the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
As of 2006, there were six people.
They live in the Igarape Omere region to the southwest of Rondônia.
The tribe consists of chief Kunibu Baba (male, age: ~ 70), Pupak (male, age: ~ 40), Ururu (female, age:~80) and three women with ages from 23-35.
The seventh member of the tribe died in 1995.
The only child born after that died in 2000 in a storm.
With his death the only hope of the tribe not becoming extinct lessened.
Rondonia Web
Singular is one kind of grammatical number.
A singular noun phrase usually refers to something that you would count as one only (e.g., one time, a glass, the sun, my mother, Jennifer).
In contrast, plural noun phrases are counted as more or less than one (e.g., no bananas, 0.5 liters, 1.2 grams, two times, three fish, 20 mothers).
Switzerland is divided into 26 different areas called cantons.
A canton is similar to a state in the United States.
In the past, each canton had its own army and money.
This changed in 1848 when Switzerland finished a civil war and changed to the structure it has now.
The cantons Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden (Nidwalden and Obwalden together are called Unterwalden) are called Urkantone.
An Urkanton is a canton that existed since the foundation of Switzerland in 1291.
With time, other cantons joined Switzerland.
Jura is the newest canton in Switzerland since 1978.
In that year, it split from the canton of Berne, after some rioting.
The cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Appenzell-Innerrhoden, Appenzell-Ausserrhoden, Obwalden and Nidwalden are different from the others in one way.
For historical reasons, their voting is counted differently in national elections.
Other than that, they are the same as the others.
In Switzerland, the individual municipalities and cantons are very free.
Usually, there is a Swiss law (at the level of the whole confederation).
Very often this states general things and says that the cantons must follow this rule.
The cantons then make detailed rules, each in the way it sees fit.
Sometimes this leads to strange situations.
There are 26 different schooling systems.
Drug abuse is a federal offense.
Punishment is usually one to three years, but can also be only a fine.
The problem is: Consumption itself (not trading, or giving away for free) is not punishable.
Also in light cases, the police can say that there will be no fine.
This has led to the fact, that in each canton, this law is applied differently.
In one canton, smoking marijuana will mean a fine, in another, it can mean a prison term.
The word for that is called federalism.
That means, that each canton has its own government.
So all cantons have their own constitution.
The constitution is the highest law in a state.
List and map
{| class=sortable cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border: gray solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"
|- bgcolor="#BEBEBE"
Population1
Area2
Density3
Nr of Municipalities1
|ZH
|Zürich (Zurich)
|1351
|Zürich
|align=right|1,228,600
|align=right|1,729
|align=right|701
|align=right|171
|German
|BE
|Berne (Bern)
|1353
|Berne
|align=right|947,100
|align=right|5,959
|align=right|158
|align=right|399
|German, French
|LU
|Lucerne
|1332
|align=right|350,600
|align=right|1,493
|align=right|233
|align=right|107
|UR
|Uri
|1291
|Altdorf
|align=right|35,000
|align=right|1,077
|align=right|33
|align=right|20
|SZ
|Schwyz
|align=right|131,400
|align=right|908
|align=right|143
|align=right|30
|OW
|Obwalden (Obwald)
|Sarnen
|align=right|32,700
|align=right|491
|align=right|66
|align=right|7
|NW
|Nidwalden (Nidwald)
|Stans
|align=right|38,600
|align=right|276
|align=right|138
|align=right|11
|GL
|Glarus
|1352
|align=right|38,300
|align=right|685
|align=right|51
|align=right|28
|ZG
|Zug
|align=right|100,900
|align=right|239
|align=right|416
|FR
|Fribourg
|1481
|align=right|239,100
|align=right|1,671
|align=right|141
|align=right|242
|French, German
|SO
|Solothurn
|align=right|245,500
|align=right|791
|align=right|308
|align=right|126
|BS
|Basel-Stadt (Basle-City)
|1501
|Basel
|align=right|186,700
|align=right|37
|align=right|5,072
|align=right|3
|BL
|Basel-Landschaft (Basle-Country)
|Liestal
|align=right|261,400
|align=right|518
|align=right|502
|align=right|86
|SH
|Schaffhausen
|align=right|73,400
|align=right|298
|align=right|246
|align=right|34
|AR
|Appenzell Ausserrhoden (Outer Rhodes)
|1513
|Herisau4
|align=right|53,200
|align=right|243
|align=right|220
|AI
|Appenzell Innerrhoden (Inner Rhodes)
|Appenzell
|align=right|15,000
|align=right|173
|align=right|87
|align=right|6
|SG
|St.
Gallen (St. Gall)
|1803
Gallen
|align=right|452,600
|align=right|2,026
|align=right|222
|align=right|90
|GR
|Graubünden (Grisons)
|Chur
|align=right|185,700
|align=right|7,105
|align=right|26
|align=right|211
|German, Romansh, Italian
|AG
|Aargau (Argovia)
|Aarau
|align=right|550,900
|align=right|1,404
|align=right|388
|align=right|232
|TG
|Thurgau (Thurgovia)
|Frauenfeld
|align=right|228,200
|align=right|991
|align=right|229
|align=right|80
|TI
|Ticino
|Bellinzona
|align=right|311,900
|align=right|2,812
|align=right|110
|align=right|244
|Italian
|VD
|Vaud
|Lausanne
|align=right|626,200
|align=right|3,212
|align=right|188
|align=right|382
|French
|VS
|Valais
|1815
|Sion
|align=right|278,200
|align=right|5,224
|align=right|53
|align=right|160
|NE
|Neuchâtel
|align=right|166,500
|align=right|803
|align=right|206
|align=right|62
|GE
|Geneva
|align=right|414,300
|align=right|282
|align=right|1,442
|align=right|45
|JU
|Jura
|1979
|Delémont
|align=right|69,100
|align=right|838
|align=right|82
|align=right|83
|- bgcolor="#DCDCDC"
|CH
|Switzerland
|Bern
|align="right"|7,261,20041,285
|align="right"|174
|align="right"|2,890
|German, French, Italian, Romansh
Notes: 1 As of 31 December 2001, National Statistics, 2 km², 3 per km², based on 2000 population 4 seat of government and parliament, the seat of the judicial authorities is Trogen.
It lets animals respond to what is around them.
The central nervous system is the brain, the spinal cord, and nerves.
It is present in almost all animals.
It is there to process the input from the senses, and to coordinate movement.
The nervous system is made up of neurons.
Other cells, such as glial cells keep the neurons safe and healthy.
The structure of the system includes the brain and spinal cord, which together are called the central nervous system.
The brain has billions of nerve cells to help think, walk, and breathe.
The nervous system can react in 1/100 of a second to a stimulus, like a pain signal.
Alexandre Dumas, fils (fils is French for son), (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père (père is French for father).
Like his father, Alexandre Dumas, fils was a celebrated author and playwright.
Alexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.
In 1831 his father legally recognized him (he adopted him) and ensured the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the College Bourbon.
At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother.
Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters.
In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his 1858 play, Le fils naturel (The Illegitimate Son), he wrote about the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.
Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a white French nobleman and a young black Haitian woman.
In the boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates.
These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.
In 1844, Dumas fils moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father.
There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel, La dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias).
Adapted into a play, it was titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata.
Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a huge success with the play.
With this work began the playwriting career of Dumas fils which not only eclipsed that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the nineteenth century.
After this, he virtually abandoned the novel (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).
In 1864, Dumas married Nadeja Naryschkine, with whom he had a daughter.
After Naryschkine's death, he married Henriette Regnier.
In 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur.
Alexandre Dumas the son died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on 27 November 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
It was, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from Marie Duplessis.
La dame aux camélias (Camille or The Lady of the Camellias, 1848)
L'affaire Clemenceau (The Clemenceau Case, 1867)
Verdi's La Traviata was based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias
Atala (1848)
La Dame aux camélias (1852)
Diane de Lys (1853)
Le Bijou de la reine (1855)
Le Demi-monde (1855)
La Question d'argent (1857)
Le Fils naturel (The Illegitimate Son or The Natural Son, 1858)
Un Père prodigue (1859)
Un Marriage dans un chapeau (1859) coll.
L'Ami des femmes (1864)
Le Supplice d'une femme (1865) coll.
Emile de Girardin
Heloise Paranquet (1866) coll.
Durentin
Les Idees de Madame Aubray (1867)
Le Filleul de Pompignac (1869) coll.
Une Visite de noces (1871)
La Princesse Georges (1871)
La Femme de Claude (1873)
Monsieur Alphonse (1873)
L'étrangère (1876)
Les Danicheff (1876) coll.
de Corvin
La Comtesse Romani (1876) coll.
Gustave Fould
La Princesse de Bagdad (1881)
Denise (1885)
Francillon (1887)
Conjunctivitis (also known as pinkeye) is a medical condition when the Conjunctiva (a transparent membrane that lines the outer eye, and inner part of the eyelid) becomes inflamed.
The cause of conjunctivitis can be either bacterial or viral infection.
Mayo Clinic - Pink-eye
All About Vision
Kid's Health
MedicineNet
WebMD
Learning the Herbs  - Natural treatment for pink-eye
Cerulean is a range of colours from teal-blue, sky-blue, bright blue, or azure to deep cyan.
The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caeruleum, which means "sky" or "heavens".
This was in turn from Latin caeruleus deep blue: resembling the blue of the sky.
In classical times, this term was used to describe blue pigments, particularly mixtures of copper and cobaltous oxides, called genuine cerulean.
These early attempts to create sky blue colours were often less than satisfactory due to greenish hues and lack of permanence.
When the artificial pigment cerulean blue was invented people started using this instead.
The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590.
Meaning of cerulean
Cerulean represents the "sky" or "heavens", or sometimes the ocean.
The United States Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team wears uniforms that are a bright rich tone of cerulean.
Tones of cerulean color comparison chart
John Barrowman MBE (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish-American actor.
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom but moved to Joliet, Illinois in the United States when he was 8 years old and grew up there.
He is citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States because of this.
Barrowman was a contestant on the first series of Dancing on Ice in 2006.
Acting and presenting
Barrowman is most known for playing the character Captain Jack Harkness in the television series Doctor Who and Torchwood.
He is also a famous musical actor and singer.
He has appeared in many musicals, as well as television shows about musicals.
He also has been a presenter for series such as Live & Kicking and, the Hollow Earth trilogy.
He is currently staring in CW's Arrow as Malcolm Merlyn.
Barrowman is openly gay.
He has been in a relationship with Scott Gill since 1993.
They have been civil partners since 2006.
They married in 2013.
British television personalities
Dancing on Ice participants
Scottish LGBT people
Scottish television presenters
Television personalities from Glasgow
Television personalities from Illinois
A swamp is a type of wetland ecosystem.
Swamps are forested, low, spongy land generally saturated with water and covered with trees and aquatic plants.
Big parts of swamps are often flooded with water.
Swamps are nesting and breeding grounds for birds and other animals.
The water of a swamp may be fresh water, brackish water, or seawater.
Freshwater swamps form along large rivers or lakes.
Saltwater swamps are found along tropical and subtropical coastlines.
About 6 percent of Earth's surface is covered by swamps.
Swamps are also filters for groundwater, and protect against flooding.
Swamps are one of the key wetland areas which are protected by the international agency Ramsar.
The Pantanal is the world's biggest wetland.
It covers an area of 140,000 square kilometers, bigger than the area covered by the country Greece.
The Panatal is in South America.
It is shared by Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
The Okefenokee
The Sundarbans
Peat accumulates in these swamps.
Some of the world's largest swamps are found along major rivers such as the Amazon, the Mississippi, and the Congo.
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a famous Mexican painter and muralist.
He was born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato.
Rivera is famous for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," for the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
Before he finished the mural, people saw that there was an image of Vladimir Lenin and other communist images in it.
Rivera was fired because of this and the mural was destroyed.
Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo, was also a famous Mexican painter.
He died in Mexico City of congestive heart failure at the age of 70.
1886 births
Short biography and some of his artwork
David Alfaro Siqueiros Online - more information and art galleries
Avenged Sevenfold (or A7X) is an American hard rock band.
The band started in Huntington Beach, California in 1999.
The band is sometimes called "A7X", which is a title started by the band's guitarist, Zacky Vengeance.
Avenged Sevenfold's first few albums were metalcore, before the band became more hard rock/heavy metal.
In December 2009, the band's drummer, The Rev, died from a drug overdose.
Brooks Wackerman (Drums)
M.Shadows (Vocals)
Zacky Vengeance (Guitar)
Synyster Gates (Guitar)
Johnny Christ (Bass)
The Rev (shortened from The Reverend Tholomew Plague) (died 2009)
Mike Portnoy (Spring 2010- December 2010)
Arin Ilejay – drums (2011–2015)
Justin Sane – bass guitar (2000–2001)
Dameon Ash – bass guitar (2001–2002)
Matt Wendt – bass guitar (1999–2000)
Warmness on the Soul, 2001
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, 2001
Waking the Fallen, 2003
City of Evil, 2005
Avenged Sevenfold, 2007
Nightmare, 2010
Hail to the King, 2013
The Stage'', 2016
Metalcore bands
A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress.
The purpose is to conquer by starvation, lack of water, or by a well-prepared assault.
Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict.
The defender inside has a strong, static, defensive position.
Negotiation between combatants is common.
A siege happens when the attacker gets to a city or fortress which cannot be taken by storm, and which refuses to surrender.
Sieges block the  supplies and reinforcements or escape of men.
Siege engines, artillery bombardment, and undermining are frequent.
Deception and treachery are common.
Sieges can be decided by starvation, thirst, or disease.
This form of siege can take many months or even years, depending upon the size of the stores of food the fortified position holds.
Siege of Yorktown
Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable
Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
The main body of an armored tank
in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates
the affine hull in affine geometry
the convex hull in geometry
Carathéodory's theorem for convex hulls
the holomorphically convex hull in complex analysis
the injective hull of a module
the Skolem hull of mathematical logic
Kingston upon Hull (Usually abbreviated to Hull), a city in England named after the River Hull.
Hull, a former city in Québec, Canada (now part of the city of Gatineau)
Orona, an island in Kiribati was formerly called Hull Island.
Hull, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
Hull, Walker County, Alabama, USA
Hull, Florida, USA
Hull, Georgia, USA
Hull, Illinois, USA
Hull, Iowa, USA
Hull, Massachusetts, USA
Hull, Minnesota, USA
Hull, North Dakota, USA
Hull, Ohio, USA
Hull, Texas, USA
Hull, West Virginia, USA
Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA
Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin, USA
Hull, Blair, an American businessman and politician,
Hull, Bobby, a former Canadian ice hockey player
Hull, Brett, a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
Hull, Cordell, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
Hull, Isaac, Early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
Hull, John, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
Hull, Merlin, Congressman
Hull, William, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
Hull House, Settlement house in Chicago, Illinois
River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named
Hull City A.F.C., an English football (soccer) team
Hull RLFC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the West of the City
Hull Kingston Rovers, rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the East of the City
The University of Hull, a university in England
USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships
It has its source in the Yorkshire Wolds.
It joins the River Humber estuary in the centre of Kingston upon Hull.
The river separates the industrial area of the city, and several opening bridges have been constructed.
These continue to cause traffic delays during high tides, though river traffic is not so heavy any more in recent years.
Footbridge to The Deep
Myton Bridge on Garrison Road A1033
Drypool Bridge
North Bridge
Scott Street Bridge (permanently raised)
Sculcoates Bridge (its not called Chapman Street Bridge)
Wilmington Bridge (former railway, now footpath and cycles).
Built by the North Eastern Railway in 1907.
Hull Bridge (railway).
Built by the Hull and Barnsley Railway in 1885, still used by freight trains.
Stoneferry Bridges
Sutton Road Bridge
Ennerdale Link Road.
The most recent bridge, replacing a failed flooded tunnel.
Driffield canal history
Tour of the River Hull by boat
Google Maps Satellite View
A hull is the body of a ship or boat.
It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking.
General features
Almost all watercraft, from small boats to the largest ships, have a general form that is necessary for  stability and efficient propulsion, which includes:
horizontal cross-sections that have narrow, usually pointed, fronts (at the bow),
smooth widening from the bow until roughly the middle of the length (midships), and often narrowing smoothly but usually significantly to the extreme end (the stern).
A keel may be fitted on a hull to increase the transverse stability (if filled with a heavy weight), directional stability or to create lift as in a sail boat .
Control devices such as a rudder, trim tabs or stabilizing fins may be fitted.
How does it float?
Archimedes, a Greek doctor, inventor, and mathematician, made the science of "hydrostatics", the study of liquids and pressure.
The Archimedes principle says that the force holding up an object that is inside a liquid in part or totally.
So, a ship actually does sink, until it moves an amount of water that is the same weight of the weight of the ship.
The weight must be over a wide area to work.
This explains why ships and boats (including submarines) float.
An object's weight pulls down in the direction of gravity, but the water's buoyant (floating) force pushes it up.
Because these forces counteract each other, the object seems to lose weight.
NASA uses this principle to prepare their astronauts for the weightlessness of space, so they had the astronauts work on parts of the space ship inside water tanks 25 feet (7.6 m) deep.
Baseline an imaginary reference line used to measure vertical distances from.
It is usually located at the bottom of the hull.
Block Measures that define the principle dimensions.
Length Overall (LOA) is the extreme length from one end to the other (see also o/a)
Length on the Waterline (LWL) is the length from the forwardmost point of the waterline measured  in profile to the stern-most point of the waterline. (
see also w/l)
Beam or breadth (B) is the width of the hull.
(ex: BWL is the maximum beam at the waterline)
Depth (D) is the vertical distance from the top of the keel to the underside of the upper deck at the side.
draft (d) or (T) is the vertical distance from the bottom of the hull to the waterline.
Freeboard (FB) is depth plus the height of the keel structure minus draft.
Form Derivatives that are calculated from the shape and the Block Measures.
Volume (V) is the volume of water displaced by the hull.
Displacement (Δ) is the weight of water equivalent to the immersed volume of the hull.
Longitudinal Centre of Buoyancy (LCB) is the longitudinal distance from a point of reference (often Midships) to the centre of the displaced volume of water when the hull is not moving.
Note that the Longitudinal Centre of Gravity or centre of the weight of the vessel must align with the LCB when the hull is in equilibrium.
Vertical Centre of Buoyancy (VCB) is the vertical distance from a point of reference (often the Baseline) to the centre of the displaced volume of water when the hull is not moving.
Longitudinal Centre of Floatation (LCF) is the longitudinal distance from a point of reference (often Midships) to the centre of the area of waterplane when the hull is not moving.
Nautical terms for the parts of sailing vessels
Description of hydrostatics and coefficients
In physics, buoyancy () is a force on an object making that object rise or move upward.
It comes from the Spanish word for "float", boyar.
Buoyancy is made by the difference in pressure put on the object by the Fluid or air that the object is in.
The net upward buoyancy force is equal to the magnitude of the weight of fluid that is displaced by the body.
This force enables the object to float or at least to seem lighter.
Buoyancy is important for many vehicles such as boats, ships, balloons, and blimps.
If the object has exactly the same density as the liquid, then its buoyancy is the same as its weight.
It will not sink or float.
If the object has a higher average density than the liquid, then its buoyancy is less than its weight.
It will sink.
That is why pebbles do not float.
If the object has a lower average density than the liquid, then its buoyancy is greater than its weight.
That is why, although a ship may be made of steel which is more dense than water, it floats because it encloses a volume of air and the resulting shape has an average density less than that of the water.
Falling in Water (Animation 1)
Falling in Water (Animation 2)
Falling in Water
In today's beliefs and assumptions, the Asuras are demons.
But this was not always that way.
The idea of the Asuras is very, very old, from long before the time people learned how to read and write.
The Asuras only became demons after much time had passed.
Buddhism also has Asuras.
These are from Hinduism but have also changed a lot in their own way.
Some of the Asuras are very important, and have been worshiped for thousands of years.
The most important of these are Varuna and Mitra.
Varuna is the god of the ocean, which in olden times was thought to be flowing under the earth.
So, Varuna came to be seen as god of the underworld.
In ancient times, water was thought to be where wisdom came from.
So Varuna is considered very wise, and he gives his wisdom to those who honor him.
Varuna's closest companion is Mitra.
Mitra mostly means "friend" in Hinduism, but it originally meant "promise".
And so Mitra is the god of friendships and promises.
He protects people who honor the truth and punishes those who tell lies.
The Mi- in "Mitra" means "to tie tightly".
Friendship and promises tie people to one another.
In Hinduism, the Asura (Sanskrit: असुर) are a group of creatures looking for more power, sometimes called demons.
They went against the devas.
The devas and asuras are the children of Kashyapa.
Hinduism has many stories of Asuras and Devas fighting each other.
Mostly they fight about who will get the best prayers from the worshipers.
In Hinduism the Asuras are said to be beings of moral and social things.
Like truth and marriage.
The Daevas are said to be beings of natural things.
Like the sun and the rain.
In Hinduism, the Asuras are said to be "older".
And the daevas are said to be "younger".
There are very many Asuras and Daevas.
Two hundred years ago someone counted them and said there were over 2,000 Daevas and Asuras.
So naturally not all Asuras are very important.
But some names have been forgotten since then, and others have been added.
This is why Hinduism is called a "living religion."
It is changing all the time.
The Asuras are partly—but not completely -- demonic in Buddhism.
Buddhism takes the basic idea from Hinduism.
Mostly the Asuras of Buddhism represent some mental state of humans that is not nice.
For example, anger or pride or violence.
There are many different kinds of Asuras.
They are always angry with everyone and are always fighting.
Their leaders are called the Asurendra, which means "Lord of Asuras".
The Asuras are almost human in their emotions.
On the Buddhist scale of supernatural beings, the Asuras are almost at the bottom.
Buddhism is very popular in the far east.
So, many of the Asuras also have Japanese, Chinese and Korean names.
In the Vedas
The Vedas are the most holy books of the Indian religions, especially of Hinduism.
There are four Vedas, and they are all very, very old.
The oldest of the Vedas is called the RigVeda, and it is more than 3,000 years old.
In the RigVeda the Asuras are not yet demons.
At that time the Asuras and the Devas were both still groups of gods.
In fact, many of the figures of the RigVeda are both asuras and daevas.
This is because, at that time, the two words were not yet names of groups.
They were just names of characteristics. "
Asura" means "life", and so the gods who were called asuras were thought to give life.
And the daevas were shining.
This is the original meaning of the names.
In later books they became different.
In the RigVeda many of the devas are called asuras, and many of the asuras are called devas.
Sometimes they are also called both at the same time: Like "daevic asuras" or "asuric devas".
The "-ic" makes those words a part of the other word.
There are some beings who are both ahuric daevas and daevic ahuras.
This shows that there was no big difference between 'ahura' and 'daeva' in the RigVeda.
The forefathers of the people who wrote the Vedas spoke Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is the source of many Indian languages.
The stories in the Rig Veda are seen in the books of various North Indian peoples, and also in the books of some Iranian peoples like the Zoroastrians.
One of the books of the Iranian peoples is called the Avesta.
It is not really one book, but a collection of many books, but together they are called the Avesta.
The Avesta is the holy book of Zoroastrianism.
The language of the Avesta is very similar to the language of the RigVeda.
The Avesta also has asuras and devas.
But in Iran they are written as "ahura" and "daeva".
The old part of the Avesta is almost as old as the RigVeda.
In this old part of the Avesta the ahuras and the daevas are almost like they are in the RigVeda.
In both books they are groups of supernatural beings.
But they are very different in character.
Some time after the RigVeda was written, stories were told about the asuras and devas that made them not friends any more.
A similar thing also happened in the Avesta.
Only that the two groups had been switched: The Asuras became demons in regions where North Indian languages were spoken, and the Daevas became demons in regions where Iranian languages were spoken.
It is not known for sure why this happened.
It was a very, very long time ago.
One possible reason why the Asuras became demons in India is this: Some time after the RigVeda was written Indians started to think that asura means a-sura, which means "not a hero".
So, maybe that way the asuras got a bad name.
One possible reason why the Daevas became demons in Iran is this: At about the same time as the Indians were writing the last part of the RigVeda, a very thoughtful man named Zoroaster appeared in Iran.
He thought and thought a lot about why there was goodness and badness in the world.
Finally, he told everyone what he had been thinking about.
And one of those things was that Daevas were not to be trusted because they could not tell the difference between truth and lies.
After some time Zoroaster became very popular for his ideas.
And so, with time, the Daevas became demons in Iran.
In both cases, the one side did not know what the other side was thinking.
So in India only the Asuras became demons.
And in Iran only the Daevas became demons.
Many, many centuries before the RigVeda and before Zoroaster, a name that sounds like "Asura" was the proper name of a very mighty god.
Some scholars say his name was "Ansu" but this is not sure.
So that is why they write the name as *Ansu.
That '*' means it is not sure. *
Ansu was the god of life from which the name 'asura' and 'ahura' comes.
We know that this god existed because far, far away in Northern Europe there was also a god named 'Aesir', who was also a giver of life.
It sometimes can happen that a similar name appears in two or three places.
But it is very rare that the same name with the same function appears.
So, that is why 'Asura' and 'Ahura' and 'Aesir' must be all come from '*Ansu'.
And we know that such a god must have been very powerful because he was very popular for so very long.
Although the Asuras and the Ahuras are related, they should not be mixed up.
This is not only because their names are slightly different.
It is also because they are very different.
But the most important thing is that they are from different cultures.
Even if they came from the same place, that was very long ago.
After such a long much time, people have very different ideas about them.
Buddhist gods and goddesses
ICBM is an acronym.
It stands for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
It is a missile that can travel such distances so it can be used from one continent to another.
The missile can then carry a bomb.
This can be a conventional or nuclear warhead.
Today, most of the time, it will be a nuclear warhead.
It is a guided ballistic missile which follows a path and has a range of 5500 km.
They are primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery but can also carry chemical and biological weapons.
When talking about geography the elevation of a certain point is how high it is compared to some reference point.
Very often, the reference point is mean sea level, the level of the ocean midway between high and low tide on an average day.
Most land has a positive elevation, which means it is above sea level.
A few desert places are below sea level, thus have negative elevation.
Sometimes elevation is measured against the center of the earth.
The problem there is that the geoid, the shape of the earth, does not really look like a ball, it is slightly squashed (an oblate spheroid).
This means, that while still at mean sea level (at the equator), some points are farther away from the center of the earth than others.
That way the peak of Chimborazo, a volcano in Ecuador is farther away from the center of the earth than the peak of Mount Everest.
Yet, Mount Everest is higher above sea level.
Bastila Shan is a character from the Star Wars universe.
Bastila Shan was born in the year 3,979 BBY.
She is the daughter of Helena Shan and an unknown treasure hunter who joined the Jedi Order despite her protests.
She became a valuable member to the Jedi Order despite her young age due to her mastery of Battle Meditation.
During the Jedi Civil War, she was responsible for the capture of Darth Revan, with whom she fell in love.
After Revan learnt of his true identity she was captured and tortured by Darth Malak and turned to the dark side.
During a confrontation, she tried to persuade the redeemed Revan to return to the dark side and reclaim his rightful place.
After being rejected and forced to flee to the Star Forge, Bastila confronted Revan again and lost.
She begged him to kill her, but he refused and used the power of their love to bring her back to the light and help the Republic in the Battle of Rakata Prime.
She later married Revan and soon had a child called Vaner.
When Revan left to stop a war he was sure was coming, she stayed behind to look after her child.
She is also one of the surviving Jedi to survive the purge that followed it.
She died of old age.
Darth Revan is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Revan was a Jedi Knight and general who turned to the dark side in the Mandalorian Wars.
After the death of Mandalore the Ultimate, Revan claimed the title of "Dark Lord of the Sith".
He then founded a powerful new Sith Empire, and declared war on the Republic and the Jedi themselves.
After defeating almost all of the Republic territories, Revan was captured by the Jedi due to the betrayal of his apprentice Darth Malak.
He almost died (a small spark of the Force kept him alive) and was brought to the Council to have his mind replaced by a new identity that was loyal to the Republic.
Even after discovering his former identity, he rejected the dark side.
Revan ended the war he had begun by killing Malak.
After the Jedi Civil War, Revan was given back his rank as Jedi Knight at age 26.
He was the lover of Bastila Shan.
A year later, all his memories returned.
He later left to the Unknown Regions to face this new threat known as the "True Sith".
Kraft Foods () is a business that makes packaged food.
They own Oscar Meyer and Nabisco.
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Kraft Foods Inc. Fact Sheet from Hoover's
Soft drinks (also known as pop, soda, tonic, soda pop, fizzy drinks, or minerals ) are "fizzy" drinks made from concentrates and sugar.
When they are made, carbon dioxide gas is added which makes them "fizzy".
This process is called carbonation.
Some soft drinks have flavors.
Some popular types of soda are Sprite, Mountain Dew, 7 Up, Pepsi, Dr Pepper and Coca-Cola.
Most soft drinks are sweetened with sugar, that is what makes them so unhealthy.
Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky.
In 2010, 295,803 people live there.
It is called "the Horse Capital of the World".
Lexington was first named by a party of Virginians who camped here in June, 1775, after they heard the news about the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts in April of that year starting the American Revolution against the British government.
A fort was begun at the same spot in 1779, and by 1782 there was a town here known as Lexington, Virginia.
This is because Kentucky was still part of Virginia then, and was not made into a state of its own until 1792.
1782 establishments in North America
1780s establishments in Virginia
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1994 - Boomtown
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Christmas to Christmas (1995)
A Classic Christmas'' (2007)
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Redhead is a person with red or reddish-tinted hair.
Approximately 1 to 2% of the world's population has red hair.
Red hair is made by genes.
The gene for red hair is recessive, meaning to be weaker than other genes, like the brown hair gene, for example.
Because of this, in order to have natural red hair a person needs to have red-haired ancestors present on both the maternal (mother's) and paternal (father's) side of the family.
In Ireland, the percentage of population with red hair is very high relative to the rest of the world at around 10%, with 46% carrying the gene.
Parts of the United Kingdom such as Scotland also have very high percentages with around 6%.
There was a misconception that red hair occurrence in Scotland ran at around 13%, due to this figure appearing in reliable media sources, however this figure was only an estimate and has since been disproved by research.
Dr. Jim Wilson of Britain's DNA has carried out the only large scale genetic study of Red Hair using a sample of over 2,343 people; and has found red hair occurrence of 6% in Scotland, this is concurrent with the largest ever study of hair colour in Scotland which analysed over half a million people and found red hair prevalence of 5.3%.
A 1956 study of hair color among British army recruits also found high levels of red hair in Wales and the English Border counties.
In some countries, particularly the British Isles, despite the high proportion of redheads there, redheads are sometimes given rude names such as "carrot-top" and "ginga", and are in some cases heavily ridiculed (made fun of) by their peers.
In some extreme cases, people have been harassed (others have behaved threateningly towards them) for having red hair.
Owen Spencer-Thomas was born on 3 March 1940 in Braughing, Hertfordshire, England.
He is perhaps best known as a television and radio news journalist over three decades.
Spencer-Thomas combined this career with that of ordained Anglican clergyman and charity fundraiser.
He is married to Maggie; they have three adult children, two sons and a daughter.
He graduated in sociology at The Polytechnic, Regent Street, (now the University of Westminster) where he helped to establish its Students' Union and became its first elected President in 1966.
He continued his studies at Westcott House and Fitzwilliam College in the University of Cambridge.
His father, Ivor Spencer-Thomas,  held the feudal barony of Buquhollie and Freswick in Caithness, Scotland.
He has wide experience in the field of communications - mainly in television and radio broadcasting as a news journalist.
Joining Anglia Television in 1978 as senior reporter on the regional magazine programme About Anglia, he became news bulletin editor of Anglia News in 1992.
He also presented Anglia Television’s late night religious programme Reflections.
He has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours and Sunday programmes and has presented religious and ethics programmes on Thames Television  and Southern Television.
He has reported for Independent Television News.
He devised and presented the popular Sounding Brass radio phone-in programme which was later fronted by Gloria Hunniford on BBC Radio 2.
His radio biographies appealed to a wide audience and his portrayal in 1978 of the outspoken television personality, panellist and quizmaster, Gilbert Harding, was widely acclaimed.
An innovative programme producer, Spencer-Thomas recorded two half-hour interview programmes with Kenneth Williams in which the comic actor, who rarely revealed his private life, spoke frankly about his early days and his feelings of loneliness, despondency and underachievement.
Carry On Kenneth also featured skilfully chosen clips from the famous Carry On films, in which Williams starred, adding a gentle humour to the probing interview questions.
His award-winning documentary Underneath the Arches broke tradition by enabling London’s homeless people to tell their own stories without any links from a programme presenter.
Instead, short clips from catchy music hall songs were used to establish each location and, with careful editing, the interviewees related their own experiences and introduced each other.
The unique presentation won the Unda award for the best religious radio programme in 1977.
Charity Work
As well as giving practical support to families with disabled children, Owen Spencer-Thomas headed several successful major charity appeals and raised millions of pounds for adult accommodation.
He was the Founder Chairman of the East Anglian Autistic Support Trust (EAST) which established the first and desperately needed specialised accommodation and daycare for adults with autism in Cambridgeshire.
He served on the National Autistic Society (NAS) Council from 1996 until 2002 and continues to raise funds for a range of other charities.
Anglican Church
He became Director of Communications for the Diocese of Ely in 2002.
He was Chaplain of Christ's College from 1997 - 2001  and was made an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral in 2004.
During the Lent Term 2005, he was Acting Dean of
Spencer-Thomas was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
He was invested by HM Queen Elizabeth II on 4 March at Buckingham Palace for services to the Church of England and to the community in Cambridgeshire.
Official site of the Diocese of Ely
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Frederick John Inman (28 June 1935 – 8 March 2007) was an English actor.
He is best known for his role as Mr Humphries in the 1970s/early 1980s BBC comedy series, Are You Being Served?.
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American nature writer.
He is known for books including Desert Solitaire, Black Sun, The Journey Home, The Fool's Progress, and Hayduke Lives.
He was born in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1927.
He grew up in Pennsylvania, in a small town in the mountains near the city of Pittsburgh.
He later moved to the American Southwest and wrote several books.
He spent most of his adult life in the states of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
Most of his books are about the Southwest.
During World War II, he was in high school.
He took a trip hitchhiking to see the American West.
During his trip through Arizona and New Mexico, he fell in love with the Southwest.
He enlisted near the end of World War II and was stationed in Italy as a military policeman.
When he came back to the United States, he moved to New Mexico and got a college degree.
Then he started writing books.
Abbey's first book was titled Jonathan Troy.
It did not sell well and Abbey did not like it very much, and it was taken out of print.
His second book was The Brave Cowboy.
This book sold better and made him known as a writer of western fiction.
It was also made into a movie called Lonely are the Brave.
Fire on the Mountain was his third book.
The Brave Cowboy and Fire on the Mountain are about cowboys who loved the old American West and did not like it becoming modernized.
He moved to New Jersey for a short time but did not like it, and moved back to the Southwest.
He took a job as a park ranger in Utah.
He wrote about his job as a park ranger in his fourth book, Desert Solitaire.
Desert Solitaire became a bestseller and made him a popular nature writer.
He also took other jobs in the Southwest.
He worked as a fire lookout at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and as a park ranger in other National Parks.
After Desert Solitaire became a bestseller, he wrote several books of nature essays.
Some of these include The Journey Home, Abbey's Road, Down the River, Beyond the Wall, and One Life At a Time, Please.
He also kept writing novels.
His next novel was Black Sun, which is about a fire lookout at the Grand Canyon falling in love but then seeing his girlfriend disappear.
His next novel after that was The Monkey Wrench Gang.
This was his most controversial novel because it was about four people using sabotage to stop development in the Southwest.
He also wrote a science fiction novel called Good News.
His last two novels were The Fool's Progress and Hayduke Lives.
The Fool's Progress is a long novel that is based on Edward Abbey's own life.
Hayduke Lives is a sequel to The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edward Abbey
Pennsylvania state historical marker for Abbey at Home
This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May 2005.
List of MPs elected in the general election
The following table is a list of MPs elected on 5 May, 2005, ordered by constituency.
The previous MP and previous party column shows the MP and party holding the seat at dissolution on April 11, 2005.
Note that most Scottish constituency boundaries were considerably changed from the previous general election, due to a decrease in the number of Scottish seats from 72 to 59.
In this case, the previous MPs cannot be shown, and the previous party column shows the notional winner of the new seat, based on analysis of the 2001 general election result.
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 26 states of Brazil.
Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is in the Southeast Region of Brazil.
It shares borders with Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo and São Paulo as well as the Atlantic Ocean.
Rio de Janeiro has an area of .
The state's largest cities are Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, Niterói, Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, São João de Meriti, Campos dos Goytacazes, Petrópolis and Volta Redonda.
Its main rivers are the Guandu River, the Piraí, the Paraíba do Sul, the Macaé and the Muriaé.
Its climate is tropical.
The state is made up of both mountains and plains.
It is between the Mantiqueira Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
The bays of Guanabara, Sepetiba, and Ilha Grande are on the coastline of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is the smallest state in the Southeast Region and one of the smallest in Brazil.
Its coastline is , the third longest coastline in the country.
White - 54.7% (Mostly Portuguese, Italian and German)
Mixed Race - 33.5% (mainly Mulattos and also some Mestizos)
Black - 10.6% (Mostly Bantu and Yoruba ancestry)
Amerindian - 0.3%
Asian - 0.2%
Undescribed - 0.7%
Sampling (signal processing), changing a continuous signal into a discrete signal
Sampling (music), re-using parts of sound recordings in a piece of music
Sample (statistics), selection of observations to get some knowledge of a statistical population
Sampling (case studies), selection of cases for single or multiple case studies
Sampling (for testing or analysis), taking a representative portion of a material or product to test (e.g. by phyisical measurements, chemical analysis, microbiological examination), typically for the purposes of identification, quality control, or regulatory assessment
Chorionic villus sampling, a method of detecting fetal abnormalities
Food sampling, the process of taking a representative portion of a food for analysis, usually to test for quality, safety or compositional compliance. (
Not to be confused with Food, free samples, a method of promoting food items to consumers)
Theoretical sampling, the process of selecting comparison cases or sites in qualitative research
Water sampling, the process of taking a portion of drinking water for analysis, e.g. to check that it complies with relevate water quality standards, or river water to check for pollutants, or bathing water to sheck that it is safe for bathing, or intrusive water in a building to identify its source.
The Bretons are a distinct ethnic group in the region of Brittany in France.
They trace much of their heritage to groups of ancient Britons who settled the area from south western Great Britain in the 4th–6th centuries.
The region of Brittany is named after them and many speak Brezhoneg, a Brythonic language closely related to Cornish and a bit more distantly to Welsh.
The Breton language as such is part of the Insular Celtic language group.
In eastern Brittany, a regional langue d'oïl named Gallo developed; it shares certain points of vocabulary, idiom, and pronunciation with Breton.
Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Burton upon Trent
Droitwich Spa, Dudley
Kenilworth, Kidderminster
Leamington Spa, Lichfield
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nuneaton
Redditch, Rugby
Shrewsbury, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Stratford-upon-Avon, Solihull,Sutton Coldfield
Tamworth, Telford
Walsall, Warwick, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Worcester
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