centuries, Vilnius became a constantly growing and developing city.
This growth was due in part to the establishment of Almae Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Jesu by the King Stephen Bathory in 1579.
The university soon developed into one of the most important scientific and cultural centres of the region and the most notable scientific centre of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Political, economic, and social activities were in full swing in the town.
In 1769, the Rasos Cemetery, one of the oldest surviving cemeteries in the city, was founded.
During its rapid development, the city was open to migrants from both abroad and far reaches of territories of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Each group made its unique contribution to the life of the city, and crafts, trade and science prospered.
During the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667), Vilnius was occupied by Russia for several years.
The city was pillaged and burned, and its population was massacred.
The city's growth lost its momentum for many years, but the population rebounded, and by the beginning of the 19th century city's population reached 20,000, making the city one of the largest in Northern Europe.
In Russian Empire
After the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 15 April 1795, Vilnius was annexed by Russian Empire and became the capital of a Vilna Governorate.
During the Russian occupation the city walls were destroyed, and by 1805, only the Dawn Gate remained.
In 1812, the city was seized by Napoleon on his push towards Moscow.
Following the November Uprising in 1831, Vilnius University was closed and Russian repressions damaged the development of the city.
During the January Uprising in 1863 heavy fighting occurred within the city, but was brutally pacified by Mikhail Muravyov, by the population because of the number of executions he organized.
After the uprising, all civil liberties were withdrawn, and use of the Polish and Lithuanian languages was banned.
in early 20th century Lithuanian speaking population constituted only a small minority then, with Polish, Yiddish, and Russian speakers being most of the population of the city.
In Poland
During World War I, Vilnius – as with the rest of Lithuania – was occupied by the German Empire from 1915 until 1918.
The Act of Independence of Lithuania, that restored Lithuanian independence from any affiliation to any other nation was proclaimed in the city on February 16 1918.
After the withdrawal of German forces, Lithuanian forces were forced to retreat by advancing Russian occupation forces.
Vilnius changed hands many times: for a while it was controlled by Polish self-defence units, who didn't want the city to be occupied by Russian-Bolshevik forces.
Then the Polish Army regained control, then Soviet forces again.
Shortly after its defeat in the Battle of Warsaw (1920), the retreating Red Army ceded the city back to Lithuania by signing a peace treaty on July 12, 1920.
On October 9 of the same year, the Polish Army under General Lucjan Żeligowski broke the treaty and seized Vilnius after a staged coup.
The city and its surroundings were proclaimed as the separate state of Central Lithuania.
On February 20 1922 after an elections, the whole area was attached to Poland, with the city as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship (Wilno being the name of Vilnius in Polish).
The predominant languages of the city were still Polish and, to a lesser extent, Yiddish.
Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian.
He won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during his career.
Reiner's most significant voice role is Sarmoti from Father of the Pride.
Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York on March 20, 1922, the son of Irving, who was a watchmaker, and Bessie (née Mathias) Reiner.
His parents were Jewish immigrants, his father from Romania and his mother from Austria.
He was married to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost, 1914-2008).
They had three children together: actor-director Rob Reiner (born 1947), writer Annie Reiner (born 1957) and actor-director Lucas Reiner (born 1960).
Enter Laughing (1958)
2000 Years With: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (with Mel Brooks, 1960)
All Kinds of Love (1993)
Continue Laughing (1995)
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life (and Other Mostly Happy Stories) (1999)
The 2000 Year-Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book (1999)
My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir (2003)
NNNNN: A Novel (2006)
Tell Me Another Scary Story... But Not Too Scary! (
with James Bennett) (2009)
Just Desserts: A Novellelah (2009)
Tell Me a Silly Story (with James Bennett) (2010)
I Remember Me (2012)
As screenwriter
Enter Laughing (with Joseph Stein, 1967)
The Comic (with Aaron Ruben, 1968)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (with Steve Martin and George Gipe, 1982)
The Man with Two Brains (with Steve Martin and George Gipe, 1983)
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
Enter Laughing (1967)
The Comic (1969)
Where's Poppa? (
Oh, God! (
The One and Only (1978)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
All of Me (1984)
Summer School (1987)
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
That Old Feeling (1997)
Something Different (1967)
Your Show of Shows (1950–54)
Caesar's Hour (1954–1957)
Sid Caesar Invites You (1958)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959–1960)
The Comedy Spot (1960)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66, also Creator)
The Judy Garland Show (1963)
The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (1967)
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–1974)
Lotsa Luck (1973) (also Creator)
The Alan Brady Show (2003)
The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2006)
Hot in Cleveland (2010–present)
Parks and Recreation (2012)
1954: Best Series Supporting Actor for  "Your Show of Shows" NBC – Nominee
1956: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for "Caesar's Hour" NBC – Nominee
1957: Best Supporting Performance by an Actor for Caesar's Hour NBC – Winner
1958: Best Continuing Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic or Comedy Series for Caesar's Hour NBC – Winner
1962: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke Show CBS – Winner
1963: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for The Dick Van Dyke Show CBS – Winner
1964: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy or Variety for The Dick Van Dyke Show (Shared with Sam Denoff and Bill Persky)CBS – Winner
1965: Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment for The Dick Van Dyke Show CBS – Winner
1966: Special Classifications of Individual Achievements for voices in "Linus The Lionhearted" CBS – Nominee
1966: Outstanding Comedy Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show CBS – Winner
1967: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety for The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris Special (Shared with Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky and Mel Tolkin) CBS – Winner
1995: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Mad About You: "The Alan Brady Show"  NBC – Winner
Grammy Award nomination, 1960, (2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks)
Grammy Award (The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000)
Elected to Emmy Award Hall of Fame
Grammy nomination for best spoken word album, 2001 (Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings from Mark Twain)
Grammy Winners Grammy Winners Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
See Carl Reiner's interview for the Archive of American Television
"Remembering the Dick Van Dyke Show" (Carl Reiner)
Profile of Carl Reiner at Jewish Times
Carl Reiner on His New Memoir "I Remember Me"
Your Show of Shows was a 90-minute long comedy television series appearing weekly in the United States on NBC, from 1950 until June 5, 1954.
The main people of the show were Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
Other people who appeared were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza.
José Ferrer also appeared on the show sometimes, as a guest.
Writers for the show included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, and Carl Reiner who, though a cast member, always sat in with the writers.
Although it is not true, some people think that Woody Allen wrote for Your Show of Shows.
He did, however, write for Caesar's Hour, which ran from 1954 to 1957.
The Sid Caesar Collection
Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological supernatural drama thriller movie.
It was written and directed by Richard Kelly.
It is set in Middlesex, Virginia in 1988.
A sequel, called S. Darko, was released in 2009.
Cast members
Jake Gyllenhaal as Donald J. "Donnie" Darko
Jena Malone as Gretchen Ross
James Duval as Frank
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth Darko
Mary McDonnell as Rose Darko
Holmes Osborne as Eddie Darko
Katharine Ross as Dr. Lilian Thurman
Drew Barrymore as Karen Pomeroy
Noah Wyle as Dr. Kenneth Monnitoff
Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham
Daveigh Chase as Samantha Darko
Beth Grant as Kitty Farmer
Patience Cleveland as Roberta Sparrow ("Grandma Death")
Jolene Purdy as Cherita Chen
Jerry Trainor as Lanky kid
2001 thriller movies
Movies set in 1988
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of movies, stage, radio and television.
He is best known for his role as Tommy Udo in his first movie, Kiss of Death.
Characters played by Widmark were often tough.
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Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. (known as Virgin Atlantic) is an airline that is based in the United Kingdom.
Virgin Atlantic is owned by 2 companies, Virgin Group and Delta Air Lines.
Virgin Atlantic goes from its main hubs at London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport to many places like the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
More than 75% of Virgin Atlantic's flights go/come to London Heathrow Airport.
The rest mostly fly from London Gatwick Airport, Manchester Airport or Glasgow Airport.
Virgin flies to 31 cities.
These are either in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States or the Caribbean.
Virgin Atlantic has partners.
Here is a list of them:
Virgin Atlantic owns 10 Airbus A330 11 Airbus A340 planes, 10 Boeing 747-400 planes and 5 Boeing 787 planes.
It also has an order for 6 Airbus A380 planes but were later cancelled and replaced by an order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 planes, another order is for 8 Boeing 787 planes.
Virgin Atlantic used to have some other aircraft too.
It used to own 5 Airbus A320s, 3 Airbus A321s, 1 Boeing 747-100, 22 Boeing 747-200s and 4 Vickers Viscounts.
Virgin Atlantic's first plane was a Boeing 747-200.
Inside the planes
Virgin Atlantic uses three different classes on their planes: Economy,  Economy and Upper Class.
Economy class is the standard class on Virgin Atlantic aircraft.
It is the cheapest part of the plane to travel in.
Passengers usually get a free meal, some drinks and a bag with gifts in like a toothbrush.
The seats in this class have a maximum pitch of 31 in, but this depends on what plane the passenger goes in.
Premium Economy
Passengers that use Premium Economy have their own check-in area.
They get to get on the plane before Economy passengers and a drink before the flight.
They get a better seat and a special cabin crew.
The seat it wider and more distance from the seat in front of it.
In November 2006, Virgin made a new seat.
It is wider than the old one and has a plug for laptops.
It is being put on all planes and now, all Airbus A340s and all Boeing 747s that fly from London Heathrow Airport have the new seats.
Upper Class
Upper Class is the name for Virgin Atlantic's .
They do not have a first class service.
Virgin says the seats are the biggest lie flat beds on any business class (it is 202 cm long and 84 cm wide), but Air Canada and Singapore Airlines have said this too.
The seats have plugs for laptops and iPods.
Upper Class passengers can also have their own chauffeur,  check-in, their own security points at some airports, access to the Virgin Clubhouse (a special  area, with a bar and seats), a larger  for in-flight meals and a bar that passengers can stand up or sit down at in flight.
In-flight Entertainment
All the seats on all the aircraft have screens in the back of the seats to provide entertainment for passengers.
Most planes have a newer system where the passengers can choose what they want to watch called V:Port.
Older systems called "Odyssey" and "Super Nova" just offer different channels for the passengers to pick from.
The screens on the older systems are also smaller.
Virgin was among the first airlines to have games on its personal screens.
Other Virgin Airlines
Virgin Samoa
Virgin Sun Airlines
A paramedic is a health care professional who works for the emergency medical services, usually on an ambulance.
They help people who have been injured or become ill very suddenly.
Paramedics can do many different things to decide what the problem is and to treat the patient at the scene.
If it is needed, they then take the person to a hospital in the ambulance.
They try to prevent the person's illness from getting worse before they reach the hospital, where doctors and nurses will take over care.
Paramedics have to work in many different types of emergency, and cannot predict what the next one will be.
People often use the term "paramedic" for anyone who works on an ambulance.
However, not all ambulance crew have paramedic as their job title. "
Emergency Medical Technicians" or "Emergency Care Assistants" do similar work but have less training.
Some ambulances also have doctors and nurses.
In many countries, the title of "paramedic" is for those who have taken a specific training course.
Ambulance (Urgences-Santé) 911 call
Emergency Health Services of Quebec (in French)
Artemis Fowl is a book written by Eoin Colfer.
It is the first book in the Artemis Fowl series.
One of the main characters is Artemis Fowl II, trying to get gold from a group of fairies.
Domovoi Butler, usually known as Butler, Artemis' bodyguard and only friend
Juliet Butler, Butler's little sister and in the first book Artemis' family's maid
Angeline Fowl, Artemis' mother.
She has gone crazy with grief because her husband is missing.
Artemis Fowl I, a character who is not present during the book.
He is Angeline's wife.
Artemis Fowl ||, the main character in the book, also he is 12 years old and is a criminal mastermind.
Holly Short, an elf who works for LEPrecon (a pun on leprechaun)
Julius Root, an elf who is Holly's superior.
He acts as a father figure.
He is nicknamed Beetroot as he goes red or purple when he is angry.
Foaly, a centaur and computer expert.
He enjoys annoying Root, and often stands up for Holly when Root is cross with her.
Mulch Diggums, a dwarf who steals nearly everything he can.
He has lost his magic because he has entered a human dwelling.
Briar Cudgeon, another elf who does not get on with Root.
Artemis kidnaps Holly to try and get gold from the fairies.
He succeeds because she does not have any magic as she has used it all.
The fairies then put a time stop on Artemis' manor, to control the time for eight hours so they can get Holly back.
As the negotiations fail, the fairies attack, but Artemis and Butler beat the fairies.
The fairies send in Mulch, who discovers the reason Artemis knows about the fairies.
They then send in a troll, which very nearly kills Butler and severely injures Holly.
Luckily, Holly has got her magic back, so she can heal them both.
After the troll episode, the fairies finally decide to give Artemis the gold, planning to kill him later so they can take the gold back.
Artemis however escapes the time stop.
At the end of the book, Artemis has given half the gold back so Holly heals his mother Angeline, who was sick.
The book received a good review by reviewers.
A movie was supposed to be filmed in 2007, but it was released on Disney+ on June 12, 2020
The Anaconda or green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) is one of the biggest snakes in the world.
This Is a anaconda It is a non-venomous boa species from South America.
It is the thickest, heaviest, and second longest known living snake (behind the reticulated python).
The term "anaconda" usually means this species.
This giant snake (which is also called the water boa) lives in swampy areas of tropical South America.
It spends a lot of time in shallow water, hidden from unsuspecting prey.
Anacondas give birth to live young; 20 to 40 baby snakes are born at one time.
The largest specimens measured 17.1 feet long and weighed 215 pounds.
All snakes are carnivores (meat-eaters).
Anaconda eat 4 to 5 times year because it takes 3 to 4 months to digest their food.
Anacondas mostly hunt at night.
Anacondas kill by constricting (squeezing) the prey until it can no longer breathe.
Sometimes they drown the prey.
Like all snakes, they swallow the prey whole, head first.
The anaconda's top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments, which let the snake swallow animals wider than itself.
Snakes do not chew their food, they digest it with quite strong acids in the snake's stomach.
Anacondas eat pigs, deer, caiman (a type of crocodilian), birds, fish, rodents (like the capybara and agouti), and other animals.
After eating a large animal, the anaconda needs no food for a long time, and rests for weeks.
The young (called neonates) can care for themselves soon after birth, including hunting (but are pretty much defenseless against large predators).
They eat small rodents (like rats and mice), baby birds, frogs and small fish.
There are four species in the genus Eunectes:
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Luise Rainer (January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a two-time Academy Award-winning German-born Austrian-American movie actress.
She was the first person to win two Academy Awards in a row.
The first was for her role as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld, and the second was for her role as a Chinese farmer in The Good Earth.
Photographs of Luise Rainer
Ice Road Truckers is a Canadian-American documentary-style reality television series that first appeared on television on The History Channel on June 17, 2007 (first season).
The show follows the activities of truck drivers which operate on routes that contain frozen lakes and rivers in the remote Arctic territories of Canada and Alaska.
The American Music Awards show is a major American music awards shows (the others are the Billboard Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the Country Music Association Awards).
Michael Jackson has won 26 awards.
This is more American Music Awards than anyone else has won.
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and sometimes an actor.
He has released five albums with The Stooges.
In 1977 he released his first solo album.
Entertainers from Michigan
A sniper is a person who is trained to shoot perfectly at things that are very small or very far away.
The sniper's target is usually an enemy.
Many military snipers get special training to use a sniper rifle, a special type of gun.
Most sniper rifles have a telescope called a sniper scope to help the sniper see the target.
Snipers are also trained to be stealthy.
Snipers hide or use military camouflage such as a ghillie suit that looks like (and may include some of) the surrounding foliage so that it is hard for the enemy to see them.
A sniper is also called a "marksman".
Experienced hunters often share many of the skills that long range shooters need to know.
The two jobs are very similar.
The word "sniper" came from Britain when highly accurate shooters would hunt–also known as "snipe"–birds that were very hard to see and shoot.
Many police departments have snipers on their SWAT teams.
Because police snipers do not always perform the same tasks as military snipers, police snipers are sometimes known as "marksmen".
Sniping
Snipers shoot targets that are far away.
Because the bullet shot by a sniper has to travel a very long distance, the sniper has to be very careful when taking aim.
There are three main things that have an effect on the accuracy of the shot.
The sniper must plan for these things.
The target may be moving, such as walking or running.
A sniper must think about where the target will be when the bullet reaches it.
A still target might move suddenly.
The force of gravity affects the bullet, so that it will drop towards the ground.
If the target is close, the effect of gravity does not have a big effect on the accuracy.
If the target is far distant, then the sniper must judge how high to shoot, to make up for the distance that the bullet will fall as it flies.
Wind affects the way in which a bullet will travel and can blow it away from the target.
The sniper must think about the direction that the wind is blowing and the strength of the wind.
The sniper might need to shoot to the left or the right of the target, to make up for the wind.
The bullets used by snipers are usually heavy.
They are powered by a large amount of gunpowder.
This makes the bullet travel very fast.
The heaviness makes the bullet less affected by wind.
The speed makes the bullet less affected by gravity.
A fast bullet reaches a target quicker, before it has time for gravity to affect it.
Large fast bullets do more damage to the target than lighter or slower bullets.
Most soldiers are trained so that they can shoot a target that is between  to  away and hit it with approximately half their shots.
Very well trained soldiers, such as the U.S. Marine Corps, can hit a target that is between  to  away, with approximately half of their shots.
A sniper is trained to be able to hit a target over , or half a mile away with almost every single shot.
Some snipers are so accurate that they can shoot something out of a person's hand, but they usually aim for the target's head or chest.
These areas are harder to miss, and are more likely to disable the target.
A sniper uses a special kind of rifle called a sniper rifle.
This rifle is much more accurate than normal rifles.
Almost all sniper rifles use a Sniper scope, a special telescope that allows them to see targets very far away.
There are two different kinds of sniper rifles: bolt action rifles, which fire a single shot and then the user must ready the next shot, and semi-automatic ("semi-auto") rifles which fire a single shot each time the trigger is pulled.
Typically, bolt-action rifles have a longer range and are more accurate than semi-automatic rifles, however the rate of fire is slower than a semi-automatic rifle, which fires as fast as the shooter can squeeze the trigger.
At close ranges, or where a shooter must make a quick follow-up shot, a sniper may prefer to use the semi-automatic rifle instead.
A magazine is used on semi automatic rifles and most bolt action rifles.
Magazines hold more shots in the gun and make it much faster to ready the next shot.
Snipers usually wear camouflage clothing, to avoid being seen.
Camouflage works by hiding the outline and shape of the human body, so that it is not easily seen.
Camouflage does not work very well when the person wearing it is moving because the eye sees movement much better than shapes or colors.
Snipers often paint their faces green or black to make them shine less, and blend in with the surroundings.
Sometimes snipers wear special camouflage suits, called ghillie suits.
Ghillie suits are made of shredded burlap or yute and often have plants attached to them.
Snipers will often make several different ghillie suits to help them hide in different kinds of terrain.
These suits are very effective at hiding the sniper.
Often a sniper can be invisible to an enemy standing right next to him.
Police snipers generally do not need camouflage, because their main job is to make accurate shots, not to hide from the criminal.
Sometimes police need to hide, so police snipers are trained in hiding techniques.
Snipers in War
Military snipers are chosen for their intelligence, their good sight and their ability to shoot very well.
They are trained to use their sight very well.
They are trained to see the enemy from far away, and to notice small movements that might show that enemies are near.
They are also trained to hide themselves.
Snipers use these skills to destroy enemy troops.
Snipers generally work in a small unit (or team) of just two people, a sniper and a spotter.
The spotter finds targets for the sniper with a telescope.
If the sniper misses the target, then the spotter also helps the sniper adjust the next shot so it hits the target.
The spotter also protects the sniper from enemies at close range.
Snipers are often used as scouts for the army because they can easily hide themselves from the enemy, even when they are close.
They use the sniper scope on their rifles to see farther than most soldiers are able to see.
Snipers are often able to notice details and remember information that ordinary soldiers would not.
When a sniper is in a team with a spotter, it is usually the spotter's job to use a radio to speak with other military units.
The team can report on the enemy position and enemy movements.
Snipers in World War I and II
In World War I (WWI), there were no special sniper rifles.
Instead, snipers used normal rifles with a sniper scope mounted on them.
In World War II, snipers were common.
They were an important part of the fighting.
Every squad of the Soviet army included sniper or a 'marksman'.
Camouflage tactics were developed during this time.
Snipers were very useful during the Battle of Stalingrad.
One Russian sniper was said to have killed over 240 German troops.
Even that wasn't the best.
Mihail Surkov killed 702 enemy troops and Semen Nomokonov killed 367 by sniping, including a general.
Police snipers
Police departments train and use snipers.
These snipers mainly serve on the SWAT team for their department.
Often they are called upon to provide security at special events, or to make sure that other snipers do not murder someone.
This job is called counter-sniping.
Most police snipers are trained by the military.
Famous snipers
Some snipers are famous for having killed hundreds of enemy soldiers.
One such sniper is U.S. Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock, who was famous in the Vietnam War for wearing a white feather in his hat.
Other snipers are famous for being able to kill an enemy from very far away.
Carlos Hathcock held the record for the furthest distance kill for a very long time – his farthest was over .
However, in the Afghanistan War, snipers from the Canadian Army broke the record with a shot of .
Other snipers are known for difficult shots.
For example, Matt Hughes had to make a  shot in very high winds by aiming over  to the left of the enemy.
An example of a famous sniper in WWII is Vasily Zaytsev.
He supposedly killed 225 enemy soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Snipers in popular culture
Snipers are often used in video games as elite soldiers.
Getting a headshot with a sniper rifle is thought of as a hard skill to learn.
In some movies, assassins use sniper rifles; examples include Phone Booth and Vantage Point.
Sometimes snipers have a bad reputation in the media; for example, in October 2002 two men went on a month long killing spree using a Sniper rifle in the Virginia and Maryland area.
How Military Snipers Work.
World War II - German sniper training film
Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian movie director.
A sniper rifle is a type of gun used to accurately shoot targets a long distance away.
A person who uses a sniper rifle in the military is called a sniper.
A sniper rifle is much more accurate than a normal rifle.
Almost all sniper rifles use a sniper scope, a special telescope that allows them to see targets very far away.
There are two different kinds of sniper rifles: bolt action rifles, which fire a single shot and then the user must ready the next shot, and semi-automatic ("semi-auto") rifles which fire a single shot each time the trigger is pulled, and automatically ready the next shot for firing.
Fully automatic rifles, which fire continuously when the trigger is pulled as long as there is ammunition, generally are not used though in rare instances they can be converted into a sniper rifle.
In one such instance, a heavy machine gun with a scope, while not a true sniper rifle, set the record for longest kill by a sniper for years, until advances in rifle technology and sniper training allowed a sniper with a true sniper rifle to beat that record.
Typically, bolt-action rifles have a longer range and are more accurate than semi-automatic rifles, however because each round must be chambered by hand, the rate of fire is slower than a semi-automatic rifle, which fires as fast as the shooter can squeeze the trigger.
At close ranges, or in situations where a shooter must make a quick follow-up shot, a sniper may prefer to use the semi-automatic rifle instead.
Examples of bolt action sniper rifles are the M40, R700, and M24.
Examples of semi-automatic ones are the M21, Dragunov, and the M82 Barret .50 caliber.
Sniper rifles range in caliber (the diameter, or width, of the bullet fired in fractions of an inch) from as small as  with the .22 LR (long rifle) bullet fired by many small pistols, to as large as  with the .50 Browning Machine Gun (BMG) bullet which is fired by vehicle mounted heavy machine guns.
Smaller rounds like the .22 LR are often used at very close range with a sound suppressor (commonly called a silencer) to quickly and quietly break street lights or kill vermin and small animals.
The round is generally too weak and has too short of a range for longer range work, or shots on human-sized targets.
In contrast, large rounds like the .50 BMG are fired out of very large and heavy sniper rifles that are often used for destroying light vehicles and equipment.
They can fire at extreme ranges of over a mile, but generally are too bulky, inaccurate at short ranges, and expensive for general purpose work.
Sniper rifle barrels must be cleaned every day to get rid of any liquid.
Not cleaning the barrel can allow to disastrous situations, or even let the barrel explode upon firing.
Sniper rifles of history
On 7 October 1777, during the Battle of Saratoga, Timothy Murphy, a rifleman in Morgan's Kentucky Riflemen, shot and killed General Simon Fraser of the British army.
Murphy was said to have taken the shot at roughly 500 yards.
He was using the renowned Kentucky long rifle.
Fraser was leading a recon in force against the rebellious colonists at Bemis Heights in New York.
As a result of Fraser's death, the recon failed.
This had a direct impact on the overall battle, leading to the British defeat.
The Battle of Saratoga was considered one of the turning points of the War for Independence.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed from the bullet of the Remington .30-06 rifle.
Another example is when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
He was sniped by a Carcano-type Model 91-38 rifle.
Harry Power (1819–1891) was born as Henry Johnson in Waterford, Ireland on 18 May 1819.
He was a famous Australian bushranger.
He is believed to be the man who taught Ned Kelly how to be a bushranger.
Power was sent to Van Diemen's Land for seven years for stealing a  stealing a bridle and saddle.
Released in 1848 he moved to Victoria where he set up a horse selling business in Geelong.
During the gold rush Power went to Maryborough in central Victoria to search for gold.
When two policemen tried to arrest him for horse stealing in March 1855, he shot one of them.
He was captured and sentenced to prison for 13 years.
He was able to escape from HM Prison Pentridge in 1862 and moved to northern Victoria where he met the Kelly, Quinn and Lloyd families.
In 1864 he was captured near Beechworth and sent back to prison.
He escaped from Pentridge again on 19 February 1869.
Ned Kelly, who was 13 years old, helped him with several robberies near Beechworth.
Power then carried out more than 600 robberies by himself during the year.
He had a hideout in a cave looking out over the King River which is still called Power's Lookout.
The police offered a reward of ₤500 for his capture.
Ned Kelly's uncle, James Quinn, told the police the location of the cave and Power was again caught and sent back to prison.
He was released in 1877 because of concerns for his health.
He worked on a farm near Sunbury.
In his old age he acted as a guide on a ship set up as a convict museum.
On 11 October 1891 he was found drowned in the Murray River, near Swan Hill.
People from Waterford
The Galyat region is an area roughly 50–80 km north-east of Islamabad, Pakistan, on both sides of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border.
The word Galyat is the plural of the Urdu word gali, which means an alley between two mountains on both sides of which there are valleys and it is not the highest point in the range.
Many of the towns in the area have the word gali as part of their names.
These are popular summer-holiday destinations in Pakistan.
Murree, one of the most popular hill stations of Pakistan, is the largest town of the Galyat area.
Localities in the Galyat
Ayubia (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Bara Gali (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Bhurban (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Changla Gali (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Charra Pani (Punjab)
Dunga Gali (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Ghora Gali (Punjab)
Khaira Gali (Punjab)
Khanspur (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Murree (Punjab)
Nathia Gali (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Thandiani (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Kalam is worth seeing site in Swat valley.
Kalam is located at the distance of 100 km from the mingora, in the northern upper part of Swat valley.
It is located at the bank of Suvastu river in KPK province.
Kalam is encircled by green hills, thick forests and blessed with mesmerizing Lakes, lively meadows and waterfalls, which make the Valley a must wandering place.
It is the birthplace of Swat River, which is conflux of two major tributaries; Gabral River and Ushu River.
It is a vast sub-valley of Swat; is located at an elevation of about 2,000 meters (6, 562 feet) above sea level, and providing a room for a small but fertile plateau above Swat River, making it ideal for farming.
A metalled road ends here in Kalam and a shingled road leads to the Ushu and Utror valleys.
Visitors can see the snowy mountains from Matiltan, including Falak Sair Mountain, with the height of 5, 918 meters (19,416 feet) and an unnamed peak of 6,096 meters (20, 000 feet) height.
According to the population survey of 2017 the population of Kalam valley is 84,434  persons & no of houses are 9810.
Kalam and Dir Kohistani (also called Gawri ) is one of about two dozen languages that are spoken in the mountain areas of northern Pakistan.
The name Kohistan in Urdu and Persian means ‘land of mountains’, and Kohistani, when used as the name of a language, can be translated as ‘mountain language’.
The Dardic people of the Kalam region in northern Swat are known as Kohistanis.
The climate in Kalam کالام is cold and temperate.
Kalam کالام is a city with a significant rainfall.
Even in the driest month there is a lot of rain.
The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is Dfb.
In Kalam کالام, the average annual temperature is -1.1 °C | 30.0 °F.
The rainfall here is around 1361 mm | 53.6 inch per year.
Tourists Spots
The Kalam Bazaar (The Downtown)
Matiltan
Ushu
Utror
Gabral
Izmis Lake
The Kalam Bazaar
The Kalam Bazaar is the main marketplace and commercial centre of the kalam valley.
Despite being small, Kalam Bazaar has hotels, restaurants, cafes, medical stores, and a good number of general stores.
This Bazaar serves as a high street or Downton for locals and tourists in Kalam and rounding areas.
Malam Jabba (also Maalam Jabba, ) is a Hill Station in the Karakoram mountain range nearly 40 km from Saidu Sharif in Swat Valley, Sarhad, Pakistan.
It is 314 km from Islamabad and 51 km from Saidu Sharif Airport.
Malam Jabba is home to the largest ski resort in Pakistan.
The area also contains two Buddhist stupas and six monasteries that are scattered around the resort.
The presence of the monuments at such a height indicates that the area has been inhabited for over 2000 years.
Patriata also known as New Murree is a hill station in northern Punjab, Pakistan.
It is situated 15 km south-east of Murree hill.
Charra Pani is a hill station in the Galyat region of northern Pakistan.
An invest in meteorology (weather) (also INVEST) is a labelled area of bad weather that is being looked at for a possible tropical cyclone being made.
Invests are labelled by three hurricane centers: the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
The labelling of an area of bad weather as an invest does not always mean that a tropical cyclone will be started.
Invests have numbers from 90 to 99, with a L in the Atlantic, E and C in the East and Central Pacific in that order, or W in the West Pacific after the number.
Navy/NRL Tropical Cyclone Page - tropical cyclones and INVESTS around the world right now
Nubra () is a valley in the region of Ladakh, India.
Diskit, the capital of the Nubra area, is about  north from Leh, the capital of Ladakh.
Its name is derived from Ldumra (the valley of flowers).
Nubra river
It flows in the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Suru valley is a valley in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, which is drained by the Suru River (Indus), a tributary of the Indus River.
It is at a height of .
The towns of Kargil and Rangdum are here.
The Penzella Pass at Panikhar, a hill resort in Zanskar, divides the Suru valley with Zanskar.
Willow and poplar are grown in the Suru valley.
Suru valley has 25,000 by people of Dard and Tibetan descent.
The majority of the people are followers of Shi'a Islam, having converted from Tibetan Buddhism in the 16th century under the direction of Thi-Namgyal.
Buddhists in the Suru valley live throughout the valley, but are mainly in Rangdum.
Valleys of Pakistan
Bullet for My Valentine often known as BFMV are a heavy metal band from Wales.
They have released three albums on the major record label Sony BMG.
These albums are entitled The Poison, Scream Aim Fire and Fever, released in 2006, 2008 and 2010 respectively.
they also have a self-titled EP and DVD's of performances live from the O3 Brixton School.
The Poison (2005)
Scream Aim Fire (2008)
Fever (2010)
Temper Temper (2013)
Venom (2015)
Gravity (2018)
1990s establishments in Wales
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (formerly named Jabber) is a protocol for instant messaging.
It is inspired by XML.
It is different to most protocols because it is an open standard.
This means that anybody who has a domain name and an internet connection can run their own server.
Most of the software and the clients are open source.
Other software such as Google Talk and the Gizmo5 use the XMPP protocol.
It has been installed on thousands of servers across the internet.
There are over five hundred million users who use software based on the protocol.
Clients include Pidgin and iChat.
Jeremie Miller started the Jabber project in 1998.
The first major public release was in May 2000.
This early software was the basis of XMPP.
It was a competitor to SIMPLE, which was based on the SIP protocol.
In August 2001, the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) was started.
The main role of the JSF was to manage the XML protocols for XMPP by documenting them.
As well as this, the organisation was to co-ordinate the many companies that were using the XMPP technology.
In 2002, the Internet Engineering Task Force created a working group to formalize the protocol.
The group was named the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Working Group, or XMPP WG.
XMPP and HTTP
XMPP can use HTTP to send data to the servers.
This is useful when there are strict firewalls in place, because data can be sent through the web instead of through a different port (port 5222 and 5223).
XMPP Standards Foundation
Jabber.org (always maintained, the first XMPP server)
Joseph William Namath (born May 31 1943, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania), also known as Broadway Joe, is a former American football quarterback.
He is most famous for playing for the New York Jets and winning one Super Bowl with them.
Los Angeles Rams players
New York Jets players
A shabono (also xapono, shapono, or yano) is a hut used by the Yanomami indios, who live in southeastern Venezuela and in northern Roraima, Brazil.
This hut is used as temporary shelter and is made with palm leaves and wood.
Shabonos are built in clear parts of the jungle.
Each family unit has a personal area in the shabono.
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983 in Chico, California, U.S.) is the starting American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL.
He played college football in California, starting at Butte Community College before transferring to Cal to play for the Golden Bears.
The Packers chose him in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft with the 24th pick.
He spent a few years as Brett Favre's backup, and after Brett Favre's first retirement fiasco, was named the starter of the Green Bay Packers.
He became the Packers' starting quarterback in 2008 after Favre left the Packers to play for the New York Jets.
He led the team to a Super Bowl championship in 2010 and was named the game's MVP in Super Bowl XLV.
Rodgers is famous for his "championship belt celebration," which was used in commercials for State Farm as "a discount double check."
Rodgers's best statistical season was in 2011.
Intellect is the capacity of the mind by which one reasons.
It does not involve the power to feel and move but the power to think.
Subjects like Logic, Philosophy and Mathematics all involve the intellect.
The intellect involves the power to identify, associate and differentiate.
To identify is to find out what a thing is exactly.
To associate is to find similarities between things, how they are alike, how they are like each other.
To differentiate is to find out how things are different from each other.
The intellect is always involved in at least one of these three activities.
Submission was a movie made in 2004.
It was directed by Theo van Gogh.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote the script.
She made the story.
The movie is 10 minutes long.
The movie title is a direct translation of the word Islam into English.
The movie tells the story of four fictional characters.
All four characters are played by a single actress wearing a veil.
The woman wears a see-through chador but is otherwise naked.
Different verses of the Qur'an are painted onto her body.
The characters shown in the movie are Muslim women who have been abused in different ways.
For example, one woman has been raped by someone close to her.
These women have a monologue - they speak to themselves.
The movie dramatically  highlights three verses of the Quran (  and ).
These verses seem make it permissible  to treat women badly.
The authors of the movie show the verses painted on the women's bodies.
Mohammed Bouyeri assassinated Theo van Gogh, after the movie had been shown on Dutch TV.
Bouyeri is a Moroccan-Dutch Muslim who was upset about the movie.
The assassination happened on 2 November 2004.
A letter linked the murder to Van Gogh's movie and his views regarding Islam.
It was addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and  called for jihad against kafir.
Kafir is an Arabic word for unbeliever, a person who hides, denies, or covers the truth.
The letter was also against America, Europe, the Netherlands, and Hirsi Ali herself.
After the murder of Van Gogh, tens of thousands gathered in the center of Amsterdam to mourn Van Gogh's death.
There were fire-bombings of mosques and Muslim schools.
Christian churches were also attacked.
Eleven other Muslim men were also arrested, other than Bouyeri.
They were charged with conspiracy to assassinate Hirsi Ali.
After the murder of Theo van Gogh, Submission gained international fame.
It was withdrawn from the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The movie had been scheduled to be shown on Sunday during a discussion on freedom of speech in movie at the festival.
Because of the violent murder of Van Gogh, the producer of Submission, Gijs van de Westelaken, said, "We do not want to take any chance of endangering anyone else who participated in the movie."
The movie was shown on television in a number of European countries.
Hirsi Ali has said she would like to make a sequel to the movie because "By not making 'Submission Part II,' I would only be helping terrorists believe that if they use violence, they're rewarded with what they want."
When she was asked if she would submit to threats against her life, she said "Not me."
Hirsi Ali on Film over Position of Women in Koran
Dutch movies
Transmutation is a basic process in alchemy.
The most important form of transmutation is the change of lead into gold.
Alchemists tried and failed to change base metals (metals of very little value) into a metal of high value like gold.
A psychologist is someone who studies and practices psychology as a job.
Psychologists study the human mind and behavior.
They study human perceptions, emotions, and personality relationships.
Clinical psychologists help people overcome mental health issues without the use of drugs.
They often use CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Psychology is the study of the mind, partly by studying what people do, and grounding the observations in science.
The goal of Psychology is to gain an understanding of individuals, groups and relationships and how certain personality traits can influence the outcome of any given situation.
Psychology tries to gain an understanding of mental functions in an individuals social behaviors, while also exploring the physiological and neurological processes that influence certain functions and behaviours.
Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, as a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer.
He worked for 91 years, and almost always worked in German-speaking Europe.
Heesters was one of the oldest working people in entertainment.
Some people have had problems with Heesters because he once sang for Adolf Hitler.
He also supported the Nazi Germany during World War II.
Heesters was married twice: to Belgian actress Louise Ghijs (1906-1985) from 1930 until her death and from 1992-2011 to Simone Rethel.
Heesters has two daughters from his first marriage and five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, twenty-five great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandson as of 2011.
His younger daughter Nicole Heesters is a well-known actress in the German-speaking world, as is his granddaughter Saskia Fischer.
On 29 November 2011, he suddenly fell ill and was rushed into a hospital.
He was operated on to fit a heart pacemaker.
He was allowed home less than a week later.
This was in time to spend his 108th birthday the next day with family.
He did not feel strong enough to make the planned stage appearance to sing in celebration of his birthday.
He also missed the premiere of his latest movie, Ten.
Due to a relapse in his condition, on 17 December he went back to the hospital.
He had a stroke and died on Christmas Eve 2011.
1965: Jetzt geh' ich ins Maxim
2003: Ich werde 100 Jahre alt
1937: "Ich werde jede Nacht von ihnen träumen"
1939: "Musik, Musik, Musik" (featuring Marika Rökk)
1941: "Liebling, was wird nun aus uns beiden"
1941: "Man müßte Klavier spielen können"
1949: "Das kommt mir spanisch vor"
1949: "Tausendmal möchte' ich dich küssen"
1998: "Ich werde 100 Jahre alt" (song)
2007: "Generationen" (featuring Claus Eisenmann)
Honours, decorations, awards
1984: Bavarian Order of Merit
1993: Berlinian Order of Merit
2000: Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
Bambi in 1967, 1987, 1990, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
2001: Platinum Romy (TV award)
2003: Goldene Kamera
2004: Kammersänger
Official website  (in German)
Postcards and tobacco cards
Dutch movie actors
Dutch stage actors
Dutch television actors
Dutch voice actors