the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Main event stars such as The Rock, Mankind and Triple H would appear often to help further the storylines which occurred on Monday Night Raw.
Heat itself lead to a big ratings draw for the USA Network.
When SmackDown!
was created in 1999, Heat's importance lowered as well as ratings.
With the debut of SmackDown!
it lead to Heat being taped before SmackDown!.
When  SmackDown!
debuted in August 1999 it briefly became a recap show, with exclusive interviews and feuds from the past of WWF Programming being made into music videos.
This only lasted a couple of weeks as it returned to airing exclusive matches.
The WWF also aired two Halftime HEAT television specials which aired during Super Bowl XXXIII on the USA Network.
During this period the show moved to MTV as part of a deal between Viacom and the WWE.
When the show moved to MTV it began broadcasting live from WWF New York.
In 2002 the show reverted to its previous format of taping the matches before Raw.
Since the brand extension in 2002  Heat became exclusive to the Raw brand, the only exception to this was pay-per-view nights which were broadcast live from the PPV venues and could involve wrestlers from the SmackDown!
In 2002 SmackDown!
branched off its own secondary show called Velocity which mirrored the same format as Heat.
Heat and Velocity were not picked up by the USA Network, when WWE moved Raw back to the USA Network in October 2005.
This left Americans no way of watching the weekend programmes on Television.
WWE then made a decision to begin streaming these programmes on WWE.com exclusively for the United States audience.
Sunday Night Heat soon was renamed WWE Heat as it no longer aired on Sundays.
Heat was still broadcast internationally due to previous programme commitments.
For a short time a special 30 minute live edition of Heat began airing in place of the traditional pre-taped Free For All PPV pre-show.
This lasted from No Mercy 2005 to Backlash 2006.
When WWE began airing in high definition Heat began using the same set as Raw, SmackDown!
and ECW.
The final episode was streamed on WWE.com on May 30, 2008, and was replaced internationally by WWE Vintage Collection.
Commentator history
World Wrestling Entertainment television programs
Sahoo was born in a small town of Dhenkanal in Orissa (India).
Sarojini has MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University.
She now teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa.
Sarojini is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and (late) Nalini Devi.
She is married to Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Orissa.
She has published ten  anthologies of short stories.
Sarojini Sahoo Short Stories (2006) ()
Waiting for Manna (2008)()
Sukhara Muhanmuhin  (1981)
NijaGahirareNije (1989)
Amrutara Pratikshare (1992)
Chowkath (1994)
Tarali Jauthiba Durga (1995)
Deshantari (1999)
Dukha Apramita (2006)
Srujani Sarojini (2008)
She has been widely translated and published in different Indian languages.
Her stories have been included in anthologies published by Harper Collins, National Book Trust, Sahitya Akademi and Gnanpith .
She has attended many All India Writer’s meet and workshops arranged by Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal, Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust.
She has been given the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award and Bhubaneswar Book Fair award for her short stories collection Amrutara Pratikshare.
Upanibesh (1998)
Pratibandi (1999)
Swapna Khojali Mane (2000)
Mahajatra (2001)
Gambhiri Ghara (2005)
Bishad Ishwari (2006)
"Pakshibasa"(2007)
The novel Upanibesh was the first attempt in Oriya Literature to focus the sexuality as a part of social revolt by any woman.
Medha, the protagonist of Sarojini’s novel, was a bohemian.
In her pre-marital stage, she was thinking that it was boring to live with a man life-long.
In her novel Pratibandi, Sarojini has also described the thematic development of sexuality in a woman.
Priyanka, the protagonist of the novel has to encounter the loneliness in the exile of Saragpali, a remote village of India.
This lonliness develops into a sexual urge and soon Priyanka finds herself sexually attached with a former Member of Parliament.
Though there is an age gap between them, his intelligence impresses her and she discovers a hidden archaeologist in him.
Sarojini has painted successfully the difference of sensibility towards sexuality among male and female.
Sarojini has her own credibility for the frankness to deals with the sensitive matters either it may be in politics or in sexuality.
She  has gained a reputation and has her own place in the history of Oriya fiction.
Her novel Gambhiri Ghara she describes an unusual relationship between two people, a Hindu house wife of India and a Muslim artist of Pakistan.
It is a net oriented novel.
A woman meets a very sexually experienced man.
One day he asks if she had any such experience.
The woman, Kuki, scolds him and insults him by calling him a caterpillar.
She said without love lust is like hunger of a caterpillar.
Gradually they become involved with love, lust and spiritually.
That man considers her as his daughter, lover, mother, and above all these as a Goddess.
They both madly love each other, through the internet and on the phone.
They use obscene language; they kiss each other online.
Kuki does not lead a happy conjugal life though she has a love marriage with Aniket.
The novel is not limited to only a love story.
It has a greater aspect.
It deals with the relationship between State and individual.
Safique, who is not a Muslim by temperament, and as a historian, thinks the Pakistan of today has separated itself from its roots and looks towards Arabian legends for his history.
He protests that the syllabus of history for the school would start from seventh century AD, not from the Mahenjodaro and Harappa.
This broad Safique was once arrested after the bomb blast of London for allegation of being associated with the terrorist.
But is it a true fact?
Later Kuki came to know that Safiques is trapped by a military junta.
The ex-lover of Tabassum had revenged on Safique by arresting him with an allegation of terrorism.
Her novel Gambhiri Ghara proved to be a bestseller in Oriya literature.
Her novels have gained a reputation for the frankness about sexuality and of feminist outlook.
Her novels have gained a reputation for their feminist outlook and sexual frankness and has been translated into English and published from India under the title, The Dark Abode (2008) () and published from Bangladesh in Bengali as Mithya Gerosthali. (
2007) () Dr. Vishwanath Bite is working on its Marathi translation.
Another novel Pakhibas has been translated in to Bengali and published from Bangladesh under the same title () in 2009.
Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993,
the Jhankar Award, 1992,
the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award (1993), and
the Prajatantra Award (1981,1993),
Sarojini Sahoo - official web site
Sarojini Sahoo - Blog
Interview with Sarojini at ' The New York Times'  owned Portal
Interview with Sarojini at French Portal
Eduardo "Eddie" Gory Guerrero Yañez (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) better known as Eddie Guerrero, was an American professional wrestler from a legendary Mexican wrestling family.
He  wrestled in Mexico, Japan, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and, most famously, in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
He started his wrestling career in 1987 in the Mexican Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre promotion.
He became a star in Mexico long before he wrestled in the United States.
In 1993, Guerrero began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling, as Black Tiger II.
He was one of the best Mexican wrestlers there are in the world and he made so many accomplishments throughout his lifetime.
He won the NJPW Junior Heavyweight Super Grade Tag League Championship with The Great Sasuke making him the most successful Black Tiger.
He also won the Best of the Super Juniors 1996 tournament of junior heavyweights.
He got a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion The Great Sasuke at NJPW Skydiving J but lost the match.
Guerrero’s first break came in late 1994 when the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Paul Heyman, noticed him and Art Barr.
Barr died before he could join ECW with Guerrero.
In honor of his fallen friend, Guerrero did his finishing move, the Frog Splash.
Eddie started wrestling for the WCW in late 1995 along with Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit, with whom he had worked in NJPW and ECW.
At World War 3 he competed in the 3-ring, 60-man World War 3 battle royal for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
Guerrero was one of the final 10 men in the battle royal, but was tossed out of the ring by Four Horsemen members.
Randy Savage won the match.
At Starrcade 1995, Guerrero represented WCW in a WCW vs. NJPW World Cup tournament series.
He fell to NJPW wrestler Shinjiro Ohtani in the match but WCW went on to win the series.
Despite Guerrero's success and popularity, he had been one of many wrestlers that were upset at never being given a chance to be main event stars in WCW.
Guerrero responded to Bischoff's actions by forming the Latino World Order (or LWO) with Hector Garza and Damien, a take-off on Bischoff's New World Order.
with Hector Garza and Damien.
On August 1, 2002 Guerrero began to wrestle for WWE's SmackDown!
brand Guerrero aligned himself with his nephew Chavo, forming the tag team Los Guerreros.
At Survivor Series 2002, Guerreros faced the tag team champions Edge and Rey Mysterio, and  Angle and Benoit for the titles.
Eddie made Mysterio submit to The Lasso From El Paso to win their first WWE Tag Team Championship.
During the summer of 2003 Guerrero had begun driving a lowrider to ringside.
Guerrero would also capitalize on his "Lie, Cheat, and Steal" anti-hero image by  using illegal tactics behind the referee's back to win matches.
This caused his increase popularity to rise.
On January 29, 2004 Eddie won SmackDown’s!
15-man Royal Rumble, earning a shot at the WWE Championship At No Way Out 2004, Guerrero defeated the WWE Champion Brock Lesnar in the main event with help from Goldberg at WrestleMania XX he kept  his title by beating Kurt Angle.
At the end of this event, Guerrero celebrated in the ring with the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit.
At the 2005 No Way Out Eddie teamed with Rey Mysterio and defeated the Basham Brothers to win his final title, the WWE Tag Team Championship for a fourth time, with being it Mysterio's third reign.
At WrestleMania 21 Guerrero began a feud with Rey.
Following his, Guerrero was named number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship and given a title match with Batista.
Batista defeated Guerrero at No Mercy 2005 to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.
Eddie Guerrero’s last televised match was November 11, 2005 on SmackDown.
He defeated Mr. Kennedy earning a place on the SmackDown!
team in the 2005 Survivor Series, He was not able to be in this match because he died on November 13, 2005 of acute heart failure and Eddie was replaced by Randy Orton.
Eddie Guerrero was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.
Eddie's last match was actually on November 12th, 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico against Dave Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion
AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Art Barr
ECW World Television Championship (2 times)
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Latin American Wrestling Association
LAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NJPW Junior Heavyweight Super Grade Tag League Championship (1 time) - with The Great Sasuke
Best of the Super Juniors (1996)
Pro Wrestling Federation
PWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hector Guerrero
WCW Cruiserweight Championship (2 times)
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling All-Stars
WWA International Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling Association
WWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)
WWA World Trios Championship (1 time) - with Chavo Guerrero & Mando Guerrero
WWE Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Chavo Guerrero (2), Tajiri (1) and Rey Mysterio (1)
WWE United States Championship (1 time) (First)
WWF European Championship (2 times)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
Eleventh Triple Crown Champion
Fifth Grand Slam Champion
PWI ranked him # 2 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2004.
PWI ranked him # 81 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.
PWI ranked him # 18 of the 100 best tag teams of the PWI Years with Art Barr  in 2003.
PWI Comeback of the Year (1999)
PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2002)
PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2004)
Stanley Weston Award (2005)
Feud of the Year (1994) with Art Barr vs. El Hijo del Santo and Octagón
Tag Team of the Year (1994) with Art Barr as La Pareja del Terror
Feud of the Year (1995) vs. Dean Malenko
Tag Team of the Year (2002) with Chavo Guerrero as Los Guerreros
Most Charismatic (2004)
Best on Interviews (2005)
Most Charismatic (2005)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
Cheating Death, Stealing Life - The Eddie Guerrero Story (DVD, 2004)
Cheating Death, Stealing Life - The Eddie Guerrero Story  (book, 2005)
We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal - Song with Chavo (WWE Originals)
WWE: Superstars > Hall of Fame > Eddie Guerrero
eddie-forever.com
Eddie Guerrero (1967 - 2005) - Find A Grave Memorial
Sportspeople from El Paso, Texas
Nabta Playa was once a large basin in the Nubian Desert.
It is about 500 miles south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel of southern Egypt, 22° 32' north, 30° 42' east.
Many archaeological sites have been found there.
From around the 10th millennium BC, this area began to get more rainfall than before.
Because of the extra rainwater, a lake formed.
Early people may have come here because there was water available.
They could only graze their cattle where there was grass, and grass only grew next to water.
Archaeologists (scientists who find and study artifacts) say that the first people came to the region between the 10th and 8th millennia BC.
These peoples were growing domesticated cattle and using ceramic pottery.
The ceramics had complicated painted patterns on them.
These patterns may have been made by using combs.
By the 7th millennium BC, more developed settlements may be found in the area.
They also used deep wells for water.
Huts are found built in straight rows.
People also lived from fruit, legumes, millets, sorghum and tubers.
A little later in 7th millennium BC, there seem to have been more goats and sheep.
These most likely came from Southwest Asia  .
There were also many large hearths at this time.
High level of organization
above-ground & below-ground stone construction,
villages designed in planned arrangements, and
deep wells that held water year-round.
Findings also show that the region was occupied only seasonally.
This means that people only lived there in the summer, when the local lake filled with water for grazing cattle.
Analysis of human remains show that the people who lived here may have migrated from sub-Saharan Africa.
Religious ties to ancient Egypt
By the 6th millennium BC, there may have been a prehistoric religion or cult.
Sacrificed cattle were found buried in stone-roofed chambers lined with clay.
Some people think that this cattle cult in Nabta Playa may be related to Ancient Egypt's Hathor cult.
An example of this connection may be that Hathor was worshiped as a nighttime protector in desert regions.
It makes sense, but not in a facile, direct way.
You can't go straight from these megaliths to the pyramid of Djoser.
One of the world's earliest known examples of archeoastronomy
By the 5th millennium BC these peoples had fashioned one of the world's earliest known astronomical device (roughly contemporary to the Goseck circle in Germany), about 1000 years older than but comparable to Stonehenge (see sketch at right).
Research suggests that it may have been a prehistoric calendar which accurately marks the summer solstice.
The research done by the astrophysicist Thomas G. Brophy suggests that these monoliths might tell much more.
The calendar circle itself is made up of one doorway that runs north-south, a second that runs northeast-southwest marking the summer solstice, and six center stones.
Brophy's theory proposes first that three of the center stones match the belt of Orion at its minimum tilt and the other three match the shoulder and head stars of Orion at their maximum tilt.
This cycle repeats approximately every 25,000 years, following the precession of the equinoxes.
The last minimum of Orion's belt occurred between 6400 BC and 4900 BC, matching the radio-carbon dating of campfires around the circle.
Another stone megalithic structure exists which consists of a central radial stone and several other stones in the distance.
In interpreting this Brophy found that the lines made to these stones from the radial stone match the spots in the sky where the various stars marked by the center stones in the calendar circle at the time they rose as the vernal equinox heliacal rising.
In analyzing the varying distances, mulling through assumptions such as that they represented the brightness of the stars, he inadvertently found that they matched the distance of the stars from Earth on a scale of 1 meter = .799 light years within the margin of error for astronomical distances calculated today.<ref name="magicalegypt1">West, John Anthony.
Magical Egypt: A Symbolist Tour Episode 3: Descent.
Cydonia, 2002.</</ref>
University of Colorado at Boulder:
1998 article
1999 article
2000 article
Thomas G. Brophy and Paul A. Rosen: Satellite Imagery Measures of the Astronomically Aligned Megaliths at Nabta Playa, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 5(1) (2005) 15 - 24
A video card can be used to display a two-dimensional (2D) image like a desktop, or a three-dimensional (3D) image like a computer game.
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs are often used by architects, engineers and designers to create 3D models on their computers.
If a computer has a very fast video card, the user can create very detailed 3D models.
Most computers have a basic video and graphics capabilities built-in to the computer's motherboard.
These "integrated" video chips are not as fast as in separate or "discrete" video cards.
Normally, they are fast enough for basic computer use and old or simple computer games on lower graphic settings.
If a computer user wants faster and/or more detailed graphics, a video card can be installed.
Video cards have their own processor (called a Graphics Processing Unit or GPU).
The GPU is distinct from the main computer processor (called the Central Processing Unit or CPU).
The CPU's job is to process the calculations needed to make the computer function.
The GPU's job is to handle graphics calculations.
3D graphics calculations take a lot of CPU power, so having a video card to handle the graphics calculations lets the CPU work on other things like running computer programs.
Video cards also have their own memory, separate from the main computer memory.
It is usually much faster than main computer memory, too.
This helps the GPU do its graphics calculations even faster.
Most video cards also can make one computer use more than one computer monitor at one time.
Graphics manufacturers Nvidia and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) have special technologies that allow two identical cards to be linked together in a single computer for much faster performance.
Nvidia calls their technology SLI and AMD calls their technology CrossFire.
Some modern graphics cards can even process physics calculations to create even more realistic-looking 3D worlds.
Video cards typically connect to a motherboard using the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), the Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) or the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI Express or PCI-E).
PCI-E is the newest and fastest connection; which nearly all modern video cards and motherboards have this connection.
Before PCI-E was used, AGP was the standard connection for video cards.
Before AGP, video cards were designed for PCI (sometimes called "regular" PCI).
In early computing years, graphics processing was very basic and could be done by the CPU along with all the other processing.
However, as computer games advanced and started using 3D graphics, the CPU had too much to do and CPU-makers could not keep up on making them faster.
Eventually, video cards, with their own GPU, were invented to solve this problem.
This lets the CPU do more of its own work since it does not have to spend any time on advanced graphics calculations; it can simply pass these calculations off to the GPU to be done.
The first video cards connected to the motherboard via the ISA connection.
The first popular non-IBM video cards were manufactured by a company called Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. Throughout the years, the importance of video cards has grown.
As they evolved, a new connection standard was developed called Advanced Graphics Port (AGP).
This was the first motherboard connection designed exclusively for video cards.
It was much faster at transferring information between the video card and the rest of the computer.
Eventually, the AGP connection became outdated, and a new connection, called PCI Express (PCI-E), became the standard for video cards.
Most video cards manufactured today use PCI-E to connect to the motherboard.
The municipality had, in 2010, a total population of 62,054: 30,799 men and 31,255 women.
The urban population was  of the total population, one of the most urban municipality in the country.
Since the 18th century, the region was occupied by fishermen and people that came here to cut trees.
When Toussaint L'Ouverture took the eastern part of the Hispaniola island in the name of France, he gave the order to create the town of Barahona in 1802 as part of the Ozama Department.
In 1858, Barahona was elevated to the category of municipality.
When the province was created in 1881, Barahona was made its head municipality.
The city of Santa Cruz de Barahona is in a plain along the coast, in the lower valley of the Yaque del Sur river.
Part of the municipality is on the mountains of Sierra de Bahoruco.
Barahona is at  to the west of Santo Domingo.
The limits of the municipality are the municipality of Fundación to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, the municipality of La Ciénaga to the south and the municipality of Cabral to the west.
Barahona has a tropical wet and dry/savanna climate (Köppen climate classification : Aw).
The climate on the mountains of the Sierra de Baoruco, where there are some rainforests, is cooler and more wet.
Most rains fall during the end of summer.
The month with the most precipitation on average is October with  of rainfall, followed by May with .
The month with the least rainfall on average is February with an average of  and the second is January with .
Barahona is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is .
The warmest months, on average, are July and August with an average temperature of .
The coolest months on average are December, January and February, with an average temperature of .
There are also some important industries, mainly to produce textiles to send to other countries, and sugar in the Ingenio Barahona ("Barahona Sugar Factory").
1802 establishments in North America
Sindh () () is a province in Pakistan.
The provincial capital of Sindh is Karachi.
Sindh has a population of 30 million people and an area of 54,407 mi² or (140,914 km²); in terms of area the provincial region of Sindh is greater in area than Greece but smaller than Tajikistan.
There is a southern boundary with the Indian state of Gujarat.
This is in dispute see: Kori Creek
The province of Sindh and the people inhabiting the region are named after the river known as the Sindhu River before Independence and now called the Indus River.
In Sanskrit, síndhu means "river, stream", and refers to the Indus river in particular.
The Greeks who conquered Sindh in 325 BC under the command of Alexander the Great rendered it as Indós, hence the modern Indus.
The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as hind from the word Sindh.
When the British arrived in the 17th century,  they followed that regional example and applied the Greek name for Sindh to the entire South Asian region, calling it India.
Sindh () is one of the provinces of Pakistan.
Sindh was home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization which is 5,500 years old. '
Hind' is the corruption of the word for 'Sind'.
On the 26th of June in 1947 Sindh joined Pakistan by a majority vote of members of the 1947 provincial legislature.
Sindh is located on the western corner of South-central Asia, bordering the Iranian plateau in the west.
Geographically it is the third largest province of Pakistan, stretching about 579 km from north to south and 442 km (extreme) or 281 km (average) from east to west, with an area of  of Pakistani territory.
Sindh is bounded by the Thar Desert to the east, the Kirthar Mountains to the west, and the Arabian Sea in the south.
In the centre is a fertile plain around the Indus River.
Districts of Sindh
The Provincial Assembly of Sindh is unicameral and consists of 168 seats, of which 5% are reserved for non-Muslims and 17% for women.
Most of the Sindhi people in the province are involved in Pakistan's politics.
Sindh is a stronghold of the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which is the largest political party in the province.
Pakistan has had two very famous Sindhi leaders as Prime Ministers—Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Ms Benazir Bhutto.
Ms Bhutto's husband, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, was elected President of Pakistan.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa () is a province in northwest Pakistan.
The capital is Peshawar and it has a population of 14 million people and an area of 28,773 mi² or (74,521 km²).
The province was created in 1901 during British rule when it was separated from a  Punjab province of the British India Empire.
A referendum was held in the North West Frontier Province on 2 July 1947.
The majority of voters wanted to join with Pakistan, with only a very small number voting to join with India.
The province became a part of Pakistan, because of this referendum.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is divided into 26 districts.
There are 21 Settled Area Districts and 5 Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) Districts.
The administration of the PATA districts is the responsibility the President of Pakistan and the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Names of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
For over a hundred years from its founding as a province of British India in 1901, it was known as the North-West Frontier Province.
Afghania is another name long considered as a replacement for North-West Frontier Province.
It was proposed first by the founding leaders of the Muslim League in 1933 and was at least partly chosen to represent the first "a" in "Pakistan.
In 2010 it was renamed.
Pakhtunkhwa (and the other transliteration variants) is derived from Pakhtun and khwa, the former refers to the ethnic group and the latter literally means "heart".
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sits primarily on the Iranian plateau and comprises the junction where the slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains on the Eurasian plate give way to the Indus-watered hills approaching South-central Asia.
This situation has led to seismic activity in the past.
The famous Khyber Pass links the province to Afghanistan, while the Kohalla Bridge in Circle Bakote Abbottabad is a major crossing point over the Jhelum River in the east.
Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat, Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan and Hangu are the main cities.
It borders on Afghanistan.
The region varies in topography from dry rocky areas in the south to forests and green plains in the north.
The climate can be extreme with intensely hot summers to freezing cold winters.
Despite these extremes in weather, agriculture remains important and viable in the area.
The hilly terrain of Kalam, Upper Dir, Swat, Naran and Kaghan is renowned for its beauty and attracts a great many tourists from neighboring regions and from around the world.
Swat is popular among tourists as the "Switzerland of South Asia" as there are many landscape similarities between it and the mountainous terrain of Switzerland.
The northern zone is cold and snowy in winters with heavy rainfall and pleasant summers with the exception of Peshawar basin, which is hot in summer and cold in winter.
It has moderate rainfall.
The southern zone is arid with hot summers and relatively cold winters and scanty rainfall.
According to the 1998 census, the population of the province was approximately 17 million, of whom 52% are males and 48% are females.
The density of population is 187 per km² and the intercensal change of population is of about 30%.
yidgha.
Urdu is understood by majority of the people.
The President of Pakistan appoints a Governor as head of the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
There is a directly-elected Provincial Assembly, which has 124 elected members (including 22 seats reserved for women and 3 seats for non-Muslims).
The Provincial Assembly elects a Chief Minister to act as the chief executive of the province, assisted by a cabinet of ministers.
Balochistan () is a province in Pakistan.
The capital of Balochistan is Quetta.
Balochistan has a population of about 10 million people and an area of 134,051 mi2 or (347,190 km2).
It covers 45% of Pakistani territory; in terms of area the province of Balochistan is greater in area than Republic of the Congo but smaller than Germany.
Baluchistan (Chief commissioners province) - seceded from British India and became part of Pakistan in 1947.
On the 30th of June in 1947 the Khan of Kalat joined Pakistan; tribal gathering and municipality of Quetta also declared for Pakistan.
Baluchistan States Union - The BSU was formed after the formal Accession of four individual princely states into the new Dominion of Pakistan on the 31st of March in 1948, apart from the enclave of Gwadar that was in cessation from Oman to Pakistan on the 8th of September in 1958.
Both CCP & BSU became the New Province of Balochistan on the 1st of July in 1970, after the dissolution of the former West Pakistan and is an “Integral Part of Pakistan”.
In common with the other provinces of Pakistan, Balochistan has a parliamentary system of government.
The ceremonial head of the province is the Governor, who is appointed by the President of Pakistan on the advice of the provincial Chief Minister.
The chief executive of the province is the Chief Minister who is normally the leader of the largest party or alliance in the provincial assembly.
The unicameral Provincial Assembly of Balochistan comprises 65 seats of which 4% are reserved for non-Muslims and 16% for women only.
The judicial branch of government is carried out by the Balochistan High Court, based in Quetta, and headed by a Chief Justice.
For administrative purposes, the province is subdivided into 30 districts:
The Baloch people once referred to their land as Moka or Maka, a word which later became Makran.
Moka might have been an adaptation of Mahi-khoran, Persian for "fish eaters", an appellation used by the Persians of the west for the people of coastal Balochistan.
Arrian, in his Anabasis Alexandri, referred to the people of the region as the ichythophagi, a Greek translation of Mahi-khoran.
Balochistan is referred to in Pashto as Gwadar or Godar (also Godar-khwa, i.e., the land by water).
The Greeks, who derived the names of Iranian lands from the Bactrian language, Hellenised it to Gedrosia.
In an eleventh-century Sanskrit compilation of Jataka tales (Avadānakalpalatā) by Kshemendra of Kashmir, the land is called Baloksh (बलोक्ष).
From Baloksh, the name evolved and was Persianised to Balochistan.
The area is named after the numerous Baloch (or Baluch, Balouch, Balooch, Balush, Balosh, Baloosh, Baloush) tribes, an Iranian people, who moved into the area from the west around 1000 A.D. All natives are considered Balochi even if they do not speak Balochi; Pashto, Persian, and Brahui languages are also spoken in the region.
The southern part of Balochistan is known as Makran.
There are also relatively smaller communities of Iranian Baloch, Hazaras, Sindhis and other settlers, including Punjabis, Uzbeks, and Turkmens.
The name Balochistan means "the land of the Baloch" in many regional languages.
Balochistan is in south-west Pakistan.
It is Pakistan's largest province by area constituting 44% of Pakistan's total land mass.
The province is bordered by Afghanistan to the north and north-west, Iran to the south-west, Punjab and Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to the north-east.
To the south lies the Arabian Sea.
Balochistan is located on the south-eastern part of the Iranian plateau.
It borders the geopolitical regions of the Greater Middle East and Southwest Asia, Central Asia and South-central Asia.
Balochistan lies at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz and provides the shortest route from seaports to Central Asia.
Its geographical location has placed the otherwise desolate region in the scopes of competing global interests like Afghanistan for all of recorded history.
The capital city Quetta is located in a densely populated portion of the Sulaiman Mountains in the north-east of the province.
It is situaed in a river valley near the Bolan Pass which has been used as the route of choice from the coast to Central Asia, entering through Afghanistan's Kandahar region.
The British and other historic empires have crossed the region to invade Afghanistan by this route.
Balochistan is rich in exhaustible and renewable resources; it is the second major supplier of natural gas in Pakistan.
The province's renewable and human resource potential has not been systematically measured nor exploited due to pressures from within and without Pakistan.
Local inhabitants have chosen to live in towns and have relied on sustainable water sources for thousands of years.
Provincial Government of Balochistan
Italy did not fight for the Triple Alliance, despite promises to Germany and Austria-Hungary, in 1914, when World War I started.
In 1915, Italy joined the Triple Entente to take part of Austria-Hungary.
Italian irredentism wanted the province of Trento (Trentino), the port of Trieste and the province of Bolzano-Bozen (Alto Adige/Südtirol), Istria, and Dalmatia.
Italy had hoped to begin the war with a surprise attack to act quickly and capture several Austrian-held cities.
However, the war in Italy soon turned to trench warfare, which was similar to that of the Western Front.
1910s in Italy
1915 in Europe
1916 in Europe
1917 in Europe
1918 in Europe
Chaudhry Rahmat Ali or Rehmat Ali Khan (November 16, 1897 - February 12, 1951) was an Indian Muslim who was one of the first people to ask for the creation of the state of Pakistan.
He is famous for coining the name, or term  "Pakistan" on January 28, 1933.
In Pakistan he has considerable importance.
His articles are taught in  the course books of Pakistani schools.
Pakistani politicians
Abbottabad is a city in Pakistan.
It is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is the capital of Abbottabad District.
Well over a million people live in Abbottabad, which is also known as the "city of the pines".
One of the most important places for army training in Pakistan, the Pakistan Military Academy,  is in Kakul, near Abbottabad.
Abbottabad is in the Orash valley, between the two parallel mountain ranges of Mount Sarban and Mount Shimla.
In addition to being the district capital, it is also the capital of the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It is linked by road to Haripur and Rawalpindi to the South, Mansehra to the North-West and Murree to the East.
The city of Abbottabad is named after Major James Abbott – a British soldier and administrator who founded the city during British rule in 1853.
British rule in this area lasted from 1849 until Pakistan became independent in 1947.
During this time, Abbottabad was an important army garrison or base for the British Indian Army.
Culture and language
The people of Abbottabad are mostly from the Syed (shahs), Karlal, Dhund Abbasi, Gurjar, Awan, Tanoli and Jadoon tribes.
It is a peaceful area with high literacy and low crime rates.
The main language, or dialect, spoken here is Hindko.
In the rural suburbs of the town people practice some agriculture, whereas the town itself offers many commercial and business opportunities of different types.
The main town and cantonment
Although the original old town of Abbottabad has expanded a lot, much of its original 1850s town, civil lines and cantonment still survive from the time of the British Raj.
Some of its old sights are of special historical interest to tourists, including St Luke's Church, Abbottabad and the Old Christian Cemetery Abbottabad.
The fine Lady Garden Park is also a popular place.
Abbottabad government website
1860s establishments in Pakistan
Abbottabad District is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The district has an area of 1,969 km2, with the city of Abbottabad being the capital.
Neighbouring districts are Mansehra to the north, Muzaffarabad to the east, Haripur to the west, and Rawalpindi to the south.
There are fifty-one Union Councils in the district, 35 in Abbottabad tehsil and 16 in Havelian.
Abbottabad Tehsil
Havelian Tehsil
Districts of British India
Bannu District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Bannu is the capital.
Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
sv:Bannu District
sv:Surani Panak Zai Bannu
Batagram District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Batagram is the capital.
Battagram obtained the status of district in July 1993 when it was upgraded from a Tehsil and separated from Mansehra District by an executive order.
Battagram obtained the status of district in July 1993 when it was upgraded from a Tehsil and separated from Mansehra District by an executive order, Mr. Yousaf Khan Trand (Late provincial Minister in Mir Afzal Khan Cabinet Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was the leader who struggled for Battagram and made it a separate district, before district it was a tehsil of District Mansehra.
It has geographical borders with Kohistan District, Tribal Area of Kala Dhaka (Black Mountain of Hazara), Shangla District and Malakand Division.
The district consists of two sub-divisions It has geographical borders with Kohistan District, Tribal Area of Kala Dhaka (Black Mountain of Hazara), Shangla District and Malakand Division.
The district consists of two sub-divisions or Tehsils which contain a total of 20 Union Councils:
Allai Tehsil
Battagram Tehsil
Tehsils of Bunner
Bunner Tehsil
Daggar Tehsil
Gadezai Tehsil
Gagra Tehsil
Chagharzai Tehsil
Chamla Tehsil
Totalai Tehsil
Charsadda District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Charsadda is the capital.
Charsadda Tehsil
Dera Ismail Khan District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Dera Ismail Khan is the capital.
It is the most southern district of KPK and has an area of  and a population of 852,995 as of the 1998 Census.
The main language of the district is a dialect of Saraiki.
Hangu District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Hangu is the capital.
Haripur District is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Haripur is the capital.
Karak District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Karak is the capital.
This district is the second smallest district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Hangu.
The area of this district is 3395 km2.
Banda Daud Shah Tehsil
Karak Tehsil
Kohat District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Kohat is the capital.
The Kohati dialect of the north-western Punjabi (or Hindko) language is spoken in this very district, although outside the province it is influenced by inhabitants of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Kohat Tehsil
Lachi Tehsil
Kohistan District is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The town of Dassu is the district headquarters.
The area is also called Abasin Kohistan or Indus Kohistan, after the Indus River that runs through the middle of the district.
Kohistan District is divided into  4 Tehsils (subdivisions):
Palas Tehsil
Pattan Tehsil
Dassu Tehsil
Kandia Tehsil
Farming and growing livestock are the main focus of the economy there.
Growing timber has also become more important in recent years.
The district has one of the lowest literacy rates in Pakistan, about 10% of the people can read and write.
Education is spreading though.
Lakki Marwat District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
The city of Lakki Marwat is the capital.
Lower Dir ( ，) is one of the 27 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It is in the north-western part of the province and has an area of 1583 square kilometers.
Timergara city is the district headquarters and largest city.
At the time of Pakistan's independence in 1947, Dir was a princely state ruled by Nawab Shah Jehan Khan.
It was merged in Pakistan in 1969 and later on declared a district in 1970.
Later on in 1996 it was divided into Lower Dir and Upper Dir.
The population of the Lower Dir district was 797,852 according to the 1998 census report.
The population of Dir Lower was predicted to be 1.037.091 in 2005.
This district is represented by two elected MNA's (Member of National Assembly) in Pakistan National Assembly.
Its constituencies are NA-6 & 7.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad won the general elections in 2002 but he left the seat as he had also won from his native constituency.
Therefore, in January 2003 another election was held.
Provincial Assembly
PK-13 (Lower Dir-I)
PK-14 (Lower Dir-II)
PK-15 (Lower Dir-III)
PK-16 (Lower Dir-IV)
PK-17 (Lower Dir-V)
Malakand District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Sam Ranizai Tehsil
Swat Ranizai Tehsil
Mansehra District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Mansehra is the capital.
Balakot Tehsil
Mardan District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Mardan is the capital.
Katlang Tehsil
Nowshera District is a district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
The city of Nowshera is the capital.
Peshawar District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Peshawar is the capital.
In 1998, the population of the district was 2,019,000, of which 49% were urban.
Shangla District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Alpuri is the capital.
Besham Tehsil
Chakesar Tehsil
Martung Tehsil
The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I was a large theatre during the first World War.
Battles here were fought between the Allied Powers (especially Britain and Russia) and the Central Powers (especially the Ottoman Empire).
This theatre was the largest of all the theatres of WWI.
It was made of four main campaigns.
In the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, mainly British forces defeated the Turkish army.
In the Mesopotamian Campaign, British forces, mainly the Army of India, also defeated the Turkish army.
In the Caucasus Campaign, Turkey fought against the Russian Empire and other forces.
In the Dardanelles Campaign the Turkish army defeated British forces, mainly colonial.
There were also minor campaigns in Arabia and Southern Arabia, Aden, and Persia.
Fighting here began on October 29, 1914 and ended on October 30, 1918.
A peace treaty was signed on August 10, 1920.
Swabi District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Swabi is the capital.
Lahor Tehsil
Topi Tehsil
Swat District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main city in Swat is Mingora.
It was a princely state until 1969, when it was dissolved and made part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
It is the third largest district in KPK with a population of 2,309,570.
Tehsil Babuzai
Tehsil Matta
Tehsil Khwaza Khela
Tehsil Barikot
Tehsil Kabal
Tehsil Charbagh
Tehsil Bahrain
Swat is populated mostly by ethnic Pashtuns and Gujjar and Kohistani communities.
The main language spoken is Pashto, with a minority of Torwali and Kalami Kohistani speakers in the Swat Kohistan region of Upper Swat.
Tank District is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
The city of Tank is the capital.
Upper Dir is one of the 26 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It is located in the north-western part of the province and has an area of 3,699 km square kilometers.
Dir is the district headquarters.
Later on in 1996 it was divided.
National assembly
Provincial assembly
PK-91 (Upper Dir-I)
PK-92 (Upper Dir-II)
PK-93 (Upper Dir-III)
Lower Dir
Bannu is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Bannu District.
Batagram () is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Batagram District.
Charsadda is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Charsadda District.
Chitral () is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It has population of about 318,689 people at the 1998 Census, which grew to about 378,000 people by 2004.
It has one of the highest mountains of the world, Tirich Mir.
It is the largest district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with an area of 14,850 sq.
kilometres.
Chitral District is the most northerly district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
to the west and north is Afghanistan.
To the east of Chitral is Kashmir and to the south are the Pakistani districts of Upper Dir and Swat.
Chitral can be accessed by air via the Chitral Airport which is approximately 3 km from the town.
Regular flights from Peshawar and Islamabad are run by the PIA.
The terrain of Chitral is quite mountainous, part of the Pamir Mountains are situated here.
Tirich Mir which at 25,289 feet (7,708 metres) is the highest peak of the Hindu Kush, rises in the north of the district.
Chitral is connected to the rest of Pakistan by only two road routes, the Lowari Pass (el.
10,230 ft.)
from Dir and Shandur Top (el.
12,200 ft.)
from Gilgit.
Both routes are closed in winter.
The Lowari Tunnel is being constructed under the Lowari Pass and is opened two times a week when Lowari Top is closed due to snowfall.
Two other passes give access on foot to Chitral, the Broghol Pass and the Dorah Pass, both from Afghanistan.
Both are closed in winter.
The general population is mainly of the Kho people, who speak the Khowar language (or Chitrali), which is also spoken in parts of Yasin, Gilgit and Swat.
Chitral is also home to the Kalash tribe who live in three remote valleys southwest of Chitral town.
The Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.
Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here.
These include Kalasha-mun, Erina, Savi Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and Pashto.
Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian
Until 1969, Chitral was a princely state, within the Malakand Agency.
In 1970 Chitral was absorbed into Pakistan as the new Chitral District, until 2000 within Malakand Division.
Mastuj
This district is represented by one elected MNA (Member of National Assembly) in Pakistan National Assembly.
Its constituency is NA-32.
PK-89 (Chitral-I)
PK-90 (Chitral-II)
Chitral News
Dera Ismail Khan is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Dera Ismail Khan District.
Hangu is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Hangu District.
Haripur is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Haripur District.
It was founded by a Sikh General in 1822.
Karak is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Karak District.
The main source of income of the people of Karak is agriculture.
Kohat is a city in Pakistan.
It is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is the capital of Kohat District.
The majority of the people in this city speak the Kohati dialect of Hindko.
Lakki Marwat is a city in Pakistan.