the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
People at home probably do not use petabytes, they would use terabytes (primarily for very large backups), gigabytes, megabytes and occasionally kilobytes.
An exabyte (EB) is a unit of measurement for computers of the future.
One exabyte holds 1000 petabytes (PB) or a million trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes.
An exabyte is large enough that it would take about 10,000 to 100,000 home computers to store this amount of data.
A zettabyte (ZB) is a unit of measurement for computers of the future.
One zettabyte holds 1000 exabytes (EB) or a billion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes, and 1000 zettabytes make one yottabyte.
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A yottabyte (YB) is a unit of measurement for computers of the future.
One yottabyte holds 1000 zettabytes (ZB) or a trillion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes.
1000 yottabytes make up 1 hellabyte.
A yottabyte is so large that it would take about a billion supercomputers to store this amount of data.
Nature's services is a term for the ways in which nature benefits humans.
It means particularly those benefits that can be measured in economic terms.
Robert Costanza and other theorists of natural capital analysed nature's services to humanity in the 1990s.
This was based on estimated costs of replacing the services nature provides.
For that purpose they were compared with equivalent services that are produced by humans.
This calculation makes clear that mankind cannot develop without nature's services.
Experience Economy
Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken: A Road Map for Natural Capitalism  (Pdf), in: Harvard Business Review May-June 1999, pp.
145–157
is a children's television show.
It teaches American Sign Language to children age one through eight.
It is shown in the United States.
It is hosted by Rachel de Azevedo Coleman.
It is shown by American Public Television in many cities across the United States.
Research shows that sign language can help children's learning ability to grow.
With just a few simple American Sign Language signs, babies and toddlers — some as young as nine months old — can show people their needs before they can speak, which may make them have fewer tantrums.
School-aged children enjoy the benefits of learning a second language.
Children with developmental delays or special needs can find their own “voice” by using their hands to talk using sign language.
In the series, songwriter and musician Rachel Coleman, her daughter Leah (who is deaf), Alex (Leah’s cousin who can hear), and their pet frog named Hopkins, who is a cartoon, teach hundreds of useful American Sign Language signs.
Children learn signs for words, questions, phrases, movements, colors, sports, days of the week, everyday objects, and activities that are done a lot.
makes learning sign language easy for the whole family.
In 1996, Rachel Coleman had a daughter, who was named Leah.
Fourteen months after she was born, Rachel and her husband, Aaron, found out that Leah was deaf since she was born.
After that, the couple started to teach Leah sign language, first with Signing Exact English (SEE), then with American Sign Language (ASL),so that they could learn to communicate, becoming good signers.
Rachel was surprised to see that after six months, Leah's sign language vocabulary had more words the vocabulary of hearing children her same age.
Rachel's sister Emilie Brown and her husband Derek were teaching Leah's baby cousin, Alex, how to sign, and he learned it quickly also.
A few years later, Rachel had a second daughter.
Lucy was born 8 weeks premature, with spina bifida (this means there is a hole in your back when you are born and your spinal cord is sticking out) and cerebral palsy (your brain has trouble controlling your muscles).
Doctors worried that, because of her cerebral palsy, Lucy would never be able to speak or use sign language to communicate with her deaf sister, but after the first volume was made, Lucy started to sign, and later, to speak.
Rachel then thought that signing could be beneficial to all children.
How the show works
Rachel hosts the show herself, with her daughter Leah and nephew Alex also starring to help teach signs.
In My First Signs, Rachel was not going to be in the videos, but she was added to show the signs because Alex and Leah (who were 3 and 4 then) could not sign clearly enough all the time to teach viewers the signs.
In the earlier episodes, Rachel did not want to sing and sign at the same time since it causes some problems for those who want true American Sign Language, but customers responded, wanting more songs and wanting to learn signs from them.
So, already being a musician, Rachel wrote more songs.
Rachel sings a lot of songs during each episode, signing the words at the same time.
During the episode, Rachel shows many signs from a certain topic (schools, daytime activities, etc.)
and then has Leah and Alex sign—they sign first now—alongside with many other children of different backgrounds.
After that, the words are emphasized with song.
The second season has a new layout that includes new signs and more original music.
Each program teaches signs from one theme, marked by a theme song, which is taught verse by verse.
This lets children develop a comforting knowing of the melody line of each song, helping to give them a sense of mastery and a feeling like they are actually “with” the characters as they sing and sign along.
Also, new parts “ABC Time,” “Counting Time,” “Game Time,” “Story Time,” and “Hopping/Moving Time” look into the episode theme or other skills in a playful way.
These segments use teaching methods such as mnemonics (a way to make your memory better), songs, stories, and games, which are good for many different learning styles and abilities by promoting interaction through signing, singing, speaking and dancing.
Actors/Characters
Rachel de Azevedo Coleman (“Rachel”)
Rachel is the host of the Signing Time!
She has spent much of her adult life working in entertainment.
While performing with her band We the Living, Rachel foun out that her 14-month old daughter, Leah, was deaf.
Rachel’s second daughter, Lucy, had fetal surgery (surgery before she was born) for spina bifida and was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
In spite of such limitations, Lucy now communicates with both speech and sign language.
After years of musical silence, Rachel has picked up that guitar again, writing and performing all of the songs for Signing Time!.
She used to sing for her band.
Now, she sings for Lucy, Leah, and children everywhere.
In addition to starring in Signing Time!,
Rachel is also a popular singer, performer, and speaker, and has performed for hundreds of thousands of children all across the country.
Leah Coleman (“Leah”)
Leah Coleman is the person that made her mother want to make Signing Time!
Diagnosed as profoundly deaf at 14 months old, she began learning American Sign Language (ASL) as fast as her parents could learn it and teach it to her.
Leah could sign full sentences long before her ‘hearing’ peers could even speak, and because of that, her parents say she never threw a tantrum.
Leah is now in fifth grade and loves reading, skating on her “Heelys” and playing with her little sister Lucy.
She recently won first place in her very first horse show and got national attention for winning first place in her school Spelling Bee, despite being deaf.
Her favorite food is sushi and she loves the color purple.
She loves being in Signing Time!
with her cousin Alex, and teaching ASL to other children.
Alex Brown (“Alex”)
Alex Brown was in the very first episode of Signing Time!
before his third birthday.
He learned to sign as a baby so that he could communicate with his deaf cousin, Leah.
He is now in fifth grade and loves to ride his bike, rollerblade, make comic books, draw mazes and play with his little brother Zachary.
His favorite food is shrimp with shell pasta and his favorite color is green.
He is a budding singer and pianist, but he enjoys playing the piano more than he enjoys practicing.
A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Alex has also lived in Virginia and California.
He enjoys filming Signing Time!
particularly when he gets to swing on the tire swing or have pillow fights on the set with Leah.
Originally developed as a gecko named ‘Twerp’ (a play on the nickname ‘Terp, for interpreter), “Hopkins” the frog was supposed to be Leah’s ‘voice’ and appear as a gift from Grandma and Grandpa.
Alas, since Leah’s speech is developing on her own, Hopkins is now very happy being a little green animated sidekick who loves to swim, paint, lift large pieces of fruit and eat unsuspecting flies.
He is proudly named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who in 1817 established the first free American school for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
List of Episodes
All numbers are Signing Time!
volume numbers from the official website.
Series 1 Episodes
My First Signs
Playtime Signs
Everyday Signs
Family, Feelings & Fun
ABC Signs
Leah's Farm
The Zoo Train
Welcome to School
Series 2 Episodes
Move and Groove
My Favorite Season
Going Outside
My Favorite Sport
Helping Out Around the House
Box of Crayons
Who Has The Frog?
Baby Signing Time!
Practice Time!
Level 1 ABCs
Level 1 123s
Video Series: Designed specifically for children 3–36 months old, this series puts baby's day to music as it teaches all the basic ASL signs for baby's needs and environment.
Video Series: Practice Time is an interactive DVD that helps young viewers practice their signing skills with Rachel.
Other items include printed materials including board books and flash cards, Signing Time!
clothing, and Signing Time!
music CDs.
Kids Activities
Rachel's Blog
Online Chat - every Wednesday evening
Official Youtube
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë.
It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym (false name) "Ellis Bell".
After her death, a second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.
The story is about the love of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, foster siblings in Yorkshire.
It is a classic of English literature, and has been made into movies many times.
Wuthering Heights, online text with PDF version.
Reader's Guide to Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights voted UK's favourite love story, Guardian
Capitol Hill Baptist Church is a Baptist church on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.. Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of the church.
It is linked with the Southern Baptist Convention.
In 1867 on Capitol Hill, a group of people came together to pray for a church to be started in their area.
The church would one decade later become known as the Metropolitan Baptist Church.
In 1878, it had 31 members.
In the coming years, the church grew.
In 1912 the church finished working on the new main hall.
Their then current pastor Dr. John Compton Ball oversaw the church membership increase, it numbered in the thousands by 1950.
Over the next several years, the membership slowly dropped, and hit a low of around one hundred people, in the early 1990s.
In recent years the church has grown to a much bigger church.
Official church website
1877 establishments in the United States
Gerry and The Pacemakers were an English rock and roll group during the 1960s.
Like The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were also managed by Brian Epstein.
Gerry Marsden was born on September 24, 1942, in Liverpool, England.
His brother, Freddie, was born on October 23, 1940, in Liverpool.
They formed a musical group called "The Mars Bars", with Gerry playing guitar and Freddie the drums.
They changed the name to The Pacemakers because the Mars candy company said they would take them to court for using the name.
Les Chadwick (born John Leslie Chadwick) was born on May 11, 1943 in Liverpool.
He worked in a bank before joining the band in 1959.
He was their lead guitarist, but changed to bass.
Les Maguire (born Leslie Maguire) was born on December 27, 1941 in Wallasey, Cheshire.
He joined the band in 1960 after the group's piano player, Arthur McMahon, left the group.
The Pacemakers were the second band to be managed by Brian Epstein, who was also manager of "The Beatles.
Brian had heard the band at the "Cavern Club" in Liverpool in 1962.
Their first three songs in 1963, "How Do You Do It?", "
I Like It" and "You'll Never Walk Alone", all went straight to number one on the charts. "
You'll Never Walk Alone", first written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical "Carousel", became the favourite song of supporters of the Liverpool Football Club.
They even made a very successful full length movie in 1965 called Ferry Cross The Mersey.
This was based on the song written by Gerry.
The song made Liverpool's ferries world famous.
Gerry also wrote eight other songs for the film.
The band enjoyed great success between 1963—1966, with such songs as "It's Gonna Be All Right".
This time was called the British Invasion because so many British bands were successful.
"[Our] songs were happy, the music simple and the lyrics nice to listen to," Gerry said. "
We didn't try to change the world."
The group broke up in 1967, and Gerry went on to work as an actor and performer in musical theater.
He reformed The Pacemakers in 1972 with prominent Liverpool musicians Jose McLaughlin, Billy Kinsley and Pete Clarke.
Gerry wrote a book about his life, You'll Never Walk Alone, which was published in 1993.
Original band member, Freddie Marsden, died on December 9, 2006, at 66 years of age.
The Left Behind series (or just Left Behind) is a fictional book series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
The series takes place during, and after the rapture.
Besides the best-selling fiction book series, there are also graphic novels, CDs, and a Left Behind: The Kids series.
The Rising: Antichrist is Born: Before They Were Left Behind
The Regime: Evil Advances: Before They Were Left Behind
The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye: Countdown to Earth's Last Days
Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind
Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist
Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides
Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed
Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist
The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession
The Mark: The Beast Rules the World
Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne
Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages
Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
Rayford Steele - Captain for Pan-Continental in his mid-forties
Chloe Steele Williams - Daughter of Rayford and wife of "Buck"
Cameron "Buck" Williams - Journalist for Global Weekly and the husband of Chloe
Bruce Barnes - Assistant pastor at New Hope Village Church
Nicolae Jetty Carpathia - A man from Romania who would become the antichrist
Left Behind: The Movie
Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
Official Left Behind website
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is a fictional person.
He is the main protagonist of the Halo video game series.
He is also called Master Chief, or Spartan-117.
Master Chief is a player character in Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians.
He also is also featured in several novels and other games in the Halo series.
The character is never seen without his green-colored armor and helmet.
He is one of the most recognizable characters from Halo.
Several action figures of the character are available.
Fictional characters introduced in 2001
Halo characters
Arrowheads are found all over the United States.
Archaeologically they are usually made of stone: primarily being flint, obsidian, or chert; but in many excavations bone, wooden and metal arrowheads have been found.
In North America,  Arrowheads are sometimes mistakenly attributed to the Historic Period American Indians, but are actually from North America's prehistoric ancestors; some arrowheads date back to over 15,000+ years old (Paleo-Clovis Culture).
Texas Arrowheads
Midwest Arrowheads
Relic Shack Arrowheads
Texas Points Arrowheads
Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass found as a kind of igneous rock.
It is produced when lava high in silica (SiO2) cools rapidly, and solidifies without time for crystal growth.
Because there is no crystal structure, obsidian blade edges can reach almost molecular thinness, leading to its ancient use as arrowheads, and its modern use as surgical scalpel blades.
Origin and properties
Obsidian is mineral-like, but not crystalline.
It is dark in color like basalt.
It consists mainly of SiO2 (silicon dioxide), usually 70% or more.
Obsidian does not last forever.
It is metastable: it changes very slowly.
Over time, the glass becomes fine-grained crystals.
So, no obsidian is older than Cretaceous age.
It breaks down faster when water is present.
Obsidian has little water, but takes it in if it sits in groundwater.
Usually dark, the color varies on the presence of different materials.
Iron and magnesium typically give the obsidian a dark green to brown to black color.
A few samples are nearly colorless.
In some stones, small crystals produce a snowflake pattern (snowflake obsidian).
It may contain patterns of gas which produce effects such as a golden sheen (sheen obsidian) or a rainbow sheen (rainbow obsidian).
Pre-Columbian Mesoamericans' used obsidian often.
It was worked for tools and decorative objects.
It was also polished to create early mirrors.
Mesoamericans also made a type of sword with obsidian blades mounted in a wooden body.
Called a macuahuitl, the weapon could cause terrible injuries, because it combined the sharp cutting edge of an obsidian blade with the ragged cut of a serrated edge.
Native American people traded obsidian throughout North America.
Each volcano and in some cases each volcanic eruption produces a distinguishable type of obsidian.
So archaeologists can trace the origins of a particular artifact.
Obsidian can be identified in Greece as coming from different islands in the Aegean Sea.
Obsidian cores (unworked lumps) and blades were traded great distances inland from the coast.
Obsidian can be found where high silicate eruptions have happened.
There are solid obsidian flows in the calderas of Newberry Volcano and Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range of western North America, and at Inyo Craters east of the Sierra Nevada, California.
Yellowstone National Park has a mountainside containing obsidian between Mammoth Hot Springs and the Norris Geyser Basin.
Deposits can be found in many other western US states including Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Oregon and Idaho.
Obsidian can also be found in  Armenia, Turkey, Italy, Mexico, Iceland, Greece and Scotland.
Obsidian is used in heart surgery, as well-crafted obsidian blades have a cutting edge many times sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels, with the edge of the blade being only about 3 nm wide.
Even the sharpest metal knife has a jagged, irregular blade when viewed under a strong enough microscope.
When examined under an electron microscope an obsidian blade is still smooth and even.
One study found that obsidian produced narrower scars, fewer inflammatory cells, and less granulation tissue in a group of rats.
Obsidian is also used for ornamental purposes and as a gemstone.
It possesses the property of presenting a different appearance according to the manner in which it is cut.
When cut in one direction it is a beautiful jet black; when cut across another direction it is glistening gray.
USGS Obsidian photo glossary
Jim Miller, Obsidian is Hot Stuff, Volcano World
Obsidian: Mineral galleries
Mindat with location data
Obsidian, a volcanic glass
Obsidian (comics), a DC Comics character
Obsidian (1986 Game), a 1986 game written for the Amstrad CPC.
Obsidian (computer game), a 1996 adventure game developed by Rocket Science Games
Obsidian (Transformers), a Transformers character
Obsidian Entertainment, a software developer
Obsidian (RPG), a roleplaying game
Obsidian Order, the fictional Cardassian intelligence agency from Star Trek
Cursed Obsidian, the GEM used by the Valkyrjies in My-Otome.
Arran or the Isle of Arran  is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
With an area of  it is the seventh largest Scottish island.
Just over 5,000 people live there.
Arran shares with the Hebrides cultural and physical similarities.
Arran is mountainous and has been described as a "geologist's paradise".p11/17
From the 6th century on peoples from Ireland colonised the island and it became a centre of religious activity.
During the troubled Viking Age, Arran became the property of the Norwegian crown before becoming formally absorbed by the Kingdom of Scotland in the thirteenth century.
The economy and population have recovered in recent years, the main industry being tourism.
There is diversity of wildlife, including three species of tree endemic to the area.
There are regular field trips in the summer by geology and biology students.
The island is sometimes referred to as "Scotland in miniature", as it is divided into "Highland" and "Lowland" areas by the Highland Boundary Fault which runs northeast to southwest across Scotland.p297/301
Most of the interior of the northern half of the island is taken up by a large granite batholith that was created by substantial volcanic activity around 60 million years ago in the Tertiary period.
There is an older outer ring of coarse granites and an inner core of finer grained material.
Sedimentary rocks dominate the southern half of the island, especially Old and New Red Sandstone.
Sand dunes are preserved in Permian sandstones near Brodick, there are localised outcrops of Triassic rocks,p143/4/9 and even some Cretaceous chalk.
Visiting in 1787, the geologist James Hutton found his first example of an unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza.
It showed evidence for his Plutonist theories of uniformitarianism, and about the age of the Earth.
This spot is one of the most famous places in the study of geology.
The Pleistocene glaciations almost entirely covered Scotland in ice.
After the last retreat of the ice at the close of the Pleistocene epoch sea levels were up to  lower than at present and it is likely that circa 14,000 years ago the island was connected to mainland Scotland.p68/69
Sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting coastlines a complex task, but  the island is clearly ringed by post glacial raised beaches.p28
What this means is that the huge weight of ice pressed down the Earth's crust here, and so the beaches were much higher up than now.
Gradually, long after the ice melted, the island came back up.
King's Cave on the south west coast is an example of such a raised beach.
This cave, which is over  long and up to  high, lies well above the present day sea level.
There are tall sea cliffs to the north east including large rock slides under the heights of Torr Reamhar and at Scriden (An Scriodan) at the far north end of the island.
The Scriden rocks fell "some two hundred years ago, with a concussion that shook the earth and was heard in Bute and Argyllshire".p19
Islands of Scotland
Kurud is a town found in the center of the state of Chhattisgarh in India.
Settlements in Chhattisgarh
Germanic paganism was a religion.
It was a form of paganism.
It was practiced in Central and Northern Europe before Christianity came there.
The best documented form is called Norse paganism today.
The religion was polytheistic, there were many gods.
The main ones seem to have been Odin and Thor.
Beforehand, the most important one may have been Tyr.
Modern influence
In English and Dutch, Saturn was not replaced.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 - June 9, 1974) was a writer and diplomat from Guatemala.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967 for his Banana Trilogy.
He also wrote El Hombre que lo tenía todo todo todo.
prizes/literature/laureates/1967/asturias-bio.html Nobel org
Guatemalan writers
Guatemalan politicians
Land of the Indus River or "Indus land" to the Persians.
A region in northern India, east and south of Yamuna river, between the Vindhya mountains and the Himalayas, where Hindi/Hindustani language is spoken
Hindustan Motors, an Indian car manufacturer
HMS Hindustan, one of the eight ships of the King Edward VII class battleships
"Hindustan" (1918), a popular published song written and composed by Oliver G. Wallace and Harold Weeks
Hindustan Times, a major Northern Indian English language daily newspaper
HAL Airport (Hindustan Airport), the major airport of Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Hindustan, Indiana, United States, a small town just south of Martinsville, Indiana
Plymouth Colony was an English colony in North America.
It existed from 1620 to 1691.
At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern part of the modern state of Massachusetts.
The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth.
This settlement served as the capital of the colony.
It is today the modern town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Separatists and Anglicans (together, the "Pilgrims") founded the colony.
With Jamestown and other settlements in Virginia Colony, it was one of the earliest successful English colonies in North America.
It was the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region.
The colony made a treaty with Chief Massasoit.
This helped to make the colony a success.
The colonists played a role in King Philip's War.
The colony merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other territories in 1691.
Together they formed the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Plymouth holds a special role in American history.
Many of the Plymouth colonists left England for a place to worship in their own way.
The social and legal systems of the colony became tied to their religious beliefs, as well as English custom.
Many of the people and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American folklore.
These include Thanksgiving and Plymouth Rock.
Timeline of Plymouth Colony
Colonial America:Plymouth Colony 1620 A short history of Plymouth Colony hosted at U-S-History.com, includes a map of all of the New England colonies.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project a collection of primary sources documents and secondary source analysis related to Plymouth Colony.
Pilgrim ships from 1602 to 1638 Pilgrim ships searchable by ship name, sailing date and passengers.
1691 disestablishments
An open proxy is a proxy server which any Internet user can use.
Generally, a proxy server allows users within a network group to store and forward Internet services such as DNS or web pages, so that not as much bandwidth is used and it is more controlled.
With an "open" proxy, however, any user on the Internet is able to use this forwarding service.
By using some open proxies ("anonymous" open proxies), users can hide their true IP address.
Anonymous open proxies will also make the user more anonymous and secure when browsing the web or using other internet services: a user's true IP address can be used by a hacker to get information from the user's computer.
Sometimes people will abuse open proxies, and so they are often seen as a problem.
Using open proxies can be sometimes dangerous as person providing them can be collecting user information.
Open Proxy Network
Service VPN
List of sites that provide lists of open proxies
es:Proxy#Proxy Abierto
Generally, a compromised machine is only one of many in a botnet, and the hacker will make the computer do unwanted things from far away.
Most owners of zombie computers do not know that their system is being used in this way.
Because the owner tends to not know, these computers are compared to zombies.
The Rapture (meaning "to carry to another place") is a future event in Christian theology where Jesus Christ will return to Earth to bring his followers to Heaven.
In Christianity it is believed that following this amazing event, the world will go through what is called the tribulation.
Then later following, will come the millennium (a thousand years).
The tribulation (or the great tribulation) is supposed theory of life after the rapture.
Most Christians agree that the period lasts around seven years.
During these years, it is believed that the Antichrist will come to power and control the world.
The Millennium is the period following the rapture, and the tribulation, that Christians believe they will live in glory on the Earth.
They also believe that Jesus Christ will be in total control over earth for 1,000 years (a millennium).
Books and movies
In 1950, the novel Raptured by Ernest Angley was published, and in 1995, the first of the Left Behind series was published.
These and other books have made the story of the rapture and the tribulation popular.
The Rapture story has been retold in many movies.
The most well-known production company is Cloud Ten Pictures.
Which have created the Left Behind film series (Left Behind: The Movie, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force, and Left Behind: World at War), as well as several other movies.
Some other notable end times movies are A Thief in the Night and The Omega Code.
RaptureReady
RaptureAlert
ReligiousTolerance
NewFoundationsPubl
Zeeland (also called Zealand) is a province in Netherlands.
It is on the south-western part of the country.
About 385,000 people are living in Zeeland (2021).
Zeeland is a good example of land partly reclaimed from water or marshes.
It is a large river delta at the mouth of several major rivers.
Most of the province lies below sea level and was reclaimed from the sea.
What was a muddy landscape, flooding at high tide and reappearing at low tide, became a series of small man-made hills that stayed dry.
The people of the province connected the hills by making dikes.
This made a chain of dry land which grew bigger, and gave the province its present shape.
The North Sea flood of 1953 swamped vast amounts of land.
Building the protective Delta Works also changed the face of the province.
Dams, tunnels and bridges are a vital part of the province's road system.
The final touch to this process came in 2003 when the Western Scheldt Tunnel was opened.
It was the first solid connection between both banks of the Western Scheldt and ended the era of water separating the islands and peninsulas of Zeeland.
Zeeland Tourist Board
GCatholic - Breda diocese
, also called the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai), is the time between 1600 and 1868 in the history of Japan.
During this long time Japanese society was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional feudal lords.
The Tokugawa shogunate was established at Edo in 1603 by the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The period was marked by the influence of neo-Confucianism and Shinto.
The 15th and last shogun was Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
The period ended with the Meiji Restoration, which was the restoration of imperial rule.
The Edo period is also known as the beginning of the early modern period of Japan.
In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara establishes a context for the next two centuries.
Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats a coalition of daimyo and establishes hegemony over most of Japan.
1603 ( Keichō 8): The emperor appoints Ieyasu as shogun.
1605 ( Keichō 10): Ieyasu resigns as shogun and is succeeded by his son Tokugawa Hidetada.
1607 ( Keichō 12): Korean Joseon Dynasty sends an embassy to Tokugawa shogunate.
1611 ( Keichō 16): Ryūkyū Islands become a vassal state of Satsuma domain.
1613 ( Keichō 16):  to Americas and Europe.
1614 ( Keichō 17): Shogunate bans Christianity from Japan.
1615  ( Keichō 18):  Battle of Osaka; Ieyasu destroys Osaka Castle and the Toyotomi clan.
June 1, 1616 (Genna 2, 17th day of the 4th month): Ieyasu died at Suruga Castle.
1623 (Genna 9): Tokugawa Iemitsu becomes the third shogun.
1633 (Kan'ei 12) Shogunate forbids travelling abroad and reading foreign books.
1635 (Kan'ei 12): Shogunate formalizes the system of mandatory alternate residence (sankin kotai) in Edo.
1637 (Kan'ei 14): Shimabara Rebellion (1637-38) mounted by overtaxed peasants.
1638 (Kan'ei 15): Shogunate forbids ship building.
1639 (Kan'ei 16): Edicts establish a policy of National Seclusion (Sakoku).
1641 (Kan'ei 18): Shogunate bans all foreigners, except Chinese and Dutch, who may only live in Nagasaki.
1650 (Kei'an 3): With peace, there evolved a new kind of noble, literate warrior according to bushido ("way of the warrior").
1657 (Meireki 3): T The Great Fire of Meireki destroys most of the city of Edo.
1700 (Genroku 13): Kabuki and ukiyo-e become popular.
December 16, 1707 (Hōei 4, 23nd day of the 11th month): Eruption of Mt. Fuji,
1774 (An'ei 3): Kaitai shinsho, the first complete Japanese translation of a Western medical work, is published by Sugita Gempaku and Maeno Ryotaku.
1787 (Tenmei 7): Matsudaira Sadanobu becomes the shogunate's senior official (rōjū).
1792 (Kansei 4): Russian envoy Adam Laxman arrives at Nemuro in eastern Ezo (now Hokkaidō).
1804 (Kyōwa 4): Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanov reaches Nagasaki and unsuccessfully seeks the establishment of trade relations with Japan.
1837 (Tenpō 8): Ōshio Heihachirō  and Ikuta Yorozu lead uprising was known as Tempo Jiken
1841 (Tenpō 12): Tempo Reforms
1854 (Kaei 7): Commodore Perry forces the Japanese agreement to the Treaty of Kanagawa.
The chief Japanese negotiator was Hayashi Akira.
1855 (Ansei 2):  Russia and Japan establish diplomatic relations.
September 5–6, 1864 (Genji 1, 5th-6th day of the 8th month): Bombardment of Shimonoseki by British, French, Dutch and American warships
In 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns, the Tokugawa shogunate ends.
This marks the end of the Edo period.
Emperor Meiji establishes his Imperial capital in Edo, which is renamed Tokyo ("eastern capital").
Economy Trade Diplomacy
Therefore trade relations carried out by the Shogunate are only  in Nagasaki, and the Netherland in Dejima.
List of Japanese eras
Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868)
British Museum,  Edo period (AD 1600-1868)
Japan-guide.com,  Edo Period (1603 - 1867)
Periods in Japanese history
1603 establishments
17th-century establishments in Japan
1868 disestablishments in Japan
1600s establishments in Asia
Graduation is the third studio album by American hip hop recording artist and producer Kanye West.
It was released on September 11, 2007 on Roc-A-Fella Records.
It is also West' last album to be influenced by a college theme in both the albums title and artwork.
Graduation received general acclaim from music critics.
(*) designates co-producer
(**) designates additional production
"Good Morning" contains samples of "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John
"Champion" contains elements of "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan
"Stronger" contains samples of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk
"I Wonder" contains samples of "My Song" by Labi Siffre
"Good Life" contains samples of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" by Michael Jackson
"Barry Bonds" contains samples of "Long Red" by Mountain
"Drunk and Hot Girls" contains elements of "Sing Swan Song" performed by Can
"Everything I Am" contains elements of "If We Can't Be Lovers" by Prince Phillip Mitchell and "Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy
"The Glory" contains samples of "Save the Country" by Laura Nyro, "Long Red" by Mountain
"Good Night" contains samples of "Nuff Man a Dead" by Super Cat, "Wake The Town" by U-Roy
"Bittersweet Poetry" interpolates "Bittersweet" by Chairmen of the Board
Kanye West – executive producer, primary artist (All Tracks),  producer (All Tracks except 13)
Lil Wayne - featured artist (Track 7)
Mos Def – featured artist (Track 8), backing vocals (8, 11)
T-Pain – featured artist (Track 5)
Dwele – featured artist (Track 9)
DJ Premier – featured artist (Track 10)
Jay-Z – featured artist, additional rap vocals (Track 1)
Chris Martin – featured artist, additional vocals (sung by) (Track 12)
Connie Mitchell – featured artist, additional vocals (Tracks 1-2, 6, 9)
Tanya Herron – featured artist, additional vocals (Track 8)
John Legend – featured artist, backing vocals (Tracks 5, 11)
Ne-Yo – featured artist, backing vocals (Track 5)
Jalil Williams – featured artist, additional backing vocals (Track 11)
Jehireh Williams – featured artist, additional backing vocals (Track 11)
Daphne Chen – violin (Tracks 5, 8)
Eric Gorfain – violin (Tracks 5, 8)
Luigi Mazzocchi – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Charles Parker – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Igor Szwec – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Emma Kummrow – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Olga Konopelsky – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Gloria Justen – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
Peter Nocella – viola (Tracks 4, 9)
Leah Katz – viola (Tracks 5, 8)
Alexandra Leem – viola (Tracks 4, 9)
Alma Fernandez – viola (Track 5)
Mike Dean – keyboards (Track 3, 7), music arranger (3), string arrangements (5, 8), recording engineer (3), guitar (3), mixing (5-8, 10, 12), producer (3, 5)
Jon Brion – keyboards (Track 4), percussion (12), record producer (8)
Darryl Beaton – keyboards (Track 6)
Andy Chatterly – keyboards (Tracks 1, 3, 8, 11)
Chris Rob – keyboards (Track 6)
Richard Dodd – cello (Tracks 5, 8)
John Krovoza – cello (Track 5)
Jennie Lorenzo – cello (Tracks 4, 9)
Tim Resler – bass (Tracks 4, 9)
Omar Edwards – piano (Tracks 4-5, 10),  keyboards (3, 11)  synthesizer (4-5, 8), synthesizer bass (8).
Nottz Raw –producer (Track 7), recording engineer (Track 7)
Tony Rey – recording engineer (Track 6)
Seiji Sekine – recording engineer (Track 3)
Greg Koller – recording engineer (Tracks 4, 8, 12)
Bruce Buechner – recording engineer (Track 12)
Andrew Dawson – recording engineer (All Tracks),  mixing (Tracks 2, 4-6, 9, 12-13)
Anthony Kilhoffer – recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 9-12),  mixing (1, 11)
Anthony Palazzole – assistant recording engineer (Track 2, 5-10, 12)
Andy Marcinkowski – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 2, 5-10, 12-13)
Richard Reitz – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 3, 6)
Jared Robbins – assistant recording engineer (Track 3)
Kengo Sakura – assistant recording engineer (Track 3)
Bram Tobey – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 8, 10-11)
Matty Green – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1, 9, 11-12)
Nate Hertweck – assistant recording  engineer (Tracks 1-6, 10-11)
Jason Agel – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 8, 10-11)
Tracey Waples – marketing
Al Brancch – marketing
Takashi Murakami – artwork
Carol Corless – package production
Eric Hudson – all other instruments (Track 9),  producer (9)
Warryn Campbell – producer (Track 12)
Larry Gold – string arrangements, string conductor (Tracks 4, 9)
Rosie Danvers – string arrangements (Track 11)
Sandra Campbell - project coordinator
Sean Cooper – sound designer (Track  12)
Tommy D – string section producer (Track 11)
Terese Joseph – A&R
Kyambo Joshua – executive producer
Manny Marroquin – mixing (Track 3)
Kazuhiro Mizuno – design
Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds – A&R, producer (Track 11)
Timbaland – additional drum machine (Track 5), additional music programming (3)
Gus Dudgeon - producer (Track 1)
Daft Punk - music arranger (Track 3), producer (3)
Edwin Birdsong - music arranger (Track 3), producer (3)
Kanye West albums
Savior (or Saviour) refers to a someone who has saved another from danger.
It can also refer to someone who has helped people achieve Salvation.
Many religions have a Savior, though the way they use the idea varies.
Christianity's savior is Jesus, the Christ.(Gospel of Matthew 1:21) In Judaism, Jesus is not considered a savior.
They believe that the Messiah, their own concept of a savior, has not yet come.
In Islam, their savior is Mahdi.
In Hinduism, Shiva, Vishnu, and Devi are referred to as saviors.
1 pebibyte = 250 bytes = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1,024 tebibytes.
It is related to the petabyte which is 1015 bytes.
An exbibyte (EiB) is a large unit of measurement for computers of the future.
Exbibytes hold 1024 pebibytes (PiB) or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes.
Some people call this number of bytes an exabyte.
Okrouhlička is a small village in the Havlíčkův Brod District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
About 199 people live there.
It covers 6,84 km².
Okrouhlička was first documented in 1307.
Water buffaloes are a kind of bovine.
There are Wild Asian Water Buffaloes and domestic buffaloes or domestic Asian water buffalo.
They are bred in Asia, South America and in Southern Europe.
They were bred from the Wild Asian Water Buffalo, which is now an endangered species.
Today, these buffaloes are used for their milk, which has more fat than that of cows.
The milk is processed to make Mozzarella, and curd.
Feral populations are sometimes used to manage uncontrolled growth of vegetation around wetlands.
They will simply graze it off.
This keeps such bodies of water usable by birds and other wildlife.
Females normally give birth to calves every other year.
Young bulls  usually stay with herds of mothers, which have about 30 buffalo, for three years after birth.
They then go on to form small all-male herds.
Water buffalo have been kept by humans for more than 5,000 years.
They have helped humans with their meat, horns, hides, milk, butterfat, and power, plowing and transporting people and crops.
Wild water buffalo are endangered.
They live only in a small number of protected areas in countries like India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand.
Lípa is a village in the Havlíčkův Brod District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
About 1024 people live there.
It covers 14,7 km².
Lípa was first documented in 1351.
Věžnička is a village in the Jihlava District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
About 116 people live there.
It covers 4.51 km².
Věžnička was first documented in 1502.
Kamenná  is a village in the Jihlava District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
About 171 people live there.
It covers 6,33 km².
Kamenná was first documented in 1308.
Větrný Jeníkov is a village in the Jihlava District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
About 582 people live there.
It covers 12,22 km².
Větrný Jeníkov was first documented in 1226.
Florida State University is a large school in Tallahassee, in the north part of Florida, U.S.A. It is one of the two most important public universities in Florida, together with the University of Florida.
More than 40,000 students go to school there, usually starting after high school (secondary school) at an age of about 18 years.
About 9,000 of the students already have a degree (diploma) from college, and are learning even more, to earn an advanced degree.
Florida State University is more than 150 years old.
The fees to attend the school (tuition) in 2006 were $3,175 for people from Florida and $16,306 for people from other places, for each term (about 4 months).
F.S.U. website
F.S.U. sports website
1850s establishments in Florida
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were protests in April and June of that year.
China calls this the June Fourth Incident, but to most of the world it is the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China.
There were other protests on Tiananmen square in 1919 and 1976.
The protests of 1989 were organised by groups of students, intellectuals and labour activists.
There was no common cause or leadership in the protests.
However, most protesters did not like the way the Communist party of China ran the economy.
Some people also wanted a change towards more democracy.
Most people protested on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but some also did in other cities, like Shanghai.
The protests in cities other than Beijing stayed peaceful.
On June 4, 1989, the government used force to end the protests.
This left many people injured or dead.
The exact number is not known today.
The Chinese government speaks about 200 - 300 victims, the New York Times says there were between 300 and 800, and the Chinese Red Cross talks about 2,000 - 3,000.
The protests had various causes.
The corruption of the Communist Party was a main issue.
The control of the economy was working badly.
The country was poor, and city dwellers got the worst of it.
Ironically, this all happened under the rule of Deng Xiaoping.
He was Mao Zedong's successor in 1978 and launched the economic reforms.
These reforms helped life for farmers and people who lived in the countryside, but was bad for city dwellers.
Intellectuals, students, and industrial workers, feared unemployment rising and social problems.
They felt disenfranchised.
This means people felt they could do nothing about these problems.
When reformer Hu Yaobang suddenly died of a heart attack on (15 April  1989), students reacted strongly.
Hu's death provided the reason for students to gather in large numbers.
In university campuses, many posters appeared eulogizing Hu, calling for a revival of Hu's legacy.
Within days, most posters were writing about broader political issues, such as freedom of the press, democracy, and corruption.
After 1989, memorials have traditionally been held every year to honor the June 4, 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
In 2019, there were months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong, which is a partly independent Chinese territory.
The 2019 protests led Beijing to approve a national security law in Hong Kong in 2020.
Under the law, anyone believed to be involved in terrorism or the weakening of state power could be tried and face life in prison.
In 2020, China banned the annual ceremony for the first time in 30 years.
Police said the ban was needed for public health reasons related to COVID-19, but critics say the ban is part of ongoing measures to stop political dissent.
More than 12 activists first attended the June 4 ceremony despite the ban and thousands came later.
The crowds broke through barriers set up around Victoria Park to light candles and sing songs.
Police later arrested over 20 activists, including leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the group that organizes the yearly ceremony.
Mass murder in the 1980s
Evangelism is the Christian practice of preaching about Jesus Christ to both Christians and non-Christians.
The purpose of most evangelism is to help others receive eternal (forever) salvation to people who have not heard of, or have denied God.
Evangelism is done in obedience to the Great Commission, a command from Jesus to his disciples to convert others, as recorded in the New Testament.
Christians who are superior at evangelism are known as evangelists, whether in their areas or to far away places.
Some Christian traditions consider evangelists to be in a leadership position, and they may be found preaching to large meetings.
Notable evangelists
Charles Finney was an evangelist in the 19th century.
He was a leader in the Second Great Awakening, a time when many in America came to the Christian faith.
Dwight L. Moody preached in the last half of the 19th century and also started a Christian school, the Moody Bible Institute.
Aimee Semple McPherson  preached in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the middle years of the 20th century Festo Kivengere, an Anglican Bishop preached in Africa with great results.
A prominent evangelist in the 20th century was Billy Graham.
His son Franklin Graham followed him, preaching in the 21st century.
Reinhard Bonnke (1940-2019) was an evangelist, largely in Africa.
He preached to as many as 100,000  persons at a time.
Many missionaries are evangelists, although missionaries also have done other work to promote their faith.
Types of Evangelism
Preaching can be done in churches or in special meetings.
Well known evangelists can draw crowds of many thousands of persons to hear their message.
Literature is used to spread the message.
Small papers with a one or two page message are called "tracts".
Some Christians give these to friends or even strangers.
Many books have also been written to spread the Gospel.
Some are overtly Christian and others are less obviously so.
C.S. Lewis has written extensively using both genres.
The translation, printing and distribution of the Bible can also be a form of evangelism.
Personal Evangelism refers to people simply talking one on one to others about their faith.
Radio is widely used to present the Christian message.
Television has been used to broadcast both preaching and dramatic programs with an Evangelistic message.
Film Many films have been made with a Christian message.
"Jesus" was a film of the life of Christ based on the Gospel of Luke.
It was funded by Bill Bright's Campus Crusade for Christ.
It is probably the most watched  and most translated film of all time.
Christian Web Sites are often Evangelistic.
Many Churches have Facebook pages or web sites with a link to something like "How to find God".
Music is used to attract listeners to hear a message.
Often the message of the song itself is a form of Evangelism.
Amazing Grace is a song with a Christian message that has found its way into popular culture.