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A later variant, napalm-B, also called "super napalm", is a mixture of low-octane gasoline with benzene and polystyrene.
It was used in the Vietnam War.
Unlike conventional napalm, which burns for only 15–30 seconds, napalm B burns for up to 10 minutes with fewer fireballs.
It also sticks better to surfaces, and offers improved destruction effects.
It is not as easy to ignite.
This reduces the number of accidents caused by soldiers smoking.
When it burns, it develops a characteristic smell.
Starting in the early 1990s, various websites including The Anarchist Cookbook advertised recipes for homemade napalm.
These recipes were predominantly equal parts gasoline and styrofoam.
This mixture closely resembles that of napalm-B, but lacks a percentage of benzene.
Napalm reaches burning temperatures of approximately 1,200 °C (2,200 °F).
Other additives can be added, e.g. powdered aluminium or magnesium, or white phosphorus.
In the early 1950s, Norway developed its own napalm, based on fatty acids in whale oil.
The reason for this development was that the American-produced thickening agent performed rather poorly in the cold Norwegian climate.
The product was known as Northick II.
Napalm itself became well known by the American public after its use in the Vietnam war.
Since then, it has been mentioned in the media and arts multiple times.
This summary is not meant to be all inclusive.
In the film Apocalypse Now, assault helicopter pilot Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) famously declares "I love the smell of napalm in the morning... It smells like... victory."
In the American newspaper comic Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's favorite comic book superhero (and a character he wants to become) is Captain Napalm.
To add an aspect of irony (especially when considered with the usage of napalm in Apocalypse Now), the tagline for Captain Napalm is "Defender of the American Way".
In the film An Officer and a Gentleman, Sgt.
Foley (Louis Gossett, Jr.) leads a quick-step march with a cadence call that has the chorus, "And napalm sticks to kids!",
a real U.S. Air Force cadence call at the time.
In Skippy's list, item 58 is '“Napalm sticks to kids” is *not* a motivational phrase.'
In the film Fight Club, the screenwriters were originally going to have Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) recite a working recipe for napalm.
However, after questions of safety were brought to the attention of the producers, they substituted his lines with a fake recipe claiming it to be equal parts of gasoline and orange juice concentrate.
Contrary to popular belief, the original recipes in the Fight Club book were also modified by its publisher.
The book's altered recipes claim that, in addition to orange juice, mixing equal parts gasoline and diet cola, or thickening gasoline with cat litter, will work.
In the 1973 Japanese kaiju film Godzilla vs. Megalon, the enemy Megalon, was shown to be able to spit napalm bombs that explode on contact.
There is a metal band called Napalm Death.
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Tracking Wildfire
The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) is a name for the north-central states of the United States of America.
The Midwest is composed  of Nebraska, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Oklahoma and Kentucky are occasionally considered Midwestern, but this definitely is questioned by scholars, whom refer to those regions, along with Missouri to be border states - those consisting of southern and Midwestern traits.
The word Midwest has been in common use since the late 19th century.
Other names for the area are no longer used.
These names include the "Northwest" or "Old Northwest", "Mid-America," or "the Heartland".
The land in the Midwest is generally thought of as consisting of rolling hills with some mountainous and flat regions like the Great Plains states.
The far northern part of the Upper Mississippi valley is known as the Driftless Area, a region of very rugged hills centered primarily western Wisconsin, though the region includes small parts of northeast Iowa, Southeast Minnesota, and northwest Illinois.
The Ocooch Mountains of Wisconsin contain the highest peaks in the Driftless Region.
Also, the northern part of the Ozark mountain range is in southern Missouri.
Prairies cover most of the states west of the Mississippi River, with buttes, rugged rocky areas, and hills in western North Dakota and South Dakota (Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Badlands National Park), and the foothills of the Rockies in western Kansas and Nebraska.
Less rain falls in the western Midwest than in the eastern part.
This causes different types of prairies.
Most of the Midwest can now be called either "urban areas" or "agricultural areas".
Areas in northern Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, and the Ohio River valley are not very developed.
Chicago is the largest city in the region, followed by Detroit and Indianapolis.
Some other important cities in the region are: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Columbus, Des Moines, and Madison.
Midwesterners are sometimes viewed as open, friendly, and straightforward, or sometimes  as stubborn and uncultured.
People view the Midwest as a very open place with lots of corn and wheat, very dry crops and sometimes simple people.
Midwest values were shaped by religious beliefs and the agricultural values from the people who settled in the area.
The Midwest today is a mix of Protestantism and Calvinism, untrusting of authority and power.
Between 19 and 29% of the Midwest is Catholic.
14% of the people in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, 22% in Missouri and 5% in Minnesota are Baptists.
22-24% of people in Wisconsin and Minnesota are Lutherans.
1% or less of the people in the Midwest are Jewish and Muslim, with slightly more Jewish or Muslim people in major cities, such as Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.
16% of the Midwest's population do not follow any religion.
Because of 20th century African American migration from the South, many African Americans live in most of the area's large cities.
However, there are still more African Americans living in the Southern United States than in the Midwest.
The mix of industry and cultures in those cities led to new types of music in the 20th century in the Midwest, including jazz, blues, rock and roll.
Jazz was invented in New Orleans, but started to develop and grow in Kansas City.
Techno music came from Detroit and house music and blues came from Chicago.
Politics in the Midwest is divided, although if you include Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and the Dakotas in it leans conservative.
With some states leaning liberal and many others conservative.
The Great Lakes area, which has more large cities than the rest of the Midwest, tends to be the most liberal area of the Midwest.
However, the rural Great Plains states, are more conservative.
Traditionally, the larger cities tend to lean to the left while those in the rural countryside lean farther right.
US Senate
As of 2020, in the Senate, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota are each represented by 2 Democrats.
Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are represented by 1 Democrat and 1 Republican each.
The Dakotas, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska are all represented by 2 Republicans each.
The final tally is 9 Democrats and 15 Republicans.
State Legislatures
As of 2020, Minnesota's is the only state legislature in the nation where 1 house is controlled by Republicans and the other by Democrats.
Illinois´s is the only state legislature in the Midwest where both houses are controlled by Democrats; all the other states have Republican-controlled legislatures.
The accents of the Midwest are often clearly different from the accents of the South and many urban areas of the American Northeast.
The accent of most of the Midwest is thought by many to be "standard" American English.
Many national radio and television shows in the U.S. like this accent more than many other accents.
This may have started because many television show hosts — such as Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Tom Brokaw and Casey Kasem — came from this area.
In some parts of the Midwest, the accents are quite different from the "neutral" accent of the rest of the Midwest.
These accents usually are because of the  of the area.
For example, Minnesota, western Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula have strong Scandinavian accents, which get stronger the farther north one goes.
Many parts of Michigan have Dutch-flavored accents.
Also, people from Chicago are known to have their own "" accent.
The same is true of St. Louis.
In the most southern parts of the Midwest, such as southern Indiana, Southern accents are common in addition to the standard Midwest accent.
The same can be said of Southern Illinois, particularly below U.S. Highway 50 and south of St. Louis.
Missouri is also an example of a Midwest state with southern culture.
Missourians usually have either a Southern or Midwestern accent, or a combined dialect of both, but accents tend to be distinctly Southern in the Southeastern and Bootheel sections of the state.
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Midwestern United States Holidays  - Travel guide
Gangs in the Midwestern United States
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan on April 17, 1964) is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, and producer.
He sings in the band Tool, and also in the band A Perfect Circle.
He has a side project called Puscifer.
James Herbert Keenan was born in Ravenna, Ohio on April 17, 1964.
His mother is Judith and his father is Michael, who was a high school teacher.
Keenan's parents divorced when he was three years old, and Michael moved away.
Keenan did not see him very much for the next 12 years.
Later, his mother married someone else.
He was mean and did not allow Keenan to be creative.
When Keenan was 11, his mother, Judith, had a brain aneurysm that paralyzed her.
Two years later, she told Keenan to move to Michigan with his father.
Keenan joined the United States Army after he graduated from high school.
He wanted to use the G.I. Bill to go to art school.
He joined the United States Military Academy Preparatory School (West Point Prep School) where he picked up the nickname "Maynard".
He did very well in his training, but said no to an offer to stay in the Army and work at West Point.
He decided to start his music career instead.
After being honorably discharged from the Army, Keenan went back to Michigan to go to art school.
Then, in 1988, he moved to Los Angeles, California to help design the inside of pet stores.
He was fired from this job and then worked creating movie sets.
He also played bass guitar in a band and sang for another band.
Keenan started playing soon after leaving art school.
Then he and Adam Jones formed Tool.
They have a thing for releasing albums every five years.
They did so with Undertow, Ænima, and 10,000 Days.
Keenan left and formed A Perfect Circle.
They had 3 albums, Mer De Noms, The Thirteenth Step, and eMOTIVe.
He then left again to go and pursue family time.
He now has a vineyard where he makes fine wine but still takes tours for his working side project; Puscifer... Tool's new album had officially set to release August 30th, 2019
Keenan met Adam Jones in Los Angeles.
They started the band Tool in 1990.
The band's line up later became Keenan as singer, Jones playing guitar, Danny Carey playing drums, and Paul D'Amour playing bass.
When D'Amour left the band, Justin Chancellor took his place.
Tool signed to Zoo Entertainment in November 1991.
MaynardJamesKeenan.com, currently redirecting to the Puscifer website
Wine Spectator Online , where Maynard maintains a running blog about wine collecting and winemaking.
Musicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan
American heavy metal musicians
Naphtha is the name for a number of intermediary products that occur when refining crude oil.
They are liquid hydrocarbons.
They are used to produce high octane gasoline products.
The petrochemical industry also uses them to make olefins and solvents.
Solvents in cleaning fluid.
As an ingredient of Shoe polish.
As an ingredient for some of the fuels used in lighters.
Possibly one of the things in Greek fire.
Lukas Podolski () born 4 June 1985 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish born German football player.
He plays for Köln.
From 2004 until 2006, he played for Köln.
He has plays Germany national team.
He is known for his fashion during press conferences.
He often wears button down shirts and polished shoes.
He has a girlfriend named Monika and they have a son.
Their son's name is Louis, he was born in April 2008.
|2003/04||rowspan="3"|Köln||Bundesliga||19||10||1||0||colspan="2"|-||20||10
|2004/05||2.
Bundesliga||30||24||2||5||colspan="2"|-||32||29
|2005/06||Bundesliga||32||12||1||0||colspan="2"|-||33||12
|2006/07||rowspan="3"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||22||4||3||2||7||1||32||7
|2007/08||25||5||4||0||12||5||41||10
|2008/09||24||6||3||1||4||2||31||9
|2009/10||Köln||Bundesliga||||||||||||||||
|2005||12||8
|2006||17||12
|2007||7||2
|2008||16||7
|2009||9||6
|2011||12||1
Total||116||47
Naphthalene is a crystalline, white hydrocarbon, with a strong smell.
It is best known as the main ingredient in mothballs, urinal deodorizer blocks, and can be used as an antiseptic.
In mothballs, it is used as an insecticide or pesticide.
Naphthalene is toxic.
In humans, being exposed to naphthalene can destroy red blood cells.
Naphthalene may also cause cancer.
In the early 1820s, two different papers are published on something that matches the description of Naphthalene.
Both groups made it by distilling coal tar.
In 1821 John Kidd cited both reports, and condensed their results to accurately describe the properties of naphthalene, and how to make it.
Kidd named it naphthalene because "naphtha"  means any explosive hydrocarbon mixture.
By 1826, Michael Faraday discovered the formula for it.
Emil Erlenmeyer proposes that it is two fused benzene rings in 1866, and Carl Gräbe confirms this three years later.
Naphthalene (PIM 363) - mostly on toxicity of naphthalene
MySQL is a database system used by many websites on the Internet.
It is based on SQL.
Many ways of doing things in SQL are similar in MySQL.
The data is structured in tables in MySQL.
And to extract data from the tables queries are used.
For example: SELECT id_number FROM main_database WHERE name='John'
This query will return the 'id_number' of the person named 'John' from the table named 'main_database'.
MySQL was first released in May 1995 and a Windows version was released in January 1998.
The latest version (5.6.11) was released in April 2013.
MySQL is compatible with many major programming languages.
The most common one is PHP.
An ODBC interface (called MyODBC) has been made so that users of Microsoft's ASP language can use MySQL.
Major users
Many PHP scripts also use MySQL.
MediaWiki - the software behind Wikipedia
White phosphorus  is an incendiary weapon.
It makes a bright light and smoke.
Its main ingredient is one of the allotropes of the chemical element phosphorus.
White phosphorus is toxic to humans.
It can burn deep into soft tissue, it can be breathed in, or it can be ingested (eaten).
Over time, these can cause death.
The use of incendiary weapons against civilians is forbidden since 1949.
They were used by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2004.
Miroslav Klose (born June 9 1978 in Opole, Poland) is a Polish born German football player.
From 1999 until 2004 he played for Kaiserslautern and from 2004 until 2007 for Werder Bremen.
In 2007 changed to Bayern Munich.
In 2011, he left Bayern Munich and joined the Italian team Lazio.
On the Germany national team he has played in 137 matches since 2001 and scored 71 goals.
Klose is a great player known for his heading skills and he is currently the all-time top scorer of the Germany national football team with 71 goals.
He is also the all-time leading goal scorer of the FIFA World Cup after beating Ronaldo's record in the semi-final against Brazil.
|1998/99||Homburg||Regionalliga||20||11||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||20||11
|1999/00||rowspan="5"|Kaiserslautern||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||2||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||2||0
|2000/01||29||9||2||0||12||2||43||11
|2001/02||31||16||4||0||colspan="2"|—||35||16
|2002/03||32||9||4||4||colspan="2"|—||36||13
|2003/04||26||10||1||1||2||1||29||12
|2004/05||rowspan="3"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||32||15||4||0||8||2||44||17
|2005/06||26||25||3||2||7||3||36||30
|2006/07||31||13||1||0||13||2||45||15
|2007/08||rowspan="4"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||27||10||6||5||12||5||42||20
|2008/09||26||10||4||3||8||7||38||20
|2009/10||25||3||5||2||8||1||38||6
|2010/11||20||1||4||3||2||1||26||5
|2011/12||rowspan="5"|Lazio||rowspan="5"|Serie A||27||13||2||0||6||3||35||16
|2012/13||29||15||2||0||5||1||36||16
|2013/14||25||7||0||0||3||1||28||8
|2014/15||34||13||6||3||colspan=2|—||40||16
|2015/16||24||7||1||0||4||1||29||8
|2002||17||12
|2004||11||5
|2006||17||13
|2008||15||8
|2010||12||10
|2011||8||5
|2012||13||4
|2014||7||3
|Total||137||71
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant.
They are used when clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae are stored.
Older mothballs were made primarily of naphthalene.
Because naphthalene can catch fire easily, modern mothballs use 1,4-dichlorobenzene instead.
Both of these ingredients have a strong, pungent smell often associated strongly with mothballs.
Camphor, an insect repellent, can also be used in mothballs.
Their use when clothing is stored out-of-season led to the colloquial usage of the terms mothballed and put into mothballs to refer to anything which is put into storage or whose operation is suspended.
Some claim that the use of the word in this sense derives from naval usage.
When warships were laid up, the open ends of their gun barrels and other openings were covered in white material to prevent the entry of water.
These white circles suggested mothballs.
Oliver Rolf Kahn (; born 15 June 1969) is a former German football player.
He played as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich.
From 1988 until 1994, Kahn played for Karlsruhe.
He has played 86 matches for the Germany national team.
After 2006 FIFA World Cup, he retired from the national team.
After the season 2007/2008 he ended his career and stopped playing for his club Bayern Munich, too.
1.Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup.
2.Includes German Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and Intercontinental Cup.
German association football goalkeepers
People from Karlsruhe
Timo Hidebrand (born 5 April 1979 in Worms, Germany) is a German football player.
He played Germany national team.
|1999/00||rowspan="8"|Stuttgart||rowspan="8"|Bundesliga||6||0||0||0||0||0||6||0
|2000/01||32||0||5||0||6||0||43||0
|2001/02||31||0||3||0||0||0||34||0
|2002/03||20||0||1||0||4||0||25||0
|2003/04||34||0||0||0||8||0||42||0
|2004/05||34||0||3||0||7||0||44||0
|2005/06||31||0||2||0||6||0||31||0
|2006/07||33||0||6||0||0||0||39||0
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Valencia||rowspan="2"|La Liga||26||0||3||0||3||0||32||0
|2008/09||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Hoffenheim||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||10||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0
Total||7||0
People from Worms, Germany
Philipp Lahm (; born 11 November 1983) is a German retired football player.
He was a former defender for Bayern Munich.
Career club statistics
1.Includes German Cup.
2.Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup.
3.Includes German League Cup, German Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup.
|2004||15||1
|2010||12||1
Total||113||5
Fußball-Bundesliga (6): 2002–03, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14
DFB-Pokal (6): 2002–03, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14
DFL-Ligapokal (1): 2007
DFL-Supercup (2): 2010, 2012
UEFA Champions League (1): 2012–13
UEFA Super Cup (1): 2013
FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2013
FIFA World Cup (1): 2014
Association football defenders
Association football full-backs
La Liga : 6
1941/42, 1943/44, 1946/47, 1970/71, 2001/02, 2003/04
Copa del Rey : 6
1941, 1949, 1954, 1967, 1979, 1999
Spain Supercup : 2
1949, 1999
Europepokal of the Pokalwinners : 1
UEFA-Cup : 3
1962, 1963, 2004
Europe Supercup : 2
UI-Cup : 1
25 -  Ludovic Butelle (since 2004)
02 -  Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro (since 2005)
03 -  Asier del Horno Cosgaya (since 2006)
05 -  Carlos Marchena López (since 2001)
17 -  David Navarro Pedrós (since 2001)
20 -  Raúl Albiol Tortajada (since 2003)
23 -  Cristóbal Emilio Torres Ruiz, called "Curro Torres" (since 2001)
24 -  Emiliano Moretti (since 2004)
26 -  David Cerrajería Rubio
29 -  David Córcoles Alcaraz
06 -  David Albelda Aliques (captain) (since 1997)
08 -  Rubén Baraja Vegas (since 2000)
11 -  Mario Ignacio Regueiro Pintos (since 2005)
14 -  Vicente Rodríguez Guillén (since 2000)
15 -  Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez (since 2006)
16 -  Hugo Miguel Ferreira Viana (since 2005)
18 -  Jorge López Montaña (since 2003)
19 -  Jaime Gavilán Martínez (since 2006)
21 -  David Jiménez Silva (back since 2006)
22 -  Eduardo César Daud Gaspar, called "Edu" (since 2005)
30 -  Nacho Insa Bohigues (since 2006)
31 -  Miguel Pallardó González
07 -  David Villa Sánchez (since 2005)
09 -  Fernando Morientes Sánchez (since 2006)
10 -  Miguel Ángel Angulo Valderrey (since 1997)
34 -  Javier Guerra Rodriguez (since 2006)
1919 establishments in Europe
1910s establishments in Spain
Bastian Schweinsteiger (born 1 August 1984, in Kolbermoor, Germany) is a German football player.
He plays as midfielder for Chicago Fire and the Germany national team.
He has a brother, Tobias, who is also a footballer and is playing for Unterhaching on loan in the third German league.
As of 11 July 2015, Schweinsteiger was transferred under a disclosed fee to Manchester United after Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge announced the transfer in a press conference.
Schweinsteiger has been in a relationship with Ana Ivanovic since September 2014.
The couple married on 12 July 2016 in Venice.
Schweinsteiger signed with Bayern Munich as a youth team player on 1 July 1998 and soon was successful with the youth teams and the second team.
He made his debut in the first team as substitute in an UEFA Championsleague match versus  RC Lens in November 2002.
onla a short time later he signed a professional contract for the first team.
He shot his first Bayern goal against VfL Wolfsburg in September 2003.
At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was sent back to the second team but soon came back.
Over the next three seasons, up until the end of 2007–08, Schweinsteiger made 135 appearances in all competitions for Bayern Munich (UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup), scoring 10 goals.
In December 2010, he prolonged his contract with Bayern until 2016.
However, in July 2015 Schweinsteiger made a move to Manchester United.
Schweinsteiger made his international debut in 2004 in a friendly against Hungary.
Since that time he played regularly in the German football national team.
He was member of the Euro 2004 and 2008 - and  World Cup 2006, 2010 and 2014 squads.
1.Statistics includes DFL-Supercup.
|2005||14||4
|2006||18||9
|2008||15||4
Total||107||23
Club: Manchester United F.C
Bayern Munich Junior Team
Under 17 Bundesliga (1): 2001
Under 19 Bundesliga (1): 2002
Regionalliga Süd (1): 2004
Bundesliga (5): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13
DFB-Pokal (5): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10
DFB-Ligapokal (2): 2004, 2007
DFB-Supercup (1): 2010
FIFA Confederations Cup Third Place: 2005
FIFA World Cup Third Place: 2006 & 2010
UEFA European Football Championship Runner-up: 2008
FIFA World Cup All Star Team: 2010
Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (2): 2006, 2010
The Feller Bach is a right tributary of the Moselle River in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany).
Its source is in the Hunsrück mountains.
It flows through the villages Lorscheid (Verbandsgemeinde Ruwer), Fell and Riol (Verbandsgemeinde Schweich).
It joins the Moselle in Riol.
Per Mertesacker (born 29 September 1984 in Hanover, West Germany) is a German football player.
Before that, he played for Hannover.
He played for the German national team.
|2003/04||rowspan="3"|Hannover||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||13||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|2004/05||31||2||4||1||colspan="2"|-||35||3
|2005/06||30||5||3||0||colspan="2"|-||33||5
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||25||2||0||0||10||2||35||4
|2007/08||32||1||3||0||9||0||44||1
|2008/09||23||2||3||1||13||1||39||4
Total||104||4
People from Hanover
Sportspeople from Lower Saxony
Bernd Schneider (born 17 November 1973 in Jena, Germany) is a former German footballer.
He played for Germany national team.
Club career
Schneider then played one season at Eintracht Frankfurt, subsequently moving to Bayer Leverkusen, and establishing himself as an important player for both club and country.
In 1999–2000 and 2001–02, he was helpful in Bayer's 2nd-place finish in the Fußball-Bundesliga.
He also appeared 19 times in the side reached the 2002 Champions League Final.
After two more seasons in which he scored ten goals and achieved 18 assists in 60 matches, Schneider began suffering back-to-back injuries: first the calf, then the back, not appearing for almost the entire 2008–09 season due to the injuries.
He only managed to return to action on 16 May 2009, playing the last 20 minutes of a 5–0 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The following month, he announced his retirement because he could not fully recover from the injuries.
|2002||14||1
Total||81||4
People from Jena
Sportspeople from Thuringia
David Odonkor (born February 21, 1984 in Bünde, Germany) is a German football player.
At the moment, he plays for Real Betis Balompié.
Until 2006, he was playing for Borussia Dortmund.
For the Germany national team he has played 16 matches and made 1 goal.
|2001/02||rowspan="6"|Borussia Dortmund||rowspan="6"|Bundesliga||2||0
|2002/03||6||0
|2003/04||25||1
|2004/05||7||0
|2005/06||33||1
|2006/07||2||0
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Real Betis Balompié||rowspan="3"|La Liga||13||0
|2007/08||20||1
|2008/09||7||0
|2009/10||Segunda División||||
Total||16||1
Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American cable television television network.
It is based in Washington, D.C.. The network is targeted toward African-American audiences in the United States.
Most of it used to show hip-hop and R&B music videos.
Now it shows religious shows, movies, award shows and original television series for African-Americans.
BET was founded by Robert L. Johnson on January 25, 1980.
The network started out as a two-hour Friday night show on the USA Network each week.
It was on from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. (EST).
They mostly showed older movies and music videos.
In May of that year, BET started showing Black collegiate sporting events.
In November 1980, BET added two half-hour shows, Black Showcase and The Bobby Jones Gospel Show.
On June 26, 1983, BET started showing Video Soul, a music video series.
On October 1, 1983, BET started broadcasting 24 hours daily with help from Home Box Office.
In the latter years, BET has moved from having a variety of Black entertainment to mostly showing music videos around the clock.
Popular original BET shows
Video Soul
Bobby Jones Gospel
Lift Every Voice
106 & Park
Rap City
Video Vibrations
Video LP
Teen Summit
College Hill
Lil Kim: Countdown to Lockdown
Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is
DMX: Soul Of A Man
BET's Top 25
BET's BlackBuster Movies
BET's Comic View
BET Live
BET: Uncut
BET.com Countdown
BET Style
Hits From The Street
Cita's World
BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley
BET Tonight with Ed Gordon
Season of the Tiger
The Black Carpet
Planet Groove
Beef: The Series
Top 25 Countdown
Freestyle Friday
Spring Bling
Wild Out Wednesday
BETJ
BET's Corporate Home (includes historical timeline)
CMT (Country Music Television) is an American country music cable television channel.
Some of the programs on the channel include country music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs.
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth (Hook) Carson, who was of Irish ancestry.
He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight.
At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit.
He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at age 14 and he was paid US$3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.
Official website for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
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Tynan, Kenneth.
1978 profile, The New Yorker
The Johnny Carson Show, USA Today
Martin, Steve.
Posthumous Letter to Carson, The New York Times
Watch on line either clips from or entire program Johnny Carson King of Late Night - Watch The Full Documentary  pbs.org Includes a page on the making of the documentary.
Episodes and highlights of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson are available on DVD at http://JohnnyCarson.com, on iTunes at http://itunes.com/JohnnyCarson, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/JohnnyCarson
Follow Johnny Carson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JohnnyCarson and Facebook at http://facebook.com/JohnnyCarson.
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TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/heavy metal band.
The band was formed in Trondheim in 1982.
TNT (1982)
Knights of the New Thunder (1984)
Tell No Tales (1987)
Intuition (1989)
Realized Fantasies (1992)
Firefly (1997)
Transistor (1999)
My Religion (2004)
All the Way to the Sun (2005)
The New Territory (2007)
Atlantis (2008)
A Farewell to Arms (2010)
TNT - The Official Site
Complaints against government
Anarcho-capitalism says that governments are not needed because governments either do not work or are bad.
Anarcho-capitalists normally believe that governments are bad due to their use of force.
Anarcho-capitalists' examples of government force include:
Forcing people to pay taxes,
Forcing people to join the military,
Starting unnecessary wars,
Forcing slaves to return to their masters,
Forcing people into internment camps or concentration camps,
Telling people what they may and may not do with their own bodies (including whether they can use drugs, have voluntary sex, or gamble),
Telling people what sort of contracts they may or may not make with one another,
Telling people where they may or may not live,
Telling businesses who they may or may not hire,
Telling who people may and may not marry,
Telling people how to run their businesses,
Telling people what religious beliefs and nonviolent religious practices they may have,
Telling people what they may or may not say or write,
Telling people what they may and may not buy or sell or import or export, and
Making itself a monopoly by making private alternatives illegal.
Anarcho-capitalists say that society would be better off if the good thing government did were instead done on the free market by private individuals, private companies, charities, mutual aid societies, and voluntary unions.
Anarcho-capitalists think that people will still be safe without armies and police that are paid for with taxes, and that people will be able to protect themselves by paying people or "private defence agencies" to defend them, or by setting up neighborhood watches.
Voluntarism, which is normally included as a part of anarcho-capitalist ideology, think that when people get into fights or arguments about who owns what, people should be able to get together and decide what kind of court to go to and what kind of rules they should be judged by, instead of being forced to go to a court that the government sets up.
The term anarcho-capitalism was coined by Jarret B. Wollstein.
Anarcho-capitalists say that the government is a thief, because it takes people's money away against their will.
They also say that governments also keep people from making trades between themselves.
Anarcho-capitalism as a form of libertarianism
Most libertarians are minarchists, which means they think that there needs to be a very small government whose only purpose is to protect people's property.
Anarcho-capitalists are different because they believe society would be better off without any government, even though they are still a kind of libertarian.
Anarcho-capitalism and anarchism
In general, anarcho-capitalism is not considered anarchism.
However, like anarchists, anarcho-capitalists say they are against the whole idea of hierarchy.
Anarcho-capitalists do not define hierarchy as something that exists when one person is simply seen as being more important than another person.
Anarcho-capitalist believe hierarchy exists only when a person is given the authority to use force against a nonviolent person or that person's legitimate property.
Only when no one is allowed to use force against nonviolent people or their legitimate property are people truly equal.
They think that only then is hierarchy no more.
Anarchists are against capitalism as they think it uses force.
Anarcho-capitalists support capitalism and say everything in it is consensual.
Anarchists oppose anarcho-capitalism because they do not believe any private property is legitimate.
These anarchists would say that all property is founded on the theft of the commons (unowned land and stuff).
Many anarchists don't even think that anarcho-capitalism counts as a real form of anarchism, as this critique of property goes back to some of the earliest people calling themselves anarchists.
Anarcho-capitalists, like other libertarians and classical liberals, only believe property is legitimate when it has been gotten in the right sort of way.
If you steal (take something from someone without their permission), or hire someone to steal on your behalf, or ask the government to steal on your behalf, the property you get is not really yours.
The real owner is still the person or people it belonged to before it was stolen.
Anarcho-capitalists say that governments do not legitimately own anything, since governments get all of their wealth through force, including taxation and counterfeiting.
Because anarcho-capitalists support private property, they believe that a person can own a building or land without actually using it.
They believe that these things can be protected by private security guards.
In the eyes of anarcho-capitalists, property can only be legitimately gotten in one of three ways.
The first way is through John Locke's "homestead principle," which means that something owned by no one becomes your legitimate property when you "mix your labour" with the thing.
In other words, if you come across an unowned field, and you start farming it, then the land you farm becomes your property, along with all of the crops you grow.
If someone else comes along and steals all of the crops you worked on growing, that person has committed a form of force called "theft."
The second and third ways to legitimately get property is through voluntary trade or gift.
Non-aggression
Some anarcho-capitalists are also anarcho-pacifists, but most anarcho-capitalists are not.
Anarcho-pacifists, like Robert LeFevre, believe one may never use any force at all, not even in self-defence.
Most anarcho-capitalists, however, believe it is okay to use defensive force as long as it is only directed against those who have used non-defensive force, and as long as it is proportional to the non-defensive force.
In other words, one may not legitimately shoot a person for stealing a stick of gum, because shooting someone is a lot more forceful than stealing the gum.
Autarchism
Walther von der Vogelweide (born about 1170; died possibly in Würzburg around 1230) was a famous German poet and composer.
He was the greatest of the German Minnesinger.
These were people who wrote and sang songs about courtly love.
Walther himself may have added “von der Vogelweide” to his name (it means “of the bird meadow”).
The German courtly love songs that had been written at the time were all very similar, but Walther gave these songs new life and made them very beautiful.
Unfortunately we do not know any of his music, because he did not write it down.
But he wrote his poems down.
They are very original, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, often just gently suggesting ideas carefully.
We do not know where Walther was born, but he wrote in a document that he had learned to sing and write poetry in Austria.
The dialect he spoke shows that he must have come from Bavaria or Austria.
He spent some time at the court of Duke Leopold V of Babenberg in Vienna.
This was about 1190.
He took part in public singing contests and had long discussions with other people about love and the way it should be written about in poetry.
In about 1198, he left Vienna and spent many years travelling around, visiting courts in Europe, entertaining dukes and princes, and singing his songs.
He always wrote the words himself, he never used other poets’ words.
That would have made him a simple “Spielmann”, but Walther was of noble birth (he had the title “Herr”).
He often spent several weeks or months in a castle where he entertained people, and where he probably also fell in love with one of the ladies.
He wrote about these love-affairs in his poetry.
Walther also wrote verses called “Sprüche" ("sayings").
These were about the history of the time.
They were a kind of political propaganda and were used in political debates.
Walther supported Emperor Otto IV in his arguments against the pope, persuading the emperor to go on the crusade which the pope had forbidden.
We do not know whether Walther went with him on the crusade.
By this time Walther had became very famous, not just as a poet and musician but as a kind of political adviser.
Walther was the first poet to write national and patriotic poetry.
He also wrote a type of love poem which was new in German literature.
Unter der Linde is the most famous of these.
Here are the first two verses:
1230s deaths
Striptease is an entertainment, by females usually, before an audience.
It is often included in the theatre form called burlesque.
With music and dance, the stripper gradually removes her clothing.
It is a very ancient dance form, and occurs in many societies.
Stripping is done in a teasing manner, but without being obscene (for example, by delaying to take an item off).
While hiding certain parts of the body with hands or pieces of clothing, stripper dances around.
Sometimes, plays are arranged, the strippers are disguised as Arabic dancers, Salome, Lolita or other well-known people.
The spectator sometimes identifies with the stripper.
Erotic dreams and exhibitionist fantasies may be projected into the striptease.
The Sumerians had a myth of the goddess Inanna descending into the Underworld.
At each of the seven gates, she removed an article of clothing or a piece of jewelry.
Salome's dance for King Herod is referred to in the New Testament ( and ).
However, the first mention of her removing seven veils is in Oscar Wilde's play of Salome in 1893.
Some have claimed as the origin of modern striptease.
After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's opera Salome, first performed in 1905  the erotic 'dance of the seven veils', became a standard routine in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.
A famous early practitioner was Maud Allan who in 1907 gave a private performance of the dance to Edward VII.
Greece & Rome
In ancient Greece, the lawgiver Solon established several classes of prostitutes in the late 6th century BC.
Among these were the auletrides: female dancers, acrobats, and musicians, noted for dancing naked in an alluring fashion in front of audiences of men.
In ancient Rome, dance featuring stripping was part of the Floralia, an April festival.
Empress Theodora, wife of 6th-century Byzantine emperor Justinian is reported by several ancient sources to have started in life as a courtesan and actress who performed in acts inspired from mythological themes and in which she disrobed "as far as the laws of the day allowed".
She was famous for her striptease performance of "Leda and the Swan".
From these accounts, it appears that the practice was not exceptional or new.
It was, however, actively opposed by the Christian Church, which got statutes banning it in the following century.
The degree to which these statutes were enforced is open to question.
No practice of the sort is reported in texts of the European Middle Ages.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Parisian shows such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère had attractive scantily-clad women dancing and tableaux vivants (static poses).
Acts in the 1890s had a woman slowly removed clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body.
The People's Almanac credits this as the origin of modern striptease.
Starting in 1905, Mata Hari entered the scene.
On the invitation of Emile Guimet she danced before a carefully chosen audience.
The scene at the end of the show, where she was naked was a sensation.
Similar performances, at the requests of Baron von Rothschild, Cécile Sorel, Gaston Menier and Natalie Clifford Barney followed.
Mata Hari had never learned how to dance, and had never studied Indian and oriental dancing.
Her dances were a product of her imagination.
In 1917, Mata Hari was charged with espionage and sentenced to death.
She was shot, on 15 October 1917, in Vincennes, near Paris.
Another landmark performance was the appearance at the Moulin Rouge in 1907 of an actress called Germaine Aymos who entered dressed only in three very small shells.
In the 1930s the famous Josephine Baker danced semi-nude in the danse sauvage at the Folies and other such performances were provided at the Tabarin.
These shows were notable for their sophisticated choreography and often dressing the girls in glitzy sequins and feathers.
By the 1960s "fully nude" shows were provided at such places as Le Crazy Horse Saloon.
Post WWII
After the war, in the 1950s striptease became the motor of an emerging sex industry (mainly focused on publications, like Playboy).
Paris saw the opening of the high-society strip clubs, like the Alcazar or the Crazy Horse.
In modern times, the art of striptease gets lost more and more.
In the 1990s, a German private TV channel (called RTL) made a strip show called Tutti Frutti.
Since then, during the night, many TV stations have women, who try to get rid of their clothes (without even dancing), while they advertise some phone sex numbers (or other prime-rate numbers).
There is also a film called Striptease.
It plays in US strip clubs,  without giving much background information.
Originally, striptease was only done by women.
Today, a very small number of male strippers are there.
Among the most notable of them are the Chippendales.
Roald Dahl was born on 13 September 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales to Norwegian parents.
He was educated in England, Llandaff Cathedral School, and then worked in Africa for Shell Oil Company.
In the Second World War, he was an RAF fighter pilot.
It was after an air-crash and "a monumental bash on the head" that he began to write.
The crash was the subject of his first published story, "Shot Down Over Libya".
He wanted to become an adult book writer but ended up as a children's book writer.
He had a tragic life since his father and oldest sister both died when he was young.
Roald Dahl said that the key to his success rested in sympathizing with children and realizing that to children, parents and school teachers are the enemy.
His stories are full of huge, wild ideas and he hoped they would help children to learn to love books.
He is one of the world's most popular children's writers.
Dahl wrote many famous children's stories and adult horror stories.
Many of his books and stories have been made into films and TV shows all over the world.
Among his most popular books are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, and Kiss Kiss.
Many of his children's books have pictures drawn by Quentin Blake.
Dahl was married to Patricia Neal from 1953 until they divorced in 1983.
They had four daughters (one of whom died before them) and a son.
Dahl was married to Felicity Crosland from 1983 until his death.
He lived in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
He died on 23 November 1990 in Oxford, from myelodysplastic syndrome, aged 74.
Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen
George's Marvellous Medicine
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
Tales Of the Unexpected
Revolting Rhymes
Deaths from myelodysplastic syndrome
Writers from Cardiff
Let There Be Rock is a studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
It was released on June 23, 1977.
Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
Whole Lotta Rosie
Electrical energy can refer to several closely related things.
The energy stored in an electric field
The potential energy of a charged particle in an electric field.
The energy provided by electricity
In any of these cases, the SI unit of electrical energy is the joule; which is the amount of energy used by a one-watt load, such as a tiny light bulb, drawing power for one second.
The unit used by many electrical utility companies is the watt-hour (Wh); which is the amount of energy used by the same one-watt load drawing power for one hour.
The kilowatt-hour (kWh), which is 1,000 times larger than a watt-hour, is a useful size for measuring the energy use of households and small businesses.
A typical household uses several hundred kilowatt-hours per month.
The megawatt-hour (MWh), which is 1,000 times larger than the kilowatt-hour, is used for measuring the energy output of large power plants.
The terms "electrical energy" and "electric power" are frequently used interchangeably.
However, in physics, and electrical engineering, "energy" and "power" have different meanings.
Power is energy per unit time.
The SI unit of power and electricity is the watt.
One watt is a joule per second.
In other words, the phrases "flow of power," and "consume a quantity of electric power" are both incorrect and should be changed to "flow of energy" and "consume a quantity of electrical energy."
In physics, power (symbol: P) is how fast work is done or energy is given from one thing to another.
In the SI system of measurement, power is measured in watts (symbol: W).
It may take a certain amount of work to make a change in the world, such as lifting a heavy weight to a higher level.
It makes no difference if the weight is lifted slowly or quickly.
The same amount of work will have been performed.
The difference between a slow lift and a quick lift is that a quick lift requires more power.
This means the work can be done in a shorter time if there is more power available.
P is power,
W is work, and
t is time.
Power in optics
In optics, or radiometry, the term power sometimes refers to radiant flux.
This is the average rate of energy transport by electromagnetic radiation, measured in watts.
But the term "power" is also used to express the ability of a lens or other optical device to focus light.
It is measured in dioptres (inverse metres), and is equal to one over the focal length of the optical device.
This is a list of the Emperors of the late Eastern Roman Empire, called Byzantine by modern historians.
This list does not include many of the emperors that rules with someone else.
The title of all Emperors before Heraclius was Augustus, but other titles such as Dominus were also used.
After Heraclius, the title was changed to the Greek Basileus.