the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2006  Shinzo Abe becomes Prime Minister of Japan for the first time.
2007  Yasuo Fukuda becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
2008  Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes the first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009  Typhoon Ketsana strikes the Philippines, and several neighboring countries, killing over 700 people.
2014  Several students are kidnapped from Iguala, Mexico.
2016  The first 2016 US Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump takes place.
2017  It is announced that the Republic of Ireland is to hold a referendum on the issue of abortion in 2018.
2017  An end to the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia is announced.
2019  New South Wales becomes the last Australian state to allow abortion.
1329  Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406  Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1698  William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d. 1755)
1711  Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl of Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1774  Johnny Appleseed, American folk hero (d. 1847)
1791  Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer (d. 1824)
1793  William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
1820  Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
1840  Louis-Olivier Taillon, French-Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1843  Joseph Furphy, Australian writer (d. 1912)
1849  Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist (d. 1936)
1856  Leo Graetz, German physicist (d. 1941)
1865  Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1867  Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
1869  Komitas Vardapet, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870  King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1872  Max Ehrmann, American poet (d. 1945)
1873  Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1874  Lewis Hine, American photographer and scientist (d. 1940)
1876  Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet and Muslim nationalist (d. 1952)
1877  Alfred Cortot, French pianist (d. 1962)
1877  Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1881  Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1966)
1886  Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)
1887  Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967)
1887  Barnes Wallis, English scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
1888  T. S. Eliot, American poet (d. 1965)
1889  Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1891  Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher (d. 1953)
1893  Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
1895  Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (d. 1952)
1897  Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898  George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1901  George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1905  Millito Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2011)
1907  Anthony Blunt, British double-agent (d. 1983)
1909  Bill France, Sr.,
American racing driver (d. 1992)
1910  Delfin Benitez Caceres, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2004)
1913  Berthold Beitz, German businessman (d. 2013)
1914  Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1914  Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)
1917  Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (d. 1993)
1918  Olafur Johann Stefansson, Icelandic writer (d. 1988)
1918  John Zacherle, American television host, voice actor and singer
1919  Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
1919  Ezio Loik, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1921  Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (d. 2007)
1922  Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, claimant to Russian throne (d. 2014)
1923  Dev Anand, Indian actor and movie producer (d. 2011)
1923  James Hennessy, British diplomat and public servant
1925  Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1926  Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1927  Patrick O'Neal, American actor
1927  Robert Cade, American physician (d. 2007)
1927  Romano Mussolini, Italian jazz musician (d. 2006)
1927  Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer (d. 2010)
1930  Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
1932  Donna Douglas, American actress (d. 2015)
1932  Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
1932  Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and dissident (d. 2018)
1932  Richard Herd, American actor
1934  Dick Heckstall-Smith, English musician (d. 2004)
1935  Lou Myers, American actor (d. 2013)
1936  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist (d. 2018)
1937  Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician (d. 2003)
1937  Jerry Weintraub, American movie producer (d. 2015)
1938  Raoul Cauvin, Belgian comic writer
1939  Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1939  George McWhirter, Northern Irish-Canadian writer
1941  Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and composer
1941  Martine Beswick, English model and actress
1941  Vadim Glowna, German actor (d. 2012)
1942  Kent McCord, American actor
1942  Ingrid Becker, German athlete
1943  Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer
1944  Jan Brewer, American politician, 22nd Governor of Arizona
1944  Anne Robinson, English television presenter
1944  Jean-Pierre Ricard, French cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux
1945  Bobby Clark, Scottish footballer
1945  Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1945  Bryan Ferry, English singer
1946  Radhna Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1946  Andrea Dworkin, American activist and author (d. 2005)
1946  Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Governor of New Jersey
1946  Homa Rousta, Iranian actress (d. 2015)
1947  Lynn Anderson, American singer (d. 2015)
1948  Olivia Newton-John, Australian-British singer and actress
1948  Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer
1949  Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer
1949  Minette Walters, English novelist
1952  George Wood, Scottish footballer
1954  Alice, Italian singer-songwriter
1954  Kevin Kennedy, American baseball player and manager
1956  Linda Hamilton, American actress
1957  Roger MacBride Allen, American science fiction writer
1957  Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer
1957  Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer
1958  Rudi Cerne, German ice skater and TV presenter
1958  Robert Kagan, American historian and author
1959  Andrew Bolt, Australian journalist and political commentator
1960  Uwe Bein, German footballer
1960  Jouke de Vries, Frisian politician and professor
1961  Will Self, British writer
1962  Mark Haddon, British writer
1962  Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
1962  Al Pitrelli, American guitarist (Megadeth)
1962  Jacky Wu, Taiwanese singer, actor and television host
1963  Lysette Anthony, English actress and model
1964  Nicki French, English singer and actress
1965  Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman and politician, former President of Ukraine
1968  James Caviezel, American actor
1969  Holger Stanislawski, German football manager
1969  Anthony Cavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969  David Slade, English director
1972  Beto O'Rourke, American politician
1973  Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973  Julienne Davis, American actress, producer and screenwriter
1975  Jake Paltrow, American director
1976  Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976  Dean Butterworth, English-American drummer (Good Charlotte)
1976  Tyler Denk, American model
1978  Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner
1979  Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1979  Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
1979  Taavi Roivas, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1980  Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1980  Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1980  Kazuki Ganaha, Japanese footballer
1981  Christina Milian, American singer
1981  Serena Williams, American tennis player
1981  Yao Beina, Chinese singer (d. 2015)
1983  Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1985  Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer
1985  M. Pokora, French singer and songwriter
1986  Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress, singer and dancer
1987  Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer
1988  James Blake, English singer-songwriter
1988  Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress and singer
1988  Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1989  Ciaran Clark, Irish footballer
1989  Emma Rigby, English actress
1990  Pavel Avdeyev, Russian footballer
1991  Alma Jodorowsky, French actress, fashion model and singer
1993  Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player
2000  Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
Up to 1960
1290  Margaret, Maid of Norway, Queen of Scotland (b. 1283)
1417  Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1425  Sophia of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1376)
1468  Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal (b. 1388)
1620  Taicheng, Chinese Emperor (b. 1582)
1626  Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1554)
1716  Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763  John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1802  Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1820  Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1867  James Ferguson, Scottish-American astronomer (b. 1797)
1877  Hermann Grossmann, German polymath (b. 1809)
1902  Levi Strauss, German-born clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904  Lafcadio Hearn, Irish-Greek writer (b. 1850)
1904  John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1937  Bessie Smith, American blues singer (b. 1894)
1945  Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
1945  Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1897)
1947  Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)
1952  George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
1953  Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954  Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1959  Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of present-day Sri Lanka (b. 1899)
1961  2015
1968  Daniel Johnson, Sr.,
20th Premier of Quebec (b. 1915)
1973  Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
1976  Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist (b. 1887)
1978  Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1886)
1983  Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
1984  Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1987  Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
1987  Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
1990  Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (b. 1907)
1996  Geoffrey Wilkinson, British chemist (b. 1921)
1998  Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1929)
2000  Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2000  Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2003  Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2003  Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
2006  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2006  Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2008  Paul Newman, American actor and director (b. 1925)
2010  Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
2012  Johnny Lewis, American actor (b. 1983)
2013  Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (b. 1929)
2014  Michael McCarty, American stage actor (b. 1946)
2014  Sam Hall, American television writer (b. 1921)
2015  Homa Rousta, Iranian actress (b. 1946)
2016  Herschell Gordon Lewis, American movie director (b. 1929)
2016  Ioan Gyuri Pascu, Romanian singer, actor and comedian (b. 1961)
2017  Robert Delpire, French photographer and filmmaker (b. 1926)
2017  Barry Dennen, American actor (b. 1938)
2017  Günter Halm, German World War II lieutenant (b. 1922)
2017  Rinse Zijlstra, Dutch politician (b. 1927)
2018  Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (b. 1937)
2018  Ignaz Kirchner, Austrian actor (b. 1946)
2019  Giovanni Bramucci, Italian cyclist (b. 1946)
2019  Jacques Chirac, President of France (b. 1932)
2019  William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
2019  Gennadi Manakov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
2019  Ronald L. Schlicher, American politician (b. 1956)
European Day of Languages (Council of Europe and EU)
Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
Dominion Day (New Zealand)
Republic Day (Yemen)
January 1 – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.
December 26 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf
January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
May 8 – Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
June 2 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
October 4 – David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian writer (b. 1742)
Molière (1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French actor, director and writer.
His real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière was his stage name.
He wrote some of the most important comedies in human history.
He was born in Paris where his father owned a carpet shop.
As a young person, Molière decided to live an artist's life.
At the age of 21, he founded a theatre company that soon went bankrupt.
From 1645–1658, he toured France with some of his friends.
Later, King Louis XIV made Molière responsible for the entertainment at the court of Versailles near Paris.
Molière was happy to have the king among his friends, because he had many enemies, especially important people in the Roman Catholic church.
Molière's comedies deal with human weaknesses: jealousy, meanness, hypocrisy, fear of death.
By putting his characters in ridiculous situations, Molière wants to entertain and educate his audience.
One of his most important plays is Tartuffe, showing a bigoted man stealing his way into a rich family.
Molière's last play was Le Malade Imaginaire, called in English The Hypochondriac.
As in many of his comedies, Molière played the main role.
He died on stage during the fourth performance.
Because of his problems with the church, he was not allowed to be buried in a church cemetery.
Molière's works online at toutmoliere.net (in French)
Molière's works online at site-moliere.com
Molière's works online  at InLibroVeritas.net
Molière's works online at classicistranieri.com
Biography, Bibliography, Analysis, Plot overview  at biblioweb.org (in French)
Molière's Verses Plays Publication, Statistics, Words Research (in French)
Professional quality parody - "The Life & Times of Molière" at YouTube.com
1622 births
1673 deaths
Actors from Paris
French playwrights
Sealand is a self-claimed country in the North Sea approximately 7.5 miles from the coast of Suffolk.
Sealand is a structure called Roughs Tower it was built in the sea by the British Royal Navy, and later became Sealand.
There is only room for 300 people on it.
Even though a man named Michael Bates says Sealand is a country, no other country has supported this claim.
Sealand defends their claim to being a country due to meeting all four criteria of the Montevideo Convention.
Legal status
There are no other states that have diplomatic recognition for Sealand.
In the declaratory theory of statehood, an entity becomes a state as soon as it meets the minimal criteria for statehood.
Therefore, recognition by other states is purely "declaratory".
In 1987, the UK extended its territorial waters from three to twelve miles.
Sealand now sits inside waters that Britain claims as its territory.
As a statelike entity 11110
Irrespective of its legal status, Sealand is managed by the Bates family as if it were a recognised sovereign entity, and they are its hereditary royal rulers.
Roy Bates styles himself "Prince Roy" and his wife "Princess Joan".
Their son is known as "His Royal Highness Prince Michael" and has been referred to as the "Prince Regent" by the Bates family since 1999.
In this role, he apparently serves as Sealand's acting "Head of State" and also its "Head of Government".
At a micronations conference hosted by the University of Sunderland in 2004, Sealand was represented by Michael Bates' son James, who was referred to as "Prince Royal James."
The facility is now occupied by one or more caretakers representing Michael Bates, who himself resides in Essex, England.
Sealand's constitution was instituted in 1974.
The preamble asserts Sealand's independence, while the articles variously deal with Sealand's status as a constitutional monarchy, the empowerment of government bureaus, the role of an appointed, advisory senate, the functions of an appointed, advisory legal tribunal, a proscription against the bearing of arms except by members of a designated "Sealand Guard", the exclusive right of the sovereign to formulate foreign policy and alter the constitution, and the hereditary patrilinear succession of the monarchy.
Sealand's legal system is claimed to follow British common law, and statutes take the form of decrees enacted by the sovereign.
Sealand has issued passports and has operated as a flag of convenience state, and it also holds the Guinness World Record for "the smallest area to lay claim to nation status".
Sealand's motto is E Mare Libertas ().
It appears on Sealandic items, such as stamps, passports, and coins, and is the title of the Sealandic anthem.
The anthem was composed by Londoner Basil Simonenko; it does not have lyrics.
Selling Sealand
At the beginning of 2007, the Bates put an ad in the newspaper.
They would like to sell Sealand for 65 million pounds.
National motto: E mare libertas(Latin: From the sea, freedom)
The Official Principality of Sealand Homepage
HavenCo Ltd.
Archival Sealand Homepage
Website of Rebel Sealand Government
Claimed transcript of the 1968 UK court case
Coins of Sealand
Meta Haven: Sealand Identity Project
The Sea Forts
HMS Roughs
Unrecognized countries
Micronations
A sticky note (or Post-it note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue along one edge that make it "sticky," so you can stick it to things.
It was invented by Arthur Fry.
The most common sticky note is the Post-it, which is made by a company called 3M. In 1974 a man named Arthur Fry came up with the idea for the sticky note.
He used a glue that was originally too weak to be used for anything else, so the notes would come off easy.
3M started to sell Post-Its in 1980.
Official Post-It notes Website
Post-It notes Generator
Becker was a 1998 American television series.
It was a sitcom on the CBS network.
It starred Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker, a very grumpy family doctor who is unhappy with his life in The Bronx, New York.
Becker became famous for his witty responses and constant negative outlook on all situations.
The show aired on Wednesdays, and was cancelled in January 2004.
John Becker – Ted Danson
Becker, a Harvard Medical School graduate, runs a neighborhood medical practice.
He is easily annoyed by things, and is a very angry person.
Margaret Wyborn – Hattie Winston
Becker's office manager, and one of the few people who can not get annoyed by Becker and his ways.
Margaret is a motherly-like figure to Becker and Linda.
Linda – Shawnee Smith
A muddle-headed girl whose surname is never revealed.
She works at the doctor's office to establish independence from her wealthy parents.
Regina "Reggie" Kostas – Terry Farrell
The owner and worker of a diner she inherited from her late father.
Reggie is a former model and is unhappy being stuck running a diner.
Jake Malinak – Alex Désert
Becker's best friend.
Jake also works at the diner selling newspapers and miscellaneous items such as candy, magazines, cigarettes, gum, etc.
Jake is blind following a car accident several years before.
Bob – Saverio Guerra
Bob loiters at the diner and is Italian.
He is an old high school classmate of Reggie's who is short, annoying, and refers to himself in the third person.
Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor and producer.
Danson was born in San Diego, California and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona.
He is best known from his work on television.
His roles include:
Dr. John Becker in Becker
Sam Malone in Cheers
Jack Holden in Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady
D.B. Russell in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Michael in The Good Place
Ted Danson was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2018, 2019 and 2020 for playing Michael on The Good Place.
The Good Place won a Peabody Award in 2019.
Actors from Arizona
Actors from San Diego, California
A digital camera is a camera that stores pictures in electronic memory instead of film.
Because of this, a digital camera can hold many more pictures than a traditional film camera.
A digital camera can sometimes hold hundreds or thousands of pictures.
Many use a memory card to store them.
Most digital cameras can use a USB cable that connects into a computer to send pictures that are in the camera to the computer.
Digital photography is a kind of photography where a digital camera is used to take photos.
Digital cameras use an image sensor instead of photographic film.
Very often, they also use a memory card to store the photos in a digital format.
Most photography is digital, though some photographers still use the old film cameras.
The majority of cameras are part of a mobile phone, called a "camera phone".
They can send their pictures to other phones and other devices.
Most camera phones do not make as good pictures as larger separate cameras do, especially where light is not bright.
Most digital cameras can serve as Video cameras.
Some have a direct link to another computer where the data may be stored.
When you take a picture or a video, it is saved on a memory device.
The memory device can be internal - flash memory inside the camera, or external - memory cards, microdrives and so on.
The most used method for saving pictures and videos from a camera is a SD card.
The picture can be saved in a compressed file (JPEG, TIFF) or in an uncompressed, proprietary RAW file.
The compressed picture is lower quality but the RAW picture has to be processed with a special computer program.
Most modern cameras also put Exif information in the picture file.
This metadata information usually includes the date of taking the picture, the camera type, and its settings.
Some cameras include GPS coordinates.
Cheers is a long-running American sitcom made by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC.
The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication.
In eleven seasons, there were 270 episodes.
Format: Sitcom
Run time: approx.
0:30 (per episode)
Creators: James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles
Producers: David Angell
Characters and actors who portrayed them
Sam Malone (Ted Danson)
Diane Chambers (Shelley Long)
Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley)
Coach Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)
Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman)
Cliff Calvin (John Ratzenberger)
Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson)
Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer)
Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth)
Norm Peterson (George Wendt)
Cheers was set in a Boston bar.
This bar was where a group of friends would come to sit, drink alcohol, complain, and make practical jokes on a rival bar in town.
The show's main theme in its early seasons was the romance between Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and ex-baseball pitcher and bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson).
Long's departure from the show in 1987 shifted the emphasis to Sam's relationship with a new character, Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley).
Diane returned for the finale.
The show also created the character Frasier Crane.
Frasier got his own show (Frasier) the season after Cheers ended.
Frasier's love interest Lilith Sternin appeared on both shows but Frasier and Lilith were no longer married in Frasier.
The producers, not wanting the show to be construed as promoting drinking, had Sam's character written as an ex-alcoholic.
Most of the early episodes took place entirely within the confines of the bar.
When the series became popular, some scenes were outside the bar.
The outer shots of the bar were actually the Bull and Finch pub, north of Boston Common, which has become a tourist attraction because of its association with the series.
It is said to be the bar that the series creators saw and wanted to model the bar in their show after.
It has now been renamed Cheers on Beacon Hill, though its interior is quite different from the TV bar.
It was nearly cancelled during its first season (in which it ranked dead last among 63 shows).
But it eventually became one of the most popular shows on TV because it had a top-ten rating during seven of its eleven seasons.
The show earned 26 Emmy Awards out of a total of 111 nominations.
1982 television series debuts
1993 television series endings
Boston, Massachusetts in fiction
Television series set in Massachusetts
Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series.
Episodes were first broadcast on the WB television network, and later syndicated on other networks such as the Cartoon Network.
It features fictionalized Jackie Chan and his niece Jade on their adventures trying to stop evil.
Kids WB series
2000 television series debuts
2005 television series endings
A stapler is an office tool that is used to place thin items such as paper together.
It uses a small piece of wire (a staple) to put them together.
The ends of the staple are pointed and go into the paper.
There is also a chain of stores called Staples, which sell office supplies.
When you press the stapler down, it will release a staple.
The staple is pressed into the paper, and then bent.
That way the pieces of paper get stuck together.
Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar, is an American animation studio.
It is known for its advanced CGI productions.
It has been a partner of Disney for many years.
In 2006, Disney bought the company.
Pixar started as a division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm in early 1979.
In 1986, Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs bought it for $10 million.
He worked as a chairman and CEO until 2011.
The company has made a total of 28 movies and short films based on the characters, starting with Toy Story which was released on November 22, 1995, Toy Story 2 was premiered in 1999 and Toy Story 3 was made in 2010.
The fourth film of the franchise is Toy Story 4 which released in 2019.
The Toy Story franchise has globally become the highest-grossing animated films of all time and has also released several short films and several television series.
Toy Story (1995)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Incredibles (2004)
Cars (2006)
Ratatouille (2007)
WALL-E (2008)
Up (2009)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Cars 2 (2011)
Brave (2012)
Monsters University (2013)
Inside Out (2015)
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Finding Dory (2016)
Cars 3 (2017)
Coco (2017)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Onward (2020)
Soul (2020)
Luca (2021)
Adventures of André & Wally B. (Lucasfilm)
Red's Dream
Knick-Knack
Geri's Game
Boundin'''
Jack-Jack Attack One Man Band Lifted Mater and the Ghostlight Your Friend the Rat Presto Resuce Squad Mater El Materdor BURN-E Tokyo Mater Partly Cloudy Dug's Special Mission George & A.J. Day & Night La Luna Hawaiian Vacation Small Fry Partysaurus Rex The Legend of Mor'du The Blue Umbrella Party Central Lava Sanjay's Super Team Riley's First Date?
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Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy adventure film written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.
It tells the story of the over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who searches for his captured son Nemo (Alexander Gould), along with a regal blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in Sydney Harbour.
Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself.
It is Pixar's first film to be released in cinemas in the northern hemisphere summer.
The film was re-released for the first time in 3D on September 14, 2012, and it was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2012.
A sequel, Finding Dory, was released on June 17, 2016.
The film received extremely positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
It was the second highest-grossing film of the year, earning a total of $921 million worldwide.
Finding Nemo is also the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2011, and was the highest money making G-rated film of all time before The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run overtook it.
It is also the 22nd highest money making film of all time, as well as the 3rd highest money making animated film.
In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the tenth greatest animated film ever made during their Top 10.
Two clownfish, Marlin and his wife Coral are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef and their clutch of eggs that are due to hatch in a few days.
Suddenly, a barracuda attacks them, and Marlin tries to defend and save his eggs, leaving Marlin unconscious.
Coral and all but one of their eggs are also eaten.
Marlin names this egg Nemo, a name that Coral liked.
The movie next shows Nemo's first day of school.
Nemo has a tiny right fin, because his egg was injured by the barracuda attack.
This makes it difficult for him to swim.
After Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a school field trip by mistake, Nemo refuses and sneaks away from the reef towards a boat.
So he gets captured by scuba divers.
As the boat sails away, one of the divers accidentally knocks his diving mask into the water.
While trying to save Nemo, Marlin meets Dory, a good-hearted and optimistic Regal blue tang with short-term memory loss.
While meeting three sharks on a fish-free diet, Bruce, a great white shark; Anchor, a hammerhead shark; and Chum, a mako shark, Marlin discovers the diver's mask that was dropped from the boat and notices an address written on it.
However, when he angrily argues with Dory and accidentally gives her a nosebleed, the scent of blood causes Bruce to lose control of himself and attempt to eat Marlin and Dory.
The two escape from Bruce but the mask falls into a trench in the deep sea.
During a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the trench, Dory realizes she is able to read the address written on the mask, which leads to Sydney, Australia, and manages to remember it.
She repeats " P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney" to keep it in her memory.
After receiving directions to Sydney from a large school of Silver moony, Marlin and Dory accidentally run into a bloom of jellyfish that nearly sting them to death; Marlin falls exhausted after the risky escape and wakes up to see a surf-cultured Green sea turtle named Crush, who takes Dory and him on the East Australian Current, referred to as the EAC by the animals.
In the current, Marlin shares the story of his journey with a group of young sea turtles who spread the story around the ocean.
Meanwhile, Nemo's captor - P. Sherman, a dentist - places him into a fish tank in his office on Sydney Harbour.
There, Nemo meets a group of aquarium fish called the "Tank Gang", led by a crafty and ambitious moorish idol named Gill.
The "Tank Gang" includes Peach, a starfish;  Bloat, a puffer fish; Bubbles, a Yellow tang; Deb, a Blacktailed humbug Gurgle, a Royal gramma; and Jacques, a pacific cleaner shrimp;.
The fish are frightened to learn that the dentist plans to give Nemo to his niece, Darla.
She is infamous for killing a goldfish given to her previously by constantly shaking the bag.
In order to avoid this fate, Gill gives Nemo a role in an escape plan, which involves jamming the tank's filter and forcing the dentist to remove the fish from the tank to clean it manually.
The fish could be placed in plastic bags, at which point they could only roll out the window and into the harbor.
After a friendly pelican named Nigel visits with news of Marlin's adventure, Nemo succeeds in jamming the filter, but the plan backfires when the dentist installs a new high-tech filter.
While leaving the East Australian Current, Marlin and Dory get lost in the blooms of plankton and krill and are caught by a blue whale.
Inside the whale's immense mouth, Marlin tries to escape while Dory talks with it in whale-speak.
So, the whale carries them to Sydney Harbour and expels them through his blowhole.
They are met by Nigel, who recognizes Marlin from the stories he has heard and rescues him and Dory from a flock of hungry seagulls by scooping them into his beak and taking them to the dentist's man's office.
By this time, Darla has arrived and the dentist is prepared to give Nemo to her.
Nemo tries to play dead in hopes of saving himself, and, at the same time, Nigel arrives.
Marlin sees Nemo and mistakes this act for the actual death of his son.
After a struggle, Gill helps Nemo escape into a drain through a sink.
Sad, Marlin leaves Dory and begins to swim back home.
Poor Dory then loses her memory and becomes a little worried, but meets Nemo, who has reached the ocean, has no memory of him.
As you know, Dory's memory is restored again after she reads the word "Sydney" on a nearby drainpipe and, remembering her journey, she guides Nemo to Marlin.
After the two joyfully reunite, Dory is caught in a fishing net with a school of grouper.
Nemo bravely enters the net and directs the group to swim downward to break the net, reminiscent of a similar scenario that occurred in the fish tank earlier.
The fish, including Dory, succeed in breaking the net and escape.
After some days, Nemo leaves for school once more and Marlin who is no longer overprotective after all.
Back at the dentist's office, the high-tech filter breaks down and The Tank Gang escape into the harbor.
But, they realize that they are trapped in the bags of water that the dentist put them into when cleaning the tank.
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Finding Nemo currently holds a 99% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 100% by top critics, and an average of 89% on Metacritic.
Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it "one of those rare movies where I always wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my field of vision."
The late broadway stars Paul Winchell, John Fiedler, and Ken Sansom who were the voices of three of Pooh's friends, Tigger, Piglet, & Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, said Finding Nemo was their favorite animated film.
The film's use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the animal as pets in the United States, even though the movie portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and suggested that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain.
The demand for clownfish was supplied by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish in regions like Vanuatu.
At the same time, the film had a quote that "all drains lead back to the ocean" (Nemo escapes from the aquarium by going down a sink drain, ending up in the sea).
Since water typically undergoes treatment before leading to the ocean, the JWC Environmental company quipped that a more realistic title for the movie might be Grinding Nemo.
However, in Sydney, much of the sewer system does really pass directly to outfall pipes deep offshore, without a high level of treatment (although pumping and some filtering occur).
Additionally, according to the DVD, there was a cut sequence with Nemo going through a treatment plant's mechanisms before ending up in the ocean pipes.
However, in the final product, logos for "Sydney Water Treatment" are featured prominently along the path to the ocean, implying that Nemo really did pass through some water treatment.
The Australian Tourism Commission (ATC) launched several marketing campaigns in China and the USA in order to improve tourism in Australia, many of them using Finding Nemo clips.
Queensland also used Finding Nemo to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers.
The 3-D re-release also prompted a retrospective on the film then nine years after its initial release.
Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger described it as "A genuinely funny and touching film that, in less than a decade, has established itself as a timeless classic,"  with Roger Moore of the McClatchy-Tribune News Service calling the movie "the gold standard against which all other modern animated films are measured."
Home media
Finding Nemo was released on DVD and VHS on November 4, 2003.
The film was also released on DVD in a "Gold Edition", which came with a Finding Nemo stuffed toy character.
The film had a home video release on both Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on December 4, 2012, with both a 3-disc and a 5-disc set.
The inspiration for Nemo was made up of multiple experiences.
The idea goes back to when director Andrew Stanton was a child, when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home.
In 1992 shortly after his son was born, he and his family took a trip to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (which was called Marine World at the time).
There he saw the shark tube and various exhibits he felt that the underwater world had bene done beautifully in computer animation.
Later, in 1997 he took his son for a walk in the park, but found that he was over protecting him constantly and lost an opportunity to have any "father-son experiences" on that day.
In an interview with National Geographic magazine, he stated that the idea for the characters of Marlin and Nemo came from a photograph of two clownfish peeking out of an anemone:"It was so arresting.
I had no idea what kind of fish they were, but I wasn't taking my eyes off them.
And as an entertainer, the fact that they were called clownfish—it was perfect.
There's almost nothing more appealing than these little fish that want to play peekaboo with you."
Also, clownfish are very colourful, but don't seem to tend to come out of an anemone very often, and for a character who has to go on a dangerous journey, Stanton felt a clownfish was the perfect kind of fish for the character.
Pre-production of the film took place in early 1997.
Stanton began writing the screenplay during the post-production of A Bug's Life.
As such, it began production with a complete screenplay, something that co-director Lee Unkrich called "very unusual for an animated film."
The artists took scuba diving lessons so they could go and study the coral reef.
The idea for the initiation sequence came from a story conference between Andrew Stanton and Bob Peterson while driving to record the actors.
Ellen DeGeneres was cast after Stanton was watching Ellen with his wife and seeing Ellen "change the subject five times before finishing one sentence" as Stanton recalled.
There was a pelican character known as Gerald (who in the final film ends up swallowing and choking on Marlin and Dory) who was originally a friend of Nigel.
They were going to play against each other as Nigel being neat fastidious while Gerald being scruffy and sloppy.
However the filmmakers had not found an appropriate scene for them that didn't slow the pace of the picture down, so Gerald's character was minimized.
Stanton himself provided the voice of Crush the sea turtle.
Stanton originally did the voice for the film's story reel, and assumed they would find an actor later.
When Stanton's performance was popular in test screenings, Stanton decided to keep his performance in the film.
Stanton recorded all his dialogue while lying on a sofa in co-director Lee Unkrich's office.
Crush's son Squirt was voiced by Nicholas Bird, the young son of fellow Pixar director Brad Bird.
According to Stanton, the elder Bird was playing a tape recording of his young son around the Pixar studios one day.
Stanton felt the voice was "this generation's Thumper" and immediately cast Nicholas.
Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film.
According to Mullally, the producers were dissatisfied to learn that the voice of her character Karen Walker on the television show Will & Grace was not her natural speaking voice.
The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role.
When Mullally refused, she was dismissed.
Finding Nemo shares many plot elements with Pierrot the Clownfish, a children's book published in 2002, but allegedly conceived in 1995.
The author, Franck Le Calvez, sued Disney for infringement of his intellectual rights.
The judge ruled against him, citing the color differences between Pierrot and Nemo.
To ensure that the movements of the fish in the film were believable the animators essentially took a crash course in fish biology and oceanography.
They visited aquariums, went diving in Hawaii and received in-house lectures from an ichthyologist.
Finding Nemo earned $380,673,009 in North America, and $540,900,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $921,573,009.
It is the second highest-grossing film of 2003, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
In North America, outside North America, and worldwide, it was the highest-grossing film, up until 2020 when The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run surpassed it.
Finding Nemo set an opening-weekend record for an animated feature, making $70,251,710 (first surpassed by Sausage Party).
It became the highest-grossing animated film in North America ($339.7 million), outside North America ($528.2 million) and worldwide ($867.9 million), in all three occasions outgrossing The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
In North America, it was surpassed by both Sausage Party in 2016, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run in 2020.
After the re-release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 2016, it stands as the fourth highest-grossing animated film in these regions.
Outside North America, it was surpassed by Sausage Party, The Tigger Movie, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run.
Worldwide, it now ranks third among animated films.
The film had impressive box office runs in many international markets.
In Japan, its highest-grossing market after North America, it grossed $102.4 million becoming the highest-grossing Western animated film until it was out-grossed by The Tigger Movie ($126.7 million).
Following in biggest grosses are the UK, Ireland and Malta, where it grossed £37.2 million ($67.1 million), France and the Maghreb region ($64.8 million), Germany ($53.9 million), and Spain ($29.5 million).
3D re-release
After the success of the 3D re-release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Disney and Pixar re-released Finding Nemo in 3D on September 14, 2012, with a conversion cost estimated below $5 million.
For the opening weekend of its 3D re-release in North America, Finding Nemo grossed $16.7 million, debuting at the No.
2 spot behind Resident Evil: Retribution.
From seven foreign markets, it earned a total of $5.1 million.
Finding Nemo won the Academy Award and Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.
It also won the award for best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, the National Board of Review Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.
Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Movie and Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, Ellen DeGeneres.
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, Ellen DeGeneres
Finding Nemo was also nominated for:
Two Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress, Ellen DeGeneres
A Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Two MTV Movie Awards for Best Movie and Best Comedic Performance, Ellen DeGeneres
In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten", the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
Finding Nemo was acknowledged as the 10th best film in the animation genre.
It was the most recently released film among all ten lists, and one of only three movies made after the year 2000, the others being The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Shrek.
In 2005, after disagreements between Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve Jobs over the distribution of Pixar's films, Disney announced that they would be creating a new animation studio, Circle 7 Animation, to make sequels to the seven Disney-owned Pixar films (which consisted of the films released between 1995 and 2011).
The studio had put Toy Story 4 and Monsters at Work in development, and had also hired screenwriter Laurie Craig to write a draft for Finding Nemo 2.
Circle 7 was subsequently shut down after Robert Iger replaced Eisner as CEO of Disney and arranged the acquisition of Pixar.
In July 2012, it was reported that Andrew Stanton is developing a sequel to Finding Nemo, with Victoria Strouse writing the script and a schedule to be released in 2016.
However, the same day the news of a potential sequel broke, director Andrew Stanton posted a message on his personal Twitter calling into question the accuracy of these reports.
The message said, "Didn't you all really learn from Toy Story 4?
Everyone calm down.
Nothing to see here now. #
skyisnotfalling" According to the report by Hollywood Reporter published in August 2012, Ellen DeGeneres is in negotiations to reprise her role of Dory.
In September 2012, it was confirmed by Stanton saying: "What was immediately on the list was writing a second Carter movie.
When that went away, everything slid up.
I know I'll be accused by more sarcastic people that it's a reaction to Carter not doing well, but only in its timing, but not in its conceit."
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Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci and Leonardo of Pisa, lived c. 11701250.
He was an Italian mathematician.
He was thought "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".
He did this in his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation).
He also introduced to Europe the sequence of Fibonacci numbers which he used as an example in Liber Abaci.
Fibonacci number sequence
Fibonacci is best known for the list of numbers called the Fibonacci Sequence.
The list never stops, but it starts this way:
1,  1,  2,  3,  5,  8,  13,  21,  34,  55,  89, 144,  233,
377,  610,  987,  1597,  2584...
3 + 5 = 8
5 + 8 = 13
8 + 13 = 21
13 + 21 = 34
21 + 34 = 55
34 + 55 = 89
55 + 89 = 144
89 + 144 = 233
144 + 233 = 377
233 + 377 = 610
377 + 610 = 987
610 + 987 = 1597
987 + 1597 = 2584
1170s births
1250 deaths
Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation.
He is also a famous hacker.
He created GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger.
He is one of the main authors of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most used free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft.
Since the mid-1990s, he has spent most of his time as a political campaigner, talking about free software and campaigning against proprietary software, software idea patents and expansions of copyright law.
The time that he still spends on programming is spent on GNU Emacs.
He is currently supported by various fellowships and maintains a modest standard of living.
Stallman.org – Richard Stallman's personal homepage
Richard Stallman's blog
American computer scientists
Scientists from New York City
The National Hockey League or NHL, is the highest-level ice hockey league in the world.
It has 32 teams - seven are from Canada and the other 25 are from the United States.
The winner of the playoffs each year wins the Stanley Cup.
The NHL began in 1917.
Some of the owners in the National Hockey Association had problems with owner Edward Livingstone, so they got rid of him by creating a new league.
There were five teams in 1917:
Ottawa Senators (later St. Louis Eagles; not related to the current Ottawa Senators)
Quebec Bulldogs (later Hamilton Tigers)
Toronto Arenas (later St. Patricks, then Maple Leafs)
They played 22 games a year.
The Wanderers had to stop playing in the first year because their arena burned down.
Over the years some teams died out, and others were created: the Boston Bruins, New York Americans, Montreal Maroons, Pittsburgh Pirates (later Philadelphia Quakers), New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars (later Falcons, then Red Wings).
Chicago Black Hawks
By the 1940s, they were playing 50 games a year, but this increased slowly to 80 games by the 1970s.
In 1967, the league increased to 12 teams.