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324 Bamberga is the 16th biggest asteroid in the Main asteroid belt.
It was found by Johann Palisa on February 25, 1892 in Vienna, making it one of the last big (diameter over 200 km) asteroids found.
Apart from the near-earth asteroid Eros, it was the last asteroid which is ever easily visible with binoculars to be found.
Although its very high orbital eccentricity means its opposition magnitude varies a lot, at a rare opposition near perihelion Bamberga can reach a magnitude of +8.0, which is as bright as Saturn's moon Titan.
Such near-perihelion oppositions happen on a regular cycle every twenty-two years, with the last happening in 1991 and the next in 2013.
Its brightness at these rare near-perihelion oppositions makes Bamberga the brightest C-type asteroid, about one magnitude brighter than 10 Hygiea's maximum brightness of around +9.1.
At such an opposition Bamberga can in fact be closer to Earth than any main belt asteroid with magnitude above +9.5, getting as close as 0.78 AU.
For comparison, 7 Iris never comes closer than 0.85 AU and 4 Vesta never closer than 1.13 AU when it becomes visible to the naked eye in a pollution-free sky.
Overall Bamberga is the tenth brightest main belt asteroid after, in order, Vesta, Pallas, Ceres, Iris, Hebe, Juno, Melpomene, Eunomia and Flora.
Its high eccentricity (for comparison 36% higher than that of Pluto), though, means that at most oppositions other asteroids reach higher magnitudes.
It has an unusually long rotation period among the big asteroids.
Its spectral class is between the C-type and P-type asteroids.
Dalpe is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
www.dalpe.ch
Dalpe e Cornone, Informations and pictures
The municipality was first noted in 1171 as Faedo.
In the spring of 2004, the people voted for merging the neighboring municipalities of Chiggiogna, Osco, Mairengo, Calpiogna, Campello, Rossura, Calonico, Anzonico, Cavagnago, and Sobrio.
Most of the municipalities did not want to do that, and the new municipality contains only the municipalities of Faido, Chiggiogna, Rossura, and Calonico.
On 1 April 2012 the former municipalities of Anzonico, Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico, Mairengo and Osco merged into the municipality.
On 10 April 2016, Sobrio merged into the municipality.
Gerra (Gambarogno) is a former municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Gerra (Verzasca) is a former municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ghirone was a municipality of the district Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
On 22 October 2006 the former municipalities of Aquila, Campo (Blenio), Ghirone, Olivone and Torre merged to form the new municipality of Blenio.
Giornico is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
www.giornico.ch
Gnosca was a municipality, in the municipality of Bellinzona and the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Gordevio was a municipality of the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Gordola is a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
The town was the first time mentioned in a document in 1200.
Giaches de Wert (pronounce: JYA-kes de VERT) (born Flanders, 1535;  died Mantua,  6 May  1596) was a Flemish composer who lived and worked in Italy.
He was one of the most important composers of madrigals in the Renaissance period.
We know very little about his childhood.
Even some of the things about his adult life we are not sure about.
He was born in Flanders, possibly in Ghent.
When he was a boy he was taken to Italy and he stayed there for the rest of his life.
As a boy he was a singer in the household of Maria di Cardona, Marchesa of Padulla, near Naples.
As a young man he lived in Novellara.
He married there, and he had at least six children.
Later he went to live in Milan where he had the job of maestro di capella (music director).
He stayed there until 1565.
Some letters he wrote during that time have survived.
They describe life at the court where he worked.
In 1565 he went to work for the Gonzaga in Mantua and became choir master at the ducal chapel of S. Barbara where he stayed until 1592.
A lot of people were jealous of his good job, especially a man called Bonvicino who made life difficult for him.
It was then found that Bonvicino was having a love affair with de Wert’s wife, so she had to go back to live in Novellara.
De Wert was becoming a very well known composer.
He was offered a job at the emperor’s palace in Prague, but he did not take it.
He travelled to work in various places such as Parma and Novellara.
In Novellara his wife was found to have been plotting against the Gonzaga of Novellara.
She was put in prison where she later died.
There were long arguments in the law court about who should have her property.
In the end, de Wert was given a third of her possessions, and he was given the right to let his children inherit the money.
He worked in Ferrara where he had a love affair with a lady who was of aristocratic birth.
Since he was only a musician he was only a servant, so the lady was sent away from the court.
In his later years he worked for the court at Mantua where the music had become very good because the new ruler, Vincenzo Gonzaga, was very interested in music.
De Wert composed music for the theatre.
He suffered from malaria during the early 1580s.
He died in Mantua and was buried in the crypt at S Barbara.
Music and influence
De Wert wrote over 230 madrigals and other secular works.
These were later published in 16 volumes.
He also wrote over 150 sacred pieces (motets, hymns etc.)
which showed how well he could write counterpoint.
His madrigals were very modern for their time.
The music was very daring in the way it described the words.
He sometimes used small groups of singers to contrast with one another like a musical conversation.
He was a great influence on later madrigal composers such as  Monteverdi and Gesualdo.
Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance.
New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.
ISBN 0-393-09530-4
Franco-Flemish composers
San Gimignano is a small hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
San Gimignano is famous for the medieval towers, and for the wine, called "Vernaccia di San Gimignano".
San Gimignano was founded as a small village in about 1300 BC by the Etruscans.
The city is named after Saint Geminianus, who defended it from Attila the Hun in the mid 5th century.
There are many churches in the town: the two main ones are the Collegiata, a cathedral, and Sant'Agostino.
The Communal Palace is now the home of San Gimignano Gallery.
Hhere there are works by Pinturicchio, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippino Lippi, Domenico di Michelino, Pier Francesco Fiorentino, and others.
Tea with Mussolini, a 1999 drama about English and American women in Italy during World War II, was filmed in part at San Gimignano.
The Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection  (BMELV) is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Its headquarters are in Bonn, but it has a second seat in Berlin.
The ministry has two "parliamentary permanent secretaries", Gerd Müller, CSU and Ursula Heinen, CDU, and the top civil servant is Gert Lindemann.
He is the "established permanent secretary".
Department 1: Central division
Department 2: Consumer protection, diet, and biological and genetic engineering
Department 3: Food safety, the veterinary surgeon
Department 4: Agricultural markets, planning bases
Department 5: Rural room, social system, vegetable production, forest and timber industry
Department 6: EU matters, international matters, fishing
The Federal Ministers
Gorduno was a municipality, in the municipality of Bellinzona and the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Grancia is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Gravesano is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
ACF Fiorentina (Associazione Calcio Fiorentina),often called Fiorentina, is an Italian professional football club from Florence, Tuscany, and was founded  in 1926.
Fiorentina have won the Serie A twice, first in 1955/56 then again in 1968/69, as well as winning six Coppa Italia trophies.
On the European stage Fiorentina have won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1960/61, they finished runners-up  in the UEFA Cup 1989/90 and they also came close to winning the biggest European prize, finishing as runners-up in the European Cup during 1956/57.
1926-2002 AC Fiorentina
2002-2003 Florentia Viola
2003-present ACF Fiorentina
Fiorentina is known by the nickname La viola; a reference to their distinctive purple colours.
August 26 1926 - With the fusion of Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina (P.G.F.) Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze, Fiorentina was born.
1974 - the Viola win the Anglo-Italian League Cup.
2001 -2005 - The team is struck by financial problems, and are moved to the bottom of Italian Football.
They then work their way back up to the Serie A.
Titles won
1955/56, 1968/69
1939/40, 1960/61, 1965/66, 1974/75, 1995/96, 2000/01
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup : 1
League positions from 2000-2009
League positions from 1929-1999
The municipality was made in 1882 by splitting from the municipality of Vergeletto.
On 10 April 2016 the former municipalities of Gresso, Isorno, Mosogno and Vergeletto merged to form the municipality of Onsernone.
2016 disestablishments in Switzerland
Indemini is a former municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Intragna was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Iragna is a former municipality of the district Riviera in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Iseo was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
It was incorporated into the comune of Bioggio in 2008.
Isone is a municipality of the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
The former municipality was created in 2001 by a merger of Auressio, Berzona and Loco.
Lamone is a municipality in Lugano in Ticino canton in Switzerland.
Lavertezzo is a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Officail website of the municipality Lavertezzo (Italian)
Ligornetto is a former municipality of the district Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Linescio is a municipality of the district Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology () is a Federal Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
It was founded 1949 as the Federal Ministry of the Economy.
It was combined in May 1971 with the Federal Ministry of Finance to make the Federal Ministry of Economics and Finance.
This joining only lasted until December 1972.
In 1998 the technology area of the Ministry of Research and Development was given to the ministry so that it was called Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
It was joined with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to make the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour between 2002 and 2005.
1917-1919 - Reichswirtschaftsamt the Reich Economy Office
1919-1945 - the Reich Ministry of Trade and Commerce
1946-1949 - the Administration Office for the Economy
1949-1998 - the Federal Ministry of Economics
1998-2002 - the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
2002-2005 - the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour
since end 2005 - Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
Structure of the ministry
To do its job, the ministry is divided into nine departments, the central division deals with administration, the other divisions deal with a certain area of policy.
There are also some independent agencies which report to the ministry
Ministry divisions
Z - Central division
E - European Affairs
I - Economic policy
II - Middle class policy
III - Energy policy
IV - Industrial policy
V - International Economic policy
VI - Communication and post policy
VII - Technology policy
Federal cartel office - BKartA, Bonn
Federal Office of Economy and Export Control - BAFA, Eschborn, Bochum
Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways Federal Network Agency - BNetzA, Bonn
Federal Agency for Foreign Trade - bfai, Cologne
Federal Institute of Materials Research and Examination - BAM, Berlin
Physical technological Federal Institute - PTB, Brunswick, Berlin
Federal Institute of Geowissenschaften and raw material - BGR, Hanover, Berlin
1949-1963: Ludwig Erhard, independent
1963-1966: Kurt Schmücker, CDU
1966-1972: Karl Schiller, SPD
1972: Helmut Schmidt, SPD
1972-1977: Hans Friedrichs, FDP
1977-1982: Otto Graf Lambsdorff, FDP
1982: Manfred Lahnstein, SPD
1982-1984: Otto Graf Lambsdorff, FDP
1984-1988: Martin Bangemann, FDP/DVP
1988-1991: Helmut Hausmann, FDP/DVP
1991-1993: Jürgen Möllemann, FDP
1993-1998: Günter Rexrodt, FDP
The ministry had many junior ministers, one who has gone on to a more important political job is Norbert Lammert, CDU, who was parliamentary permanent secretary between 1994 and 1997.
Lammert became President of the Bundestag in 2005
Of the ministry's top civil servants, called the "established permanent secretary", Klaus von Dohnanyi is best known.
He was established permanent secretary in 1968 and 1969.
He is a famous economist and was First Mayor of Hamburg
1998-2002: Werner Müller, independent
2002-2005: Wolfgang Clement, SPD
2005-2009: Michael Glos, CSU
2009: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, CSU
2009-2011: Rainer Brüderle, FDP
2011-2013: Philipp Rösler, FDP
2013-2017: Sigmar Gabriel, SPD
2017-: Brigitte Zypries, SPD
The main headquarters of the ministry is in Invalidenstraße in Berlin-Mitte.
It is number of buildings which used to be the Kaiser Wilhelm academy (armed forces medical school) and the old hospital.
The second headquarters of the ministry is the old Gallwitz barracks in Bonn-Duisdorf.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research () (BMBF) is a Federal Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The headquarters of the Ministry are in the so-called "cross buildings" (Kreuzbauten) in Bonn, a second office is in Berlin.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Science was founded as the Federal Ministry for Nuclear Affairs on October 20, 1955.
It was renamed the Federal Ministry of Nuclear Affairs and Water-supply and Distribution in 1957, and again in 1962 to Federal Ministry of Scientific Research.
It became the Federal Ministry for Education and Science in 1969 which it kept 1994 up to the reunification with the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology.
Peter Weingart: Das Wissensministerium : ein halbes Jahrhundert Forschungs- und Bildungspolitik in Deutschland VelbruÌck Wiss.,
Weilerswist 2006,
Locarno is the capital of the Locarno district in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
The city of Locarno official website
Lodrino is a former municipality of the district Riviera in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
On 2 April 2017 the former municipalities of Cresciano, Iragna, Lodrino, and Osogna merged to form the new municipality of Riviera.
Losone is a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is an Indie and pop music magazine in the United Kingdom.
It has been published every week since March 1952.
It was the first British magazine to include a singles chart.
The magazine's first issue was published on 7 March 1952.
It was first published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint.
During the 1960s, the magazine championed the new British groups emerging at the time.
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were frequently on the front cover a lot.
These and other artists would also appeared at the NME Poll Winners Concert, an awards event that featured artists voted as most popular by the NME's readers.
The concert also featured an awards ceremony where the poll winners would collect their awards.
In mid-1973, the paper was selling nearly 300,000 copies per week and was outselling its other weekly rivals, Disc, Record Mirror and Sounds.
The year 1976 saw Punk Rock arrive on the music scene and NME, like other "specialist" publications, was slow in reporting and covering this new music phenomenon.
In an attempt to boost sales, the paper advertised for a pair of "hip young gunslingers" to join their editorial staff.
This resulted in the recruitment of two journalists who made sure the magazine was completely up to date on this new music style.
Bands who a few months previously had been criticising the NME were now eager to be included.
The magazine also became more openly political during the time of Punk.
Its cover would sometimes feature youth-oriented issues rather than a musical act.
Sales were dropping, and by 1985 NME had hit a rough patch and was in danger of closing again.
During this period, the editors at the magazine were split between those who wanted to write about hip hop, a genre that was relatively new to the UK, and those who wanted to stick to rock music.
Sales were apparently lower when photos of hip hop artists appeared on the front and this led to the paper suffering as the lack of direction became even more apparent to readers.
Although the period from 1991 to 1993 was dominated by American bands like Nirvana, this did not mean that British bands were being ignored.
The NME still covered the Indie scene a lot.
By 1992, some new British bands were beginning to appear.
Suede were quickly hailed by the paper as an alternative to the heavy Grunge sound and hailed as the start of a new British music scene.
Indie however was still the dominant force, but the rise of new British bands would become something the paper would focus more and more upon.
In April 1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead, a story which affected not only his fans and readers of the NME, but would see a massive change in British music.
Grunge was about to be replaced by Britpop , a new form of music influenced by British music of the 1960s and British culture.
The phrase was coined by NME after the band Blur released their album Parklife in the same month of Cobain's death.
Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop gather popularity for the rest of 1994.
By the end of the year Blur and Oasis were the two biggest bands in the UK and sales of the NME were increasing thanks to the Britpop effect.
1995 saw the NME cover many of these new bands and saw many of these bands play the NME Stage at that years Glastonbury Festival where the magazine had been sponsoring the second stage at the festival since 1993.
The new millennium saw the NME focus on new British bands such as Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Chiefs who emerged as "indie music" continued to grow in commercial success.
This commercial success has led to bands such as the Arctic Monkeys being both successful in the extreme and being championed by the NME; a phenomenon not seen since Britpop.
In December 2005 accusations were made that the NME end of year poll had been edited for commercial and political reasons.
These criticisms were rebutted by McNicholas, who claimed that webzine Londonist.com had got hold of an early draft of the poll.
NME.COM
Its first editor was Brendan Fitzgerald.
Later Anthony Thornton redesigned the site, focusing on music news.
The website was awarded Online Magazine Of The Year in 1999 and 2001 and Anthony Thornton was announced as Website Editor Of The Year on three occasions.
It was awarded 'Best Music Website' at the Record Of The Day awards in October 2005.
In 2006 NME.COM celebrated with a party at London's KOKO featuring Leicester band Kasabian and was subsequently awarded the BT Digital Music Award for Best Music Magazine and the first 'Chairman's Award' from the Association of Online Publishers awarded by the Chairman, Simon Waldman.
The website over the last year has shifted it focus to also include tabloid gossip alongside its traditional music news.
With regular news articles entitled "Daily Ligger" and "Tabloid Hell."
Pedernales is a Dominican province; it is in the southwestern part of the country, on the border with Haiti.
Its capital city has the same name, Pedernales.
It was created on 16 December 1957.
It was a municipality of the Barahona province before being elevated to the category of province.
The province was named after the Pedernales river; this river forms the southern border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
And the river is named Pedernales because the mineral flint () is common in the region.
Some native groups lived close to the coast and the River Pedernales before the conquest of the island by European people.
But very few people has lived in the region, for most of its history, because it is a very dry region.
Until the 20th century, the only people living here were Haitians and many places have French names.
Sometimes, during the Dominican-Haitian War (1844-1856), Haitian soldiers came across this region because there were not Dominican soldiers.
The only fight between soldiers of the two countries in the territory of the present province was close to the El Can bay, near the town of Juancho, on 6 January 1856.
Since colonial times, the territory was part of the Azua province until it was changed to the Barahona when Barahona became a province in 1881.
The province of Pedernales was created in 1957 with the municipalities of Pedernales, its capital, and Oviedo.
The Pedernales province is in the southwest of the country.
It is bordered to the north by the province of Independencia, to the northeast by Barahona, to the east, south and west by the Caribbean Sea.
To the west Pedernales borders the Republic of Haiti.
In  (last national census), there were  people living in the Pedernales province, and 20,345 () living in towns and cities.
Its population represents  of the total population of the country and the province is ranked as the 32nd (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated province, the province with fewest people living in it and with the lowest population density.
The Pedernales province has a total area of .
It has   of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 7th (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province.
The province is in the Barahona Peninsula.
The Sierra de Bahoruco ("Bahoruco mountain range") is in the northern half of the province; its highest mountain, and the highest mountain of the province, is Loma del Toro,  above sea level, in the limits with the Independencia province.
The rest of the province is formed by savannas and plains of limestone rocks.
The savannas are close to the coast, as the Sansón Savanna in Oviedo and the Pedernales Savanna around the city of Pedernales.
Several small islands belong to the province.
The main islands are Beata and Alto Velo.
The altitude of Pedernales, provincial capital, is  above sea level.
The only important river is the Pedernales river, with its tributary Mulito.
The Pedernales river marks the Dominican-Haitian border.
There are several lagoons (a lagoon is a small lake close to the sea) with brackish water.
The most important is the Laguna de Oviedo, on the eastern coast and near the town of Oviedo, with an area of .
On the western coast, the most important lagoon is Laguna Salada, with an area of .
The climate of the province is tropical, hot most of the year, but it is cooler on the mountains.
It is very dry in the savannas and plains, with long droughts, but rains are common in the high mountains.
The trade with Haiti is important, above all in the capital city.
Potato, cabbage and other vegetables are produced in the Sierra de Bahoruco.
Because of the beautiful beaches of the western coast of the province, like Bahía de las Águilas ("Eagles Bay"), tourism is becoming an important economic activity.
There are two of the largest national parks of the country: the Jaragua National Park and the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park.
The development of the province was produced by the mining of bauxite (an aluminium ore) but, since 1984,  it has changed to the mining of limestone to send to other countries and for a cement factory.
1950s establishments in the Dominican Republic
Wolfenstein 3D is a 1992 first person shooter computer video game.
The game was created by id Software.
It was released for the PC on May 5, 1992.
It was later released for many other systems including Apple computers and Nintendo's SNES console and Game Boy Advance handheld system.
Wolfenstein 3D was one of the first first person shooter games.
It is said to have created much of the popularity in this type of game.
The game was based on the 1980s Muse Software computer games Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein.
In Wolfenstein 3D, the player controls an American soldier named BJ Blazkowicz.
The player is trying to get out of a building controlled by Nazis during World War II.
The player must avoid guards and dogs while looking for the way out.
Food, medical supplies, ammunition and weapons can be found along the way to help the player.
Knife: this weapon is usually only used if the player does not have ammunition for his guns.
It can only hurt people standing very close to the character.
Pistol: this gun is small and weak.
It is the gun the player starts with.
Machine Gun: this is like the pistol except it shoots faster.
Chaingun: this gun shoots very quickly.
Because of the use of Nazi symbols and music in the game, Wolfenstein 3D was banned in Germany.
This was because it broke German laws.
People also complained about the player having to shoot dogs in the game.
NEC PC-9801 games
Deceiver is the fourth album by American musician Chris Thile, which was released in 2004.
The album uses thirty-nine different instruments, which were all played by Thile alone.
Some of the instruments played on the album include mandolin, piano, bass guitar, electric guitar, violin, and different types of percussion instruments.
In 2005, the album was nominated a Grammy Award, for "Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical" to Deceiver'''s engineers, Thile and Gary Paczosa.
In an interview from 2007, Chris Thile described what he had in plan for Deceiver:
"Wrong Idea" - 2:37
"On Ice" - 3:52
"Locking Doors" - 2:44
"Waltz For Dewayne Pomeroy" - 3:03
"Empire Falls" - 2:58
"I'm Nowhere and You're Everything" - 5:54
"Jessamyn's Reel" - 1:54
"The Believer" - 2:35
"This Is All Real" - 3:27
"Ready For Anything" - 5:15
All songs on Deceiver'' were written by Chris Thile.
Chris Thile - Music, Arranger, Producer, Art Direction, Design
Gary Paczosa - Producer, Engineer
Wendy Stamberger - Art Direction
Chris Thile albums
The My Trach Massacre was the murder of many people in My Trach Village, My Thuy Commune, Le Thuy District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam.
The massacre took place on 29 November 1947 between 2:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.  Soldiers of the French army killed nearly half of the 320 people who lived in the village.
Many of the civilians who were killed were women, old people and children.
1947 in Asia
The Anti-submarine boom net was used to stop enemy submarines entering Sydney Harbour during World War II.
The net went all the way across the harbour from Green Point, Watson's Bay to Georges Head on the other side.
The boom was part of the Sydney Harbour defences which also included artillery batteries and patrol boats.
In January 1942, the Australian defence forces began to build the anti-submarine boom net; it was finished in August 1942.
For more than three years, entry by boats, ships and ferries into Sydney Harbour was through one of three different gates that were a part of the anti-submarine boom net.
On 31 May 1942, during WWII, three Japanese submarines tried to get into the harbour.
The first submarine to try and come in was the M27.
Lieutenant Jahai Chuma was the man in charge of this submarine.
The M27 followed a Sydney ferry through the gate on its way to Manly, but it got caught in the western end of the net's middle section.
Lieutenant Chuma, tried to free his submarine by using a special tool that cuts metal, but this only made things worse.
By 8:30pm the watchman for the Maritime Service Board, James Cargill, went to see what was happening.
He used a boat to row across to where the submarine was stuck.
Very surprised at finding a Japanese submarine, Cargill called naval headquarters with his two way radio.
At first the navy did not believe that there was a Japanese Midget submarine caught in the boom net.
It took him two hours to get them to believe him.
By 10:27pm, Chuma knew that he had been discovered, so he blew up the submarine using bombs, killing himself and his crew.
The two other submarines got through the boom net, which at the time was not quite finished.
They attacked shipping for many hours before they were destroyed as well.
In August 1945, the boom net was taken away.
By early 1946, only the dolphin structure was left.
The base of the winch house is the only remaining part of the anti-submarine boom net.
It can still be seen at Green Point.
Eurotrash is an American English slang term to describe stereotypical Europeans.
These words often will cause rage to Europeans.
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Autonomous subdivisions, etc.
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The Virgin Islands are an island group in the Caribbean.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins,  (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist.
Adele was born at North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton, London, She is daughter of Mark Evans is Wales people and Penny Adkins, She has a half-brother is call Cameron, She is living with his father and She started to singing from her 4 years old, She has graduated from The BRIT School in Croydon in May 2006.
In July 2006, Adele published two songs on the fourth issue of online arts magazine PlatformsMagazine.com.
After graduation, Adele began to play small shows at places all over Britain.
She has also toured with best friend Jack Peñate, as well as Jamie T, Raul Midon, Devendra Banhart, Amos Lee and Keren Ann since summer 2006.
Adele went on her first UK headlining tour in October 2007.
Adele's first single released was "Hometown Glory".
On it, she sings about Tottenham.
The single was released on 22 October 2007 on Jamie T's label Pacemaker Recordings.
It is a limited edition 7" vinyl with B-side "Best for Last".
She has since signed to independent music label XL Recordings.
In January 2008, she released her second single "Chasing Pavements".
Adele has become quite popular on MySpace.
She is following the example of fellow Londoner Lily Allen by using the web as a mediafocus and a place to see what people think of her songs.
Adele performed Daydreamer on BBC2's Later With Jools Holland, alongside Paul McCartney and Björk.
She was next on BBC1's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 7 December 2007, singing Chasing Pavements.
On 10 December 2007, Adele was awarded with the first BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice prize.
She has been called the "new Amy Winehouse."
In January 2008, she was voted winner in the annual BBC 6 Music poll of industry experts Sound of 2008, for acts to emerge in the coming year.
In 2011 Adele released her second album, 21, named after her age at the time it was made.
It was number one in more than 26 countries.
It became the biggest selling album of the 21st century.
Her third studio album, 25, was released on 20 November 2015 and debuted at number one all around the world.
The music video for the lead single "Hello", which also debuted at number one in many countries, broke the record for the shortest amount of time for a YouTube video to reach one billion views.
The song was also certified 4× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America faster than any other song in history.
To date, it has been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA.
Adele returned to music in October 2021 and announced her fourth album, 30 and the single "Easy on Me", which was released on 15 October 2021, and was her first single after five years.
The album was released on 19 November 2021.
In October 2012, Adele gave birth to her son, Angelo, with her then-boyfriend, Simon Konecki.
In 2013 she won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Brit Award for Best British Single for the title track for the James Bond movie Skyfall.
The song also won the award for Best Song for Visual Media at the Grammy Awards.
In 2017, Adele confirmed that she is married to Konecki.
In April 2019, it was reported that the two ended their marriage.
"Hometown Glory" – 22 October 2007
"Chasing Pavements" – 21 January 2008
"Cold Shoulder" – 28 April 2008
"Make You Feel My Love" – 27 October 2008
"Rolling in the Deep" – 29 November 2010 (was the number-one single of 2011 in Canada and the US)
"Someone Like You" – 24 March 2011 (her first number-one single in her native UK)
"Set Fire to the Rain" – 4 July 2011 (her third US number-one, after "Someone Like You")
"Rumour Has It" – 1 November 2011 (top-20 in the US and Canada)
"Turning Tables" – 5 November 2011
"Skyfall" – 5 October 2012 (top-ten in the US, UK, and Canada)
"Hello" – 23 October 2015 (number one in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia)
"When We Were Young" – 22 January 2016 (top-ten in Canada and UK, top 15 in US)
"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" – 16 May 2016 (top ten in US, UK, Canada)
"Water Under the Bridge"
"Easy on Me" – 15 October 2021
"Daydreamer"
"Best for Last"
"Chasing Pavements"
"Cold Shoulder"
"Melt My Heart to Stone"
"Right as Rain"
"Make You Feel My Love"
"My Same"
"Tired"
"Hometown Glory"21 – 19 January 2011
"Turning Tables"
"Don't You Remember"
"He Won't Go"
"I'll Be Waiting"
"One and Only"
"Lovesong"
"Someone Like You"25 – 20 November 2015
"Remedy"
"River Lea"
"Love in the Dark"
"Million Years Ago"
"All I Ask"
"Sweetest Devotion"
The Grammy Awards are awarded each year by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Some think they are the highest music honor.
As of February 13, 2017, Adele has received 15 Grammy Awards from 18 nominations.
In 2012, Adele became the second female artist to win six awards in one night, after Beyoncé Knowles did in 2010.
Adele is only the second artist (following Christopher Cross) to have won all four of the General Field ("Big Four") awards at the Grammys.
Adele's website
Adele at XL Recordings
People from Tottenham
Hair straightening is when a person makes their hair straighter.
Their hair may be curly, wavy, or almost straight.
There are methods to make even very curly hair straighter.
There are two different types of straightening: temporary and permanent.
Temporary hair straightening keeps the hair straight until it gets wet or damp again, so only lasts for up to a few days.
Permanent hair straightening keeps the hair straight for up to a few months, even when the hair gets wet.
Hair irons, tongs use heat to make the hair straight.
Hot combs, combs that use heat to make the hair straight
Hairdryer, a machine that blows air over the hair to dry it quickly, so that combs can be used to style the hair straight.
Hair cremes, cremes that help hold the hair in place more, but do not completely straighten the hair.
Chemical relaxers
Japanese hair straightening
Brazilian hair straightening
Brazilian blowout
GHD
A hair iron or hair tong is something people use to change the shape of the hair by heating it.
There are three types of hair iron:
Straightening irons (sometimes called hair irons, hair straighteners or just straighteners), which straighten the hair.
Curling tongs (sometimes called hair tongs or hair curlers or just curlers, or less often curling irons), which make hair curly.
Styling irons (sometimes called hair stylers or just stylers), that can straighten and curl the hair.
In 1893, Ada Harris, a school teacher from Indianapolis, applied for a patent for the hair straightener.
The hair straightener was a device “heated like a curling iron” with two flat faces held together by a hinge .
It was said that when the faces press the hair, it will become straight.”
Harris's invention also had a comb, which would keep different parts of the hair separated.
Years later, Sharrell made heated metal tools, for example: hot combs.
The hot metal straightener went easily through the hair, making less damage and dryness than the way things were done before.
Later, ceramic and electrical straighteners were made, meaning people could adjust the heat settings and straightener size.
Another method of hair straightening is Japanese hair straightening, which was invented in Japan, and works like a perm, but to straighten instead of curl the hair.
It is now given at many salons but is quite expensive and must be re-done after it stops working.
The straightening irons of today
Some better hair straighteners today have ceramic coated heating parts, which harm the hair less, and heat up faster than non-ceramic coated heating parts.
Cheaper brands do not often have ceramic, but some have a paint-like coating that looks like ceramic plating.
Cordless flat irons use lithium battery that can last up to 45 minutes, and other is heated by thermacell butane gas cartridge.
Depending on the hair type, repeated use of hair straighteners, like most other heat styling tools, can cause varying amounts of damage such as split ends, thinning of the hair shaft and even causing hair to become brittle and prone to breakage.
Generally, after extensive damage, hair will show signs of dryness and display an unhealthy appearance.
However, many companies, such as L’Oréal and Tresemmé, have began to manufacture heat protection sprays and cream which aim to reduce the amount of damage that is caused by the use of straighteners.
Hair straighteners should only be used on dry hair, unless they are specially made with vents to let the moisture out.
These sort of irons are usually called "Wet Dry" irons.
Based on the materials used in the heating plates, hair irons can be classified as ceramic, tourmaline and traditional metal flat iron.
Ceramic hair irons are believed to be gentle to the hair.
Hair straighteners work by breaking the hair's hydrogen bonds, which are part of what make the hair curly.
After the bonds are broken, the hair is stopped from going back to its original, natural, curly form.
The hydrogen bonds can re-form if moisture touches them, such as water or dampness.
Intel Core is the name of a family of 32-bit dual-core microprocessors.
It was made by the technology company Intel.
Intel Core processors are based on Pentium M technology.
Those processors are more advanced than Intel P6 processors.
This architecture, or way to build a processor, is now replaced by Core 2 microarchitecture.
In the Core family, there are two groups: the Duo (with two cores) and Solo (Duo with one disabled core).
The Solo line replaced the Pentium M one-core processor.
Yonah is a company name for Intel's first generation of microprocessors for mobile computers.
The Core Duo was released on 5 January 2006.
It was the first Intel processor to be used in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers.
Yonah does not have 64-bit function.
151 million transistors, with 2 MiB L2 cache.
2.33 – 2.50 GHz
front side bus (FSB) is 667 MT/s (per second)
supported by the 945GM, 945PM, 945GT, 965GM, 965PM, and 965GT chipsets
Advantages and shortcomings
The duo version of Intel Core (Yonah) has two cores, which give performance per watt almost as good as single-core processors.
In computer machines operating with batteries, this means getting as much total work done in one battery charge like in old computers.
64-bit is not supported.
Limited FPU (Floating Point Unit) throughput (amount of data computed in a certain time) for non-parallel (not at the same time) computations or single processes.
"Performance per watt" is not better or even worse than older processors.
Core-based processor Intel Xeon Sossaman LV (low-voltage), for servers also does not have the Intel 64-bit function.
All new server systems have support for x86-64, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 even requires a 64-bit processor to run.
Intel Core Duo Web page
Intel Core Solo Web page
Processor comparison table
Intel Core technical specifications
techPowerUp!
CPU Database
Tested against AMD's 64 X2 line and Intel's own Pentium M
Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology papers
Intel Core processors
Geographers are historically known as people who make maps.
Nowadays map making is the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography.
The geographer studies not only the physical details of the environment.
He looks at the influence of this physical environment as well.
Therefore he looks at human and wildlife ecologies, weather and climate patterns, economics, and culture.
He will concentrate on the influence space has for relationships between these elements.
human-environment interaction
Rod (geometry), a straight and slender stick; a wand; a cylinder; hence, any slender bar
Rod cell, a cell found in the retina that is sensitive to light/dark (black/white)
Rod (unit), an Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch
Rod (cryptozoology), observational artifacts produced by rapidly flying animals
Rod (god), a Slavic god
Rod (publisher), a music label from 1950s and 1960s Louisiana
Rods (Tarot Suit)
Railway Operating Division
Connecting rod, in an internal combustion engine
Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing
Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment
Switch (rod), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches
Eubacterium with the shape of a rod
Gun (slang)
People with the given name Rod
Rod Stewart, rock musician
Rod Laver (born 1938), Australian former tennis player
Rod Steiger (1925–2002), American actor
Rod Flanders, a fictional character on The Simpsons
Rod From Avenue Q, a character in the stage musical Avenue Q
Rod Whittaker, a fictional camp character from the late 80's
Rod Serling, Creator of the 1960s show The Twilight Zone
People with the surname Rod
Edouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist, 1857-1910
Johnny Rod, American bass guitar player
Hrod
Dowel
Hot rod, often also referred to as 'rod'
Rood, an old English unit equal to quarter an acre
Stick, any long object
R.O.D., an acronym for the Read or Die anime
A chakra is an energy center in the human body as taught in Indian yoga and some related cultures.
Chakras are also believed in by some New Age adherents.
Chakra means ‘Aneel or wheel' in Sanskrit.
According to people who believe in their existence, a chakra is an area in the body connected with life energy.
They say that there are seven chakras in the body - each is an interface for the flow of life energy.
They say that a chakra vitalizes a physical body and is associated with interactions of a physical or mental nature.
They also say that current science is not able to detect or measure chakras.
They form part of a subtle energy body, along with the energy channels, or nadis, and the subtle winds, or pranas.
They are located along a central nadi, Sushumna, which runs either alongside or inside the spine.
Two other nadis, Ida and Pingala, also run through the chakras, and alongside Sushumna.
They occasionally cross Sushumna at the location of the chakras.
They possess a number of 'petals' or 'spokes'.
In some traditions, such as the Tibetan, these spokes branch off into the thousands of nadis that run throughout the human body.
They are generally associated with a mantra seed-syllable, and often with a variety of colours and deities.
Types of Chakras
The seven main chakras are described as being present in an ascending column from the base of the spine to the head.
The chakras are usually connected with a certain color.
Each chakra is also connected with some part of consciousness.
Muladhara (, Thai: มูลาธาระ) Base or Root Chakra (ovaries/prostate)
Swadhisthana (Sanskrit: स्वाधिष्ठान, , Thai: สฺวาธิษฺฐานะ) Sacral Chakra (last bone in spinal cord, the coccyx)
Manipura (Sanskrit: मणिपूर, , Thai: มณีปูระ) Solar Plexus Chakra (navel area)
Anahata (, Thai: อนาหะตะ) Heart Chakra (heart area)
Vishuddha (, Thai: วิศุทฺธะ) Throat Chakra (throat and neck area)
Ajna (, Thai: อาชฺญา) Brow or Third Eye Chakra (pineal gland or third eye)
Sahasrara (, Thai: สหัสฺราระ) Crown Chakra (top of the head; 'soft spot' of a newborn)
Root chakra (Muladhara)
Navel chakra (Swadhisthana)
Solar plexus chakra (Manipura)
Heart chakra (Anahata)
Throat chakra (Vishuddha)
Third eye chakra (Ajna)
Crown chakra (Sahasrara)
Introduction to Chakras from Kheper.net
For other uses of the word, see Scalp (disambiguation)
S: The skin on the head from which head hair grows.
It is richly supplied with blood vessels.
C: Connective tissue.
a thin layer of fat and fibrous tissue lies beneath the skin
A: The aponeurosis (or Epicranial aponeurosis) is the next layer.
It is a tough layer of dense fibrous tissue
L: The loose areolar connective tissue layer provides an easy plane of separation between the upper three layers and the pericranium.
In scalping the scalp is torn off through this layer.
P: The pericranium is the periosteum of the skull bones and provides nutrition to the bone and the capacity for repair.
It may be lifted from the bone to allow removal of bone windows (craniotomy).
People have lived in Malta since around 5200 BC with the first people living there coming from Sicily.
An important prehistoric Neolithic culture marked by Megalithic structures was on the islands, which were made a thousand years before the Pyramids of Giza, which means they were very old.
The Phoenicians in the Mediterranean took over Malta from about 1000 BC, using the islands to expand their sea explorations and trade in the Mediterranean, until the Carthaginians took over and also expanded in the Mediterranean, but these were also defeated by the Romans in 216 BC.
Malta was then ruled by Byzantine, a Greek group that took over almost all of the Mediterranean, from the 4th to 9th century.
Sometime around this point, the Vandals, a German tribe, ruled the islands.
The islands were at one point invaded by the Arabs in AD 870.
They allowed the people to believe in Christianity, and did not have children with the population, so they did not change much on the island, but they showed them citrus fruits and cotton, and water-moving systems.
They hardly had any effect on the island or its people while they were there, but one thing that they did effect was the language.
The Maltese language gained a lot from this.
From the advent of the Normans in 1090 to 1530, Malta was part of the 'Kingdom of Sicily'.
This means that from 1091 to 1530, when the Order of St. John came to Malta, the original Sicilian population that moved there from Sicily in the beginning got bigger.
The French under the rule of Napoleon took over Malta in 1798.
The British helped the Maltese to stop the French control two years later.
The people of Malta were very happy that the British did this, and wanted Britain to rule it.
As part of the 'Treaty of Paris' (1814), Malta became a colony in the British Empire.
Malta became a separate country from everyone on 21 September 1964 (Independence Day).
Under the 1964 rules, Malta originally kept Queen Elizabeth II as the Queen of Malta, with a Governor-General working on her behalf in Malta.
On 13 December 1974 (Republic Day), it became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President as head of state.
Malta joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 and joined the Eurozone on 1 January 2008.
Possible genetic links
The origins debate
Historians and Geneticists currently do not know where the Maltese people came from.
The answer is difficult to find because of several things, such as Malta's invasions, with long parts in time where the population got smaller, before other people from the Mediterranean moved to Malta and married the Maltese.