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Visual Basic is a simple way to make programs for Windows.
It started as Project Ruby by Alan Cooper and then was sold to Microsoft.
The system is built loosely on the original BASIC programming language released in 1963 and it can 'Test' programs in real-time, error checking them in a user-friendly way.
This package is the 'backbone' of Visual Basic .NET.
When applications are created, the Windows Installer includes the framework with it.
It includes all the items needed to run the VB.NET applications that have been made.
Visual Basic was first released in May 1991 for Windows.
Many versions have been released since then.
These are listed below:
Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition
This is a free version of Visual Basic 2010 released officially from Microsoft.
It is aimed at encouraging more newbie programmers to try the series.
The program can be downloaded from Microsoft's Website.
Visual Basic .NET uses many controls which can be added to the forms or windows in the application.
Other developers can create controls for applications, not just the ones that Microsoft include.
Public Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.
Object, ByVal e As System.
EventArgs) Handles button1.Click
MsgBox("Hello World")
VB.NET Step by Step Tutorial
Visual Studio .NET Homepage
Visual Studio Express Homepage
People measure modern temperature records using instruments.
Records only cover the last 150 years or so.
The temperature record of the past 1,000 years or more is found by using data from what are called "climate proxy" records.
Proxies can be anything which relates to climate.
Short term autobiographies often talk about the weather in past eras, and we do have some autobiographies from 2000 years ago.
There are also tree rings and other methods which go back about 20,000 years.
Further back still, there is evidence from geology, the record of the rocks.
However, this page is just about the last 1000 years.
We are fairly sure there was a warm period about 1,000 years ago, and a cold period about the 17th century.
Even in the 19th century people skated on the Thames in wintertime.
Although people today talk about climate change as if it were entirely man-made, this is not the complete picture.
It is quite certain that climate has always been changing on Earth.
Man-made changes are on top of changes which occur naturally.
The Milankovich cycle is an important factor in these changes, and there are also changes in the heat put out by the Sun.
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Camping is a leisurivity, usually during summer when school children are on holiday, where people leave their homes and spend one or more nights outdoors.
Usually they seek nature, adventure, or a different environment.
They may sleep in a campervan or trailer, a tent, or in the open air in good weather.
Winter camping is less common but in some parts of the world, tents are people's homes year around.
Rich people began camping for fun in the early 20th century.
When more people could afford it, many more did it.
When camping, people usually prepare food to eat that is easy to make.
If they were hunting or fishing, they may cook the animal or fish they caught over a campfire.
New Guinea is a big island north of Australia.
It is the second largest island in the world.
On the east side of New Guinea is the country Papua New Guinea.
On the west side of the island are the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya.
Geography of Papua New Guinea
Honda is one of the largest engineering company from Japan created on 24 September 1948.
It is well known for making automobiles and motorcycles.
Although Honda started in Japan, it now has many factories in other countries that includes the United States, Canada, Brazil, Thailand and China.
Honda sells a luxury line of cars in the United States with the Acura name.
Honda Accord, sold as a four-door sedan, a two-door coupe, and a station wagon.
Honda Civic, sold as a four-door sedan, a two-door coupe, and a hatchback (but only in some countries).
The Honda Civic is smaller than the Honda Accord.
Honda Insight , a small sedan.
The Insight is about the size of a Civic, but it is built mostly for fuel economy.
Honda Jazz , a automobile that is smaller than the Civic.
Also known as the Honda Fit.
Honda City, is an automobile that is smaller as [Honda Jazz] but bigger in space as like [Honda Civic].It is a premium sedan that is selling like anything in Indian Market .
It is an affordable premium sedan.
Honda CR-V which is a small SUV.
Honda HR-V , a subcompact SUV.
Acura NSX, a sports car
Honda Pilot which is a medium size SUV.
Honda Ridgeline, a four-door pickup truck
Honda Odyssey Minivan.
There are two versions of the Odyssey.
The car sold in North America is longer and wider than the Odyssey sold in Japan.
The Japanese Odyssey is actually a compact MPV.
Honda S2000, a sports car with two seats.
Honda Prelude, a sport coupe also built from the Civic
Honda S500, a two-door roadster convertible
Honda also makes ATVs.
Honda is also known for participating in a very wide range of motorsport events, including Formula One , MotoGP, LeMans, IRL and others.
Honda does a lot of research on humanlike robots.
Honda built Asimo, a robot that can walk, talk, dance, carry things and answer questions.
These are not yet for sale in the United States.
Honda also creates a jet, known as the HondaJet.
It is not often seen in the United States
Honda Canada
Information on the Honda Prelude
Automobile companies of Japan
Camelids are a group of even-toed ungulate mammals.
They form the family Camelidae.
There are six living species of camelids.
Camelidae
Genus Lama
Llama, Lama glama
Guanaco, Lama guanicoe
Genus: Vicugna
Vicuña, Vicugna vicugna
Alpaca, Vicugna pacos, formerly Lama pacos
Genus Camelus
Dromedary, Camelus dromedarius
Bactrian Camel, Camelus bactrianus
The animals of the genus Camelus are also called Afro-Asiatic Camelids.
The animals of the genus Lama and genus Vicugna are also called South American Camelids.
There also exists a camelid hybrid called a Cama.
It is the child of a female Llama and a male Dromedary Camel.
The Cama does not exist in nature, but is "made" by humans through artificial insemination (that means the sperm is artificially put into the female).
The two Camelus species originally lived in northern Africa, south-west and eastern Asia.
The other four camelids lived in South America.
Camelids and humans
Camelids have been domesticated by humans for about 5000 years.
They have been important for transport, but were also kept for wool, meat and milk.
The llama and alpaca were very important for the South American cultures, like the Inca.
The camels were used by people in north Africa and Asia, especially in deserts.
Wallis and Futuna, officially called the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands ( or Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna), is a group of three volcanic tropical islands Wallis (Uvea), Futuna, and Alofi with fringing reefs.
They are in the South Pacific Ocean between Fiji and Samoa.
One of the islands in the group is named after Cornish explorer Samuel Wallis.
Western New Guinea is the western half of the island of New Guinea.
As of 2006, it is internationally recognised as Papua, a province of Indonesia.
It was previously known by various names, including Netherlands New Guinea (until 1962), West Irian (1962-1973), and Irian Jaya (1973-2000).
The incorporation of western New Guinea remains controversial in some quarters, including some within the area itself, and those who do not recognise the legal issues of Indonesia's claim to the area, calling it West Papua.
Papua was annexed by Indonesia under the controversial Act of Free Choice in 1969.
In 2003, the Indonesian central government declared that the province would be split into three areas: Papua Province, Central Irian Jaya, and West Irian Jaya.
Opposition to this resulted in the plan for Central Irian Jaya being scrapped, and even the designation of West Irian Jaya Province is still legally unclear.
The independent sovereign state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) borders Papua Province to the east.
The Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas, Moluccan Islands or simply Maluku) are an archipelago in Indonesia.
They are part of the larger Malay Archipelago.
They are on the Australian Plate, lying east of Sulawesi (Celebes), west of New Guinea, and north of Timor.
The islands were also called the "Spice Islands" by the Chinese and Europeans.
Other islands have also been called the Spice Islands.
Most of the islands are mountainous, some with active volcanos.
The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, with their wet climate, is very luxuriant.
It includes rainforests, sago, rice, and the famous spices; including nutmeg, cloves, and mace.
Though originally Melanesian, the people of many island clans, especially in the Banda Islands, died in the 17th century.
A second group of Malay people arrived in the early 20th century under the Dutch and this has continued in the Indonesian era.
Politically, the Maluku Islands formed a single province of Indonesia from 1950 until 1999.
In 1999 the North Maluku (Maluku Utara) and Halmahera Tengah (Central Halmahera) regency were split off as a separate province.
The islands are now divided between two provinces, Maluku and North Maluku.
Between 1999 and 2002 they were known for fighting between Muslims and Christians, although both groups had previously been peaceful.
Delphi, Greece, an archaeologic site and modern town in Greece
Delphi programming language, based on Pascal
Domestication is a change that happens in wild animals or plants, when they are kept by humans for a long time.
The Latin term literally means "to make it suitable for home".
If humans take wild animals and plants and keep and breed them, over time the animals and plants may change.
The animals and plants become dependent on the humans who keep them, and they change in ways that are better for human use.
This change (domestication) happens by humans choosing which animals will breed the next generation.
Biologists call this method artificial selection.
The first domestication of plants happened during the first use of agriculture.
Humans first domesticated dogs.
In the Neolithic revolution, people domesticated sheep and goats, and later cattle and pigs.
Domesticated plants are crops or ornamental plants.
People use domesticated animals as livestock, that is for food, clothing, and work.
Otherwise, the domesticated animals may be kept as pets.
Domesticated plants
The first evidence of plant domestication comes from wheat found in pre-Pottery Neolithic villages in Southwest Asia.
They are dated at 10,500 to 10,100 BC.
The Fertile Crescent, Egypt, and India were sites of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants.
Agriculture developed independently in a number of places at different times.
The eight Neolithic founder crops (emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chickpeas and flax) had all appeared by about 7000 BC.
Origin of the dog
The origin of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) began with the domestication of the grey wolf (Canis lupus) several tens of thousands of years ago.
Domesticated dogs provided early humans with a guard animal, a source of food, fur, and a working animal (hunting, pulling sleds).
The process continues to this day.
Archaeology has placed the earliest known domestication at possibly 30,000 BC, and with certainty at 7,000 BC.
Other evidence suggests that dogs were first domesticated in East Asia.
Cats were also domesticated quite early.
At the beginning of agriculture, people started to domesticate sheep and goats, and later pigs and cattle.
Other animals that were domesticated early are camels, donkeys and horses.
Some animals, like the domestic rabbit, were only domesticated in recent times.
Many other animals which have been artificially selected by humans over a long period, not simply living with humans.
The list is not intended to be complete.
Self-domestication
Self-domestication refers to an evolutionary process in which aggressive behavior is selected against, which makes a species less aggressive and more friendly and social.
Bonobos, who share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, show far less aggression than chimpanzees.
It is thought that bonobos have become 'self domesticated' due to female bonobos only reproducing with the more gentle males.
This process may also apply to humans, who are very social compared to other species.
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American horror movie.
It was directed by George A. Romero.
The movie stars Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman.
It premiered on October 1, 1968.
It was completed on a US$114,000 budget.
The movie was a financial success, grossing $12 million domestically and $18 million worldwide.
Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized because of it explicit content.
It eventually got critical acclaim.
It was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a movie deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
The movie is in the public domain due to an error by the distributor.
The story follows characters Ben (Duane Jones), Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and five others trapped in a farmhouse in Pennsylvania which is attacked by "living dead" monsters.
These monsters became known in popular culture as zombies.
Night of the Living Dead was the basis of five Living Dead movies (1978–2010).
They were also directed by Romero.
Many remakes have also been made.
1968 movies
1968 horror movies
Zombie movies
The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 to October 1922 between several groups in Russia.
The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army.
The Red Army was communist, and the White Army was anticommunist.
Other forces fought against both groups or sometimes helped one of them against the other.
Foreign countries such as Japan, the United Kingdom, France and the United States sent troops to help the divided White Army.
The Red Army won the war because it was better-organized, more than united and held the best territory.
After the war, the communists established the Soviet Union in 1922.
Tsar Nicholas II, the traditional autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, had just lost his throne in the February Revolution of 1917.
Many regions of the Russian Empire were not stable Many groups had organized themselves to fight.
The workers and the farmers supporting the communists organized themselves into the Red Army.
People opposing them organized themselves into the White Army.
Outside Russia
In Ukraine, some groups fighting for a free Ukraine organized themselves as the Green Army.
There were several other groups.
The Green Army and the smaller groups fought each other, and they sometimes fought the Red Army and the White Army.
Other nationalist armies fought for independence from any kind of Russian control.
Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia succeeded.
At the same time, some foreign countries were worried about the communists ruling the Russia.
They feared that communism would come to their countries if the communists were successful and so they helped fight against the communists’ Red Army.
They started the Siberian Intervention and otherwise helped the White Army.
Slowly, the war became very large and continued for years.
The Red Army and the White Army fought this war on three main fronts.
These regions were located in the east, the south, and the northwest of what became the Soviet Union.
The outbreak of the Russian Civil War and its large scale surprised Vladimir Lenin.
There were also three main periods of the war.
Soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first period of the Russian Civil War began.
Most of the fighting was then small-scale, but it started in many places.
The second period of the Russian Civil War was very important and lasted from January to November 1919.
At first, the White Army was winning on all three fronts and was helped by foreign countries.
However, Leon Trotsky reorganized the Red Army and helped it fight back.
The White Armies had heavy losses and lost most of their fighting power.
The third and final period of the war involved fighting in Crimea.
Many soldiers of the White Army had gathered there and had made their position very secure and strong.
The Red Army continued to fight with them.
When the Polish-Soviet War ended with Polish independence, more soldiers of the Red Army could reinforce their comrades in Crimea.
Thay action defeated the White Army in November 1920.
Fighting continued against nationalists in the Caucusus in the early 1920s.
About 8 million people lost their lives during the Russian Civil War.
About one million were soldiers of the Red Army.
The anti-communists and the White Army killed at least 50,000 communists.
Many millions of people also died due to famine, starvation and epidemics.
Many Jews were killed in pogroms.
During and after the Russian Civil War, Soviet Russia suffered great damage.
In 1920 and 1921, there was little rain, which caused serious famine in 1921.
About one million Russians left Russia and went to other countries permanently.
Many of them were very educated and expert.
Economic loss was also very large.
The value of Russia’s currency, the ruble, fell.
In 1914, a US dollar could be bought for 2 rubles.
In 1920, it cost 1,200 rubles.
Estimates say that the war cost the Soviet Russia around 50 billion rubles, today worth US$35 billion.
Production of industrial goods fell greatly.
For example, the Soviet Union produced only 5 % of the cotton and only 2 % of the iron ore of the production of 1913.
Generally, the production had fallen to 20% of the production of 1913.
The Russian Civil War had was very bad on agriculture as well.
Farms produced only 37 % of the normal production.
The number of horses fell from 35 million (in 1916) to 24 million (in 1920).
The number of cattle also decreased, from 58 million to 37 million.
During the war, the Soviet government somehow managed the country.
In March 1921, four months after the defeat of the White Army in Crimea, the Lenin administration abandoned its policy of War Communism and instead formulated the New Economic Policy, which allowed denationalisation of agriculture and industry, but most financial institutions retained state ownership with a deregulation in such sectors.
On 30 December 1922, the Soviet Union was formally created, and by 1928, production returned to pre-war levels.
Lenin, however, did not live to see that day since he had died in 1924, when Joseph Stalin became the new leader.
People always remembered the results of the First World War and the Russian Civil War, which were very bad for the life and the society for the new Soviet Union.
Wars involving Russia
Civil wars
1910s in Russia
1910s conflicts
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends is an American animated comedy fantasy children's cartoon that is shown on Cartoon Network.
It was created by Craig McCracken, who also made The Powerpuff Girls.
It premiered in August 14, 2004.
The cartoon finished production of its episodes on May 3rd, 2009.
Background Information
In the show's world, imaginary friends are as real as humans.
Once the creator decides he or she does not want the imaginary friend anymore, they are sent to live at "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends," an adoption home for the unwanted imaginary friends.
In the ninety-minute debut episode, an imaginary friend named Bloo is allowed to live in the house without being available for adoption, as long as his creator Mac visits him every day at 3 o'clock.
The show from this point onwards is about their many silly adventures with their new friends, both imaginary and human.
Mac (voiced by Sean Marquette) - The eight-year-old boy who created Bloo.
He is the voice of reason most of the time.
Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo (voiced by Keith Ferguson) - A blue imaginary friend shaped like a blob.
Bloo is his creator's opposite, as he is wild and troublemaking.
Wilt (voiced by Phil LaMarr) - A very tall imaginary friend, with stalk-like eyes and a missing arm.
He is gentle and will always help out the others (even if it comes to self-sacrifice).
Eduardo (voiced by Tom Kenny) - An imaginary friend who looks scary and intimidating—but is actually a coward with a big heart.
He seems to have a Spanish accent, as he is Latin American.
Coco (voiced by Candi Milo) - An imaginary friend who is part bird and all crazy.
All she can say is her own name.
She consumes objects, then encases them in eggs.
Frances "Frankie" Foster (voiced by Grey Griffin) - A twenty-two-year-old human girl who is Madame Foster's granddaughter, working as the house's maid.
She is very kind and friendly, but she has an angry side to her.
Mr. Herriman (voiced by Tom Kane) - A rabbit, who is the president of the adoption home and Madame Foster's imaginary friend.
His strict demeanor and many rules make him unpopular with the other residents of the adoption home (especially Bloo and Frankie).
Madame Foster (voiced by Candi Milo) - The old lady who first created the adoption home.
She is mostly sweet and playful, but has a hidden malicious side to her.
Danish Dubbing år – 2004
Bloo – Søren Ulrichs
Mac – Annevig Schelde Ebbe
Eduardo – Peter Røschke
Villy – Caspar Phillipson
Herriman – Lasse Lunderskov
Cartoon Network series
2009 television series endings
Interpol is the short form of International Criminal Police Organization.
It began in 1923.
Now, Interpol is the second biggest international organization; the United Nations is the biggest.
Some important information about Interpol:
Present Headquarters: Lyon, France
Previous Headquarters: Saint Cloud, a town near Paris
Total members: 184 countries
Annual expenses: more than 30 million Euros - all member countries share the expenses
In 1923, Interpol begun its functioning from Austria.
At that time, its name was International Criminal Police Commission (ICPM).
During the Second World War, Nazi Germany controlled Austria.
ICPM also came under Nazi control.
They used it for collecting many types of information.
After the Second World War, senior military men of Belgium, France, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom made many changes in ICPM.
Thereafter, ICPM started to work in its new form.
The Interpol General Secretariat is the main office of Interpol.
The highest-ranking officer of Interpol is the president.
Just below him, there is a secretary general.
In 2001, about 384 persons from 54 countries worked in this secretariat.
Earlier the working time was from 9 o’clock in the morning till 5 o’clock in the evening.
Now, this secretariat works all 24 hours without any break.
In 2001, Interpol could help in arresting or finding out about 1400 persons, generally criminals.
Interpol does not take any political side in its work.
It takes cases where the crime or the matter relates to more than one country.
It looks after many types of cases.
Some of them are note below:
Illicit drug production
Drug trafficking
Weapons smuggling
People smuggling
Financial crime
High-tech crime
Over the years, Interpol has developed a method of its working.
Each member country keeps a special office.
The name of this office in every member country is National Central Bureau (NCB).
If necessary, Interpol contacts this office for getting information or for any other action.
In turn, the National Central Bureau gets in touch with Interpol (on behalf of the member country) to ask for any assistance.
Interpol also has collected a large data about criminals and crimes.
Such information includes information about illegal drug trade, lost and stolen passports and visas.
Member countries may use the information.
Officers of Interpol do not directly conduct any enquiry or investigation.
This is always done through the policemen of the member country.
Interpol in culture
Interpol has attracted attention of writers and movie directors.
The organization has been depicted in many books, movies, and TV serials.
There is a band called Interpol
Interpol's official website
Law enforcement agencies
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO in short) is a term for a natural event that takes place in the Pacific Ocean.
It is also called El Niño and La Niña.
In Spanish they mean "little boy" and "little girl".
El Niño happens when the sea water temperature rises in surface waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Every two to five years the Pacific Ocean has this event.
A weak, warm current starts around Christmas along the coast of Ecuador and Peru.
It lasts for only a few weeks to a month or more.
Every three to seven years, an El Niño event may last for many months.
This can change the weather and have important effects around the world.
Australia and Southeast Asia can have drought but the deserts of Peru have very heavy rainfall.
East Africa can have both.
In a La Niña event the weather patterns are reversed.
The Southern Oscillation was discovered by Sir Gilbert Walker in 1923.
It is a "seesaw" of atmospheric pressure between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
There is an inverse relationship between the air pressure measured at two sites: Darwin, Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific.
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is the difference in sea-level pressure measured at Tahiti and Darwin.
The Cold Tongue (CT) Index measures how much the average sea-surface temperature in the central and eastern Pacific near the equator varies from the annual cycle.
The two measurements are anti-correlated, so that a negative SOI is usually together with an unusual warm ocean wind known as El Niño.
The 2010-2011 Queensland floods were caused by a La Niña event which brought very heavy rain to the east coast of Australia.
Other big floods in Australia have also happened during a La Niña, 1916, 1917, 1950, 1954-1956, and 1973-1975.
The cost of the 2010-2011 Queensland floods has been worked out to A$30 billion.
Central Pacific El Niño
Not all El Niños happen in the Eastern Pacific.
During recent decades, Central Pacific El Niños have been discovered.
When these happen, the effects from CP El Niños are very different from traditional El Niños.
Central Pacific El Niños took place in 1986–88, 1991–92, 1994–95, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10 and 2015–16.
Weather events
As the liquid in the cooker gets hot, pressure rises.
Higher pressure results in a higher boiling point.
Pressure cookers allow cooking at higher temperatures, which allows faster cooking.
Beijing becomes the largest city in the world.
April 10 – The world's first copyright legislation became effective, Britain's Statute of Anne.
June – Swiss and Palatine German Protestants under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried travel to Bath County in the Province of Carolina.
The settlers displace the native town of Chattoka and found New Bern, named for von Graffenried's hometown of Berne, Switzerland.
June 8 – The Tuscarora nation sends a petition to the Province of Pennsylvania protesting the seizure of their lands and enslavement of their people by citizens of the Province of Carolina.
October 10 – Estonia is annexed by Russia.
January 3 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (died 1796)
January 4 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (died 1736)
February 15 – King Louis XV of France (died 1774)
April 15 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1790)
April 17 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (died 1767)
April 25 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died 1776)
April 26 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (died 1796)
April 30 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (died 1795)
May 14 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (died 1771)
May 16 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (died 1782)
June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (died 1768)
July 21 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (died 1792)
August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (died 1761)
September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (died 1784)
September 30 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
October 12 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (died 1785)
October 16 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (died 1790)
October 24 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (died 1773)
November 8 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (died 1768)
November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (died 1792)
November 13 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (died 1792)
November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (died 1784)
November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and amateur grammarian (died 1787)
December 2 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (died 1783)
January 16 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (born 1675)
January 21 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (born 1638)
February 16 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (born 1632)
March 4 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (born 1668)
April 28 – Thomas Betterton, English actor (born c.1635)
June 1 – David Mitchell, British admiral (born 1642)
September 19 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (born 1644)
Pescozada is a hip-hop group from El Salvador.
Their members are two men named Debil Estar and Fat Lui.
They rap about gangs, politics, and the future of El Salvador.
Their songs include "Primer Acto" and "I Could Fly".
They rap in Spanish.
Salvadoran people
1998 establishments in North America
Establishments in El Salvador
Rhyme means words that sound the same or similar in their endings.
Poems and popular song lyrics often use rhyme.
A simple poem can also be called a rhyme.
Many examples of rhyme are in folk songs, children's songs, and of course in nursery rhymes.
Rhymes at the ends of the lines in a song or poem are normal:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
One, two, buckle my shoe,
Three, four, shut the door,
Five, six, pick up sticks,
Seven, eight, lay them straight...
uses "internal rhymes," rhymes that fall within a single line instead of at the end of lines.
In another children's poem,
With a knick-knack, paddy-whack, give the dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home...
knack and whack give another example of internal rhyme.
Also, the rhymes at the ends of the lines, bone and home, are not "exact rhymes."
Exact rhymes are the same in everything but the first sound.
Exact rhymes are the most common type of rhyme and can be formed easily with common sounds in English:
pay / day / way / say / may / bay / play / pray / stay ...
me / we / be / see / tree / knee ...
Goosey goosey gander, whither will you wander,
Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber...
Here, the rhymes are not exact rhymes.
Also, gander and wander are "sight rhymes," words that look like rhymes when printed but do not sound quite alike.
Sight rhymes are more common in poetry meant to be read, than in songs or verse meant to be sung or spoken aloud and heard by listeners.
Rhymes can be made up of more than one word, as in the short poem Rondeau by James Henry Leigh Hunt:
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your book, put that in:
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
Along with simple normal rhymes, met and get, sad and add, and one internal rhyme, health and wealth, Hunt creates sets of clever two-word rhymes.
Some poets and writers use very unusual rhymes.
Well-known examples are in the song lyrics to the 1939 MGM film version of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
The lyrics, written by E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, use many odd rhymes, plus internal rhymes, complex rhyme patterns, and other tricks of language.
W. S. Gilbert, the lyricist for the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, wrote the same way.
The books of Dr. Seuss are also famous for their many strange rhymes.
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For  locks on a river or canal, see Lock (water transport)
A lock keeps things closed.
It keeps people from opening something, such as a door or a box.
Keys open locks.
Sometimes an electronic card or secret numbers will open a lock.
The verb to lock means to set the lock so the door or object is closed.
A person who works on locks is called a locksmith.
Types of lock mechanisms
A key lock is a lock that uses a key (a piece of metal with teeth like a little saw) to open it.
Someone must put the key in the lock and turn it to open the lock.
This lock is used in doors and locks for boxes.
Key locks can be defeated by picking them.
A combination lock is a lock that uses a dial (a knob with numbers all around it) to open it.
Someone must turn the dial to the right numbers in the right order.
This is called the "combination."
This lock is used on safes and locks for bicycles.
An electronic lock is a special lock that can only be opened with a message from a computer.
This message can be stored in a computer chip on a card (called a "key card" or "security card").
Or it can be made by a computer looking at someone's fingerprint or eye.
Time locks are used in banks.
They prevent anyone opening the vault until a preset time.
This defeats burglary attempts when the bank is closed.
Types of lock
Padlocks are probably the most common type of lock.
They are opened either with a key or a combination.
The best way to break them is to snap the hoop with a long-handled bolt cutter.
Pin tumbler locks, commonly called 'Yale locks', are very common for fastening doors.
They were indeed invented by Linus Yale Jnr in the 1860s.
Spring latch lock.
The common door latch which locks when you pull the door closed.
It is much less secure than a deadbolt lock, but more convenient.
No lock is completely safe, though some are safer than others.
Locks can be defeated by brute force or by lock picking.
The most common brute force tool is the crowbar, commonly called (UK) a jimmy or jerry or (US) a wrecking bar.
Picking involve tools such as pin-tumbler lock picks, skeleton keys, bump keys, pick guns etc.
Carrying these tools, especially after dark, is an arrestable offence in most countries except if the owner is a registered locksmith.
The Restoration of Antique Lock and Key by Abha Vardhan (2019)
A knob is a round handle that can be turned or pulled.
A doorknob is a round handle that is turned to open a door.
A cabinet knob is a small handle that is pulled to open a cabinet door or drawer.
A control knob can turn a lamp on and off or make the volume on a radio go up or down.
The Sims 2 is a 2004 video game and the sequel to The Sims.
It is a simulation game made by Maxis and EA Games.
The game features a full 3D graphics engine.
Like the first The Sims game, it has many expansion packs.
EA released a sequel, The Sims 3, in June 2009.
There are now six life stages: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, and elder.
An additional young adult stage is added when you get the University expansion pack.
Sims can now grow up and eventually die.
In the first game, Sims would stay children forever and adults would stay adults forever.
Teenagers can hold jobs as well as go to school.
Careers have gone under many changes.
There is now a schedule; there are seven days in a week, and Sims at school are off on Saturday and Sunday.
Sims can now get paid vacation days and start working 4–5 days a week.
A meter measures job performance (their mood when they get to work).
A new thing called "chance cards" lets the player pick what to do in a situation.
Sims can gain/lose skill points, gain/lose money, or be promoted, demoted, or even fired.
Children and teenagers now bring homework home and their grades rise or fall depending on whether they finish it or not.
Teenagers can hold jobs as well as go to school, but if their grades drop too low they can lose their job.
Other new things are wants and fears.
These change when a want or fear is done or when the Sim wakes up from sleep.
Also, Sims can have aspirations (big things they want to do) like to have a family, to have many friends, to fall in love, to learn a lot, or to have a lot of money.
A player can choose which aspiration they want their Sim to have, and the aspirations will affect their wants and fears.
For example, a Sim with the family aspiration might want to have a child, but a Sim with the money aspiration might want to get a job instead.
Like in the first Sims game, a mother Sim and a father Sim can have a child.
Also, children can be made at the start of the game or got from the adoption service.
One of the biggest changes in Sims 2 is that a Sim can go to a community lot (a place in the town like a store or a park).
They can go there by using the phone to call a taxi.
These are addons to the game which add new items, new places and new features.
They are listed in the order that they came out in the shops.
They are meant to come out 2 times a year.
Stuff packs
These are packages that add only items to the game.
They are less expensive than the regular expansion packs.
RollerCoaster Tycoon (or RCT) is a series of computer games where the user can make their own theme park.
Each game in the series allows players to construct their own theme parks in an objective-based level.
Players can also build their own roller coasters.
The first game was made by three people: designer and programmer Chris Sawyer, artist Simon Foster and composer Alistar Brimble.
The game was very popular.
It was released for the PC.
This is the original game, for the PC.
It was released in 1999 There is a long list of scenarios (levels) which the user can complete.
Users can also download famous theme parks from the internet.
A large number of rides and shops are included with the game.
Added Attractions Pack
Also named 'Corkscrew Follies'.
It was released in 1999 This game includes many more levels and some more rides and shops are added.
The original game MUST be installed to be able to play this one.
Loopy Landscapes
This addon also includes the Added Attractions Pack.
It was released in 2000 for the PC.
It includes three famous theme parks: Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Alton Towers and Heide Park.
It adds many more levels and rides to the game.
The 2002 sequel to RCT was made because of the success of the first game.
It had the same interface but it added a few new features:
RollerCoaster Designer
Scenario Maker
The game also added support for buildings to be made using walls to make ride entrances.
It included famous Six Flags theme parks and their rides.
Expansion Packs
There are two expansion packs released for RCT2.
Wacky Worlds (2003)
Time Twister (2003)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
RCT3 is the first game in the series to use full 3D graphics.
Players can ride their rides and rollercoasters for the first time.
Night and day is a new feature.
Firework displays can now be made to custom music.
RCT3 now has a sandbox mode.
This is where the user can build a park with all items available and unlimited money.
It is a good way to build parks in practise for the 'Career Mode'.
There are many Scenarios packaged with the game.
Each one can be completed on three difficulty levels.
More are added with the expansion packs.
This game adds the ability to make your own Peep groups to wander around your park.
Soaked!
This is the first expansion pack to be released for RCT3.
The User can build water parks with different types of waterslides.
He or she can also build swimming pools.
A few water-themes attractions have been added as well as new shops.
The number of scenarios available is doubled with this expansion pack.
It also adds some new music to the game.
This Expansion Pack came with the Hershey's Stormrunner and the Rollersoaker.
Both based on coasters based on real coaster designs at Hershey Park somewhere in the U.S.A.
The Fireworks mode has been upgraded to a Laser and Water display feature as well.
The user can now make longer shows to their music.
This expansion pack was released in 2005.
The users can now add animals to their park.
A new set of animal-themed rides have been added, like the 'Insect House' and 'Elephant Ride'.
The game has new music and new scenery.
Also some new shops have been added.
There are a lot of scenarios added as well as some jungle themed music.
This expansion pack came with the Extended Coaster which is basically a dream coaster.
It has the most inversion parts and also the ability to make beyond vertical drops like on SAW the ride at Thorpe Park.
1999 video games
Simulator video games
Fuhua Secondary School is a school in Jurong West, Singapore.
It started in 2000 and the founding principal was Ong Kian Choon from Chung Cheng High(Branch).
Oen Siew Yock took over as principal in 2005 when Ong transferred to Nan Chiau High School.
The Vice Principal is Ronald Lu Jing Yuan.
Core values
Respect For Others
School Before Self
Embracing Lifelong Learning
The school is most famous for its robotics team, known as Fubotics.
Students have gone on to South Korea representing Singapore in a robotics meet in 2003.
Fuhua's NCC (Land) Unit have also achieved outstanding performance in the Best Unit Competition 2004/05.
They have clinched the Gold award and hopes to maintain it in 2006.
Fuhua's NPCC Unit have clinched a Silver Award for the year 2005.
An improvement from the previous, clinching a bronze in 2004.
Every year, the NCC would organise its annual shooting competition.
For the year 2004, a team comprising of 5 shooters from then Part C(Sec 3) have shot their way to being the 1st in the West District and 6th in the national.
For the year 2005, the shooters have achieved 4th in the nation and Part A Jia Hao ranked 4th in the individual IMT shoot.
Fuhua's uniform is similar to that of Chung Cheng High School.
It is an all-white Uniform.
There are shoulder lapels on the shirt/blouse.
It is secured by metal epaulettes.
The shirt/blouse has chest pockets and metal epaulettes are also placed on the pockets.
Upper Secondary male students wear long pants instead.
Its attire for physical education (PE) compromises of a red attire.
The school crest is placed on the left chest.
The word "Fuhua" spreads from the right to the left at the front.
At the back of the PE T-shirt, "Fuhua Secondary" is slightly curved and spans from the left to the right.
The school blazer is bright red in colour.
Students have to wear their tie with the blazer.
The tie is blue in colour with yellow diagonal stripes.
The word "fuhua" is placed on top of these stripes.
Co-curricular activities
School video awards
A drama was filmed in 2005.
Called Subject to Change, it was directed by Jason Ye.
This documentary won the Silver award, an improvement compared to the previous year's documentary on Pets, which bagged the Bronze award.
Speech Day
The school holds its speech day every year in March or April.
In 2006, the school held its Speech Day in the morning, unlike the previous year, which held  its Speech Day at night.
This was because the school had organised its bi-annual cultural night.
Aesthetics Education
The aesthetics room was officially opened on 31 March 2006 by the school's Advisory Committee Member, Mr Yip Mein Hui.
The opening coincided ith the school's Speech Day.
The club plays in the Bundesliga.
They have won the German Championship once and German Cup (DFB-Pokal) 5 times (last time in 2018) and the UEFA Cup once.
They were founded in 1899.
The team colours are red, black and white.
They play at Deutsche Bank Park (former Waldstadion).
The current captain of the side is defender Sebastian Rode from Germany.
The coach of Eintracht Frankfurt is Oliver Glasner.
The players in the season 2021–22
1899 establishments in Germany
Sport in Hesse
The Commonwealth of Nations (also known only as "Commonwealth") is a confederation of countries.
Originally, it was called the  British Commonwealth  which was founded in 1926 when the British Empire began to break up.
Now, there are 54 member countries of the Commonwealth.
Only countries which were part of the British Empire are allowed to become members of the Commonwealth (although an exception was made for Rwanda and Mozambique which were never colonized by Britain, when they were allowed to become members).
Members are free to leave and rejoin the Commonwealth.
However, joining or rejoining the Commonwealth can become difficult, when the candidate country has serious human rights violations.
The term the Commonwealth of Nations originated in 1884.
Lord Rosebery was on a visit to Australia in 1884.
At Adelaide he said that over a period of time a number of colonies of the British Empire will become free and many may become more independent.
He further said that all of these countries would then become the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Commonwealth of Nations is not a political organization.
Queen Elizabeth II is also head of state of 16 Commonwealth countries, referred to as Commonwealth realms.
Canada and Australia are two of the largest realms.
A Secretary General manages the day-to-day matters of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Patricia Scotland is the Secretary General since 2015.
However, the United Kingdom or the Secretary General does not have any direct or indirect control over these countries.
In fact, almost all the 53 members are independent countries with their own governments.
These countries have come together to form an association with some common aims.
Such common aims include:
To increase economic cooperation among the member countries.
To encourage democracy in the member countries.
To ensure that member countries follow human rights.
The total population of all the 54 countries of the Commonwealth is about 2.245 billion.
This is almost a third of the population of the whole world.
About half of these live in India.
The four largest Commonwealth nations by population are India at 1.37 billion, Pakistan at 230 million, Nigeria at 174 million, and Bangladesh at 166 million.
Tuvalu and Nauru are the smallest members, each with less than 11,000 people.
These 53 countries cover an area of 12.1 million square miles.
This is about 21 % of the total land area of the world.
The three largest Commonwealth nations by area are Canada at 3.8 million square miles, Australia at 3.0 million square miles, and India at 1.3 million square miles.
The economy of these countries is about 16 % of the world economy.
Based on the purchasing power parity, the four largest economies are India at 2,600 billion US dollars, the United Kingdom at 1,500 billion US dollars, Canada at 930 billion US dollars, and Australia at 520 billion US dollars.
Commonwealth of Nations -Citizendium
Interpol is the name of an International organization.
This organization tries to solve crimes.
Interpol (band) is a famous band.
A nuclear meltdown describes a malfunction of a nuclear reactor.
The term "nuclear meltdown" is commonly used by the public and by news media, but nuclear engineers usually refer to it as a core melt accident.
A nuclear meltdown occurs when the middle portion of the nuclear reactor containing the fuel rods (its "core") is not properly cooled.
This can occur when the cooling system fails or is otherwise defective.
If this happens, uranium or plutonium or similar materials inside the nuclear reactor become hot and may start melting or dissolving.
It is this melting that is a nuclear meltdown.
Due to decay heat, a nuclear meltdown can occur even in a reactor that is shut down.
The uranium and plutonium liquified in a nuclear meltdown, mixed with fission products, melted zirconium from the fuel rod cladding, and other materials, is called corium.
Corium is highly radioactive and remains hazardous for many centuries after a meltdown.
The zirconium is a hazard because at high temperatures, it can react with the cooling water and make flammable hydrogen gas.
Meltdowns
Around the world, some nuclear meltdowns have occurred.
Some of them were mild, but few of them were very serious.
Nuclear meltdowns can kill people from radiation poisoning.
The very last accident was the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.
Four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant had cooling problems after back-up diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami.
In 1986, a nuclear meltdown occurred in a place named Chernobyl (Ukraine).
In this case, all the people living in the towns and the villages (near the defective nuclear reactor) had to move to far away places.
The Chernobyl meltdown created a mass of corium which has been nicknamed "the Elephant's Foot" and is one of the most radioactive objects in the world.
Most large submarines get power from nuclear reactors inside them.
These are nuclear submarines.
Some Russian nuclear submarines have faced nuclear meltdown.
Sometimes, the nuclear meltdown may happen immediately.