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The CIA supposedly felt it was important to learn how ordinary citizens might react to such things if they happened.
The drug sometimes made the scenarios more believable.
The effects of these experiments were often harmful to the subjects, even years later, because of the intense anxiety or fear caused when someone unknowingly takes a drug like LSD.
LSD first became popular in the 1960s.
A Harvard psychology professor, Timothy Leary, began to encourage people to try the drug then.
College students willingly took part in LSD experiments.
These experiments were made by psychologists and other professionals.
Leary and two of the people he worked with, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, thought the transforming effects of the drug could be a kind of 'rebirth' of users, in the same way  as many religions offered them.
They wrote a book, The Psychedelic Experience, which was based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Leary eventually became well known in the 1960s  hippie movement for his slogan about LSD: "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
The Hippies were a countercultural movement.
A number of famous rock bands, including the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, became known for their use of LSD, and even a new type of rock music, called "acid rock", was born from the fad.
LSD quickly became a popular drug outside of the medical profession.
Many people began using or giving LSD out casually. "
Acid parties"  and "acid tests" became a social fad.
The drug would sometimes be slipped to persons unknowingly, often through "spiked" punch or drinks.
Some problems developed, as some casual users began to experience side effects, such as "flashbacks" and psychotic symptoms, though both of these are rare.
Sometimes signs of depression and instability were seen.
Due to the spread of LSD use outside of the medical community, the United States government banned LSD (made it against the law to make, have or use) in 1967.
Other countries soon followed.
Dangers of using LSD
The most common danger of taking LSD is having a bad experience, which is called a "bad trip".
During a bad trip, people may feel very scared and worried, and they may have very sad thoughts.
A bad trip can lead to lasting bad memories and even mental harm.
Users who get out of control, or who try to harm themselves, should be taken for medical help.
Storing LSD in an improper manner could end up destroying the blotter and cause adverse effects like nausea and brain fatigue.
The safest method to store LSD is wrapping it in aluminum foil or in a Mylar bag.
Avoid storing it in books, papers, or box packaging as it could drastically lower the dosage of the blotter and potentially cause unwanted effects upon ingesting it.
Many illegal drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, are very addictive.
This means that people who start taking the drug will want to keep taking it, even if it is damaging their physical and mental health.
LSD is not addictive to the body or to the mind.
Another danger from using LSD is that it makes a person impaired (intoxicated).
When people are impaired, they may have accidents or do things that they would not normally do.
In some rare cases, people taking LSD develop a psychosis.
Frequent or regular use of LSD can result in flashbacks.
In a flashback, the person feels the drug beginning to affect him or her again, even though he or she has not taken a dose that day.
This can be brought on by stress.
Note that over 75% of LSD users claimed never to have "flashed back".
LSD is illegal in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and most of Europe.
Some countries enforce the laws against LSD very harshly.
Other countries do not enforce the law very much.
LSD has been manufactured illegally since the 1960s.
Belfast Telegraph Dr Albert Hofmann - The father of LSD
Pickard And Apperson Sentenced On LSD Charges Official DEA press release on the "Largest LSD Lab Seizure In DEA History"
Tripping the light fantasmic, The Age, February 4, 2006
"LSD being tested on British Troops", a strange (if humorous) piece of historical footage of military experiments testing LSD's potential as an incapacitating (non-lethal) weapon.
"Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain", lecture by Jack Cowan (via the Internet Archive)
A Critical Review of Theories and Research Concerning LSD and Mental Health
Definitions of Addiction, Physical Dependence, and Tolerance
The Effects of LSD on the Human Brain
Artist under influence of LSD
A nearly complete LSD Slang term list as defined by the White House Drug Policy
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969) is an American business executive, semi-retired professional wrestler, actor, and former bodybuilder.
He is better known by the ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former Hunter Hearst Helmsley name.
He is currently the COO ("Chief Operating Officer") of WWE.
Before joining WWE, Levesque began his wrestling career with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1993, wrestling under the name Terra Ryzing.
He would then be repackaged as Jean-Paul Lévesque, a French Canadian aristocrat, before joining World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1995.
Since joining WWE, he has become a 14-time world champion (current): a nine-time WWE Champion and a five-time World Heavyweight Champion  In addition, he won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 Royal Rumble, and was the second Grand Slam Champion.
He married Stephanie McMahon in 2003, becoming the son-in-law of WWE chairman Vince McMahon.
Outside of wrestling, Levesque has made many guest appearances in film and on television.
He is starring in the upcoming WWE Film Journey of Death.
At the 2008 edition of Backlash, Triple H won the WWE Championship.
He lost the title at Survivor Series 2008 to Edge.
After entering the 2016 Royal Rumble match at no.
30, he eliminated Ambrose to win the Royal Rumble and become a 14 time world champion.
He later lost the title to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 32.
Blade: Trinity - Jarko Grimwood (2004)
Relative Strangers - Wrestler (2006) (Uncredited)
The Chaperone - Raymond "Ray Ray" Bradstone (2011)
Inside Out - Arlo "AJ" Jayne (2011)
Scooby-Doo!
WrestleMania Mystery -  Himself (2014) (voice)
Pacific Blue - Triple H (1998)
The Drew Carey Show - The Disciplinarian (1998)
Mad TV - Himself (2001)
The Bernie Mac Show - Triple H (2005)
Online World of Wrestling profile
Actors from New Hampshire
Sportspeople from New Hampshire
WWE wrestlers
People from Nashua, New Hampshire
Ernő Rubik (born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian inventor and professor of architecture.
He is the inventor of the Rubik's Cube.
He was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Brief biography of Erno Rubik
Hungarian Academy of Engineering - Rubik International Foundation
An interview with Ernő Rubik
People from Budapest
Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor and comedian.
He is best known for a notable controversy when his shouting of racial slurs at African American hecklers in a comedy club was broadcast worldwide in news reports.
Comedians from Los Angeles
Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game created by Square for the PlayStation console.
It is the seventh major game in the Final Fantasy series.
Many people see the game as one of the most influential and important role-playing games to date.
It is the highest-selling game in the series, having sold more than 13 million copies of the game.
Final Fantasy VII Remake released in April 2020.
Plot Final Fantasy VII follows the story of Cloud, who joins forces with many others to fight a new threat to the world while dealing with a seemingly terminal illness.
The music in Final Fantasy VII covers a wide variety of musical genres, including rock, techno, orchestral, and choral.
Spin-off titles
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children – set 2 years after Final Fantasy VII
Before Crisis – set 6 years before Final Fantasy VII
Crisis Core – set 7 years before Final Fantasy VII
Dirge of Cerberus'' – set 3 years after Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy 07
IOS games
Android (operating system) games
Sir Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly (born May 7, 1936) billionaire born in Dublin, Ireland.
He is the chairman of Dublin's Independent News & Media Group and was once the CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company.
O'Reilly played rugby for the Leicester Tigers and London Irish in England.
He played for Ireland between 1955 and 1963.
List of billionaires
Irish businesspeople
A prism is a special piece of glass, crystal, or plastic that bends light.
The light bends (or refracts) because it moves slower in the glass, crystal or plastic than it does in air.
If different colors of light move at different speeds, each color bends a different amount.
This is dispersion and it splits the light into a band of different colors called a spectrum.
This spectrum has the same colors as a rainbow does, because rainbows are made the same way, by bending light.
They happen when light is bent by tiny drops of water floating in the air.
If the light does not come out when you shine it into the prism, it is called internal reflection.
Some prisms are used to disperse light.
Binoculars also use prisms, to reflect light.
This lets the tubes of the binoculars be short.
Some cameras use a prism to send light to the viewfinder, so the photographer can see what will be photographed.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966.
He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science with ethics, metaphysics and society.
In particular in The Tao of Physics he makes the assertion that physics and metaphysics are both inexorably leading to the same knowledge.
His works all share a similar subtext: that "there are hidden connections between everything".
Capra is both a Buddhist and a Catholic Christian.
After touring Germany in the early 1980s, Capra co-wrote a book in 1984 with ecofeminist author Charlene Spretnak, called Green Politics.
Capra pushes for western society to abandon c the mechanistic views of Descartes.
Critiquing Descartes' reductionistic view that everything can be studied in parts to understand the whole, he allows his readers to take an objective and fresh mind, encouraging them to see the world through 'complexity theory'.
Capra is aiming for a theory of living systems, a theoretical framework for ecology.
This theory has its roots in several scientific fields from the first half of the twentieth century — organismic biology, gestalt psychology, ecology, general systems theory, and cybernetics.
The Tao of Physics (1975)
Green Politics with (Charlene Spretnak)
The Turning Point (1982)
Uncommon Wisdom (1988)
Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality (1991) (coauthored with David Steindl-Rast and Thomas Matus)
The Web of Life (1997)
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living (2002)
His homepage
Home on the web for the Center for Ecoliteracy
Skeptical Inquirer on Quantum Quackery
Systems scientists
His popularity is only second to Goku himself.
Due to his popularity he appareaes in Dragon Ball Z , Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super.
Fictional characters introduced in 1988
Fictional extraterrestrial characters
Minor Threat was a hardcore punk band from Washington DC from the 1980s.
Many other bands which played hardcore punk music in the United States were influenced by Minor Threat's music.
Minor Threat's songs were usually short and fast.
All of Minor Threat's records were released on the band's own Dischord Records label.
Ian MacKaye, Jeff Nelson, bassist Brian Baker, and guitarist Lyle Preslar formed Minor Threat in 1980.
Their first records were Minor Threat and In My Eyes in 1981.
The group toured through the United States.
Their song "Straight Edge" had lyrics (words) that told people they did not use illegal drugs or drink alcohol, which was called being "straight edge."
Another song called "Out of Step" tells listeners not to smoke, drink, or have casual sex.
People often thought that the band was telling others not to do these things but in interviews the band states that straight edge is a personal decision.
Out of Step (1983)
Minor Threat (1981)
In My Eyes (1981)
Salad Days (1985)
Minor Threat Profile by Dischord Records
Ethelred II (c. 968 – April 23 1016)  was also known as Ethelred the Unready.
He was King of England twice.
The first time was from 978 to 1013, and the second time was 1014 to 1016.
He was the son of Edgar, and Aelfthryth.
For most of his reign he had to fight off Viking invaders.
The word unready in his name means "Unread."
Which was a nickname for "Poor Counciled' or "Bad Adviced."
When, as a young boy, he asked for opinions he was given poor advice.
Family tree of Ethelred the Unready
Documentary - The Making of England: Aethelred the Unready
Britannia :  Monarchs
1016 deaths
This answer was given in two Acts of the Parliament of England.
The Act of Supremacy of 1559 confirmed the English church’s independence from Rome.
The Act of Uniformity 1559 decided about the form of the English church.
Often it was seen as the end of the English Reformation and the foundation of Anglicanism.
But some historians think that England only became a Protestant nation on a popular level many years later.
There seem to have been great divisions in the population and among the clergy for a long time afterwards.
The Legacy of the Reformation: A New Approach
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Elizabethan Religious Settlement
Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559)
Documents Illustrative of English Church History
Geckos are small to middle size lizards.
There are 1196 different kinds of geckos, mostly in the suborder Gekkota.
They live in many warm countries and usually are awake during the night.
Some kinds of geckos go into people's houses.
Hemidactylus frenatus is the common house gecko.
People are often happy to have them, because geckos eat many insects.
Unlike most lizards, geckos have voices.
A gecko sounds a little like a bird or a frog.
In some languages, these lizards have names that sound like their calls, for example, both English and Indonesian call one kind gecko (gek KO) and tokay (to-KAY).
Another kind of gecko, with a different sound, is called chicak (CHEE chak).
Geckos have no eyelids.
Instead, they have a clear membrane (skin) over their eyes.
They lick the membrane clean with their tongues.
Like most lizards, they can regenerate their tail if they need to.
Their tail also helps them balance and store fat.
Geckos also shed their skin, like many other reptiles.
Geckos are also able to replace their teeth every few months.
Many kinds of geckos can walk on trees, walls, windows, and ceilings.
Geckos' feet form a molecular bond with the surface that they are walking on in order to "stick" to the surface.
This force is called van der Waal's force.
They can do this because they have special toe pads.
A microscope can show that each toe pad is made of thousands of hair-like structures called setae.
Each of these structures branches into many smaller ends called spatulae.
The rest of their skin is also covered in extremely small hairs, which make it hard for a gecko to get wet.
Gecko skin can also kill bacteria.
Carphodactylidae
Diplodactylidae
Eublepharidae
Gekkonidae
Phyllodactylidae
Sphaerodactylidae
Rutherfordium is a chemical element.
It has also been named eka-hafnium and unnilquadium.
It has the symbol Rf and has the atomic number 104.
Rutherfordium is the first transactinide element.. The isotope that has the longest half-life is 265Rf.
Rutherfordium-265 only has a half life of about 13 hours.
The amount of rutherfordium that has been made is not enough to give much information about it.
The element has no present uses.
It is thought that the chemistry of rutherfordium will be like the chemistry of hafnium.
Rutherfordium was named after Ernest Rutherford.
It was reported that it was first made in 1964 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia.
The scientists reported that they bombarded a different chemical element 242Pu with the element 22Ne.
The neon-22 particles were accelerated to an energy of 113 to 115 MeV. They claim they detected nuclear fission tracks in a special type of glass with a microscope showing that a new element was there.
In 1969 scientists at the University of California, Berkeley made rutherfordium by banging together 249Cf and 12C at very high energies.
These scientists said that when they tried to make rutherfordium in the same way as the scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research none of the element was produced.
The scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research claimed that it was first detected in Dubna.
They thought it should be named dubnium (Db) or kurchatovium (Ku) for Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov (1903-1960).
The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley thought it should be named rutherfordium (Rf).
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) decides the name of elements that should be used by everyone.
They used unnilquadium (Unq) as a temporary name.
Unnilquadium is the systematic element name meaning "one-zero-four" in Latin.
In 1997 they resolved the dispute and used the current name of rutherfordium.
The chemical element with atomic number 105 was named dubnium.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Rutherford
WebElements.com - Rutherfordium
Together with snakes, they make up the order Squamata.
There are about 6,000 species, which live all over the world, except in cold climates.
They range across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
One type, the marine iguana, lives in the sea.
Size varies greatly, from geckos of a few inches or cm to the Komodo dragon of 3 meters (9 feet) and 70 kg (150 pounds).
Frill-necked Lizard
Draco, flying lizard
Slow-worm: a lizard without legs.
Simplified classification
Infraorder Iguania: Iguanas, chameleons, agamas and relatives.
Infraorder Gekkota: Geckos, legless lizards, blind lizards.
Infraorder Scincomorpha: Skinks, wall lizards and relatives.
Infraorder Anguimorpha (Platynota, Varanoidea): Monitor lizards, Gila monsters, Slow-worms and relatives.
† Family Mosasauridae: the dominant large marine predators of the Upper Cretaceous.
Infraorder Amphisbaenia: legless burrowing worm lizards.
Alternative view
Order Squamata (the scaled reptiles)
Suborder Serpentes (snakes)
Suborder Lacertilia (lizards)
A modern view is that the snakes and lizards are all infraorders of the Squamata:p238
Order Squamata
Infraorder Serpentes
Infraorder Iguania
Infraorder Gekkota
Infraorder Scincomorpha
Infraorder Anguimorpha (Platynota, Varanoidea)
Infraorder Amphisbaenia
The skull structure of both snakes and lizards is distinctive.
They can move their upper jaw relative to the braincase.
They bear horny scales, and many use venom for attack and defense.
The Squamates are definitely a monophyletic group; they are a sister group to the Tuatara.
Judged by their fossil record, the Squamates were present in the Mesozoic, but occupied a minor place in the land ecology.
Probably all (including snakes) arose earlier in the Jurassic.
Although snakes and lizards look so different, neither are proper clades.
Snakes did descend from early lizards, so both groups together do form a monophyletic clade, the Squamata.
Within that clade there is another monophyletic clade, the Toxicofera.
This includes all venomous reptile species, as well as many related non-venomous species.
Sight is very important for most lizards, both for locating prey and for communication.
Many lizards have highly acute color vision.
Most lizards rely heavily on body language, using specific postures, gestures and movements to define territory, resolve disputes, and entice mates.
Some species of lizard also utilize bright colors, such as the iridescent patches on the belly of Sceloporus.
These colors would be highly visible to predators, so are often hidden on the underside or between scales and only revealed when necessary.
The dewlap is a brightly colored patch of skin on the throat, usually hidden between scales.
When a display is needed, the lizards erect the hyoid bone of their throat, resulting in a large vertical flap of brightly colored skin beneath the head which can be then used for communication.
Philipp Tischendorf (born June 7, 1988 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater.
He was the 2007 German national silver medalist.
Tischendorf is coached by Michael Huth, with former coaches Jürgen Bertko and silver Olympic medalist Romy Oesterreich.
Sportspeople from Berlin
Miles per hour is a unit of measurement.
It measures speed.
It is the number of miles moved in an hour.
Miles per hour is the unit used for speed limits on roads in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It is normally abbreviated in everyday use to mph or MPH.
In technical publications it is sometimes abbreviated as mi/h.
The SI unit for velocity (speed, with a direction of movement) is m·s−1 (metres per second).
0.44704 m·s−1, the SI derived unit
1.609344 km·h−1
22/15 =1.4667 feet per second
0.868976 knots
metre per second
Speed online conversion.
Conversion Calculator for Units of Speed
Nobility was the highest social class in pre-modern societies.
In the feudal system (in Europe and elsewhere), the nobility were mostly those who got land from the monarch and had to provide services to him, mainly military service.
Men of this class were called noblemen.
It soon became a hereditary class, sometimes with a right to bear a hereditary title and to have financial and other privileges.
Nobility by rank
The German nobility
Old Noble Family Trees
WW-Person , an on-line database of European noble genealogy
Paul Theroff's An Online Gotha
Genealogics, an extensive database of European nobles
Worldroots, a selection of art and genealogy of European nobility
RoyalArk- ruling houses in many non-European countries
Web site on the Royalty, the Nobility, the History and the Patrimony
The Armenian nobility
The Maltese Nobility and its ilks.
Italian dynastic genealogies (in Italian, with an introduction in English)
Worldwidewords
OneTree Genealogy - European Royal and Danish-Norwegian-Swedish Nobility Lineages
This is a list of United States of America states by population as of 2019.
The list was made using the 2019 Census estimates taken by the United States Census Bureau.
The total population of the United States was 330,150,668 at the December 2019 Census.
These numbers include all people other than people just visiting: These include citizens, non-citizen permanent residents and non-citizen long-term visitors.
People in the military who are working in other countries and their families are counted in their home state.
The United States of America is the third most populous country in the world, behind China and India.
State Totals: Vintage 2012 - U.S Census Bureau
Here is a video about the most populated states in the United States of America
Congressional Apportionment - 2010 apportionment results - people and households - U.S. Census Bureau
Population, List of U.S. states by
This article is about a group of three musicians and about music written for three musicians.
For other uses of trio, see Trio.
''For a piece of music called "trio" see also Minuet
A trio is a group of three people who are playing musical instruments or singing together.
The word "trio" may also refer to the piece of music that they are playing.
Classical composers writing chamber music very often wrote trios.
Usually the trio is called after the main instrument in the group.
A piano trio is normally a piece for piano, violin and cello.
A string trio is a piece for three string instruments, usually violin, viola and cello.
Many other combinations are possible.
Brahms wrote a piece which is normally referred to as a "Horn Trio" for french horn, violin and piano.
Mozart wrote a piece normally called a "Clarinet Trio" which is for clarinet, viola and piano.
This is a list of U.S. state nicknames: (official state nicknames in bold) (Some may be more popular than others)
Information about U.S. State Nicknames
Nicknames, List of U.S. state
The first 13 became states in July 1776 when they agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence.
Each of those 13 agreed to the first U.S. constitution, called the Articles of Confederation, which formed the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781.
These states are presented in the order each ratified the 1787 Constitution, thus joining the present federal Union of states.
The date of admission listed for other states is the official date made by Act of Congress.
List of U.S. states and their order to statehood
50 State Quarter Program from the United States Mint (including dates of statehood) [Retrieved: 22 October 2016]
Dates of statehood, via 50states.com (includes notes, retrieved  19 January 2006)
Date of statehood, List of U.S. states by
This is a list of the largest cities in each United States state and territory.
State or territory capitals are listed in italics.
Note 1:  The only incorporated place in Hawaii is the City & County of Honolulu.
A portion of it, the Honolulu District, is sometimes called the "city of Honolulu" for statistical reasons, although it has no government separate from that of the "City and County" as a whole.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines Honolulu CDP (Census Designated Place) as the Honolulu District.
For Hawaii, the largest CDPs are listed.
Note 2:  As of June 2013, New Orleans remains at a population of 343,829 (according to the 2010 Census) still showing a long term decrease since Hurricane Katrina, which initially decreased the population of the city by about 50%.
Many of the city's residents were displaced during the storm and it is still unknown how many will return or can be considered "displaced".
Despite previous claims that with the 2010 Census New Orleans will move down in the rankings, it still remains the largest city in Louisiana by a margin of more than 100,000.
Largest cities, List of U.S. states
French fried potatoes, also known as chips
Potato chips, also known as crisps
Tortilla chips
Corn chips
Integrated circuits are used in computers and are commonly called microchips, silicon chips, or chips
Poker chips
Gravel chips
Wood chips
Learning music by ear is learning to play a piece of music by listening to other people playing it and then trying to play it oneself.
In some musical traditions there is no written music and everybody plays by ear all the time.
Folk music is traditionally learned by listening to other musicians and copying them.
This is how music is passed from one generation to another.
Most people in the Western musical tradition learn pieces and songs by reading music, but it is good to try to play music by ear sometimes.
It can be a very useful skill.
The Suzuki method of learning instruments started in Japan but is now used in many countries.
It teaches young children to play an instrument (usually the violin) by ear.
Music education
Shelton James Benjamin (born July 9, 1975) is an American professional wrestler.
He currently wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name Shelton X Benjamin.
Benjamin started his career in Ohio Valley Wrestling and stay with them from 2000 to 2002.
During his time there he won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship three times with Brock Lesnar and one time with Redd Dogg.
He was called up to the WWE in 2002 and debuted on the WWE SmackDown roster on December 26, 2002.
During his early career in the WWE he along with Charlie Haas formed Team Angle with Kurt Angle as their on-screen mentor.
They began a feud with Chris Benoit.
Benjamin won the WWE Intercontinental Championship after he defeated then-champion Chris Jericho at the 2004 Taboo Tuesday.
He was part of a storyline where he was on a losing streak for many weeks which led his "momma" (played by actress Thea Vidale) to come to Raw to scold him.
She assisted him in matches and sometimes interfered in them.
She was taken off television when she was (kayfabe) undergoing heart surgery in the hospital and wouldn't be returning to the WWE.
In 2007, he started wearing gold attire and dyed his hair blond.
He also began referring to himself as "The Gold Standard".
Benjamin won the WWE United States Championship after he defeated then-champion Matt Hardy at the 2008 Great American Bash.
Benjamin was released from the WWE on April 22, 2010 along with Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, Slam Master J, Mickie James and Katie Lea Burchill.
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (four times) (with Brock Lesnar (three) and Redd Dogg (one))
Millennium Wrestling Federation
MWF Heavyweight Championship (one time)
PWI Tag Team of the Year (2003) (with Charlie Haas)
He was ranked #9 of the 500 best singles wrestlers by the PWI in the PWI 500 in 2005.
ROH World Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Charlie Haas)
World Wrestling Council
WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (one time)
WWE Intercontinental Championship (three times)
WWE Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Charlie Haas)
WWE United States Championship (one time)
Most Underrated Wrestler (2005–2007)
Shelton Benjamin on New Japan Pro Wrestling
Shelton Benjamin on WWE.com
African-American wrestlers
Sportspeople from South Carolina
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 in New York City – February 18, 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American physicist of Jewish descent.
He is best known as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project.
In World War II, the project built the first nuclear weapons.
That is why Oppenheimer is called "the father of the atomic bomb".
"We knew the world would not be the same", he recalled the moments after the successful testing of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, United States years later. "
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that one way or another."
After the war he lost his security clearance and his job due to concern over nuclear espionage out of anti-nuclear movement.
He returned to teaching, and died of throat cancer, aged 62.
WW2DB: Robert Oppenheimer
American nuclear physicists
Educators from New York City
The American League (or AL) is one of the two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB).
The other is the National League (or NL).
The American League is made up of 15 teams.
At the end of each season, five of these teams go to the "post-season" where one will win the American League championship.
The champions of the American League plays against the champions of the National League in the World Series.
The team that wins the World Series is the champion of Major League Baseball.
Teams in the American league usually play against other teams in the American league, except for a few games a year when they play National league teams.
There are 3 Divisions of the American League: AL East, AL Central, and AL West.
The only big difference between the American League and the National League is that the AL uses the "Designated Hitter" (or DH).
The Designated Hitter is a player who does not play in the field, but is used to bat for the worst hitter in his team's "lineup" (usually the pitcher).
The NL does not use the Designated Hitter, and all players in the "lineup" must bat and field for themselves.
If the DH plays an NL game in an NL park, he often plays First Base if at all.
If they play in an AL park, the NL can use a DH.
The National League (or NL) is one of the two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB).
As of 2016, the NL has 15 teams.
At the end of each season, five of these teams go to the "post-season" where one will win the National League championship.
The champions of the National League plays against the champions of the American League in the World Series.
The only big difference between the National League and the American League (AL) is that the AL uses the "Designated Hitter" (or DH).
The Designated Hitter is a player who does not play in the field, but is used to bat for the pitcher.
The NL does not use the Designated Hitter, and all players on the team must bat and field for themselves.
Surveys can be grouped into numerical and categorical types.
A numerical survey is to get numbers as replies.
This survey question is used to generate numbers in minutes.
An example of a categorical question is:
Surveys of human populations and institutions are common in political polling and government, health, social science and marketing research.
A survey may concentrate on opinions or factual information depending on its purpose.
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
How to design a web-based statistical survey online.
Ajeebo: Web based survey software tools directory
Conducting Web-Based Surveys
Free resources for methods in social research  has links to resources for surveys and sampling.
Online Survey Best Practice
Short Courses in Survey Methodology, sponsored by the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) - University of Maryland-College Park and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The EvaluationWiki  - The mission of EvaluationWiki is to make freely available a compendium of up-to-date information and resources to everyone involved in the science and practice of evaluation.
The EvaluationWiki is presented by the non-profit Evaluation Resource Institute .
The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world.
Social Sciences includes anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology.
They are different from the arts and humanities, and application of the scientific method is important.
Most of the social sciences require doing a lot of research, such as making surveys.
Such research is called "social research".
Some subjects, such as history, are sometimes social sciences and sometimes humanities.
The term "social sciences" has been used for over 200 years and mostly originates from a thinker named Auguste Comte.
Many of the fields of social science have come about since then.
In America, much of the thought and practice of social science came from the University of Chicago and other universities.
Social Science Virtual Library
UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory
Social Science Information Gateway  (UK)
History of Social Science
On the Social Sciences Critical Essays
praxeology as the method of the social sciences
in defense of extreme apriorism
The arts are a large part of culture, and the word means much more than "art".
The arts include visual arts, literary arts (i.e. books and other writings) and performing arts (i.e. music, dance, drama).
Sometimes, in universities, it is shorthand for a wider group of subjects which are properly called the humanities.
These include philosophy, theology, literature, languages, and history as well.
Visual arts consist of any art that can be seen.
This form of art doesn't change once it has been made.
Architecture is the art and science behind building and sculpture design.
Architecture as an art involves making something look beautiful and appealing to others.
Conceptual Art
Dictionary of the history of ideas — Classification of the arts
Open Directory — Arts
National Endowment for the Arts — USA
Arts Council — England
Americans for the Arts
ArtsJournal — Daily Arts News
Arts — New York Times
Arts — The Times
Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA)
History of Art: From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art
Minor League Baseball is a level of professional baseball in North America.
It is made up a many different teams which play in many leagues and levels of ability.
Minor league teams are used by Major League Baseball teams to have a place to put their players who they do not feel are good enough to play in the major league yet.
Rookie League
Low-A
When a normal player is first drafted or signed by a major league team, he is usually placed in "Rookie" League or short season A, however top prospects often start higher.
If a player plays good in his league he can be "called up" to the next league.
If a player does not play well he may be sent back down or cut from the team.
This continues until a player gets to the major leagues, although most players never make it that far.
This way, players are able to get better at baseball before having to play against tougher opponents.
Almost all players in the major leagues had to play in the minor leagues first in order to become good enough to play in the major leagues.
Most players spend between 4-5 years before being called up.
However, really good players can be called up in less than a year, while some may take more than 10 years to reach the majors.
There are also other professional baseball leagues that major league teams do not use to as a place put their players.
These are known as "Independent Leagues".
In these leagues players do not go to higher or lower levels of ability.
Major league teams may hire these independent players to play for their major league team.
Minor league teams generally play in cities that are too small for major league teams.
City size usually increases with league level.
Nuclear proliferation is when a country starts making nuclear objects.
On the right is a map showing who has nuclear reactors and weapons, and who could have them.
When a country starts making nuclear weapons, they become a nuclear power.
Dual use technology
Dual use technology means to the possibility of military use of civilian nuclear technology for generating electricity.
Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear electricity program have a dual-use capability.
These items can be used to make nuclear weapons if a country chooses to do so.
When this happens a nuclear electricity program can lead to making atomic bombs.
The crisis over Iran’s nuclear activities is an example.
Semantic Analysis of Interval Congruences, 1993, , Author François Bourdoncle, Springer-Verlag, London, UK.
www.exalead.com/Francois.Bourdoncle
French businesspeople
In closely held corporations, it is general business culture that the office of Chief Executive Officer, CEO, is also the chairman of the board.
Specifically, one person often shares the chairman and CEO titles while another person takes the presidency or may become chief operating officer (COO).
However, the term president is from the U.S. and in the UK COO is favored.
Underneath that comes the Executive Vice President (U.S.) or Executive Director (UK).
In publicly held corporations, the CEO and chairman positions can be separated but there are implications in corporate governance by doing so.
In some European Union countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes (elected by the shareholders).
In these countries, the chief executive officer presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board and these two roles will always be held by different people.
This ensures a distinction between management by the executive board and governance by the supervisory board.
The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person.
There is a strong parallel here with the structure of governments, which tend to separate the political cabinet from the management civil service.
In the United Kingdom many Charities and Government Agencies are headed by a Chief Executive who is answerable to a Board of Trustees or Board of Directors.
In the UK, the Chairman (of the Board) in public companies is more senior than the Chief Executive.
Most public companies now split the role of Chairman and Chief Executive.
Typically, a CEO has a cadre of subordinate executives, each of which has specific functional responsibilities.
These direct reporting relationships most often include: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Information Officer.
Although not an Executive, the Director of Human Resources plays a vital role within any corporation.
However, depending on the industry in which the company operates and/or the organizational structure the company has employed, various other functional areas may be highlighted through the CEO's direct span of control.
Some of these less common monikers include: Chief (Business) Development Officer, Chief Knowledge Officer/Chief Learning Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Chief Credit Officer.
According to Don Schmincke, to be a strong executive, "one cannot act in business differently from how he acts in family life or society".
Meaning being a successful executive requires a man’s conduct to be “correct in all points”, his actions must follow his words at all times.
The company is a société anonyme based in Paris and founded in 2000 by Francois Bourdoncle.
Its name comes from the association between
the prefix exa which means 1018 (used as a generic term for size, to imply large coverage of pages)
and the verb lead (as the customer is led through the search options)
Exalead.com specific features
Exalead attempts to add value to search results by displaying statistics and information about the results along the left-hand side of the page.
This includes categorical and geographical information.
Exalead's features include:
Proximity search supporting the NEAR operator
Nested search expressions
Specific search
by geographic location
by language
by file type.
Additional word suggestions
Phonetic search is also available, which can be used when the orthography is not known
Search within results
Audio, video and RSS search (in the preview also pictures)
On 2nd March 2006, exalead.com indexed more than 4 billion pages.
The interface is available in four languages (English, French, German and Chinese).
On 2nd August 2006, Exalead launched the beta of its new interface, which is the default interface since the middle of October.
The Chinese language has been removed again, Spanish and Italian were added instead - more languages will come soon.
Exalead website
Amateur radio is a hobby for people who like to talk using radio transmitters.
Many people enjoy using amateur radio to talk to other amateur radio hobbyists in other countries.
Amateur radio hobbyists also use their radio transmitters to get help in emergencies.
Amateur radio is often called Ham Radio.
Many people use their amateur radios for fun.
People who use Amateur radio are often called amateur radio operators, hams or amateurs.
During a disaster or emergency, amateur radio can be used to get help.
When telephones do not work, it may be the only way to communicate.
Some radio hobbyists volunteer to listen to emergency band frequencies in case there are distress calls.
If the volunteers hear a distress call, they notify the appropriate authorities (for example the police or the Coast Guard).
People must have a license to use Amateur radio.
In most countries users must pass a test to get a license.
In some countries there is more than one license grade.
In some countries, people can use Amateur radio if they have a license from their home country.
There are many clubs for Amateur radio in many countries.
These clubs do many things as a group and help people get their Amateur radio license.
Amateur radio operators talk to each other in many ways.
Some people talk with their voice, others use computers, television, or Morse code.
They use many ways to get their signals to others.
Most use shortwave radio signals that bounce off the sky.
Some bounce off the moon or a satellite.
Amateur radio operators have many ways to talk using the radio.
Amateur radio satellites are called OSCAR's - Orbital Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio.
Hams can also talk to astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
There are many ways to have fun with amateur radio.
There are many games and contests.
Amateur radio operators try to talk with as many others as possible.
They then mail each other postcards called QSL cards to confirm the contact.
Contesters may try to see how far they can talk, or to how many different people they can talk.
Some hide a transmitter which sends out a signal and others try to find it using receivers.
This is called Radio direction finding, fox hunting or Radio sport.
Sometimes the event is done with cars, or as a foot race.
Amateur radio is practised by over 15,000 licensed users in India.
The first amateur radio operator was licensed in 1921.
By the mid 1930s, there were around 20 amateur radio operators in India.
Amateur radio operators have played an important part in the Indian independence movement with the setting up of pro-independence radio stations in the 1940s.
The humanities include languages, literature, music, philosophy, politics, history, media, the classics, religion, and the visual and performing arts.
Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are anthropology, area studies, communications and cultural studies, although these are often regarded as social sciences.
It was popular in the Renaissance ages.
The arts are usually considered as part of the humanities.
These include visual arts such as painting and sculpture, as well as performing arts such as theatre and dance, and literature.
Other humanities such as language are sometimes considered to be part of the arts, for example as the language arts.
The Humanities Association - UK
UK Humanities Hub
Australian Humanities Review
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Mass Humanities / Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as John Hawkyns) (Plymouth 1532–12 November 1595) was an English shipbuilder, merchant, navigator, and slave trader.
In 1571 he helped uncover a plot against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1532 births
1595 deaths
The coconut palm is a palm tree in the family Arecaceae (palm family).
It is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall.
It has leaves that are 4–6 m long.
The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.
There are many coconut palms on the coasts of Indonesia, India, America, South Sudan, Bangladesh and Tanzania.
People of this area use coconut milk in cooking.
Women use coconut oil as oil for their hair.
The coconut's shell is relatively hard, but can be broken.
Because its shell is hard, it can be used as an ingredient to make craftworks.
Coconut milk is also used in many drinks.
Coconut oil is often in food and soaps.
People in Sri Lanka use coconut flowers for wedding celebrations.
In the Maldives it is the National tree.
The coconut is not actually a nut, but is in fact a drupe.
Coconuts grow in tropical countries.
The flesh of a coconut is white and can be eaten raw or used in cooking.
It is used in many of the foods we eat for flavour.
It is native to tropical areas.
Coconuts floats on water and can float to another island and germinate there.
It has often been noted that coconuts can travel up to 110 days, or 3000 miles, by sea and still be able to germinate.
Shawarma (; in ) is a meat sandwich eaten by people in the Middle East.
It is served in round Arabic bread with meat and vegetables, with some spice or sauce of choice, in it.
Normally, the meat can either be lamb, beef, turkey, or chicken.
Shawarma can also be spelled chawarma, shwarma, shawerma, or shoarmais.
It was first introduced by people from Turkey.
They call it çevirme, which means "turning", because the meat can be turned around in the oven, but the Arabs changed its recipe from the Turkish Doner kebab.
Merchants deal with trade.
That means they deal goods that they do not produce themselves, in order to get profit.
A wholesale merchant works between producer and retail merchant.
Some wholesale merchants only organise the movement of goods rather than move the goods themselves.
A retail merchant sells goods to consumers (including businesses), commonly known as retailers.
A shop owner is a retail merchant.
In the US, "merchant" is  any person while engaged in a business or profession or a seller who deals regularly in the type of goods sold.
Under the common law in the United States, merchants are held to a higher standard in the selling of products than those who are not engaged in the sale of goods as a profession.
For example, when a merchant sells something, he or she is expected to give a warranty, guaranteeing that the product is fit to be sold, even if there is nothing in writing to this effect.
That often means that there must be a remedy.